MSE Pregnancy Club 28

claire16c

fireyfirenze wrote: »

well done Lara

fingers crossed you'll be immune ema_o.

just feel the need to have a rant that anybody who has a midwife they can contact for advice is really lucky. iv just worked out I have made 17 phone calls over the last 2 days to ask for advice about chickenpox and still nobody has got back to me, I'm actually at wits end. to top it all off my OH has just text saying 'oh well it's only a risk to our unborn child. nothing to worry about' which has really upset me because what else can I do?! iv constantly rang people and left messages and been promised a ring back but nobody has bothered.

I'm meant to work a nightshift tonight in a child's home where the child's brother has chickenpox. I'm scared of ringing work up and saying I don't want to do it because it's too late notice really they won't get anybody to cover. my manager told me to ring occupational health (at work) yesterday and the nurse there said I'm immune to it. Then my best friend who's a nurse yesterday said you can get it twice! arghhh.

That's bad my midwife text me back within a couple of hours.

Could you ring your gp to see if you had chicken pox as a child if your mum isn't sure?

sunshine81

Congratulations Lara! My uni work is plodding along, I did my lesson plan late last night and then it all went to pot and I ended up teaching other stuff instead anyway! Got 78 on my latest Open Uni essay, need to think about doing the next one this week, try and get ahead a little.

Congrats on the recent births too!

Eiteews - Same here re names! We're having a boy, we had 3 or 4 girls names we both loved but we have only two boys names and neither of them we are totally in love with. I know there's all these cool names about now (a work colleague is going to call her son Woody or Sonny) but they just won't suit me and OH and the type of people we are!

Firey - hope you get some decent advice soon, I can't imagine how frustrating that is.

AFM, plodding along OK, my mother told me that she's sick of seeing me in the same 4 dresses, 2 of which are now too short for work, and told me to get some more and she'll pay for two of them! So this week I have ordered so far 11 dresses :rotfl: 3 have already come from Asda, one is lovely the others are getting too tight in the chest area. Does anyone else have that problem? It's so annoying as when you get a bigger size it's generally the waist that increases not the b00b area! I need these dresses to last until the end of my pregnancy (currently 29+3), I'm currently a HH cup and have just started with the leaky boobs so they're growing all the time! :eek:

xx

neverdespairgirl

sunshine81 wrote: »

AFM, plodding along OK, my mother told me that she's sick of seeing me in the same 4 dresses, 2 of which are now too short for work, and told me to get some more and she'll pay for two of them! So this week I have ordered so far 11 dresses :rotfl: 3 have already come from Asda, one is lovely the others are getting too tight in the chest area. Does anyone else have that problem?

I'm wearing jersey / stretchy stuff mostly, so that it doesn't get too tight. There's not much escape from the sartorial hell of late pregnancy, though!

fireyfirenze

sunshine I ordered like 10 maternity dresses from asos so I could pick one for my birthday meal, all the asos own brand ones were too tight in the chest area! apart from one that had no shape to it at all, it wS like a tent! haha.

iv bought most maternity stuff from new look so far, a lot of it is stuff I probably wouldn't choose usually but it's not too expensive and it's comfy so needs must!

marywooyeah

Woohoo congrats Dr Lara! That's amazing! :j:beer:

I've only got one maternity dress, which ironically i can't find! Otherwise I'm just in my normal clothes, I suppose there is an upside to being a size 16 already!

Does anyone know if unborn babies get hungry? I didn't get in from work until 1am and hadn't eaten, she was kicking and thumping around so much and I worried that she was crying and screaming out for food, I felt awful I've just had some food and she's calmed down which just reinforces my worries that she's starving

coolcait

marywooyeah wrote: »

Woohoo congrats Dr Lara! That's amazing! :j:beer:

I've only got one maternity dress, which ironically i can't find! Otherwise I'm just in my normal clothes, I suppose there is an upside to being a size 16 already!

Does anyone know if unborn babies get hungry? I didn't get in from work until 1am and hadn't eaten, she was kicking and thumping around so much and I worried that she was crying and screaming out for food, I felt awful I've just had some food and she's calmed down which just reinforces my worries that she's starving

That might just be the baby's pattern of activity.

She might just be a night owl - up and ready to party at 1am. So get plenty of sleep in now!

I doubt if it has anything to do with you not having eaten.

Certainly, when I was expecting, baby's activity had nothing to do with whether or not I had eaten.

sophiasmum

Funnily enough Mary - I woke up at 5:45 this morning starving with baby having a party in my tummy!! Just had 2 pieces of toast and all has calmed down....


Last day in work for me today - its really weird - have been working there for 15 years but just feel like Im going on maternity leave not that Im never going back!
Already filling my diary for next week and I am so going to have a tidy house!!! x

samtoby

My baby goes movement mad after I have eaten or drunk anything.

Getting going early today! Washing on, cake baked and now to studying!

RobotsinDisguse

Hi ladies, sorry for going quiet, I was in hospital from early Monday till late Wednesday. I had my mobile but 3G was too slow to be able to load MSE sadly. I'll read back & catch up.

I'm home & baby is well and "very active". They still can't say 100% what was wrong but I'm glad I'm home now. It was quite possibly inflamed appendix - I was put on IV antibiotics as blood tests said I had bacterial infection & inflammation as well as the pain in my lower right belly. I now have a v sore left arm after 12 or 13 needles yesterday alone!

Lara44

Oh ouch, sorry to hear that Robots. Glad you're home and feeling better now and that the baby is well Hope you're able to take it super easy and recuperate xx