MSE Pregnancy Club 27

smartcat04

Not having a good day. Was wide awake from 1.30am and ended up getting up at 5am when hubby got up for work. Know if I tried to nap I wouldnt drop off. Because I'm shattered everything has seemed worse tgoday and I've spent most of the day crying at everthing.
Little Pea has spent most of the day sticking her feet out at awkward angles. Bump has definetly dropped down.
Went for a scan yesterday to check on the fibroid- its slightly bigger but its position isnt going to cause a problem with delivery.
Just trying to calm down a bit for hypnobirthing in a couple of hours.

Birdie85

Hugs Smartcat, it can only get better! Being tired does make you weepy though, I was crying at OH this morning because I didn't sleep and he huffed at me last night when I came back to bed after a wee!

Was watching The Wright Stuff this morning with OH and they were discussing how 1 in 10 men with pregnant partners apparently cheat on them! That's a massive number! :eek: OH was like 'God, what's wrong with people? Why can't the guys just have a w**k if they're feeling frisky?!' then when they were talking about how much women can change in pregnancy blah blah blah and OH just went 'Ooooh maybe I've got it lucky because you're just you with a baby in your belly!'

BadlyWrittenPoem

sjlou wrote: »

A back to back birth can be around 10 hours longer than a straight forward birth! eeek :eek: Something to be avoided if at all possible.

Just to reassure anyone with a back to back baby who is worrying, whilst obviously back to front is the optimum position, back to back doesn't neccessarily mean a bad/difficult/long labour. My second full term birth was back to back at the start of labour - it was a really lovely birth with no complications and took slightly less than four hours. And once I had gas and air had no pain whatsoever.

Mrs_T_M

Apologies for posting, I know I don't really belong in this thread at the moment, but I had a question that I'd like some opinions on.

Since we lost our little one at half term, my milk has definitely come in. I've decided to try and donate it to someone who can use it. I can't save it at the moment due to my anti depressant tablets, but I'll be discussing changing or weaning off of them with my GP soon. My question is this, how do you think you would feel giving someone else's milk to your baby?

Personally, as long as it's in a bottle, I see no more emotional attachment to it than I do formula. I just wanted some input from others. Again, I'm sorry if posting this upsets anyone, that is not my aim.

squ1rrel5

Can anyone offer any useful advice? Got a wedding at end of August when LO will be approx 5 months old. The wedding is on the south coast and about a 5-6 hour drive. The original plan was to book a cottage for a week to make it into a holiday but the area and the fact it's school holidays means that option is just too expensive! We're now thinking of travelling down on the Fri and back up again on the Sunday and find somewhere to stay for 2 nights.
But is that too much travelling for a 5 month old in the space of a couple of days. I heard that babies weren't supposed to stay for too long in the car seat?

BadlyWrittenPoem

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

Apologies for posting, I know I don't really belong in this thread at the moment, but I had a question that I'd like some opinions on.

Since we lost our little one at half term, my milk has definitely come in. I've decided to try and donate it to someone who can use it. I can't save it at the moment due to my anti depressant tablets, but I'll be discussing changing or weaning off of them with my GP soon. My question is this, how do you think you would feel giving someone else's milk to your baby?

Personally, as long as it's in a bottle, I see no more emotional attachment to it than I do formula. I just wanted some input from others. Again, I'm sorry if posting this upsets anyone, that is not my aim.

I've never been a position to need it but I would be okay with it. I have given to a friend and to a lady through human milk 4 human babies and both were extremely appreciative and very glad to receive it.

Mrs_T_M

BadlyWrittenPoem wrote: »

I've never been a position to need it but I would be okay with it. I have given to a friend and to a lady through human milk 4 human babies and both were extremely appreciative and very glad to receive it.

I've liked the UK FB page for them, but when looking on their website, I didn't see a UK community page (for their forum I'm guessing). I don't want people on my FB to know what I'm doing. Any suggestions? I'm stuck on my phone and 3G until tomorrow (hopefully) when the engineer comes out to repair our phone line, so I may have just over looked something. Thanks!

sunshine81

Hello all!

