Nov 2011 - Mat B forms are in and time is flying not long now

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Sorry just went for a new thread as I couldn't see another.

Hope you are all well this morning

H007 Hope your appointment went well. Have everything crossed for you.

Cali Congrats on your normal GTT - woo!

Snoozle Thanks for answering my question and for the tips on aqua doodle. Thought it was a good pressie for £13.

BH contractions I didn't have these until a couple of weeks before DD was born. My whole stomach would go hard. I would get DH to prod my stomach and it was like a rock. Felt v weird but wasn't painful (for me anyway!).

Have bought a couple of things for mini moo: head hugger for buggy and a new hat (sale at green baby). Bought some sale stuff for DD as well from Green Baby and Little Shrimp. Wouldn't buy their stuff full price but the quality is really good.

Voodoo Sorry, haven't had restless leg. Is this what you are experiencing?

evening all! Missed about 5 pages of posts, I have read through, but cant remember who said what!

M4 people So far have me, H007, ali & Bumps who have said they want to meet up in Bristol! Anyone else, send me a pm with an idea of when they can make it and ill suggest some dates by the end of the week!

Had a brilliant time in the Kiddicare warehouse at the weekend! Have now decided on a Quinny Speedi with car seat and carrycot! Only £430 eek!

Mum has offered to buy our nursery furniture though which saves us £499! Going for the Rialto set in Mamas and Papas.

Have been glued to sky news this afternoon... it makes me so angry to see what people are doing. I would be so scared if I lived there and feel so sorry for people who are stuck in there homes or cant get home!

H007 got fingers crossed for you that docs have positive news!

Oh and meant to ask... does anyone else get a sensation whcih is like baby kicking but down very very low betweenm the legs (IYSWIM)

Feels very wierd!

Stace Yes! Bladder, cervix, bum - sprout loves kicking those tender parts.

She's turned around now though, and here comes the rib-kicking!

evening ladies.

bump so sorry you're feeling low, definately speak to mw as soon as possible, the sooner you're feeling happier the better. and as for the work colleague do you need us to jump her for you? i'm sure there's a few of us willing to come teach her some manners.

h007 oh what a scary time for you, i really hope you get some good answers soon. we're all here for you.

youdothemaths welcome

nct sounds really expensive either way, although i know of people who have stayed friends for years after the groups.

raspberry leaf tea, i loved with a bit of sugar, you can start drinking it about 34-36 weeks, start off with 1 a day then over the last few weeks build up to 4 a day in the last week. i had it will pg with ds and definately think it was why my labour was less than 11 hours from start to finish.

sorry if i've forgotten anyone, i hope you are all ok.

Moosey, similar yes. It's like have been doing squats (!!!) and the muscles are overworked! Drives me insane. Much more comfortable to sit on birthing ball thing or lie on side with pillow/cushion between my thighs. Doesn't always work but anythings worth a try!! Not sure what the hell to do about the backache!

Evening all!
H007 hope the appointment went well....good you got a speedy referral to get to the bottom of everything, crossed fingers.
stace yes lots of kicking down there....the bladder is also a particular favourite for a good kicking!
Looking forward to starting NCT, but not got first class til next month....ours was just short of £200 for antenatal and then post natal as well, but im hoping it will be a good social thing for us as much as everything else since we dont have any friends who are expecting locally but i'm really wanting to do the hypnobirthing too...just weighing up whether can afford, have found a 2 full saturdays class near us which looks great so i'm thinking will prob go for that...have only heard good things about it.
Have had horrible arm pain last night for about half hour (cramp pain) started in wrist but felt worse in inner elbow...anyone else had this...was thinking its CTS but didnt really effect the hand so not sure. Anyway it went off after massaging for bit but came back today at work for another half hour....maybe the computer set it off, although its been my left arm both times and im right handed?

