MSE Pregnancy Club 28

claire16c

BadlyWrittenPoem wrote: »

Yes, it's more likely that you will be sicker than average if you were before and I would be just as sick this time as the other times without the medication I'm on. I am so thankful that a) my GP was willing to prescribe me this medication and b) it has worked for me. If you've been very sick before I would defintiely try to get a treatment plan agreed with your GP in advance. If you were sick enough that it would affect your plans for more children then it is defintiely bad enough for having a treatment plan and for them to be working through the different medications until they find one that works well enough for you.

Was it a new or unusual type of medication?

I got put on cyclizine. It did nothing for my nausea but allowed me to keep I guess enough down to avoid going into hospital, but it knocked me out so I was asleep for most afternoons with that and sleeping around 12 hours a night to get away from the feeling & exhaustion as I guess barely any food equals no energy.

I couldn't leave the house for about 4 weeks and the next 4ish I barely went anywhere. It would be amazing to find a medication that allowed me to actually function normally!

My mum had to basically baby sit me when my DH was at work as I barely had the strength to make myself drinks or anything & I couldn't face going in our kitchen. There is no way I could look after a child. So really hope I could find a better medication.

ABetterLife

BadlyWrittenPoem wrote: »

I would recommend googling "positive birth stories" and "positive birth videos" so that you can read about/see some lovely births. Also, if you can get past the "hippyishness" of it, I'd recommend "Spiritual Midwifery" by Ina May Gaskin which from memory is roughly half birth stories. Also, and this applies to anyone else on this thread, I'd be happy to pm you my birth story from last time which was a lovely birth.

Thank you, will do and I would like to hear your birth story :-) x

BadlyWrittenPoem

claire16c wrote: »

Was it a new or unusual type of medication?

I got put on cyclizine. It did nothing for my nausea but allowed me to keep I guess enough down to avoid going into hospital, but it knocked me out so I was asleep for most afternoons with that and sleeping around 12 hours a night to get away from the feeling & exhaustion as I guess barely any food equals no energy.

I couldn't leave the house for about 4 weeks and the next 4ish I barely went anywhere. It would be amazing to find a medication that allowed me to actually function normally!

My mum had to basically baby sit me when my DH was at work as I barely had the strength to make myself drinks or anything & I couldn't face going in our kitchen. There is no way I could look after a child. So really hope I could find a better medication.

I'm on ondansetron which is a third line med and less commonly prescribed - cyclizine is a first line med and there are four that would be used as standard first/second line meds. Ondansetron is new in that it has only been around for about thirty years so there is less research on safety than the others which I think have generally been around so long that they were in routine use before thalidomide made everyone paranoid about medication in pregnancy and particularly anti-sickness medication in pregnancy. It is also a *lot* more expensive than the others which along with lack of knowledge makes some Drs reluctant to prescribe it. If you've only had cyclizine before, it is likely that they would want to try other first/second line meds before trying ondansetron (and for some people combining some of those meds works) but the key thing is that if the meds aren't helping you enough you go back and push for a change in medication. My last pregnancy I accepted staying out of hospital as being good enough but I spent most of the pregnancy in bed because I was so ill and really I should have pushed for something better then but with being so ill and with having managed to avoid hospital (which was very important to me due to a previous bad experience) I just accepted it.

BadlyWrittenPoem

ABetterLife wrote: »

Thank you, will do and I would like to hear your birth story :-) x

Okay, am just about to go to bed so will PM you it tomorrow - if I forget kick me.

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For anyone thinking of breastfeeding, the best tip I had about clothes was to get a cheap vest top from Primark, cut it at the top so your b**bs are exposed over the top, then put that on over your bra. That way you can wear a loose top, pull it up and your tummy isn't exposed. I was quite self concious about mine after birth and it made me feel better even around the house. I have seen tops like this for sale, but was just as happy with my modified version for a couple of £!!

I'm sat working in new maternity jeans today - I don't think baby likes them. I keep getting a shove at the point where they slightly push against my bump!! Luckily I'm working from home so may go & change in a bit!

quaveriw

neverdespairgirl - I have gestational diabetes, got diagnosed a couple of weeks ago so getting in the routine at the moment, but had those couple of glitches, but back on track now

neverdespairgirl

ABetterLife wrote: »

I'm just really anxious about the pain, and it is scary when you hear/see other women going nuts from it. I have quite a low pain threshold and it's the fact that the pain goes on for several hours that terrifies me x

I'm a total wimp about lots of things, far worse than you, I bet.

And honestly, I could and did cope with it. It is different from, say, breaking your arm pain, in that there is a point to it and you know that it's to produce your baby. So while not fun, it's not just something hurting, honest.

I'm much less worried this time than the first time, truthfully. And I didn't have a wholly positive experience, either, I was in labour for a long time and ended up with an emergency section for failure to progress, but despite generally having a low pain threshold, even I can do it and cope with it - so I'm sure you can.

neverdespairgirl

quaveriw wrote: »

neverdespairgirl - I have gestational diabetes, got diagnosed a couple of weeks ago so getting in the routine at the moment, but had those couple of glitches, but back on track now

Very best of luck, glad you're getting it sorted out.

clare1angel

Hello Ladies,

Really hoping that Emz is well and has her little bundle of joy :-)

As for me I am so ready to finish work and am on countdown everyday lol We still need to get a pushchair/pram - still not sure what to go for!
Have made the decision to bottle feed so can't wait to see what the midwife says when we have that conversation :-/

Hope everyone is well

Clare* :A

claire16c

clare1angel wrote: »

Hello Ladies,

Really hoping that Emz is well and has her little bundle of joy :-)

As for me I am so ready to finish work and am on countdown everyday lol We still need to get a pushchair/pram - still not sure what to go for!
Have made the decision to bottle feed so can't wait to see what the midwife says when we have that conversation :-/

Hope everyone is well

Clare* :A

If you've got medical reasons then I cant see them being funny about it. Otherwise it might depend on your hospital, mine is 'baby friendly' so not allowed to encourage or really talk about formula unless really pushed or for some reason breast feeding isnt working I think they can suggest it alongside from hearing what has happened to my friends in the hospital. They do run feeding work shops which include how to formula feed, but I think its more of a thing like how to tell you how to do it when you stop breast feeding.

I would assume that if you say you don't want to, they will at least encourage you to feed the baby the colostrum as that is the most important.

Woken up with a cold today which is pretty annoying as Ive managed to avoid having one for my entire pregnancy, DH had a couple in the autumn and he slept in the spare room and I didnt catch it. Now I havent been near anyone I know with a cold and Ive gone and got one!!