MSE Pregnancy Club 28

samtoby

Due date list

1. Debs0778 - 17th April 2014 ?
2. McRach - 20th April 2014 ?
3. mancbird - 20th April 2014 ?
4. Icey77 - 21st April 2014 ?
5. Sexki11en - 5th May 2014 :female:
6. jen_1985_04 - 8th May 2014 ?
7. marywooyeah - 14th May 2014 :female:
8. neverdespairgirl - 14th May 2014 :male:
9. VickyVics - 14th May 2014 :female:
10. Samtoby -18th May 2014 :female:
11. chelseablue - 21st May 2014 :male:
12. becsxxx - 25th May 2014 ?
13. mysecretalias - 25th May 2014 :female:
14. stsarina - 25th May 2014 :female:
15. vseviour - 26th May 2014 :male:
16. clare1angel - 27th May 2014 ?
17. Willow13 - 28th May 2014 ?
18. cllola - 29th May 2014 :female:
19. mrshappy - 30th May 2014 :female:
20. sophiasmum - 30th May 2014 ?
21. carmilla - 2nd June 2014 :male:
22. amythebigvoice - 11th June 2014 ?
23. sunshine81 - 15th June 2014 :male:
24. moonbabe58 - 20th June 2014 ?
25. Faith2009uk - 23rd June 2014 ?
26. Lara44 - 24th June 2014 ?
27. fireyfirenze - 25th June 2014 :female:
28. Preggosaurus - 28th June 2014 :female:
29. RobotsinDisguse - 30th June 2014 ?
30. glimmerofhope - 30th June 2014 :male:
31. AquamarineMonkey - 11th July 2014:female:
32. MrsMuffin - 16th July 2014 ?
33. PommeVerte - 16th July 2014 ?
34. wangdoodle - 19th July 2014 :female:
35. TigerLilley1980 - 21st July 2014 ?
36. ema-o - 25th July 2014 :female:
37. skintchick - End of July 2014 ?
38. purcy81 - 16th August 2014 :female:
39. lilmissmup - 19th August 2014 :female:

Hospital Bag List here
Supplement List and Dosage here

BIRTH LIST - Within the last month

:male: :female: Luella-14 - 29th March 2014 - Arrived by 12:40 6lb 9oz and 4lb 12oz
:female: Sjlou - 30th March 2014 - Pheobe
:male: blondy24 - 29th March 2014 - Henry
:female:ABetterLife - 2nd April 2014 - 02:45am 6lbs 0z
:male: Eiteews - 7th April 2014 -Ezio - 6lbs 13oz
:male: Lulu75 - 7th April 2014 - Joseph
:female: laurabllue - 8th April April 2014 - Sophia
:male: polka_dots - 10th April 2014
:male: DayATT - 17th April 2014 - Finlay Joseph 9:41am 5lbs 11oz

PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST

Allow 2 weeks after EDD before transferring to this list (Max 6 weeks)

CupofTea - 17th March 2014 ?
Hannah27 - 29th March 2014 :female:
playtime8978 - 9th April 2014 :female:
Twigpig - 14th April 2014 ?

CONTRACTION MASTER TIMER

Please post your birth stories here when you have time/energy

cmace2

Hello, please can I join? I am 25+2 and due on the 11th August with a little boy (hooray for trying to balance out the girl heavy ratio at the moment haha!). This is my first baby and I'm very excited!! But also a little scared that I'm now on the last group before birth :eek: .

My pregnancy has been pretty standard apart from one scary red bleed at 12 weeks. I have to do the GTT test at 28 weeks even though my bmi is 19 as I have had a urine test with high sugar levels and have been suspected of diabetes before. I'm pretty confident it will come back ok though as my SIL gave me a home testing kit and I've been testing fine without adjusting my diet. It just seems to be after a sugary cereal that its high in the urine!

Looking forward to continuing this journey with you all x

RobotsinDisguse

Hi Cmace, welcome to the thread

I had a midwife appointment this morning. It's odd, it's left me more informed oabout some things (GBS status implications) and reassured over some things I needed to know about such as my worries over intervention etc are being taken seriously and with care, and the local policy on skin to skin & immediate feed is Fantastic, but overall I've left feeling very wobbly. But I can't quite say why.

Baby is breach, but has been either breech or in cradle position throughout. She had a bit of trouble locating the heatprtbeat. I'm also measuring 34cm, which at 31+2 is 1cm over the guideline. 2 weeks it was spot on for my weeks though! A growth scan at 34 weeks was always planned.

Maybe baby has had a growth spurt? I certainly felt heavy and tight over the last 2 weeks. And I'm FINALLY WEIGHING MORE THAN AT CONCEPTION!!!

