Hello not really sure what to do and was hoping someone in a similar situation can give me some guidance.
I'm 37 weeks pregnant and has a growth scan yesterday as I have GD and baby is measuring large etc. That's fine but the obstetrician said my iron stores are so low, the cut off is 30 and I'm currently 9? She asked me if I had been feeling knackered but I said I thought that was because I was pregnant with a 19 month old? Turns out feeling this bad isn't normal.
Anyway... It's the weekend now and I'm feeling AWFUL. Like I'm hungover and my brain is foggy and I can barely walk a couple of steps without needing to stop and catch my breath. I literally feel like I've got the world's worst hangover.
I need a iron infusion thingy but that isn't being booked in until sometime next week. I want to go in and get checked out as I feel awful but I don't have a midwife since being taken on by the diabetic team, they only work Thursday and Friday's annoyingly and every time I phone the maternity ward or labour line it just rings and rings and rings.
I don't know what to do? Am I okay to just carry on one more day until Monday? Baby is moving fine but I just feel so suddenly drained. The Obstetrician told me to stop taking the iron tablets as they are clearly not working / being absorbed and since doing so I have felt this way almost immediately.