***January Jellybeans***~ 35 BABY GIRLS & 23 BABY BOYS BORN ~***

[sar35]

I had such a lovely day today with my hubby and son. We went for a picnic on the mountain and then went shopping. DH took some photos of my bump since we haven't taken any since 28 weeks. Thought I'd share them...

LOVELY pics x

I had an emergency section wth my daughter and Im chosing to have asection this time. I know what to expect and when to expect little one. I was in labour for 8 hours and only made it to 5cm before her heart rate dropped dangerously low so they rushed me in. Plus there is a chance this baby will have IUGR too and apparently smaller babies dont handle labour well. I will know more after my 33 wk u/s but figure ill do the section anyways because i didn't find it all that bad and it takes the worrying of when is baby coming out. I have only 1 person I can leave my LO with so its best for me if I know in advance when i will need her to come instead of scrambling to find someone last minute or in the middle of the night.

its for the best then, whats IUGR?

IUGR is intrauternine growth restriction. Basically my placenta stopped working properly and my little girl stopped growing between 28-32 weeks. She was only 4lbs 13oz when she was born. But she was healthy. She had whats called head saving IUGR. Which means her brain and head kept developing but her body stopped growing. Luckily her lungs were fully developed and she didn't require any care in the intensive care unit. I got very lucky but they dohnt know why my placenta stopped owrking. it looked fine after delivery. It was really scary thou.

wow its amazing isnt it, little miracle

hodbert the tree is lovely

 

[jms895]

OH wont let me put tree up until its December plus I have to wait for him to get it out of the loft

IT WILL be going up on the 1st!!

 

[Fraggles]

eeek so many pages since I last posted, contractions have gone got lots to do today so will see if they sstart up again while im busy.

Mom 2B when I had my last baby there were specific theatres for sections. I couldn't feed my LO straight away as I was too poorly. So even if you wait over the hour it's still doable. I dont think we tried out first feed until about 10 hours after.

 

[jojo-m]

Jolene great bump! Lisa great tree and mom2b I had my lo vaginally and he wouldn't wake up to feed properly for 48 hours he just slept and we had problems with feeding. There's sometimes not a lot we can do to make it better so try not to worry about it too much, they do get there in the end x

 

[jms895]

Morning!!!!!!!!!!

 

[LittleMrs]

How often do your LOs get hiccups? Mine seems to have them nearly all the time. Probably quite an over-exaggeration but about 4 times a day.

 

[smiffy85]

Morning!!!

Snow is still here but think it must be frozen now! It was sooooo cold last night. Went out for a meal for a friend's birthday and didn't get in till past midnight *shock horror* I was still awake! On the plus side it meant I slept when I got in cos I was so worn out and didn't get out of bed until 9am when I kinda had to cos the house felt so cold as the heating settings are set for work days! On my google homepage this morning it said the temp in nottingham is currently -7!!! That's crazyness!!!!

Got a little bit of work to do today but can't be bothered as in my head think I have already left work lol. Gotta keep the kids occupied though lol. I knew I would regret not doing my maths planning in my planning time on wednesday!

Tracey how are you feeling now? Have the pains and cramps stopped? Are you going in tomorrow??? I would stay at home if I were you hehehe!

Lisa I love the tree. I'm refusing to put mine up till next week as it's tradition in my family to wait until the first weekend in december. But I'm very excited about it!

Fraggles glad the pains stopped yesterday, how are you feeling today?

Jade how's the weather in warsop????

Sam - we've got no milk and I don't fancy popping up the road to get any so I have to have one of those sachet coffee's that have got powdered stuff already in. Not the greatest and not as good as a cuppa but it did the job of warming me up.

Gosh our central heating bill is gonna be huuuuuuuuggggggggeeeeeee if this weather keeps up! Our house is small though so it doesn't take long to heat up but it seems to lose the heat quickly if we turn the heating off again grrrr. Hope we can afford the bills after xmas lol!

Whats everyones plans for today? I want to go and buy something nice to wear at xmas, like a party dress, from mamas and papas as I've got a 20 quid voucher from them for complaining about the booklet that came with our cot ages ago!! Does anyone else get really annoyed that all the maternity ranges in the shops tend to be in the boring colour range of black, grey or dark blue?!?! What about a nice purple or red for christmas???!?! I'm hald tempted to start a range of my own lol but have no skills to do such a thing hehehe!

xxxx

 

[jms895]

Little Mrs - about every day I think!

Smiffy - its freezing! No fresh snow but still loads from yesterday. Enjoy your day xx

 

[sar35]

yay we have snow today! and went to the hospital and they checked bp and all ok, dont have to go back til next tuesday when we will get our date for section also learnt that after section I have to have injections into my stomach to thin the blood or something, heperin or something like that... it turns out the bp machine registers about 20 more than the manual one! If they had done the manual one in the first place it wouldnt of been high!!!. Got to see the mw this week... good day!!!

 

[Fraggles]

Sar the injections arent too bad I take them daily through my pregnancy (im awaiting genetic testing after baby is born) so im on the injections all the time at the moment.

Ive still got dodgy runs and a few pains but not overly worried at the moment.

 

[LittleMrs]

Smiffy, yeah, I'm gonna go in. Been working all day and been into school this morning too. So much for my nice quiet weekend. I tried to console myself that we can have next weekend chilling out because OH is off work but he reminded me that the reason he has next weekend off work is because we've got 10 hrs of antenatal classes next weekend. Oh dear. Ah well, not long till mat leave now - 3 work weeks, 15 school get-ups - I'm sure it'll go quickly (yeah, right).
Right, lunch and then back to work, I think. woohoo - la vida loca

 

[millward329]

Hey ladies, well the BH are starting to kick in I think....they are kinda ouchy, just like crampy feelings but didn't expect them to be happening a lot of the time. I guess no-one tells you these things! Just back from church and that nursery curtain WILL get completed today. Sounds like everyone is reasonably well so enjoy the rest of the day

 

[Disneydancr]

How often do your LOs get hiccups? Mine seems to have them nearly all the time. Probably quite an over-exaggeration but about 4 times a day.

about 4 times a day seems to be an under-statement in my case.

