Type 1 diabetic mums & mums to be damn that dawn phenomenon!

[SpottyTeacakes]

New thread ladies

The thing is second labours tend to be quicker so it seems silly having a sliding scale when you're only in established labour for three hours. It's much easier to get back to normal afterwards without it in and you can get straight in the shower

Dd has just pulled her leggings down and is stabbing her leg with a crayon saying she's doing her injection

Awww!!!! Ha ha ha! I hope people don't get the wrong impression about her mum

I know puds I'm just waiting for nursery to want to speak to me! What time are you going in? Have you got some pâté?!

That's so cute spotty.

Those of you with toddlers etc, when will you/did you start teaching your child how to help mummy when she's poorly?

Hmm not thought about it diec I haven't needed help since I was a young teen and fitted at night. She does know she can't share my chocolate when my 'sugar's low' and that I get cross and shout

Puds are u in yet??

Thanks everyone for your support, we decided to go register ellie today an take ds to soft play so im shattered but not dwelling that tends to happen most at night ds is home again tonight so shall see how it goes.

Have been using our convector heater to heat our room up didnt work last night fingers xd for tonight as will be up at 8am with ds either way tho i feel bad if he wasnt there too cant win lol

Hoping I'm of your ds staying in bed until 8am! Dd is up at six. You should stay in bed whilst your dh is off work though

spotty he doesnt always and is earliest of 9pm before he will go to bed

Bg had been running low but was 11.7 this morning 6.6 by lunch so now il
worry about my eyes too

I'm in! Nothing happening yet - just tracing baby.

Have been told by a lovely midwife despite all the possible intervention I can insist on bath labour. She said it really does help.

Anyone on DC2 totally freaked out by having another/not get their head around it? I'm freaked out!!!!

spotty I didn't mean anything quite that serious, just stuff like sending your child to fetch the sweet tin/your handbag/whatever when you feel low. And, yes, not asking to share because sweets are mummy's medicine.

Fingers crossed for that bath puds. Do you know if your bump is male or female?

No we don't know sex but now thinking it might have helped me get my head around it more!!!!

Just had pessary in. Cervix very much closed :-( had gas and air with internal and it's freaking amazing!!! I found them one of the worst things last time so very happy that it was fine.

My DS who has just turned two says 'Mummy's sweeties' and know they're not his which is surprising considering everything else is!! It's so cute. I'm on CGM and so have a sensor on my arm that he calls 'mummy's machine' and kisses. Oh God I miss him!

Mmm gas and air!! Mine was hardly reachable puds when my pessary went in let alone soft!

Dd would get me something but I don't think she would understand the urgency.

pud you just described how im feeling it started prior to delivery i missed ds more while in hosp than i spent looking at my baby im ashamed to say and now i wonder what made me think a 2nd was a good idea! How are things going?

Dd LOVES ds apparently she always talks about him at nursery and she tells everyone that he's her brother it's lovely.

Anyway you can still do things just the two of you (you and older ds). Dd and I are going to get our hair done together before a wedding.

It's normal to feel worried but it really is fine it's lovely having two.

This DC was unplanned Hoping so don't worry about the 'thinking it was a good idea' thing because we didn't think it was - ha!!! I find it best to be honest with DH about everything I'm feeling as well as close friends you can trust (as well as us lot) and I bet you find we all have similar feelings.

I'm just laid up after first pessary waiting for some action MNetting and reading mags. It's a nice rest!!!!

Ds has decided he can only get to sleep whilst sucking my finger

Ds wasn't planned and when I first had him I kept thinking if I had planned it I would have waited until dd was at school. I'm not going to lie it was really hard but now ds is four months it's so much easier and I'm really happy (vom ). Obviously there are hard days but it's really worth it.

spotty when do the good days start lol my sister keeps saying i will be fine im a great mum I sure dont feel like one right now when she starts crying all i can think is for god sake be quiet ive fed u, changed u and winded u give me peace, how awful is that!! Im horrified i feel like that!

Hoping I tell ds to shut up often sometimes he cries a lot! for us it got a lot easier at 12 weeks but as you're ff and she wasn't prem you might find things get easier sooner. Have you got a sling? Give it a week and you won't feel quite so wiped out which will help!

Thanks spotty i really hope so im soooo tired still quite sore wound and boobs and so worried about everything really between my ds getting treated as i want to ie pre ellie and bg levels not affecting my eyes and not coping when oh is back at work the list goes on lol

Sorry everyone is feeling so down. Me too!

Ds's latch has gone to pot and my nipples are absolute agony! Like, seriously enough to make me claw out my own eyes sore! There have been tears in the Bona household tonight as DS screamed to be fed and I hid upstairs crying as I couldn't face letting him loose on my poor boobs. I eventually came back down to face the music but part of me just wants to run out of here tonight, check into the nearest hotel and sleep for a night with unmolested nipples (only partly joking!)

Bona I got like that with DD - my lovely HV told DH to go out and buy 2 cartons of ready made formula to keep in the cupboard, and a bottle to give it in. It was like a security blanket, just having it in the house meant that somehow the thought of having to feed her wasn't so bad, and if I really wanted/needed to then DH could take over and give the formula.

Best advice ever! Maybe worth a thought if you've not already done it?

And I completely forgot what I was actually going to write :o

Growth scan tomorrow morning, I feel worse physically than I did 2 weeks ago - much bigger, bump seems huge and uncomfortable, breathless, generally tired and a bit rubbish. Think I've gained a fair amount of weight too so could be fluid? Am nervous of what the scan will say (again!).