Due August 2007 - Part 3

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Here's to a succuessful new thread!

Link to the old thread just incase!

Hi Everyone and Alexmum

TT - love the bump, still can't add a profile, i go to log in and it just brings up the log in page again. I can't get further than that.

Conker - which hospital is that, my friend lives in Chatham and is having her 1st i hope it's not the same one.

I went over on my ankle yesterday lunch time but didn't think anymore of it as it didn't hurt and i was walking on it fine. That is until i got home last night and took off my shoe. I was in absolute agony. DP had to half lift half haul me up the stairs to bed and put pillows under my foot to keep it raised. I was in tears it hurt so much and i can normally handle pain really well. Not normally one to complain at all but i was begging for gas and air as i couldn't take a pain killer. Just my luck (and DPs) that last night just happened to be a night where i needed a wee every half an hour too. Being a Victorian house we have two stairs down and a little landing and two stairs up to the bathroom from our bedroom. Poor Dp was up every half an hour to get me there and back. He was worried that he would have to take me to the hospiatal to get it strapped up if it wasn't any better this morning. Luckily i can walk on it today. Still hurts but nothing at all like last night thank god!

its maidstone hospital

Eeeeeek !! Ok, am sh*tting myself reading that about the hospital. Living near you or not, I don't think there are many differences where I am either. Really didn't seem like a nice place that I wanted to be in but thought that as it was my first it would be the best idea. Have told my midwife that I do want to stay at home for as long as possible as I really live very close by and want to spend as little time there as possible (funnily enough !!). Ah well, whatever turns out will turn out I guess eh ?

Oh conkertree....I truly though I was alone on the itchy nipples thing. Was in agony with it for a couple of months (especially a nightmare at work as they're not exactly places you can scratch with a load of blokes around !! god, they drove me insane but that seems much improved now.

Morning All

HI Pink- Glad the fair/display part of the evening went well. But that hospital sounds attroucious !!!! My goddness sounds like something out of the 1960's.

As you know I'm in Oz and nearly all of our public maternity hospitals are completely renovated now. My SIL's both had babies in private hospitals but i think public is maybe even better. I was given my own room and ensuite and dh had a fold out lounge so he could stay every night. It was so nice to have us altogether. Private hospitals don't even have that. The only prob was walls were really thin, so it was a bit hard to sleep. I ended up being there a week because of pre and post eclampsia, but actually missed it when i came home, got 5 meals a day and didn't have to wash any nappies or clothes, What a holiday.

Anyway enough ramble just shocked by the 2 bathrooms to a ward!!!

A friend was going to lend me the book "there's a house ih mummy's tummy" may have to take her up on that.
I had ob appointment today, all well and ob. said good size, So i feel very reasured

Hey UKI, I was wondering what the customary attitude towards home births was in Oz ?

Oh, and hello Alexmum, lovely to have you join us x

Sorry Pink put Conker by mistake! I think my friend is at Mayday, is it? Not sure what that's like.

Morning all!

OMG 2 bathrooms to a ward - that is shocking!! . I would seriously contemplate staying at home

I can heartily recommend washable nappies as I have been using them since birth with DS (19 mths) they are really easy and only add an extra couple of wash loads a week (which really isn't that bad)...AND have saved us a fortune in disposables.

I suffered really badly with itchy nipples the first time around, but haven't really had them this time (yet). God it was so embarrassing I can just remember being in the supermarket and having an overwhelming urge to scratch them

Oh how rude of me! Good morning AlexMum

Hi all!
oh no poor you Mrsshuvel! can't you take paracetamol?
I had a strange encounter yesterday in Boots, I was stocking up on packs of those heat up pain relief pads for my niggling lower back ache, I love these things they really give relief, and some flight socks as I'm flying back home tomorrow, and some paracetamol and then just asked which spot creams can I use in pregnancy The answer was that no spot creams were suitable and she refused to sell me the heat pads or flight socks as they're not suitable for pregnant women, she relented on paracetamol but did warn me to check with Dr or midwife I was quite shocked and didn't feel like insisting they sell me 'dangerous' products but it seems ridiculousy OTT!

Itchy - I would have loved a paracetamol but only had iboprofen in the house. I haven't checked if i can take paracetamol either - didn't know i had to.

My midwife insisted that i wear the flight socks when i fly next month!

Paracetamol is absolutely fine. Is the only think you can take when pg. And as for the flight socks ! even the airlines tell you to wear them. She sounds like a real miserable jobsworth !

