November 2018 #2

[BadBadBeans]

Ante-natal thread for babies due this November, continued...

Stats spreadsheet is here - add and update yourself as needed!

Haha should have said shot to pieces but they clearly are shit too!

Oh ALRM I’m so sorry, crossed posts. I’m sorry you are in A&E. Do you have someone with you? I hope you are seen soon and they can tell you what’s happening. Hugs to you.

Thanks @nocatshere my husband is with me. Apparently my cervix is currenrly still closed having just had an internal so am waiting on bloods.

Oh @ALRM thinking of you, hope it isnt what you think

@ALRM hope all is ok

@ALRM so sorry to hear that - hope you get some answers soon.

@ALRM I'm so sorry, hoping for the best for you.

Thank you everyone

ALRM wishing you all the best. I hope everything is ok x

@ALRM Really hope that it all works out. Thinking of you. x

@ALRM thinking of you xx

Good luck @ALRM sending virtual hugs x

@ALRM Hoping the best for you, I hope everything turns out ok.

Fingers crossed everything's ok @ALRM So sorry you're in A&E, what a worry.

Back from scan! Measuring 7+2 so 3 days behind my dates which is fine! Heartbeat strong, such a cute little quadriplegic!

@ALRM keeping fingers crossed all is ok.

@MeredithShepherd that's great news! Hello baby!

@ALRM hope you're ok. Fingers crossed.

@MeredithShepherd congrats; looks beautiful.

I feel like a bag of crap today. Just don't feel right. Still a little niggly feeling lower left. But was fine at gym this morning and no bleeding or weird discharge or anything.

Hope you are ok @ALRM

Does anyone else feel as though they have raging PMT? I swear to goodness, my husbands life is in mortal danger at the moment! I nearly fell down the loo when I got home today because he had left the loo seat up. I cried whilst waiting for a train today because he made a joke about something that hit a nerve. Just feel really angry/tearful/stabby at the moment...

@BadBadBeans Congratulations on your queasiness! How many weeks are you now? I am still symptom free other than the aforementioned mood swings.

Hello all, my due date is technically 2nd November but I will be having ELCS and will be born late October so not sure which thread to join

Hoping @ALRM is ok.

I posted a few days ago about feeling better and can now safely take that back - feeling pretty exhausted and headachy again. Had my booking in appointment today. 2 1/2 hours! Mostly due to the agency midwife not being able to use the computer system and me nearly fainting while bloods were being taken. I was a bit unimpressed by the whole thing. The midwife’s communication skills were terrible and she gave me some out of date/wrong advice (if over 30 weeks and movements reduce have a hot bath and cold drink - I know that’s absolutely not the up to date advice, they now say get help straight away). The service in my area is advertised as caseload where you see the same midwife throughout and at the birth, but apparently that isn’t the case and they’re really short-staffed, so you see whoever or an agency staff midwife. I know the NHS is on its knees but so much of today’s appointment was inefficient and could have been improved with a bit of common sense! Anyway, I’m not ungrateful - we are fortunate enough to have the NHS so I’ll stop my whingeing now!

@greenmeerkat completely up to you! I thought I was due 1st Nov but it’s now 31st Oct - there are a few late October ladies on this thread. You’d be most welcome to join ys

@Nightmanagerfan that sounds a bit pants

General question; is it too early (8w tomorrow) for anything to be pressing on a nerve of some description?

Congrats @MeredithShepherd - how wonderful!

@Picklesandpies I'm 6+2 or thereabouts. It was a very brief, marginally queasy spell and I have been fine ever since! Perhaps just a figment of my imagination. I don't have the rage but I think my hormones come out in other ways, i.e. fretting about pointless things! Loo seats up make me furious though - my DH never does it at night now because he knows how mad I get if I sit on the toilet bowl in the dark!

@Greenmeerkat hi! Join whichever thread you feel most comfortable on! You'll be the same gestation as some of us, and I'm sure there will be more than one baby on our thread born in October!

@Nightmanagerfan Oo I wouldn't be happy about the outdated advice. I had a similar midwife situation with DS - supposed to see just one but in fact saw a different one at almost every appointment, and I think all of them had been drafted in from elsewhere and weren't totally up to scratch on systems etc. It is not their fault but it is frustratingly inefficient. But it's hard to be efficient when a system is stretched to the point that no one has time to iron anything out, I suppose. I await interaction with my new area's services with interest!

Been out all day so just catching up on the thread now. Hope you're OK @ALRM.