Due June 2022 (thread four)

[PeeAche]

Well, aren't we a chatty lot?

@destiEos omg opening the fridge is horrendous for me too... I literally hold my breath until I'm far away from the fridge. There's nothing in there that's off, it's just the smell of fridge that sends me off.

I'm on Cyclizine and promethazine and it helps the sickness. I find it helps (I'm still sick a lot but not 8/9 time a day now) but it does make me drowsy.

Scan tomorrow super nervous 😬

I've just had my midwife appointment and I have glucose in my urine, I know I'm at risk of gestational diabetes with PCOS but I'm freaking out. I have a glucose tolerance test tomorrow.
Also when they tested my cO2 it came up as 7 which they said was high! I've never smoked in my life and no one in the house does.
All in all im having a crap day and feel like im failing at life.

@Imhereforthecake I have PCOS as well so understand the worries of gestational diabetes. If you do get it , I know a lot of friends who had it and very easily made adaptions which controlled it. You’ll be monitored well, you’ll be given a glucose monitor to check blood sugars after meals. go for 20 minute walks after each meal.

It will be great if you didn’t have it, but if you do it’s actually more common than you think and you’ll be well looked after

Congratulations to everyone on the scans today!

@Imhereforthecake you are not failing! Neither of those things are in any way within your control. As you don’t smoke, did the midwife explain why it could be high?
@Clomid1 snap, ours is tomorrow at mid day.
Officially 12 weeks today and feeling sick as a dog. Week 12 was peak nausea in my last pregnancy so expecting similar this time. I’ve gone off pretty much all good now except smoothies and fruit, and as I have IBS I can’t live on that. I’m forcing myself to eat some of my previous “safe foods” but it’s not fun. I’m counting my blessings though, as I’m not actually being sick. I can’t even imagine what having HG must be like - ladies, hats off to you, you are absolutely amazing!

Another one with PCOS here, I share your concerns around GD. Especially as I'm only wanting to eats carbs/sugar to eat atm

All food, not all good. I wish the food tasted good

@Clomid1 thank you ❤️ I'm doing lots of research on it now to prepare myself for the worst. To be honest it probably wouldn't hurt to lay off the carbs anyway - but with sickness that's all that's got me through!

@DaimDillyDoo same here!! Cereal. White bread. Pasta. Crisps. All the carbs.

@EarlGreywithLemon
It's just so stressful! She asked if I'd been around anyone who smokes or if I had walked to my appointment- which was a no to both.
She said she will recheck next week if it's still high she would be concerned about faulty gas appliance which I'm now panicking about. We only have a has boiler and I have a co2 monitor next to it in the utility room.

Hey @RossBaku and welcome. My SIL was called back for extra scanning due to a flat back of head. It turned out to be absolutely nothing and nephew was born with a normal, albeit slightly elongated head (thanks to assisted delivery via forceps)

His head is now flat as a pancake at the back, from lying down though. 😂

Try not to worry - it's most likely it's just a bad angle.xxx

@Imhereforthecake if your gas boiler has a co2 monitor it seems unlikely to me to be the cause surely?
Is the hospital in a polluted/ high traffic area? Did you drive to your appointment?

How much time do people envisage taking off for maternity leave?

@DaimDillyDoo that's a lovely scan picture. I can clearly make

Sorry send too soon - I can clearly make out the face and body and little nose.

@PeeAche as long as possible. At least a year plus maybe an extra month or 2 using annual leave. What about you?

@PeeAche I’m NHS and our maternity leave is shockingly bad. I’ll hopefully manage to take 9 months off at a push

@PeeAche I quit my job at the end of last year due to mental health and stress. My husband was amazing and said I didn't have to work if it was affecting me so badly. So he has been supporting me. We figured we were going to start a family soon anyway. So I'm officially going to be a stay at home mum. Not something I had necessarily always envisioned for myself as I was always quite career driven. But I hope it will give me purpose, meaning and enjoyment.

@PeeAche I am taking 6 months. My company do full pay for 6 months after that it drops to whatever the statutory pay is. My mum will be leaving work to help out with the baby so hoping I’ll make it work. Also I am pretty much under the impression I’ll be working from home.

I’m hoping to take a year this time; it will likely be my last chance to, unless we suddenly decide to have a third child and I’m not too ancient by then
Also, we don’t have any family anywhere near.
Last time I took 10 months and my husband took the last 2. This time we think he’ll use holiday plus paternity leave to take a month off at the beginning as I’m having a C Section, and then holiday and a week of unpaid leave to take a month off at the end. All going well of course (crosses fingers).

Timing could not have been better for me at work. They have just announced 90% average pay for 9 months so plan is to take 9 months then back full time....ish. We will see.
12+1 (had a scan at 10+2) and another next Tuesday. Anxiety is through the roof just wanting to check everything is ok.
Any big busted ladies struggling with maternity/nursing bras? I'm usually a 42GG and figure i will just go straight for nursing bras to save on cost but it's really hard to find some in that size up (conscious I will need to go up potentially too)

I was planning on taking a year but plans are changing, mostly due to money... as usual.

I want to take a year. Now I'm looking at between 6 and 9 months.

12 weeks for me :(
I work for a small practice, and my employer only obligated to pay full pay for 6 weeks. I'll take another 6 weeks off with stat pay, but as it won't even cover my rent I have no choice but to take 12 weeks.
DH is on a longggggg ass sabbatical so he'll be a stay at home dad until he gets a new post in a couple of years. Sad as I'll miss so much, but with our second baby (if we're blessed) I'll be a stay at home mum xx worried how I'll cope leaving baby at 12 weeks x

Went to get my booster today and after waiting and signing in etc I did a runner just as the nurse was about to take my arm. 😱
Feel like a total utter douche bag.

I had a gut wrenching feeling come over me that it would be a mistake to get it before I'm 12 weeks, and then started to imagine that the booster would interfere with an organ that's being made right as we speak, and it would all be my fault, if I could have just waited a couple more weeks.....Totally ridiculous!! I'm usually a well grounded and rational person. I can't believe how much this threatened miscarriage has changed me!

Finally got the nuchal measurement, less than 1 in 20,000 for all 3 🥳