MSE Pregnancy Club 28

claire16c

VickyVics wrote: »

Just a quick question to try and calm the nagging voice inside my head. How many newborn outfits do you have? I originally only brought a couple baby grows and vests, thinking that we could always just put her in the 0-3 if needed. Now though I am starting to wonder if this was the right decision. Do I need more newborn clothes? I really wish I knew exactly the size she is going to be!!

Grace is in newborn and I expect will be for another couple of weeks in the baby gros so they'll have lasted around 6 weeks. Dresses and leggings and vests I reckon til maybe 8 weeks because on the baby gros her feet are at the ends now.

0-3 would be huge on her!

We have quite a few newborn baby gros but I still seem to be doing a fair amount of washing. We have had 2 nappy leaks though and then peeing on them when changing her so often she has a couple of changes per day!

mrshappy

samtoby wrote: »

Hello ladies - peaks up from studying!

I have just had my 36 week check (I am 35+4) and for all those worried about measuring under - I was and now I am way over - so much so I am going for a scan next week to check babies size!

I am now measuring 38 weeks and have always been previously under but wonder if it was because I think her head is engaged - it is - but apprently then is more likely to measure under than over as the head has dropped into the pelvis!

So queue me worried all weekend - even the midwife said its only as a precaution but can indictate a large amount of waters or a big baby and very little waters. Will try not to worry but it will be a long Easter weekend!

Try not to worry about it too much, I measured spot on until 30 weeks when I measured 35, which freaked me out a bit, then on Tuesday, at 33+4, I'm back to measuring 33. Midwife said a lot of it could be due to baby's position-whether she was stretching out or curled up etc x

stsarina

Hi Samtoby,

Like the other ladies have said, the fundal height is a really unpredictable measurement. My bump feels tiny but has been 3cm over since 28 weeks, but at the 3 scans since then my little girl has measured spot on what she should be, with an average amount of amniotic fluid - I think she just likes to stretch out!

Has anyone else been diagnosed with PGP (pelvic girdle pain) and got any tips for dealing with it? Consultant diagnosed it at Tuesday's blood pressure review but was very vague what with everything else, just said it would disappear after the birth. Not very helpful now LOL! It's worst at nights, I can barely walk to the bathroom and back even with my stick and worried it's going to impact on labour now.

34+4 and moving up the list far too fast!

RobotsinDisguse

Hi ladies, thanks for the thanks to baby... I know it's rather hippy of me but I'm so thankful to baby.

I hope the lady with the early broken waters is ok.

I had a bad day yesterday... Had my 29wk midwife appointment & broke down crying. I just couldn't stop. I'm not scared of labour itself, but I'm terrified of the clinical environment, and my recent hospital stay didn't help much.

Yes the care re the pain & infection was great, but I had midwives refusing me my standard medication (so no depression/anxiety meds for 3 days!), taking the micky about me being over sensitive to pain (I know I'm not, I've had at least 3 untreated broken bones! - eg, they didn't read my notes as to why I was kept in), & one telling me off as I left for getting her in trouble with the consultant (I couldn't answer the consultants questions about my last 2 scan results, as that midwife hadn't told me!)

Plus the raft of tests I had discovered I currently have GSB(?) (could be gone by the birth though!?) which means I need antibiotics near the start of labour, and baby will* need to be kept in....

... Which adds to my main issue with the hospital.... Which I've now seen in real life....the lady in the bed opposite me had her girl at 6pm, & her husband was forced to leave at 8pm!! Leaving her bed bound unable to get up to hold her crying child, and alone I cannot see how this is acceptable policy. Ripping apart a new family in its first hours is disgusting.