Good Morning ladies... You all seem to be doing so well that I feel bad posting my bit of a rant, but I need to vent or I might just turn into a leaky faucet that never shuts off.

I don't know if it's just me, but more often than not, I hate pregnancy. Mom feels sorry for me and thinks there's something wrong because she "Remembers loving being pregnant" and "didn't complain when the baby moved" and "didn't have as many problems" as I do. It makes me feel so weak and helpless and useless.

I'm not on maternity leave yet, per se, but at my job, there is something called pregnancy disability leave, which I can use at any time for any shift if I'm not feeling well enough to go to work, or if I have a doctor's appointment, or if I need to do anything else pregnancy related. I've been calling in for most of my shifts for about the last month- I think I may have been to 1 in the last 4 weeks. I'm having trouble standing for more than a half hour or so at a time, either because I feel faint or because I get searing pains on the bottom left of my bump. The faintness is supposedly because I don't eat or drink enough (but I feel like I'm constantly eating or drinking) and the pain has just been attributed to ligament pain (I've had the same pain for almost 2 months now.) I have a brace I wear when I'm walking any distance, but it makes it hard for me to breathe and doesn't prevent all of the pain. Anyways, because I have been calling in from work, our finances have been going down the drain. OH has been working as many hours as he can, trying to save money to get a car for us, but since I haven't been working, all our savings have gone towards household expenses, and we just don't seem to have enough for anything beyond the basic necessities. I feel so badly! I swore to myself I'm going to go to work today, and just suck it up, but I'm so scared I'm going to be in so much pain or pass out on the job.

Not helping is the fact that my LO will not let me sleep. I was so happy that thursday and friday I was able to sleep through the night- with maybe 1 potty break in the middle, but I went right back to sleep afterward. But this morning, I got up to go pee around 3 and haven't been able to get back to sleep (it's nearing 6 now). Not a good start to a day I'm supposedly going to try to go back to work on. My LO won't stop moving around and keeps getting into my hips or under my ribs. Then she got the hiccups, which make it even harder for me to sleep, and started moving around even more vigorously because she doesn't like hiccups at all. I don't know how, but she passed the hiccups to me too for a while. If it just affected me, it wouldn't be such a big deal, but I so desperately wanted to go back to sleep that I started crying because sleep just wouldn't come... which woke up OH... which made him extra grumpy... which made him have an attitude... which made me feel even worse... which made me cry even harder... which prompted me to come on here and vent.

I can't stand this crap anymore. What I wouldn't give to just enjoy pregnancy like other women and "marvel in the beauty and wonder of the life growing inside me." and all that other bull. I want to sleep through the night, work normal hours, be able to snuggle with OH in bed, have sex, ride the motorcycle, eat what I want, eat as much as I want, not have pains, not feel like I'm going to pass out, and feel like a productive member of society again. Instead I just feel like a lazy couch potato who's only real function is incubation, who's body is no longer her own and who no longer controls what happens to it and who spends her time eating, watching television, napping, and being on the internet... that's all I have energy for.

Sorry again for the rant... It just all needed to be said, and now I feel ashamed, but I just thought I'd share and let you all know how I'm feeling. Yes, I'm fishing for . God knows I need them right now.

 

[Fraggles]

Disney I hate being pregnant and always feel rough so dont worry thinking everyone enjoys it.

Re: hiccups ive never felt them this time or last. What are they meant to feel like.

 

[Disneydancr]

the closest I can equate is a hard rhythmic pulse in your bump, like you feel in your arm when a blood pressure cuff is being deflated. As a matter of fact, I thought that it was just my own pulse when I felt the hiccups for the first time.

 

[Fraggles]

Nope never felt them. Mine just boots me LOTS

 

[Disneydancr]

by the way, where's your ticker? I don't know your EDD or anything!

 

[lovealittle1]

disney

 

[Mom 2B]

awwweee big hugs Disney!

I'm about to rant too!

OH really made me mad this morning. 2 days in a row my LO slept in. yesterday I woke up to him saying very loudly and kinda sharply "I thought she woke up at 8" It was only 9am and his voice like that woke herup. I knew she was going to sleep in because we had a late night and very exciting night. We went bowling for my twin nephews birrhday and it ws my LO's first time. she loved it and was up an hour past bed time so i expected her to sleep an extra hour that morning. Last night she went to bed at her normal time but at 9:30 this morning i woke up to OH snapping at me again. Oh My god! Its 9:30 and shes not awake yet!" he said again very loudly and scared me outta bed. Again she woke up because of him. And so did I. Its not very often that my LO sleeps in during hte week because she hears him getting up and ready for work so its normally 8-8:30 when she gets up. I love when she sleeps in on the weekends because then i can sleep in too! But when he wakes up and realizes shes still sleeping and makes a huge loud deal about it it drives me nuts and makes me mad. I might have still been sleeping if it wasn't for him. He ALWAYS sleeps in on weekends until 11am or even 12 noon. I never can sleep in past 10 onthe very RARE occasion he lets me sleep in

Im soo mad right now!!!!!!!!
I just love sleep especially when i can get it

 

[Fraggles]

Ive never had a ticker up

I ought to do one