Mother of all conception months Graduates

[loopylollipop]

Hi all x

Peanut I agree the screamer was very brave to allow her footage to be aired. I sure wouldnt. Especially the sly looks and rolled eyes behind her back. She lost control, and its up to the midwives to try rein her in and help her get her focus back. But holy cow it was a slightly scary one for first time mums! I have delivered nearly a hundred babies and only came across a couple of ladies like her. Most do the bitey thing (on gas and air tube) that Madly was talking about.

Vbaby - hope Oran tooth is sorted ok without too much fuss. These guys are pretty good at their jobs and will have allsorts of tricks up their sleeves.

Madly - so glad you finish soon and you can just relax and prepare. Good luck with the employers.

Peanut - I wish you could finish soon too!

Madcat - loving the photos, you have such talent.

Molly - hope you and OH are ok after the funeral.

Hope all the poorly/threatened preterm babes are safe and get well soon

Gilz - LOVED that thread. So funny. Had forgotten so many things. Forgot such things as my boobs leaked milk every time I heard a baby cry. Any baby And sleeping on towels to mop it up. Oh the joys. Just when you want to get your dignity back, your body says....ahhh....not JUST yet.....

Oh I have forgotten so many things.....

Me...have seen Occupational Health Consultant today and she has agreed for me not to do my paediatric post. Am so happy Get to be a GP trainee again for my last 8 weeks.

 

[gilz82]

Oh that's great news Loopy, you must be relieved about that

 

[loopylollipop]

Oh that's great news Loopy, you must be relieved about that

I really am. No nights, no twelve + hour long days, no weekends. And no rashy/spotty kids with contagious illnesses! In GP land they will get someone non-pregnant to see the sick kids. No bending all day as patients knee height...bliss. And best of all, I dont have to go home worrying about poorly children and their parents. I cry too easily already!

How are you feeling now Gilz, now you are back at work? Apart from them giving you the work of ten people

 

[gilz82]

I'm ok Loopy just really really knackered, but that's to be expected so the gp said. I get the impression that things at my work are going to get worse before they get better but I'm not wasting any energy on it just now. Instead just focusing on the jellybean instead

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Thats great news loopy about your job

NOMORE my sugar levels were borderline too I would see MW they would be high she would send me away with a low sugar diet to follow for two days call me back retest and hey presto below borderline...which obviously they would be, no sugar (or hardly any!) for two days So I was never referred for GTT plus I never hit any of the risk factors at the start so was never `routinely` sent for it and well slipped through the net so I too guess that the sugar in my diet had a HUGE effect on Oliver. Not nice seeing a 10lb 5oz baby laid in an incubator so I cant imagine what its like for preemie mum I was 22yrs old and scared half to death, the support from the head nurse on scubu was shite infact we made a huge complaint to the board and had everyone jumping through hoops for us (not intentional) of course we just wanted to know what was happening with our baby and lack of communciation left us uninformed....I do not want to go there again and if its in my power I def will not be!

 

[PeanutBean]

Good news loopy!

Madly, I know it's different in all cases but if it helps, my mum friend has just had her second boy born at 34 weeks. He was 4lb, born at home, delivered by her neighbour as it all happened to fast and has been in hospital not quite a week, hopefully home soon. He's doing well. If Lianne has been through this before with her son I am even more confident it'll work out ok, no matter how hard it is at the time.

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

i have to say everyone on leos ward were absolutely fantastic, he spent his first christmas there which was devasting but they dressed him up in christmas clothes and father christmas came round on christmas eve for cuddles and give him gifts they were fantastic

it was a strange place there was a couple who were about 16 who's baby was tiny, they were a bit attitudy but hey they had a very ill baby, one day they walked up to leos crib turned to me gave me a flithy look and said whats he doing here he's not even ill, the head nurse came steamrolling over him blasted him - she was like in her mid 50s and was proper old school - and shouted her baby is in a worse condition than yours at the moment leave now, you will have to call for permission to come in here tomorrow -he he poor baby though, they didnt visit their baby over christmas poor thing

yeah goes without saying that if you dont eat sugar your sugar levels are going to go down but why oh why oh why would they 1. not realise that and 2. not investigate exactly what is going on with baby at that stage and if they appear unaffected then fine but if they are humongous like ours then obviously extra care is already required grrrr its all about funding though isnt it, if i dont get diagnosed this time i will be demaning at least one extra scan before the birth so they know what to expect!

