MSE Pregnancy Club 28

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MrsC - hope things settle down for you and it's easier with someone helping. You really need to take care of yourself and WeeOneToBe ! I'm really hoping you feel better and it works out for you x

alioops78 - good for you. If you're tired and had enough you should be able to go home. I think sometimes OH's and others can forget that we're trying to manufacture a whole new life inside us. It's hard work mentally and physically! Hope you have a good relaxing time tonight.

All others hope you're all doing ok.

My lovely GP phoned me today to tell me my glucose tolerance test was absolutely fine - only had it yesterday! Really happy with the results. I had forgotten to phone back today so it's really nice of my GP to phone me. I can't speak highly enough of the care I feel personally I've been given in this country so far, really hoping it continues in the same vein. Unfortunately it seems I've developed an infection in the downstairs region however hoping things clear up soon. Heard the baby's heartbeat again yesterday which is just a lovely thing. Looked over at OH and he had the biggest grin on his face :D

Next appointment for me is not until last week of August so a wee while between hearing 'everything is ok' again.. I seem to be someone who is ok for a week or so but then fears creep in and I start to worry. Mostly about not really feeling the baby move, have to keep telling myself everything is ok. I do feel her move a bit when I lie on my side, however at nearly 25 weeks I thought I would be feeling more standing up, sitting down etc.. I just need to chill I think and it is what it is, she's just a little ratbag who is either too comfy or I just can't feel it as much as other people for some reason.

I'm also trying not to panic that we don't have any family to help out. If I'm completely honest get a bit miffed when people complain about their mum (wish I had one) and not getting as much care from parents as they feel they should... but hey ho, life ain't easy and you just can't dwell. I just have to keep thinking we'll manage, I'm sure we'll manage... you just do right.

Off to the Commonwealth Games on the weekend which should be fun, hopefully not too tiring

Have a lovely weekend all - and take care of yourselves please! xx

teaandcakeordeath

View I still only really feel baby moving when I'm still. I think that's normal though (well it certainly is my normal (anterior placenta and weird uterus) and my mil isn't concerned about it so it's fine with me). I'm like you in that I like the reassurance of frequent checks though (not so much the hospital side of it but I like getting mil to have a poke around and see everything is ok)- the first trimester was the worst- I ended up spending a fortune on early scans as I had a total paranoia it'd all gone tits up! Hope the next few weeks fly for you (but drag for me lol!).

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teaandcakeordeath wrote: »

View I still only really feel baby moving when I'm still. I think that's normal though (well it certainly is my normal (anterior placenta and weird uterus) and my mil isn't concerned about it so it's fine with me). I'm like you in that I like the reassurance of frequent checks though (not so much the hospital side of it but I like getting mil to have a poke around and see everything is ok)- the first trimester was the worst- I ended up spending a fortune on early scans as I had a total paranoia it'd all gone tits up! Hope the next few weeks fly for you (but drag for me lol!).

Thanks TACOD it's nice to be reassured. My placenta and uterus is in it's normal position and from what others say on here and other websites I guess I always think that I should feel her more. I'm trying to be Zen about it however, I mean, what can I do anyway !? I just have to trust the mw and consultants and trust myself...iyswim. Do you feel yours when you're lying on your side? That's almost the only time I feel her, however, I'm feeling her so all is hopefully good ! xx And I thought you just boom, got preggers, sailed through and POP here's the wee one in your arms... I feel so much for my poor mum now bringing five into this world and then being forced to bring them all up herself. I've nothing to complain about really !

time2deal

View I don't notice the movement too much when I'm doing things. Except sometimes sitting down when he has a few kicks to get himself comfortable again. I get lots of kicks when I lie down, and last night was probably the first time I was being slightly annoyed by kicks keeping me awake.

Mind you I struggle to sleep anyway, so can hardly blame him!

I don't really understand why lying on the left makes such a difference, but it does. I have problems with both my left shoulder and hip so I can't lie on the left for too long, but for sure I can feel him kick off when I do.

teaandcakeordeath

I'm somewhat naughty and still sleep on my back. I find that I can't sleep for very long on either side- though I do raise one hip slightly with a pillow. I can feel baby when sitting or lying. At the moment sitting is pretty uncomfortable as baby's bum is pushing up against my ribs ( think it's confused as to which way it will be exiting!) and I seem to feel movements slightly less now baby is head down and facing my back. When it was breech and facing forwards it was constantly butting and kicking me!

