Mother of all conception months Graduates

[vbaby3]

Hi girls,happy new wks for today and tomorrow!
Good luck again with your scans today sofie and pink!!

I think madly and peanut covered everything for the hospital bag,and i also did the same madly,got about 10 cheap black knickers from primark!
I'd also advise 'always nighttime' instead of maternity pads.
I found the maternity pads bunched in the middle.
And yes,you sill need breast pads even if your not breastfeeding,i have a destroyed matress to show for not knowing that!!Smelt like vanilla ice cream though!!!

And like madly said different people will tell you different things about making bottles.I did it the old fashioned way and made up 5 or 6 bottles at a time,cooled them quicly and then straight into the fridge.
I also had a bottle warmer and found it great.For night feeds as soon as lo stirred i'd flick the swith on it and let it heat for a minute then run down and get a bottle from the fridge.
I'd lift baby and have a little cuddle on the rocking chair til it was ready.When there's only 3 or 4 ounces it warms nice and quickly anyway.
If I was going out for the day I would actually sterilize a few bottles,leave them empty and seal them up.You can get little cartons of aptamil,already mixed,so i'd take a few of them and when needed pour 1 into the pre-sterilized bottle.
They're more expensive than the big tubs,but so handy if you're out and about and don't know how long you'll be!

I don't have a britax either molly and gilz!!!

And I have to say I'm a little naughty,I did start using wipes after a couple of weeks,so much handier,and easier to get poo off!My kids didn't show a bad reaction to them so no problems.
Madcat I did change to fairy when I started having babies,and use it for us all.
A couple of months ago i was trying to be budget conscious and changed to a cheaper brand,and oran came out in ezcema!
So back to fairy for us for a few more yrs anyway!
But as madly says there's no right or wrong way of doing anything when it comes to your baby,and what works for me might not work for others,so just go with the flow and see how ya go!!

 

[vbaby3]

he he he molly,i'm 1 of those last second bidders!!
Its the only way I manage to win anything,i wait til the last 10 seconds lol!!

 

[Sofiekirsten]

Hi Ladies!

Well I am off to see my mw for my 16 week appointment and then we will be off for the gender scan.

Will update as soon as I can!

 

[molly85]

i changed to doing that after loosing some nice bits. now i have to wait for santa, I mean teh posty to arrive lol. Got a moses basket and stand for £7!!!!! got to collect it so hope its ok

 

[molly85]

Yay Sophie!!!!!

 

[madcatwoman]

sometimes our men need it spelling out to them nomore!,you just cant do everything!.

my Dh has certainly noticed me slow down in the last few months,he has become very good now. always brings the washing up and down for me, and the hoover,he hauls me off the couch of an evening now he realises stomach muscles no longer do the job so effeciently.

well, ive started to pull my finger out and add bundles to my sleep suit and vest collection, found the sleep suit bundles cheaper on ebay and have just bought 7, packs of vests are the same price or cheaper from asda so we'll go there on the weekend..

Mmm...whats for lunch?

 

[molly85]

we had bacon sarnies but not your cup of tea me thinks.

why have a i been so prepared and have barley any thing left to buy. Matt wants to get shelves today I want 1 to go over the changeing table and cot to put bottles of stuff on and all this damn cotton wool lol

Need more sheets an blankets. maybe some flat towels but we have plenty 2 in brown so convienet for a bare bum lol no accedent staining there. Oh and stuff to go on the walls

 

[madcatwoman]

oh yes and we need sheets and blankets. we need a changing table(theyre quite dear!!) and a chest of drawers. think we'll have to wait until next month to get the dear stuff now.

Oh no, i like bacon, makes me thirsty, but i like it!.

 

[molly85]

whoops I think peanut is our veggy whoops again lol.

Try Ikea, I think we got the cheapest one tehy do for under £30 it has a top thing and goes with our cheap cot, once abby can climb we will get her a proper bed so at about a year.

 

[PeanutBean]

Veggie here :wave: lol

Molly a shelf over the cot seems good til you remember shelves fall off sometimes! I'd say put it near but not over.

I've been working super hard. On walk now and even that has been a work phone call. Seems I need to write my reward and recognition policy in an afternoon!

Oh I've always used fairy non bio.

 

[pinkclaire]

Hello ladies, hope your all well, just checking in quickly before I get off to my scan,I'll update you later.

xxx

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Good luck Sofie and Pink for your scans

Well my MW is such a doll and a really nice lady She did bloods to check to see if I am anaemic and all the usual stuff and also took an extra sample for HBA1C which is a blood test that apparently looks at your blood levels over the last three months She dipsticked my urine and apparently the white cells are raised again so something is going on in there however my urine sample was ok for sugar/glucose levels which is good news because it looks good for my GTT next week that I may not have GD this time Apparently at this stage of pregnancy the sugar/glucose dont really change as an indication of GD so if I have it full stop then the likelyhood is it would have shown at least a trace in my urine by now She has asked me to remind her to dipstick my urine with a glucose stick at my next appointments with her because this is no longer routinely done however she says it will give me peace of mind that it hasnt changed She weighed me after I explained the loose clothes and obvious weight loss issue and bizarely I have gained 1 kilo Fook knows where She measured my fundus level and said I am measuring 26wks When I am infact 25wks tomorrow, she says this isnt a sure indication of a big baby as at this stage its hard to tell however not to worry because at this stage a small baby is something they would be looking for She has given me my MATB1 form and agrees I am doing the right thing were work is concerned she has also said to call her up if work gets too hard or difficult and she will arrange for me to be signed off until Mat Leave commences....bless her She has recommended I buy some irons tablets over the counter from the chemist just for this week until I get my iron levels back She says it might perk me up a little Which I plan on doing when I go do the school run and other than that I am back to see her on the 10th Feb but if I need to see her before I am to just call She has asked for me to text her next Tues/Weds so she can check my iron level results for me just incase she forgets however all results will be available on the clinic systems when I go for my GTT so I can always ask there. Lovely appointment shes such a great MW to have

