May 2014: The Maybies are growing humans - what's your superpower?

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We are superheroes

Sickness and scans galore in the latest installment of the Maybies' journey through human-growing.

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Cake, chicken nuggets, Shloer and whatever else we're craving is on the table ready

Hope you get to the bottom of it soon thistle sounds excruiating

Yay for lovely scan news again today!

thistle I hope you get sorted today and that it's something easily fixable and not serious.

I'm in Scotland too, in Fife though work in Edinburgh.

Good luck everyone with scans today, thistle hope the pain eases soon x

I'm off to Worcester today to speak to a head midwife about dd2's birth and pregnancy. I'm really nervous and am feeling sick just thinking abou it. It was a very traumatic expiearience and I'm hoping to put to be all the anxiety and worry about her pregnancy and birth.

I really have no interest in complaining and I don't want to soun like I'm accusing them, but I need answers.

Thanks Guys, sorry to have kept you waiting Rebecca, we went for celebratory food and then to the cinema after the scan which is why I hadn't posted til late.

Hope all is well with Nanny.

Good luck today for scanees.

Thistle it sounds like you are having an awful time with your back. Hope that the doc can help ASAP.

Glad to hear so many people are starting to see a light at the end of a tunnel for morning sickness.

I'm another one from West Yorkshire and proud possessor of a peach I think. 14 weeks tomorrow so definitely in the second trimester. Have had a month off work with debilitating nausea but went back yesterday and managed ok. Got so tired that I thought I was going to puke all over the doorstep when I arrived home but ate some salt'n'vinegar crisps and had a nap and the urge to vomit passed.

Am properly in maternity clothes now! Have been reading an incredibly annoying pregnancy book which advises against buying any new clothes until the third trimester and borrowing clothes from your husband or 'larger friends' (!!) until then lest you become sick of maternity clothes! But neither my DH nor any of my friends are shaped like a pregnant lady with massive norks so I don't get how that is supposed to work...! So have ordered some nice dresses from Jojomamanbebe instead and am keeping a keep eye on ASOS :)

A keen eye that should read!

And I am a fraudulent Maybie as scan put my due date forwards to 23 April. But as I started the first May thread I don't want to leave!

Well that Didn't go well! Called my midwife about the leaking and also because I'm now feel dehydrated (even thought I'm drinking loads of water) and feeling a throbbing pain internally.
My community midwife says EPU won't see me because I'm over 12 weeks & I have a scan booked. So told me to phone triage.
Called Triage basically they don't think it's anything concerning so they won't see me.

jelly don't worry about dates the babies will be born all over the place, I'm due 2 May but I feel it's unlikely I will get to 40 weeks so possibly an April baby.

The sickness is not getting any easier and I've booked a doctors appointment for tomorrow to speak to them about it. I can't contact my midwife, its a joke! The only way I have of getting in touch with the midwife is to phone epau at the hospital and if they think its necessary then they'll contact her on my behalf! Oh or I can contact the central office for community midwives and they'll take a message and ask my midwife to call me.

How do other people access their midwife? Where I lived when I had ds and dd I had a mobile number for midwife that you could either ring or text.

I'm in South Yorkshire by the way spirael

hamncheese I'm in (i think south) Lanarkshire too! Which hospital are you using, I'm Wishaw General.

Good luck squiffie at the doctor's. It really does seem to be a matter of luck as to whether you get a sympathetic and well-informed doctor wrt pregnancy sickness or not. Given how many women just on this thread who are really suffering, I think it's a disgrace that it isn't more widely known about or taken seriously. It is debilitating. It can seriously affect your ability to work. I agonised about going off sick but DH pointed out that if I felt so ill when not pregnant I would not be at work so why feel I should when pregnant? It's shocking how many people seem to feel you should just somehow get on with it when you simply can't.

Anyway, I hope your doctor is helpful! My midwife gave me a phone number but I haven't needed to call it so don't know how easily contactable she actually is.

