Lucky thread

[cathgibbs]

lol i keep posting when people are posting lol!

Felt sick yesterday hun and i got 2 lovely spots on my chin eurgh!

When is DF going back to work full time? do you have any check ups with your C section hun or have they discharged you xxx

 

[baileybubs]

Hi Amy! Hope you had a good nights sleep.

 

[baileybubs]

I am still seeing the midwife at the mo Cath. My blood pressure is still high so they won't sign me off but my scar is apparently healing well.
And df goes back to work on Friday. They've been really arsey with him about it, made him take this week unpaid because they are saying he hasn't accrued enough holiday pay yet. But now they are whinging because he has been off at all, but like he said what was he supposed to do, leave me at home with a newborn when I couldn't walk?

 

[cathgibbs]

Oh for Petes sake why are some companies so bloody horrible regarding paternity leave!!! You just had a C Section so you needed him there to help you out! xxx

 

[Tawn]

I agree, that is totally ridiculous Bailey! And I thought he had a weeks holiday built up that they canceled on him like a few days before back in March? Couldn't he be using that?

Cath, I was sooooo spotty with my BFP this time, it was disgusting! What did your google about progesterone show up? I thought it was a good thing for it to be high, right? But it must make it a PITA if it is causing you all these TWW symptoms! Can't bloody win sometimes with all this stuff, huh!?????!?!??!

And yes, I am getting a bit more tired lately, but I find keeping active and pushing through it really helps, whereas if I layed down on the sofa I would zonk out and be feeling worse off. So I usually just push through (secretly hoping that all the activity will kick things off, yeah right! LOL) and get on with it and it perks me up a bit or at least distracts me. But I am verrrry stubborn like that! I am a do-it-myself kinda girl!

 

[baileybubs]

Lol I can just imagine you running around your house with flight of the bumblebee music accompanying it Tawn whilst you zoom through all the housework haha! I don't blame you for pushing through, sometimes my naps seemed to make me feel worse!

Yeah my df's boss is a jackass. He doesn't seem to understand that a c section is major surgery. He has had one week off holiday pay but that started last Friday when I have birth, he would have been due to go back Friday just gone when I still couldn't walk! But his boss said to him the day I gave birth "you can have 2 weeks off but only one of them you will get paid for" so df said fine I just need it off we'll have to cope. Now his boss is saying the owner isn't happy that he's taken 2 weeks off, but my argument is he told him he could!! Can't say he can have it but it has to be unpaid and then say he isn't happy. I think he honestly expected df to say he couldn't afford a week unpaid and to only take 1 week off. Clearly doesn't understand that when he says I couldn't walk he really meant it lol!!

 

[AmyB1978]

Bailey, DF's boss is a right jackass! I hope they don't give him too much grief! How's he doing being a daddy? I just came across this and thought of you and Millie... https://kellymom.com/parenting/parenting-faq/fussybaby/

Cath, sorry you've got so many unpleasant symptoms, our bodies and cycles can be so annoying! Hope you get a BFP really soon! Is the clear clue trial just for one cycle?

Tawn, you inspire me! So positive and full of energy! Sounds like some serious nesting is kicking in as well... Come on Maddie!

 

[baileybubs]

Thanks for that link Amy!

 

[baileybubs]

It's been very quiet on here today, especially from Cheryl who has been for a MW appt and a sweep! Maybe Leo will be another due date baby!!

 

[cupcake1981]

Hey ladies

Been to London to so no signal, pain in the ass to go there and I'm knackered now but at least I didn't have to spend 8 hours on my horrible work chair!

Tawn I can't believe your energy! You are amazing! Please get a little rest before labour!!

Cath your shoes are LUSH! If bubba is a girl I will order some! I really hope you get a bfp this month babe, it's been too long coming, i think cos you've been relaxed and not really thinking about it Sod's law it will happen!

Cheryl - are you in labour!?!

Hi Leinz! Are you ttc again yet?

Amy how are you and Emily today?

Shellie have you been tempted to test today?

Mrs d how's work?

Sorry if Ive forgotten anyone......so tired.....

X

 

[cupcake1981]

Oh, and I'm having wobbles about finding out the sex......thinking about staying team yellow.....

