Due November 2009 - we just can't stop chatting!

[BeckyBendyLegs]

A new thread!

apologies for my terrible typing!

welcome curiosity and congrats on the twins

tigger you might get a glucose test at your appointment, although it seems to vary depending on where you live. I also had my iron levels checked and my blood group checked again. You should get to hear the heartbeat and you'll also get measured with the tape. 1cm for each week and you can be 3cm either side.

Got my results back today and I'm all in the clear! Am pleased as last time the glucose test came back too high and I had to do the fasting thing. Sorry to those of you having to do it, but I'm pleased it's not me this time.
Also, can fax my gp with any prescription requests and he'll write it up for me to collect. Have an order of gaviscon and fibregel in for tomorrow

Can't remember who said they were feeling rubbish and not themselves, but I totally sympathise. I'm the same. Irritable for no reason, in tears at silly things and dare I say it, just a bit irrational (don't tell dh I admitted that though!)
On the up side though, the good blood results have put me on a bit of a high so hoping this bit lasts!!

claired21 - I have perfected the half an hour getting ready time with other DCs. They have been training during my pregnancy and can now both brush own teeth, wash own faces, get out own clothes, put on own clothes and shoes with some vocal management. I am hoping I don't have to get up at 5.30 even though I will have to get the bus to school and walked dd to nursery.

trikken - My two are 15 months apart, the pregnancy was a bit hard going, living in a first floor flat and having to drag the pram up and down everyday - ds started to take his first steps about 2 weeks before dd was born. Hormones were also an issue - I felt exactly the same and do a bit this time too! Lol. When dd was born he didn't freak out about having a sister because he was too little which was an advantage and they are close in age and development so they play together a lot now.

It was very nice to wake up to the DCs chatting and playing rather than a baby crying - there are definitely some advantages to having two. It is harder in that you have to spend more time with the children and less time on the house and so things get a bit behind in terms of housework the more children you have, but it's also much more fun and a lot easier to entertain 2 of them as they will entertain each other.

scarlotti - good news about the glucose tests, think they only offer them here if you are high risk.

tigger32 - I had iron levels taken at my 28 week, think they don't always do it though. My midwife was saying she was just doing it because I have two babies depleted my iron stores

katster37 - Traces are ok if your blood pressure is fine. Traces of protein in a urine sample unaccompanied by high blood pressure is normally because the sample has been contaminated by skin cells or a minor UTI. Try to get a midstream urine sample when you have a lot of wee to do.

*depleting

i can't remember if I am 26 or 27 wks today. I think I have been thinking in advance of what I will be, and now I have confused myself. I can't remember if it is katster or becky due the same day as me....18th Nov....can you tell me which week I am ?!!

trikken that is how I have been for a couple of weeks. I can physically feel my blood pressure rising at the slightest things, and I get stressed having to do anything as it seems to take so long. Poor DD has copped the blunt end of my impatience a few times and I have had to say sorry to her a couple of times. She is cottoning on now though saying 'mama you got to say sorry to me' when I tell her off for something legitimate. So I shall stop saying sorry . I recall feeling irritated and irrational with DD, although not to this extent, and feeling very calm and serene with the newborn. I am hoping it will be the same this time. But it is definitely hormones, not you!

I have been for a swim, or should I say a run around in the pool with DD. She is a wild one that child, in the water!

I have come home to the builders gone, and, dare I say it, the floor has finished being lowered. and it looks bloody marvelous. I have the excited feeling I should have had when they first put it down, (instead of the disappointment at how high it was). I am very pleased and we just phoned the builder to tell him. Nothing like bigging him up a bit eh? He has been very sarcy though, he was singing 'we got to get out of this place, if its the last thing we ever do' this morning. So you all need to think of a song we can sing back to them...

Leakage appears to have stopped...panicking over nothing as normal I think. I am definitely bigger than last time - no fat, my belly is really tight, and there is no excess weight, like last time, but I am protuding much much more and it feels like I am carrying differently this time, at the front rather than at the back.

Welcome, Curiosity

Tigger, yup, those lovely lovely people. To the point today that I'm so down and stressed that I can't eat.

They've put DP on ADs and beta-blockers for anxiety. He said the doctor was an arse, but think we're both relieved that they've done something at least.

Sorry curiosity meant to say welcome to you and congratulations on twins!

Pavlov, crossed posts - I'm due on 16th and am 27+1

Lovely, so I am 27, not 26!!! I have always said today, but the scan says tomorrow. We shall not argue about a day!

Thanks for helping me with my pregnancy brain erica , what on earth would I do without you ladies?

I should have known. I have an iron test thursday, which you have just reminded me of, and will get the results at my 28wk scan and consultant appt on tuesday next week. I would have missed it if I had not checked the week I am!

The number of weeks according to my scan is one behind what the midwife said too, so they must measure it differently.

Also, if you are, say 27+1, does that mean you are in week 27 or week 28?

The Domestication of Laugs continues apace. DD and I have made DH the lemon drizzle cake on the mumsnet home page to say congratulations for passing his exams. Nevermind that he is out tonight and doesn't really like cake anyway... hmm I suppose we'll have to eat it ourselves...

erika sorry you're having such a hard time. Did you write to the credit company? Good news about your DP getting ADs though.

highly recommend signing up to babycentre to get weekly newsletters - only way i can tell how many weeks i am!

