MSE pregnancy club II

Eels100

Justie wrote: »

does anyone else feel that being pregnant is just like having PMS for months on end :rolleyes:

In a word: yes

Curious_George_2

Agutka wrote: »

Ooh, my breast have grown up!
I woke this morning to find a mysterious dried patch on my nightie... I'm guessing my nipple has leaked, although when I asked, it looked innocent like it had no idea what I was talking about :rolleyes:.

Now my question is this: is this a one off? Or should I invest in pads already? Need some experienced input (my mother, everytime I mention my symptoms, begs me to go see a doctor! :rolleyes:)
I might add I have had no breast changes at all. They are exactly the same as before I got pregnant, except maybe, just maybe, the nipples are slightly bigger.

my breasts have been leaking for a few weeks now, more so when im asleep or when me and OH have been a bit rude and he forgets (and gets a literal mouthful!)
i havent had to wear pads during the day yet, as I dont think mine leak (yet)unless they actually get squeezed one way or another (like rolling over in bed for instance) as im only 22 weeks.
im getting to the point were im going to have to wear a sleeping bra (like a sloggi top) with pads in as i looked at my sheet this morning and ive made a bit of a mess!

I was a proper milk factory last time, i could have fed my baby up to the eyeballs and then expressed enough to keep all yours going too! :rotfl:

Eels100

I've had leakiness since around 20wks I think, but mainly just crusty nips of a morning (mmmmmmsexy). Sometimes my bra's a teeny bit crusty too at night, and there's been a few wee patches of grot on the bedsheets, but nothing to warrant pads yet. I think it's pretty individual as to how much you produce before the big day, but in my case nothing much. And be prepared for your nips to expand to epic proportions - even in the last few weeks mine have become enormous great big puffy dark things, I look like something from a dodgy Spanish !!!!!! film

Edited to add that my mum's the same - doesn't matter what pregnancy-related query I have for her, the response is always the same: *sigh* "I don't know dear, it was decades ago, can't you ask a midwife or something?".

Curious_George_2

Eels100 wrote: »

Edited to add that my mum's the same - doesn't matter what pregnancy-related query I have for her, the response is always the same: *sigh* "I don't know dear, it was decades ago, can't you ask a midwife or something?".

I wish my mum was MORE like that, I never ask for her advice and still regularly get it... one of the great pearls of wisdom i received when preg with my DD was not to raise my hands over my head or i would strangle the baby with the umbilical cord,
after i finished laughing at her i tried to explain how its medically and physically impossible for anything i do with my arms to affect the cord or the baby and that i had never heard a bigger load of old wives tale style crap in my life but she wasnt having it.... "ive raised three children... how many have you had??"
ive said it before and ill say it again... with a mother like her im still surprised all 3 of us lived!!!
i imagine her finding out shes pregnant and then not moving for 9 months incase she harmed one of us in the womb.... but then as soon as we were born she wrapped us in swaddling SO tight we couldnt move and put us down on our front (seriously)

as soon as my sister fell pregnant, the first piece of advice to her was "ignore everything mum says... call me instead"

Eels100

Curious_George wrote: »

I wish my mum was MORE like that, I never ask for her advice and still regularly get it

That's my MIL. So far before my 12 week scan I had the list of all the people she knew who'd had missed miscarriages (hmm, thanks, helpful). I've also had the run down on the relative who had such awful PND she never loved her children and even DIED depressed (again, great to know). Now the baby's breech I'm reminded gently to do exactly what the doctor tells me to do and not 'just' what I want, and basically not to forget that it's HER grandchild too!

Seriously, she's lovely, but if I was less thick-skinned she'd have left me a complete wreck with her tales of woe. I'm very grateful my mum's not one of these fussy types :A

Justie

Eels100 wrote: »

In a word: yes

phew glad it's not just me :cool:

Curious_George_2

Eels100 - sadly for me thats my (ex) mother in law too
while pregnant with her grandchild i heard all about her 4 or 5 miscarriages,
the baby that was born on her side with a shock of bright ginger hair and they had "no idea where it came from" so ours could be the same (she really needs to look in the mirror more often.... i imagine she is one of these "ohh no... im strawberry blonde" types :rolleyes: )
that her son had a wonky fat nose which she alone fixed by stroking it while she was feeding him.... :eek:
and also the very healthy pregnancy that bore a baby with a caved in head who lived for about 10 seconds,
i suffered that woman for 10 YEARS, and still have too even now despite the fact that me and her son are no longer together, she is still part of my life (she is still DDs nanny no matter what i think of her)
she came round to see me a few weeks ago and managed to call me fat 5 times in the space of 1 1/2 hours....
its the way she does it though, if i were to turn around and have a go at her back she would be so surprised and upset that i even thought she had meant to offend me....
ive lost a lot of my patience lately though, so she doesnt want to try it again!

Dormouse

Agutka wrote: »

Ooh, my breast have grown up!
I woke this morning to find a mysterious dried patch on my nightie... I'm guessing my nipple has leaked, although when I asked, it looked innocent like it had no idea what I was talking about :rolleyes:.

Now my question is this: is this a one off? Or should I invest in pads already?

There's no way of knowing really - pregnant boobs are a bit unpredictable. I leaked just once from just the one boob in the whole of my first pregnancy and haven't leaked at all yet in this one (I'm 33 weeks) - no (super attractive) crustiness either. I'd get some pads just in case, but it's anyone's guess what your breasts are going to decide to do :rolleyes: :rotfl:

Re: mums, mine's the same as C George's - I get the bizarre pearls of wisdom too. :rolleyes: You should have heard the telling off I got for cycling when we went to Center Parcs and how dangerous it is :rolleyes: (seriously, you'd have thought I was doing the Tour de France :rotfl: )

Dormouse

Justie wrote: »

oh and baby hiccups are doing my head in - every time I settle down to do my hypnobirthing CD he starts and it's so distracting :rolleyes: not to mention the other 300 times a day it happens.

Ooh, what's it like, the CD? I've been thinking about getting one.

Justie

Dormouse wrote: »

Ooh, what's it like, the CD? I've been thinking about getting one.

I'm loving it - when I get chance to do it. I've got the Mongan Method book that comes with a CD but the cd is very American and I don't get on with it all that well - although it is good for the relaxation bit I just got the giggles when she talked about the baby dancing out of me :rotfl:
The book is excellent though and I'd highly recommend it as it talks about removing fear from childbirth and how to have a natural birth without being too earth mother or too anti-medicine (although it's very much pro-minimal intervention) - and it talks you through different breathing exercises specifically for giving birth etc.

I've since got a natalhypnotheraphy CD (well I bought 2 actually as I'm planning a home birth but may end up in hospital so I got both CDs :rolleyes: really necessary but I'm passing the other onto a friend) which is an English woman and I find the visualisation much better and more 'me'.

If I had the money I'd do the proper hypnobirthing course but it's not cheap and there aren't many classes round here but I may yet pay for a one off consultation just to get more pointers. I don't know if I'll be able to be in selfhypnosis the whole way through but I'm hoping that at the least it'll relax me and make me feel more in control... it can't do any harm anyway!