MSE Pregnancy Club 26

fluffysox

Urrgghh DH went out "for a meal" last night to celebrate a work colleague's engagement (was also anniversary of us becoming a couple yesterday 11 years previous and we got engaged last year on our 10 year anniversary but I wasn't invited of course) Anyway got a text at midnight to say he'd been "forced" to miss the last train and he got home about 4am.
Meanwhile, DS who has slept brilliantl y for the past couple of weeks woke at least hourly with another snotty nose. So I'm very tired today and DH will no doubt be neither use nor ornament. Typical!!!:mad:

amy_85

Off to Newcastle today ready for the great north run tomorrow. Will be the 1 time in 6 years that I havnt run it My husband, mom and 2 of our friends are running it so I'm being a spectator for a change. Will be strange being on the other side of the barriers.

30+6

Luciferswench

I havent worn my wedding ring since about week 28 i did try to put it back on but my finger began swelling so had to remove it again.
Got a list of housework as long as my arm today but lacking motivation due to being up since 6.30am thanks to DH getting up for work hes a noisy one.

38 wk today 14 day countdown eeek!

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bride2be2012 wrote: »

Feeling a bit rubbish today. DH was on a boys weekend at the weekend and still feeling rough and tired, and being a grumpy sod. He changed his plans on Sunday about when he was coming home, so arrived home 3 hours early and I wasn't in and he didn't have his key, and there was no food in either, all my fault of course. So yesterday I dragged myself around the supermarkets and ended up in agony with pelvic pain. So manage to make his dinner when he got in from work, then he jumped in the shower and cleared off to bed without even saying good night! To top it all, there's been a few break ins near us recently, and I was so annoyed with him I forgot to lock the back door last night! Thankfully nothing happened but it didn't improve his mood any when he went to let the dog out this morning and the door was already open! Ah well, I get peace as he's working all day, and I'm going for dinner with the girls tonight! If he's lucky, I'll pop something in the slow cooker for his dinner, otherwise he can do his own!

So now I'm kinda panicking over how on earth he's gonna manage working when bump is here and up through the night, coz he's such a grouch after one weekend. I honestly don't think he has any idea how much a baby disrupts things - all I hear just now is he can't wait til bump arrives so he can have two weeks holiday from work!! Agh, please can someone tell me I'm worrying over nothing, and he will be fine and all men are clueless?!

Just catching up as I've been on holiday...
My husband has always been great after the baby has been born despite how he was during pregnancy making it seem like he wouldn't be so I hope yours is the same. And in my last pregnancy he once left the front door completely wide open over night. :eek:

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dizziblonde wrote: »

They're terrified in our local hospital of being seen to do ANYTHING that might be twisted into pushing formula at all - I found if you worded things very politely that "this is my informed choice and what I wish to do will you facilitate it for me" that you got a pretty smooth ride through it all to be honest.

It's great that they actually will accept informed choice - I actually ended up changing MW last time partly because she kept arguing with all my clearly informed choices even when I explained the actual reasoning. And on breast/formula feeding, I think it should absolutely be informed choice and that you are given the information and then make your own choice and are supported in that rather than the whole "ram it down your throat while not actually giving any proper information or support" which is what seems to happen in my area.

Kayalana99

Well I'm off to see a friend on the train today, only *small* problem is I have DS in tow and I have to climb up loads of stairs and down loads of stairs to get to the platform.. fortunantly my Mcclaren push chair has a strap that I can literally just throw it over my shoulder but means I will have buggy + 2 bags (changing bag and my own) and DS on the other hip annnd obvouisly my 36+4 bubble.

Shall be nice to get out but I bet ill be glad to be home

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Poppy27 wrote: »

Focusing on trying to turn baby around now. At my last appointment it was back to back but I was told it can still move so will likely swing round to the left with some encouragement. So lots of leaning forward and hip swinging on a gym ball going on here for the next few weeks!

33+2

I managed to get my first to turn really easily in pregnancy at a similar stage to you. Second didn't but must've turned in labour as she came out the "right" way round. Supposedly that can make labour much longer but mine was under four hours so it definitely didn't give me a long labour.

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Bangton wrote: »

I don't think I want to go there now. The midwife kind of asked me as I was being checked over by a trainee last appointment and I didn't know as we have never discussed it, I was just given a pamphlet at 8 weeks of pregnancy which I never read as it was so early. I didn't realise that pamphlet was the basis of my decision and thought it would be discussed - pros and cons wise closer to time. So when she asked and I didn't know she just said go to birth centre eh..your low risk. So I went with it.

However I discovered last night that whilst it is attached to a hospital the hospital itself has no delivery suite at all so if anything went wrong I'd have to be blue lighted to the next hospital 20 mins away. I can see why my mum was having a benny over it now! Not keen being that I haven't had a baby before.

I'm still catching up so this might have been already discussed (or you might even have given birth!) but an obstetric emergency does not usually happen with no warning and if you needed an EMCS, it would be things like theatre prep and organising the people that would be the limiting factors so you taking twenty minutes to get there shouldn't be something that would affect timing of one. (I also read that although the aim is for an EMCS to be within 30 minutes, 50% are longer than that and there is no significant difference in outcomes between those that are before or after that time although unfortunately I can't remember where I read it as it was during my first pregnancy.)

continualdiamond

And relax......

Not planning on going anywhere else today. Yesterday and this morning have been crazy. I was at friends yesterday for 11am, didn't leave till 2pm, came home and had a quick sandwich for lunch as was heading out again at 3:30pm.

Myself and 2 other friends have always caught up for coffee/cake in town after work on a Friday and I said I would continue to meet them whilst on maternity leave. Anyway we all met up at 1 persons house instead, which resulted in me not getting home till 6:30pm.

Then the same friend text to say pop back round about 8ish for a last time drink/nibbles night at her house as she is moving on Monday. My plan was to stay until about 10 - 10:30pm, I left at 11:45pm, lol.

Climbed into bed just after midnight and then was out the door this morning at 10am to see another friend before she has an operation next week. Went to the shop on the way home and decided to get some toasted tea cakes for lunch, yummy, can't wait.

Walked in the door and was happy to see 2 xmas pressies I purchased online yesterday morning had arrived today. I buy for my parents & sister this early as it's cheaper to send it surface mail to Australia and that has to be done by the 30th of September.

Think I'll need a nap this afternoon. Can't believe it's only 9 days till my due date :eek:

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an9i77 wrote: »

Good luck to all those due very soon. Those who don't want pain relief (except gas and air - I mean the hard stuff), what are your reasons? Is it because you want to be fully 'compos mentis' at the time of the birth, or is it to avoid affecting the baby?
I only ask because I had every drug they gave me last time, and it did mean that I was a bit too out of it to really appreciate what was going on (said to OH just before they cut me open in EMCS 'this is possibly the most surreal moment of my life!') but I'd rather have a bit of feeling surreal over the pain, any day (I have a low pain threshold).
Also the diamorphine was, until the emergency started that led to the EMCS, very relaxing and nice.
Just curious why people would prefer no pain relieveing drugs.

My reasons are the adverse effects that they can have on me and/or the baby. Also, with diamorphine you can't stay in the birth pool and for an epidural you have to be in hospital and I have had many negative experiences in my local hospital (not just birth). Between hypnobirthing and being at home, I actually had a lower level of pain with nothing than I did the first time with gas and air, diamorphine *and* an epidural until they had topped it up and once I was on gas and air I had absolutely no pain at all so actually had no need for anything else (and I didn't *need* the gas and air the way I felt I needed stuff the first time - it was just nice to have IYSWIM).