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

oh and i was 22 too! are you my doppleganger life? lol

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

I cant believe we were both 22

I put it down to my age and not really knowing procedures and such being a first time mum although I read everything I could get my hands on to prepare myself. Mentally I was ready but so many things happened that shouldnt have and now I realise that more than ever I started labour pains on the Monday slow labour but wasnt examined or even looked at until Thursday evening but only because I was insistant and went to delivery suite uninvited They kept telling me to take paracetamol have a bath and call back when my contractions got regular which they never did by the time he was delivered at practically tea-time on the friday I was damn well exhausted no surprise there then This time it will def be very different

Funny I think vbaby put that your labour is suppose to half with your next baby or words to that effect....so 2.5days for me then

 

[Ozzieshunni]

I just got this panicky unprepared feeling! LMAO! I'm so worried we won't have all the stuff to care for baby!

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

UPDATE FROM LIANNE MY BUMP BUDDY LADIES......

Shes just been let home.
She has some tightening but her cervix is fine.
Everything else fine too seems her little man is just been a little monkey to his poor mummy!
He had a bed on scbu prepared and she really thought he was on his way.
She said to thank you all so much!

So great news

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

ha ha one and a half for me! nope i will prob be booked in!

thats the thing with your first unless you have been heavily involved in someone elses labour you just dont know what to expect and you put so much trust in people to just do things right

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

aw phew fantastic news madly! so much better to stay in mummys tummy for now! phew so relived for your friend!

 

[loopylollipop]

Oh Nomore it sounds like you had such a terrible time. At least you are forearmed now and know what to look out for.

I got neglected in my labour, nobody came in and looked at my monitor (was strapped to bed for whole labour due to being induced and on a syntocinon IV). I buzzed them in and said - you better check my CTG - I am having late deceleractions (when heartbeat dips with no contraction) with poor variability. She got all huffy and grabbed the trace as if to say yeah sure. Then she went bright red and ran off to get someone else. A team was mobilised to do a ventouse then . Wanted to say - told ya!

 

[loopylollipop]

Madly - that is wonderful news. Phew!

 

[MoonLove]

Hi girls, can i join this thread please? I'm a little tired of first tri, and i find people asking the same questions everyday...it'd be nice just to talk about baby! If you know what i mean? xx

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

thats what we wanted to do - i think my baby is going to be big . . . nah i predict it will be below average weight . . . . . . .11 6?????? i . .. . told . . . you . . . so!!!!

grrrr sometimes you can just tell when i a person is just overstretched and when a person is just plain incapable all of mine were just plain incapable, my midwife at my surgery was on holiday my last appointment with her and didnt see her for ages before the birth, she came to see leo in the ward when he was still asleep and she almost burst into tears where she felt so guilty but to be honest it was at least 6-8 weeks since i had last seen her so she wasnt around to pick anything up in those late stages but just because you are measuring the right amount of weeks doesnt mean you arent having a big baby apparantly - surgery midwife was lovely but she was bogged down, i was one of 99 other women on her books at the time, i suppose it was one of the reason s i didnt want to bother her . . .

although this will make you chuckle, i noticed my dh and the midwife werent warming to eachother at our booking appointment when we walked out he said to me yeah i wont be able to come to your midwife appointments, why, well when you were taking a wee in a pot we both realised why we knew each others names, right why, i fired her son 6 months ago she recognised me and i recognised her surname lol lol lol grrr dh!!! lol

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

hi gem!!

yeah i dip in there every now and then and snore sometimes!

i know we are a bit doom and gloom at mo - well me about the midwives in my area lol - but i fint this thread so much more relaxed then first tri! it is scary there and there are so many scary threads!

welcome! i have only been here properly for a couple of weeks but have been welcomed!

 

[MoonLove]

hi gem!!

yeah i dip in there every now and then and snore sometimes!

i know we are a bit doom and gloom at mo - well me about the midwives in my area lol - but i fint this thread so much more relaxed then first tri! it is scary there and there are so many scary threads!

welcome! i have only been here properly for a couple of weeks but have been welcomed!

Thank you!
I've been in first tri since i was 4 weeks now and i've had some troubles & scares of my own, but now i feel ready to just talk about baby - i'm feeling positive and happy & feel like i don't get much joy out of reading some threads on there these days. I find theres a new thread everyday about the same old, same old - and i'm always thinking 'grr, this exact question was asked yesterday!'. I was a little reluctant to go there after getting my BFP anyway, and its easy to fill yourself with worry and stuff with some of the stuff you read.

It'll be nice to relax and chat about the good and bad, rather than all the bad! xxxx

 

[pinkclaire]

Hi Gem

I dipped in two as couldnt stand the tri forums much longer and just like a good old natter to be honest!

I was def a head to the chest grunter haha! My midwife would practically beat me if I screamed lol. She was old school but brilliant! I had a birthing centre and it was so lovely and relaxed compared to what a lot of you have described, I would def recommend!

Madly so glad your friends LO is still baking nicely xx