Babes in Scotland this year - shall we have our own thread?

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Hi, I can't see any up to date antenatal threads for mums to be in Scotland, anyone want to join in this one? I think there are a few Scottish mums on the due in June thread, so I wondered if we should have our very own for all of this year's Scottish crop?

it is strange, I paid 79 pounds to feel flat lol when If I had waited for the birth it would have been fine as would be so relieved to have the actual baby. I even had names in mind for my boy but not really any for the girl although my DH has.

Hi everyone, been a bit quiet here over the Easter weekend!

Jennylee, hope you are getting your head around the pink stuff now.

P1stT has gone very quiet..... Fingers crossed - and Monthlymayhem - perhaps we're going to have our first appearances soon!

Hope everyone is doing well today and not suffering too badly from chocolate overload.

Hi all,
I def have chocolate overload and doesnt help when you go into Sainsburys and all the eggs are half price!
I know you shouldnt worry as much when pregnant but I swear its going to take me a year to lose the weight this time!
I cant stop eating rubbish this time!

i'm still here.

and wondering why i bother with the surgery at all.

i've NEVER heard of this, but over here, they make you submit a urine sample, which they send to a lab in Greenock - now this place is outside of Dunoon, so for those of you familiar with this area, Greenock's a ways a way.

they do this to 'confirm the pregnancy' before they do ANYTHING.

i think this is ridiculous. i took two Tesco tests back in Feb.

but hey ho.

i go and submit the same to them last Thursday, when i was supposedly 8 weeks along.

i rang today, because i spotted all day Sat. and Sun. and some yesterday and i had ERPC for missed m/c last December.

they still don't have the results back.

but the GP will phone me when they do.

thank a f*&^ing lot, you useless piles! that helps a lot!

not to mention the fact that i'll have to haul back out to Paisley for a scan, if and when i ever get it - the lab/surgery lost my sample last time.

needless to say, we want to move away from here asap.

Hi expat, sorry to here this must be very frustrating,
my gp is the same it takes a week for bloodtests to come back and Im in the centre of Edinburgh.
At least we have the early pregnancy unit at the local hospital which is just across the road from me, It must be awful knowing you have to travel so far to have a scan, especially if just to put your mind at rest.

it's not a blood test, though, ja.

it's a urine sample.

Ridiculous expat, especially since what they use is pretty much the same thing as a home pregnancy test. I don't think my surgery ever asked for a sample with dd1, so I suppose I could have faked it up to my first scan!

expat - I have never heard of that either, here (Lanarkshire) you contact the GP when you find out your pregnant you have an appointment where he says congratulations are you taking your folic acid? Then books you into the system and you get an appointment for a scan at 16 weeks and first MW appointment. No urine test nothing.

Sorry to hear about your spotting but remember the chances of 2 mcs in a row is something like

I agree with my PFB I expected them to do a test and they said OK come back when your 12 weeks we take your word for it as the tests you have done are every bit as good as the ones we could do.

how are you expat?

i'm actually okay.

i've had two miscarriages in the past and i do have two beautiful little girls, so i feel at peace one way or another.

i'm just so sick of very dumb policies.

i'm willing to be money the sample's lost again.

of course, NOTHING will top the last time!

i did the whole sample thing.

when i had spotting after falling ill with a stomach problem, the GP referred me for a scan at another hospital.

so i get there, and the FIRST thing the bolshy, incompetent midwife says to me is, 'Are you pregnant?'

i said, 'well, yes, that's why i'm here and why my GP made me this appointment'.

and she said, 'how do you know you're pregnant?'

i should have got up and left right then and there.

i'm not having the baby in this area, FWIW, if it's still alive.

i'm either going back east or going abroad.

It was a total disgrace what you went through last time expat

It really gets to me as it really is a postcode lottery we were living in Ayrshire for most of my pregnancy with DD2 and I couldn't fault the maternity services there although I didn't actually give birth there, 2 scans and a lot of appointments if you needed them.

I suppose I'm lucky being 10 minutes from the hospital, hopefully I will be able to have a homebirth again and they will mostly leave me to get on with it.

oh expat thats horrible!

