MSE pregnancy club II

Rince

Congratulations Hopeless Cook, great news.:j can't wait to hear the birth story, can't believe how quick you were in labour. Well done for doing it without any pain relief :T :T :T

alison6692

Congratulations Hopeless Cook!

Yay - thats fab news. Glad to hear that you are all home safe and sound.

Alison x
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Doobees

Congratulations HC!!

It's 5am and I have been awake most of the night with the most AWFUL TOOTHACHE. I've never had it before and am now dreading labour if it is worse than this!!

I think it is because of my gums receding during pregnancy. Will try and get an emergency dentist appt today.

Any suggestions for managing the pain. Paracetamol isn't touching it.

becky_sleaf

Ouch Doobees...Poor you! I don't have any advice on pain relief i just hope you get to the dentist & get the problem sorted! Nothing worse than toothache! :grouphug:

I'm glad to see i'm not the only one on a cleaning/decorating mission! My Husband think's i'm doing to much...shame it's not enough for him to think about helping then!!:rolleyes:

snugglepuss_2

Doobees wrote: »

Congratulations HC!!

It's 5am and I have been awake most of the night with the most AWFUL TOOTHACHE. I've never had it before and am now dreading labour if it is worse than this!!

I think it is because of my gums receding during pregnancy. Will try and get an emergency dentist appt today.

Any suggestions for managing the pain. Paracetamol isn't touching it.

Snap! I had horrendous toothache last night too! Paracetamol didn't touch it either, but I found that drinking a cup of black tea (not too strong) with a bit of sugar in it helped ease things. I would have loved to have added some soluble aspirin to it as it would have helped even more - but aspirin is not allowed!

Sarah

Curious_George_2

fac73 wrote: »

CG we are introducing a bit of mixed feeding so OH can join in - tried expressing but isn't it honestly the most dire thing to be doing - like walking up the down escalator - anyway I'm aware that long term this can affect my supply and I may have the choice of breast/formula made for me - reading about this someone said that whilst feeding seems like a huge deal now, in five years time how your baby was fed will seem so irrelevant, look around the school playground and you'd never know which children were breastfed or formula fed, so no point in fretting about it - the important thing is that they're fed at all. happy baby = happy mummy.

i know, i know... but im sat here trying to find some useful information and all im getting is propaganda from the breast feeding nazis :rolleyes:
I honestly wouldnt care how he is fed... IF i thought he was feeding properly

anyone parents here care to share any nappy horror stories about what happens when you change from breast to bottle?

Bun

Hi everyone, haven't been on much recently but now back more regularly with any luck. Have had loads of emotional stuff going on, and stressful lead up to ending my job, and had a bit of a blood pressure scare but all ok now. DH has been fantastic, and yesterday bizarrely did the nicest thing ever in that he cheefully spent over half an hour cleaning encrusted cat poo off ds's new trainers as I wasn't allowed to touch it, even with gloves. Bizarrely romantic.

CG, sorry that poor Danny is having a bit of a poor time of it. Hopefully he will be sorted out soon. I mixed fed from 8 weeks and it allowed me to feed ds for 9 months. Apart from last week where he was ill for the first time since Feb, he is very healthy, and much as I like to think it's the breastfeeding, the fact the DH is the healthiest individual I've ever met in my life is probably more to do with it. Expressing is seriously useless (been there done that) so I really wouldn't worry. It's only really because I now have asthma that I'm so adamant about bfing no 2 when she makes an appearance, just in case.

HC - congratulations! Great birth story too, lovely and quick!
Congrats too to Sadie, and to everybody else who has joined for whatever reason or for babies that I have forgotten.

Alias_Omega

Alias_Omega wrote: »

Mrs AliasOmega is meant to be Due today - 20th November with our little boy..

Well no sign of the baby popping out yet, and im off to work at 3pm.

Really feeling a little odd as this is my first, her 2nd.. and i dont want to drive for an hour to get to work, to get a phone call telling me to come back straight away..

Would seem a little pointless, tomorrow morning, or friday would be good as im working nights..

Still no sign of the baby coming out..

20th Nov +1 day

Rince

Doobees wrote: »

It's 5am and I have been awake most of the night with the most AWFUL TOOTHACHE. I've never had it before and am now dreading labour if it is worse than this!!

I think it is because of my gums receding during pregnancy. Will try and get an emergency dentist appt today.

Any suggestions for managing the pain. Paracetamol isn't touching it.

Hi Doobees I suffered loads with toothache whilst pregnant, clove oil is supposed to be good for toothache, which you can buy from health food shops. If you're up for a drink, then brandy swilled around the mouth is really good. But getting to the dentist is the best thing. I always found my dentist wud squeeze me in as i'd lay it on thick saying I was pregnant and can't take any pain relief.

Oh and severe toothache is far worse than labour, so if you can get through this, labour will be easy !!!!!

Lu_T

Hello girls (and boys if you're on here)

I just popped over from the MSE Parent Club to remind you that you can visit us too if you think we'll be helpful. It's much the same as here, but we share our problems & stories about our newborns (and not so newborns any more!).

Anyone would be welcome to join us if you wanted!
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=338252&page=60&highlight=parents+club

I'm hoping to join up over here again around this time next year. See you then!

Oh, CG, re nappies and switching from breast to bottle. I know memories fade, but I don't remember noticing a massive difference when we switched Imogen. HTH