Laugs Yes wrote to them again last night. Going to post it later, though will look terrible as no shop had any First Class Stamps. Ugh.

Managed to eat a plain bread roll, but that's it.

Pavlov I'm due 14th so 27 and half weeks so you must be 27 weeks just about. I need to ring the MW again about having a 28-week appointment. She was on hols last week.

Watching BB again... fed up of working so hard until 10pm. I was reading my stars today and it was uncanny - it went on about taking on too much work, not knowing how to say know, wearing myself out, needing to prepare for a forthcoming event. Spooky.

Anyway off to bed now - got last 20 pages of The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters to read!

Katster I had protein in my urine once last time and it was when I had some kind of bug that made me feel ick, constipated and dehydrated. I was instructed to drink as much lucozade sport as I could stomach and come for a re-test. It sorted it, but I think there were ketones and it was those that they were worried about rather than the protein.

leaks - the discharge you get in 3rd trimester needs to be seen to be believed. Get the towels in now...

Broodzilla I'm loving the decluttering thing too but I don't have a DH as malleable as yours. Mine thinks that i 'need' to agonise and organise and that I should be left to it. So he's away to see U2 with his sister tonight whilst I do all the phoning round builders/mortgage people/insurance people. I would be MUCH more liberated if he'd help me without muchos grouchos and we could achieve something nearing progress. I now have 3 boxes of scrap paper to carry out to the kerbside collection on my own tomorrow morning...

Welcome curiosity erika I know this is futile but do try to chill. I missed a lot in July. Did you get anywhere with complaining about the photo people?

Hobnob am trying to, trully. Aqua aerobics made me feel a bit better tonight, and managed some toast when I got home Thing is I still haven't heard from the photo company - their last and only letter was dated June 14th - and in the meantime their creditors are threatening me with legal action. Have written to both companies, just got to see where it goes now. Knew this would probably happen, but with hormones flying around and ADs still getting into my system, its just very bad timing, I think.

hope you manage to get it sorted Erika, its stressful having to sort anything like that out.

For those who have had babies before/anyone else who might know - how long after you lose the mucus plug is it likely to be until you go into labour? I ask as my friend who is 10 days overdue with her pfb lost hers a few hours ago, and has period type ache. We are wondering if she is properly imminent? typical if she is, her DP has just been home, able to get home for one day but gone back to work and not likely to be able to get back until saturday now .

I never noticed a mucous plug with ds, but think it can still be a few days after losing it, but with period type ache would suggest her body is gearing up for birth.

Oooooh I feel very excited for her !!!

my friends wife was going in to be induced yesterday, and have still not heard anything yet. hoping everything is going ok.

Welcome Curiosity! Congrats on the twins - wow!! And thanks for the info re protein. MW didn't seem too worried and BP was still pretty low (105 / 66 I think?) so not too concerned. I don't feel like I have a urine infection, hopefully it's nothing. Hobnob how did they know you had ketones?

Pav ooooo for your friend!! eeeek! Hope she's ok! I am due 21st so 26+4.

Just been for nice meal with friends but feel exhausted now... Far too late for me to be up!

katster its a lot later than id normally be up, but dh is on nights for the next two weeks and i cant sleep well without him being there so trying to avoid going to bed tho I know i have to cos im going to be cream crackered tomorrow.

Thanks Trikken. Just extra stress that I really could do without while I'm changing therapists / going back onto medication... Oh, and having a baby!

Pav keeps us updated

Starting to get tired enough now, possible I would actually sleep if I went to bed... Might give it another half hour just to be sure...

Just checking in as was away on holiday last week! Tried catching up a bit but there is too much to catch up on properly (and I have a memory like a sieve!).

Got physio today so will see how things are going but pelvis feels awful so not holding much hope for it to be getting any better or at least, not getting any worse! Think today might be decision day on when I go on maternity leave. Also going to go maternity shopping as need some new underwear and a new pair of trousers would be good too but not sure I will be able to find anything I like!

Morning all. Terrible nights sleep! Starting to worry about all kinds of things particularly the GTT test on Monday. It's a nightmare trying to get blood out of me at the best of times and I always come back covered in bruises. Everyone who has had it and doesn't need it seems to be celebrating. How bad can it be?! We don't seem to get any preliminary test and I'm only having it cos I'm a bit overweight. Urine tests have all been fine so far. Still, better safe than sorry I guess.

Also panicking a bit about the hospital I'm booked into. Cos of strep b I've been told I can't use the lovely new birthing centre, birthing pools etc so will be in the labour ward. I've heard quite a few horror stories on here about the place.

Probabably just starting to worry cos I'm getting closer to the birth. 29 weeks tomorrow!

Got on a train yesterday and a man raced me to get the last remaining seat. Who says chivalry is dead?! Walked up and down two carriages and nobody offered me a seat so ended up sitting in the luggae rack! He must've felt a bit guilty cos after a while he got up and gave me the seat. Not looking forward to this everyday when I go back to work next week!