Spring is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where my toenails is - Due June 2010

[greensnail]

Ok, here it is ladies. Nice new thread for us all to enjoy

Hi, CSWS I had a 'flashing lights' type of visual disturbance and got checked in case of pre-eclampsia or other nasties and since I have somehow managed to get LOW blood pressure (just to be difficult) they thought it was probably a combination of stress/tiredness and dehydration, so perhaps up the Vimto intake?
Mampam please kep talking - here or to someone in RL or even to Samaritans (08457 909090) - they only get bored if no-one phones and eat too many biscuits...! I know the temptation to laugh things off when it's actually serious (see biscuit comment above...) but just talking it over to someone who doesn't laugh can give you 'permission' to feel shit, which preversely can then help you feel a bit less shit...

perversely, even tho I previewed (perviewed?) message and everything.

A complete non-sequitur here, but thought this might amuse. Am off work today because dd has an ear infection and is really poorly w it - dragged her out to sainsburys to pick up a few bits and pieces to try to tempt her with, got back about 40 mins later to discover 2 police cars and a van parked outside the house next door. It's been let out for the last 12 mths but I never see anyone actually living there. Another van and another car then turned up. Eventually out of curiosity I called the neighbours across the road, and it transpires that the police were carrying out a drugs bust because the tenants had set up a canabis farm!! I have to say canabis plants make great neighbours - nice and quiet . So you never can tell what goes on behind the net curtains of suburbia

ooh - another van turned up to board over where the police broke in.

Saucepanman give your dh hell if he doesn't make your appointment. I've got a growth scan on Tues but dh declared he was going away again on Mon. I pointed out that the least he could do, given he's missed 6 mths of pregnancy so far, was to come to my scans, and he eventually saw the light....

Greensnail - Thanks for the advise, i think your right. PND may be easier to avoid if i'm looking out for it. Not so likely to creep up on me.

Wow playftseforme....how exciting

ooh how exciting playftse

Well, I definitely spoke too soon about only having one appointment this week, had a phone call this afternoon about my bloods which they took yesterday. My liver function seems to have made a bit of a nose-dive again, so I have to go back to hospital again tomorrow to see the doctors and have some more checks done. I'm starting to feel as though I should just move in.

HI everyone,

just found this thread afer searching for ages in the pregnancy section. DOH!

Im 29 weeks tmrw, and can I just ask if anyone elso seems as massive as me? MW measured me last week and Im measuring a week behind, but I feel so huge. I cant sit like I used to anymore - I have to sit bolt upright all the time otherwise I feel crushed. I struggle to lift my legs to do my boots up!!! And Ive still got 11 weeks to go !
BTW Im due 17th june = our third suprise!!

Hi all,

Hospital trip started out stressful, with me trying to co-ordinate all the different appts, and just as we arrived at 8.15 the fire alarm went off

Anyway managed to see everyone and my consultant gave me 2 bits of good news- he doesn't think I need the iron tablets, having looked at my results more closely, and.... he has changed my section date to the week before, as I wanted! So come 24th May I will be having a baby Just need for my 3rd piece of good news to be that I do not have gestational diabetes, and things will be looking up.

How's everyone today?

Oh and DH did come with me and was fine, and got to work on time!

for all the good news saucepanman despite the stressful start.

And welcome plum100. I also feel massive!

Thanks greensnail. DH and I did look at each other when the fire alarm went off, and ask if this was how the day was going to pan out

Oh had hilarious moment in delivery suite, waiting to speak to the anaesthetist, looked up mid-sentence to DH and goggling, choking on my words as I spied a neat row of prosthetic fanjos on a shelf!

plum100, I meant to say, yes am feeling massive and out of breath all the time, I have to sit at a certain angle, not too upright, not too laid back, or I feel like the baby is sitting in my throat!

Woohoo for starting mat leave LittleRobbo.

Welcome plum100. I suspect that all those of us having 3rd or more are feeling huge by now! I was quite certain that I would barely show until thirtysomething weeks, but suddenly ballooned a few weeks ago.

Fingers crossed for GTT result saucepan.

