Mother of all conception months Graduates

[gilz82]

Glad you got some sleep Peanut, although sorry about the dream bullies

My bump pain feels like someone has punched it a few times if that makes sense. It's not pain that comes and goes, so i'm assuming it is just because i squished it. Sod's law i would fall over on a slope, put my hands out to break my fall, got about a million scelfs and because of the hill still squished my bump!! I'm just waiting til nine and then i'll give the mw a phone just incase.

I hope Byron is just teething and doesn't have other germs on top of that, poor wee soul

 

[molly85]

hows his rash looking peanut?

 

[pinkclaire]

Gilz I would just phone her, it will reassure you I'm sure.

Peanut sorry your not feeling well still, but great you got a decent night! James has been sleeping better this weekend so I feel a little refreshed!

I'm off work today, james has had this horrid chesty cough for ages now and although he's not got a temp and is ok in himself I'm worried about how long he's had it so I'm taking him up the doctors later just to be sure!

 

[madcatwoman]

Gilz, make sure you call the MW ok girlie??.
Bump is bound to be bruised but with ever niggle you get now you'll be wondering if it was to do with the fall, you'll never rest, you could do with being checked over. let us know what she says!!

 

[vbaby3]

Morning ladies!!
Peanut hope byrons ok,damn viruses,we seem to have a different 1 every few wks here!

Gilz hope you've spoken to your midwife.x

Nomore,if you're getting swamped moneywise take help if its offered.My parents tho not well off have thaeir mortgage and stuff paid so would have a lot more spare cash than us.On a few occasions when they know we're having trouble they've given us a few pounds.
I am very proud and refuse it,but my mam generally hides it in my house and then txts to say she's left me something,and where it is.
You don't wanna be stressing while preg so accept the help.xx

pink happy v-day!!
And yes,most people seem to think I'm only having a 3rd child coz I have 2 boys,like if oran had of been a girl I wouldn't be bothering with this baby!!!
I've always said from the beginning of time I wanted 3 children,regardless of sex etc,if this 1 was another boy I certaintly would not be going again to TRY for a girl,3 was always the number me and dh had agreed on.
I also had some rude remarks when I found out no 2 was a boy,people nearly feeling sorry for me and saying I must be disappointed its a boy!!
To tell the truth,I actually wanted no 2 to be a boy so shay would have a bro close in age,I was a middle child with a bro either side and hated it,so I always said if I was to have a girl I'd either like her to come 1st or 3rd,so couldn't have worked out better for me.
And my mam put the 3 of us in a room together(2 boys and me)even tho they had a 4bedroom house!!It was fun that way and we loved it!
Once we got older I went into my own room then.
We've 3 bedrooms,so now the boys are in the bigger of the 2 rooms and the baby will go into the box room,which I think I might re decorate.
Whats the chances of my GIRL becoming a BOY when she's born??I always thought once they told you the sex it was pretty much 100%,but i've read a lotta threads about them getting it wrong.Don't wanna paint my nursey pink for it to be a boy lol!!!!!
But I'm fed up and I think a wee project would cheer me up!mmmm,dunno what to do,wish I had another scan!

 

[madcatwoman]

But I'm fed up and I think a wee project would cheer me up!mmmm,dunno what to do,wish I had another scan!

we have reached that final drag now havent we, although, i still remember us all waiting for our 12 weeks scan., its gone slow but fast at the same time!.

i feel like ive digested the hospital tour from yesterday now. i think im ready for it now. Ive never been in hospital for anything(well only when i was about 3 or 4) but dont remember much of that. The only thing im not looking forward to is if i have to stay in and go onto the ward, because they said theyre very strict with our husbands visiting hours, im not going to want him to go home and leave me(im like a big baby)

 

[vbaby3]

Whats the husbands visiting hrs madcat?
In my hospital the husbands were allowed in all day,they just had to leave by 10pm.
They were strict with other visitors thank god,they were only allowed in during visiting hrs.
I'm a big baby too lol!I won't be so bad this time round though.I hadn't been in hospital either from when I was a kid.I had high bp when preg with shay,1 time I had to go in to be monitored and they said they wouldn't let me home.I started bawling,I was feeling so sorry for myself!!I had to stay in 2 nights that time,and it was fine,just the initial shock of being all on my own,and not allowed home to my own lovely comfy house!

Whats your hospital policy?Or what would you like?Would you like to go straight home?
My hospital like to keep you in til baby is 24hrs old,its fine by me,I'm happy to stay there for 1 day

 

[madcatwoman]

i did read their visiting hrs, but ive forgotten them now, but the MW told us all they are very strict with them once we're on a ward, for the sake of all the patients aparently.

one of the girls asked how soon we could go home. MW said if there are no c omplications, ie- BP being high or something then we can go home straight from being in our private room quite quick. But otherwise they'll keep us in and we go onto the ward.

