Pregnant with no. 3 / 4 / 5...?!

[LimeLeafLizard]

Just wondering if anyone else is pg with their 3rd, 4th, 5th, or more?!

I am newly pg with baby number 4 and finding it a bit different this time.

Yesterday I flicked through a couple of magazines but the content didn't seem that relevant to me. I am quietly happy but not nearly as excited or nervous as I was before, especially the first time.

I know what kind of birth I want (same as the last two times) and I don't need to buy any stuff, so there doesn't seem so much to think about, at least until the scan.

I am also a bit worried about how other people are going to react when we tell them. There seems to be a general view that wanting 4 children must make us mad.

Hope I am not alone?!

hetty not long for you then!

Am knackered. Trying to night wean dd3 so I'm not getting broken sleep but it's currently getting worse as she has a strop before going back rather than me sleeping through the feed.

to the maternity pads Seymore- but they could be useful!

Lime my pelvic floor exercises don't seem to help much - do you do them a lot during the day? My bump seems to be getting lower - don't want to go to the toilet in case the baby falls out! Good yours are working though.

Good luck with the weaning Ood, how old's dd3?

Hetty it sounds like things could be happening soon for you - good luck to you! Will be watching the thread for any news.

Here's some (non-alcoholic) for everyone, as it really feels as if autumn has arrived.

She's almost 2 so plenty old enough!

I wondered where this thread had gone!

I'm 39w 3 days and SICK of people asking me why haven't I had the baby yet. My mum/MIL have done a few school pick ups so I then get pestered as to me having the baby. No, not had the baby I am just having a nap at home because I am tired!

Morning! It is feeling autumnal, there is a real chill in the air especially first thing in the morning and I am not liking the days getting shorter so fast. (Although it is only when they are getting longer again that I can really look forward to having baby).

Craving, yes, just as and when I remember (standing by the coffee machine, at the laptop, etc)

Hello again Truth, 39 +3 is exciting... I know how annoying it is when everyone keeps asking, especially when you haven't even reached your due date. It is great that you have some help with the school run though.

good luck with the weaning Ood!

Morning :)

I'm bloody freezing! More on/off contractions but no other sign of baby putting in an appearance any time soon.

Truth, I know people mean well but when they see me (roughly the size of a whale and waddling) and say 'still haven't had that baby then' I'm like... Well, yes, I just shove a cushion up my jumper for comedic effect, the baby's really at home Or, I want to. Of course really I smile politely and say 'nope, nothing yet!'

I've been fully effaced since Monday before last (couldn't sit down in my cons. appt and kept pacing/rocking with contractions and really bad back ache so she had a check and predicted a baby in 24 hours - I was 37w 5d then) and 1-2cm dilated but it turns out all the contractions inc. the 3 hours of full on ones every 2-3m then the 1 hour of every min were a bladder infection .

I even had the MWs out for my HB but it all fizzled out that Monday night, by Thursday I had white wee it was so full of bacteria/white blood cells and by Friday morning I had a seizure so the HB is off . Still I get to go to the MLU at the local hospital rather than the CLU down the corridor so that's a bit of an improvement!

I keep telling people I think she will go to 42w (I do think she might!) in the hope they will stop going on about it - still get the FB stalking though!

Morning everyone.

Sounds like there could be some babies on this thread soon then. How exciting!

Ouch Truth that bladder infection sounds nasty. I've only had them when I haven't been pregnant - I can't imagine what it must be like being really pregnant and having one . Have your other babies been late?

Truth I've currently got a UTI, they really are horrendous! On Friday I spent all day in A&E due to palpitations, irregular pulse and high blood pressure all due to this infection, then Saturday on the labour ward being monitored. I had extremely strong braxton hicks that worried even the midwife. Luckily baby is more than happy (I'm only 32 weeks) so all's good!

4kids - Never got passed 39w 5 days (DD2 and DD3 were both due on the Tuesday and born the Sunday morning before), DD1 was induced at 38w.

Shelly - hope the infection is under control now - A&E and labour ward - but at least it wasn't pre-term labour. Apparently the infections can trigger an irritable uterus response and mimic labour quite closely.

Mine was complicated by me not being able to take penicillin based anti-biotics so I can only have cephalexin and erythromycin. Luckily the bladder infection seems to have gone but I am having to do another sample for the lab on Tuesday to make sure it's gone completely. If the infection could trick a cons. Ob. into thinking I was in labour it must have been nasty (and at that point my sample was clear with no signs of infection!), the cons. thinks all the back pain was my kidneys complaining rather than my thought that baby was back to back (she's not).

My sample was tested at the doctors at 11.30 from a morning sample and was as cloudy as can be, it tested positive for white blood cells. A further sample the same day at 1.30 was clear, I was told this is not unusual due to dilution.

They were worried I had gone into premature labour as a UTI can cause this which is why they buzzed the doctor down, I had to have an internal to confirm that it wasn't labour (I knew it wasn't so wasn't really worried) so just watch yourself and take it really easy.

And yes to the back pain. I had really bad back ache on Friday night, now it feels all bruised and sore to the touch as well as achey. I was told the infection could have spread to the kidneys! Great..........

Take it easy, I know it's easy to say and all that but you must (shakes finger). Hope it all goes OK for you :)

Ouch at the UTIs, interesting about the dilution affecting test results too.
truth I can't take penicillin either and lots of the others upset my stomach. Drs hate medicating me

Shelly - that is interesting, I was drinking about 3-4l a day which is about triple what I normally do, so very dilute wee. Which may well explain why the sample at the ANC was clear (they tested it and then sent the same sample to the lab for culturing) but I was brewing a really nasty one! Really hope your back feels better soon - try a heat pad/hot water bottle on your back for a bit or a nice warm bath - that helped me a lot.

