Blood Pressure

[AngelBunny]

thanks guyyss! i got a cheapy monitor off ebay for about £12 hopefully get some lower readings! as for the protein in the urine, i did a test at work & it was positive, midwife did one at my appointment & said it was negative. i don't think it's preclampsia anyways i'm not swelling up or anything. just a touch of hypertension if anything xx

 

[pcake]

Thats good,sure it'll give u peace of mind. I think pre-eclampsia is pretty rare at this stage (or so my mw said earlier) so sure its just what u said. At my first booking in i had traces of protein in my urine, they said its really common to get traces, not sure if urs was totally positive or traces but thought id mention that. Relax for the time being at home with ur feet up and get looked after by ur oh!! xx

 

[AngelBunny]

i love that your bubs is called pork chop!!! so cute! where did that nick name come from xx

 

[pcake]

Ha! One day my boyfriend just said "how's the little pork chop?!" and it just kind of stuck!! Now all our families and friends call it that, sure it will love that story when its older!! Its kind of embarrassing, cos i keep referring to it as pork chop in front of people i dont know too well by accident, and then they look at me like im crazy!!

Think i may struggle ever calling it anything but pork chop!! Any nicknames for ur LO?? xx

 

[AngelBunny]

Ha! One day my boyfriend just said "how's the little pork chop?!" and it just kind of stuck!! Now all our families and friends call it that, sure it will love that story when its older!! Its kind of embarrassing, cos i keep referring to it as pork chop in front of people i dont know too well by accident, and then they look at me like im crazy!!

Think i may struggle ever calling it anything but pork chop!! Any nicknames for ur LO?? xx

i love it! ours is called Chang. It means elephant in thai we were on holiday on Koh Chang Island in thailand & said if we fell pregnant there we would have to call baby Chang. That was months before we even started trying so he's been being called Chang for over a year now. poor thing. nothing else fits him now though! my mum's like please don't actually call him Chang. I think it'll always be his nickname though! Everyone know's him as Chang! or The Changmeister

 

[pcake]

I love The Changmeister, thats amazing!! Thats a really nice story behind it too, at least its not nicknamed after a slab of meat like us!!! I feel the same that nothing else fits it, we are thinking of names at the mo,and there are so many lovely ones like Laila for a girl,and Henry after my boyfs dad, but all i can call it in my head is pork chop!!

Have u got any 'real' names picked out for ur little boy yet?!! For some reason we've found boys name s harder to think of.

Im off to bed, my boyf is on the xbox (u wouldnt believe he's 30!) and he is giving me a blow by blow narrative of whats going on on the game,even though im sitting right next to him, and its driving me MAD!! "oh,im chasing him,look,i stabbed him, thats a big building how do i climb it?!..." Aaaahh help! Its been going on for a couple of hours and if i dont leave the room i will throttle him!!

 

[pcake]

Oh and ps- saw that u saw ur LO move from the outside!!! Thats fantastic, how amazing!! I cant wait for that! Do u feel it move lots now?? xx

 

[AngelBunny]

yehh he's on the move most of the time now are you feeling bubs? i love it especially laying in bed when he's dancing about it's the nicest feeling we have no real names i loved Benjamin which OH likes too but he hates Ben, so that's out. We're finding boys names reeally hard too. Your boyfriend's xbox narrative sounds awesome! im gonna go to bed too i think, hope your foot is feeling better soon hun! xx nu-night to you & pork chop!!

 

[Ashley8806]

I would get a home cuff - you can get them pretty cheap... with my daughter I was at work and felt dizzy and light headed - and we checked my blood pressure and it was 210/120 .... needless to say I had to keep checking it at home and ended up having to quit working. But anyways, I hope yours goes down, 145 isn't too bad, but it's getting up there...

 

[AngelBunny]

I would get a home cuff - you can get them pretty cheap... with my daughter I was at work and felt dizzy and light headed - and we checked my blood pressure and it was 210/120 .... needless to say I had to keep checking it at home and ended up having to quit working. But anyways, I hope yours goes down, 145 isn't too bad, but it's getting up there...

Jesus! I work on a hospital ward & the highest I've ever seen is 180! What did they do for that? xx

 

[Ashley8806]

I would get a home cuff - you can get them pretty cheap... with my daughter I was at work and felt dizzy and light headed - and we checked my blood pressure and it was 210/120 .... needless to say I had to keep checking it at home and ended up having to quit working. But anyways, I hope yours goes down, 145 isn't too bad, but it's getting up there...

