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Due Dec 08: The Third Thread!!!!

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kayzisexpecting · 21/05/2008 07:29

We completely filled the last thread so I have started a new one!!

I'll have to go get the list.

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Verso · 26/05/2008 09:26

Sorry to hear you've been feeling rough, cc21. Sounds grim. I don't think you have to be ashamed re CBeebies - that's called initiative!

Well I got a lovely lovely email from the Chair of the local NCT branch . Looks like I might get a place after all I think... phew!

Still sniffling here, full of cold. There's a typhoon blowing outside (usual Bank Holiday weather) so we're off to the soft play and then (if we can get tickets) the circus!

hattyyellow · 26/05/2008 09:34

Becky lovely to hear from you - hope you're getting some rest and peace over the weekend.

Verso that's great that you've heard back from NCT.

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired and stupidly promised to work today. Felt like I'd been run over by a train this morning and just couldn't get out of bed. Am staring at my proposal and wishing I was lying on a beach dozing in the sunshine somewhere.

On a positive note - seeing midwife for booking in tomorrow afternoon! Yay! Feels like this appointment has taken months to roll around so will be such a relief to get into the system and have bloods taken.

I'm rhesus negative, DH is rhesus positive as are our DD's - last time around my blood crossed with theirs so I'm panicking about anti-bodies...will feel much happier when I have another nice notes folder with all my info in to carry around and stroke .

hattyyellow · 26/05/2008 09:35

cc21 I am considering nominating Sid and Poi for knighthoods for helping out tired and sicky pregnant women with toddlers

pixsix · 26/05/2008 09:56

Morning Everyone,

Happy Bank Holiday! The weather is rubbish here too, blowing a gale and raining heavily.

Kayz I hope your headache is better today.
cc21 I hope you feel better soon.
Verso I'm glad your NCT situation worked out well.
Hatty good luck for your booking in tomorrow.
Minster I know what you mean about it all seeming unreal, I'm 12+1 today and I still feel like maybe I've made a big mistake and I'm not really pregnant.

I have my scan tomorrow morning and I'm so so scared that something will be wrong. I just can't imagine them saying that everything is fine. Aaargh, so nervous

Hope everyone has a lovely day.

hattyyellow · 26/05/2008 11:26

Ooh Pixsix good luck for tomorrow! I think 99% of all people must feel sick with nerves the day before their scan - I know I will be!

Hope it goes really well and keep us posted .

majormoo · 26/05/2008 16:39

Have not been able to catch up with everyone's posts yet but wanted to say sorry to hear your news Becky. I hope you are bearing up OK.

Verso glad you got on your NCT course. I did one with my DD and would recommend it for making friends. 5 years later we still see each other. The ones I went to were no where near as good as our NHS ones though in regards to labour, so if you have the chance to do both I would. The NHS midwife who did our classes (we only had two) was really inspiring. She even showed us photos of her own home births!

As others have said, thank god for Cbeebies!

I have my nuchal on 3rd June. Dreading it.

majormoo · 26/05/2008 16:40

pixsix hope all goes well for your scan tomorrow

mibbes · 26/05/2008 16:54

Hello ladies - haven't been on all weekend and no time to catch up yet, so sorry if I have missed anything major.

hatty didn't you get anti-D after the birth last time ? I am also rhesus-negative and DP is positive so will get anti-D at 28 and 34 weeks then apparently after the birth if baby is positive.

pixsix all the best for tomorrow - I know how you feel, it is awful isn't it. Just think you'll come skipping out tomorrow with a wee pic of your bean in your possession !

Anyone on here from Scotland ? I'm interested in NCT classes but not sure if there are many here and whether they are any good ?... I may struggle to get DP to attend both NHS and NCT classes - he is already traumatised at the thought of any type of ante-natal classes !

mibbes · 26/05/2008 16:56

by the way Olipop and rosmerta when did the penny drop that you actually knew each other ...? Too funny !

hattyyellow · 26/05/2008 17:27

Mibbes I did get anti-D, I think...!

My post-natal care was pretty dreadful after I had my twins. I got a newly qualified junior doctor looking after me (August, when they all start on the wards) who spent several days quizzing me about my blood transfusion and whether I'd had my anti-D! Not the best person to ask, seeing as I was recovering from a section, a GA and was trying to breastfeed twins!

I couldn't get any sense out of any of the nurses and the registrar who'd done my section had gone on holiday. My ward was just chaos .

My community midwife eventually came to see me on the third day and chased things up for me. I hadn't had a blood tranfusion, so no idea where the doctor got that from! She was pretty sure I'd had the anti-D, but my notes were crap. Whole thing was fairly disastrous and its panicked me a bit ever since. Didn't get any support with breastfeeding the girls (got pushed on the first night to just put them on formula) and got told to go and sit in a side room by myself to feed at night as I was disturbing the other mothers .

At least when they test my blood for antibodies they should be able to see what's going on. Sorry for long rant! I think I'm very tired today and the things that bothered me last time are on my mind - at least I can come to terms with them and think of positive steps to deal with them this time.