Oh dear greensnail - you do seem to be spending long enough at the hospital to cover the whole thread rather than just yourself!

Thanks Elena - good to know that stress can 'officially' be a factor. And lol at mention of vimto - it's been a long time since I've heard anyone mention that as a drink. I used to love it as a child!
(My BP is normally exemplary gs, so it really would have been an extraordinary blip if it was that).

hellooooooo

quick one as I've only just caught up.

mampam hope you did contact your GP as everyone suggested. It's a sensible start. You do seem to have a lot on your plate and financial pressures are the worst for making everything seem worse than it is. I think someone suggested contacting the CAB - that's prob a very good idea. good luck :-)

playftse ooh that is so exciting. I bet the new tenants won't be as quiet and orderly as those cannabis plants!

Hello Plum100! You are not alone. I really am enormous. It's ridiculous. DH has to do my shoes up for me.

Off to bed. My back is absolute agony. Osteopath appt. in morning thank god.

greensnail I know the feeling, I am there a lot. With ds2 I went 3 times a week from 26 weeks and had 38 scans in total- I still know all the sonography staff well 8 yrs on and we joked I should have my own plaque in one of the rooms.

Hoping for good news on the liver result front. A little bit of good news makes a huge difference imo, I was so down and defeated on the way there today and am on a real high now. As CSWS says, hoping my GTT and your bloods are also good news.

saucepanmam good news on your appointments

mampam - hope you are ok, good advice from others to see your GP, especially if you get on well with them. Being pregnant can make even small things seem really worrying, not to mention dealing with lots of significant stuff like you are

I am totally huge and quite uncomfortable now, although I remember from last time that it's going to get a lot more uncomfortable yet. (DS was 9.10 and I think this DD is going to be a big one too). Got the pain in the ribs that others have posted about. I cannot tell what position the baby is in - been doing some very vigourous wiggling though (baby, not me)

Am finally starting my new job tomorrow, so am trying to find something to wear. Does anyone else find they are permanently covered in food stains because for some reason it seems impossible to eat without dropping stuff on the bump? Either that or I forget about my size and bash into the table making everyone else knock over their drinks / cover themself in food.

Food stains - oh yes. I look rather as if I have stuffed a small dustbin under my top and keep dropping things around it.

And Plum, Margot, Saucepanman another big yes on the 'ridiculous bump' front. 28 weeks now and I am measuring the same round as I did at term for the first two. There is another woman at work who is two weeks off her due date with her first and I'm pretty sure I'm bigger than her. Going to see my mum at the weekend for the first time since christmas and I think she is going to laugh a lot when she sees it

I did think it was just a result of a third pregnancy until I saw another lady at yoga last night due her third who had a nice small curve . Now, admittedly she was only at 20 weeks, but I was whinging about my bump having corners at that stage, so maybe I should have been a bit more consistant with the yoga over the past 2 years.

It also reminded me, for those of you thinking about positioning (Meggy) that downward dog is a good inversion if you're interested in giving the baby some room to turn. Done well you'll feel a good stretch down the backs of the legs, along the sides of the body and through the arms. Hold it for perhaps 3 slow breaths. You'll need to place your legs fairly wide to make room for the bump!

According to the midwife I saw yesterday for a world record breaking speed check up(in and out in 6 minutes ) DD is lying transverse so I reckon I might find myself inverted rather a lot over the next few weeks...I wonder if I can get a keyboard down there?

I have taken to putting a 'bib' on myself aswell as on DD. That bump is just a food trap! I wonder where it all goes when I'm not og? She thinks it's hilarious.

saucepanman I know I should really stop moaning, I'm no where near that level yet - and there was one poor woman in clinic today who they had to bring her notes in in a huge trolley as she had so many volumes. The poor doctor's face really dropped when he saw them.

