August 2013 - Part 4 - Half way there already!

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Old thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1678178-August-2013-Part-3-Adventures-in-the-second-trimester

Stats thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1655004-Due-August-2013-Stats-Thread

There are so many X factors when it comes to labour and delivery! My MW wants me to have three birth plans for the possible locations for delivery!
My last labour was only 3 1/4 hours so they are concerned I might not make it to hospital, so need a home birth plan, a birth centre plan (it's only 5 mins away) and a hospital plan (which is a 40 drive!)

My induced labour was painful & long Started induction on Sun Night & DS arrived Weds Morning.
Although, to be fair, he was induced early, I wasn't mobile for any of it & because I was strapped onto the monitor for the entire thing all I could hear was his (irregular) hearbeat going 'ba-dom, ba-dom--dom? bababbadom' (you get the drift of it!).
I tried to walk out after having the epidural.

Ruck, it can be shitty, but honestly, like waves said, you naturally 'know' how to do it, and you'll block out most of the pain/bad bits.

I didn't do any antenatal classes/hospital tours with DS & I still managed to push him out alright

Does anyone have any TENS machine recommendations?

I have had a horrible day with reduced foetal movement. I have been rushed off my feet and under a lot of stress at work for the last couple of days. Yesterday was fine, in fact baby was very energetic, kept me awake into the early hours with really strong kicks.

But today it dawned on me when I went for a quick drink that I hadn't felt any movements all day. Normally no matter how busy I am I still notice the movements. But I put it down to rushing round. I get an increase in movements at dinner time so thought I would see if the baby moved then.

Still nothing, so I phoned the day ward and burst into hysterical tears while I was on hold. I work at the hospital so could go right up thankfully, my mum rushed up and met me. The Midwife was lovely and reassuring and found the heartbeat right away and monitored me for 5 minutes, my notes say HB was 150 BPM and note 3x accelerations of movements in my notes with no decelerations. I had to stay on the ward drinking ice water and lying down for half an hour and eventually felt some flutters, but nothing too strong. I am so relieved and have a scan booked for tomorrow just to check.

I still don't know if there were no movements or I was too stressed to notice them.

I am really pissed off with myself. I feel absolutely crap for putting any job, never mind a shitty job where I (and my colleagues) are constantly taken advantage of (and I have been made redundant!) ahead of the health of myself and baby. I have rushed round all day feeling increasingly strained and anxious not keeping up with the workload at all, and I would tell anybody else not to take risks, not to let employers treat them like mugs, yet I am guilty myself.

I would strongly suggest that none of you read my birth story from last time. It was mad. I avoid telling pregnant ladies the details, just say that I'm having a planned section this time as my consultant strongly recommends it.

DS was forceps delivered so I don't have any experience of a section although I had a spinal block last time so at least know what to expect for that bit of it.

((Trenchcoat)) glad everything was ok at monitoring, hope scan is all normal tomorrow.
Hope you feel better soon, it's been warmer today than it has been all week so hopefully you were just a little dehydrated. x

Hi all,

Can anyone due in August join this group?. I am a first time mum, expecting a baby boy on 4th August. I am one of the first people I know to have kids (I am 28, professional/office worker living in London) - In my circle of friends my age is still considered 'young' for kids so I have struggled to find people I can relate to/talk to about pregnancy stuff. I am fairly new to mumsnet but finding the forums really useful and supportive and a bit of an information life saver!

:)

PS - forgot to mention. Is anyone Rhesus Negative? I am and going to have an anti-body injection tomorrow - has anyone else had this?
I have a read a bit about it and it scared me that it said that there is a slim (1 in a million chance) of contracting blood born diseases such as HIV from the injection - I didn't expect to hear that and now I am getting a bit worried/questioning whether I need the injection!

Susie

Hello Susie, welcome aboard :) If you are rhesus neg then yes you deffo do need the jabs sorry! it could seriously harm your baby, with more of a % risk than getting HIV from it, if you don't.

Trench, scary biscuits! Glad everything is ok,

Ijustworemytrenchcoat - Just saw your post, hope your ok. I also work for the NHS (assumed thats where you worked) and I have become increasingly p@@*ed off with the lack of support in my office. I don't have to rush around all day but we have recently undergone a merger and my workload is forever increasing, more and more staff are leaving to be replaced with temps who don't really care/don't know the service and I feel like I am forever fire fighting to the point where I decided a few months ago to take my maternity leave 10 weeks early! I am still angry that I have had to do that but glad I made the decision although a few 'superwomen' at work don't make it easier I am happy with my choice and have been saving to try and make like easier on my Husband for those early months.

I am currently off sick this week with 'viral illness' although if I am honest the stress from work was making me so sick I was terrified to go in to work for fear the stress would harm me/baby so the DR signed me off(I have a new boss who seems determines to put me down and make me look like an idiot whatever I do even though I go out of my way to help her!). I am going back next week for 3 days to do a handover then I am off until next June - the sooner the better I am so fed up with working my butt off and being treated like rubbish/made to feel bad for being pregnant.

Anyway just thought I would share/offload a bit!

Trench I had the same thing on Monday. Hope all is ok tomorrow.

Susie welcome! Please do join us... I'm not Rh-, not sure if there are others who are but I'm sure the screening is good so your risks of infection are negligible vs the risks of not having the anti-D shot. Anyone else know anything more?

