*** March Mummies *** 29 Boys, 34 Girls, 8 Team Yellow! 46 babies born!!

[readynwilling]

I don't think its anyone elses business about BF vs FF! I want to BF very badly. And im actually scared i won't be able to cause its so important to me. So if someone is trying and having issues i will always offer encouragement, but i would NEVER say anything bad if they decided to go the FF route

 

[Tanikit]

I agree - while I want to BF very much and it was very important to me last time and is again this time, people differ and as long as baby gets love and food (in some form or other) and all the basics then it is no one else's business. But then I have come up against opinions about why I should and shouldn't have any children at all with all the problems the pregnancies cause let alone how I should feed them and bring them up.

I need to go and make a list of all the things I want to ask tomorrow. Have had low sugar levels tonight though so battling to concentrate - every time they go low I bother my poor baby and try to get her to move as I am getting anxious they are affecting her worse now than in first trimester.

Melissa - hope you and DH get some time together and that you will feel supported.

 

[msarkozi]

I can't get my sugars to go down!! The doctor mentioned that I might need insulin....so he might decide that next week once I see him, and he sees my sugar log book for the week.

Thanks! OH is sucking up, but not enough. He asked me if I was still mad, and I said yes. Then he asked if I still loved him and I said yes but I don't like him right now. So he asked me how long it would take before I liked him again, and I said it won't be today. So we will see how he does tonight when we are both at home.

 

[blessedmomma]

thanks ladies!

tanikit- im sorry you have to deal with so many issues let alone listen to what people think about how many children you want to have. in my opinion thats really yours and DH's business too. we have heard our share of comments about that as well and i dont have any health issues that would effect that, obviously-lol! i hope your little one is ok in there with your sugars. do you have a D day set up yet or are they still monitoring???

i have noticed my lil guy is not moving as much during the day as he was. had me a bit worried, but hubby prayed over him. he still goes nuts at night especially when im trying to fall asleep so i guess he is just day sleeping. which will be really nice when he gets here and still has his days and nights mixed up

 

[blessedmomma]

melissa- at least you get some butt kissing out of it

 

[membas#1]

morning all--just had OB check and all is well...measuring 2 cm ahead (last time was 1 or 2 ahead as well) so that's about the same, GD screen came back just fine! If you recall I was upset cuz I used a home meter and tested myself right after they took blood and it was over the limit at 145 according to the meter, but her test result was 116 (acceptable being 110-140), so yay! iron is good, yay! (was questioning that one as well since I don't take iron supplements and get all trough food). BP is good, 120/78, 2.5 more pounds gained, for total of 15--guess my goal of 20 total for pregnancy is shot at this point with 10 weeks left to go--oh well. so all is well, yay! ultrasound in 2 weeks for advanced maternal age (i won't quite be AMA when she's born but within a few months)...happy to see baby again anyways

As for FF v. BF--everyone has to do what is best for them and their child. There are definitely reasons why some women cannot BF, and they should not be judged or faulted for those. I too worry about something getting in the way of my strong desire to BF, but we all do what we have to do ultimately for our children

 

[codegirl]

Melissa - Please don't get to upset about insulin. It's your placenta that is causing the diabeties so if diet doesn't totally control it, insulin is a good thing. insulin doesn't cross the placenta so the baby won't get any of it, but sugar does cross so you don't want your baby eating in a candy store for the next month or so (that's how my dr. described it).

Trust me, I had the HARDEST time with insulin and getting my head around it, but it's for a short time, you can do this.

 

[braijackava]

My doctor also told me that all the braxton hicks i have been having could be due to my uterus being stressed out since it is getting bigger and my muscles are pretty much shot from the last three pregnancies. So i buckled and bought a support belt on amazon today. Hopefully it will help with the msp too. Hubby is going out of town for a week starting saturday, and went back to work today and works everyday until he leaves. I am a little worried about my mental state while he is gone! So if i am on here a lot and emotional you guys will know why.

 

[braijackava]

Grrrrr everytime i right s p d my phone changes it to msp. Sorry

 

[braijackava]

Write.......i give up haha

 

[blessedmomma]

brai- hope you make it through ok sweets! i know how hard it will be for you being 8 months pregnant and 3 kids to take care of...

melissa- im sorry you may have to take insulin. at least you can tell yourself you did what you were supposed to, its not like your on a diet of candy bars and tootsie rolls. you made the changes for your baby and if this is another change you have to make for baby to be healthy then you are strong enough to conquer that too!!!

