MSE Pregnancy Club 28

sjlou

Hi Icey :wave:
I can imagine it must be a lot harder when your running round after a toddler too! I must remember to make the most of my rest oncw I finish work!

Happy valentines ladies.
no plans for us except a quiet night in. Cooked oh fav curry last night for dinner, need to decide what to do tonight!

chelseablue

Hi Icey :j

Do you know what you're having this time?

Crabapple

Hi Icey!

My toddler is driving me up the wall today so I sympathise. I'm trying to lug bump around and tidy up around the devastation she is causing! She also has a cold and very kindly just wiped her nose then handed me the snotty tissue. Kids are just lovely!

samtoby

Icey77 wrote: »

Morning Ladies,

May I join your group?
I was on the 12 week group but somehow missed the 12-24 group, not sure how as I was on it with DD??!!?

I'm 30+3 (I think) and due 21st April


Icey x

Would you like adding to the list? x

SmlSave

It's my last working day today :j Work bought me a beautiful changing bag http://www.toysrus.co.uk/Babies-R-Us/Travel-and-Pushchairs/Changing-Bags/Pebble-Changing-Bag-in-Plum(0101750) plus £20 to spend on reflexology So a good start to the day.

Welcome to the board Icey What does your DD think about you having a baby in your tummy? DS thinks everyone must have one expect Daddy who has a fish apparently :rotfl:

mysecretalias

Hi guys.

Well my hospital stay didn't quite end how I expected it to. I needed up discharging myself at 10pm last night. Unfortunately there were two extremely unpleasant girls in the beds opposite me who were making life generally very unpleasant for everyone else on the ward, and the stress of it got too much for me in the end and I told OH that I was going home and he could either help me or do nothing because he wasn't going to be able to stop me. Thankfully he could see how upset I was by it and he helped me, and the midwife even said she had never seen the ward so bad as the last couple of days when I went to her office and explained the situation.

So they let me go, rather reluctantly, with instructions to come back (ha) if I felt I needed to or couldn't feel baby moving, and they gave me a prescription to take to my doctors to get processed for the medication I needed. I'm not sure if I updated you on what they found it was but it is something called benign vertigo displacia (not sure that's it exactly but it sounded something like that when the specialist told me, I was really out of it), and they had started me on treatment yesterday before I left.

Unfortunately I was so tired this morning I was fast asleep and OH took my prescription sheet to the docs to get processed and they've ridiculously said it won't be ready until Tuesday. So I have to cope with this dizziness and lightheadedness until then, but at least I'm home now, and less stressed and I am more comfortable.

I just feel like crying though to be honest. I'm now seriously contemplating changing hospitals too. I'm extremely disappointed with the way they let two very unsavoury patients make everyone else on the ward utterly miserable and feel rather threatened, and didn't do anything about it other than apologise to me when it got to the point that I had to discharge myself to get away from it. It's really gotten to me and I feel really miserable right now. I just don't want to encounter the same sort of people when I go in to have my baby (I was on a maternity ward), and even though the midwife told me this was a one off unfortunate occurrence I'm now terrified of the same thing happening when I go back in. So I might change hospitals.

I feel so miserable right now!!!

claire16c

Sam glad you are feeling better.

mysecretalias wrote: »

Hi guys.

Well my hospital stay didn't quite end how I expected it to. I needed up discharging myself at 10pm last night. Unfortunately there were two extremely unpleasant girls in the beds opposite me who were making life generally very unpleasant for everyone else on the ward, and the stress of it got too much for me in the end and I told OH that I was going home and he could either help me or do nothing because he wasn't going to be able to stop me. Thankfully he could see how upset I was by it and he helped me, and the midwife even said she had never seen the ward so bad as the last couple of days when I went to her office and explained the situation.

I can completely see why you had to get out of there! I think if you are determined to do something its best to say something like that to your DH so they know you really mean it and arent just wanting sympathy.

So they let me go, rather reluctantly, with instructions to come back (ha) if I felt I needed to or couldn't feel baby moving, and they gave me a prescription to take to my doctors to get processed for the medication I needed. I'm not sure if I updated you on what they found it was but it is something called benign vertigo displacia (not sure that's it exactly but it sounded something like that when the specialist told me, I was really out of it), and they had started me on treatment yesterday before I left.

Unfortunately I was so tired this morning I was fast asleep and OH took my prescription sheet to the docs to get processed and they've ridiculously said it won't be ready until Tuesday. So I have to cope with this dizziness and lightheadedness until then, but at least I'm home now, and less stressed and I am more comfortable.