So I spent a lot of yesterday crying & had anxiety attacks about all of that. I just don't know what I can do about any of it. Obviously if me or baby is ill then intervention is best, but if not I don't want it.

wangdoodle wrote: »

AFM, I just got home to a letter from the hospital inviting me to take part in a study offering early induction of labour as older women "such as myself" are less fit and able to carry a pregnancy beyond 39 weeks and early induction may be safer for me and baby. I'm actually quite cross and insulted that they would offer unnecessary intervention to healthy women with normal low risk pregnancies. I'm hardly inferm - I'll turn35 8 weeks before my due date and I'm very fit and active still.
WD x

I'm 33, so was my mum with her first, and so was her mum with her first! As you could guess from my above rant, I'm irritated on your behalf about this issue! Everything I've read also says induction isn't good (unless in cases of infant distress etc of course)

RobotsinDisguse

becsxxx wrote: »

Robots- so glad you are feeling better and you are right, it's incredibly lucky it was picked up when it was - clever baby. Have the Lazy Daisy classes started yet? I've just bought a Mindful Hypnobirthing book from amazon which is along the same principles I think.
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Did an active birth workshop at our hospital and it was really useful to see the actual rooms we will be in and all the equipment they have available. The midwives were very nice too so overall feeling quite positive.

Hope everyone else is ok and enjoying some lovely weather for a change xxx

Yes, Ive been to one now, On Tuesday night. It was Lovely. I wasn't 100% sure what to expect. It was all exercises, with bits of info between on how/why... Eg, we learn to breathe deeply so the uterus can get lots of oxygen... Like a marathon runner avoiding lactic acid.

It had a basis in guided meditation, (imagery of floating, waves coming in & riding them etc - Loved this!), breathing, active birthing, yoga & positive thought. 1/3 of the ladies were 'returners' from the term before, 1 other looked very uncomfortable throughout.

I don't know anything about hypno-birthing but will look it up now, thanks

- your hospital has an active birth class? Wow! That's brilliant. I wish mine did. I just can't imagine labouring in the 'stranded beetle' position*.

*But I reserve the righ to do whatever works best! :rotfl:

samtoby

Thank you everyone for your reassurance. I will try not to worrry and hope that its just because she has had a growth spurt.

I have just sent off the largest of the essays I need to complete and I feel like a massive weight has been lifted from my shoulders. It was 3,000 words which has been my biggest essay to date and I look forward to much bigger ones! I am now left with a 1,000 word evaluation of my project and a final edit on a different essay and hopefully I am done!

RobotsinDisguse - I had DS at 2am and my OH at that time had to leave after about half hour. I felt very lonely going down to the ward alone, but in the morning there were ladies feeling exactly the same and we all had a natter. I am sorry your recent stay in hospital didn't help how you feel either.

stsarina - The list is moving very fast! Thank you for your reassurance re the scan and yours mrshappy.

RobotsinDisguse

samtoby wrote: »

RobotsinDisguse - I had DS at 2am and my OH at that time had to leave after about half hour. I felt very lonely going down to the ward alone, but in the morning there were ladies feeling exactly the same and we all had a natter. I am sorry your recent stay in hospital didn't help how you feel either.

stsarina - The list is moving very fast! Thank you for your reassurance re the scan and yours mrshappy.

Bravo on getting your biggest essay done Samtoby! :eek:

1/2 an hour later?! Bloody hell, that's outrageous! :mad: if it weren't for the father the baby wouldn't exist, how can they justify making them leave? I told my midwife I'd be inclined to leave, or just not go in.. Or drive the 1/2 hr to the midwife led centre in the first place - yes I wouldn't be "allowed" but would they really turn us away?

samtoby

They said he had to go as I had to go down to the ward and as it was the middle of night he couldn't come with me - this was ten years ago in June!

becca0417

Robots re gbs are they going to retest you? I had this also x

claire16c

Robots try not to panic.

The clinical environment can slow people's labour down as it can make them anxious and your body needs to be relaxed to labour so that's why they tell you to stay at home for as long as you can.

But for me when labour got going I wanted to be there so I could get some pain relief! So you might find some of your fears go away at the time because you are concentrating on the contractions etc

Hopefully you won't have your baby just before visiting hours end!

I had Grace at 12 so DH didn't have to leave until 9.

We were in a delivery suite room for around 3 hours anyway waiting for a bed on the ward. And in the night you really don't want other people's partners hanging around.

I had a c-section so I couldn't get out the bed for almost 24 hours but it was fine I just pressed the call button & a hca or midwife would come & pass her to me and they did her nappy changes. They were all lovely.

I know it might seem scary but also remember you won't be alone you'll have your new baby!

The other option is see if your hospital have private rooms and ask for one of those as at my hospital partners can stay over night in these.