July 2010: Still getting bigger, gone are the days when we had a figure

[stac14]

July is getting closer and we're all still gabbing. Feel free to join in

The visit thing is a difficult one... I just met a friend today who has a 6 week old and her MIL is so overjoyed and over excited she wants to be there on daily basis and hug him. It's ove;y, but tiring, she also over stimulates the baby. And the line is so thin between saying we need our space and upsetting someone. I've sorted in with my PIL. I think it's best to set the rules before. Straight. "Guys we will be possibly exhausted and we will play it day by day?" Or something like that.
God knows!
Chulita that would be horrible to have your FIL around. Even MIL eeeeeek! Everyone is different some people like to have the entire family with them. But I am a very private person and my husband is as far as I go. And next to my head please!
I had a terrible day as woke up at 2am and could not sleep until 5am. DD had no school today and woke at 7am and demanded breakfast and then park etc.... We came back home at 3pm and I am a zombie!

gracie good to know they are keeping an eye on you im a bit clueless about pre eclampsia if you end up with a section in 3 weeks you may be one of the 1st out of us to have LO!!
jojo im with you on the waking in the night and cant get back to sleep, my legs are so restless they twitch in the night!
went to my mums as i normally do on a monday and she took me to buy some new make up (grandads treat) i went into a shop to buy a nice photo album for my friends wedding and knocked the whole display of about 20 things flying, this had a domino effect and one dropped into the window wrecking the window display!!! got a hairdresser coming to the house friday to do my hair ready for the wedding saturday then after its a manicure, pedicure, waxing and lash tint, im looking forward to feeling human again i haven had my hair cut since feb!!!

mw phoned today saying my urine sample that got sent to lab had high protien levels in, they have been high for weeks but now increasing, im at hospital wednesday and this will be checked again any ideas what this could be caused by?

hi ladies, how are you? Sorry not read to catch up. I was at the hospital today for glucose tolerance test and i have gestational diabetes. I have to do my bloods 4 times a day and have to go to the hospital again on wednesday. A lot to take in when i only have 5wks till elective.

gracie hope your ok, how often are they checking blood pressure?

memphis the only thing i can think of is pre-eclampsia, let us know how you get on.

Hi to everyone i havent mentioned catch up soon x

Here is a link Memphis www.babycentre.co.uk/pregnancy/complications/proteinurine/

Sorry to hear that stac... I hope you are ok. Sending hugs.

jojo thanks for link
stac poor you so what does that mean may they have to bring you on sooner that expected

Hello all,

Hope all well/coping ok with discomfort/pre-eclampsia etc.

Just wanted to moan and say how fed up I am of being pregnant. Fed up of heartburn/nausea/itching/SPD/people asking me if I'm still here etc etc. Still 4 weeks to go (at least). Feels like it's been forever already

stac that's horrible Hope you manage to get it under control.

gracie hope you don't develop pre-eclampsia. One of my friends just had to have her baby delivered at 28 wks due to severe pre-eclampsia.

I've had bh all day since about 10 and it's really getting me down. It doesn't make any difference whether I'm lying down/sitting up/standing. When I don't have a bh I've got lo rumbling around so it's been a very uncomfortable day. LO is right up under my lungs too so it's been hard to breathe...not happy at the mo!

sorry about your ailments stac gracie and memphis. I'm going to google pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes as don't know much about them. Let us know how you all get on.
x

Hi all - everyone seems to be having a bit of a time of it today, including me. Sorry in advance for typos etc as on iPhone.

So, managed to crash my car on way into work this morning. The poor girl I hit was in a right state - her first day at work bless her, and she'd just been driving aimlessly to kill time. She was so upset, poor thing, and even more so when she saw I was pregnant, si I sort of went into mum mode, reassuring her and making her sit down etc. It was just a shunt and I managed to drive home, call the insurance etc, all the while aware that lo - normally a constant wriggler- wasn't moving. All I can imagine is that I was in shock. I finally called DH, and just fell apart, weeping like a pathetic lump. Felt such a fool. I called the midwife who just said to come straight in to feotal assessment.

Long story short results weren't great - there seems to have been a bleed and they're keeping me in. Stats seem to have settled a bit, but they've given me steroids in case they have to do an emergency cs.

Poor DH has been in such a state, and having to phone my mum... I'm just so angry with myself for being so stupid. I've only got one job - keeping this preciuos little thing safe, if anything happens to her I'll never be able to forgive myself.

Trying to be positive, I'm in the right place and everyone here has been just so lovely all day.

So - lesson ladies - make sure you tuck the lower strap of your seat belt right under your bump on your lap - turns out having it over your bump itself can be very dangerous. Bugger that I missed that vital piece of info along the way...