Isn't it funny, you weigh more than standard & they worry... You don't gain as expected and they worry... Then you start to gain and they worry again!!

RobotsinDisguse

Is it bad that there's a bit of me that says if I have to have so much intervention (early into hospital for antibiotics, not the relaxing environment that speeds labour, monitoring of blood pressure ect that might reduce my ability to move around again increasing labour times, baby monitored for 24hrs after birth ect), that I'm no longer in 'control' (and therefore the likelihood of my body just simply following the natural process is reduced) (eg, more monitoring leads to more anxiety & that slows down labour so there is yet more monitoring...), that I can't help think if baby stays breech it'll just be a CSection & I won't have anything to do with it the processes at all... Which will mean I'd need to be kept in anyway and therefore they'll get their way without me failing at giving birth?

^ humm! might have found out the root of my anxiety there...

Lara44

Hey Robots

A friend recently had a non-emergency c-section for an undiagnosed breech baby, and she found the whole process great (after getting over the initial surprise). She is visually impaired and found that staff were very kind, introducing themselves and chatting to her. She told me that it was a warm atmosphere and a good experience that she would recommend. I think it's possible to have a good experience with c-sections even if you hate to feel out of control. I'd hope that your medical team would take into consideration your feelings and also help to make the environment calm and pleasant for you.

Remember that we are all different and although anxiety generally slows labour, each birth is very different. Maybe knowing about the intervention could become a real positive as you know what to expect and can make plans to work around it as much as possible?

If I wasn't able to get a good night's sleep I wouldn't feel like I had 'failed' - although I might be a bit cross about it. No matter how you birth (or where) you will have expended a lot of energy just doing the best for your lovely baby. Even if bodies anatomically or chemically don't always play ball, you will have shown the utmost care for your little one. That sounds like a success to me

RobotsinDisguse

Lara, Thankyou. So much. What you said actually made me cry. In a good way. I think you've understood more of the cause of my anxiety than even I realised.

You're right, knowing more in advance simply has to be better.

My mum had an emergency c section for me at 33 weeks... She didn't see me for 3 days & couldn't feed me. She has said frequently throughout my life that I nearly killed her, & it's why we don't get on, why I am daddy's girl. I guess I have issues stemming from that.

But things Are different now, and I'm not my mother.

Humm.. more food for thought. I'm sorry to weigh the forum down with my issues. I am so thankful I have this thinking space, it is really helping.

*hugs for Lara*

plantpot87

Can I join please I am 24+4 and can I be added to the list I'm due on the 16th august and we are team yellow :wave:

glimmerofhope

robots - Hugs first of all, We are in a similar position as at my last mw baby was breech(I have an appt tomorrow and hoping he has moved) and in the last week my anxiety levels have gone through the roof. My sons birth was pretty straightforward, there was intervention for my retained placenta after but I had held my son by then. I think Laras words are very reassuring.
If you look up spinning babies http://spinningbabies.com/ on internet there are some exercises to help turn a breech baby naturally - some of them I think I would need 999 If i tried them.

AquamarineMonkey

Not posted for a couple of weeks as once again everything has been a bit hectic!

Welcome to the ladies who have recently graduated to this thread.

Congratulations to all the new mummies and daddies on your recent arrivals!

Good luck to all the ladies whose babies are imminent!

Some lovely bump shots - you all look so neat compared to me, despite having lost 7kg this pregnancy and being "all bump" (can't tell I'm pregnant from behind) I feel and look absolutely massive.

It was lovely to hear all the stories of how much you all love your little ones. Having DS is the best thing that ever happened to me, the last 3 years have been the best of my life, and he now says "I love you mummy" along with a big cuddle and it's the nicest thing in the world!

samtoby - I was exhausted just reading everything you got through in a day. In our household OH does the majority of the housework and I do the cooking, finances, all the driving etc. It works well for us though as he's naturally more domesticated than I am, and he will be the one staying at home with the kids once I go back to work after maternity leave.

robots - I can understand your anxiety about intervention. After a lengthly labour I ended up having an emergency c-section with DS, and he had to be resuscitated when he was born. If it reassures you at all, the staff were fantastic though, they kept us calm throughout (we wouldn't have known how serious the situation was if we hadn't have read the birth notes afterwards, which I don't think we were supposed to do). Unfortunately, I was quite ill for some time after having him and had a difficult recovery, however it hasn't affected our bond.
We're incredibly close, I don't blame or resent him for what happened, if anything I was angry at myself for not being able to give birth to him quick enough naturally, but over time I've realised that sometimes these things just happen. I did initially say I was never having any more children, but I love DS so much that I decided that even if I had to go through it all over again it would be worth it. If anything I think we're closer than most because I feel so lucky and blessed to have him and that he's OK.
Being a mum changes your life, but it doesn't mean you have to stop what you did before, you might just do things less frequently. We still work, go on holiday, go out with friends but also it's enhanced our lives as we don't waste our time off, we spend it doing things with DS that we wouldn't be doing if we weren't parents.
If it helps you at all, I'm not scared this time (was terrified of the unknown first time round, this was before we were aware of any complications). I feel much calmer second time round because I know that even if things don't go to plan the staff know exactly what they're doing and even if I do end up having another emergency c-section I know I'll cope.