Ood - I am really mean to the Drs as I take epilepsy meds and anti-ocd meds as well as reacting to a fair few others (can't take tramadol, clobazam, keppra, penicillin based anti-bs, most anti-histamines.....) plus I am bfing and am pg. They get the BNF out and start going 'How about...., no, hmm let's try....., no, what about....., no, erm have you tried paracetamol?' (usually for something that paracetamol isn't going to help with like sinusitis!).

The number of times I have been prescribed incompatible meds is getting ridiculous (last time was some laxatives that inhibit the absorption of my epilepsy meds!) and I have been prescribed anti-histamines which interact with both my epilepsy meds and my ocd meds to cause central nervous system depression (i.e. lower heart rate and respiratory rate and can cause unconsciousness) to take 3 times a day - I can take one at night but it knocks me out for the whole night, no way could I take them during the day!

Wow, it really is amazing isn't it, my eyes have been opened this year with regards to ignorance from GP's. They really are just general practitioners. I usually check with or ask the pharmacist to check my prescriptions now after being prescribed iron tablets at 7 weeks pregnant that clearly stated in the leaflet that they were not to be taken before 13 weeks as could contribute to spina bifida!

I'm quite lucky with my GP as I printed off proven evidence about my meds and how he needed to up the strength immediately due to me being pregnant and despite what the test results said on paper. I told him that the goal-posts are moved during pregnancy and the ranges are completely different, he scanned through it, asked to keep it and gave me a new prescription there and then, he's been fantastic about it since. It really is pot luck with the doctor you get, you have to research everything before you go!

Shelly which iron tablets were you prescribed that could contribute to spina bifida? I have been taking some since 12 weeks.

So sorry for those of you with water infections... ouch. Hope they clear up soon, esp Truth before you give birth.

A good friend of mine had a UTI going into labour and her bladder was so swollen that the baby couldn't get past it, and she ended with an EMCS. It was her first baby too so she didn't know how labour should be. It might be worth asking for a scan to check if your bladder is swollen if the UTI is still present as you go into labour. Don't want to worry you but it would be silly of me to know this and not say anything.

I've got a sample to do on Tuesday so I think I will do a first of the morning wee and not drink overnight so it's really concentrated (nice!) so there's the best chance of getting any bacteria that's still floating about! Thanks for the heads up though

I had great fun with my neurologist - new meds prescribed at 10w appt to be started after 12w scan (less chance of an anomaly developing) and my next appt came through for the 18th Sept, the day before my due date!! Talk about close supervision during pg .

New meds did nothing apart from get me a SS referral as I was so sedated/confused/out of it that I was becoming a liability but GP was reluctant to take me off them .

I had just got to the lowest therapeutic level too so he suggested dropping down by half a tablet but still taking it (if it's not at a therapeutic level but I am having 7 or 8 serious side effects at that dose what's the point in taking it it doing me harm but no good). It took 4 weeks to get me on the drug but about 8 weeks to get me off it!

Of course the local pharmacy originally dispensed the drug with out a PIL so I couldn't take them until they provided me with one (DH wouldn't let me as he doesn't trust the Drs any more not to give me something completely incompatible ). It was like playing bingo with the side effect list - every few days I seemed to have a new one off the list!

Blimey Truth, you should write a book!

Lime Pregaday, if you've been taking them since 12 weeks I wouldn't worry, it can only affect a DEVELOPING fetus.

My medical notes resemble a hand written copy of War and Peace they are so thick now!

Gosh truth that sounds extremely stressful. I hope your bladder infection clears up soon too.

shelly sorry to hear you've been unwell too. I didn't know that about pregaday. I wonder if the same applies to spatone, I took it in my first trimester.

28+4 and absolutely shattered after a busy weekend with the DCs. DS had a nightmare last night and was awake from 3am to 5am. He's going through a phase of being really scared or having bad dreams at night so I'm not getting much sleep. I find it's best to try to settle him in his bed, but last night DH got up first and couldn't be bothered so plonked DS in our bed! As a result DS and I were wide awake for hours while DH went straight back to sleep.

I'm on different iron tablets now and there is no mention of it at all, so looks like it's just the different brands. Can't remember how strong the pregaday ones were, it could be that? Don't think it's just the iron per se.

Hope those of you who are unwell get better soon, being pregnant whilst ill seems to make everything ten times worse.

Fecked off with not being able to sleep, and contractions that are doing what appears to be nothing. Hoping that despite my despair they actually are doing something and we're nearly prepared for labour... Baby is sitting nice and low today though so fingers crossed we're heading in the right direction!

Hope you're all well today x

Am lying down now after spending all day upright. My body doesn't like upright. Unfortunately I can't drive/use a computer/have meetings laying down :(

Hiya, 9 weeks with no3 and very worried about how others will react when I tell them, I have notoriously difficult pregnancies and although I really want 3 I feel that others are judging me when I say I'm pregnant again, not too bothered if boy or girl, I have 2 girls already and they are both hyper and lots of fun so either boy or girl would be fine for me :)

Hi Shirley, welcome and congratulations! Have you told a few people already then? How were your earlier pregnancies difficult? Hope this one is easier...

Shelly, thanks it is just plain ferrous sulphate that I'm taking, not pregaday, so I don't think I need to worry!

Hetty and Truth, hope you are both doing OK?

Bollocks to them Shirley! That's between you and your partner and nobody else. My friend nearly died with her second, she was in a coma for 2 weeks, everybody gasped in horror when she fell pregnant again, she was fine and just ignored everybody!