I've got carpal tunnel unrelated to pregnancy and mine started in my elbow. Thought I had hurt my elbow originally. Try raising forearms on a pillow. I drop mine to my sides and that releases a bit of the tension and seems to ease it a bit

Oh and it's to do with inflammation if it is cts, according to my consultant it's not related to useage if u see what I mean. I had it in both hands. Had the release op on my right but still got it in my left and will have to have op on it.

Hi ladies, 007 hope you got some answers this afternoon and it is good news. Thinking of you.

I've re-visited the NCT costs as it sounded loads more than anyone else is paying! I had looked at the antenatal class, plus the early days (post natal) class and the joining fee and it came to just under £500 for all of that. If we just did the ante natal it's £230, but it's a whole Friday, whole Saturday and half of Sunday over one weekend. I don't think DH will want to use up another day of his holiday and definitely will feel like that is overkill doing 3 days in a row. Have enquired with a couple of local providers who do group classes, am a little concerned that if we only do the NHS one (it's a Wednesday, one full day) then we might not get the best experience - I need to man up and just stick with my original plan I think!

Smiling we're in Crouch End so not far from you!

Poppy I have had the near-fainting thing a few times and mainly on the tube. If I've had a rushed morning and not yet eaten breakfast (I often eat at my desk when I get to work) plus it's a bit hot or I'm standing, I get cold into a bit of a cold sweat and feel faint. I've had to get off the tube a couple of times and just sit down to feel normal again and up to 20 weeks when I was still getting persistent MS, I was often sick when I felt like this. Now it tends to pass but is a horrible feeling, especially when I'm willing the train to get to the next station in time for me to get off and get over it!

The rioting everywhere is absolutely horrendous and feeling far too close for comfort now really. We're originally from Birmingham and DH's cousin was locked in House of Fraser this afternoon (he's a uni student and works there part time) as they closed the shop due to damage being caused to nearby shops. It really feels like things are getting out of control and cannot imagine what people are gaining from being involved in wrecking their local community and causing untold damage / upset to their neighbours. The torching of the furniture shop in Croydon is horrendous, that place has been there for a couple of hundred years and was just burned to the ground for 'fun'. I can't get over the fact that relatively young youths have been stealing things from shops and are behaving like there is no come back. i for one am hoping that there is a stronger response to this behaviour before things get any worse, we can't have people feeling too scared to leave their own homes.

Right, rant over now! I didn't have a great start to the day as I attended for my midwife appointment (not seen anyone since 16 weeks) only to find that she had called in sick but no one had let me know. SO I was late into work for no good reason, plus am still without my MAT B1 form, which I should have given to work last week to confirm my maternity leave plans - I was not a happy bunny. Have booked in to go to the hospital next Tuesday after work, which is certainly not as convenient as the children's centre in the next road! Serves me right for evangelising about the great service I have received so far.... I've got a GTT on Friday so fingers' crossed all goes well.

H007 hope you get good news! Keep us posted!

Check up today and the placenta is still right at the bottom of the uterus. Baby's head is up at the top. I am at risk of placenta Accreta because of the previous CS's so may have to have an MRI at some point to see what is going on. At least I will be 28 weeks on Thursday so even in an emergency baby should do well. Hope I can hang in there much longer than that though!

stripey bubba keeps scarring me by moving lots for a few days then not much for the next few... As soon as I hit 28 wks I will be counting like crazy

pam I think I get braxton-hicks contractions but I can't feel them. All i know is bubba curls up into a weird roll in the middle of my stomach for 30-some seconds and then relaxes?? is that a braxton-hicks?

HO07 Hope everything went well for your scan. FX everything is normal.

voodoo I get restless leg and it is getting worse and driving me crazy. I can't sleep with anything remotely tight on my bottom half or it gets really bad.

Congrats to everyone in the third trimester! I'll be along soon. Everything is starting to feel so real, esp with all the talk about perineal massage. I need so tips on that as well...

