June Bundles of Joy - 2016

[lynnikins]

tinkerbelle , if you want to see the MW you can always call the clinic and book to see someone but they normally won't book as many appointments for low risk second+ timers as there arent enough mw's to handle that kind of demand, i know i need to get my mw appointments booked at the previous one or at least a month in advance to be able to see her unless its really urgent and then they advise me to go to the EPU anyway till 20 wks then to labour ward with anything urgent as the community care teams have to handle both Antenatal and Postnatal care and the Home birth lot too unless the trust is lucky to have a seperate HB team. My MW though is always happy to discuss stuff on the phone with me if I need to talk to her about something thats worrying me for any reason.

 

[mommyxofxone]

:wave: hi ladies sorry i've been mia, just got home from vacation! how is everyone doing? can you ladies fill me in on anything important i missed? i can't possibly read all those pages lol! just a brief summary would be awesome.

any scans coming up?

i get to have my next ob appt tomorrow but no scans til jan. i get to hear hb though and i'll be happy with that for now!

 

[mommyxofxone]

can you believe we'll be in second tri soon?! omg!

 

[gaiagirl]

Gaiagirl - we have had or first poop in the toilet this morning, hallelujah! we had an engineer servicing our boiler so she had no choice bit to use the toilet upstairs. we are going tp the shop to buy a cheap toy after promising her for months when she poops on the loo she can buy a small toy. I usually make OH sort her out too

That's great! Do you mean on the adult potty rather than little toddler one, or first poop in any potty at all?!?! Exciting either way but bigger if it was her first non diaper poop!

DS has been out of diapers since 28 months but he still uses the little potty that I have to dump out and even that is incredibly difficult this past 2 months!

 

[gaiagirl]

I'm surprised you ladies have to have internal US so close to 12 weeks. I had abdominal at 9.5 weeks and it was totally fine! Ugh I don't think I would even want an US if it was internal...that weirds me out!

Speaking if internal, I need a PAP but have never had one in pregnancy. I'll likely wait until close to 20 weeks because I don't love idea of first trimester inserting speculum etc...anyone had one in pregnancy? Tips?

 

[Lil_Pixie]

Xander never used a little potty - he loved making us take him upstairs every 10 mins compared to smelly potty poops I'm very grateful!

 

[Lil_Pixie]

I had a private abdominal scan at 9 weeks but my epau has a policy of internal scans before 12 weeks

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Lol Geralyn I would have found that so awkward yet funny!

Mommyofone hope you had a good holiday, I have my scan tomorrow morning. Then I think there's literally just a couple more ladies left to be scanned. I just cannot believe how fast it's all going!

 

[Becyboo__x]

:wave: hi ladies sorry i've been mia, just got home from vacation! how is everyone doing? can you ladies fill me in on anything important i missed? i can't possibly read all those pages lol! just a brief summary would be awesome.

any scans coming up?

i get to have my next ob appt tomorrow but no scans til jan. i get to hear hb though and i'll be happy with that for now!

Hope you had a good time

I had a scan yesterday few pages back I think the pictures are all healthy
Have another soon as OHs mum is insisting to get us a early private scan for gender

 

[tinkerbelle93]

We have the issue with my son where he will still only poo in a nappy. He's been potty trained wee-wise for over a year with no issues at all but when he needs a poo he insists we put a nappy on him. I have no idea what to do, at 1 point we just stopped buying them but he refused to go at all for days and the dr told me this wasn't the right way to go about it, but no other advice has worked so far. It's very common apparently.

 

[vaniilla]

I'm surprised you ladies have to have internal US so close to 12 weeks. I had abdominal at 9.5 weeks and it was totally fine! Ugh I don't think I would even want an US if it was internal...that weirds me out!

Speaking if internal, I need a PAP but have never had one in pregnancy. I'll likely wait until close to 20 weeks because I don't love idea of first trimester inserting speculum etc...anyone had one in pregnancy? Tips?

I need one and was told to book one at the 6 week postnatal check up, I don't think they do them here during pregnancy.

