April 2007 - approaching 3rd trimester, the one where we start to get ready.........

[EllieK]

new thread as other one getting very long, again!

so, anyone else got photos to share? i'm trying to find a way of getting them from my mobile to the computer as i don't have a digi camera.

Morning all. Thanks for the new thread Ellie - I was wondering about a new one too, esp what with all the pics on the other thread.

I am knackered - bloody windy last night and was awake for ages.

Anyway, need to head. Hope everyone is well. Catch up later. xx

reading the last thread has very nearly made me late for work!

Good work on getting a new thread up and running Ellie!

Everyone looks great in their photos and I don't think anyone should worry, we all look like we're blooming (even if we don't feel that way!)

I didn't have the truffle in the end last night but that's cos I was still sulking over her comments but today is a new today and I've decided I'm over it. Besides, I also spoke to my big sis this morning and quickly filled her in and when I got to the part about the diet sheet she just said 'did you throw it away? You better have thrown it away' which is one more point in my favour and against miserable git midwife.

For those of you who have no doubt been held in suspense through a long and difficult night, 'Ice Princess' is a film that promises everything you might imagine from the title.

Had a scary faint-y episode this morning. I've had a few near misses with fainting, two in shops, 3 on the train and today 1 when I was driving which, as you can imagine, was the scariest so far. My blood pressure is fine so it can't be that and my breakfast is very average and always exactly the same (small coffee with little coffee and lots of milk, two weetabix, glass of OJ). Suddenly when I was arriving in the city from the motorway I starting feeling very hot/ couldn't get enough air/ funny vision - like really really bright and kind of spotty so I couldn't see clearly/ feeling like I was going to pass out.

Scared the goddamn SHIT out of me as I was driving and felt really panicky and just didn't know what to do, felt really uncertain of whether it would pass or how long I could keep driving. I tried to carry on to my work but almost straight away had to turn down a side street where I panicked some more because there was no parking and I needed to stop by this point. Pulled up kind of diagonally at a corner and had to put my hazards on and open the car door to lean out.

Then after a couple of minutes it passed so I managed to get to work fine and now I'm here and I feel absolutely fine.

Of course DH is furious with me (why angry? what did I do?) but obviously really just a bit scared. I could easily have crashed the car. Think I will get the train from now on, at least if I pass out there it's unlikely to be lethal. But part of my job is going out driving to take pictures of locations (I work for a stills production company) and I am not sure if I should still do this or not....it's not like it's THAT regular but it's obviously something I am susceptible to in this pregnancy and potentially could happen while I am driving. Opinions?

phew that was long, sorry! Good morning everyone!!

Maveta - It does actually sound to me as though you may not be getting enough to eat! We are hitting the 3rd trimester now and you do need 300 odd extra calories per day apparently. (Naturally I'm giving myself a huge margin of error! )

Not enough food can make you feel faint and your body may well be asking you for more. Try it for a little while - I've seen your piccy - you're quite safe to go for a few more calories!

Oh Maveta - how scary! Hope you are feeling okay now. I know BBCK has had problems with fainting all the way through.

Assuming you can't not drive at all for the next 3 months, if I were you I'd try to eat a bigger breakfast (I usually only have a bowl of cereal, but am currently needing cereal and toast), and then have a plan for exactly what to do if it happens again (along the lines of pull into the side immediately, turn your hazards on, open the window for some fresh air, have a drink of water, and then wait till you feel better). I am so not a fainty person but I did faint once in my last pg, and remember it being really scary. So far in this one I've felt light-headed a few times, but nothing worse than that.

I think maybe you are both right, I might chuck something extra into my brekkie like a boiled egg or toast. I am not someone who can EVER miss breakfast, I wake up starving and can't function with it but nor can I overdo it, normally cereal does the job but maybe something extra wouldn't hurt.

And yes, I think you are right Bramshott, I'll probably just feel safer knowing I have a plan and just be prepared for it to happen and know exactly what I will do. Think I will also make sure I have water on me always (which I have meant to do since the first time it happened but have a memory like a sieve and rarely remember) and maybe some salty crackers or something I can nibble on if it's my blood sugar level.

Feeling a bit funny again now actually, don't think I will drive today at least. [bleuuuurgh smiley]

Oh Maveta, take it easy. How frightening. I have only felt like that once this pg and I was at the airport. I was heading to the loo as I felt really rough and as I was walking there my eyes went spotty, I was boiling hot, and just managed to find a seat and sit with my head between my knees. For me, it was lack of food. I had felt a bit rough and therefore feared eating too much as we were about to embark on a 4 hour plane journey. But, I needed the food to stop me feeling faint. I often have cereal for breakfast and then by the time I am dressed and dd is dressed I am starving again! In fact as I type I am eating 2 slices of toast and a mocha!

Hope you are ok hun.

Oh Maveta how scary for you! Hope you're feeling better now. Everyone has already suggested some good ideas. I always carry with me a packet of salt and vinegar crisps for just such an occasion, always makes me feel better. I have never actually passed out but have experienced symptoms the same as yours and the crips and a drink really help it to pass.