My dropped food seems to end up in my bra these days, which makes for some interesting discoveries when I'm getting undressed

Well, hospital appointment not too bad today apart from one small disaster. Arrived at the hospital to find I didn't have the buggy with me. Apart from the fact that I don't really have the energy to lug my non-walking 15 month old around with me, there was the small issue of how I was going to stop her escaping and trashing the whole unit while I was strapped to the monitor for up to an hour if couldn't strap her into her buggy. I managed to keep her happy on the bed with me for a little while by singing like a crazy person and feeding her chocolate but then she decided it would be much more fun to try and jump off the bed to fiddle with the monitor and generally cause havoc. Eventually she fell asleep lying with her head against the bottom of my bump which had the extra benefit of making the baby wake up to kick her in the head .

Anyway, baby seems fine and they've upped my meds again so we'll just have to see what happens next! Somehow the appointment still managed to take 3 hours though . Thank goodness for bank holidays - I don't need to go back till tuesday now.

Hope everyone else is well. mampam, how are things going with you?

Hello All,

Ive just joined Mumsnet and due on 7th June 2010, with first.

Panicing over what I will doing with myself while Im on Maternity Leave! I need friends to stop me from going brain dead!!

Welcome Zeel. I really missed the social interaction of my job after I had DD. Do you have any friends with babies who you can spend time with. I used to go to loads of baby groups to meet other mums when DD was tiny. I found it really helped me.

Hello Zeel and Plum100! Zeel - sleeeeep! Potter around, go for walks, read books. I loved Mat leave before having my first.

Just want to say 'shite' - i missed my first physio appointment for my SPD. Feel so cross with myself! It was meant to be yesterday but didn't realise until the evening so can't ring to apologise now until next Tuesday...and I had already been waiting 2 weeks for that appointment. Now they're going to think I'm an idiot before I even get there.

Oh do you mean mat leave before the baby arrives. I don't know about that as never had any due to DD's early arrival, but would have loved some to do all those things you won't have chance to do once the baby is born. Read lots, go to the cinema, get DP to take you out for dinner, and rest!

Hi Zeel, i'm looking forward to just NOT WORKING, i can't wait

I'm bored! Stuck in on my own and theres nothing on tv, has anyone done anything good today?

Sorry you're bored NotGrownUpEnough do you have any decent DVDs to watch? I've not done anything hugely exciting today. Took DD to a farm to see the animals this morning. Then put her for a nap in her big bed for the first time. She settled eventually in it and got some sleep and has gone off to sleep in it for the night as well, so I have my fingers crossed that she'll sleep ok tonight.

fingers crossed for you too, i'm not looking forward to the sleepless nights.

I've watched all the dvd's, sliding doors has just started though on ITV2, excellent film. Think i will open a the new tub of ice cream in the freezer and enjoy

Hi all

I know this is TMI but need help and advice and I know that there are lots of you on here who might be able to help.

I've had loose stools for about 4 days and wondered if this is normal or not. I'm 28+4 today and bubs is moving around ok so guess he is ok.

Don't know if it is normal to have loose stools as thought it was more common to have constipation which I haven't had at all. Generally I'm a once a day girl and am regular but at moment about an hour after I eat I have urge to go to the loo and every time it is loose.

Anyone else having this issue or is it just me and if it's just me should I be worried or ringing DR/Midwife? With Easter also don't think people will be around - any thoughts???

Oooh, that sounds like a great plan, hope you enjoyed it. I haven't seen sliding doors for years!

DD slept absolutely fine, not a peep out of her all night which was great. DH showed her how to climb out of bed this morning though so I hope she won't decide to put that skill into practice overnight tonight! Even though she slept brilliantly, I was still awake several times worrying about whether she was ok and what she was getting up to if she did manage to get out of bed. Reminded me of how anxious I used to get about her when she was a newborn - I hope I can be a little bit more relaxed this time around, but I don't hold out too much hope!

Well I had yet another call from the hospital today, saying my liver function has declined yet again and I needed to come in to be seen again today . After talking it through with the midwife on the phone, she agreed that she wasn't sure I really needed to be seen again today, after being seen on tuesday and thursday this week already. She went off to discuss it with one of the doctors and agreed I can come in on monday instead to get my bloods redone so they have an up to date set for my clinic appointment on tuesday. So I suppose a 2 day reprieve is better than nothing and meant I didn't need to change my plans for today and have had a lovely morning with DD and DH instead!