 

[Lil_Pixie]

Tink my nephew did the exact same thing till well after he turned 4. Honestly one day he just stopped doing it on his own. My sister just used to say he won't be doing this when he's 10, leave him be and she was right.

I'm having to remind myself the same thing when it comes to being dry though the night - Xander is 4 on sunday and is nowhere near ready to go to bed without a nappy.

 

[joo]

That's great! Do you mean on the adult potty rather than little toddler one, or first poop in any potty at all?!?! Exciting either way but bigger if it was her first non diaper poop!

DS has been out of diapers since 28 months but he still uses the little potty that I have to dump out and even that is incredibly difficult this past 2 months!

In the adult toilet! She pees on the toilet all of the time but eventually poops on the potty after holding it in for too long. we took her out to buy a toy for going on the adult toilet but it's broken! so we went out to a different shop for something else's and that has broken too

 

[joo]

We have the issue with my son where he will still only poo in a nappy. He's been potty trained wee-wise for over a year with no issues at all but when he needs a poo he insists we put a nappy on him. I have no idea what to do, at 1 point we just stopped buying them but he refused to go at all for days and the dr told me this wasn't the right way to go about it, but no other advice has worked so far. It's very common apparently.

Aw tinkerbelle that is rough. i have heard that it's so common. my dd with holds her poops but this started before potty training. It has been a gradual thing but she is slowly going a bit more regularly. I hope you get sorted with your son, but most likely will be a wait it out and he'll suddenly do it scenario xx

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Thank you ladies, it's very reassuring knowing how common it is. I'm soo hoping it sorts itself out before baby is here so I'm not changing 2 lots of pooey nappies every day

 

[Becyboo__x]

We have the issue with my son where he will still only poo in a nappy. He's been potty trained wee-wise for over a year with no issues at all but when he needs a poo he insists we put a nappy on him. I have no idea what to do, at 1 point we just stopped buying them but he refused to go at all for days and the dr told me this wasn't the right way to go about it, but no other advice has worked so far. It's very common apparently.

I never had that problem my son took awhile to stay dry at night mainly but he always climbed onto the big toilet for #2 used to love going even sing I'm not sure what you can do Ive not heard of it before only kids not wanting to wear pants etc .. I hated potty training with my son he was hard I hope you can find a way around it I'm sure you will before baby is here though!

 

[GeralynB]

I had a Pap smear when I was pregnant last time at 8 weeks. It was no problem

 

[Lil_Pixie]

Like vanilla said I'm not sure they do them in pregnancy in the UK. I needed one when I was pregnant with Xander and I was told to go a few months after he was born instead.

 

[joo]

For some.reason they don't do smears while pregnant here. like vaniilla said i was told to book mine after my DD was born after I'd healed. I also had booked to have some swabs a while back for recurrent BV, had to wait a month for the appointment by which time I'd found out i was pregnant so they wouldn't do them, only did a lower swab . I wonder why it's so different here.

 

[vaniilla]

For some.reason they don't do smears while pregnant here. like vaniilla said i was told to book mine after my DD was born after I'd healed. I also had booked to have some swabs a while back for recurrent BV, had to wait a month for the appointment by which time I'd found out i was pregnant so they wouldn't do them, only did a lower swab . I wonder why it's so different here.

The nhs website says this :

Cervical screening and pregnancy

In most cases, it is not recommended that a woman has a cervical screening test while she is, or could be, pregnant. This is because pregnancy can make the result of your test harder to interpret.

So I guess they wait until it's easier for them to get good results.


DS was easy thankfully to potty train but in the second week he went through a short (but disgusting ) phase of going to the potty but pooping in his hand and bringing it to me, once I was on the phone and held my hand out without realizing what was going on It took him nearly a year to willingly sit on the toilet though, cleaning potties not fun!

Night time readiness needs a change in the brain to take place, they have no control over it so it happens when it does, we switched ds to pants and waterproof sheets when we stopped having more than 3 accidents at night and it went from there - not allowing water 2 hours before bedtime really helped.