Anyone due May 04?

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Just found out I'm pregnant with an EDD on May 7th, so though I'ld kick off this thread. I have a DS who was two last week. I am suprised to find myself having very mixed emotions - excitement at the thought of a sibling for DS, but horror at the thought of the pregancy, birth and first few months. Anyone else just found out they're pregnant?

Now Linnet has posted - good to hear from you! Like you I have just started to be veru obvious, have promised dp that I won't go out and about in my tracksuit bottoms - but they are so comfy . . .

I'm just laughing at dp at the moment because he is watching Mulholland Drive with such a flummoxed face, I gave up ages ago!

Hi Linnet AND Libb!!! Cant get it wrong this time!!!!

So sorry! Really, I am q concerned with my brain at the mo!

Don't worry LIBB - my planning book was my book for work - school. Was planning next term's work before it nearly went up in flames! Shame.

It's lovely to hear that all is well Linnet. Enjoy shopping. We've got a cot from ebay - no, it is new. But, still havent seen it as MIL bought it for us and it was delivered to her house for safe-keeping until we have the room.

LIBB (getting good arent I?)! I am also living in my tracksuit bottoms and getting called Waynetta plumpy by my so-called Dh. They are the comfiest though. The NEXT jersey trousers are equally comfy buthe says they look like tracky bottoms too. Honestly, shall I just go and buy a mini-skirt, fish nets and white stilettos? Would he be happy then?!!

no worries Egypt, I find I am okay brain wise at home (still really lazy, but thinking about what I should be doing is easy!) but at work I can be a nightmare. I have managed to avoid endorsing the driving licences with too many points so far . . . luckily my line manager has the patience of a saint. My other colleague, however, hasn't and can be very bitter about the whole baby thing - but that is another story altogether.

Egypt, if I don't post tomorrow for whatever reason I really hope you have a lovely birhtday tomorrow (hope I got me dates right!).

Much love, Libb xx

Ahhh bless your heart for remembering xxx thats really sweet.

Right shall have to go and supervise dh - he's decided to demolish the bathroom.......oh gawd

Ah Libb, thanks for remembering my birthday too ! Had a nice day, which was rather spoiled by an argument caused by dh in the evening. Ho hum. 2nd Jan is a horrible day to have a birthday as everyone is always hungover. My twin brother and I have hence decided that we shall be like the Queen, and have an official birthday in the summer (ie so we get two lots of presents per year !).

We had our scan on Friday - all reassuringly well, and confirmed my suspicions that we're having a girl.

Now Christmas over, i really feel we're all on the downward run now (although you may want to remind me of that statement come March !)

Please may I have a whinge?

I know this is probably the hormones talking and really I've got it very easy and I'm lucky, but I'm feeling absolutely miserable at the moment and really starting to wonder why I didn't just stick with one child!

If you look up in the bounty pack over common complaints at around 20/21 weeks pregnancy I seem to have the lot and then some.

I haven't fainted since the last time in M&S but I've had about 3 or 4 near misses since which means I'm getting nervous about going out anywhere where I'm going to need to stand for a period of time.

My umbilical hernia although small is sore and I hate having to keep telling ds that I can't pick him up and cuddle him when he requests it.

I've got haemorrhoids (ugh, horrible things... I never even knew what they were before this pregnancy).

I've had nosebleeds.

I've started feeling sick again (I assume baby is doing some karate kicks to the stomach) and I thought I'd got past all that.

I'm struggling to get decent sleep because I'm just NOT comfortable no matter how many pillows I use or positions I try. If I do get comfortable then I can't seem to switch my brain off. Lack of sleep probably isn't helping my mood.

Still haven't got an appointment through for my scan. Apparently I'll get very short notice (a couple of days before) and it could be as late as 24 weeks before I get it.

At this stage of pregnancy I thought I was supposed to be blooming and regaining energy?! I feel stretched, achy, and absolutely miserable. I just want the next 20 weeks to go past as quickly as possible please.

Georgina - would it help to know you aren't the only one feeling miserable. I don't have a hernia, but I do have liver problems which are causing me to itch and so not sleep well, and I've got a cold and can't take drugs. And I threw up yesterday, when I thought it was all over. If I send you lots of sympathy will you send me lots?

While I wouldn't wish misery on anyone, perversely it does make me feel better. I keep seeing "perfect specimen" pregnancies at the moment - if I get another cheerful blooming mothers-to-be catalogue through the post this week I swear I'm going to rip it up into tiny little pieces and jump on it. I'm quite relieved that I'm not just a freak and there's other non-perfect pregnant people out there too!

All that said, I'm sorry to hear you're suffering too. I think the interrupted sleep is the worst part in some ways, isn't it? There's so much more I feel I could cope with if I could just feel well rested at night. I'm sure it's contributing heavily to my negative mood.

