MSE Pregnancy Club 28

Lara44

Hey Ladies

I'm enjoying reading the chat today. Hope it all works out with the group B strep Vicky and Robots and you are able to get as much as possible of the birth experience you'd like. The midwife at our antenatal class on Saturday told us there's no routine screening for it here. I guess it is a case of being vigilant. It was an all day class and very funny, realistic and informative, so we were really glad we went. There was no time to meet the other people though so hopefully we can organise a get together of some kind. I wish we had been taking the longer class but it would have caused work problems for OH. I hadn't considered that half of our labour will be at home, so I don't feel so bad following those DIY nesting instincts now.

Sexki11en what a lovely bump pic!

Sam, it really sounds like things are moving on for you. Lovely to see the pic of your son

NDG, I also enjoyed seeing the pics of Isaac and your family home. Like Robots I found your post really reassuring. As a first-timer I am also feeling quite daunted. I want to add good things to my life, but also to hang onto the good bits I already have!

Work is a bit overwhelming at the mo. I am stuck and also have taken on too much without quite realising. In addition I have got 2 big presentations in Europe in the next 3 weeks (eeeeek). All I want to do is look at pretty things on the Internet - it is so hard to concentrate right now. IQ feels approx. same as my shoe size Pressure, pressure. I better get on with it

32 weeks today

Hugs to all x

VickyVics

NDG - I'm not getting any labour signs either so it will I think Mary will probably pip us both to the post.

Samtoby - that is one mega list. I have no idea how you have even managed it. I'm thinking I could do with a nap after reading it

Just come back from the doctors as I was feeling itchy down there and it turns out to be a bit of thrush. I think they are getting fed up of seeing me down at the doctors lol. On the plus side I will be able to get a better nights sleep because I will be much more comfortable. Well, I say better nights sleep. What I mean is a better nights sleep minus the toilet trips lol xx

sunshine81

VickyVics I'm going to bet on samtoby beating you all! :rotfl: hope you do get a better nights sleep tonight x

Urgh am feeling right sorry for myself at the minute, everything hurts and am just so uncomfortable. Started to feel horrid sat up, getting breathless and heartburn, so laid down on the sofa but now struggling to get up as I have loads of pain in my pelvis/between my legs!

Forgive me being a wuss it's my first baby, but flipping heck have I really got 6.5 more weeks of this and 2 more weeks at work! Just keep thinking of my little man I will be rewarded with at the end x

My teaching is being assessed tomorrow, I need a miraculous recovery in the morning....

neverdespairgirl

sunshine81 wrote: »

VickyVics I'm going to bet on samtoby beating you all! :rotfl: hope you do get a better nights sleep tonight x


My teaching is being assessed tomorrow, I need a miraculous recovery in the morning....

<stern look> no queue-jumping allowed for sam <stern look off>

Best of luck with your assessment tomorrow.

samtoby wrote: »

When will you stop completely? Do your cases pass to someone else or does it not work like that?

I feel really funny reading my work e-mails - its strange that the people I was working with are now working with my replacement.

I'll stop pretty much when Aethelbald is born, for a bit, although I might get the odd phone or email query still.

Barristers are self-employed, but we work together in Chambers, sharing clerks, help, advice, swopping tips and experiences and so forth. We pay a percentage of our income to Chambers, which covers the office rent, costs, clerks, books, all the rest of it.

Just thinking Sam - my darling OH would shudder at the whole idea of catching crabs! He's not keen on them at all, or any shellfish things like that with lots of legs, and does his best to avoid them when we're swimming, surfing, etc.

When we hadn't been together long, he told one that was on a flipper that "we have a deal! I don't eat you lot, so don't try and eat me!"

(Crabs aren't Kosher, so OH doesn't eat any shellfish type things at all, legs or no legs).

Do you eat them if you do catch some?

samtoby

Sounds such an interesting job. I did Law AS level and really enjoyed it but would have never made it as far as you!
I'm pleased I've made Uni now though. I'm sure being in your field is very interesting. Do you specialise or take anything? That sounds silly but hopefully you know what I mean.

When we go crabbing it's for very small ones. You wouldn't eat them easily. I don't like crab but I do like Lobster. We went to Hawaii last January and well there were lots of creepy crawlers on the bottom of the ocean. It's pretty amazing how beautiful some creatures are.

