12-24 weeks pregnant (part 3)

teaandcakeordeath · 28 April 2014 at 10:56PM

Jen- i had something similar over the past few days. Like a sharp pain running from vagina diagonally up towards hip. Asked mil and she said sounds normal and like 'round ligament stretching' to her. She said if pain does not go away (mine is an occasional shooting pain, not predictable and very fleeting) then to contact my mw. Hth.

Peonie · 28 April 2014 at 11:01PM

Tea, yours is better than mine (which is better than I thought it would be yesterday) at: 6 weeks at 90% pay, 12 weeks at 50% pay plus SMP and finally 21 weeks SMP.

Does anyone know about the legal side of using up holidays before going on mat leave? I heard a European directive changed it so we can carry accrued leave over to the next leave year. That's not my company's policy and I need to find the evidence to get them to change it.

LailaP_2 · 28 April 2014 at 11:04PM

Jen I've been having this too and again told it's normal. TCOD describes it perfectly but I call it shooty-puss lol

Good luck tomorrow Daisiegg and hope your scan goes well too TCOD and anyone else I might have missed.

Peonie That sounds soooo cute!

Peonie · 28 April 2014 at 11:04PM

Jen, I hope your pain goes away quickly. How do you know your placenta is at the front? I really knew nothing before. I thought the placenta went all the way around.

jenand8285 · 28 April 2014 at 11:19PM

Thank you all for the reassurance. I thought it might all be normal but decided I should get other opinions.

Peonie, my notes from my 12 week scan noted anterior placenta so I googled it lol and it means at the front. Around 30% of pregnancies have anterior placenta if I remember correctly.

Oh, just an heads up, I went for my 2 year eye test last weekend expecting to use my maternity exception card and it is not valid for eye tests! Apparently you are not suppose to be tested when pg thats why they dont accept them ( they told me after). I did tell the optician I was pg and that I had the card and he never said anything before the test. Felt a right t*t, like I was trying to pull a fast one! First time I tried using it aswell lol.

teaandcakeordeath · 28 April 2014 at 11:30PM

Peonie, not sure if you have a doppler but you can hear placenta wooshing on it. I think mine is at the top towards the front- will see tomorrow though.

Would love to get that eu directive if you find it. My work is making me take 28 days leave before September which is a right pain as it impacts on extra hours I can do. Our leave year runs from 01/04 to 31/03. I can carry 5 days over. In our department someone with different manager is taking over 20 days- she's due 2 days before me. Am fuming. That would really help my financial probs but because pol says 'managers discretion' I lose out. May get senior rep involved as they have made other managers discretion policies uniform within our dept but my manager won't budge on this. Don't get why as it makes no difference to them staffing wise- they still lose me for the same amount of time, just means that I may not have to declare bankruptcy doing it!