So sorry to hear you two aren't feeling well. I hope things sort themselves out really soon.

Now, my headaches went about 3 weeks ago and I was so relieved. Now then, I go back to work today and what do i get??? A real thumper (sorry I know its nothing compared to you two). So I come to the conclusion that it ust be work that is stressing me out. THEN our headteacher disocovers that the funny smell we have had around school all day is the boiler. Out come Transco and tell us that carbon monoxide is in the air. GREAT! She has a thumper of a headache too so its come consolation to know that preg hormones arent making it return, but now i am concerned that I have been breathing in CM fumes all day. Still have the bad head 2 hours after leaving work. What do you think?! Worried

Ugh Egypt - how scary!

Would it be worth calling NHS Direct to ask advice (or your midwife tomorrow?) I'm pretty sure the person getting most of the ill effects would be you rather than the baby, but it's nice to get a professional to put your mind at rest isn't it?

I'll do an internet search now and see if I can bring up anything of help. I vaguely remember the problem with carbon monoxide being that it restricts oxygen supply rather than being nasty (as in poisonous) of itself - although that could be complete rubbish, so I'll research properly. However, if that's the case baby should be fine as they get the lions share of the oxygen anyway

hugs

Okay, found this: Carbon Monoxide Poisoning - What Happens

Okay, my vague memory wasn't that great - it is transportation of oxygen that's the problem. However it does say that if you're pregnant it takes longer for the baby to eliminate the carbon monoxide than you so I do think it's important you get yourself checked out.

That said, I'd have thought the quantities involved (the smell would have been a lot more noticeable - that's why they put the smell in - and you'd have been feeling a lot sicker)wouldn't do any long term harm... poor little mite just probably has a bit of a thumping headache too

Do get yourself checked over though.

double hugs

Egypt - a couple of places I've now read do say to get yourself checked out immediately if you have ANY symptoms that could be related to carbon monoxide exposure. Treatment seems relatively simple (oxygen treatment) but obviously the sooner the better. Please call NHS Direct or get someone to take you down to the A&E just to make sure.

Better to be sent home after being told you're just being paranoid than to worry all night.

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Hello everyone,
Egypt I agree with everyone else contact your midwife/dr just to get checked out to be on the safe side. I'm sure all will be fine though but it's better to know for sure.

Georgina where did you get a bounty pack from? Did you have to apply for it somewhere? I've heard them mentioned before but wasn't given one at the hospital. Has anyone else been given one?

Just being my normal nosy self.

Linnet - got the bounty booklet on "your pregnancy" and a load of other bumf when I booked in with the midwife. From memory you get another pack when you hand in a voucher at Boots, but I haven't got around to that yet (the voucher being in the book), yet another pack once you've given birth (at least I did when I had ds1 in hospital) and another pack a little while after via voucher at Boots again which has weaning info in. They seem to vary in usefulness and amount of freebies though.

Egypt - please check in and let us know how you're getting on

Egypt hope you are feeling better and have been reassured about the CM.

I can sympathise with how some of you are feeling. I came close to fainting in H&M last week. I had to crouch down in a corner (how dignified) until I felt well enough to dare risk the escalator. Am still gagging in the mornings which I thought was gone but I think I was just suppressing it by eating cough sweets all night. Have got the piles. And now that I'm back at work and finally getting over my cough/cold DH has gone and got a cold and is keeping me awake! Typical that I feel rough all over Christmas while he's bad today when he's arranged to work from home because we're having a TV delivered. But I have finally started to get more energy again and have started spring cleaning the house. Mad, I know!

Bozza come clean my house too!

I've become quite philosophical about undignified crouching in corners - I've discovered I feel less of an idiot than if I'd keeled over in full view of all the other shoppers Lesser of two evils and all that.

Plus, I've cut back on how much I go out - which is probably a bit daft and paranoid, but I find I'm worrying so much about doing floor dives (even though I've only done it "properly" once) that I don't enjoy being out.

oH girls, thank you for your reli...why dioesnt the delete button work???!!! replies..went to school today to find that the place was unbelievably oipxx open to the kids!!! sorry delete button not working!?) and, headteacher off sick. as i may have said, the CM was emenating from the cupboard and she has no sense of smell. She was violently sick and crying, headeaches etc when she got home. shwe was taken to hospital and had a high level in her system. stayed in overnight and is obv off school for next few days. no one at school said i ought to be concerned but am q now!! so going to ring NHS direct ands will get back to you.
speak soon xx

Rang NHS Direct. They really werent very sure about anything, even after ringing me back an hour later. Basically the nurse checked on the net and found less info than you did Georgina. She said to ring Delivery Suite at hosp. So did so. Doc said she didnt know what to say as i hadnt had a test to show i had been exposed. Told her def was as headteacher ended up in hosp and everyone else had a headache by end of day. She phoned A&E for me and rang me back..A&E said to go and see doc in am and get a blood test to check if there were any traces in blood as should still be if i was affected. Then and only then should i ring back to see what should do about it. Oh great. Seeing midwife tomorrow pm as usual anyway, but i guess blood results wont be back by then anyway will they? Why cant anything be done immediately?