AFM, had my GTT the week before Easter assuming everything would be fine. Got a phonecall just before lunch on the Thursday from the hospital saying that I must come in now as it's a bank holiday tomorrow (Friday) and on Monday and they have to see me today as my bloods had elevated sugars. It takes a couple of hours to get the hospital from work via home (they needed me to pick up my green notes on my way in) so I got there about 2pm. It turns out I do have gestational diabetes, so I had an appointment with the diabetes specialist midwife who explained my tests results and then a diabetic nurse who showed me how to use the blood testing machine and went through a leaflet about what should be OK to eat/what needs to be avoided and the booklets I need to fill in (one with blood readings 4 times a day, one food diary). It was all very overwhelming and although I'm normally level headed I struggled to take it all in. Then they made me appointments for the Tuesday for me to have a scan, see a dietician, a diabetic specialist and my usual consultant. I immediately cut out all sugary foods and started following all the guidlines but my blood sugars remained too high at times over the weekend. Went back on the Tuesday had the scan which showed that baby is fine for now, she's still average size but her tummy is getting slightly enlarged but still within the normal range. Saw the dietician who went through my food diary and blood glucose readings and explained that although I'd stuck to the guidlines certain foods weren't agreeing with my body and recommended where I could make changes. I saw my usual consultant who told me that I won't be allowed to go overdue and will be induced on my due date if I've not gone into labour already, or possibly sooner depending on what happens over the next few weeks. Then I saw the diabetic specialist who said she was happy for me continue trying to control the diabetes through diet but I had to come back next Tuesday for a review. Went into work for the remaining couple of hours (I'd been at hospital most of the day by this point).
Then on the Tuesday night I started feeling really dizzy and ill, so ended up having to take Weds, Thurs and Friday off sick, spent most of it in bed sleeping. Felt a bit better over the weekend, and had Monday booked as holiday anyway. Back at the hospital yesterday morning to see diabetic specialist, who decided that I needed to start taking metformin as it's clear I'm being strict with what I eat but my body cannot produce enough insulin by itself. I mentioned about the dizzyness so a midwife was sent in to see me and I had to do a urine test which showed ketones in my urine. Blood pressure was fine though, so the main diabetic consultant was called to see me and said he didn't think it was the blood sugar levels causing the dizzyness but it could be the way my body is reacting to a sudden change in diet (previously I ate a lot of sugary foods) as the ketones indicate my body thinks it's being starved.

Then the midwife came back to listen to baby's heartbeat which was fine but she asked me about movement and I said the baby hadn't moved much this morning, but was quite placid in general so I was sent off to have a trace done for half an hour. Everything was fine with the trace, then I was sent to see the diabetic specialist midwife as they wanted to do a blood gluscose test beacuse of the dizzyness, but I passed it so was free to go. Got to work about lunchtime but spent most of the day feeling dizzy again, went into work again today but still feeling dizzy and the metformin has the side effect of giving me an upset stomach so I'm not feeling great at the moment!

The hospital have been brilliant though, they're really being thorough and have said if I have any concerns I'm to ring and come in, if baby goes quiet I can have a trace done at anytime. I'm just hoping the metformin works as if it doesn't I'll have to go on insulin, which will rule out a waterbirth completely as I'll need an insulin drip in labour. One positive is that because of the healthy eating I'm still loosing weight so now my BMI is now 35.9 (was 39 at booking in). I have appointments every 2 weeks now, and scans with consultant appointment every 4 weeks. I didn't want any intervention this time, wanted to avoid induction and have a waterbirth, but I'll just have to see what happens in the coming weeks.

I'm 29+5 now and start maternity leave 4 weeks on Friday at 36 weeks. I am using holidays between now and then so that I don't have to do a full 5 days. Hopefully I'll last that long, I know a lot of ladies work for longer, but I don't know how you do it, I feel worn out already!

neverdespairgirl

samtoby wrote: »

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.

No, we're in different sets. As we do completely different areas of law, that makes sense professionally, but I also think I'd feel a bit crowded if we were in the same Chambers; I'd rather keep it separate, I think.

Hope you have a nice relaxing day and nap - is your son back at school? Isaac went back yesterday.