PESH Deli - Taking the B out of BESH

[skihorse]

A new thread for the gabbers.

Hopefully we will find out during the course of this thread whether dear cheggers has laid a baybee or two yet!

witty nosebleeds = perfectly normal although obv if more than spotting would not be healthy.

Vag spotting also normal, and not to worry about (although I understand it's terrifying). Again, unless heavy and/or cramping involved, try to remain relaxed ( I know...). 6 weeks is normal time for this to happen aktulee. Many of us more-diffed up gals had it at 6-8 weeks and of course "someone" () managed to think it was an actual PERIOD!

pan PMSL at your forum.

cunty most unfair. Doulas or a good birth partner who knows what's what are vital.

honey So sorry - point taken

Come up to Newcastle!!!

switty Edith Cavell hospital and St. Luc in Kraainem both have EPUs and will talk to you over the phone. Edith Cavell if you speak French - although they have some english speaking staff and St. Luc for Dutch/English. Hang on in there. Why not give them a ring just to put your mind at rest?

honey If you can't do newcastle (15th May) there will undoubtedly be another London PESH meet and I'm trying to convince switty to do a Benelux meet - maybe if we're really, really, really lucky cheggers would come too!

wits I will echo the not-to-panic message. I bled at that stage too. Saw GP the same day and was told not to worry, just implantation remnants.

iggs sorry I didn't get back to you yesterday and sorry re no shortlisting. I didn't think you had actually gone for it in the end and now feel like an insensitive bitch! Just to make it up to you:

BUMSEX

cheggs yay for maternity leave! But soz about the hospitalisation. Hope the next few weeks are better and all goes well when they open the sunroof.

happy birthing thoughts to donttry...

Sorry all, far too much work on at the mo so I'm being crap at skiving catching up and then v tired in the evenings (vegging in front of telly, sick of 'puter screens). But did catch up with OBEM last night. I had a full on cry when the wee girl was born - it was an "ohmygodthatsgoingtobemeinafewmonths" moment.

swotty my nose is still bleeding, if that's any help (25 wks)

And there are fewer people on here who didn't have bleeding around that time than did. Don't worry, it's perectly normal - there are about a dozen explanations, only one of which is bad news. More prob a cervical erosion, a clot worked itself loose or some latent dribbling. And like ski said, if you're worried go and chat at the EPU although be warned, 6 weeks is very early for them to be able to see much, hence your scan next week. They may be able to see if it's an erosion, but they won't see much in the way of baby as such. If they are unsure of what they are seeing they would prob ask you to come back in a week anyway (they did me) and you're booked in next week anyway!

Pain is the giveaway. Pains and cramps. If none of those then don't you be fretting.

Oh yes, and I still pull lots of blood/clotted bits and general scarlett crap from my left nostril several times a day. Nice. Still yet to have the first running nose bleed of my life, but nonetheless it's not pleasant and I have not had the ability to breathe properly since all this malarkey began 23 weeks ago. And when my baby is born we'll be at the height of the hayfever season, so i still won't be able to breathe.

Fun times But nought to worry about unless bleed is 'diculously heavy.

Thanks for the reassurance. You are really helping by the way.

It's very light and I so hope it's nothing. If nothing radical happens, I'll just hang on for Tuesday. I'll be 6+5 then - the doc said that was fine - I offered to wait til after easter, but he said no need. Is that too early to see much though Cunty? I'd like to be prepared. TBH I'd been thinking we might see the heartbeat. Is that unlikely still?

Oh God, well, here's hoping all will well anway.

You might see a little pinprick heartbeat if you are lucky. If you go to the NHS Pregnancy Desktop (I think you can now link to it from the MN homepage or talkpage or summat) it gives you a pic of what everything looks like week by week. I can't remember what week 7 is showing you but have a look on that, it might tell you.

If they thought it was pointless they wouldn't drag you in, just that there's a fine line of seeing summat and not and I think 6 weeks is the cusp.