I'm off to bed now it's been a very busy day and I need my sleep ready for my relaxing day tomorrow. Xx

neverdespairgirl

I love it, which is lucky!

I didn't do law at AS or A level, I did English, History and Geography A level and physics AS as well. My OH did maths, further maths, physics and economics for A level.

You have to specialise, it's not possible to do everything, you'd never keep up. I do immigration, immigration-related crime, and public law. OH does pretty much all employment law, and my Dad does some serious crime, extradition, and mutual assistance.

The rest of my family do completely non-law things - brother-in-law's a doctor, one of my sisters is a journalist, the other is a chiropracter, and my Bruv's a teacher. My mother was a geography and geology teacher.

RobotsinDisguse

NDG & Lara, yes adding bits to me but keeping the best of before is a good way of looking at it.

I played roller derby... Full contact sport on roller skates. I won't say my registered skater name, but my unofficial nickname was "Booty of Doom"! That should say it all really! Lol! So definitely not allowed in pgcy, and possibly not in the two week wait either! And due to 3 fractured/broken bones in a year perhaps not suitable with a little one either! But I will go back to wild swimming.

At the park today a fellow dog walker asked me to review a course application letter. He's an immigrant with English as 2nd language. I said I'd be happy to, but that my spelling wasn't great. He asked what schooling I had, obviously worried he'd chosen the wrong person. And was v taken aback when I said Alevels, Batchelors Degree & Masters degree! He commented that despite that I was unemployed... To his perspective education means employment. It was nice to use my brain & work at his grammar (whilst keeping his voice). And it reminded me of my life before being pregnant! (Getting pg & redundant happened 2 weeks apart).

Sorry to those with aches & pains. I'm certainly having less since re-taking up yoga & learning how to encourage lymph node drainage etc (at lazy Daisy class)... Might be worth a google... Or just sit on the floor, legs out straight & jiggle the knees up and down for 10mins! With your arms up high & wrists rotating. :rotfl

fireyfirenze

morning everyone, hope everyone's feeling better from their aches and pains, pregnancy is hard work sometimes!

I'm finding it really hard to sleep which is frustrating, I can go to sleep fine but then I wake up between 3am and 5am and can't get back to sleep, it's so frustrating and makes work hard going I just wish there was a reason for it, I'm not waking up because I'm uncomfortable I don't think? usually it's for a wee but then I'm wide awake!

woke up at 5.30am this morning with horrendous cramp in my leg, one symptom I hoped id avoided! had to wake OH up and get him to stretch my leg muscles out because I can't reach my toes properly, my bump is too big! ha :-/

I hope labour doesn't hurt as much as cramp or I am in for a horrible surprise...

32 weeks today

sophiasmum

Hi Firey Firenze - Im the same with sleeping have been like this for ages now. There used to be no real reason for me waking like you - but now Im feeling like I cant breathe and having to decamp to suffer on the sofa.
Has anyone seen a DR about hayfever/allergies? I saw a dr a couple of weeks ago and he was reluctant to prescribe me any medication at this stage of pregnancy and said to suffer it out....However its really affecting me now - so I am thinking of going back...

samtoby

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I love it, which is lucky!

I didn't do law at AS or A level, I did English, History and Geography A level and physics AS as well. My OH did maths, further maths, physics and economics for A level.

You have to specialise, it's not possible to do everything, you'd never keep up. I do immigration, immigration-related crime, and public law. OH does pretty much all employment law, and my Dad does some serious crime, extradition, and mutual assistance.

The rest of my family do completely non-law things - brother-in-law's a doctor, one of my sisters is a journalist, the other is a chiropracter, and my Bruv's a teacher. My mother was a geography and geology teacher.

Do you and your partner work in the same chambers?

My partner is a Marine Engineer he works on boats all over the south coast, my Mum is a Nurse, OH brother is a Paramedic and his wife is a Teacher thats all the clostest to me as I have no grandparents left. I work in social housing.

Today is relax day. I am doing hardly anything. Or I have full intention to do hardly anything until just before 5pm.

My plans of an early night and sleep were completly abolished. Not by me, by my body. I was up every few hours, toilet trip/ woken by baby related. So I might have a nap today.