Also just a thought but you followed that diet sheet yesterday, It sounded as though your evening meal was pretty small maybe it's a knock effect of that. Which just proves what we've all been saying that your mw knows nothing about weight gain and should be ignored and you should go back to eating as you were

Thanks for the new thread. Nice to have a shiny new one. Hope everyone else ok.

Dh just called having spoken to his sister and she said I should call the midwife and tell her because it's really something we should have told her yesterday (and she's right, to be honest I didn't remember). So I called the on call midwife (not my one) and she said that given that I'm almost 6 months and it's happened what they would consider to be repeatedly, I should go to A&E and have the baby monitored . Dh is coming to get me now.

I've just called my Dad and burst into tears. It's so silly, I know it's probably nothing more than a boiled egg would have sorted out but I think just anyone suggesting, even remotely, that it could be something to do with the baby, is just such an awful thought I can't bear it.

Anyway, I'm having some cheese and crackers now and we'll see what the hospital says. In the end, it's better than I'm over monitored if anything, right?

SOL - yup that's exactly what it's like. Horrible.

Ange - you are probably right and I will mention all of that re. diet sheet to the hospital. My Dad said it could be that aswell, plus how stressed out I was about it all yesterday etc etc.

Oh maveta. I'm sure it will all be fine at the hospital. Its always best to err on the side of caution. Try not to get yourself too worked up about it - easier said than done I know.

Be thinking of you. Let us know how you get on.
Lots of Love and Hugs xx

Good luck Maveta
Glad that one mw is talking proper care of you. We will all be thinking of you.

oh Maveta, try not to worry too much, hard I know and easy for me to say! But given the timing link between your small dinner and feeling faint this morning I suspect along with others that its probably too much of a coincidence!
Also try to take faith form the fact that the human body is designed to put the baby first as it were rather than the mother so the baby is probably fine, just taking all the calories you are eating and leaving you short!
Hope all goes ok anyway.

Also thanks for the new thread - I was enjoying all the pics and weight talk. Am though at all you skinnies. Since getting married (11st) have managed to gain a stone before having DS plus another one after having him. So I started this pg at 13st . Have got real intentions though this time to try to get back to 11st min after the baby is born - at least its the summer so will be able to eat lots of salad...

Wow a new thread that is short enought to catch up on AND post. I've been in the UK for Christmas so haven't been online, but am now back home in Spain. DH is in England until 2nd March - aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh. So I am home alone with big bump and 3 DC (aged 2, 4 and 6). Fun!!!! Still, after this UK stint that's it, so light at the end of the tunnel.

I'm trying to be nice to myself and not get guilty over lack of housework / too much TV for kids etc.

Sorry to hear about the fainting, Maveta. I got that a lot with DD2 when I was still working. Almost always happened on the tube on the way to work, and always a low blood sugar thing for me. Horrible feeling.

Take care everyone.
28 weeks and 1 day - hurrah!!!

Hi ladies, I'm feeling a lot more human today, it was a really hard day yesterday, but by the afternoon I had managed to pull myself together, thank you for all you kind words and support.

I have loved looking throught all your pictures you all look fantastic

As I was so busy looking at all the pictures i didn't read any of the posts I will try to catch up at some point today.

maveta-that sounds so scary, you make sure you are looking after yourself and bump.

I will try and add a photo of my clan if I work out how to.

Good luck maveta!!! Just look on it as an opportunity to hear you little one!!!

Things pretty rubbish here too.. apart from the shitty weather, just been told that the project that I am working on will be finishing at the end of Feb as opposed to the end of March...I know its not the end of the world and I should be happy as its an extra month off but being self employed it means I dont get paid, which means we'll be down about 2k... plus I'm not even sure whether I will get SMP at the moment!!! Ok, rant over!!!

[[hugs]] maveta, poor thing! As has ben said, it is always best to err on the side of caution - I am sure everything is fine with bubs, but it's best to check everything out. Could it be your BP or iron levels?? I have been quite faint during all of my pregnancies, esp in the morning. I know it is bad, but I find it nearly impossible to eat in the morning, I just feel so sick and find I am forcing the food down my throat. Horrid.

Having a MW crisis atm - just can't find a mutual time to have an appointment with her. I requested to go the hospital for my appointments as my registered MW does a job-share with the bitch of a MW I had with DD2 and I have no wish to see her again. Only trouble is I am finding negotiating two toddlers, sleeps, Pre-School, not having a car (hospital is an hours walk away!!!), nursery, big bump and a job a bit much - MW didn't seem v.sympathetic and was like: "I am doing everything I can be be accommodating". I am sure she is, but I just can't find a time to go and see her that won't cause me unlimited amounts of frustration and stress. I am near to tears. I just can't understand why she can't just come to my house!!? The only times she seems to be able to do are either 9am (taking DD1 to Pre-School and looking after DD2) or 1pm when I am having dinner - ARGH!

Sorry - rant over!!

