Feeling very sorry for myself today! Anyone joining me?

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Urgh! I'm 37+2 and the end is very much in sight (Elcs on the 8th) but I've really had enough. This has not been the best pregnancy on the whole! Morning (all day) sickness has been on and off the whole time, I had a chest infection back in October that lasted 2 months and 3 rounds of antibiotics, just recovered from a sickness bug, baby has severe hydronephrosis with the likely prognosis currently being kidney removal so has come with added stress and now, just to top everything off, I've got really severe itching! I really need to have this baby now!! Sorry for the winge!

Winge away! Sounds like you've had a rough time of it, and the last bit can be a really uncomfortable slog. End is in sight though! Recommend crap tv and chocolate today, while you put some nail varnish on. Or just doss around on MN offering your opinions on random stuff, can pass the time. Good luck! It wont' be long now and your baby will be with you.

Have to do sainsbury's as we have officially run out of food!! Thank goodness my 2 year old is still in nursery!

do it on line, heaps easier and you don't have to faff about with a trolley and bags etc.

I would but I have nothing for dinner, nothing for dd's lunchbox and they'll never deliver today! I need some sort of house keeper or man servant!

Yes, I wish I had a house elf or two.

Fed up of the daily drudge.
Why don't you order a big shop on line, to come tomoz, and just nip out to get something treaty for tea, and luncbox to tide you all over. Also, get choc of choice and a trashy mag!

Be kind to yourself and surround yourself with comfort.

I will do a big shop on Monday - just going to get stuff to get us by. I'm thinking a trashy mag could be on the cards. Might take my mind off all the itching!

My DD2 had hydronephrosis and had 3/4 of kidney removed at 18 mths. Found out at 20week scan and you do worry but to see her now I sometimes wonder why I worried!! 4 years old and a proper little madam!
Waiting is a pain especially when you know there will be more to come when baby is born. I had to wait until 41 weeks. Good luck. Magazines,TV & choc sounds good, shame I have to go to work now!

Thats interesting - they've not talked about removing part. It's all or nothing! Also unusual for a girl to have it - have assumed my bump is blue!! I'm not worried about him/her only having one kidney - it's the thought of all the testing and possible surgery!

I was so sure my DD2 was a boy as they said it was 98% boys with this condition. It was a small shock although we hadn't asked for the sex at any of the umpteen scans. I asked for them to double check for dangly bits when she popped out!

She was scanned at 5 days, on anti-biotics for 18months, had 2 week long hospital stays for infections on IV anti-biotics then had keyhole surgery. She had a duplex hydroneprhotic kidney so they took away the top portion. She was running about 1 hour after the op, eating chicken korma and the op had been 4 hours long. It was amazing.
I am up north and the surgeon was fab.

Amazing how little the midwifes knew about it before I gave birth. I think most of the worry is about the unknown and there were no other parents I knew with a baby with this condition to reassure me.

Don't go buying blue just yet!

We're in Kent so had to go to London for specialist (who was horrible). At the moment the kidney tissue looks echogenic so they are anticipating removal. They were talking about a function test at 6 weeks and antibiotics and ultrasound in the meantime.

wow, ditdot well done to you and your dd. It is so sad and unfair what some little ones and families have to go through, but good to hear about such a positive outcome.
Hang in there ready lots of support for you on here should you need it, one step at a time, and meanwhile take good care of yourself and your bump - exciting not to know whether boy r girl. I didn't want to know, but it was pretty obvious at the scan!

We've had about 7 scans. 5 of them involved checking the sex and I did try to sneak a peak thinking it would be obvious but have seen nothing that I could recognise as either!!