Do you mean the pharmacy is going to take that long to get you the drugs? Or does your dr have to write you a prescription?

If its the pharmacy can you get your DH to just take it to another one - that seems really weird?

If its the case that the dr needs to sign it, why didnt the hospital dr do it? Could you ring the hospital and get them to fax it to a pharmacy or something?

Vertigo can be really scary my Nan collapsed with it before so waiting until Tuesday seems ridiculous.

I just feel like crying though to be honest. I'm now seriously contemplating changing hospitals too. I'm extremely disappointed with the way they let two very unsavoury patients make everyone else on the ward utterly miserable and feel rather threatened, and didn't do anything about it other than apologise to me when it got to the point that I had to discharge myself to get away from it. It's really gotten to me and I feel really miserable right now. I just don't want to encounter the same sort of people when I go in to have my baby (I was on a maternity ward), and even though the midwife told me this was a one off unfortunate occurrence I'm now terrified of the same thing happening when I go back in. So I might change hospitals.

I feel so miserable right now!!!

Typical that chavs like that spoil it for everyone else - they should have sent them packing!

If you really are worried and there is another hospital near you I dont see the harm in changing if its going to cause you stress.

Icey77

chelseablue wrote: »

Hi Icey :j

Do you know what you're having this time?

We were told by the sonographer that Bob is a boy so one of each!
Also means that all the clothe see hoarded from Frog have to go to the NCT sales as they are girly, not hot pink girly but still clearly aimed at girls.

Crabapple wrote: »

Hi Icey!

My toddler is driving me up the wall today so I sympathise. I'm trying to lug bump around and tidy up around the devastation she is causing! She also has a cold and very kindly just wiped her nose then handed me the snotty tissue. Kids are just lovely!

Urgggghhhh, Frog has learnt to wipe her nose on her sleeve obviously copies it from some kid at her nursery. She only goes 1.5 days a week but it's enough for her to pick up all sorts of habits

samtoby wrote: »

Would you like adding to the list? x

Yes please

mysecretalias

claire16c wrote: »

Sam glad you are feeling better.



Typical that chavs like that spoil it for everyone else - they should have sent them packing!

If you really are worried and there is another hospital near you I dont see the harm in changing if its going to cause you stress.

Thanks Claire. Unfortunately the area the hospital is in breeds those kinds of people but I stupidly assumed it being a maternity ward people would be more interested in being there with concern for their babies rather than making others miserable. I also stupidly assumed the midwives would do something about bad behaviour given it was upsetting others, but they just kept saying oh don't worry we'll sort that out and they didn't.

Re: the prescription stuff, basically the hospital pharmacy was closed when we left last night because it was late, so they gave me an A4 sized form and said I would have to take that to my doctors the next day (today) who would then prescribe the medication written down. I wonder whether phoning the unit back they could just process it via their pharmacy instead and OH could go there tomorrow to pick it up. I just don't have the emotional capacity right now to phone them. I feel like I may burst into tears on the phone and never stop crying.

I am seriously thinking of changing now, it's just a real shame because my friend is a midwife at the hospital who was going to deliver the baby for us, so if I change I won't have that anymore. It's difficult because the birthing centre there is lovely, but there's no guarantee you'll get that if all the rooms are being used when you go in. So it's luck of the draw. And this time round my luck wasn't very good

I'm just so down and upset right now. I feel like the last two days in hospital and my experience has drained all the happiness and excitement out of me and now I just feel terrified, miserable and stressed. I'm just sat here crying and I feel like I'll never stop.

The only saving grace is knowing we are moving to our new home soon (hopefully) which is out of the area - for this exact reason. So that our children don't have to grow up surrounded by these kinds of scummy people who breed hate and nastiness.

smartcat04

Morning ladies, Hope you poorly ones are feeling better soon and baby birdie makes an appearance soon.
Hubby was nervous and says the pressure got to him- serious fault given for driving too slow! Hes got a car on drive waiting for him so my friends partner has kindly offered to take him out for more practice. He's going to wait til little pea is here before rebooking- think he feels pressure to about doing the protector thing and getting us there although its not come from me.
Feel better in myself today- been into local town for an hour with mum. made me laugh as I know a few people in the shops- when they found out I'd only got 12 days left they were all amazed how small my bump is and that I was actually out and about! Bit odd really- i feel ok today and don't think I'm likely to give birth in their shops!