Babies due June 05 Thread 2

[welshmum]

Here's a new one for us chatty ones

hmmm just eaten lunch was very yummy. veggie breakfast sandwich and some s and v kettle chips just lovely!!!

Lipstickmum - You've got to come! If we do it one weekend in December, we can meet in the afternoon, so no rushing around for anyone.

hi mrs w

i know what your feeling at the moment i had a tiny amount of very very light pink discharge on sat and sun morning but none since. i rang my midwife mon morning and have a early scan tom so im crossing my fingers everything is ok.

Please call you midwife to put your mind at rest mine was very helpfull.

Hmmmm Scraggy, I'll give it some thought. It's getting very busy here in the run up to Christmas so I might have to wait until the next meet

goes back to her house work

Hello everybody,
Do you mind if I join in? I have been lurking around for a while and decided to finally come out of the closet! I have a daughter that will be 2 years old this friday and am expecting the next one for june 3rd. I am really excited and completely terrified!
My husband and I have recently "self-exiled" ourselves from US to England (I am originally from Brasil though!). The whole system here is so different! I am very glad to find this thread so I can share this whole new adventure with other mums going through the same thing!
I live in Manchester, and will be going down to London for my nuchal test next friday. Bummer that I live so far, the whole meeting with the LOs sounds like a lot of fun!

Hi Lua! Congratulations!! And welcome!

Lua, I'm American too. My DD was born here. So I can tell you all about the differences in the medical system. Like midwives in place of obstetricians (if there is no problem). If you have a problem you can go to a consultant after being referred (consultant = obstetrician).

ALso, I have a nuchal next Friday in London too. Are you going to FMC? Maybe our paths will cross!

Hi Lua, Welcome to this brilliant thread! COngratulations on your pregnancy. Don't be worried about the trans-atlantic differences in ante natal care, I'm sure you'll be looked after beautifully. How come you have to go all the way to London for the nuchal scan?? Don't they do it privately in Manchester, I find that hard to believe!! Anyway, welcome!

Why is my dd not sleeping this lunchtime??? Admittedly she's being perfectly behaved, twinkling away in her cot, but, by God she'll be grumpy later on!

Lipstickum - How old is your dd?

18months this month. Do you have any others Scraggy?

Hi Lua, congratulations on your preg.

Today has been a nightmare - really bored at work and I have nothing to do apart from sit and think about how sick I feel.

Well, I'm off to get something to eat - hopefully that will make me feel better - unfortunatly I really fancy Tuna again!!!!

Hi SH, I was just beginning to think you were never going to feel sick! You seem to have the most incredible appetite still, and I'm so jealous

Was just browsing this thread and want to give a message to Charleypops. I had my DS at Frimley and it was great - it is quite a small hospital and you do get to see the same doctors etc DS was five weeks early and in SCBU and again they were great. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend them!

Lipstick - No, don't have any others, this is the first on its way, but we were hoping to have three all really close together. Although, feeling the way I do now, I'm not sure I could do this 3 years on the trot!! How are you coping?

I'm feeling sick and can't wait for this horrible first trimester to be over!!! Tired too. I'm so excited about this one, I htough it might feel different second time around, but no, it's just as wonderful!! I am due 23rd June? You?

There's hope scraggy. The first trimester is the worst -- largely because no one knows yet. The second trimester you get your energy back and feel much better. Then, the third trimester you are just big, heavy, and achy, but I never got super tired again.

So, it does get better.

I have to go and watch neighbours and feed dd

Oh thank goodness! I couldn't handle this for the whole time.

This might be a bit personal, but do you find that your sex drive declines too? I am just so tired, gassy and crampy that the last thing I feel like is a bit of "lovin'"!!

I'm due 8th June, but have been told that I'll probably go over - great!

What's sex? I've given it up for the moment. I feel sorry for my DH but not THAT much . I'm too tired, too irritable and I have very sore boobs. Luckily he's been through this with me before so has given up on the idea!

Welcome Lua. Glad you de-lurked and introduced yourself.

MrsW - Glad to hear I'm not the only one. My lovely other half is very understanding, but I do feel quite frustrated myself!!!

Did you see your GP in the end?

MrsW - I may have been overreacting about St Peter's, but I haven't heard anything good about it. And I know that there's a chronic shortage of midwives there. Like Uwila says, while the individual members of staff are probably great (the ones I've met have been fine), the shortcomings all seem to be due to understaffing. I went for a blood test there a few months ago and had to sit on the floor in a peeling dirty corridor for well over an hour.

Hi Morgan - Thanks for that I had the impression it was a massive hospital from their website though! I'm looking forward to going for a nose around. I know they've invested a lot in the SCBU and I find that extremely reassuring.

Sweetheat sorry you had a rude mw. Rudeness is so unecessary! Which royalty had their baby there??

Sex? As if I would ever let that thing near me again!!

Uwila!! You do make me laugh!!!

I can't imagine riding the Baloney Pony ever again!

he he charleypops never heard it called that before...but I like it!!