 

[PeanutBean]

Yes madcat you can always just go home right after. The main reason to stay in is to monitor you and the baby for infection but with instructions this is something that can easily be done at home. If I'd known as much with Byron I definitely would've discharged us rather than staying in an unnecessary extra 24 hours. Our hospital was like vbaby's, I think til 9pm though. And only two visitors at a time (excluding OHs) during visiting hours during the day.

Hope James is better soon pink.

Vbaby the scans can be wrong but it partly depends on the confidence of the scanner at the time, it might've been harder or easier to see the appropriate bits. Personally even if we had the option of decorating a new room I would still not do it pink but that's because I don't like girly pink! I suppose only do as much as you wouldn't care about keeping/changing if baby turned out to be a boy after all. I keep challenging myself with seeing a boy after delivery in the pool just in case. Though we'd have no name!

Well, DH is going to be home in an hour or so. He's taking the afternoon off on holiday but then has to be back in for 5pm to work late. So I guess he'll only get about 3 hours here during which will be Byron's nap! Wondering if it's worth it at all... But I feel really bad. Was cripplingly nauseous again a bit ago. Managed to force down some lunch just now so hopefully that'll help. Byron is being SO clingy! We're on Totoro for the second time and he spent the first scrambling on me, hugging and pinching and scratching my arms. Made my phone call with my manager interesting!

By the way, we chose my replacement. I think we've made the right decision. Actually the reason it was hard was that two candidates I think would both have been the right decision but I think the person we've chosen will enjoy it more, get more from it personally and will be a better all-rounder.

 

[gilz82]

Sorry for not popping back on sooner, work has been bedlam this morning.

I've to into the maternity unit to get checked over, i think mostly because i haven't felt the baby move since my fall they just want to reassure me that everything is ok.

I'll update as soon as i can but don't imagine it'll be anytime soon as they warned me that they are really busy.

 

[vbaby3]

Glad all is sorted at work peanut,Hope byron gives you some peace soon!!

Thing is I'm not usually girly girly,but after doing boy rooms,bob the builder,ben 10,cars etc for the last almost 5 yrs I really wanna unleash my girly side and do butterflies and fairys!!!
The woman at scan said she'd never say more than 80%,but she was 80%sure it was a girl.She pointed out 3 lines etc,my boys were very obviously boys at their scans.
The thing is with the boys I had more than 1 scan after 20wks,so it was confirmed more than once!

 

[vbaby3]

Oh good luck gilz,i'm sure everything is fine,keep us posted.xx

 

[PeanutBean]

I'm sure she will be a girl vbaby, after all Madly predicted her to be!

Byron is cuddling in and fiddling with my hands. Sweet but annoying! This would all be much easier if I weren't so poorly myself!

Good luck Gilz, I am sure baby will be fine and of course movements don't mean so much anyway given you don't really feel them! Hoping all is well.

 

[Ozzieshunni]

I think we're very lucky because where I'm going to be delivering, DH doesn't have to go anywhere. He can be there the entire time. Even if I went to the hospital, they would see me RAGING if they had to send DH home in the middle of my labour or something.

I have to say, that's one nice thing about the US. Your DH or OH can stay no matter what and even comes into the c-section with you (I think they do that here too).

 

[PeanutBean]

Oh Ozzie they wouldn't send your OH away during labour! It's just on the wards afterwards out of consideration for the other mums getting their stitches checked and learning to BF. And it would also be rare for an OH to not be allowed into a section. I should think only if it was a real emergency and a life threatening situation for the mum.

 

[madcatwoman]

get back to us when you can gilz

Vbaby, id be unleashing my girlie side too, esp after two boys, id definately want to indulge in it!

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Oh Ozzie they wouldn't send your OH away during labour! It's just on the wards afterwards out of consideration for the other mums getting their stitches checked and learning to BF. And it would also be rare for an OH to not be allowed into a section. I should think only if it was a real emergency and a life threatening situation for the mum.

They do here They told my friend's brother to come back and he missed his son's birth by like 2 minutes

 

[PeanutBean]

WTH? Well why would they do that? Labouring women are in private rooms anyway. The visiting hours have nothing to do with what happens there. That's disgraceful!

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Yup, Ninewells hospital in Dundee. They treat you like a revolving door in there. I'm delivering at Arbroath Infirmary https://www.birthinangus.org.uk/index/arbroath It's so nice and the midwives are SO SUPER nice!

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Ok, I feel like a little kid, you know when they write their parents' letters about what they don't like? I've cut the warning labels out of DH's empty cig packs and taped them to doors at his eye level in the house Maybe he'll take a hint.....