Have LOVED looking at people's piccies - you all look so blooming and gorgeous - your children are beautiful - particularly EmmyMummy's little Emily - she is yummy - So Pre-Raphelite - stunning!! I'll try and work out how to post some of my gang and I later.

How is everyone doing today??

Maveta, really hope everything is ok with you and bump. Thinking of you, and will look out for news from you later on. Hugs to you. xx

Maveta, lots of hugs, I found garibaldi-type biscuits were a godsend (less fat - but some fruit!) last time around and in handbag sized packets meant that long commutes weren't too dire.

And I took the stand that I took a year to put the pregnancy weight on then it was only realistic to expect it to come off over a year too. Which it did.

I'm at work so will post piccies when I get home - have a couple of lovely ones of ds, no nice ones of me this time round I think, and am definately NOT posing today - as have horrendous bags under eyes as the wind last night meant ds woke twice just as I was in dream sleep.

Everyone's looking lovely though - what a gorgous bunch we are!

Indeed we are!!

Think I might actually have made an Antenatal appointment!!!!! Just the bloomin' childcare to arrange now - Grrrr!

Hi everyone

Maveta - I'm sure everything will be fine, as has been said before, best to get things checked out to be on the safe side.

1b3 - glad you're feeling better

Really loving the photos - aren't we a stylish group of ladies! Guess this means that I'm going to have to put some make up on and do my hair before I put my photos up

Had my first appt with the physio this morning. She has confirmed that I have SPD Its classed as mild atm, which is normal for sufferers at this stage of pregnancy. Talked quite a bit about birthing positions, but she did warn me that if it gets dramatically worse, then an elective c-section might need to be considered, to lessen any problems after the birth She was quite positive about the birth overall, and didn't dwell on the c-section, but needed to make me aware iyswim. I've been fitted with a Fembrace (looks like a corset and goes under bump), and I've been offered crutches, but I'm going to see how I get on with the Fembrace before taking them. I asked her about the possibility of a homebirth. She thought that it might be a good idea for me to consider one, as there is less chance of medical intervention and I'll be more relaxed, therefore, my body should relax more. Also told me to think about a water birth, as the water will help to support bump.

Has anyone else had a water birth? What was it like?

Sorry the post is so long

Going to pick ds up from nursery, so catch up with you later.

xx

HOTLIPS - you are not alone! I think I was about 12 and a half stone at the beginning of this pgcy and would also like to get down to about 11 afterwards, which is a tall order in my case given my advanced age, slowing down of metabolism etc. See how I have my excuses all ready?! But I will hopefully get back to my running (very slowly!) and give it my best shot.

GMM - Bad news about the work. I hope something comes up for you. I still cannot get my head around how much mat pay I will get and have my head in the sand a bit about our finances at the moment - all I know is they are not good.....

MAVETA - Good luck. Whoever said iron levels - that's definitely a likely culprit as well. I have low BP and low iron but have only (nearly) fainted once, just before Christmas. But then I do eat plenty to keep my energy up !

RH - x posted. I had a waterbirth with DS2 and it was fabulous. I was quite big (see previous post...) and it really does support you and take the weight off. I ended up giving birth in a squatting position holding on to the side of the pool, sucking on gas and air. I think I was in the water for about 1 and a half hour before delivering.

I am determined to have another waterbirth this time but would rather have it in the mw unit than at home. ATM they are not sure due to my age. If I end up in the consultant unit there's very little chance of a waterbirth so in that case I may have to look at a homebirth again. Bit of a pain though, all that malarky of hiring the pool....

Elliek taking it nice and slow and romantic sounds lovely, its so exciting at the start of new relationship, with dp i got a little too excited, gave in much too soon and look what happened - pg after 3 months and now 4 1/2 years later and he still not moved in! Although now he's about to im not so sure I want to have to compromise on things but thats life i spose!!

Eddas i actually lived in larkfield, we moved here about 20yrs ago tho (cant believe its that long!) Did think about moving back that way a while ago but all my family are round here and kids really love seeing their grandparents so often, dont think i could bring myself to move them away. Plus who would babysit for me?!

Maveta - hope everything is going ok, does sound as everyone has said that not enough food. I fainted last time i was pg but was on a night out in chicago rock so think everyone just thought i was a slightly fat drunk! Wasn't very nice though.

I ended up in hospital last night being monitored. Had had low period pain type aches all day on and off but in the evening it got much worse and was in top of thighs and back too. It was like a contraction sort of pain but not in a contraction sort of way if that makes any sense! I rang nhs direct who said ring delivery suite so rang them and they said to go in. Was in there couple hours with monitors and being poked and prodded but in the end they decided was probably just muscular skeletal. They said i could stay in overnight if i wanted but i only live 5 mins away so decided to come home and have been ok since. I was actually suprisingly calm so i suppose i knew it was ok really and bean was still moving loads so knew he was ok.

Would love a water birth, ive always found having a bath in early stages of labour really helps so imagine a water birth would be great but they dont have pools at our hospital, apparently the floor isn't strong enough! And as ive already said a home birth is not for me so its not possible but i would if i could