MSE pregnancy club II

3KIDSNOMONEY

Hi traveller - not sure if this is your first child or not. With my first i worked until 38 weeks and then she came 9 days early, so my daughter was awkward from the beginning. Not sure what job you do, but if you work full time then the days are going to seem long and tiring for you. At least for me even if i feel really rubbish as i am a stay at home mum i can please myself as to what i do. Especially now my youngest is at school full time - i have found this week difficult with it being school holidays and even though i just passed my driving test i don't have access to a car in the day and am not yet confident enough to drive alone - so we have spent much of the week at home. The worst thing for me at the moment is that my kids do clubs, gym, football, etc after school and it is tiring walking them to then and then getting tea for them quite late on when all i want to do is collapse. You might get a second wind and not feel so shattered soon - if you feel really bad it is worth getting your midwife to check your iron levels, but if may well be that it is just the strains of work making you so tired. I have always had trouble getting up in the mornings - but it is harder when pregnant and when you have to get 3 kids up and pack lunches made and everything. Sorry for going on. Take care

mandy2383

Hi everyone

Nicci-glad everything is well for you, these babies sure do know how to make you worry sometimes.

Miss_be- sorry to sound a little silly but whats a 'positive birth picture'?:o

Hi 3KIDSNOMONEY- I still cant believe you are nearly at your due date, it seems to really have gone so fast reading about you

alison6692

Sooo pleased everything was okay Nicci. Hope they made you feel relaxed. They were so lovely to me even though my baby decided to start dancing as soon as they started the trace!

Not long now x Good Luck x

Claire_Jones_3

Just popping over from the parent club with some information which may help some of you:

Does everyone know about the healthy start program? If are claiming certain benefits (Income support, Jobseekers allowance), or have a household income of less than £14495 and getting child tax credit then you are eligable. You get vouchers worth

• £2.80 a week if you're pregnant
• £5.60 a week for each baby aged under one
• £2.80 a week for each child aged over one and under four

Have a look at http://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/index.asp for more details

keelykat

Hi guys, ill be able to give a due date in just over a weks time. Im feeling really nervous/worried untill i have the scan and see the baby is ok.

keely.

3KIDSNOMONEY

Hi, does anybody know if most hospitals offer private rooms (at a cost i presume) available to mothers and babies after birth. I am becoming quite anxious about having to be on a ward and sharing facilities - those of you who have read my earlier posts might know why - and am seriously wishing i had opted for a home birth (although this itself would pose problems). Confusing post i know but would grateful if anybody could shed any light on private rooms. I have a midwife appointment tomorrow so will ask her too.

alison6692

Yep some do - if they can. It depends on your local hospital I suppose. I hope you manage to get your own room. I hate the thought of sharing toilets, etc. In my bag there is Mr Muscle and some cloths - and I am a blimmin nurse but I find hospitals soo grubby.. urgh!

Claire_Jones_3

I had a private room when Charlie was born and it was brillant, everything was in the cupboards in the room including the plastic cot thing they put your baby in after they are born! I had my own bathroom and the room looked like a travelodge/premier inn type hotel room, even had a kettle, tea coffee etc!! This didn't cost anything and was a standard thing at Grimsby hospital but the maternity wards are very new. I would recommend it to anyone, especially being my first labour. It was very private and comforting

traveller

Hi 3 kids, thanks for the advice about the Iron levels.This is not my first, I also have a 'delightful' 15 year old son,11 daughter and another 8 year old son.I know what you mean about the clubs as I find all that tooing and throwing really draining too.
I wouldn't say I have a harder time than a stay at home mum-if your in ,other half somehow expects the place tidy,lol!If only they knew the amount of time your going over the same stuff over and over again,lol!:rotfl:

3KIDSNOMONEY

traveller - sorry i have read your other posts, pregnancy brain, forgot you are expecting no.4 too. Your not kidding about re-doing things over and over and over again. I am so sick of all the cleaning, tidying, washing, etc. Thing is with me i do it over and over just in case the baby comes because i know my OH won't have a clue and will just step over the mess and piles of washing and stuff. And you will know like me that it only gets harder as they get older coping with trantrums, hormones! and you stay awake worrying about them.Hope you feel a bit more 'energetic' soon.

Thanks for the replies on private rooms - definitely going to ask my midwife tomorrow if it would be possible to have one - if i can't i can see me leaving the hospital straight after my little one is born.

I always thought people who didn't have a name for their baby when it was born were daft - after all they have had 9 months to think about one - but i am in that situation now and really don't have a clue - i like girls names not boys. Anyone else struggling! i find myself watching the credits from tv programmes, and things like that looking for ideas.