MSE Pregnancy Club 26

KScarlet

Hugs Lily I'm sorry the news was mixed but I am pleased your little girl has grown a bit. I know there's the worry of what could happen while she's inside but hopefully she will gain lots more weight xxx

Hugs Vic all sounds very scary, I am pleased everything is ok. Perfect excuse to take things easy x

Heartburn is horrid. It's getting worse I can't seem to eat or drink anything without it. I'm drinking gaviscon but it isn't helping. Don't want to go to bed as I know lying down will make it worse. Moan moan moan

IHateDida

mysecretalias wrote: »

Hello everyone!! Gingerly posting here as I haven't been on this thread yet, I'm on the less than 12 weeks thread and I will be 12 weeks tomorrow.

I had a question and thought this might be the best place to get some info! My OH and I have been trying to find a cheap baby first aid course to attend early next year so we are clued up when baby arrives. They are just all SO expensive!!

So far the only fairly reasonable one we've been able to find is via NCT next year but even that is £50 per couple and it's quite a distance away. When my best friend was pregnant a few months ago she swears she found a Red Cross run course for £5 per person but she can't find any details to give me.

Has anyone done a course/booked onto one and been able to find a fairly cheap/reasonably priced one?

I know you can't put a price on your child's safety but blooming heck I'll be broke before the baby even comes at this rate!! Eep!

Thanks in advance x

Contact your local childrens centre - they run them or have contact with those who run them at their centres. I have been on 2 really good ones, completely free of charge!:)

TeamLowe

Oh dear Lily, I'm sorry it's not great news again

And whilst she might not be with you all the time, they do try to have parents involved in the care of special babies as much as possible and hopefully if she does need extra care it'll only be for a few days

Be thinking of you x

KScarlet

Angel : Joshua is gorgeous! Hope you're doing ok? Xxx

firefly369

Lilymay - Sorry for the rubbish scan results. Nothing we can say will stop you worrying but moan here as much as you want to. Hope little miss has a growth spurt over the next month.

Vic- Thanks for the info. Guess the watery stuff is something I will just have to get used to.

Kynthia

KScarlet wrote: »

Heartburn is horrid. It's getting worse I can't seem to eat or drink anything without it. I'm drinking gaviscon but it isn't helping. Don't want to go to bed as I know lying down will make it worse. Moan moan moan

If your heartburn is regularly that bad then wont your midwife/GP give you medication for it? I've been on ranitidine for the past 6 weeks as I had terrible heartburn/gerd which gaviscon had no effect on, and I've only had a bit of heartburn 3 times since. My GP today said there's also other baby safe options if the ranitidine is not enough.

KScarlet

Kynthia my MW is a bit pants tbh I might see if I can get a dr appt, I've only got 2 weeks left of pregnancy I've had constant heartburn but I found avoiding certain foods helped, now that isn't helping! Thanks for the suggestion though will mention ranitidine x

KScarlet

I feel a bit like I'm falling appart, suffering with something quite embarrassing

Kynthia

KScarlet wrote: »

I feel a bit like I'm falling appart, suffering with something quite embarrassing

Half of pregnancy seems to be embarrassing. I feel like I should be fine as I'm only 24 weeks yet I've been to the doctors every week for the past 5 weeks! I'm anaemic, with pelvic girdle pain and on prescription heartburn medication. I've had a horrid virus and missed a week and a half of work, plus a gum infection and a uti. I now have a bad cough that might become a chest infection and I've already been on antibiotics twice so it might become three times. There's nothing you can do, our bodies are vulnerable during pregnancy, and the extra strain brings out things our bodies coped with and never even knew about. The thing is to be determined with your GP if you think something isn't right and there is treatment options. When I went about the heartburn my midwife had already suggested ranitidine, so when my GP said 'what are you hoping to get out of this appointment' I said I wanted a prescription. When I mentioned my PGP symptoms to my GP during my 22 week check up he hadn't even heard of it and asked what I would like to happen, and as I'd researched beforehand I said I wanted a referral to a physiotherapist. I don't ask for unnecessary medication, I thankfully don't need antibiotics for my chest at the moment, but I do my research and won't 'put up' with something awful just because I'm pregnant or my GP/midwife isn't great. I hope you get something to help you.

vic3

lilymay1 wrote: »

Yes, thankfully, just not as much as we'd like and it's just a bit disappointing I said I'd lost some of my plug on Sunday and she said baby was quite low in my pelvis. She also said that in her experience, about 75% of babies born at 37 weeks by C-section who weighed <7lb ended up in special care. I didn't realise that her being there was quite a real possibility which has upset me a bit. I don't want to be on a post-natal ward recovering from surgery with no baby to look after.

I know I should try to look at the positives. There wasn't any calcification in the placenta and the doppler was okay. I think I'm just feeling a bit sorry for myself today.

I'm sorry, I'll stop whinging, I'm Just having a 'woe is me' evening. I need a rant 'coz men just don't bloody understand do they?

Hugs; it's fine to heel sorry for yourself sometimes. I certainly felt like that yesterday you can always rant and cry on here to us.

I think that you're doing amazingly well. I'm so glad to hear that your little girl is progressing xx