I have heard that spot creams shouldn't be used in pregnancy before..can't remember why tho

I didn't think that those heat pads were supposed to be used in pregnancy either tho - I did buy some curaheat pads last time I was pregnant because of my bad back pain, but chickened out of using them after I read warning on the box

TokenTotty, I guess that's the other side of the story homebirths are nearly impossible in Oz, there arn't any midwives to do them left, To much litegation. We are to like americans and people sue for everything, so midwives can't afford the insurance.

Why are you going to have one???
I would of if I could but ended up with problems at 37 weeks so I wasn't even allowed in the birth centre, too much risk.

mrsshuvel-your poor ankle, i wonder what you did to it to cause so much pain? Maybe ice would of helped last night.

Heatpacks I think you just have to avoid your body overheating, so not too long on. I had them last pg

Thanks UKI, it's just that my best friend moved to Perth last year and is now pg with her second child. She's starting to think about what she wants to do and has said she'd like to have a homebirth so you seemed a great person to ask! Still, it's early stages so she'll look through the options she does have. I am planning on going into hospital to deliver, just not the most appealing option in my local hospital !

DP managed to find an ice pack in the freezer and wrapped it around my ankle with the use of a pop sock but it started leaking so he's going to get some more for me today. He's such a good boy bless him.

Token, I'm in Syd or out of, so maybe Perth is better. I think they probably are a better idea for your second than first, you'd feel more in control and confident, easy birth, etc.

All hospitals are a bit scary really, I'm sure it will all be an intresting experience. I have moved so have to check out the local here and then may go back to Syd, I'm booked in to both right now.

sorry , didnt mean to scare you TT, i did have my ds in hospital and the care i got there was fab, midwifese were great and i could have a shower when i wanted!!! if the hosptial wasnt as close (2 mins) i may have gone to hospital aswell.

has anyone heard much about or experienced hypnobirthing UK? Was looking at their website, and am quite interested in self hypnosis. Think the NCT classes around here are booked already so thinking of some other options, although may just go with the NHS classes.

Sorry no Conker but sounds interesting.

Conkertree- a girl at work did a hypnobirthing course and said it was good.
I was watching the baby channel (slightly sad I know) and they had someone on discussing it. She has a website with CDs etc that you can buy and listen to yourself-if I can figure out how to do a link I will put it on here. It tells you waht it's all about and things as well.

The girl who did a course said that you could probably do it OK on your home as well- you would just miss the HIDEOUSLY graphic video thay showed.

see if this works...

hypnotherapy

Just back from my first community midwife appointment. All is well and heard the heartbeat so very reasuring.

I'm sure I've felt the odd movement - I read that if you drnk a long ice cold drink it makes the baby move around a lot. First time I tried it I felt butterflies in my tummy, the second time, i got a definite boot in my right side.

Chalk me up an another one with itchy nipples - thank god I'm not alone. I have to put E45 cream on mine twice a day to stop the itching. Mine were flacky as well a few weeks ago but thankfully that seems to have gone away.

I'm thinking seriously about hypnobithing classes too as there's an instuctor in the next village to us - just now got to convince my dh.

thanks for that link jem - might try the cds at home if I can find a class up here, since surrey is a wee bit too far to go probably, although the course itself does sound good.

might try that cold drink idea hersetta - i've been feeling the odd kick but not that much yet.

Agggghhhh just had an argument with DP about washing machines. Mine broke saturday and he is taking me to look at some tonight but he is such a retail snob. Has to be the most expensive model on the market or won't even entertain looking at it. I'm sure he thinks we can just pull money out of our arses! I try to explain that incase he hadn't realised we are expecting a baby and have a ridiculous amount of stuff to buy but all he can think about is some stupid washing machine with a honeycomb drum, fuzzy logic and a million different programs that would never be used. I wouldn't mind but i'm the one who does all the bloody washing anyway!

Glad your appointment went well Hersetta, i can't wait until baby kicks then can kick DP in the back for me

God don't get me started on washing machines - I had a right disaster with my new one yesterday afternoon......

It is only a few weeks old and has been playing up lots - yest morning was 4th engineer visit who ordered another part and said OK to use it still. So I used it, and it flung itself forwards and on to its side and carried on spinning - I had to turn of the ringmain elec to stop it and get my DH home from work to put it upright. Needless to say the front of it was ruined by the floor tiles.

I was in tears and rang the company again, playing on my pregnancy and having young toddler etc and EVENTUALLY they promised me a new one....HOORAH!

But will be without machine until Tues and I have buckets full of nappies to wash (as well as everything else)