Egypt - ugh. It's not just me who's finding NHS Direct more and more useless these days. I wonder whether they're so worried about getting sued that they hardly dare give out any information at all. Certainly every time I've phoned NHS Direct recently they've just said "don't know - go see your doc"

Everything I found suggested that treatment should start immediately if CM poisoning suspected and not wait for results of the blood tests. I'm so angry on your behalf I hope the appointment with your GP goes better for you.

Nope, I didn't get a Bounty pack when I got my booking in appointment with the midwife. I got a book which covers pregnancy right through, same as I got last time, but it's not a bounty pack with freebies or anything. Maybe we don't get them up here I'll check with another mum at the school tomorrow she had a baby a few weeks ago she'll know.

Now that I'm back at work after being off over christmas I'm feeling really tired, the most tired I've been yet. I think I need to get back into my proper routine again. Found out today that I get 26 weeks paid maternity leave not 24 as I thought but no matter how late I stop working I'll still have to be back by christmas, shame really wouldn't have minded having christmas off again.

Egypt, be sure to let us know how you get on at the dr's/midwives. I would have thought that they would be doing things immediately as well. I'm sure it will all be fine.
Isn't Carbon Monoxide odourless? I thought that was why they sold carbon monoxide detectors because it was odourless, maybe I'm wrong. anyway I'm sure all will be fine but be sure to let us all know.

I get to go to the Nurse tomorrow for a blood test to see how my platelets are getting on. Wonder if they've dropped any lower. Oh and must make an appointment for dh to get his blood test done to check his RH factor, its all go here, lol

I didn't get freebies with the pack - just a load of paper bumf and a book called "Bounty: Your Pregnancy - 1st Edition 2003" Inside is a coupon - you register with them then you get a freebie pack. Is that the same as yours? If not you might be able to register at www.bounty.com and still qualify for the pack?

Carbon Monoxide is odourless, but they put a "smell" in with the gas supply so you can detect leaks. Also, carbon monoxide is usually caused when there's not complete combustion (lack of oxygen getting to the boiler, for example) so often you will smell a "sooty" smell with that type of burning and can detect it that way. Not a substitute for a good carbon monoxide detector, of course.

Just been to the bounty.com website to have a look. Thanks Georgina. They can't send out the pregnancy info pack in the post according to the website and it says to ask your midwife so I will, when I go to meet her at my 24 week appoint. Which I will have to make tomorrow while I'm at the surgery seeing the nurse, aagghh I'd better write a list else I'll forget everything I have to do.

Back safe and sound from A&E. All is fine now, but am q angry at the whole system here. Went to GP this morning and was told by receptionist that best person to see was midwife not doc!! (Oppostite to what doc at hosp said). She said, 'she's not in yet, go home and ring back in 20 mins!!!!' At that moment she walked in and was great. Saw me immediately but was q honest that she'd never experienced this type of thing before. She said that it was best to do a blood test at A&E as I would get a quicker response. (Could she have been more wrong?!!) She rang everywhere to try and get advice and everyone just passed her to someone else. No one seemed to know WHAT to do! Eventually Senior Health Officer said its a medical condition not a pregnancy one so go to A&E. AARRRGGH. So- went to A&E and gave blood samples pretty quickly. But then had to wait 3 HOURS to find results. During which time no one came to see us and theres me thinking - 'shouldnt i be on oxygen now just in case?' Anyway, when tests came back, there was a higher level of haemoglobin than normal, but not as much as someone who smokes. She said that it would have been higher on the day i had the symptoms but has worked its way out. She did confirm what i think georgina read, that it takes the baby longer to expel the CM from blood but as long as i was havng no symptoms and had no problems with the pregnancy previous to this, i will be ok and should not worry.

I spent a whole day off work (which is fine by me) but it's the fact that it is about 18 hours since I first phoned NHS Direct for advice and was pushed from pillar to post for a day until i got an answer. Ridiculous. With this and dh not being allowed in for scan last week, I am losing my faith in hosps in this area altogether!

I didnt get a Bounty Pack, vouchers or booklet either. My friend did who is in Leics, I am in Derbyshire - rught next door!!! What's going on?!

GGRRRRR - hope you are all well!!!

Sorry to hear you've been given the runaround - but very relieved that you're going to be okay. Was thinking about you today