As long as you know your normal movement pattern and the positions/ provocations you can give to make baby move then I'd try not to worry about others too much! Remember movement is what is normal for you.

time2deal

So are you definitely head down now tcod? That's great news!

time2deal

I don't sleep on my back as I get a funny anxious feeling, which is lack of blood flow apparently! And then I start to feel my pulse in my bump which is uncomfortable. So one more position not available to me.

I'm surprised my dh doesn't complain. I must shift sides 50 a night, including shifting my big body pillow.

teaandcakeordeath

Mil thinks so and the doctor who we saw when baby decided not to move has written it in notes. Where I can feel movements has definitely changed and what is digging into my ribs now doesn't feel like head. I could sort of tell it was head when I poked around as i could feel the roundness and shape iykwim? Now i can feel baby's back all way down my belly and then it seems to drop away where i'd imagine the neck would be. MW was supposed to see me today but she had a home birth to attend so next groping is on Monday and growth scan is on 8/8 so will know for 100% definite then. At the moment though i'm 80% sure from how different everything feels and mil that baby is head down. No where near engaged though judging by the bum in ribs... i just hope that baby really is head down as I am worried that it will run out of room soon. Everything feels so tight!

LailaP_2

Hugs MrsC and glad that work are trying to help but don't feel bad about taking time off. Work is bloody hard when you are pregnant. I've got 4 weeks left, after being signed off for the last 2 due to stress. I will finish when I'm 35.5 weeks and they've still not sorted a replacement for me...not really helping the stress levels there!

I am also another lady who does not enjoy being pregnant. Apart from the moving and work stresses my actual pregnancy has been pretty easy but I still don't get how women enjoy it! Like TCOD, I am in it for the end product.

Bluebell Glad appointment went well and good that baby is head down.

TCOD Fab news that baby is head down! :j

AFM I am suffering with some seriously swollen feet and hands. I spoke to the MW who has moved my appointment forward a couple of weeks as she said she should check my BP and urine just to make sure all is OK. She isn't worried but didn't want such a big wait to double check. She also told me I am probably over-doing it and to make sure I rest more but it's hard when I want to get stuff in the house done!

MrsC....tobe

Thanks everyone. I found out a bit more yesterday about what's happening next week (as I was too upset on Thursday to even remember my own name!) My replacement who is going with me as he needs to learn the other site for being on call anyway, will be picking me up at home, that's 7am on Monday and 8am the rest of the week. We're travelling through there and working for the morning, staying for lunch etc, then heading back through. He's dropping me at home and I'm to chill the rest of the day. If there's something happening There's another car he can use to come back and I'm just to go. Apparently I'm also to take Thursday off (that's the day when there's least happening) and he is to go and work there. Even now I'm like 'but I can't we've got a film crew in and people scheduled to come and do things' but I've been told that's how it is. I'll be taking it as holidays though as I won't be marked as sick but 'other leave' and I don't want one manager to feel like he has some sort of hold over me.
I'm going to take the third week in August off as hols even though I have training, it's only refresher and I'll need it when I go back after ML anyway. It's sensory training and the different smells will probably make me sick right now!

Decided I'm going to finish a week earlier with a week of hols before that so that brings me back to 19th September. I'll also still have 2 days to take before then so maybe a long weekend aswell and I thing that will help. I'm going to put that in writing on Monday for them.

I had planned to go and see family on a Christmas run at the start of September but since midwife isn't happy about me driving so far and them being 5 hours or more away, depending on traffic, I won't make it now. My mum, stepdad and wee sis came up yesterday anyway for the weekend so wee sis helped me wrap most of the presents last night and they're going to take them down with them. Yes I'm super organised this year!!!.

My stepdad works in glasgow so he's also going to take my engagement ring with him to the jewellers I got it from to be fixed as I broke a claw and lost a diamond and their guesstimate for repair is very reasonable. I dreamt last night though that I got it back and I did exactly the same to another part of it and was gutted again!

On another note, has anyone found anything to take other than gaviscon? I asked midwife and she was going to call but she didn't get back to me on Thursday and she only works 2 days a week back on Wednesday next week. It's making me gag everything I take it, tablet or liquid!

Got my dates for antenatal classes, 12th, 20th, 27th August and 5th September. Woohoo more time off work!!!

Oh, and at 29+2 I've not got a single stretch mark.....yet! I've been using palmers since the day I got BFP to help keep the skin supple and keep them at bay and now onto cussons mum and me bump range. Here's hoping that alien doesn't force them out now since he/she is going to double in size apparently between now and birth!