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[timeforababy]

Dan o and Medzi

As far as I know, she recommended harvesting some in case baby can't control blood sugars when born. If baby needs an extra feed and I can't keep up production it will avoid having to give formula.

The Internet seems to suggest harvesting from 35 weeks onwards so I may leave it for a bit. I see the specialist teams on Monday so will ask again then

 

[Medzi]

Interesting!

 

[Babygirl3289]

Hello ladies! Hope everyone is having a good day.

Sorry about the low / high blood pressures. Hope things start to stay stable.

Yesterday the baby felt like he was kicking my cervix and bladder - very weird feeling ! Definitely uncomfortable! I felt his foot was going to come through my vagina! haha

My arm is pretty sore from the pertussis vaccine still and the Phlebotomist blew my vein when she drew my blood for the glucose testing. It didn't hurt though at all, its just bruised.

How long does it take to get GTT results back?

 

[babyvaughan]

My appointment went well yesterday, measuring right on track again. HB was good still no irregular beats As for me still poor blood circulation, and Dr. and I believe I have RLS which has been driving me nuts and keeping me from sleeping. Going to make an appointment with my primary care today but for now shes having me try iron to see if it makes any difference! She said if everything looks good at my 32 week scan, then it will probably be my last growth scan. Then i'll just have non stress tests! I have another appointment to add for June but I'll have to post after I find my paper! Also found out the two doctors who will be performing my C-section and I hadn't met them yet so I set it up to see both of them.

 

[ptr]

i wouldn't really recommend expressing before delivery.

you WILL produce enough if you have the baby latched on and feed, feed, feed. even if it's only for 2 minutes, it's still a feed.

feeding from the bottle only tells your breasts that what you previously fed by the breast is "enough" when it is not enough.

 

[sammynashley]

Lovely bumps ladies!

Tonya- not long to go!

Medzi- hope your blood pressure doesn't rise much more?

Babyvaughan- glad your appt went well, very jealous tho that I haven't got my csection date yet

Babygirl- I had baby kicking my in the cervix yesterday, was very very uncomfortable and slightly painful.

Afm- I had my midwife appt yesterday, my BP seems to be staying put after my little worry of it being high. Baby's still transverse and hasn't moved position atall he must be too comfy there belly is measuring a week ahead but I'm not not worried atall at 27w I was measuring 30w!

I also asked about my placenta being low and at the front causing any issues and annoyingly the midwife did confirm it could caused me to bleed out if they weren't sure on it's placement when they did my csection, so I have my next scan & consultant appt on the 26th and aslong as it's 3.5cms from the OS I should be fine so fingers crossed it's moved by then!

 

[Jrepp]

I had a pretty interesting day. Went to Ob screening because of the baby shaking. I was starting to get worried, they were more worried about the leaking fluid. Was put on monitors for a couple hours and they did an exam. All is well but it was quite draining,

 

[Babygirl3289]

I had a pretty interesting day. Went to Ob screening because of the baby shaking. I was starting to get worried, they were more worried about the leaking fluid. Was put on monitors for a couple hours and they did an exam. All is well but it was quite draining,

Glad everything is ok.

The baby was shaking? and I didn't know you were leaking fluid? Was it coming from your vagina?

 

[Srrme]

I've re-scheduled my appointment from tomorrow evening to Monday evening.

I'm so happy to have reached 32 weeks already. I can't wait for the next 5 weeks to go by. We've finally bought everything for baby, except for some NB cloth diapers. I still have to buy those.

My little girl is so squirmy lately. She's definitely running out of room. I hope she's still head down. The last time I went to my MW she said she was. Does anyone know how accurate they are with this sort of thing? I keep worrying about delivering a breech baby (I'm going for a home-birth)!

I hope everyone else is doing well! Not too long now!

 

[babyvaughan]

Sammy- have you asked to scheldule? I asked and they said 3 mo before I could so I reminded Dr. 28 weeks and she put the order in.

 

[sammynashley]

Sammy- have you asked to scheldule? I asked and they said 3 mo before I could so I reminded Dr. 28 weeks and she put the order in.

I asked the midwife last night and she said they won't book until 36 weeks
but I see my consultant at 34 weeks so I'll try my best for them to give me a date then, I have to write a letter to DS school to approve time off so he can stay at mil's 40miles away when we have baby so need to know ASAP ideally.

 

[Bubbles1088]

Jrepp I didn't realize you were leaking fluids. I'm glad everything seems ok...how scary though.

