MSE Pregnancy Club 27

moonbabe58

Congratulations Jemb! Beautiful name and lucky you with the speedy birth! Hope you are all doing well

SmlSave

cllola wrote: »

smlsave (and anyone else) - one thing i would recommend is glucose tablets or gels (can be bought from boots/supermarkets). they are great for long labours when you might not want to eat anything that you're offered in hospital but need to energy. Took me 18 hours to get from 4 - 10cm and they were invaluable. Fingers crossed none of us have a labour like that though!! :-)

Just looked these up and at 50p I'll be getting some tomorrow Thanks for the advice cllola.

I tried to go to the pub a couple of weeks ago and gave myself such bad heartburn by drinking a tonic. Now if I go its squash all the way!

Congratulations jemb Imogen is a lovely name

VickyVics

samtoby wrote: »

Had a tiny meltdown last night when I looked in the mirror in my underwear. My legs from the knees upwards look like orange peel! I have gained weight but it appears its gone straight there. I think it makes it worse my OH is on a health kick and doing something called Insanity - while I am chucking in the food he is running around and is loosing weight as I am gaining it.

Is it totally selfish of me to think it was a bit mean of him to start doing Insanity?! I feel really pathetic.

I totally understand where you are coming from. I'm having a bit of a panic about my weight gain, not helped by my in laws constantly commenting about the size of my bump and how its probably going to be a 10lb baby (his side of the family were all big babies). Both my mum and husband are currently being healthy and I feel frustrated because I just can't do that. I just have to put up with the gain. Although did have my midwife appointment today and she measured me and said that I was only 1cm bigger than what they would expect but that it was probably mainly down to the fact that I am only 4ft11. There just isn't as much space there for baby to grow so she will be sticking out...phew!! Made me feel much better. Like you I am normally quite healthy and before being pregnant was very very active. Just couldn't maintain it whilst pregnant unfortunately xx

VickyVics

Congratulations Jemb. A really lovely name. I will keep my fingers crossed that my labour goes as well as yours. xxx

lushlifesaver

Congratulations Jemb! Lovely name


samtoby and vickyvics - I'm in the same boat. I have half the people telling me I'm carrying it all on my thighs/bum with a bump that's 'all in front' and half telling me it's smaller than they expected/the right size and then the scales telling me my weight gain is scary (in my head after all the weight I lost!)! Right now I'm just trying to make better choices, although this weekend is obviously an exception with having been away with the team and tonight we are having a KFC as antenatal finishes too late to get anything sorted afterwards (bf won't let me just eat some soup/toast) and there's no time for me to cook in between work and class. So I'm just trying to keep routine and have cereal with milk and juice for breakfast, a decent lunch (sandwich or sausage roll and salad or soup with a cereal bar, a yogurt and a piece of fruit) then a normal tea with a cereal bar/biscuit mid morning. Luckily I don't struggle with the munchies of an evening which is when bf is tucking in to anything edible in sight! I find the afternoons much harder but then I've been trying to keep an apple and sliced orange to hand (apart from today)


I know I'll miss my bump/carrying baby once we have her here but I can't wait to do loads more walking again and generally feel more mobile. Lost pretty much all my weight just with an hour or twos walking a day plus healthy/SW food choices so should be ok to do it again. Hoping to be back in my 'normal' clothes (aka size 8 jeans and skirts etc) by our nationals tournament in May which in theory gives me 5 weeks to shift a stone or so...was losing 3+lb a week on sw so I just need the motivation!

faithhope

Congrats Jemb! :j

AFM- as warned, I will be doing a bit of queue jumping I am now booked in for a section on 26th Feb unless he decides to make an early appearance

claire16c

Congratulations Jemb! Lovely name too!

I'm rather annoyed as I've just had my letter from my boss about maternity pay and it's less than what I thought I'd be getting(I assumed standard amount) by just under £20 a week which over the 39 weeks is approx £780!

This is because maternity pay is calculated from the 8 weeks prior to your 25th week of pregnancy (which I had no idea about) I just thought it was based on average earnings of that past few months or your contract or whatever, and of course it just happened to be week 20&21 I was in hospital with bleeding so had a rubbish pay check for a couple of weeks! Blimmin typical. So not only did I loose some money then (which I didn't care about too much as just glad everything was ok) but it's costing a lot more now!

I mean that £80 a month could pay for quite a few bits. I looked it up on a website and it basically says if you had reduced hours in that qualifying period it's just bad luck & nothing can be done about it.

squ1rrel5

Oh no Claire that's rubbish. I'm waiting for my maternity leave letter to come through the post, so hope everything is okay with it. I

I changed my hours this week (just for the last 3 weeks) by starting half an hour earlier and having a shorter lunch break I get to go home at 4.30pm. Thought I'd feel great after my first early finish but I feel utterly exhausted!
Think the late stage pregnancy tiredness is finally starting to hit!! X

claire16c

It just seems really unfair. I've just been reading posts of ladies who work in the nhs who I think get higher mat pay & they deliberately work over time in those 8 weeks to get more money. Why can't they just go on what you earn in your contract or over a longer period of time!

I'm getting the tiredness too. Feel exhausted a lot of the day now but when I tried to nap today I couldn't sleep.

lushlifesaver

Away sorry to hear about that claire :-( our chief exec's words when I mentioned it were we give you as little as we legally have to, smp only but I won't stop our contributions to your pension' bit poop as he's often up for being much better - he's taking the staff out for the 'Christmas meal' this Friday (not going as bf goes away again Sunday) and bought some of us our dresses etc for last years annual dinner but on this one its as little as possible grr. Still at least I knew from 12weeks, wouldn't have budgeted on any more anyway but it has given me the motivation to be stricter with my money last month and this month (OK so I failed really in January but doing much better so far with this pay check!) Really pants that your spell in hospital negatively effects it!

Antenatal ended up nit happening tonight as the centre staff didn't turn up to open up! The midwives were fuming and so embarrassed. But as bf is always away one of them is going to call me tomorrow and arrange to come round to the house and do the session one to one with me and bf, and also go through any questions he has about labour etc as he missed that session last week.
Baby is sitting quite heavy tonight - if you get what I mean? Feels like she's moved all her weight to one position so I'm unbalanced.

Bf has bought a sky sports pass for the Now TV (we cancelled Sky last month) so is about to watch the footie. I'm off in the bedroom to watch normal telly, plan what I intend to cook in our new oven (should be ordering the new cooker come Saturday - at last!!) And think about getting ideas together for my routine once on mat leave/bubs is here! Ha not sure how fast past planning cooking I'll get!