Due June 2005, Thread 3

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Time for new thread. I'll add a link on the old one.

well i was told to drink a pint of water an hour beforehand as you needed a full bladder.i drank loads and went to the loo loads BEFORE my scan so my bladde must have been completely empty and it was fine! theyve told me to drink 2 pints before the next scan in feb but im not going to bother as i really dont think you need to

Ah, now I know. GBS is Group B Strep. It is a bit controversial that the NHS does not routinely check for this. It comes down to an £18 test. Doesn't really seem like much money to me if it means saving babies lives. But, then that would be too logical for the NHS. I have a friend who had this, and she told me that it is a routine test in the US. Don't know why the NHS won't give it.

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3114913.stm

www.babyworld.co.uk/information/pregnancy/complications/complications_groupbstrep.asp

I never drink as much as they tell me to (and I have the worlds largest bladder). And it's never been a problem. I just drink about 1/3 of what they tell me to about 45 minutes before the scan.

morning all!

Boy can you chat, i go to a conference for ne day and there you all go chatting away!!

Well have risked not taking pills last night and so far this morning feeling okay but i guess its going to take a bit of time to get out of my system so it will probably hit at the weekend.

Re birthing options i think i'm going to go for domino - which seems to be to be the best of both home/hospital.

Re GBS, i don't know anything about it but there are a number of threads here on mumsnet on it, have a search. but i do know about a highly medical birth and have to say that even with a drip in your arm you can have an activeish birth! the only reason i didn't get to play on the birthing ball was time rather than not being allowed. My midwife was happy for me to use TENS ect and if i had wanted to pace the floor then i could have. but higly medical doesn't equal no choices. The other thing to bear in mind is it is quite possible that you had your first baby with GBS and they are perfectly fine without the antibiotics. My friend with GBS has been told that if she labours slowly then she can go in to have the antibiotics but maybe go home to deliver.

Morning all,

Mirage just wanted to add to the GBS thing...a friend of mine had it - without knowing for the first, and so he was abit poorly when born but recovered very well, but with the second as they knew in advance they just gave her antibiotics when she arrived, she didn't have a long labour - definitely less than 4 hours, but bubba was fine. As others have said you're aware of the situation now which can only be a good thing. I also need antiboitic cover in labour, and although they'd prefer to have a longer period of time to administer it even an hour before is ok.

Glad most people seem to be getting over the sickness now - but when will my need to eat eat eat go away

Mirage, I'm sorry to hear that your hospital is now limiting your options. Perhaps you can suggest sthg like Katzguk has said where you take the antibiotics, then go home?

Tessie - Glad to hear you are starting to feel better. I really started worrying when I didn't feel sick any more!!

Hope everyone else is ok.

x

I just can't keep up with you all - I keep having to have days out of the office and I feel way out of it now BUT congrats to all who have had their scans and seen the little uns/heard heartbeats. We're well on the way now.
I just wanted to put it down somewhere that this is the day last year when I lost my baby at 12 weeks so I'm feeling a bit odd. I'm delighted that this one has got to 16 weeks and feeling better about all that but still a piece of my heart is thinking about the lost one.

Hello Welshie, It feels like ages since I've seen you, glad to hear pregnancy is getting better and better for you.
Have a good day, even though strange thinking about the baby you lost and enjoy thinking about the one you'll soon have.

Thanks Lipstick I really miss not keeping up with everyone - hopefully it'll get a bit better now I'm settled in my new job - it does require a bit more genuine work than the last one though so I can't fanny around as much. How are things going for you? I was thinking about asking those who already had kids for a few more details about them.....
I've got one dd who is a treasure. She's 2.8 and just starting to say embarassing things. We were in bed this morning talking about someone we'd met recently who wasn't particularly nice. DD said 'xxx is an ephelant with a big long trunk' Don't know where she got that from but we're going to have to be careful now to be 'kind' about people all the time in front of her.

Meant to ask another question. Anyone else having weird sensations and wondering if they can feel the baby yet? Am I imagining it - am 16 weeks tomorrow.

(((hugs)))WWWmum. xxxxxxxxxx

Thanks mifm - much appreciated - sorry to miss Coram Christmas too xxx

Sending you a big hug Welshmum. This date will always be a sad one won't it? That and the due date. It's a time to remember them though. Will always have a quiet think to myself on 1st Nov and 26th April too (due date and m/c day). Hugs again.

My DS is 2.3 and is a whirlwind ball of energy with no sense of danger. His favourite trick at the moment is jumping off the kitchen table. And pulling out the drawers of the bedroom cupboard to turn them into a ladder, climbing up them and putting hair wax and moisturiser in his hair. Yesterday I went into the lounge to find he'd broken another bauble on the Christmas tree and when I asked him what had happened he said 'Daddy did it' (Daddy was at work at the time). This baby will be so lucky to have a big brother like him - wish I'd had one like him when I was little.

Bloody hormones - feel like a good cry now!

So glad you're back Tessiebear, we were all worried about you.

