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December 2014 thread 8: turn up the heat - the Christmas turkeys are cooking!

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Peaceloveandbiscuits · 06/10/2014 21:54

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Peaceloveandbiscuits · 18/11/2014 17:10

I get nausea when I need to go Confused

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Cuppachaplz · 18/11/2014 17:31

Yes dutchie, horrible isn't it?
I have an incisional hernia from previous section that's appeared in the last couple of weeks, and had thought bit was down to that, but maybe not...

MrsDutchie · 18/11/2014 17:52

Glad it's not just me! I needed the loo so badly yesterday I couldn't stand up or move I was in so much pain - I think my colleagues thought I was going into labour (I think they're genuinely afraid that will happen!!!).

do you have any solutions? I've found carbs help.

Lucy90 · 18/11/2014 19:07

I drink lots of orange squash and avoid fizzy drinks, this seems to help

CallingAllEngels · 18/11/2014 20:04

Are you new on the thread MrsDutchie ? (and are you Dutch?!)

MrsDutchie · 18/11/2014 20:10

Hey! Yes I am new to the thread 35+0 weeks. I'm married to a gorgeous Dutch man so I consider myself an honorary Dutch :grin:

CallingAllEngels · 18/11/2014 20:13

Snap! Though I live in Dutchland which is making me more and more Dutch as the years go by. Am seriously considering applying for citizenship with all the talk in the UK of leaving the EU even though I don't think it'll ever happen

34+2 and so ready for maternity leave (5 working days to go!).

Lucy90 · 18/11/2014 20:28

Welcome dutchie!

espa · 18/11/2014 21:19

Welcome!

For those who have been through labour before, how did it start off with you? I still feel terrible (just turned down cake - can't be well!), feel very sick and pains in stomach kind of all over and to the top of my bump. At least I am seeing midwife tomorrow if I still feel like this in the morning, but DH did just ask if something was starting but I have no idea! No leaking and afaik baby isn't engaged yet so I don't think it is, but curious to hear of other's experiences!

MrsDutchie · 18/11/2014 21:28

Thank you!

callingallinengels - I should have guessed by the username!!! Do you speak Dutch? I don't although the in-laws would really like it if I did. They keep hinting and told me I should learn but with a baby on the way, a busy job and sickie pregnancy I don't have the time. That said, I said it's DH's responsibility to teach PFB Dutch. I'd love to live in the Netherlands!!! Isn't it super hard to get citizenship in Netherlands?

MrsDutchie · 18/11/2014 21:29

Ps how did you end up in Netherlands?

Ladylel · 18/11/2014 21:57

Everything happened so fast I didnt have time to be worried or panic - plus was well looked after. Preeclampsia started taking its toll plus my blood pressure became uncontrollable. This also affected twin 2's growth and he actually lost weight so all signs were pointing to delivery asap cue cat 3 c section decision made within minutes and out 2 hours later.

twins are fine now :) and twin 1 was the one that needed the extra help, twin 2 absolutely fine. there was about a lb different between the two of them, and even now, but they are growing perfectly. Both Personalities already established. One laid back one a giant winger. I'm recovering well, bit Achey sometimes, it's been 4 weeks on Friday, they spent 2 weeks in neo natal. they've been home 10 days now. X

Peaceloveandbiscuits · 18/11/2014 21:59

Is the Engels reference Dutch? I just presumed you were a Marxist GrinGrinGrin

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CallingAllEngels · 18/11/2014 22:00

Met dh travelling and we had to make a decision to live here or there and he was the one with a mortgage and steady job. Plus I'm a teacher so was easy enough to find work. Speak dutch after 3 years of evening classes.

Dutch is not as hard as the Dutchies make out but hard if you're not here or can practise regularly with a teacher (I tried to teach myself before I came but it was a disaster!). Yep, definitely DH's job to speak Dutch to dc! We do one parent one language, so ds needs all the English he can get from me! ILs didn't understand at first (I only speak Dutch with them) but now I think MIL thinks it gives her bragging rights over her Dsis Grin

Should be pretty easy for me get citizenship because I've passed my language exams and the amount of time I've lived c here. But costs €€€ which has been putting me off.