Truffkin, just a quick thought, I forgot to ask for my MAT B1 form when I had an appointment and so phoned up the midwife services and asked them to make up the form and leave it for me at the doctor's surgery, maybe you can do that so that you can get the form sooner rather than later.

Have been having BH for a while, it's mainly a tightening under my bump, but not painful or long lasting, just tight really!!!

Hope baby doesnt make too early an arrival chip!!!

Morning everyone, non the wiser after my appointment yesterday had an ultrasound however the doctor was commenting on how difficult it was to see anything in pregnant boobies as soooo much is going on in there anyway. She decided that she couldn't find a definate mass however it was clear that there was something up and sent me to the surgeon. The surgeon took a look and decided to do a biopsy straight away, this involved local anethestic cutting out some skin, then sticking the biggest needle I have ever seen which took 6 different samples of tissue by firing what was like a piercing gun into the tissue. The surgeon was very honest and said he really didn't know but they would send all the samples off and I have to go back Tuesday for results. Last night and today my boob feels like it is on fire... So generally feeling very sorry for myself!

With the MAT1B form I phoned my MW just after 20 weeks and she posted it to me.

When do we officially hit 3rd trimester?

Pam wouldn?t it be great, if we could choose bump names that would set out how the birth would go? I love the idea. Maybe if I just believe it enough...

H007 I join you in the scared camp. I have been very good at sticking my head in the sand when it comes to thinking of getting the baby out....
I really hope that your breasts will be fine. I had an op after I developed a lump that they were worried about. I had a bipsy too and it?s bl@@dy painful! Try not to reach for anything.
Fortunately mine was benign, but I had it removed anyway, as it would have likely caused issues during pregnancy, as it was tightly wrapped around milk ducts. Fingers crossed for an all clear on Tuesday

3rd Trimester starts at 27 weeks :)

Cali Yay for good GTT results and referral to physio

Truffkin all the best for your GTT. How annoying about the MW

Nothing new here, apart from today being a bank holiday and me having ordered maternity stuff off Asos. Can?t wait for it to arrive.
Oh and only 3 weeks left in work, unless they ask me to extend by a month. Can?t wait to get pottering round the house.

Also very sad at what is happening in the UK. I can?t believe how people can be so destructive :(

H007 feck really sending positive thoughts to those samples. What a completely awful thing to have to go through anytime but when you are pregnant, even worse. I believe pregnant women in UK are treated very very well in the main, but often very cautiously. So I'm sure they are just making sure you are ok and not taking risks so fingers crossed you will get a good explanation to what is going on.

H007 hope you get the biopsy results back soon and it's good news.

I am having weird dizzy spells too but not just when I stand up or sit down, last night I was lying in bed and my head went really dizzy and I couldn't focus. The chiropractor mentioned on Friday that my blood pressure was low so I assume that's the problem but will talk to the MW on Thursday.

I'm so tired today. I waited up for DH to get home from work last night as he finished at 11.30pm and usually cycles from east to south London, through Peckham etc so I was worried about him. Thankfully he got a taxi but didn't get in till 1.30am so I haven't had enough sleep. And I have my appraisal at work in less than an hour. Great.

Last night the baby was lots more active than usual, I wonder if it had picked up on my stress as I was watching the news. I had to turn it off in the end to try and calm things down.

H007 keeping everything crossed for you.

Bad night after the riots started about 20 minutes walk away from us. Even the local charity shop which just sells baby things was attacked. We are in very residential area so no shops to loot but worrying all the same.

restless legs those with this have my total sympathy, I was wracked by it when I was carrying DS. Awful, awful, awful. I've not had any this pregnancy and Bunny is a big fan of red meat, which is interesting as I've since heard restless legs can be a sign of mild anaemia? Didn't find much that helped at the time, not bananas or milk or the other wives tales, but me standing facing and leaning against a wall while DH karate chopped the backs of my legs as I tried to hold them straight was very relieving. If an odd sight at the time :)
kicks down below I'm sure Bunny went breech yesterday, I felt her run up the front of my tummy like she was doing some Parkour, then the kicks were all down in my bits instead of up in my ribs. I think she's moved back.... and hope so, a breech baby is the last thing I need.

