Bus Graduates: Tickets for Oct/Nov/Dec

[professorastrocat]

Here we go!

Not heard from you for a while @calimommy and @Needallthesleep -how you getting on? Xxx

Also @Lola871 you getting on ok? Xx

Hi all,

Hdxx, I’m so terribly sorry to hear about your little girl. There are no words. Thinking of all of you x

I’m almost 33 weeks now, have my c section date (12th October) so just six weeks to go. I’ve found this pregnancy so tough and just looking forward to meeting our baby. We have a name, and are pretty much ready to go (except the hospital bag!).

I was made redundant a few weeks ago, which was tough. Just one of the many Covid casualties though.

@Needallthesleep nice to hear from you. Sorry about your redundancy. What a tough year 🤯

6 weeks to go wow, we're whizzing along now.

Had my scan this morning and happy she is measuring roughly 40-50th centile. Hope she stays there!

Hi ladies, can't believe we're getting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Remember the days of TWW's?

Feel like now I've hit the 30 week mark it's gonna drag and just let me suffer the aches and pains for longer x

Hey ladies it's been a while! So exciting some of you are on the countdown 😊

21+6 now and the time is absolutely flying past! Had my 20 week scan and found out we are having a boy 💙 also have a low lying placenta and it's very close to my cervix. I will have a rescan at 32 weeks to check if it has moved. Anyone any experience of this? Really hoping it moves as I don't want a c section 🙈

@MummyBearBoo your bump is amazing, mine is still tiny 🙊

Not sure if helps @whatsthecraic91, but my first baby was delivered by elective cesarean and it was such a calm and beautiful birth. If you end up having one I’m sure it will be fine.

Oh so jealous you got to see you baby @professorastrocat. I want another scan!!

Does anyone know who im meant to ring for advice on a sunday at 25 weeks? Doesnt feel like an emergency (just keep going dizzy and not sure how worried i should be) but i dont seem to have a community midwife phone number and didnt want to bother anyone at the hospital... then realised its a bank hol weekend and maybe the hosp is my only option? Or am i over reacting to feeling dizzy?

If it was my hospital I would ring the maternity assessment centre in the same situation. They are very keen that people ask whenever they have any concerns. The name may be different but you'll have something similar. Hope you feel better soon!

I spoke to the delivery suite, our day assessment unit is closed at weekends. She said it doesnt sound urgent enough for them and gave me the number for my community team to book an appointment for tomorrow. Left them a voicemail so now just waiting to hear back.

@Needallthesleep the thought of not being able to feel my legs during and then the after part, stuck in bed with a catheter, the recovery and not being able to drive for 6 weeks when I live in the middle of nowhere is completely putting me off.

Also would mean I can't have my baby in the lovely birth centre I am currently going to and I've getting to know my lovely midwife there, I'll be put to a big busy hospital in the city 😥

@whatsthecraic91 my placenta was low lying, partially covering cervix in my 2nd pregnancy. It had moved up out of the way by the time i gave birth. Im sure they said a lot move as the uterus grows

@whatsthecraic91 sorry I didn't go back through the comments but are you having a section? If not, an epidural won't prevent you from driving for 6 weeks. As soon as you can walk again you can drive a car -if you feel like it.

@Hatepickinganame if nothing else is amiss you probably are having periodic low blood pressure. Make sure you are well hydrated in the meantime before you see your midwife again.

@MummyBearBoo sorry I didn't reply ages ago, I was waiting to see how my appointment went. Well so far so good! I was full of dread prior but there was a happy little bear on the screen. So looks like I am on the path to my 4th little (and last!!! ☺️)
I'll find out next week what it is, but I'm fully expecting a boy, DH only seems to make one flavour 😜

@calimommy Im so glad you saw a wriggly little one at your scan, I'm sure you were very nervous! Do you have a due date?

@professorastrocat April 2. A long time away! Here's my lovely little rainbow x

@Hatepickinganame yes they did say it will more than likely move so keep everything crossed 🤞🏼

@calimommy only if my placenta doesn't move! Oh really I thought your insurance was invalid if you drive before 6 weeks and I thought it was more to do with your wound than the epidural. What a lovely scan!! Congratulations ❤️x

@whatsthecraic91 no I only meant for the epidural sorry I just saw you mention a birth centre so assumed it was between epidural or none. Tricky to scroll back through the messages and I've not been on for a while x
Its v difficult to lift your knees after a section, think going up stairs and lifting your feet on and off the break, as it is your abdominal muscles which pull to balance your torso, I hope your placenta plays ball and shifts!

I lost you all for a while, just popping along to say hi and @Hatepickinganame hope you’re doing ok!

Throwing a question out there...

When you give birth, will you be being stricter than normal about who can visit/visiting rules (no kissing/make sure you are hand sanitising etc)? Leaving it a few weeks before allowing people to visit the baby?

I remember the 13 day old with no underlying health conditions who died of Covid, and I’m worrying. I think I might do a ‘no visitors for two weeks’ rule, plus no kissing the baby, and everyone needs to have washed their hands. But I’m wondering whether I’m being OTT

@Needallthesleep yes absolutely will be restricting contact

But no one should be kissing baby regardless of corona -herpes virus is deadly to baby.

@calimommy thanks. Glad to hear someone else is restricting visitors.

And yes on the herpes. My MIL visited my 3 day old DD and had a cold sore. I am still furious about the selfishness of it three years later, and that’s part of the reason that I will be insisting on no kissing. We are so lucky that my DD didn’t get cold sores as a result.

@Needallthesleep yes, we are going to be relatively strict. Though with some family members I’m more worried about contracting Covid in the hospital and passing it on to them! But as a rule of thumb I feel a bit more relaxed with those shielding/largely staying at home vs those who are key workers. It’s tricky isn’t it?

Thanks everyone, feel loads better today. Never heard back from my midwife though which is a little worrying if something really goes wrong 🙄 as for visits, ive got no idea what it'll be like come december, i have a few weeks more than most of you guys to think about it... we're very rural here though and cases are so low that i dont think im overly concerned. My sister gave birth 8 weeks ago and they were shielding so we werent allowed to visit for about 4 weeks. I think its entirely up to individuals how they feel about it at the time really. Such a strange time to live in isnt it