October 2013 - insert witty, worn out, nearing the end thread name here

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No soup my vision Is crap at best of times I'm blind as a bat haha, luckily no swelling and had my urine checked for protein the other day, and bp was 100/60. So just a pregnancy symptom I guess.

I might bring my maternity leave forward I'm feeling so rough these days.

We were talking about hospital bags at Nct today opinionated instructor told us don't even bother packing a phone charger hospitals won't allow you to use them in their electrical sockets ..I presume she is talking crap?!

BP can rocket at any time.....

She's talking crap flyer xx dh was in hospital for ages when he had his appendix out no one even batted an eye lid about him using his charger plus when I worked on maternity briefly I never knew of anyone being told not to use their charger x

when I was in hospital I had my phone charging, laptop on, mini dvd player you name it!!!

I love it though as one of the ladies on the Nct course is an intensive care doctor so on medical things she keeps correcting opinionated lady instructor who doesn't like it one little bit (DR woman is lovely) I sit there and chuckle to myself

Ooh- I'm liking this exchange of shopping links!
Just to throw in another twopenneth, I found vest tops really good last time when bf in the autumn/winter worn with a loose top- I hitched the top up and the vest down (if you get what I mean) and that kept my tummy and chest warm and kept me pretty covered- good if you're a little shy about the bf in public part. I found it easier than draping a scarf around me.

Can I appeal to other weak PF sufferers- are you just using big pads? I thought delicate liners would cut it but they just ain't enough!

Good DP got a shock at the mere thought that he couldn't charge his iPad, iPhone, MacBook (which if he insists on using on the throws of a contraction might just get chucked out of the window)

Pseudo I will see how tonight goes if I still feel like I've been exhumed in the morning or I get worse I shall indeed give the maternity assessment a call. I've felt this way for a few days now, still awaiting blood test results back.

My msg overlapped- flyer hope you feel better, but it's always worth calling m.a. if you're feeling odd. xx

Such a shame Flyer that you've had a less than positive experience. Doesn't the instructor realise that she's weakening all the messages she gives if she's so negative about this sort of stuff?!

We've been really lucky and I was worried about what we'd get in terms of instruction.

Comtesse I just take her opinions with a pinch of salt. I've picked up some good tips from the course (birthing balls, facts on inductions, positions for labour etc) and the breast feeding workshop was really good.

She is big into home births, which I have to say sound quite appealing, however as its my first I think I would panic and worry in case there was a complication. She was saying about getting better attention as 1 on 1 with the midwife, where as a hospital birth the midwife has probably 4 women to look after.

She was also saying cot bumpers are dangerous, I have absolutely no idea when it comes to this kind of stuff being inexperienced, so what do you ladies who are mums already think?

Cot bumpers dangerous? I think they need to be well fixed/fitted to the cot, but I was worried about DS getting his arms stuck through the bars of the cot without one!

And as for midwife- when things got going my mw stayed with me through from transition to delivery. Surely the other factor when considering a homebirth is your proximity to hospital should anything (heaven forbid) go awry?

I'll be interested to hear other Mum's experiences...

Yeah she was saying cot bumpers are dangerous because If the baby rolls over and presses his nose against it or underneath it, then a danger of suffocating, also she aid about getting his/hers hands or feet caught up in the strings. All sounded a bit far fetched to me quite honestly.

Wrt to attention from a midwife- once I got to 4cms I wasn't left alone at all in the room and before that I was on the maternity ward with my mum being checked on at intervals and u wouldnt get a midwife with u at home until u were in established labour anyway

I used a cot bumper for dd and she's still alive. She used to head but her bars all the time where she would thrash around so a cot bumper was essential for us

flyer cot bumpers are very thin anyway and also the strings are only a few CMs long so wouldn't even go round their neck

I don't think cot bumpers have been recommended for years. SIDS advice is that there should be nothing in the cot but the baby and their blanket for fear of an incident.

I think they're one of those things that the shops push and look pretty but are actually unnecessary.

I think the cot bumpers being dangerous thing is for when they are older and start climbing. They can use it to climb up the side of the cot and then plummet down the other side.

I'm not sure why they would be dangerous before then.
I might buy a nightie this time, had a catheter last time so ended up with just a t-shirt on top.

I think she is full of rubbish as well . DP told her we were getting a video baby monitor and she practically jumped down his throat saying it was not necessary and we'd end up watching the baby constantly and you can't live life like this (her exact words) felt like a right pair of idiots haha! We had a laugh about it in the car on the way home though.

Balanced report on cot bumpers.

My mum gaffer taped pillows around my cot as I was a proper nightmare for damaging myself without them - earliest form of cot bumper?

Haha shire that's funny

The birthing suite at liverpool womens has a disco ball in there and different colour lighting, does someone think labour supposed to be a fun occasion

prisci The bravado silk nursing bras have pads. I bought 2 after they were recommended on here and they're great.

These r a good alternative too cot bumpers to provide some padding against bumps but not a suffocation risk.

hippy chick bumpsters

Pinkforboys - I'm using tena lights long liners and they are doing the job ok. Doubt a regular panty liner would cut it though.

Thanks Clapham for the info on post-birth sweating - makes sense as it seemed more than just a reaction to being a bit hot....I was pretty grim tbh!

On the midwife attention topic - DP and I were pretty much left alone until the pushing stage...worked out quite well though (made for a relaxed, private atmosphere) and think I'd now find too much attention intrusive. I'm trying not to let my past experience shape my birth expectations too much but it's hard for them not to.

Hi all, I'm not pg but I was on the October 08 thread for my PFB, now approaching 5, so I thought I'd come on and wish you all the very best of luck. I can't believe 5 years has passed so quickly, she's starting school in a few weeks! Anyway, interruption over, as you were

Congratulations Pinklady on the birth of baby Josie.

Another breathless individual here. When it was really warm I had a few scary breathless attacks in the middle of the night - I'm wondering if I had rolled onto my back. GP can't find anything wrong. MW suspected low iron but that came back O.K too. I suspect the breathlessness will be with me until I give birth in 10 weeks! I'm even limiting the number of journeys I make up and down the stairs now! Achy legs particularly when tired which is often these days due to poor sleeping patterns. Trying to take each day as it comes and resting as much as possible but that is sometimes easier said than done. It's a shame to wish time away and I don't usually like doing it but have found myself doing it often lately as I feel so restricted and cant wait to meet DD2.

Back to work in a couple of weeks. Work can be a good thing as my mind is absorbed and time passes quickly but also worrying about how I will cope with tiredness and concentration on my not so good days

Re labour - Previous labour in dim and distant pass but seem to remember wearing a hospital gown and having a bath with a couple of drops of lavender oil after birth- could be totally wrong about the lavender oil it just seems a blur. Really enjoyed the tea and toast they brought round I remember that though!