Im glad youre as ok as you can be

cant they send you for a scan as in in the mext day or two? to put your mind at rest? or are they so rubbish they wont

Expat, sorry you are having such a crap time. It pisses me off so much that your care depends on where you live - not just pregnancy, but dental, general health, etc. Hope you are ok - combination of crap policies and dreadful people is not what you need right now. Take care x

Dundee Birth Choices Support Group in the planning. Watch out for more info!

BTW Expat, you should move to Angus, book direct into the Montrose birth unit and I'm fairly sure you shouldn't get any stupid questions!

that sounds ace, Klaw.

honestly, i've had it up to here with the provision of maternity care here.

it's shittier than shite and i'm off like a shot.

submitting a urine sample to a lab some 1 hour drive/ferry ride away. before they will treat you.

then, even after you do that, getting asked how you know you're pregnant.

the receptionist at the surgery did the same thing. how do you know you're pregnant?

do you really think people are that fucking dumb, lady? um, two positive pregnancy tests. and TWO missed periods.

like i said, i don't know why i even bothered.

our lease is up in april and we're very seriously considering just cutting our losses and bailing right now - just a small matter of bieng homeless and jobless , but this is about as ridiculous as it gets.

i don't trust people this brainless with a pet, much less my life.

When I got pg with ds (14.6) I went to GP (Dundee at the time) and he said he trusted me, end of.

Don't recall having to do a test for dd... actually had to wait to do my test as sore boobs and heartburn gave it away, waiting for af due date was such a pain.... so I would have been severly miffed if I'd been questioned like you.....

Unfortunately, I suspect that in certain areas too many girls lie about aspects of their pg to suit their agenda, and sadly the rest of us have to bear the brunt of jaded HCP, as well as the fact that some HCP are just in the totally wrong profession (best suited to isolated lab conditions rather than dealing with actual live people.... [sigh])

Klaw that looks brilliant

expat what a complete pain for you, sounds like moving is a good option - hope you're doing ok

was at physio today so sitting here melting in my most attractive tubi grip - not my most attractive

wonder how paranoid is getting on?

Hi Ladies

Sorry I've not posted recently but I now have a little baby to keep me occupied

Lewis Gabriel was born on Wed 19th, a teeny 6lb 2oz. Unfortunately he was a little sluggish at birth with low blood sugar levels and had to stay in the special care baby unit for a few nights. We got home on Sunday though and he is absolutely beautiful, with a fair pair of lungs on him!

I started to get periody pain around 6pm on the Tuesday, and by 9pm was getting contractions every four minutes. Went into hospital around 12pm after using a tens machine to find I was 4 cm dilated. Got into the birthing pool with gas and air at around 1 am and he was born at 04.50am. So, a fairly short labour for a first baby (get drinking the raspberry leaf tea as I'm sure that helped)!

We had a scary few minutes when he was born due to meconium and they had to page pediatricians to get him breathing more easily (who ran into the pool room ER style), but after a little oxygen he was fine.

Would strongly recommend a water birth - I didn't need any stitches, which I'm sure was helped by the water. Anyone going to the RAH in Paisley - the staff and care was absolutely fantastic.

Hope everyone is well!

monthlymayhem how wonderful - lovely news and welcome little Lewix Gabriel - great name too!

congratulations, am delighted to you had an 'easy' time and had great care

HUGE Congratulations MonthlyMayhem!!!!

enjoy your babymoon but take it easy, you're not SuperWoman (even if it feels like it ) so look after your pelvic floor by doing as little as possible and get everyone to wait on you hand and foot while you tend to Lewis.

congrats to monthlymayhem!

and thanks for posting the link to the angus birth centre Klaw - I've heard that they take women from aberdeen and it honestly looks really tempting to drive down there (even though we had a good birth at Aberdeen Maternity Hospital with my DS two years ago).

Congratulations MM. How lovely! what a nice name. Hope you are getting lots of TLC and sleep!

Congrats MM kick back and enjoy your wee bundle.

Expat hope your ok dont blame you for being P**sd off with the lot of them.

Congratulation MM. Expat that sucks the way you have been treated here in west Lothian they just take your word for it.

Sweetkitty I am over feeling flat, was looking at some nice baby things in Asda yesterday they are really sweet but not the right season for when it will come. I am still so tired and nearly five months on, I take it the energy rush is just a myth, am still sleeping a lot and no energy.