Mother of all conception months Graduates

[molly85]

keeping your legs closed is now not a option. along with 4000 other things i amgnna ask to do this damn swab as i am checked for everything else under the sun.

 

[molly85]

vbaby did u use the loo at any time? lol
peanut how could u miss the date???? considering my internal scan was rather painful actually made me sick looking for my ovaries I'm suprised abby actually stuck

 

[vbaby3]

Only once just before I called the midwife,and there was definately no gush.It was hard enough even taking a pee coz baby was nearly out lol!!

 

[molly85]

Maybe they went before that. Rumour has it you dnt have to gush, not sure how true that is?

 

[vbaby3]

Yeh I know,but didn't feel any wetness at all,not even damp.I had very little cm with oran.
God knows if they did go before how long they were gone for,coz I certaintly didn't notice!!
Alls well that ends well anyway,at least wee man was fit and healthy!!

 

[PeanutBean]

molly the date was written very small indeed! I'm thinking about my bloody homebirth, I think my response was good enough without noticing the glaringly obvious!

vbaby - mysterious waters! The reason for going in is to get antibiotics so if I can convince them to consider giving them to me at home that actually relieves my original worry of my waters going first and my having to go in. I was able to go in the pool and everything at the hospital so the Iv makes no odds. They can leave the canula in your hand and doesn't it have a turny thing so you can connect and disconnect for each dose? The problems started after that and because of the pressure to deliver in teh space of 9 hours (they didn't even tell me I'd have to go when I popped into hospital after waters had gone as Byron wasn't moving much).

I can also arrange to go in and get a dose there at the start of labour but if it is quite long I'd really need someone to be able to come here. I might just be the resident insane woman, like an agorophobic or something and refuse point blank to go in unless either of our lives are actually in danger. Then they HAVE to send someone! Apparently I get the prescription for them from GP in advance so it's just getting someone qualified to administer them.

 

[PeanutBean]

Maybe you didn't have so much water vbaby? I definitely had too much with Byron. I was just so big you wouldn't believe (I'll see if I can find a pic) and after they'd gone I looked no more pregnant that I do now. He was only 6lb12. It was ALL water!

 

[vbaby3]

You stick your ground peanut(i know you will)and get what you want this time!At the end of the day you don't have to do anything you don't want to,regardless.Your baby your body.
By the way I think you're being very brave going for a homebirth.
Although the comfort would be lovely,and the hospital is horrible I feel very re assured by the drugs and the people in white coats!!!

 

[molly85]

yup you could employ a nurse Peanut. hehe love being use. it was a very good answer by the way. I ddnt read it all, done to many dodgy articals in the last few years.

 

[PeanutBean]

What I looked like at about 37 weeks so days before the birth and seriously only a little smaller than I looked after my waters had gone.

 

[PeanutBean]

You stick your ground peanut(i know you will)and get what you want this time!At the end of the day you don't have to do anything you don't want to,regardless.Your baby your body.
By the way I think you're being very brave going for a homebirth.
Although the comfort would be lovely,and the hospital is horrible I feel very re assured by the drugs and the people in white coats!!!

See it's the opposite for me. I begin to think I actually fear hospitals a bit though I didn't realise it. I have nothing but horrible, frightening, pregnancy related experiences with them so I guess it's no surprise. Not just Byron's birth but other times too. Generally I feel much happier trusting my body over things and am always reluctant to get medical help for pretty much anything, with the exception of things like vaccinations I guess.

 

[vbaby3]

Well at the end of the there's nothing more natural than childbirth,Your body knows what its gotta do,I really hope you get your home birth this time.
I do hate the hospital,and cried when they made me stay in with my high bp with shay.
I'm just hoping this birth will be as quick as last 1,and i'll be in and out!

 

[loopylollipop]

Happy scan day tomorrow Gilz!

I am with Peanut. Avoid hospitals.at.all.costs.

 

[molly85]

lol,why am i so happy in hospital til they seem to not know what hey are doing?

is the right hand picture you now and teh left 37 weeks?