 

[madcatwoman]

sounds like you have a good MW there madly, give the iron tabs a go!

My fundus height measured 24 weeks but im 26 weeks today?. she didnt sound concerned though, didnt say anything really.

ive just won two bundles of baby clothes on ebay bundles of mostly vests and a bundles of sleepsuits.

 

[gilz82]

Oh Madly that's fab your midwife is taking really good care of you. My midwife is a balloon and that's me being nice. Also the proper mw for my surgery is seconded somewhere else to cover an absence so I've never met her and frequently end up seeing a different mw each time which means I have to explain the whole one kidney, daily blood thinning injections carry on each time.

I'm just trying to work up the energy to walk the dog, I'm feeling sooo lazy today and work was bedlam earlier as we were getting new software installed.

 

[PeanutBean]

Better than iron tablets Madly get yourself some spatone. Much more effective and no side effects! Fixed my anaemia twice where iron tablets made no difference and it was my MW who recommended it in the first place. Sadly not on prescription though.

I feel sleepy and weird now. Managed to eat some lunch and took the dog earlier. The Sainsbury's delivery was cocked up so I had to be out and back in time for 2pm when they were bringing the rest of the order. It's been pissing it down though so glad I went when it was dry.

Might just not get the policy written this afternoon!

 

[MoonLove]

Hi girls! Hope you're all well and i hope your scan is great, pinkclaire! Are you finding out baby gender today?

I wondered if anyone knew what 'Adnexa' means in pregnancy terms. I'm reading the scan report, and next to 'scan reason' and 'fh' it says 'Adnexa: Seen.'

What does that mean?


I'm feeling so so sick (and angry because my doppler sitill hasn't arrived ) and i'm trying hard to keep it down. I've become so scared of being sick since i last bled, i'm supposed to be relaxing my tummy, but when i'm sick it pulls the muscles down there so hard. I'm scared it'll bring on another bleed. Gah, i don't know how i'll last til my 20 week scan not knowing if this bleed has reabsorbed itself or not xxx

 

[gilz82]

Aw Gem hon I understand how you feel. What sort of helped me cope was just trying to get through each day rather than thinking about getting to week 20 or whatever. Then each little day is another day closer to a happy outcome.

Oh and girls incase any of you didn't get stuff through in the post Asda start their next baby and toddler event on the 18th of this month. So maybe the chance for some more bargains

 

[PeanutBean]

Wiki says this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnexa_uteri I'd guess it means the other bits have been checked.

Oh Gem I meant to tell you after your last post that I had bleeding with my son. It started about 7 weeks and last right up to 12 where it ended in a giant red bleed that scared me even though I'd been told to expect it. For me the bleed was caused by implantation of the placenta and I had an early scan at nearly 9 weeks which showed a pool of blood and I was told it might be reabsorbed or more likely I'd get more bleeding, hence the big one at 12 weeks. I don't think it's so rare. Chin up! Bet you'll be fine!

 

[MoonLove]

Wiki says this:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnexa_uteri I'd guess it means the other bits have been checked.

Oh Gem I meant to tell you after your last post that I had bleeding with my son. It started about 7 weeks and last right up to 12 where it ended in a giant red bleed that scared me even though I'd been told to expect it. For me the bleed was caused by implantation of the placenta and I had an early scan at nearly 9 weeks which showed a pool of blood and I was told it might be reabsorbed or more likely I'd get more bleeding, hence the big one at 12 weeks. I don't think it's so rare. Chin up! Bet you'll be fine!

Thats very very reassuring thank you! To be honest, my other bleeds didn't panic me - i'd bled bright red with huge clots and i'd seen baby healthy and well on the screen - but nothing prepared me for how much i bled last weekend, i was terrified, not only for baby but for myself. I was thinking 'I pray this isn't a miscarriage, but if its not, why on earth am i bleeding this much?!" I've been worried because i feared that my bleeding was escalating. Its been a small amount of red blood/clotting beforehand, and loads of brown yucky blood, i really believed it was stopping, and then lo-and-behold Sunday night comes and i'm gushing blood everywhere.

You saying that you experienced a big bleed at 12 weeks, i pray that i had mine last weekend. I'm really frightened of bleeding again, so i hope its all healing now.

Thank you (and thank you for wiki link ) xx

 

[pinkclaire]

Thanks ladies I'm back! I'll put some scan photos on later but it's a bundle which I'm really excited about and thought it was as i feel so different to when I was pregnant with James! Sorry Madly you were wrong for me! Xx