hello hello!
Checking in for lanky watch too! Happy due date for yesterday lady!
Hope you're feeling better late I can't believe that no one guessed at your work! They must have been super shocked when you said you were 20 weeks! Were they like this
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So i have a little bit of news- It is a bit epic so please bear with me and it does have a nice ending!
I worked myself up into a big, old huge panic on Sunday night and Monday morning as I had a funny low down pain that felt like period pain and it wouldn?t go away. I had a bath which made it worse and took paracetamol which did nothing so I got in a right state. I did the worst think possible (googled!) and convinced myself that I had an imcompetent cervix and was going into premature labour. It sound so ridiculous now I write it down but I honestly was so worried.
Anyway, I barely slept Sunday night and on Monday morning was in a terrible state. Decided to take the day off work and call mi midwife and see what she said. She said it all sounded normal but as I sounded so worried she would recommend that I went to the EPAU and get a scan. So I trundled off to the hospital and waited for 2 hours in the EPAU. Finally got to see the doctor and she said ?oh, sorry. I can?t see you as you are over 16 weeks? so palmed me off to the maternity assessment unit on the next floor. I was so cross with the midwife for sending me there! I waited for 4 hours in the MAU before I could see a doctor and during this time time they were constantly monitoring my blood pressure which was, of course, going through the ceiling!
When I finally got to see the doctor she listened for the heartbeat, checked my cervix and all was absolutely fine. The pain turned out to be inflammation of my bladder
due to the UTI that I am being treated for so that was all fine. However... as my blood pressure had been so constantly high all day they were really worried and referred me to the hypertension specialist. In preparation for the appointment which was yesterday I had to collect all of my wee over a 24hour period so Tuesday was spent weeing into a jug and then transferring into a canister- not my finest hours I have to say!
So, I had the appointment with the blood pressure consultant yesterday and my readings were fine. He did liver function blood tests and of course took my huge barrel of urine away to be tested. They want to keep an eye on me as my mum was hospitalised for 6 weeks before having me due to high blood pressure so I have to get my BP checked every two weeks and go back and see him on the 15th March.
Moral of the story ladies is DO NOT GOOGLE and wind yourself up into a state of panic as it can lead to all sorts of problems! I know I don?t have high blood pressure but now have to have all of these appointments because I spent a day stressing myself out!
However, the upside of this saga is that the consultant did a scan at the end of the appointment and I got to see the baby wriggling around. Warning to late and all other ladies in the future who DON?T want to find out what you?re having as I didn?t.... As soon as he started scanning me I saw the baby was upside down with it?s bum in the air and I saw straight between it?s legs where there was a huge willy dangling! The consultant was so funny. He said ?Oh, do you know what your ?e having?? I said, ?No , but i think i have just seen something between it?s legs!? He said ?yes, very obvious isn?t it?!? When i told him I hadn?t wanted to find out he was so apologetic but it wasn?t his fault in the slightest! There was NO way I couldn?t have seen what it was so I?m having a BOY!!!! We are so thrilled! For all of those old wives talers out there, I was convinced I was having a girl and all of the signs pointed to a girl but we have a lovely little boy on the way! We are so excited to know now but am also glad that i didn?t make the decision to know if that makes sense?!
What an epic post
well done if you made it to the end!