 

[baileybubs]

Argh no you can't do that to us cupcake lol!!! Just kidding Hun, what's making you want to say team yellow?

 

[cupcake1981]

Only cos everyone keeps saying to me to wait and have a surprise when it's born.....I just dont want to regret finding out the sex! Not that I think I will!

 

[AmyB1978]

Cupcake, what does DH think about staying team yellow? You have to do what feels right for both of you!

Cheryl, is Leo being born, is that why you are so quiet?

MrsD, I hope your day is going okay.

My DH is at work but we've been chatting about finances and money is a lot tighter then we were initially thinking it would be. He also is finishing school and will owe money for student loans starting end of this year/beginning of next. This means money will be even TIGHTER and I am not sure how we are going to make ends meet... even if I am working full-time, especially since then we have the added expense of daycare. So now I (we) are all stressed out about money and it also has me thinking about leaving Emily. Whenever I think about leaving her I start crying and have this panicky feeling like I can't breathe.... it is just a tough day today and I needed to vent it somewhere.. I am sure it will all work out somehow...

 

[cupcake1981]

I've not told him Amy, I think he'll go along with what I want!

I think as far as money goes, things have a way of working themselves out in the end. Try not to panic too much. Do you have a spare room that you could rent out to help things? What about if you worked evenings so Emily could stay with dh and you could be with get in the day?

 

[AmyB1978]

Thanks for the suggestions. We do have a spare room but our home is small, probably too small o have a renter living in it. We have talked about me working evenings/weekends and I am going to, at least, start working Saturdays at my old job. I am sure we will work things out, it's jut. Bit scary at the moment and then when you add in the thought of having to leave her it becomes a bit too much.

 

[Tawn]

OMG Cupcake NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Don't do that to me! I mean.... ummmm.... it's what you think is best.... LOL I just know I couldn't have waited that long to buy cute things and plan the nursery and stuff, so it amazes me that some people have that patience!

Amy, is there any way you might be able to find some sort of opportunity to work from home? Or at least part-time from home? I know it must be so stressful thinking of leaving Emily, but I know you and your DH will find a solution that works best for your whole family in the long run.

MrsD, I see you lurking! How was day 2? Better or worse?

AFM, I literally was a cliche today and decided to scrub my kitchen (and living room LOL) floors on my hands and knees! Not because I particularly enjoyed it, that nesting phase has tapered off, but mostly because I have this sneaking suspicion that Madison is being a naughty baby and has turned posterior so I heard the hands and knees position might help.

I am trying not to stress too much about it, but it is making me a bit wobbly because I have invested so much time and effort into researching and hypnobirthing and drinking 4 freaking cups of raspberry leaf tea a day, I just would really hate to have to skew off my hopes for my birth right from the word go if she is back to back the whole time and I can't cope with the back labour or she needs interventions being born because of the bad positioning. Oh well, c'est la vie! At least my floors are sparkly!

 

[cupcake1981]

I totally understand Amy, my baby is not even born yet and I panic about having to leave it, I want to go back 3 data a week but I don't know if work will take me back on that basis. I have worried about money but I'm just trying not to think about it for now!

 

[cupcake1981]

Tawn when did you start the RL tea? I plan to take that to. When do you see the mw again for her to check position of baby?

I think we prob will still find out at the scan.....just need to be 100% sure before we do find out!

 

[Tawn]

Phew! At least there is a chance I will get to know whether you are team pink or team blue!

I started 1 cup a day at 35 weeks I think. Then increased to 2, then 3, and am now on 4 cups a day. My midwife didn't want me to start before then, but plenty of women do and have no issues. Even drinking 4 cups a day, I don't get any BH or anything from it, so I am sure I would have been fine but I am OK with the timing of it as it was.

I don't have any appointments until next Thursday (aka 9 days and 2 days after my due date) when I will get a sweep if I'm still pg! So a lonnnnng time of waiting and seeing if she is indeed posterior, but I am 95% sure she is because of where I feel her movements now and where I find her heartbeat on the doppler. But plenty of babies rotate during labour, so I am just going to do lots of positive visualization and have a stern talking with her to tell her to ROTATE TO LOA!!!