MSE Pregnancy Club 28

VickyVics

Good afternoon ladies,

Getting a little bit fed up of being in the house and unable to use to the car (can't fit behind the steering wheel). Not that there is anywhere I want or need to go to. If I go anywhere I think I will just end up spending money out of boredom (money that I can't afford to be spending). Although it does make me look forward to going shopping tomorrow with my mum and then on Saturday a friend is doing a felting workshop that she invited me to so that should be very good.

Been trying to keep myself busy today. That is busy with regular breaks as I can't seem to gather enough energy to do anything for a great length of time. So todays task was to bake a orange and carrot loaf from Mary Berry's cookbook. Just had the first slice fresh out of the oven and it is sooo nice!! Probably wasn't the best day to bake as DH is out tonight so I am going to be sitting on my hands trying not eat it all. Although it must be healthy right??? Carrot AND orange. Definitely two of five a day

We are just about ready LO to come now. Apart from finding a changing bag and I also want a second hand moses basked (not willing to fork out a lot when she will only be using it a couple of months). I also need to start packing the hospital bags. This I am a little bit scared of doing because it makes it much more real!

glimmerofhope

Samtoby
yes please can I be added when you next update the lists.

With regards to sickness like NDG I had it really bad with my first and ended up on a drip in hospital. Up until that moment the dr and mws kept telling me the sickness was normal in pregnancy. It was a conversation with a lady at work that prompted me to almost to a sit in at the Drs. He sent me to the hospital with a urine sample (that resembled cola) and I was admitted. So this time @ 5 weeks and being sick off to the doctors. They prescribed me something but it sent me spacy and I would fall asleep mid conversation etc not good with a toddler, then I got cyclizine and although I thru up until about 22 weeks (now 24+3) it seems to have calmed down. Pregnancy support are ace; tbh we had said we wouldn't have any more as I was soooo sick with our son, but here we are :-).

Emz hope you have met your little lady

Glimmer x

RobotsinDisguse

Hey, I've read up but am feeling groggy and have forgotten who to thank for what, so sorry.

It's been eventful here, as both me and the dog have been in hospital.

I had my Glucose Tollerance Test today. The idea of fasting 10pm - c.11.00am didn't phase me at all. I can rarely handle breakfast early. Irritatingly the midwife had told me I could have black tea (I had 1/2 a cup black caffein free red bush as it as 1 degree this morning), but the blood nurse said I wasn't allowed anything. Grumble. Anyway, an hour after the 2 glucose drinks I was feeling very spaced out - dizzy, headachy & a bit sick and was apparently 'burning up'... So was laid down in a dark room with aircon. After the 2nd bloods I had to eat & feel stable before I was allowed to go. I was so tired when I got home. I really hope this isn't a bad sign re the test results

Yesterday I took our dog to a university veterinary hospital, quite a drive away. Had to leave her overnight and might not get her back till tomorrow they are seeing what can be done. She has a rare tumour, so I'm worried about her.

Funny thing is she's reacting very well to being there (way better than expected) and I didn't react well to the test this morning!

Thank you to those with advice / experience re partner/husband bonding. I won't worry yet.. I do like the idea of using a cushion under his elbow while watching tv

- oh, one nice thing about the GTT was that it made baby wiggle & jiggle around so much!

sunshine81

Aww hope you feel better now Robots? I had my GTT today too, fasting from 8:45pm to 11:30am in the end! I ALWAYS have breakfast, and eat tons in the morning but very little in the afternoon. So I was starving from the minute I woke up!

Fortuntely mine was OK, I felt a bit iffy half way through the two hour wait but I think that was more due to the busy stuffy waiting room. At least I was given real lucozade to drink and I got this lovely nurse who got the blood at first attempt both times, an extreme rarity for me! Same here about it making baby jiggle.. even a woman sat opposite me noticed my belly jumping lol!

Am in work now til 7... I work four days a week, so after today I have 29 working days left! Can't flipping wait, the politics of this place are getting to me so bad I just want to go!