Oh dear anifers so sorry to hear that. Must be very stressful for you. How many weeks are you now? I'm sure everything will be ok and they are looking after you. Did they say lo is ok but they may have to do csection because of the bleed?

anifers really sorry to hear of your ordeal today, really hope things go well for you, will keep my fingers crossed You are def in the best place.

stac gest diabetes must be awful hope it doesnt complicate things too much for you, will also keep my fingers crossed for you too

Good luck gracie keep us updated on any developments, also fingers crossed for you!

Im running out of fingers now ladies so no one else develop anything!

anifers fingers crossed it'll all calm down and you can go home to keep growing your little baby. Hope you get a good night's sleep!

33 weeks. LO seemed stressed earlier, but her stats are much better now, so hopefully it was just a little bleed and has now stopped and she'll be fine.

The only other woman in this little ward (Wexham Park) is 42 weeks and being induced - I told her that I fully intend to be in her shoes in 9 weeks, but there's this wierd part of me that's so worried about lo that I want a CS now as then I'll be able to see she's ok and the responsibilty for keeping her safe isn't just mine anymore. Does that sound crazy/selfish?

Thanks everyone the support really means a lot

oh gosh anifers, hope things settle and they let you home

stac you poor thing and what a pain having to go to the hosp all the time. Hope everything progresses ok.

gracie more fingers crossed for you!

Apologies for not really catching up, I have been v busy nesting Had quite a few visitors over the last few weekends too and I'm pretty shattered. Saw the mw again today and passed out in the waiting room, been very dizzy. My bp isn't too low so she's taken bloods to check iron levels but basically told me to get my feet up as much as possible and sleep lots! Baby is 3/5ths and I'm quite achy so I'm taking her up on that....hopefully baby won't turn up this week as dh is 4 hours away by car working and dd's labour was logged as 2 hrs 45

Anyway, hope everyone is ok, nearly there now ladies! Who's going to be first?!

anifers no that doesnt sound crazy, I keep having random moments where I get so irrationally worried something will happen to LO in there and I cant do anything about it, although technically its my body looking after him its also beyond my control whats going on in there which is why I want these next 5 weeks to hurry up so I can physically look after him myself.

anifers what an ordeal you are in the best place for you and LO hope it all calms down and your home in no time
mlic i have had constantly itchy palms and soles of feet for a couple of weeks and forgot to mention it to mw, but i have wrote in on note on front of records so i remember to tell them on wednesday im sure it will all be fine though!
hopefully the run of troubles everyone seems to be having will all calm down and we can all sail through final month or so!

anifers no that isnt crazy or selfish when i had to have the keyhole surgery at 30 weeks i was begging them to take him out so op wouldnt effect him and last thing i said b4 i fell asleep was look after him, they are taking every precaution with steroids to strenghthen her lungs in the small chance she will be early, your in the final stretch and in the best place, the best thing you can do is conserve your energy and try and rest (i know its probably easier said than done)

anifers hope everything is okay. Keep resting and I'm sure it will all be fine. LO was probably just a little bit shocked.

stac no idea how often they are going to check BP. They've asked me to come back tomorrow to get it checked. They haven't said if/how often it will need to be done after that. Feel a bit stupid for not asking more questions, but I'm scared of drs/hospital so my brain turns to mush and I forget to ask anything!!

BP was 129/89 - apparently they don't diagnose pre-eclampsia until you are 130/90, so I don't officially qualify but they want to keep an eye because of lots of other symptoms (puffy feet, ridiculous heart burn in the wrong place, protein in urine, blacking out, meth bugs) which are all concerning apparently.

Thing is, I have been complaining about all these symptoms for quite a long time and no-one has mentioned anything before. Little bit unhappy about that TBH, but not much I can do now.

I'm mostly just annoyed because this means we could be having LO just days before we move house

wow i go away for a weekend and everyone has been through the mill!
gracie what a blessing that you actually got a text from them or else it might have gone unnoticed for another while.at least they're aware of it now and on the lookout. hopefully its not pre eclamsia xx
stac you poor thing thats not gonna be nice. make sure and get checked after your pregnancy is over that its gone as dp's mum got it while pg and never got checked to see if it was gone and she has it all the time now as it was left untreated.
anifers what a fright you must have got. heres hoping the little mite is safe and snug where she is and doesnt have to come out for another few weeks.i know exactly what you mean about nearly wanting her out now so as your not the sole person responsible but they'l do whatever is best for her and you and your in the hands of the right people and you've done a good job of looking after her so far and thats not gonna change.
mempphis sorry your in so much pain with lo moving around. cant imagine how it must feel. you have a friday full of pampering to look forward to anyway!