Jesus! I work on a hospital ward & the highest I've ever seen is 180! What did they do for that? xx

I had to go straight to the hospital and was diagnosed with preeclampsia later on.... but I was put on meds and had to have non stress tests twice a week (sitting in a hospital for an hour or 2 twice a week is NOT FUN! LOL) I am a nurses assistant so we kept checking it at work and whenever it was high they would send me home, eventually I had to just quit working....

 

[AngelBunny]

Lordy! Has your BP been alright this pregnancy? Xx

 

[Ashley8806]

So far so good! Fingers Crossed!! One day it was 150/105, but I had just got my first ticket lol and the next day it was back to normal.... it didn't go up in my last pregnancy until about halfway through or a lil later so I'm hoping it stays down this time!

 

[pcake]

yehh he's on the move most of the time now are you feeling bubs? i love it especially laying in bed when he's dancing about it's the nicest feeling we have no real names i loved Benjamin which OH likes too but he hates Ben, so that's out. We're finding boys names reeally hard too. Your boyfriend's xbox narrative sounds awesome! im gonna go to bed too i think, hope your foot is feeling better soon hun! xx nu-night to you & pork chop!!

AAAhh that must be lovely lying in bed and feeling him before u go to sleep! Does he keep u awake yet? Iv been feeling the little fluttery feelings, plus tonnes of little 'pops' for about a week. One night i could feel it moving about for about 20 mins, it wasn't a really strong feeling, but it was lovely. Then i was out on saturday and i suddenly felt what felt like a kick and it somersaulting or something. It was such a strong feeling it made me gasp!! It felt really weird, but really nice! Im so impatient to feel it like that again now!- Not had anything that strong since then. When did u start feeling The Changmeister then?!! And when did u feel proper kicks?? Im going to drink a load of water and lie down for a bit later, and hope to feel it properly again!!

My foot is such a pain in the arse!! When they actually did the operation on it on mon, i literally couldnt walk without crutches, so i couldnt do anything myself and was really down about how id cope when my boyf was at work, really hated the thought of doing nothing for 2 weeks, but now i can put some weight on it, so getting about is loads easier, thank goodness!! How are you today?? Im sure ur bp monitor u ordered hasnt arrived yet, but is ur pulse any lower?? Hope ur relaxing at home!!

Boys names are definitely harder to come up with. We have about 4 girls ones we really like, but just one boys name, and i think we ruled it out for some reason. Have u got a baby name book? We have, but my boyf just keeps picking silly ones like "Thor", "Zeus" and "conan"!!!! Think they will be The Changmeister and Pork Chop forever!!!

So should u have been at work today? xx

 

[AngelBunny]

yehh he's on the move most of the time now are you feeling bubs? i love it especially laying in bed when he's dancing about it's the nicest feeling we have no real names i loved Benjamin which OH likes too but he hates Ben, so that's out. We're finding boys names reeally hard too. Your boyfriend's xbox narrative sounds awesome! im gonna go to bed too i think, hope your foot is feeling better soon hun! xx nu-night to you & pork chop!!

AAAhh that must be lovely lying in bed and feeling him before u go to sleep! Does he keep u awake yet? Iv been feeling the little fluttery feelings, plus tonnes of little 'pops' for about a week. One night i could feel it moving about for about 20 mins, it wasn't a really strong feeling, but it was lovely. Then i was out on saturday and i suddenly felt what felt like a kick and it somersaulting or something. It was such a strong feeling it made me gasp!! It felt really weird, but really nice! Im so impatient to feel it like that again now!- Not had anything that strong since then. When did u start feeling The Changmeister then?!! And when did u feel proper kicks?? Im going to drink a load of water and lie down for a bit later, and hope to feel it properly again!!

My foot is such a pain in the arse!! When they actually did the operation on it on mon, i literally couldnt walk without crutches, so i couldnt do anything myself and was really down about how id cope when my boyf was at work, really hated the thought of doing nothing for 2 weeks, but now i can put some weight on it, so getting about is loads easier, thank goodness!! How are you today?? Im sure ur bp monitor u ordered hasnt arrived yet, but is ur pulse any lower?? Hope ur relaxing at home!!