Edit: aww been texting OH all day, mainly about the above, he just showed up at my work 'to give me a kiss and cuddle' bless him! I work in a psychiatric hospital, my colleagues saw him first hanging about outside and couldn't decide if he was a patient or a doctor lol!

fireyfirenze

just wondering robots and sunshine how come you had the glucose tolerance tests if you don't mind me asking at my last midwife appointment she said my urine had showed a high reading for glucose so that I needed to cut out all sugary food and she will test it again in 4 weeks. if it's high again does that mean I might have to have one of those tests? I had been eating loooads of chocolate so hopefully it was just that!

just sorted out my maternity leave at work, last day 16th may I'm so excited! pretty much 10 weeks to go

sunshine81

Urgh... my blooming Mothercare order is AWOL... CityLink attempted delivery yesterday (but didn't tell me they were coming). We tried to change the address to OH's mother yesterday, phoned today as they didn't ring to let me know if that was OK and they said it had been delivered this evening to mine. Of course, it hasn't. So Mothercare are now investigating. It's a good job I'm only 26 weeks pregnant and not 36, I would need my crib and car seat more urgently then!

sunshine81

fireyfirenze wrote: »

just wondering robots and sunshine how come you had the glucose tolerance tests if you don't mind me asking at my last midwife appointment she said my urine had showed a high reading for glucose so that I needed to cut out all sugary food and she will test it again in 4 weeks. if it's high again does that mean I might have to have one of those tests? I had been eating loooads of chocolate so hopefully it was just that!

just sorted out my maternity leave at work, last day 16th may I'm so excited! pretty much 10 weeks to go

Ooh Firey that's my last day at work too!! Woop Woop!

I was given an appointment for a Glucose Tolerance Test at my 12 week scan, as I have a high BMI (37) and was diagnosed with polycystic ovaries about 5 months before finding out I was pregnant. It would make sense for you to have one if you have another urine sample like that... but I don't know how it works x x

neverdespairgirl

I gather, from having had one in my last pregnancy, that there are various risk factors, and if you hit more than a couple of them, they send you for a GTT to check it out. In addition, at regular blood tests along the way they test your random blood sugar, and if it's high-ish, they then send you for a GTT to be on the safe side.

Robots, the one I had in my first pregnancy made me feel totally drugged up, and the results were fine. It's just like not eating for ages, and then scoffing bags full of sweets, it makes you feel very odd indeed!

lushlifesaver

Day two of maternity leave and I have visited my parents, been to tescos, been to a retail park near bf's training session, walked to meet bf at said session, been to two garden centres and spent 90mins gardening :-) can you tell I don't do 'relaxing' very well?!

Tomorrow bf is off so I'm walking in to our little town to post an eBay parcel for him (1mile round walk) then pottering at home before going out for a meal with colleagues in the evening

RobotsinDisguse

fireyfirenze wrote: »

just wondering robots and sunshine how come you had the glucose tolerance tests if you don't mind me asking at my last midwife appointment she said my urine had showed a high reading for glucose so that I needed to cut out all sugary food and she will test it again in 4 weeks. if it's high again does that mean I might have to have one of those tests? I had been eating loooads of chocolate so hopefully it was just that!

just sorted out my maternity leave at work, last day 16th may I'm so excited! pretty much 10 weeks to go

I was told I should have one by that bonkers trainee-consultant as my BMI was 36 (actually lower now!). My midwife grumbled then booked it at my 21 week appointment. I'm 24+4 today.
No one has mentioned high glucose in my urine.

- there was one lady who'd not been told why/how so had had breakfast! And another who also hadn't been told anything but had googled the rules. I'd been told I could have black tea/herbal tea... But apparently I shouldn't have! Oh dear.

- thanks for the reassurance NeverDespaireGirl, I hadn't thought it through but yes I guess it was an overwhelming sugar high and quick crash! (I don't have much of a sweet tooth anyway).

I had a sleep when I got in then beans on toast and felt better but not quite right still. I've a friend whose a nurse who said it sounded "like torture" and couldn't figure why I'd be put through it if my urine had been fine!