December 2014 Thread #7 - third trimester here we come, jingle babies all the way

[Chipandspuds]

Hooray into the third trimester!

BHLS you are pure wrongness.

Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Genius!!!

What do you mean... I'm going to make everyone taste mine when it comes in! Although they may not necessarily know beforehand....

14 year old says he is not eating or drinking anything in this house when the baby is born.... heh heh heh

I remember being about 4 and my sister being breastfed, and I asked my mum what it tasted like, so she said "have a go and see", and it tasted revolting. So no.

No breast milk icecream for you then Peace :)

I'm confused about the GTT. My letter says drink the lucozade at 8am and your appointment is at 10am. But don't they need to take a fasting blood sample before I've had the lucozade? Do I arrive at 8 or 10?

They need to take a blood sample before you drink it so it'll be arrive at 8, get stabbed, drink foul sweet shit, wait for two hours till 10. Get stabbed again, go home. Wait for phonecall.

Confusing letter though....!!!

Is that tomorrow?

o.O I've read the letter again and it just says starve yourself from midnight, drink the Lucozade at 8am, nothing else, have a blood test at 10am.

Aye it's tomorrow. DH (scientifically minded) says they'll know what my blood sugar level is after fasting for eight hours so won't need to take a sample beforehand. Hmm.

Hmmm. Maybe they do things differently from place to place but I know my sugars vary in the morning quite significantly. I suppose as its at 10 thats a long time without food. Do you drink the lucozade then travel in?.We had to sit really still once we'd drank the sugary stuff..Do you provide your own lucozade???

I thought Mothercare did a kinda delayed delivery thing where you could order stuff then have a nominated delivery day, but I can't find anything on the website about this - does anyone else know?

Anyway, however they do it, good luck!!. xx

Espa. I've ordered stuff on "baby plan" and chose a date for my mothercare delivery

Yes, I had to buy my own bloody Lucozade! I thought that rather took the biscuit!

Peace, that's daft of them. They need to take bloods beforehand to find out your fasting level (which is the one of mine that isn't great) then they compare it to your post drink level to see how your body reacts. They should also know what and how much you are drinking, so not having you drink it supervised in the hospital means they are assuming that you followed the instructions exactly which is hardly scientific. My nurses said it was one and a bit bottles of original Lucozade when they used that, so the bit could be hard to measure. Then apparently it was milkshake and 3 chocolate biscuits. But now up here it's an icky syrup.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to 1. not know your fasting sugar levels, 2. you to be active whilst processing drink and 3. To not control how much you have drunk as how do they know else how much sugar you have had. Doesnt seem like a very controlled experiment. Buying yer own lucusade is frankly cheeky too! They owe you a biscuit.

I measured out 400ml and it was just less than one bottle, but I don't know whether to take the fizz into account. DH is driving me to the hospital before he goes to work so I'll be sitting there for a couple of hours with my knitting (too active?). My letter doesn't actually say anything about activity levels.
Also, coughing is making me want to throw up, which I think would be rather unhelpful
Will report back later!

I haven't had any of my meds either because no one advised me whether they'd have any effect.

The lack of information youve been given isnt good enough at all!
27 weeks today, hello third trimester!! Now to try and battle the GP surgery for a whooping cough injection and to book a tour of the birthing unit!
Ive been excited up until now but im suddenly starting to get scared

I really want a silver cross wayfarer, but it's a single, so I'm settling for a baby jogger city mini double, we just haven't bought it yet

Cat - the baby plan just seems to be like a payment plan is that right? ie you can't pay outright for it and delay delivery?

I can get discount of 5% on vouchers for mothercare if I buy in advance so we are going to do that for pram.

Espa, we bought a silvercross pioneer from mothercare, we paid for it outright and had no choice on when it would be delivered, it came 4 days after we bought it so weve had it at home for weeks now which we didnt want but never mind!

Mothercare are daft!

When is the best time to do the tour thing? I'm guessing you ring the hospital to book?

I was 29 weeks yesterday. Feel like 30 weeks is another big milestone

I'm hungry and I have a headache and the waiting room is like a crèche.