Boys names are definitely harder to come up with. We have about 4 girls ones we really like, but just one boys name, and i think we ruled it out for some reason. Have u got a baby name book? We have, but my boyf just keeps picking silly ones like "Thor", "Zeus" and "conan"!!!! Think they will be The Changmeister and Pork Chop forever!!!

So should u have been at work today? xx

ahh thats so sweet umm i think about 16 weeks i started getting pokes, before that it was a squirmy feeling. sometimes they are quite hard & take me by surprise, sometimes it feels like he's having a mad fit in there the changmeister cracks me up.

i'm off til tuesday i'm hoping my manager can find me something less strenuous i can't be running around for 12 hr shifts with my pulse & BP really high it's not safe. it's alright when i'm taking it easy though. is your foot actually broken then bless you what a pain.

Zeus - they do come up with some funny ones! my OH likes old granddad names like Roy, Ralph, Eugene not for me! We discovered we both like Micah today though! so maybe that will be the one Micah David xx

 

[pcake]

OOhh i really like Micah David... whats the surname?? It goes really well, and u dont hear many micahs, or i havent anyway. Is that a definite then do u think? Or are u still looking for other possibilities? Eugene though?!! I really dont like that!! Did hur oh actually like it? I honestly think my boyf would call it Conan if it was upto him. He's never looked so excited as when he found that in the name book!! We really liked Henry Frederick (after boyfs dad, and my step dad), but i was talking to a primary school teacher who said that in the last few years she has really noticed old fashioned names coming back in, and that she had 3 Henrys in her class, one freddie and one frederick . So think thats ruled out, im Helen and there were 3 others in my class at school and i hated it!!

If its a girl though we'll be fine!! Did u think ur LO was a boy before ur scan? I remember ur 12 wk one suggested girl, but did u have a feeling either way? At first i was sure it was a boy,now im not sure. Scan in less than 2 weeks now!!!! Soooo excited!!

Since iv been sitting down, im feeling pork chop a bit!! I find if i lean forwards a little they move, maybe its because they are getting a bit squashed? Sounds like the Changmeister is a busy little boy in there!! It really freaks me out sometimes thinking there is actually another person inside me- with a heart and bones and a brain! I cant quite get my head round it that we literally 'grow' a person!!

Can u have more time off if u need it? U def need to be careful with ur bp- iv got it in my head u work in a hospital for some reason? Am i right? If u do, does that mean u can monitor it while ur at work, and if it gets too high u could go home maybe?? I dropped a glass on my foot while i was washing up! There was soooo much blood i thought id cut an artery. Literally pools of it on the floor, iv never seen so much. Luckily my boyf was here, and he's in the police so he was amazing,if id been by myself i dont know what id of done. Turns out id severed a tendon. No break or fracture though, which was good, but they had to operate to repair, and so the tendon cant move while its healing,iv got a cast upto my ankle and im on crutches!! I honestly cant get over how much hassle its been for a cut foot!!

How's The Changmeister today?!!

 

[pcake]

Ps-sorry for all the essays!! xx

 

[AngelBunny]

OOhh i really like Micah David... whats the surname?? It goes really well, and u dont hear many micahs, or i havent anyway. Is that a definite then do u think? Or are u still looking for other possibilities? Eugene though?!! I really dont like that!! Did hur oh actually like it? I honestly think my boyf would call it Conan if it was upto him. He's never looked so excited as when he found that in the name book!! We really liked Henry Frederick (after boyfs dad, and my step dad), but i was talking to a primary school teacher who said that in the last few years she has really noticed old fashioned names coming back in, and that she had 3 Henrys in her class, one freddie and one frederick . So think thats ruled out, im Helen and there were 3 others in my class at school and i hated it!!

If its a girl though we'll be fine!! Did u think ur LO was a boy before ur scan? I remember ur 12 wk one suggested girl, but did u have a feeling either way? At first i was sure it was a boy,now im not sure. Scan in less than 2 weeks now!!!! Soooo excited!!

Since iv been sitting down, im feeling pork chop a bit!! I find if i lean forwards a little they move, maybe its because they are getting a bit squashed? Sounds like the Changmeister is a busy little boy in there!! It really freaks me out sometimes thinking there is actually another person inside me- with a heart and bones and a brain! I cant quite get my head round it that we literally 'grow' a person!!

