The PESH are getting busy and looking out for a cluster diff!!

[pinkr]

blonderthanred, boy, born 26th October 2012.
FriendofDorothy, boy, born 14th December 2012.
QueenRollo, boy, born 21st January 2013.

Need dates:

Rollerbaby, No pink here, expecting boy due March 20th 2012
IveBeenExpectingYou (CockDodger), A very active baby girl, due March 28th 2012
Silver, hoping for an easier sneeze, due mid-July 2012
Starryeyedmole, regretting recently investing in scales
cakeandcava approaching walrus proportions, DC1 EDD 21/10/12

LazyMachine (38) DC1 EDD 9/2/13
CamelKnees (34) fat and fatigued DC2 EDD 22/04/2013
HaveALittleFaith (31), Faithlet arrived 14.04.13
fertilityFTW (34) date needed.
pinkr, (33), any day now!!, DC1 due 22/08/2013
Jethro (36) head in the sand Edd 071013
Frankel (32) nauseous and knackered Edd 4/3/14
Noks - info needed
Sinky - info needed

Done my best - apologies for any misinformation or omissions!

Give it time pinkr. I have a friend at work who is terrible for encouraging all sorts of scan silliness...

Jef, time to turn yet? When do babies turn?

Glad you finally have a scan date frank. I am wishing away th next 3 weeks...

Can I ask for the PESH wisdom on headaches? For about a week ice been getting at least 2 headaches a day (usually first thing in the morning and last thing at night) but its always in the same spot - in the area above my left eye or a bit further up on the top of my head. I'm taking Paracetamol which does clear it, but I'm not sure if the regularity or the fact that it is always in the same place is anything to be concerned about.

When was the last time you had your eyes tested Frank? Diffment can cause changes to eye sight. Which could be a cause of your headache. Dehydration is also most common cause. I got headaches for a couple of weeks when I cut out caffeine.

Any laying news from Pink?

I wear glasses 24/7 as it is. To be honest I probably am due an eye test.

My over active imagination has me conjuring up images of a blood clot of the brain or something equally as awful

I get awful headaches when dehydrated, and have been much worse since diffed. To the extent I'm doing that irritating, carrying a bottle of water with me at times (the students always do this, and I assumed they're either massively hungover or just clueless about normal water homeostasis. But now I do...)

Frank, if you want some, non-official, over the Internet medical advice (and obs refer this sort of thing to me/my team), we most worry about very severe constant, persistant headache, maybe with visual changes. The facts it's always in the same place wouldn't in itself worry me (my dehydration headaches are always behind my left eye)

No laying yet...my bump hasn't dropped or anything so I really think it'll be induction.
frank def get your eyes checked, that's why its free for pregnant but Jeff is right as dehydration caused me a few crackers early on! I am prone to ice pick migraines...literally a short stabbing pain that makes you almost cry out and then goes again! the chances of anything else is really really rare so don't panic!

Ha sinks great minds think alike!

You see, the PESH speak as one.

Can't believe I forgot the usual caveat - if you are worried, see a health professional...

My MW said differs should drink twice as much as you normally do (so for me that's 4L a day!) 😱 but I would mention it at your next appointment.

pink I dropped the day before I laid. Dropped Saturday morning, waters went in the evening, baybee laid Sunday morning.

Here's hoping! I feel like a rib is going to burst...its very high and almost sharp pain when she kicks! going for another sweep tomorrow so we'll see...be nice if that kicks it off!

pinkr that feeling never goes away - well the others may differ but I still find myself rubbing that spot where his little bottom stuck out just under my ribs, I can still feel it (in a good way!) - my mum says she can still feel where my head was pushing into her ribcage (I was breech)

Ah yes the wee bottom is there...the midwife last week felt it and said 'oh she's a good size', that plus the ultrasound predicting at around eight and a half think she's going to be a big girl!

Thanks for the advice PESH. I will try to up my water intake and get an eye test booked.

The yard I'm doing my work placement at had a winner at Yarmouth ths afternoon - I gave her a bath ths morning before sending her on her way

I'm so pleased for them, they're only a small yard with 11 horses in training and they've struggled a bit so far this year with only 1 other winner so far. They're running another one tomorrow, so finger's crossed for him too.

Great news Frank. I'm sure it's all down to your superior bathing! Why are you on placement? Is your job changing or is this all part of the exams you've been doing?

It's part of my college course. I've got to do a 40 hour work placement so I'm doing it in a local training yard. If I don't get it done now I'll have to postpone finishing my course until 2015 as I can't graduate without it.

Good bathing skills Frank!!

Sounds like an interesting course frank!
Off to midwife today...trying to decide whether to give a sweep another shot! Strange thing is I really don't like my midwife, I find her very unfriendly and unapproachable, so i'm not sure I want her down there

Well pink you shouldn't do anything you're uncomfortable with...but if it means avoiding induction? Everyone seeing your fanjo during the labour is different because you're so focused on the labouring bit. Then afterwards you don't really care :)

i'm probably being a bit harsh but I have issues with medical staff and trust anyway so that doesn't help. she wouldn't do it anyway so that was that...

Not worth it to feel uncomfortable with someone you're not happy with in my opinion.

There are various studies about sweeping at 38 weeks, 40 & 42 and it is more effective the further on you are but if I had read these I wouldn't have had them.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9083317/

Was midwife ok in the end Pinkr?

Good luck with scan Frank!

Good luck today Frank. Praying for a healthy, wriggly baybee :)

Thanks all. Scan is at 3 and we're going to call in on HWHNN's mum on the way back to let her know, presuming all is well.

We'll then spend the evening phoning family. I had wanted to tell my parents face to face but they're 200 miles away and we just can't work the logistics of getting down to see them in the next week or two and I don't want to keep it a secret an longer!

Everything crosses for you to get great views of your wriggly baby!

Are you looking forward to telling people? I was oddly nervous about telling my parents - of course they were delighted!