And her is me aweek ago

 

[gilz82]

Happy scan day tomorrow Gilz!

I am with Peanut. Avoid hospitals.at.all.costs.

Thanks Loopy I'm so excited to see our little man again

I dont think I'd like a home birth, but I would have prefered to have the baby in the midwife lead ward at my maternity unit. Unfortunately as soon as they made me high risk that was that plan out of the window.

It's maybe me sticking my head in the sand but I try not to focus on the giving birth part to much if I can help it

 

[PeanutBean]

Aw Gilz, I always think of you when I moan about my hospital birth experience. But I guess I'd not even consider it if I had the complications you have. What I resent is not that the medical interventions are there but that they are routinely used on women who don't need them. It's so wasteful and leaves us shattered emotional wrecks like me! But it's marvellous when there are real reasons for it like transverse babies and ladies with one kidney

Molly the second picture was me at 24 weeks last time, I reckon I'm a little bigger now but not much.

 

[pinkclaire]

Hello ladies, have you all had a good day?

I am with you Peanut, I am scared by hospitals and what interventions they might force me to do! Id love a homebirth, but we'll be living in married quarters then and those places are like gossip central, I feel a bit embarrassed if anyone heard me screaming! lol. Anyway I'm going to a birthing centre which is lovely and where I gave birth to James, I feel totally at ease there!

Great about your matt leave!

Who was on about the scans? basically they should only be used for routine, our 2 have more benefits than negatives, well in my opinion anyway!

xx

 

[PeanutBean]

See our birthing centre is miles and miles away so if something serous DID go wrong I'd have no emergency medical care close by wehreas my hospital is only 15 mins normal drive in good traffic (and not a great deal more in bad). I don't understand how it even works with the birth centre as it's in a different county!

Sorry for not having said yet but - good luck for the scan tomorrow Gilz and Sat Loopy!!! I know they will be fab! Excited to hear your baby's gender too Loopy.

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Evening Ladies :wave:

Glad to hear your feeling a tad better today Gilz hon and for scan day tomorrow Dont rush back to work though until you are def ready...look what happened when I rushed back through worry

Dare hon take no bloody notice of that email from your mum....is she mental emailing you something like that we worry enough us pregnant ladies without recieving the likes of an email like that Put it in the trash bin like Molly suggested

Peanut hon am gutted about this whole GBS thing for you and I really do hope you get your homebirth and they can sort it out for you Its funny as the swab was taken by chance and without your permission so you might never have known. Am with madcat and molly in asking how is it contracted/how do you get it Am assuming it would have been picked up with Oliver after the horrendous time I had but then maybe not

Loopy hon not long until your scan on Sat

Pink and Peanut your made me with all the talk of little boys and there willies Oliver is 5yrs old and pretty much walks around with his hand permanently glued to it

Well Ladies am not a happy f**king bunny I went to my GPs this eve cause these pains have been constantly bugging me to the point where I cant no longer ignore it plus I have had a niggle that its not `stretching` so to speak and that it could be a UTI cause in the last two days since returning to work I am struggling to walk again It also cripples me to turn over in bed and it feels like my VJ is being torn in two Well sure enough I HAVE ANOTHER DAMN UTI! and ANOTHER course of antibiotics....will only be my 6th dose now grrrrrrrrrrr! Am thinking I should just be put on the permanent antibiotics until delivery like the consultant at the antenatal clinic suggested should another uti rear its ugly head cause am obviously prone to them whilst pregnant this time. I get a course finish it and am ok for a week or two but then I get another one inbetween am on antibiotics for viral, chest and throat infections....cant bloody win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[gilz82]

Madly huge you definitely need to be asking to be put on a profalactic dose of antibiotics for the rest of your pregnancy. This won't do you or your little monkey any harm at all but continual UTIs can pose a really serious threat, cos if they turn into a kidney infection that's really not good.

This is for sure one topic I know loads about both pre-pregnancy and now being pregnant so don't let your dr or mw fob you off