August 2014 - The thread fillers are also powering through their scans

[BunnyBaby]

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22honey, maybe this kind of thing changes from area to area, but here where I live I don't think there would be any question of the midwife saying something like that. Perhaps it would be worth double checking with a different midwife?

And I think it's totally normal to want to wait until after 20 weeks. Some do and some don't. Just depends on how you feel! I am pretty sure I waited until after 20 weeks till I bought anything. Also, it may be worth waiting a bit - our friends ended up giving us loads of things that they no longer needed.

Good luck with any scans today

I think there are three having scans today? Crazylady2013, LurkingNineToFive and Rosehoney - good luck and I hope all the babies are in good positions!

Also very self indulgent post but I can finally say I'm 12 weeks today only 4 more days until my scan, roll on Monday!!!

Good luck to today's scanees!

I think that you can be refused your choice if you are too high risk for that unit (I am too overweight for a MLU for example) but not the other way round. She's just giving her opinion!

Hurray, Owly! It feels like a huge milestone to reach 12 weeks, doesn't it! Really pleased for you. Hope the next few days go quickly for you.

22honey I'm pretty sure your midwife is talking absolute crap, it would be worth talking to another midwife about it or, better still, the EPUB at the hospital. Don't let the silly woman steamroller you if you would like the option of a hospital birth!

See page 8 of the NICE guideline

Good luck to anyone with scans today!

Yay, Owly! It's a great milestone isn't it? Not long til Monday. :-)

Good luck to everyone being scanned today.

Another shit night here. Sick of lying awake for hours on end. 5 bloody hours I lay there last night. :-(

Picking my pram up today. Yay!!

I'm with DuPain, 22honey, you should be able to give birth where you choose if you are low risk. I would arm yourself with the facts and guidelines and go to your next appointment feeling confident of what you want. She would need to explain why she was pushing you towards birthing centre, and if she maintained that stance you would be within your rights to say no and ask to be under a different midwife's care. It may be that she has a reason for trying to push you towards BC, but if she hasn't explained herself then I would go straight to matron/ward sister or whatever her senior manager is.

ooh, hungry, what are you getting?

sorry about bad night - I can't sleep through the storm at the moment, hiddeous

Yay owly not long until your scan!!

Sorry you had a crappy night hungry, getting the new pram will cheer you up! Exciting

Ive got my first MW booking in tmrw @ 12 weeks...it feels so late this time round. Hopefully shes nice, I had the same one for all three boys but we have moved to a new area so new MW

Thanks guys! Yes it does feel like a milestone! And I think Monday will come quite quickly as we have a lovely weekend planned for my dd's birthday and dh has fri-mon off for birthday/scan so should be nice :) even going away for a night in a hotel so should quicken time up!! Quite looking forward to it all!

Lucy that is so late! At least it's here now and then it's all go!!

Sorry people are having rubbish sleep, touch wood I've got a bit better been going to bed slightly earlier which has helped! Maybe was getting over tired (sound like a toddler!!)

Hungry what pram are you getting?!! Exciting!!

I go to sleep on the sofa by 9.30, sleep for 2 hours then ping awake when I go to bed. :-/ Perhaps I should go to bed instead of sofa sleeping? I'll try that tonight.

And it's an Oyster Max. Second hand, but not even a year old. DH is just assembling it now. :-)

Lucy, that is late. But at least you're getting somewhere now.

Flymo, it's bloody windy, isn't it? When you can't sleep it doesn't help. :-/

Sounds good hungry and yes I think you need to go to bed not sleep on the sofa! Think that will make a difference :)

I feel going to bed is unsociable. But that's illogical as being asleep isn't exactly being chatty! :-)

Scan was great, lots of movement, all very real now! Was expecting one or both of us to burst in to tears or something but we were both very calm. Not quite sure what I was expecting but pleasantly surprised that no massive fuss or patronising advice over my BMI, age or first timeness. Midwife we saw afterwards about as fat as me, mind. She was great until she mentioned being a Libra, baffles me that people still do astrology but never mind! First person ever to successfully take my bp on first try, and it was much lower/normal than the figures community midwife and GP got after lots of faffing.

This was all after day started in amusingly crap way. Firstly, I've not had to be up and out before 10 since morning sickness kicked in-was violently ill after dressing, so much so I weed in the carefully chosen outfit 10 mins before we left. No car at the min so we were on the bus(es). Had to ask driver to pull over so I could vomit up the 3 pints of water I'd been chugging to acheive full bladder.

Next time we should have a car, if not I'd rather do the hour's walk, get my day's exercise in!

Hungry, bed is definitely better than sofa! I know what you mean about pinging awake in bed though. I lie and look at Mumsnet for a bit!

Wow, Mel0dy, sounds like quite a dramatic morning. Hope you started feeling better once you got there. It's great that you saw a nice midwife too. Did you decide to have the nuchal measurement done?

No we decided not to bother with any Downs tests. We wouldn't terminate and wouldn't know what to do with the info other than educate ourselves, which we could do after baby's arrival anyway. I know the tests can pick up other things too but after reading the science we decided on balance anything important likely to be picked up on BAU checks anyway.

Felt much better when we got there, thanks, but we forgot to take snacks! Treated ourselves to a Chinese as soon as we were done!

Yeah fingers crossed they do bloods tmrw so thats all done too, Ive been up and down to the docs with DS this week so it feels like my second home!!!

I tried the Oyster Max at the weekend and I know DS wouldnt like sitting at the back plus they cant use the normal Oyster carrycot which we have!!! Very annoying. Im going to sell our Oyster and get a different double after five months as there are quite a few nice ones in Kiddicare to choose from.

Congrats to all the good scan news today too

Lucy, we tried so many doubles at Kiddicare. Poor DD was bored of being lifted in and out of them!

The problem with side by sides is that they're just too bloody wide. We wouldn't get through the front door. The only narrow one is the Mountain Buggy Duet which is for very skinny children only! DD is a slender baby and almost filled the seat widthways. :-/ She's not going to get any skinnier.

The Baby Jogger City Select is apparently unwieldy when you have kids in it. The Obaby Zoom (or whatever it's called) is too bloody long.

The second seat on the Phil & Ted doesn't recline at all (the Oyster does a little) and the second seat is more obscured by the front seat.

I didn't like the Jane Twone either!

At least with the Max they can face each other, which will give DD more space to look around too.

To be honest, not one of them is perfect, but I liked the Max better than all of them.

Apparently a normal Oyster carrycot fits on the top only, which isn't helpful!

It looks like it has been another good day with lovely scan news.
My scan was at 9am and it was amazing. The midwives were lovely. Baby has a strong heart beat and lay perfectly still while measurements and photos were taken. I think he/she is like DH and not a morning person and was having a lie in . Been given a new due date of 22nd Aug which makes more sense. NT measurement was 0.9 which has put my mind at rest. Left the hospital with a big grin and 5 lovely photos.
May all those still having scans have a wonderful experience too.

Congratulations, crazylady! Lovely news and a really reassuring NT measurement.

Brilliant news, crazy. :-)

Such a relief, isn't it?

In other news I'd forgotten how vomit-inducing the first, washing machine, movements are til last night when I was lying awake feeling baby whizz round and round. Barf!

ooooo due date buddy crazy congrats on a great scan!!

I know hungry its so frustrating looking at doubles, I think we are will go for a side by side one despite the width it just seems more appealing than any I have seen so far. The O Baby was on offer but they said a LOT had been returned with faults :/ I saw a nice Britax one so may try that out again. What annoys me is that hardly any have carrycots except Bugaboo and I need to win the Lotto first!!!