MSE Pregnancy Club 28

fireyfirenze

at my hospital they tell you to bring in a few cartons of ready made formula just in case breast feeding doesn't go to plan, but they do provide the bottles - those disposable single use only ones. I'm guessing it varies greatly from hospital to hospital though.

RobotsinDisguse

glimmerofhope wrote: »

with ds I wanted a cradle but was given a Moses basket as a gift so being mse we used it. He had to have orthopedic footwear from 12 weeks so then the Moses basket wasn't wide enough and he went into his cot in his own room. We had a monitor so could hear him. Sometimes circumstances dictate what you do. We have the Moses basket ready this time.
Anyone else getting a feeling of pressure in their bottom, I am struggling to sit at the moment because of it.

Welcome Dinah93, we were on the same board back in 2012

Robots haven't seen you for a while hope you are ok.

Skint what type of sling did you use?

Bless you for thinking of me xx
I needed a break from baby stuff that was making me feel anxious, which happily led to me doing practice stuff, which in turn lessened the anxiety and I've not had a nightmare in nights now & far less frequent / bad night sweats, do all good - apart from missing the friendships here of course.
I also stopped ringing & seeing my real life friends - I guess the simple answer is that I just think I went into total single minded nesting!

RobotsinDisguse

sunshine81 wrote: »

Fab bargain skintchick! Lovely to see that your doula is going to help again, that must give you some
12 days to due date! Decided yesterday I would start trying out the old wives tales about getting baby moving as I really don't want to end up overdue and giving birth to a 10lb baby! So OH finally got his own way IYKWIM , I had a bit of a bounce on a birthing ball and started the raspberry leaf tablets. Not sure if any of it works but I did seem to have a load of Braxton Hicks in relatively quick succession last night, and bump has definitely dropped and I can feel him (or something) pushing downwards! Reality is setting in!!

I hope it works for you! There are also pressure points in ankle & thumb that my friends midwife has shown her.. Could be worth asking?

I'm due 30th June, & do not want baby to come just yet! Apart from really enjoying being pg, despite the aches & worries, I'm not ready! Husband & I have our Lazy Daisy Couples Birthing Class on Sunday, & I really really want to attend - mostly so husband can help & be involved.

So the thing I've been worrying about is Avoiding those things lol! So trying not to eat spicy food, abstaining (!), no pineapple, etc... But I can't find any info on this... Anyone have any ideas? What I've read says not to avoid stuff as baby won't get nudged till baby is ready, but if that's the case then why do more articles recommend natural eviction techniques?

Oh & I've raspberry leaf tea brewing downstairs (first pot as only just bought it) as I'd read that is fine from c.32 weeks... & won't hasten labour happening but will make it easier when it comes. So confusing.

sunshine81

Wow the chat on here has sped up recently! 39+3 today (yes and counting! Come on lil HB!)

Firey, I know, I'm sure last time I looked I was about number 38 or something. Of the ones above me I don't think we have heard from any of them in a while either. I really want him here now, I'm getting all emotional, I was ironing the last few sleepsuits and I have this one with little rockets on and I just pictured our little man in it and started crying! Then OH text me a really lovely text (he's a softie too!) and I just sat at the ironing board sobbing! Hope your mum is helping keep the stress levels down, let someone else sort your house out.

Keeping busy today again, ironing, essay writing, sewing etc. Keep getting distracted by random stuff, not least about money as we are a bit skint right now and it's stressing me out (I mean we have some savings, and can pay our bills, but have very little disposable income left this month). I keep looking on MSE for ideas to cut costs but I have got more pressing stuff to do! Also my sister just text me, she's 21 and works full time in a nursery. She has just been told she has to reapply for a job – there are currently 8 staff, there will be 6 positions available but those posts will only be for between 15 and 20 hours. She really wants to get into social work but not via a full time undergrad degree, so she wants me to help her with a CV and look at social care jobs and other education options. I don't mind doing it but I've got to help OH do the same, he's working as a teaching assistant via an agency covering long term sick, but at the moment it's only until the school breaks up for summer and we really need a more consistent income, he doesn't get paid when schools are shut, bank holidays etc and as soon as the person he is covering returns he's out on his ear.

Cmace that's a lovely pic, you look very slim to start with and I think the smaller you are to start with the more you are anticipated to gain. A colleague of mine was a size 10 and gained 4 stone! I'm a size 18 (let's not share that in kilos lol) and when I weighed myself 3 weeks ago I had put on a stone (and thankfully it appears to be all in the bump!). I don't know how you feel about things weight wise but try to think it's THE best reason to be gaining weight and you can deal with any issues around that later, right now that bambino needs you!!! PS I haven't packed bottles,dummies and bibs, someone can bring me that stuff if I need to but am hoping me and bf'ing will get along fine.

LemonTree and Bluebell are you feeling any better today? Lemontree knitting is a craft I haven't gone near yet but may give it a go one day, I keep seeing great stuff on Ravelry!

Aquamarine exam results are in on the 12th July? Or maybe the 14th? As for the driving, OH's mum seems to think I'm not insured to drive but I checked and you are only not insured if a medical professional has explicitly advised you not to do so for some reason. But there's no telling her that! I do like some rest and that in the house but I'd be climbing the walls if I couldn't go out – midwife and getting a few bits tomorrow will get me some air. Glad that the hospital are being good to you, that's what I'm a bit unneccessarily worried about, you need your midwife on your side not shouting at you!