CallingAllEngels · 18/11/2014 22:01

Ha ha ha peace! Yep, engels means English in Dutch.

Peaceloveandbiscuits · 18/11/2014 22:51

Trying to sit up in bed to watch something on my laptop but baby is having none of it. Poking it's bottom right out into my ribs so I can't sit up Hmm sort of laying very awkwardly on the other side, waiting for him/her to shift over.

Espa do you really think things might be starting? What time is your midwife appointment?

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Cuppachaplz · 19/11/2014 00:11

mrsdutchie I'm of the opinion that carbs help with everything ;)
I try to drink lots of water, which helps too, as lucy said.

espa I had no early signs with DS! but this time am going through slow insidious onset (is it because it is preterm? ) have been passing show all week, with increasing cramps and pelvic pain.
Hoping things on the move for you assuming you are ready x

peace how annoying! naughty baby!
DS broke one of my ribs at 34 weeks Shock, am glad this one is smaller, but he's much more wriggly Blush

espa · 19/11/2014 09:00

Peace I have no idea! The fact that it's been consistent for 24 hours now worries me. Managed to sleep last night but pain still here this morning. I've had no other signs / show etc. Midwife at 1.30.

I suppose I should pack what I do have for my hospital bag so far today just in case....

Peaceloveandbiscuits · 19/11/2014 09:02

I think that's a good idea! The pain seems to have been consistent... Hopefully the midwife will tell you one way or another. How many weeks are you?

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espa · 19/11/2014 09:10

35+1 today.

Peaceloveandbiscuits · 19/11/2014 09:44

Oh good lord, I'm at the doctors to see the midwife and (TMI coming up) when I wiped I had thick mucus come away... IS THIS A SHOW?! Shock It wasn't bloody, just yellowy.
Also, £15 for flight socks Hmm

Espa best wishes at the midwife - I wonder if they'll send you in for monitoring just in case?

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Hugmonster82 · 19/11/2014 09:51

Peace I've had the same today. As it's not bloody I'm assuming it's not a show, just a lot of discharge (although at 38 weeks I am hoping). Looks like vag has sneezedShock

espa · 19/11/2014 10:03

I thought the show wasn't necessarily bloody? Eek it's all happening this week!

Cuppachaplz · 19/11/2014 10:46

peace been having bloody streaked show all week too...
Love the description hugmonster Grin

Still waiting for my 9am appt for trace...

Peaceloveandbiscuits · 19/11/2014 10:57

I seem to swing between seeing a nice midwife and a horrible one on alternate visits. Today was the horrible one and she made me cry again :( lol at the beginning she wrote "mood stable, looks very well" and at the end wrote "tearful". Also wrote loads of shit about "may need FSE". Surely everyone "may need" FSE? How can you possibly know that I'll need it until the day comes?
She started off with "of course you won't be allowed on the nice new birthing unit". I don't actually give a shit about that, I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be on the sodding labour ward. What upset me was when she told I'll have to have five days of blood-thinning injections, and totally shut me down when I told her about my history. I've got very thin blood already due to years and years on a particular AD which has a blood-thinning side effect, and I've haemorrhaged (from my uterus) in the past (seriously, I nearly bled to death). I asked, would thinning my blood even more not put me at further risk of haemorrhage? No, because of my BMI, I must have thick blood. Omg. Listen to what I've just told you. Look at me as an individual! Think outside the tick boxes! Argh.

Oh and she said the mucus is normal, but since I don't trust a word she says, I'm taking it mega easy today just in case! I almost threw up walking home from the doctors because I was so desperate for the toilet Shock doesn't bode well for tomorrow.

Oh, she also doesn't think the baby will be as big as the scans show. I had to show her the charts and she decided it wouldn't follow the trajectory Confused back this up with science, please!

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