I think my hospital was particulary rubbish - I don't think they generally mess things up so badly with anti-D - it was just because I'd had it whilst I was still under the GA so wasn't aware of having had it or not.

NCT website should help you - had a quick look as I'm thinking about refresher courses and they seem to have branches in Scotland..www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com/in-your-area/branch-finder

MaeWest · 26/05/2008 20:25

I'm rhesus neg too (and DH is positive) so had the jabs during pg and then a couple of days after DS was born. Remember having to go to the surgery as DS was born at home, but they couldn't (wouldn't?) give me the jab at home .

Post-natal care round here was pretty poor, especially help with bf and DS ended up hospitalised, v skinny and yellow at 6 days old. It was pretty stressful, spent the first 24 hours in hospital with him under lights in an incubator frantically trying to feed him and express milk so that they could top him up with EBM. I've never cried so hard . Thinking about hiring a doula this time round - anyone had any experience?

EffiePerine · 27/05/2008 06:21

MaeWest: I'm considering a doula as well, esp as I felt I wasn't really listened to last time and could do with another person on my side!

Hope you all had a nice weekend - we spent Mondat traipsing round London in the rain.

Pix: good luck for this morning

kayzisexpecting · 27/05/2008 07:13

Morning,

Pixsix Good luck for your scan today.

I got another really bad headache yesterday. If I keep getting them I'm going to go to the doctors.

I have to work this morning and I feel like I've been hit by a bus this morning. I woke up at half 4 and didn't get back to sleep until about half 5 only to be woken up at half 6 by DS.

Hope you all had lovely weekends.

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pixsix · 27/05/2008 07:20

Morning Everyone,

Thanks for all the good luck, I can't believe how nervous I am today, am not going to have any finger nails left by 9am. Eeeeek.

kayz sorry you have another headache, hope you feel better.

chinchi · 27/05/2008 07:24

Good luck for today pixsix Hope everything goes well.

Sorry to hear about your headaches kayz, I have them on and off but it was backache keeping me awake lastnight . Despite that Im feeling quite awake this morning even though I was woken by DS at the crack of dawn!

Hope you all have a good day

Flumpybumpy · 27/05/2008 08:30

Another rhesus neg here too. Had my first anti D last week. I had to have them with DS2 too.

He he you have all made me laugh about the Dime bars, luckily, my step-Mother-in-Law says they sell them in a shop near her work so she is going to buy me a box of 200 and send them to me!! Yippee!!!!!!

hattyyellow · 27/05/2008 09:40

Pixsix will be thinking of you this morning.

Mae and Effie I'm also really interested in the idea of doulas. Sorry to hear you had similar problems with post-natal and birth care.

Wish I had known about doulas last time around. Particulary keen on the post-natal part but having seen that some trainee doulas around here are only £150 for the birth it seems tempting to have someone to help with the birth as well..

I've been plaguing the doulas with questions on the childbirth board and there is also a site which has been recommended several times to find one near you..www.doula.org.uk/content/duk/find/default.asp

Sorry to hear about all the aches and pains .

Am currently obsessed with toffee crisps - just stopped off at the village shop on the way back from dropping DD's at nursery and stocked up!

pixsix · 27/05/2008 10:13

I'm having a baby!!!

Everything was fine on the scan, so happy!

Thanks for all your good wishes, love to you all!!!!

chinchi · 27/05/2008 10:14

Fantastic news Pixsix!

EffiePerine · 27/05/2008 10:15

Fab news

artichokes · 27/05/2008 11:05

Great news pixsix congrats!

Just a quick message from me as it is my first day back at work having been signed off for hyperemisis. I still feel rough but a lot better than last week. I have by booking in appt and scan at the hospital tomorrow morning at 8.30am. Keep your fingers crossed for me!

hattyyellow · 27/05/2008 11:14

That's great news Pixsix! You sound so happy, it's lovely!

Artichokes loads of luck for tomorrow! Glad you're feeling a bit better - hope you can take it a bit easy even being back at work...

All these scans are so exciting!

Indith · 27/05/2008 11:44

I'm having a baby too 2 arms, 2 legs, heart beating away and wriggling lots

mibbes · 27/05/2008 12:01

Yippee Indith and Pixsix !! I told you that you'd be skipping out of there with your beany pic ! Hurray, it is such a relief isn't it ! Are you going to post you pics so we can all see ? Mine is on my profile - wee hippo as DP calls him !
hatty your experience with the girls sounds dreadful . Hope all is well with antibodies and that you did get anti-D, my sis-in-law can't remember getting it either as she had section. Thanks for NCT link

kayzisexpecting · 27/05/2008 14:13

YAY for scans!!!! LOL at wee hippo!!

I have my scan on Friday and I can't wait!! I'm so looking forward to having a picture I can look at everyday.

Artichokes Good luck for tomorrow and I'm glad you are feeling a bit better.

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