September 2019 #11

[Stroan]

We're really racking up the threads!

People are still exercising? 😱 On purpose? 😱 It almost makes me sick to walk up the stairs at the minute, never mind anything else!

Had a very full on day yesterday, out of the house for 12 hours and lots of walking, so I am a bit of a state today. I need to pop out as it is DPs birthday tomorrow, but I'm struggling to even sit up. On the plus side, I was that exhausted last night, I managed to sleep a full 8 hours without getting up to wee once 🎉

Naff all exercise here apart from walking around campus at work and caring for the horse (which isn’t too much this time of year). I will try and keep up the walking once I start mat leave though.

I just opened an old copy of new scientist lying around and it fell open on this article:
www.newscientist.com/article/2205553-theres-a-fundamental-limit-to-the-amount-of-energy-our-bodies-can-use/

I now feel much better about my cardiovascular fitness:
"Pregnancy is the longest, most difficult thing that humans can do,” Pontzer says “It’s on the same boundaries of human ability as the Tour de France.”
It’s possible that natural selection for investing more in pregnancy led to us evolving the greater endurance that enabled us to become runners, rather than vice versa, he says."

If I walk to the end of the road, I can't move for the rest of the day. Current exercise extends to waddling up and down the stairs a couple of times a day. Feeling pretty miserable about it and really missing all the running and fitness classes I did pre-HG.

I should really order a waterproof sheet just in case but I've fixated so much on having an ELCS it hadn't occured to me I could go into labour naturally.

stroan I'm the same too, having elcs so have been so focused on that, I haven't thought about going into labour! My waters broke first last time too whilst I was in bed but it was only a trickle, didn't soak the bed. So guess I've just put that to the back of my mind! Think I'll just get some puppy pads just incase!

Things get pretty soggy afterwards anyway though- lochia, leaking milk, spit up... delights all round

@KnobJockey "on purpose" ha - my thoughts exactly!! It's also my dp's birthday tomorrow!!

Popping off to buy a waterproof mattress cover...

Oh god yeah, the soggyness. I don't think we've ever changed the sheets as much as we did postnatally with a reflux baby. In fact, I need to buy more spare sheets!

God no I'm not exercising!

@Florencenotflo yeh there's no way I could do it on my own. Do you have a partner to help? Otherwise maybe worth getting some kind of vagina stretcher thingy to help?

All the advice I've been given is to do the stretching and to do the pelvic floor exercises!

I'm not sure I'd want DH helping @Whisky2014 without getting too tmi he has hands like a bunch of Cumberland sausages 😂 I'm still undecided on wether to go for elective c section at the moment so I'm only giving it a go just in case. To be honest, there's no great evidence to say it helps, but I get why people do it.

I've got disposable bed pads that I bought for night potty training Dd. Although I might invest in a decent cover depending on how sweaty the pad things make me!

Oh that did make me laugh. Yes maybe best doing it yourself then!

I was wondering if it's worth just squirting a load of olive oil up just at the pushing stage, just to give a bit of well, give, to help babies head appear. :/

Poor baby getting doused in olive oil lol!

Fwiw ive never done the stretching thing and have been FINE

Haha well they'd come out all mositurised anyway!

Oh no - new babies are slippery enough already - imagine an olive oil slicked one!!

Apparently mine is just over 7lb already at 35 + 2... I don't think I'll be making it until September... you won't kick me out though will you??

I didn’t realise people still exercised in late pregnancy (or even any of pregnancy)...

Re olive oil. I heard that’s good! Helps the baby come out easier

Goodness me kyles!

Oh, and yes, they wanted me to go onto insulin today... I asked for a weeks grace as I'd been a little naughty over the weekend so my couple of high readings were accounted for... they compromised on 2 days to get everything back to where it should be and I have to ring them if I have 2 high readings within the next 2 weeks 🙄

Please tell me growth slows down toward the end @IVEgottheDECAF

Wow, that's quite a large sounding baby there @kyles101 - I expect it might be the GD though?

I've got my growth scan on Thurs so I'll let you know what we are. Where does that put you on the growth chart?

In our area if you are on insulin you definitely get induced early at 37-38 weeks. Did they mention that to you? Hopefully you can dodge it!

Meh i had a growth scan last pregnancy which was over a lb out so i have little faith

Oh I'm jealous everyone getting scans. I just had my 36 week app and here is my growth chart. Still have no idea re. Weight

Just over 95th centile - everything is though, head, femur and tummy, all just over 95 so I kind of just think it probably is a big baby... my dh is 6'3 though, but as I'm closer to 5'3 the dr did say I might struggle due to my height... deffo trying to insulin dodge!

But fairly resigned to last week in August, originally my next appointment was the Monday of that week, but as that's a bank holiday they've brought it forward a week, so that blatantly means I'll be in for induction the following week!

Ha ha, @IVEgottheDECAF so long as it's a lb in the right way!!

Ha ha, @IVEgottheDECAF so long as it's a lb in the right way!!

@kyles101- we are the same, I'm a smidge over 5ft 3 and DH is just about 6ft 3.

My next diabetes appointment is 21 Aug at 36+6 so I could be in the following week at 37 if it all goes tits up. However we are measuring so far at 50th centile (but that might change on Thurs).