December 2006-3rd trimester!!!

[Calmriver]

Hi All, thought I would start a 3rd trimester thread, as most are past 23 weeks now!!!

Oh I am glad to see others are stuffing chocolate. I have been of it for 6 months and have just started to fancy it again, I wonder if that has anything to do with the high sugar in my blood. I had a phone call on friday about it after having done the GTT on Thursday. But being Spain, every department was shut when I called back on Friday afternoon! I had fasted for 12 hours pre test so Im hoping it's not the chocchoc as dd calls it!

I go in next Monday for my BS test, lucy5. Last time I got to eat jellybeans! But this time I'm resigned to drinking the orange stuff. Does it taste okay?

As far as your test results go, did they tell you to come in for another one?

I had to drink something like flat lucozade, it was pretty yuck. I have to go in again but not sure as couldn't speak to anyone as alot of Spain shuts on a Friday afternoon. Will ring on monday and find out whats what, it's dd'd first day back at school so will probably go back on Tuesday or Wednesday depending on what they say. Jelly beans would be good!

Good luck. A friend of mine had to go off sugar her last trimester. And she loves sweets more than anyone I know! Of course, maybe that was the problem all along Anyway, she hated it, but everything turned out fine in the end and she's back on sweets with no problem.

I'm just wondering if it's because I've started to eat chocolate again after so long. I haven't eaten much but I have had a few cornettos Anyway it's all speculation until I talk to them.

OOps, good luck with yours too! I think I might be turning into a hypochondriac

IIRC, your fasting for 12 hours should have made the test reliable. Maybe you'll be on sugar free chocolate?

I think hypochondria just naturally goes with pregnancy I mean, when else in your life have you been this attuned to your body for this long?

You are right, I just don't remember being as bad with dd, there again it was six years ago and I'm on the wrong side of 30

I'm feeling the wrong side of 30 too!I'm home alone because I've strained my neck somehow and can't sit in the car without being in total agony.My gang have gone to the ILS, so I'm at home with crap TV and a mug of chocolate.
BTW My chocolate(drinking) of choice is Charbonnel et Walker. it's as if someone has grated the chocolate for me (how lazy am I?) it costs about £7 or £8 for a tin, but it's sooo scrummy and a girl needs her vices!
About an hour ago,I started to get cramp like pains and started to worry a bit. I prob won't even have noticed them if I was being bossed around by a three yr old or making cups of tea for DH!

OOoh chocolate sounds lovely, I'm going to Gibraltar tommorrow, I wonder if I can buy it in morrisons, doubt it! Are your cramps low down, I've been getting a few, especially if I stand or sit too quickly. Find a soppy movie and chill out while you can.

the only effort I'm planning to make today is to heat up some milk for my chocolate.

I don't get the opportunity to do NOTHING very often.
I used to be able to do nothing and I was very happy. Then over the last few years this "doing something" thing has crept in and I feel I SHOULD be doing something all the time. I even was off sick form work a few weeks ago and DH phoned and asked what I was going to do with the afternoon I replied "TV and chocolate"

The cramps seem to have settled. It's just my paranoia!

Spinamum, I've had a few low achey cramps too - I seem to remember getting those with dd as well (not cx, no tightening - just brief periody feelings). I think the extra special chocolate did the trick for you...

Lucy and Jabberwocky, I'm having a GD test on Tuesday - and am confused! I remember fasting last time, but the OB has written 'no food after 11am' on my notes and I'm to drink the yucky Lucozade (nothing I hate more, esp. with heartburn) at 12 noon, then have the blood test at 1pm. She did write 'mini GD test' on notes, maybe this is a bearable version?!? Anyone heard of this? Maybe I should phone the maternity unit tomorrow to check...am NOT drinking Lucozade twice.

Speaking of sugar, I'm horrified to discover I get more itchy and uncomfortable after eating cake, chocolate, or sugary drinks...how tragic is that...perhaps if I stick to small quantities?!

The directions on mine say just to not eat after drinking the stuff and don't eat anything particularly sweet beforehand.

Thanks, JW....just did a quick search, and it sounds as though I'm having the basic GCT, nothing about fasting there. I guess last time (different OB) I must have been given the full works, which does involve fasting - and a longer wait.

Phew

What is a GD test?

My DD fell off the side of her cot today..climbing stage and landed on the floor on her head.

I get so scared when she hits her head

I am feeling so shattered at the moment.

Had a scary thought today..

If I carry 'tiny' to 38 weeks like I did with DD, she'll be here month after next.

MONTH AFTER NEXT!!!

Calm....gd test is a gestational diabetes test. Its not standard for everyone, or in every clinic/hospital - depends. Often, they just look out for sugar in urine which could flag up a possible problem - its just my maternity unit do them routinely, is all.

My dd did exactly the same a few days after moving to her 'big girl bed'....she was pining for her cot, I let her take a nap in it, and she tried to climb out; its scary, isn't it? We were lucky that there was carpet underneath, and she wailed immediately - so clearly hadn't been knocked out or anything. How's your dd now? Mine never went back in her cot after that day!

Am also shattered - but hoping part of it is the tail end of the cold dd and I have/have had. She's gone to bed an hour earlier than usual, by request might have to do the same.

After a quick bit of chocolate, that is.

I used to put cushions all round dds cot as she was forever climbing out. It's awful when you hear that thud!

I think the lucozade, blood, wee teast is standard in Spain as I have had two already, i never had it in England.

We got one of those mesh crib tent things. The first night he hated it, then he loved it. He and I made stars and a moon with poster board and glitter and I sewed them on it. I just was not ready for him to be as mobile as he is now in his youth bed.

Question, my friend said to me that they advice against underwired bras in pregnancy, no one has ever said that to me, mine are huge and the non-wired ones just dont measure up to the job!

Is this true, does anyone know why?

I admit they are less comfortable but I dont really want to end up any more droppy than necessary...

Never heard of any formal advice regarding underwire. I did wind up taking it out of my bras during my last trimester with ds but only because it was too uncomfortable. Can't imagine what the reason would be to formally advise against it.

Not sure what DD was doing really, she has been in her cot bed since 18 months, but yesterday just tried to climb over the 'Tomy' mesh side barrier thing.
All I heard was 'Uh oh Noddy!!!' and then BANG!

She seems fine today, luckily for us the floors are carpeted too! She fell over in the kitchen once and got concusion..that was nasty!She was only 13 months then though. I still have a fear of head banging!!!

Nothing like Arnica cream!!! The little tablets are good too for hospital after you've been cut, wherever that might be.

Got my re-re-scan this morning for baba's kidneys. The little monkey was kicking me in bed while I was asleep early this AM and I dreamt I was back home in SA and was getting mugged,and the 'baddie' was squeasing my tummy with a rope!Thats onviously what the pain and uncomfort triggered! Weird hey?