Actually its on the right hand side of this page.... NHS Choices

switty I have had ridiculous comedy-style nosebleeds for months. Spotting is also v common.

Newcastle... hmm, still thinking. Might be a tad ambitious but I'll see how things unfold pain-wise.

pandy Your OH and his mate - !! That is a serious accident! If it had happened at a slightly higher altitude they would both be dead. From what you describe this drop zone did not follow proper procedures in several ways:

1. all students are weighed so that the correct size parachute can be assigned.
2. students get training on steering with the toggles in order to avoid hitting anything else and land properly
3. even allowing for differing weights, they were despatched from the plane too close together. Student static line despatch should be one despatch per jump run, i.e. the plane would turn a full circle and come back along the same line before despatching the next jumper.

Where the hell was this?

"where the hell was this"

Quite, my thoughts exactly. YOB said when he moved the US and his stuff arrived a few months later, that same day he unpacked his chute and headed off to a local club. His reserve was out of date by about a month (he knew this) and the club took his word for it that a) he knew what he was doing and b) his stuff was in date and let him jump without showing his log book or anything.

He was happy with it as he made the decision that he knew what he was doing and didn't need them to check. However, he said he'd never have taken anyone there - they were just too careless and it wasn't worth it. He shortly afterwards found a better run place.

witty I got a heartbeat at 7 weeks. Once you have that the odds of a successful pregnancy are MASSIVE. My bleeding was about 2-3 panty liners worth (not towels) but no actual associated pain, although I was getting early pregnancy cramping and pain too. I'm 22 weeks now and being kicked as we speak (lovin' it!).

pandy I guess I found you :-) You and a sweetie on a pony? Mine is my 12 week scan, I need to update it. Didn't want to put up my 20 week as it's obscene.

Currently negotiating after getting an offer on our house

cas we did get shortlisted - just no-one told me - but BUMSEX pleased me too

Witty try not to panic. Sonographer told me that there are lots of little capillaries which sometimes break off... Happened to me at 5+5 hence scan.

curly Sending you super hard-nosed negotiating vibes!

switty happened to me a couple of weeks ago, was about 7+3 i think - as all said then and have said now, loads of possible causes which no-one mentions before you get preggers, and as rots said, only one of which is bad. good that you have scan on tues but if gets worse before then i would call someone.

hope all's well

I see now that you did iggy (only just got the evidence in my post tray). Nice of them to let you know - well done!

Thanks pone. It's all gone a bit quiet since I snorted at the initial offer... Think they are trying to scare us by being all silent and brooding

cas I know - i only wrote the bloody entry

House offer exciting!

Oh girlz, I iz feeling horribly academically unfulfilled - am thinking of going back to uni - what should I do?

My interests, in no particular order:
i) poniez
ii) skiing
iii) maffs
iv) fissics
v) economics
vi) sarcasm
viii) psychology

Major in vi) with a little i) on the side.

Might I suggest an additional elective in "Baby Shiz"?

Can yu du a PhD in speling? Yud be rilly gud.

hehe curly. I have thought about midwifery but knew a lovely Norwegian lady in London who was a senior one who threw in the towel due to serious cutbacks/patient violence and an increasingly litigous society.

I am wondering whether I am sarcastic enough to teach Maths...

Thing is, to go back to uni now is going to mean it's going to be 100% self-funded - so I'll accrue hideous amounts of debt. How the fuck am I supposed to reconcile 30-40k worth of student debt with a starting salary of 28k or something daft? 'Tis insania. poniemum I iz fanking u for ur sujeschon.

ski going to uni to do what? a PhD? Or something from scratch? And leading to what? Cos these fings importants innit...

From scratch. My history is 1 yr bio sciences then I switched to software engineering. I love maffs & fissics but what would they lead to? I love alorithms. I have no desire to be an accountant. I hate statistics. I like sums. I can be Carol Vordeman? i.e., slightly skanky older woman in too low-cut dress and too much eye-liner?