Cookie "Even the local charity shop which just sells baby things was attacked" that is absolutely shocking!

Really bad now to hear that a man has died as well.. do the chavs still think it's fun now!?

Had a really uncomfortable couple of days with belly feeling really tight and achy, but so far today it's much better! Been sat bouncing on my new yoga ball! It is soooo comfortable! I'm going to be living on that in the evenings now rather than laying back on my sofa!

H007 keep fingers crossed for results.

Hope all of you in and around London stay safe, be careful and don't take any risks going out if you don't need to! xx

Afternoon :)

Last couple of days have been a bit crazy with people staying for the festival here in Edinburgh...hopefully things will calm down soon.

007 thinking of you - hope all is weel, as I'm sure it will be.

Panic over here as I'm from liverpool, all my scouse family and friends are safe. Phew!

Have a great day
xxx
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Afternoon everyone!

Sorry to hear so many of you are close by the rioting, its scary stuff. I used to live in Belfast, and have seen such things first hand, and its surreal - I remember going up into the attic bedroom in the house I shared with friends, and us just looking out and it looked like the whole world was on fire, it was like something out of a film. I found it quite exciting at the time, but that was because I was young, and immature and probably stupid too. Its funny how when you are a proper grown up you realise how serious these things actually are.

So, to childbirth and the like.......although I am already a mother, I had an emcs last time, so I have no idea what an actual birth involves, apart from what I've read. So....by way of educating myself, I hit you-tube. Now, I must admit, I do sort of wonder who videos their wife giving birth in close up detail and then posts it on you-tube, but thats a whole other story. Anyway......I'm ashamed to say, I felt sick, like properly queasy, it all seems so.....messy. I know its natural, and its not dirty or anything, but at heart I am a bit squeamish.

On the other hand, I was really impressed by how calm the women were. There was a bit of moaning and groaning, but they seemed to be so in control - when I had been in labour for 18 hours, I was drifting in and out of conciousness, I vaguely remember DH and the midwife shaking me, and slapping my cheek (not hard, I hasten to add!! just to try to focus my attention!) and telling me I had to stay with them, otherwise the baby would never be born. (Although I never screamed or moaned, because frankly I couldn't be bothered, it seemed like a waste of precious energy.) Anyway, its the staying focussed that I would like to master, these women on the videos just seemed so calm.....

Snoozle, glad I'm not the only one that did that. I distinctly remember 'coming to' halfway during the pushing phase. God knows where my poor tired mind had crawled off to.

I'm officially pooped out, fell asleep twice during work today , good thing I have my own office so only one person saw me nod off, am now thinking the next ten and a bit weeks are going to be hard work!!!

After seeing occupational health today I bit the bullet & spoke to my team manager about how I'm coping (or not) at work...she was great & was suprised that my manager hadn't brought her fully into the loop sooner!! She has said that she will do all that she can to ensure that I can work until I can afford to go onto mat leave even if it comes to me not doing visits :) I have an appt with the occ health dr next week to confirm what tasks I can & can't do!!

Also mentioned my colleague & her comments to my team manager and she has said that there is little point saying anything (it is a personality flaw of said colleague who has no tact) but if I find it difficult at anytime then I can walk out & if needed she will shuffle staff & bases so I don't work with her.

Sorting this out has been really helpful & I think I can now survive the next (last) 8 weeks at work :o

Working tomorrow then off to Weymouth in the evening (if I can stay awake to drive) can't wait as am meeting a friend who I haven't seen for ages.

poppet & snoozle I too had some time during labour where I felt out of it (this could've been made worse by the pethidine though - don't want that again!!)

H007 I hope that the biopsy results come back with some good news & that you feel more comfortable soon x x

Hope that everyone is managing to stay safe with all of the unrest that is happening at the mo x