***December Dreamers*** 70 babies born***

[mayb_baby]

13 weeks I stay mostly in first tri I feel sooo lost 1st, 2nd I don't know where I belong :Ccry: lol xxx

 

[mayb_baby]

Mincholada- Awwwh sorry for your FOB not being understanding, he should be more considerate as your job is on the line. But men don't listen xxx

 

[Sherri81]

Well today has been the stressful day from hell... How am I able to go on the internet when the hospital doesn't have wifi? I'm not in the hospital! I took a 300km round trip just to end up back at home!

So I show up at 12 as per my orders, and am told to check in on floor 2. I get to floor 2 and am told that they've given my bed away to someone else, so my only options are to stay in the emergency room all today and tonight and most of tomorrow, or go to their hostel. Ummmm, neither of those work thank you! I don't know about everyone else's hospital ER's but this one is loud, busy and full of screaming drunks and crackheads. No way am I going to be there for 36 hours with no privacy and no way to sleep! So nope, not doing that.

How about the hostel.... Um, they're going to make me pay, there is no contact with medical professionals (which was why I was getting checked in today because I had tons of consults and medicine change overs), there is nofood service, and anytime I want to come for a consult or get my Jew meds, I have to walk a block to the hospital! I'm on bedrest! I'm not allowed to walk that much! Plus my hubby was going back home with our vehicle so there would be NO access to food!

WTF? I was sooo stressed! They can't just let me drive all this way then basically tell me to screw off. I was ready yo cancel my surgery when I decided just to see the anesthetist for the hell of it. Turns out she doesn't want to do an epidural on me anyways because I'm on heparin and aspirin so my chance of becoming permanently paralyzed from the waist down are about 75%! Not chances I want to take. So she wants to know why she can't put me under general or just a sedation with a local freezing. She tries to call my dr. No answer. She talks to another dr, who I've seen and DON'T trust, and that dr says no to sedation, as the surgery can take 45-60 mins, and they can't sedate me for that long. So no sedation and no epidural, but my dr has previously said no general. Plus, this new dr said I must stop ALL thinners today, meaning no 12 hour heparin, which was the only way I had agreed to the surgery in the first place. So surgery was going to get cancelled, when finally the anesthetist got through to MY dr.

They are putting me under general. My dr jst always does spinal, but, since the risk is too high, general it is. The baby will be fine they have assured me. Because I'm not getting the spinal my dr said yo do my normal injection and aspirin. I was told I could go home, and I have to be back at 830am tomorrow, where they will immediately check the baby by ultrasond, and they will put me on iv so I don't get dehydrated and start contracting. I'll go under at 1230, and after recovery they have GUARANTEED me there will be a real bed in a real ward for me.

So I am home for the bight. What a shitstorm today has been!

 

[Sherri81]

It appears as though my itouch has corrected some of my speech. The one word is supposed to be new, not Jew. And the yo's are actually to. Sorry.

 

[vetmom]

Wow, Sherri, that does not sound like fun. I'm glad that you can stand up for yourself because it sounds like it would be pretty easy to just get pushed around at that hospital.
Hope tomorrow goes smoother for you, you should be ablee to relax and concentrate on the baby and not have all of this unnecessary stress. It sucks that we can't treat ourselves to a big glass of wine at the end of a stressful day, eh?

 

[lozzy21]

I still cant find babys heart beat with the doppler

 

[KellyC75]

Good morning all....

I am managing to stay up past 10pm now....

Hope you are all Ok, sorry to read about some of the stresses you guys are going through...

 

[ducky1502]

Don't worry lozzy, I've read that babies can always lie in awkward places or when the midwife does it for the first time you'll be able to copy her and find it yourself next time. When I find it it only lasts a few seconds n then he's moved again!! Hope everyone is ok today. Such miserable weather in the uk. I'm actually still lying in bed lol, lovely!

 

[Nessicle]

when I had my blood taken at my booking in appointment one
of the virals was to test for downs as apparantly they can detect small traces of it in your blood. She did explain how at the time but I can't remember the precise wording she used. So they then combined that blood test with the measurement taken today.

Ah I see chick - I had my bloods done at 10 weeks but midwife said they do the downs test at 15 week appt here. I dont think at my scan last week they even looked at fluid under baby's neck, sure they know what they're doing though hey perhaps it all looked normal which is why she didnt mention anything so guess no point worrying lol xx

 

[Nessicle]

Sherri that sucks hun! I think I may have missed something though - how come you have to have a procedure done? x

 

[cho]

they di my downs test at 12 weeks scan x

 

[billylid]

Yeah I had my bloods done at 11 weeks for the downs test and then at 12 weeks I had the ultrasound done for downs.

 

[cho]

they did mine both the same day the scan and bloods x

 

[nikki-lou25]

Sherri - I hope things go smoother for you tomorrow. I'm sorry, I must've missed why you're in there!

 

[Nessicle]

I wonder why nothing was mentioned for me then....perhaps they don't do it in Leeds

 

[nikki-lou25]

I've got the option of downs screening bloods at 16 weeks, but they dont do the scan here.
Ness - My midwife told me about triple test (bloods) and gave me a leaflet at booking. However, a low risk result doesnt guarantee you won't have a downs baby (not YOU but people in general) so maybe some areas dont do it anymore??

 

[Nessicle]

yeah that's what I've been offered Nikki so perhaps you're right that some areas don't do it as routine as they can't guarantee that the baby won't have downs, I've got a blood test at 15 weeks for that test where they calculate your risk x

 

[nikki-lou25]

I don't know whether to have bloods this time or not tbh. I cant see me havin an amnio or CVS so I don't know if I'll do the bloods. Altho nice to ave reassurance in a number I s'pose. With Aimee I was 1:9400 or something like that.

 

[Nessicle]

ooh thats a great low risk isnt it!

I'm gonna have the test anyway but whatever my risk I won't have amnio or CVS because it won't make a difference I'll still love bubs, I think just knowing my risk factor 'prepares' me just in case if that makes sense?x

 

[Sherri81]

I'm getting a cervical cerclage placed. Heading out any minute and I'm so hungry I'm gonna bite someone!!