July 2019 (thread 9): shame me about my bump, and I'll shame you about your complete lack of manners

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Honestly, I go to catch up on the thread after a few days and you guys have filled it up! Love this chatty group.

How is everyone this morning?

Giraffe I would find the waiting quite hard too. But your mum sounds lovely and will surely get this.

Great news on Strep B! It's on my long, long to do list to get tested privately and I was going to get on with it next week. The main charity has a list of places that offer it. Doesn't seem to be any information online about which hospitals/when yet.

I've also been reading up on cold sores - seems the advice is no action needed if they're only the mouth type and there are no actual outbreaks. But no kissing of babies by anyone who's got them.

Had a phone call from my doctor's surgery to say that they want to re-do my blood test from my 28 week appointment, the notes just say 'possibly pregnancy related but need to re-do' and obviously the receptionist on the phone doesn't know what the results/levels mean 😩 could be low iron levels? I was told they'd call me just to prescribe iron tablets though if that was the case. I'm at the midwife on Friday so we'll see but I'm worried now. I'm sure if anything actually was wrong then the midwife would call me and they'd act on it rather than just re-doing the test...

Kentish it's nuts isn't it? As if meeting your grandchild is some kind of competition! I totally get you and Stargazy being a bit liberal with edd dates.

I reckon my mum and dad will pop into hospital - once invited. I want them to though. If we're there a few days then my siblings too. They all live nearby so can pop in easily. With in-laws it's more difficult as they're a four hour drive away so there's no popping in possible. I think I'll want to get home and settled then have them down but not staying at ours. We have one small spare room and one bathroom. I'm envisaging time required in there with a sore body and will also be trying to establish breastfeeding, so I don't want them staying there on top of us.

Oh my god I woke up with the worst leg calf muscle cramp of my life last night! Leapt out of bed and was yelping on the floor

thedust I'm sure it's ok and nothing to worry about. In last pregnancy we moved areas at around 8 months and I had to re-do my booking in blood test - the gp's receptionist called me (at 5pm) and left a voicemail saying "there's a problem with your hiv blood test - you need to contact us urgently". I rang back but they were closed. So I rang my husband crying hysterically saying "I have hiv". I then rang the maternity dept at the hospital who were able to look up my results...it turned out i'd lost my rubella immunity!! I don't know why the receptionist passes on info when they have no idea and just cause worry!! Can you ring the hospital? I rang them directly for my 28 wk blood results.

thedust it could be all sorts of innocuous and administrative things, like they've lost the sample, or it was very borderline (my iron was and GP just took a punt that it'll be ok, said to come back if not!) or there could be a tiny hint of a something and they want to rule it out. Definitely don't worry until and unless they give you reason to.

Kentishgal that's awful with the HIV! I can't even imagine what that must have felt like. I hope you complained.

Trying2bemum very smart thinking on the bathroom thing, hadn't even occurred to me but of course makes perfect sense. Is there any chance they might agree to a Traveloge or something similar, for their own comfort type thing, what with a newborn who might cry a lot etc? Otherwise it'd need to be a shorter first visit probably, while you find your feet.

I'm sure it's nothing too worrying otherwise they'd call me back in or prescribe me something, hoping something is just borderline that they want to monitor but there's still a worry at the back of my mind. I've got PCOS and blood tests for that in the past said I had sub-clinical hypothyroidism, where my levels are low but not low enough to need treatment so maybe it is related to that.

How awful @kentishgal! I'd be distraught and worrying too!

I think I would rather have visitors in hospital than at home. We have a rescue dog that we will want to slowly introduce to the baby so throwing visitors into that mix will be very stressful for us all. She gives us a good excuse to not have lots of visitors though! Just hope we get to stay in the hospital long enough to have visiting time haha.

stargazydrifter mine was borderline too - only a little bit below the minimum - the hospital flagged it but just said to ask midwife what she wants to do when I next see her (nearly 37 wks...hardly seems worth it). But I noted that my levels had increased from my 12 week blood test - so I'm just going to keep eating loads of iron rich foods (including eating 85% choc every evening now!) - but that's harder if you've got hyperemesis.

We've had the discussion with our parents already re:hospital visiting. Said we're happy for visitors but want to have the first few hours as a 3! Will probably just delay telling them by an hour - as from what I've been told they'll be checking you out/stitching/checking baby first hour or so.

I can't believe they did that @Kentishgal that's so bad! I hope you complained! On my way back from a meeting in Cornwall - got another 5 hours of trains ahead of me at least it's lots of time for watching my hypnobirthing videos!
I started to cry earlier because one of the station staff offered to help me get my bags on the train - god these hormones honestly everything is making me emotional at the moment. Doesn't help that I'm tired and have a cold!

We've still not received our pram and car seat that we ordered at the Baby Show 2 months ago I'm starting to feel a bit anxious about it. They said it would be 3-6 weeks for delivery, I emailed them after I heard nothing at 6 weeks and they said they were waiting on the car seat and it would be another 7-10 working days. 2 weeks on, still nothing! We wanted the pram early so we could start getting out dog used to it and do some baby noise training with her (putting a bluetooth speaker in the pram with baby crying noises coming out of it!). I've emailed them today but if they don't deliver it in the next week or so I'm tempted to cancel it and re-order it all from somewhere else, even if we have to pay a bit more. The car seat is literally in stock everywhere like Mamas & Papas and John Lewis!

@thedust how annoying! Could you ask them to just deliver what they have and refund you the car seat element so you can purchase separately elsewhere? Or is it all tied up in a bundle deal? If you do end up cancelling, depending on the brand you're after, we had a good experience with preciouslittleone and got a good deal on our travel system plus some extras (cot and bouncer) for the same price Mothercare wanted for the pram on its own...!

We could possibly, it was a good deal on the car seat and base so it'd cost £150 more if we buy it elsewhere. Emailed them this morning so will wait and see. I googled reviews of the place too and looks like lots of other people have been messed around with delivery! Really would not recommend Baby Planet at the Baby & Toddler Show.

We've nearly filled this thread! Maybe the next one will see most of the babies arrive 😱

I've just started a new thread....but because I'm technologically challenged I can't seem to post the link!! It's thread 10...can someone who is much better than me at these things post it please??!

July 2019 (thread 10) - the final furlong...maybe - www.mumsnet.com/talk/antenatal_clubs/3586366-july-2019-thread-10-the-final-furlong-maybe