Tip for the heavily pregnant - STEP AWAY FROM THE BOUNCY CASTLE!

[whomovedmychocolate]

Happily turned up for my 34 week appt. Was v happy actually, last week was admitted briefly with transitory high glucose levels/ ? prem. labour but nothing came of it and had a lovely morning at a Baby Bounce session, mostly spent on the bouncy castle with insomniac DD (who was so knackered that she passed out on the floor and had to be carried to the car afterwards - result). Baby bounce rocks!

Plus I have my appt with the midwifery supervisor tomorrow to book my homebirth and I was looking forward to grinning inanely at disapproving CMW at my check up that nothing that had happened (two admissions so far for various minor complications), had scuppered my plans.

So was not exactly chuffed to be told 'your BP is 160/120 and you have protein, plus sugar, oh and you have a fat face and feet'.

Was duly dispatched to hospital - despite protests that my BP was up due to bouncy castle and faced the usual stressy panicky 'must monitor now and take sixteen types of blood test ' mentality of large regional hospital.

Sat on bed playing with DD quite happily until doc turned up and said 'umm well actually your BP is okay, it's a tad high but not too bad and your urine is now clear. You can stay here or go home and come in for monitoring on Wednesday and we'll call you when we get the bloods back.' Mind you this took three hours because DS (the baby) would not stay still long enough to get a 10 minute trace

This is a week after I was admitted with 4+s of sugar which magically disappeared within the hour it took me to drive to the hospital and park

I'm starting to get a tad paranoid here. Have postponed meeting with SOM for a week - no point in listening to her prattle on about how dangerous HBACS are if I do have repeat PET and have to have a repeat CS.

But surely....surely other pregnant women do normal things like go to baby bounce and eat cakes now and then and get away with it?

Or am I expected to undergo confinement for the next six weeks to avoid any chance of excitement at next Monday's appt (which my CMW insists will not happen because 'oh you'll have had the baby by then')

And I do not have a fat face or feet

I was in and out of hospital with 3 out of 4 pregnancies from 34 weeks. I was monitored beyond belief and always settled once there. I did have fat face and feet. Constantly told "ooh you'll never go full term. all babies were late, and induced!!

ooh, and another tip... no matter how much you may fancy it, don't have a vanilla slice for breakfast on the morning of a urine test.

They'll find sugar in it and decide you need to be hospitalised

Squonk - I've done that too - actually a chocolate croissant and large cappuccino on the way to the hospital - so you have sugar and high blood pressure. Four pluses of sugar and blood pressure which looks normal when the student midwife checks it but is through the roof by the time the experienced midwife turns up (and who then refuses to believe it's the coffee and insists the student mw does it another three times to prove she now has the technique)

I had sugar in my urine test but it was one test out of the gazillion they take. The imminently sensible midwife said she'd keep an eye on it and if it appeared again then it would be a trip to the hopsital.... and it was fine the next time, the first time must have been due to my eating my weight in mangoes the night before.

Hehe I once ate a packet of fruit pastilles and had acan of irn bru on the way to a midwife appointment D'oh. Landed me with a bloody GTT.

honey nut loops did the trick for me - had 1st mw appt of the day, ate brekkie before I peed in the jar, was duly packed off the next day for the GTT which came back ok (suprise, surprise)!!