MrsW & Welshie - Sending you both biiiiiiig hugs. x

And back to you too MrsW, your boy sounds fab. I love to hear details of what they get up to - paints a really cute picture

I thought after I'd posted I'd made him sound like a right hooligan! Love the elephant comment by the way

Welshmum - I can deffo feel sthg. I know which side baby is lying on (I confirmed this yesterday when we went for our scan) and when I sit awkwardly or walk fast or brake suddenly in the car I get an "uncomfortable" feeling, and I'm positive that's baby too.

Welshmum - big hug.

Home birth! Gosh The thought scares the hell out of me - though cough Hospitals should be cleaner. I think I would panick - also who cleans up the mess? I imagine it would be nice in a big old house with husband in toe and all that. 2 bed Flat on your own kinda ruins the illusion Though I guess it would be nice having your things - listening to music. Though this was all writen a while ago but I'm rubbish at keeping up.

Things are much better. Since the pregnancy has progressed I seem to feel alot brighter these past few days. I don't know if that is cos the early stages are kinda over or what. Or things are settling down with the move. Either way I am feeling less blue.

Hope everyone is ok

evening all,
went for my hospital appointment today and waited over 3 hours in the waiting room-they were sooooo busy!
heard the babys heartbeat which was nice but have to go back at 24 weeks(feb)and be tested for gestational diabetes which doesnt sound like fun
apparently ive got to have a blood test,drink a glucose drink and repeat it all 2 hours later so loads more waiting around i suppose!!
hopefully it'll be negative but i think they're testing me just in case(especially as im overweight to start with!)
bloods all came back ok so pleased about that

Hi All,
I don't come on the site for 3 days, and miss so much! I really should stop working long hours, it leaves no room for chatting.

Mrs W/Welshie, big hugs to both of you. My similar dates are 16th july (m/c and coincidentally DH b'day) and 13th Feb(due date). Don't know if this is any help to you two at all, but my DH compared it to trying on a shirt (bear with me here). Our first little one was trying out its first body for size, but it wasn't a perfect fit, it wasn't too keen, so it decided to leave it for the time being. Lo and behold, 2 months later, its back again to try another physical shape out, and likes this one, so it decided to stick to it and go for the whole 15 1/2 weeks so far. Its the same baby inside me, it just wanted to wear a different body. I know this probably sounds really daft to anyone but me and him, and you're all no doubt thinking there's a lunatic on your site, but it really comforted me at the time and still does now.

Sorry, didn't want to make everyone depressed. Maybe I should go and eat more chocolate. On the risk of getting shot, can I highly recommend M&S's chocolate. Especially the tub of chocolate crispy bites. They are soooo good....

JonahB, that's a lovely, comforting way of looking at it. Thank you.

Have got an M&S bar of chocolate praline in the cupboard...I can hear it calling me. Have resisted it since lunchtime but am struggling to last much longer.

Bubbaloo, where abouts are you? Have only heard of the gestational diabetes tests on American websites.

Glad you are feeling a bit brighter Pink - the hormonal fog must be lifting. I am definitely feeling less angry with the world (and DH!) today.

Hello-sorry about my self indulgent moan yesterday-was just very shocked & upset-feeling better today.Thanks for the sympathy

Hugs to Welshmum & Mrs W.Anniversaries are hard.I light a candle & have a few quiet minutes on the date I lost my baby & its due date.

Jonahb I love your DH's theory-it makes a weird kind of sense to me.

I visited one of my aunts today.She knew I was planning a home birth & so I told her that I was very disappointed as I wouldn't be able to have one.She said that she was glad!I then told her why I had to go into hospital & that 2 babies a week die after contracting GroupB Strep & she said that it didn't matter & she was still glad because she didn't like the idea of me having a baby at home!I know that she means well really & is concerned for both of our well being,but what a thing to say!I was very cross,but fumed silently.It will be a while before I go visiting there again.

Anyway-off for an early night tonight.If it isn't pouring down tomorrow,we are planning to take dd to the zoo-sure to be exhausting

Thanks JonahB - it was a very comforting thought. I'm glad the day has passed now, I feel a lot more content. I think I was irrationally convinced I'd have another m/c on the same day. I know it's daft. I think I'll feel more able to tell friends now.
Glad you're feeling a bit more settled pink.
Does anyone want to share a story about the children they already have? I feel like I can picture MrsW's ds now

Morning all,

Work's Christmas Party today so am in work...feels very strange after 2years to be in on a friday! Still at least it's only a half day effectively as we go to lunch and dont bother coming back, yippee!

Mrs W how did your do go? Did you manage to wind anyone up? I'm lucky I have an office full of leary drunken men so should be no problem to get them going on monday with wild stories about their behaviour, he he he well you have to do something when you can't join in the leariness too!!

Welshie I have a ds 2yrs 6mths, most of the time he's a little popppet but the other 20% of the time....well menace is a popluar word in our house! He's just started speaking alot more coherently recently and his 'attitude' is really becoming apparent. Yesterday he told me 'move mummy I'm trying to watch the telly'!!!!! And last night whilst pretending to talk to Davros (blame dh and his Dr Who obsession!) on his play phone I asked him if Dr Who was there too...'no mummy Dr Who's not real' and he rolled his eyes to the ceiling!!!! And I thought attitude came when they were teenagers!