Thank you GaryBusey I have just been googling, I didn't know there was a link between dehydration and reduced movements! I normally have some water in the clean area at work, but haven't had time to think (or drink it seems) till gone 11. I will up my intake now though, and keep an eye on this.

Welcome Susie and congratulations! I have found this thread, and Mumsnet in particular really useful as well. In regards to your question, the Anti-D in your injection comes from a human source, there will alwaysbe a tiny risk but blood and blood products undergo very strenuous testing theses days. Take a look at the NHSBT site here for some info.

The programme is all about protecting any other babies you may have in the future as if this baby is RH pos you may develop antibodies that would put subsequent pregnancies at risk. The Anti-D injection effectively takes over your bodies job to stop it producing antibodies that may attack future pregnancies.

Yeah I am NHS Susie, in Pathology. Gutting to see a previously good (IMO) service being ran into the ground. We too are reliant on temps and trainees to keep the service going while staff with decades of experience are being 'let go'. Fire fighting describes it perfectly.

Thank you Remembering getting a few stronger movements now, feels much better. My mum says you never stop worrying, she is so right.

Welcome Susie!

Sorry you had such a frightneing experience IJustWore. I'm having a really tough week at work this week and it is easy to not notice the movements when stressed. Soooooo can't wait for mat leave to start!

Welcome susi. I am also rh neg and will be having anti d in June
They test all samples donated by routine - or so I believe.

I am also nhs and also off sick! I'm trying to work out how many more weeks I have to go back for before my mat leave. Trying for a max of 3! But I need to go back for mileage to get submitted and to get rid of all the shit equipment I carry round in my car. I think I could string that out for a week.......

I had a scan today for drs training in obstetrics. I was a model.
Baby is perfect so far but back to back and breach. I'm only 25 w though so plenty of time and room for wriggling round.

trench sending hugs gun, sounds awful!

susie congrats and welcome

Ok so I prob know wha you ladies are gonna say but am asking anyways...

Since last Wednesday I have been having horrific period type pains shooting thru my lower abdomen. It eased off over the weekend but dp and I basically had a very lazy one and I spent most of it asleep on the settee. So today it started again but this time was a constant pain. Was sat in the opticians waiting for my mum and literally doubled over in pain, struggled to walk and although edperste for a wee I really struggled to go and it hurt to squeeze (apologies for tmi) the actually weeing bit wad fine but squeezing the muscles to go hurt like hell. It went off almost as fast as it came on and other than a bit uncomfy I have been ok since.

When I saw me last week she thought it was just a tummy bug, she told ne to take paracetamol and rest. I am not so convinced. Anyone got any thoughts?

Thank you everyone. My eyes are still sore from crying, going to bed soon as I'm exhausted.

The baby is moving lots now, typically, proper night owl.

Sounds awful BabyH. I'm not an expert, could it be a UTI?

Dunno trench doesn't hurt to pre only to squeeze the muscles and only sporadically. Would expect it to be all the time if it was a uti? We have kids this weekend so hoping not to get rushed into triage. Will try and rest as much as poss and see how I am Sunday after they have gone.

Just want this damn pg over with fast, been horrid since day I found out. Dunno how the hell waves keeps going!

thanks guys :)

Thanks for the anti D advice much appreciated.

Woofers
Sorry to hear you are off sick. I hate to have time off and feel guilty but it has done me the world of good/less agro than what I was getting at work. My husband commented this evening on how it 'was like having the old me back' as I have been so miserable being pregnant and in my current job it must be driving him mad.

I believe you can go off anytime 11 weeks prior to your babies estimated week of delivery. I am going off 10 although it helps that I can take my annual leave at the end so I get a bit more time with the baby before I have to go back.

Baby h - it might be braxton hicks?? Or ligaments moving around but I'd be worried if its your wee too. Can you just drop a sample in at the drs? Explain your preggers and are having some unusual symptoms. Sunday is too long to wait IMO - if there is an infection you need to get it sorted ASAP

Mw says as long as not hurting to wee its unlikely to be a uti, but I guess I am making assumption that she means like a burning when you gi.

Has anyone had a uti...was it ruck the other week? Can anyone tell me if its a burning or contracting the muscles that she meant pls.

BabyH -it could be a uti brewing rather than a full blown one. My DD had uti and it gave her back pain, it's not always immediate burning while peeing.

Please take a sample in asap for testing/ring the mw/gp BabyH, don't go leaving it, remember what happened to Abilee90! We all promised we wouldn't leave any strange symptoms unchecked, so go and get it sorted out today xx

BabyH yes it was me with a UTI, also thrush which was causing discomfort. Doesn't sound the same as mine but everyone is different, as Foof says, get checked. In the last 4 weeks I've been at triage twice and GPs surgery 4 times just to get sorted. Don't let a potential infection wait please, in the mean time, lots of water.

welcome susie if you use fbook and want to join the group we also have on there, say and someone will PM you the details.

IJust really sorry you're having a hard time. Glad they took you seriously and checked, I was down at triage for the same on Sunday. Naughty little baby has then spent every day since being very active and letting me know it's there!

27+5

I had a uti which was picked up at one of my early mw appointments. I had no symptoms apart from needing to pee more frequently.

Will go to triage later if it happens again. My sample last week was clear according to docs.

BabyH I had one dodgy sample then 3 clear ones but still had symptoms, they realised in the end it was thrush which can cause similar symptoms apparently.