AFM, preregistered at the hospital yesterday! Glad that's done. Now we just need to look for a pediatrician. Also, my ears got all ringy and weird yesterday after I exercised...I'm guessing blood pressure again. And I felt really weird at the grocery store before that, didn't feel better until I sat down in the car. :/ I've taken it extra easy today. Taking a day off from exercise. Just went with DH to get Mother's Day gifts for our moms and I vacuumed the apt. Now I'm just going to relax for the rest of the evening. Hoping to get back to walking tomorrow. My ears got ringy and weird this morning in the shower too. I really hope this doesn't become a recurrent or major problem.

 

[Jrepp]

I had a pretty interesting day. Went to Ob screening because of the baby shaking. I was starting to get worried, they were more worried about the leaking fluid. Was put on monitors for a couple hours and they did an exam. All is well but it was quite draining,

Glad everything is ok.

The baby was shaking? and I didn't know you were leaking fluid? Was it coming from your vagina?

Yeah, he's been having these weird tremors that feel like a whole body shake for a few weeks now. At first I thought he had the heebie jeebies but it hasn't really settled down, even though it doesn't happen all the time. The fluid was coming from my vagina, but it turns out I just have really watery and abundant amounts of discharge. I will ask the doctor to check fluid levels next week at my appointment.

I've re-scheduled my appointment from tomorrow evening to Monday evening.

I'm so happy to have reached 32 weeks already. I can't wait for the next 5 weeks to go by. We've finally bought everything for baby, except for some NB cloth diapers. I still have to buy those.

My little girl is so squirmy lately. She's definitely running out of room. I hope she's still head down. The last time I went to my MW she said she was. Does anyone know how accurate they are with this sort of thing? I keep worrying about delivering a breech baby (I'm going for a home-birth)!

I hope everyone else is doing well! Not too long now!

What brand of cloth diapers are you going to use?

Sammy- have you asked to scheldule? I asked and they said 3 mo before I could so I reminded Dr. 28 weeks and she put the order in.

I asked the midwife last night and she said they won't book until 36 weeks
but I see my consultant at 34 weeks so I'll try my best for them to give me a date then, I have to write a letter to DS school to approve time off so he can stay at mil's 40miles away when we have baby so need to know ASAP ideally.

Hopefully they can get you all sorted out so you can let the school know asap!

Jrepp I didn't realize you were leaking fluids. I'm glad everything seems ok...how scary though.

AFM, preregistered at the hospital yesterday! Glad that's done. Now we just need to look for a pediatrician. Also, my ears got all ringy and weird yesterday after I exercised...I'm guessing blood pressure again. And I felt really weird at the grocery store before that, didn't feel better until I sat down in the car. :/ I've taken it extra easy today. Taking a day off from exercise. Just went with DH to get Mother's Day gifts for our moms and I vacuumed the apt. Now I'm just going to relax for the rest of the evening. Hoping to get back to walking tomorrow. My ears got ringy and weird this morning in the shower too. I really hope this doesn't become a recurrent or major problem.

How exciting! I hope the ringing ears is nothing concerning. I found that my ears ring if I'm dehydrated. Make sure to stay up on fluids.

 

[Bubbles1088]

Thanks, Jrepp. I don't think it's dehydration...I drink tons of water every day. I've been trying to keep it light around bedtime though so I'm not up all night peeing. It hasn't really solved that problem of course, but it was worth a try. But yeah...I've always heard ringing in the ears signifies a blood pressure issue. It doesn't feel like normal ear ringing though, it's like my hearing gets slightly muted and there's a ring over it? It's hard to describe.

 

[TonyaG]

My C-section is officially booked for May 23
So I'm adding a day to my hospital stay, but it's an extra day for the girls to get bigger.

 

[Medzi]

Exciting Tonya! My son turns 2 the following day It is going to come quickly!

 

[sammynashley]

How exciting Tonya

 

[Ms Elizabeth]

Ladies...tsa pre check rocks! !! I just skipped the line with no scan. Little boy doesn't want more scans. Lol

Happy early mother's day!

 

[MKHewson]

My C-section is officially booked for May 23
So I'm adding a day to my hospital stay, but it's an extra day for the girls to get bigger.

I have my section date as well, July 13, unless I spontaneously go into labor.

 

[dan-o]

Oooh exciting you have dates ladies! I will keep adding them to the front page!

I had the MW this morning and she confirmed my baby has popped out into transverse lie, the little tinker! No wonder my bladder was more comfortable this morning (yet my abs are screaming lol) fundal height smack on, so my smallish bump is just me.