April 2009 - Episode 13 - 'I've been looking for the exit for months!'

[Schulte]

Fanjo Warriors, here we are

Evening All,

Sorry not to have checked in again, Boff. I guess that your gynae idea isn't unreasonable. I still don't trust them to look after your LSetA properly though.

I've been having a crap time. I started bleeding last week and then had lots of pain. GP managed to find a heartbeat for the baby but I am so anxious. It's not normal to start bleeding at 15 weeks pg and I can't feel any movement yet despite being 16 weeks pg with DC3. I know that I should chill but I can't wait for my midwife check on tuesday. Oh, and B started walking while I was on the phone to the nurse about said bleeding. Yay! But, also a bit that I couldn't make a fuss of her. I know that some of the other April '09 babies must have been walking for months but B wasn't really expected to walk for another 3 months given her hip problems.

Anyway, enough about me, Bicnod your friend probably felt awful having to tell you. I've been 'that friend' twice now and it's not a great feeling.

I can't remember what else I was going to say. I should go to bed and try to sleep. It seems that B is getting chickenpox so it may be a long night...

Yay little B for walking! Swali sorry to hear about the bleeding - shouldn't you be sent for a scan? All fingers crossed for you xxx

Swali. don't wait until Tuesday - go for a scan. Make a fuss.

Lurking a bit as feeling a bit down; gpa's death seems to have hit me hard. But Swali I wanted to say def push for a scan. When I was 10weeks with Moo I had bleeding and they moved my scan date forward to check out things even after finding the heartbeat. I'm surprised they haven't offered to do a scan. lots of hugs and try not to worry too much (I know: easy to say)worry won't change anything one way or the other. x

upbeat kids music which is good for adults?

Having a terrible time now! I wanted a scan but they wouldn't because they could find a heartbeat. I'll see what the midwife says tomorrow. I'm very anxious about going and won't be happy until I hear a heartbeat.

To top it all, B doesn't have chickenpox she has a viral rash. That's not a bad thing, but having to call an ambulance for her last night because she couldn't breathe properly was a Very Bad Thing. Turns out that she just has croup and was struggling to get on top of her breathing having woken up distressed by her condition. She had a dose of steroids at the hospital and we were sent home. Hopefully we'll have a much better night tonight. I've looked after loads of adults in respiratory distress before but they were always just patients and in an acute ward environment - not at home and not my baby!

bejeezus! Very stressful Swali. (hugs)I don't have any experience with such things. Hopefully someone else will pop on soon as their lo's are in bed.
Try to stay calm and practical. Do what you have to do to get through the night and hopefully things will be much easier tonight. When you get a moment to yourself take a deep breath and focus yourself and your energies. You're a strong capable woman and mother. Sending you extra strength. x

Swali, sorry you're having such an awful time. It doesn't matter how used you are to sick patients - it's totally different when it's your own child. Poor, croupy B. It's such a horrible thing and I find it really hard to separate the really bad ones from the not-so-bad ones.

I too am surprised that they didn't scan you. But my outrage probably isn't helping you much tonight. Hope you manage some sleep and that the midwife puts your mind at rest tomorrow.

Love to everyone else xxx

Hoping all is well Swali x

are you typical?

I seem to be upsetting the mumsnet community once more on the hooter hider thread

Swali oh no! Croup in the middle of summer? It's such an awful and scary illness. Hope B and you had a much better night and that the midwife has put your mind at rest xxx

Thinking of you Swali xx

Oh Swali what a nightmare any luck with the midwives? How is B now? Thinking of you x x

Schulte - any news on house?

meanttobeworkingnotmumsnettingbicnod xx

(p.s. where is Tigs?)

[http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1011261-dh-wants-a-track-day-for-his-birthday-way-out know anything abt 'track days'?]]

know anything abt 'track days'? Take 2

Swali are you doing alright?

Swali how are things? Hope all is okay.

Schulte, what did you say? I actually saw a real live hooter hider type thingy in action for the first time yesterday. Woman using it was irritatingly stylish so that she didn't actually look particularly stupid. Whereas I would have looked like I'd been mugged by a tearoom lampshade.

Seem to be ill with vile throat thing, dammit.

I said that I thought they were a silly concept and that people should feel free to get their boobs out. I thought I was very late to the discussion and that nobody would bother answering but the hardcore people are still on there and I am being beaten up good and proper on that thread for everything I have said so I have just hidden it. I probably don't even mean some of the things I have said but people get so het up about things that you just have to disagree with them, I find. May have to change my name again

And I so don't care whether people feed their children under a muslin, t-shirt, pashmina, in a darkened room or whatever really. I just think hooter hiders are weird.

Ah ha the MN red mist came upon you

I totally agree with you about hooter hiders, and the name brings me out in hives too. Mind you, if I did want to cover up, (which I gave up on early as had massive feeding probs and modesty went out the window) I'd need something that fastened round my neck a la HH as I'm crap at balancing muslins etc.

Mrs G - I hope you feel better soon.

Bebe - I have supercar track day experience but not regular car. I'll ask about.

Schulte - Holy shit.

Quick update before we go away...

B is loads better. It was probably a blessing that she was bad enough to be given steroids as that knocked the croup on the head fairly well. As for the midwife, DC3 has a strong heartbeat so no extra scan for me. They may be able to see where the bleeding came from at my 20 week scan on 20th. The midwife did agree though that suddenly bleeding at 15 weeks wasn't normal and was concerning.

Oh, and as for hooter hiders, I guess that they are good for some women and I've sometimes wished that my two would not try and expose as much of my boob as possible when feeding. But, it does worry me that people will come to expect women to use some sort of contraption to BF and surely that makes it less acceptable in society rather than normalising it. We do have a bizarre culture when it comes to BF.

Oh Swaliswan that's great news all round.
I hope the bleeding turns out to be something innocuous.
Take care and keep us posted xx

Just popped on really quickly while on hold to blardy tax credits but I see swali is pg...woohooooo. Anyone else. Have I missed anything??

My sis in in labour. First baby, fourteen days over. She is really hoping for a home water birth and is booked in for induction at half ten but has been contracting all night. She has has four sweeps and cervix is still posterior and only two cm even after twelve hours of labour so not sure she'll get her home birth?

All this talk with her has made me miss you lot loads!!! Dh been working away lots and I am living in a bit of a whirlwind at the moment!

Supposed to be working from home today but with three kids home and a sis in labour it is proving impossible so going to try and have had a big read on here.

How many of us are still BF? I get negative comments now. I have actually apllied to train as BF advisor