What a day! We got there half an hour early and was seen straight away, the sonographer seemed a bit grumpy (but maybe that's just because I am comparing to the one at the 12 week one who was just amazingly friendly). She was silent for about 20 minutes doing all the measurements, then sent us for a walk telling us to return within 10 minutes. But then she kept us waiting another half hour before rescanning... baby still had not moved! She did another 10 minutes or so before saying we will have to come back, the measurements she did get were all 'fine' although didn't explain anything more than that, but still needed to look at the heart and placenta... so we have to go back on Valentines Day for another scan.

However, despite baby being rather lazy we did get the news that we are going to attempt to level out the numbers by being team blue! Although even that, she just said 'it looks like a boy' - now I know they can't say 'it's definitely a boy' she didn't smile or show me boy bits or anything on screen... in fact I never got to see the screen except for a quick look to confirm there were two arms two legs and a beating heart! OH got a better view from his chair, he apparently saw feet, face and all sorts! She even said 'I'd just leave pictures til next time it's not really clear today' which I didn't argue with... wish I had still got the one to mark the occasion.

But overall... happy times!

samtoby

Due date list

1. jemb - 23rd January 2014 :female:
2. Fran-o - 28th January 2014 :male:
3. Faerie - 5th February 2014 :male:
4. 9ja4life - 6th February 2014 :male:
5. Birdie85 - 10th February 2014 :male:
6. Jenni_fer - 25th February 2014 ?
7. Emz118 - 26th February 2014 ?
8. Smartcat04 - 26th February 2014 :female:
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12. SmlSave - 3rd March 2014 :female:
13. Faithhope - 3rd March 2014 :male:
14. Sidney88 - 8th March 2014 :male:
15. Squ1rrel5 - 14th March 2014 :female:
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17. LannieDuck - 17th March 2014 :female:
18. CupofTea - 17th March 2014 ?
19. Claire16c - 23rd March 2014 :female:
20. Sjlou - 26th March 2014 ?
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22. Lulu75 - 29th March 2014 ?
23. Con1888 - 29th March 2014 ?
24. Hannah27 - 29th March 2014 :female:
25. Eiteews - 5th April 2014 :male:
26. polka_dots - 7th April 2014 :male:
27. faith2009uk - 8th April 2014 :female:
28. Luella-14 - 10th April 2014 :male::female:
29. Twigpig - 14th April 2014 ?
30. Debs0778 - 17th April 2014 ?
31. McRach - 20th April 2014 ?
32. mancbird - 20th April 2014 ?
33. Sexki11en - 5th May 2014 :female:
34. jen_1985_04 - 8th May 2014 ?
35. marywooyeah - 14th May 2014 :female:
36. VickyVics - 14th May 2014 :female:
37. 1DayATT - 17th May 2014 ?
38. Samtoby -18th May 2014 :female:
39. mysecretalias - 25th May 2014 :female:
40. stsarina - 25th May 2014 :female:
41. cllola - 29th May 2014 :female:
42. mrshappy - 30th May 2014 :female:
43. sophiasmum - 30th May 2014 ?
44. sunshine81 - 15th June 2014 ?
45. moonbabe58 - 20th June 2014 ?
46. Faith2009uk - 23rd June 2014 ?
47. TigerLilley1980 - 21st July 2014 ?

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:female:durham_girl - 24th January 2014 - Hallie Lauren, 6lb 11oz
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BadlyWrittenPoem

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

I've liked the UK FB page for them, but when looking on their website, I didn't see a UK community page (for their forum I'm guessing). I don't want people on my FB to know what I'm doing. Any suggestions? I'm stuck on my phone and 3G until tomorrow (hopefully) when the engineer comes out to repair our phone line, so I may have just over looked something. Thanks!

You could try messaging the page and see if they will post an offer for you without you posting one yourself. They usually repost offers anyway to make sure that people see the offers so they'll put something like "Jane from Sheffield has a freezer stash of 30oz" and link to the post she made so I would have thought they could do one for you without you personally posting from your facebook account.

ETA: another option I've just thought of could be to look for local breastfeeding or natural parenting groups on FB and message the admin asking if they know of anyone who would like some breastmilk.