That's shocking squiffie you really should have a direct number to your community midwife team. Good luck at the doctor, the medication really helped me so if you go down that route I hope it helps you too.

littlebairn that's rubbish they won't see you. Can you not call maternity assessment? I went there a couple of times about things, this was when in Glasgow though, not sure about here (moved in may). I'm attending wishaw for scans but generally just the health centre and my indie midwife comes to the house. Hopefully not but if I do have to have a hospital birth it would be wishaw

what a pain squiffie, I've no idea about the workings of the NHS, but I hope you manage to get a number for someone that you can call direct fx.

wm hope you cope with the wait tilll your scan next week - time drags so slowly eh?!

littlebairn sorry you're not been taken seriously. do hope they are right and nothing to worry about.

Jelly second littlebairn on that - stick with us - I'm sure we'll be spread out from mid-April till mid-june as I'm sure none of the beans have read the book and will come when they want to come! great that we're all in this together and will be exciting waiting for each arrival, from the first to the last!

Beautiful scans impatiently

Hope your back eases up soon Thistle

Oh, I'm in Lincolnshire - not far from Grantham.

ham Maternity assessment and Triage are pretty much all the same thing at Wishaw, when I had my hematoma at 8 weeks I was bounce around around on the phone to the all eventually I gave up and called hairmyers and was seen within the hour.

I need to make an appointment to see my GP to tomorrow anyway so I will raise it with her too, she's very proactive and I trust he judgement.

If you do go to Wishaw (even after all the hassle I've had) the midwives are fantastic (in fact i would go to say they rule the roost) their birth pool rooms rarely used so often available and I can highly reccomend some of the male consultants.

I'm not sure if you fall under it but Hairmyers also does Scans and EPU they are fantastic. I seriously don't rate the Wishaw Sonography department but I could have just been unluckly with them.

I was planning a home birth with my first ( I did actually deliver him at home I was very smug about it because they really aren't keen on HB around here so felt like it was our little victory together) it's very likely this one will be a hospital birth but I'm open to HB if the hospital start to try to get too medical.

I just had my booking in appt Midwife was really nice, not my "actual" midwife as she had just worked a night shift but one from their team. I also have a trainee midwife who is going to use me as one of her projects and come to all my scans and appointments and hopefully the birth! (I'd better try and fit it around her uni schedule ) Was weird looking at her and thinking she'll probably be there in 7 months time when I am pushing a human out of me... ew.

Our hospital has a maternity led bit and I've opted to give birth there, instead of in the main hospital, although I can be transferred if necessary as it's just down the corridor. They'll only let me if I'm still a low risk by the time I come to have it but I'm low risk at the moment which is nice I considered a home birth (I was born at home, in a birthing pool) but we're a long way from the hospital and I'm nervous!

Hope everythings goes ok for those struggling with pain/doctors etc. at the moment, hopefully it'll all be fine and you'll have forgotten all about it in a few weeks because it will no longer be important

Hello everyone, sorry to hear some of you are having a hard time.

I'm in Hampshire so a lot further South than most of you!

Bye everyone
Went for reassurance scan today and I have had a MMC.. Totally unexpected
Hope your pregnancies well x

That's good to know that you rate wishaw littlebairn. How come you don't fancy a home brith this time round?

Shanks I'm so sorry, what a dreadful shock. So so sorry. Thinking of you.

shanks so, so sorry. Thinking of you and sending love... It is so shocking when something like this happens, cannot imagine how you must be feeling xxxxxxxx

ham The main reason is I tested positive for GSB during my first pregnacy if I test positive again I will need antibiotics.
This region are very against HB (they claim they aren't but in my experience they are) and I don't see to them agreeing to allow me the antibiotics at home.

But also because my experience has been awful with the community midwives (excluding my current midwife but its quite likely she wouldn't attend me) and I feel more confident with the midwives at Wishaw. I spent 5 days there and they were all wonderful very respectful and compassionate.

If I am unhappy with how I feel they will handle/react to my pregancy, espcially wanting to make it a medicalised birth then I will consider a Indi Midwife.

shanks just saw your post in so sorry that's a devastating shock.

Oh Shanks I'm so sorry. I'm thinking of you.