Can u have more time off if u need it? U def need to be careful with ur bp- iv got it in my head u work in a hospital for some reason? Am i right? If u do, does that mean u can monitor it while ur at work, and if it gets too high u could go home maybe?? I dropped a glass on my foot while i was washing up! There was soooo much blood i thought id cut an artery. Literally pools of it on the floor, iv never seen so much. Luckily my boyf was here, and he's in the police so he was amazing,if id been by myself i dont know what id of done. Turns out id severed a tendon. No break or fracture though, which was good, but they had to operate to repair, and so the tendon cant move while its healing,iv got a cast upto my ankle and im on crutches!! I honestly cant get over how much hassle its been for a cut foot!!

How's The Changmeister today?!!

i have definitely notice old fashioned names making a come back. Even for the girls like Ava for example, that is lovely though! I really like Micah i'm hoping he'll stick with this one! What are your girls names? I knew LO was a boy although everyone thought he was a girl from the nub. but nope, t'was a willy! I know what you mean about it being a bit freaky that there's a person in there! I think it's weird that i have a willy in my tummy, i've never had a willy before they say that your first intuition is the right one maybe you're team with me everyone seems to be going team , my LO is getting far too excited being surrounded by so many pretty ladies i have always noticed i feel the chang meister when i bend forward & squish him, hehehe poor chang if i'm not squishing him i'm poking him.

i do work in a hospital - thats kind of the problem, i have to rest it out when my pulse is too high, but it's too high whenever i move around for more than 2 minutes. it's not just the high pulse & BP either i have hypoglycemia which has gotten worse with the pregnancy, so my blood sugars drop wayy below the normal range and together with my pulse racing & my BP being high & low blood sugar i'm basically just very confused & tripping over things with blurry vision & dizziness the whole time, it's quite stupid really lol. but again that is manageable outside of work as i can eat little & often, can't do that at work. i can't believe you severed a tendon! god i would actually pass out if i did that! i'm not good with my own blood. you're very brave. glad your OH knew what to do. that must be painful though. you on facebook hun? chang says hiii pork chop :wave: hehe xx

 

[pcake]

Iv just sent u a friend request on fb hun,its helen.

Blimey, that sounds really scary how u get while ur at work. It must be a really stressful environment anyway working in a hospital,let alone with high bp and blurry vision! And hypoglycemia! God what a combination! So is there any way u or ur work can make it more manageable? As u really wont be able to go on for long like that i cant imagine? Im guessing ur work are ok for time off etc? It must be really hard to work out what to do, as unless those issues completely go away,it sounds like ul always suffer while ur at work? And if ur bpgoes up after 2mins of running around, then im sure that would mean that its up for most of the day? Oh that sounds rubbish, i really hope u get it sorted. U have a specialist apt soon dont u? Maybe they will have a more long term solution??

Yes my foot was DISGUSTING!!! Im honestly amazed i didnt faint. I think i prob would have, but all i could think of was if it had affected the baby as it looked like so much blood had come out!My boyf was trying to get me to the hospital and i refused to go til id used the doppler just to make sure it was ok!! Im really glad Jon was here though!!

Interesting that ur instinct was boy, and u were right. Everyone keeps referring to my LO as 'he',which is funny, but probably means its a girl- i cant wait to find out!!

Its funny you mention Ava,as thats one we really like, but i saw it on a list of the most popular girls names. Also Laila and Aimee ( Jon likes that,im not totally sure). A girl will def have Joan as a middle name after my nan,so it needs to go with that. Although iv got a middle name of edwina after my great grandad,so u can imagine how much i hate it! So i dont want to give my LO something they will hate! Its so hard isnt it?! Jon likes Jake (for a boy,obv!!), but thats really popular now cos of the whole 'Twilight" thing. Did u have any girls names picked out??

By the way,do u know if we're still meant to be taking folic acid??

Pork Chop returns the to The Changmeister!!!

 

[AngelBunny]

surname will be Stockwell. the middle name David is OH's name, i love the idea of him being named after daddy i don't think we have to take the preggy vitamins anymore hun, i am still taking them but i don't need to be. i'm not very vegetable-oriented so i find them reassuring

i really like Laila my friend has a baby girl called Laila Rose, so cute. If ours was a girl we were gonna go with Mia, Sophia or Misha probably. I love Jake/Jacob too but as you say since twilight i daren't do it! Plus it's number 1 in a lot of polls now there's gonna be a lot of them running about.

has pork chop got a nursery? xx