Glad you had a good weekend ema_o, why shouldn't you dance the night away! It might be a different matter if you had a bottle of vodka in each hand but otherwise I reckon the exercise did the baby good ha!

Robots hope the anxiety has subsided and you start to relax a bit more, lots of us seem to be getting close to 'the end' now! Will miss bump when it's gone and all the wiggling it does x OOH forgot we got told about those pressure points! On it right now, and OH can do the ankle ones later!!

OOH OBEM is back tonight ladies!!:T:T:T

Bluebell1000

Not massively helpful at the docs. BP is fine, asked me to make an appointment for blood tests, so I'm going back on Friday for those. I need to go and track down a Fathers Day card, so just having some lunch before I head out for a gentle stroll!

I'm going to a conference and presenting some of my research, it's in Spain. It's all booked and paid for already by my work, and I'll be really disappointed if I can't get there. So hoping that I really will be up to travelling on the 23rd June!

Robots, with DS all I did was go to Asda and buy a pineapple. Never even ate it. Waters broke about an hour after I got home from the shop I suspect it really is a case of baby will come when they're ready, no matter what you do!

I do a tiny bit of knitting, but my hubby designs and sells knitting kits and patterns. He tends to do toys though rather than clothes, just finished designing a camper van. I'm more of a cross stitcher, I have a big Teresa Wentzler kit that I'm working on at the moment. I quite enjoyed an enforced rest day in some ways, as I got loads of cross stitching done.

sunshine81

Just had to google Teresa Wentzler, there seem to be some nice kits! I'm currently addicted to Heaven and Earth designs and am currently cross stitching a pattern called Fairy Sisters by Julie Fain. It's something like 350 stitches wide by 300 high, at the moment it's a heck of a lot of dark blue! But I find it very therapeutic.

I am well impressed at the thought of your hubby designing knitting kits! If only I could work out what I could do in my crafty realms so that I didn't have to go back to work....

AquamarineMonkey

firey I think I better check again about my hospital's policy if yours tells you to bring in formula anyway. That said there's 2 supermarkets in walking distance of my hospital so I could always send OH out for some if required or ask family to bring me some in. I'm there for a scan and 2 consultant appointments next week anyway so I'll ask the question then.

glad you're feeling less anxious now robots. No idea about whether certain foods actually do induce labour or if it's all a myth but I'm also avoiding curry and pineapple until I've got everything ready lol.

sunshine can your OH private tutor in the summer holidays for a bit of extra income, or help out at a kids club or something similar? Hope baby doesn't keep you waiting to long if you're ready now!

Fingers crossed you get to go to your conference Bluebell.

I've ordered my moses basket and stand and it's being delivered tomorrow, so that's one less thing to do now. I think if I set myself one task a day things actually might get done! It's funny because I'm the complete opposite at work, very organised, plan way ahead etc, but at home I'm far too chilled out and laid back about everything and completely unable to prioritse!
It turns out we still have the moses basket and stand from when DS was a baby, but OH inspected it just before I placed the order and said it's falling apart a bit (was 2nd hand anyway) so I've said to bin it. I would give it away for free to someome who can't afford one but if I'm not happy to put my baby in it then I think it would be wrong of me to offer it to somebody else.

Impulse1976

Hi Ladies,


My name is Sam and I am 19+1 with my first. We had mc last year so I have been very anxious. I got married in March and have been trying for 3 years so it was a lovely surprise 2 days after my hen do :-)


I am a bit nervous and is enjoying reading up about the development of the baby and what we need to buy. Have decided only buying the essentials and not going overboard, if we need it and don't have it we can buy it then rather than over buying. People have been really generous though as well giving us their baby items.


My due date is 4th November :-)

ema_o

Sunshine I didn't like to mention about the vodka haha! If only - was a cheap weekend as I mainly drank glasses of water. Yay for OBEM I love it!

Robots - I'm sure I've been told it takes about 7 whole pineapples at once to make a difference. I ate loads from a couple of weeks before my due date (although not 7 at once) and I was a week late so don't think you need to avoid. Thank you for the reminder about RLT - will have to get on that again as anything that can make things easier is worth a go!

skintchick

Welcome Impulse

cmace2 wrote: »

Looking at that list has prompted a question, I'm planning on breast feeding but should I be packing bottles and formula in my hospital bag just in case? And I've not seen bibs and dummies on a list before either, do I need to pack those?

No. You don;t need to pack bottle and formula. There are very few reasons why breastfeeding would not work, especially in the case of a healthy baby and mum (it's what your body is deisgned to do) and there will be plenty of support in hospital for you. You don;t need bibs and dummies either. It might be helpful to pack a list of the breastfeeding helpline numbers, so you can call them on your mobile if you need extra support and the midwives are busy, though.

I keep forgetting - am I the only home birther? I need a transfer bag list but it won;t need as much stuff as a hospital birth bag list and I wondered if anyone already had one.

Off to hang out some washing now and then do some alterations to a prom dress for my client. DD is at a playdate after school so I have till 5pm to get things done - bliss!