 

[2nd time]

thanks i a trying to plan dds first birthday but everytime i look at birthday stuffi cry lol she is so wonderful to me at least wish i knew how to put a video up could give you all a laugh

 

[msarkozi]

Thanks...I just don't like needles!! I am a pansy when it comes to them (but yet I have tattoos, go figure, lol). I hate poking myself to test the blood sugars, so if I have to do insulin, then I am going to have to give myself huge pep talks before doing it, lol!

where's Natty? is she mia now too????

 

[MumtoJ]

Membas, glad your appointment went well and it was good news all around.

Melissa, if you do need insulin you only have a couple of weeks left really and if its going to be whats best for baby you'll grit your teeth and get through it. I'm glad you OH is at least admiting you have a reason to be mad at him, would be worse if he couldn't see that he'd done anything wrong. Maybe he just needed to have one more mad night before baby came as he's not really going to be able to do that once he's here ???

Brai, come on here as much as you need we will all try and give you what ever support we can, sorry we can't be there with you to offer physical support too. Let me know how you get on with the support belt, I've looked a couple of times but not gone through with the purchase.

Tankit, hope the lows settle down and you get all your questions down, are you back at home now? how is it going?

Pinky, any update - hope your BP was ok

 

[codegirl]

Melissa - I have to have that self talk every time I give myself the shot and I've been doing it for months now. You can do it and you can always vent to us

 

[Shell'sAngels]

oh god girls im soooooooooooo tired my 2 year old is going through a god awful phase since we been away to get our attention hes decided to wake up in the night and try and get in with us, he keeps on screaming headbutting things going mental and its so bad hes waking up the neighbours! i just dunno what to do i wont give in to him cuse i refuse to have him in with us as he will think he can get away with it and with baby due im gonna have him in my room for the first few months, i just am at my wits end and so so tired i just want to sleep and he screamed last night from 1.30 till 3.30 am woke his brother up too, praying its just a phase!

 

[MumtoJ]

Oh Shell you have my sympathy, J was playing up a while back, getting us up 5-6 times a night and just not sleeping well, luckily we are detached so he'd have to make a mamoth amount of noise in order to wake the neighbours. But it was such hard work while it lasted.

We currently are using a star chart and bed is one of the things on it, its working pretty well but bed stars have only had about a 50% success rate but some of the misses have been him playing up with going to bed rather than not staying there once in. With J I think its often his bladder waking him up but he's too lazy to go to the loo and then can't get back to sleep / keeps waking up.

Hope he calms down soon for you.

 

[msarkozi]

Cathryn - thanks! It was because his friend is here....my OH said he would not drink anymore, because he used to do this to me all the time and it was causing major fights between us. And I voiced my concern to him last night, that now that his friend is here and living with us, I asked if he was going to go back to drinking again, and he said no. He just phoned and he is still sucking up. I told him that he and his friend can kiss my ass!! Apparently his friend is scared that I am going to yell at him when I get home from work I was like good!! I've never met the guy before, so he isn't off to a good start....

Code - do you have a pattern to your sugars at all? I have a couple readings now, and it kinda looks funny to me. My one after supper last night was 9.2. Then before breakfast this morning it was 7.8. After breakfast it was 7.4 (it was a 2 hrs to test instead of 1 since I was in with the doctor). Before lunch it was 4.2, and now after lunch it is 8.1. I find it weird that it would go to 4.2, especially since I had a snack between breakfast and lunch. But it seems to spike up after eating again......as long as I can stay under 10, they won't put me on insulin, but the doctor said he wants to see me under 8........

Shell -

 

[pinkycat]

Blessedmomma- You have no reason to feel guilty some mums can be very cruel about the whole FF/BF thing.

Cathryn- I went to the pharmacy but they wouldn't check my BP cos im prego but the pharmacist went next door to the docs and said i needed to be seen there and then as i looked dreadfull (thanks mate ) and BP was fine and bubs HB was ok. Think it's avirus cos my dad rang to say he wouldn't be coming round as he was feeling sick and dizzy with a headache, same as me. Thanks for asking xx

 

[codegirl]

Melissa - I only test first thing in the morning and then one hour after each meal, so 4 times a day. I'm not sure what my sugars look like before I eat.

My fasting is always above 5.3 without insulin so I have to give myself a shot at night. My specialist has tightened up my criteria so now if I have two mornings higher than 5 I have to increase my insulin by 2 units.

I'm able to keep my sugars below 7.7 for post meals which means I currently don't need to take any insulin at meal times. But it would only take two days in a row for one meal (so two breakfasts, or two lunches) to start requiring insulin for that meal. I'm usually between 6 and 7 for post meals IF I follow the appropriate diet they gave me.

Don't know if that help or not