Sticking Together Crew

[sspencer99]

I don't understand why ur dr is not doing more for you why are they not checking to see if it's eptopic
Big Hun xxx

 

[sept10]

been a busy bee today - started nesting i think!! our bedroom first as thats were baby will be sleeping.....didn't realise how much dust could accumulate under beds and wardopes!!!

went to ikea last night and got the poang chair with sheepskin cover for the nursery - it was reduced from £210 to £79...bargain!!!

isobel - thoughts with you.

 

[QueenVic]

Isobel I'm so sorry FX'd for your next try

Sarah yay for nesting ! I have not stopped on maternity leave yet ! Lookng like I might actually get to relax next week should all get fin this weekend.. then just back to the normal chores and some swimming, meeting friends, pampering.. hopefully

WHERE'S ERICKA ! hehe

 

[AmaryllisRed]

Well she was headed to the dr this afternoon... hopefully he had some good news...

 

[truthbtold]

Vic im willing to bet my salary that you will deliver before me. I saw a nurse practioner today and she really was a waste of time. She couldnt give me a membrane sweep. Couldnt tell me anything about and induction. She said they usually let patients go to 42 weeks. The thought of going over my due date scares me all I think about is stillbirths....meconium aspiration....big babies and bad stitches. I just feel like my body has failed me I did so much to get to this point weekly ulstrasounds... Weekly injections... Cervix funneling and shortening and now that its time my body just refuses to dilate. She did do a check today im only 2cm. So needless to say im not a happy camper.

 

[AmaryllisRed]

ARGH.
42 weeks??? I hope that's not the case and this lady didn't know what she was talking about. Like you said, you've done too much up to this point to have to wait until 42 weeks to get any sort of assistance.
Try not to focus on the horror stories.
When do you go back?

 

[truthbtold]

I just called them back my doctor assistant double booked him for tuesday so im going back tuesday at 1. The nurse practioner wanted me to go back next friday for a non stress test if I dont deliver. Just craziness. I cant wait to talk to my own doctor.

 

[Sun_Flower]

*MASSIVE HUGS ERICKA* I know exactly how you're feeling as I went all the way to 41+6. I had one attempted membrane sweep at 41 weeks (they wouldn't even attempt one before I was 41 weeks - went in for an appointment at 40+5 and they refused to do a sweep and I had to come back 2 days later!) but my cervix was high, facing the back and totally closed. They said because my cervix wasn't dilated at all they wouldn't even attempt a second sweep and just booked me for an induction at 42 weeks, but Eden ended up arriving the day before my induction, with clear waters and no complications during labour - fair enough she was a giant and I had a 3rd degree tear and bleeding, but that was due to genetics and me pushing when I shouldn't have been, it was nothing to do with how far along I was. If you go back on here to when I was due, I got really upset too and felt like a failure because I felt as if my body couldn't do the thing it was designed to do - but it happened in the end, and I did it! I know it's of little to no consolation but you're not even at your due date yet, you've got some time before it comes to induction, and the stillbirth statistics really don't shoot up until between 42 and 43 weeks, which is why they don't let you go more than 42 weeks without getting the baby out. Everything will be fine, honestly xxx

 

[truthbtold]

Thanks so much. I really think I let my doctors get my hopes high. With all the cervical problems I have had this last two pregnancies they made me feel like this baby would just fall out after my cerclage was removed and the injections stopped. I never gave much thought that I would make it to my due date or even passed it.

 

[AmaryllisRed]

It's funny you say it that way, but I sort of thought your baby would just "fall out," too. He must just not be ready yet...
Hmmm... do you have anything very serious and important planned over the next week? 'Cause guaranteed he would want to interrupt if you did... Maybe you should make some very serious and very important plans.

 

[truthbtold]

So funny you said that Jen some ladies on another board said the same thing but my,sons 10th birthday plans were it. I dont have anything else to do now or anywhere to go. Its cold here lol.

 

[AmaryllisRed]

Haha it's not too bad here... it was close to 50 today, I think. Our snow has mostly melted...
Is there a blizzard in the forecast? That would be an inconvenient-- and therefore likely-- time for him to show up...

 

[lilrojo]

aww hugs erika.. hope he shows soon.. its funny how you do all the work to keep him in and now he doesnt want to come out..

 

[QueenVic]

I'm not convinced! When I saw my dr this week she was pretty sure he wouldn't be early or on time and Urgh I'm worried about all those things too Ericka... not nice..it's scary but I'm not booked in with midwife until 41+1 and I'm assuming they'll do a sweep then but not sure why they won't do them earlier?

 

[truthbtold]

Vic I was told you have to be dilating before they will do a sweep. I guess they just dont allow the nurse practitioner at my office to do them. Thats why I didnt get mine done.

 

[AmaryllisRed]

That's what I've heard... around the BnB watercooler. Before BnB, I'd never even heard of a sweep.

How's everyone today? Not much going on here... started my iron today... feeling okay so far, but it's early yet...

 

[sept10]

i've been soo lucky all through this pregnancy i'm really not complaining but whenever i sit down for any length of time - when i go to stand up i get lots of pain over my pubic bone, especially when i stand on my right leg, i know its ligaments softening but it makes me walk funny for a while till it goes - don't mind it really as long as it doesn't get worse and goes as soon as baby arrives, otherwise i won't be able to stand up holding the baby as i have to lean on things to get up and for those first few steps i'm a bit all over the place....i have full on preggo waddle now....everywhere i go people keep saying i look ready to pop!!

 

[truthbtold]

I hate when people tell me I look like im ready to pop lol.

Jen I love my iron pills they make my days so much easier. Beforr them I thought I was dying from shortness or breathe and exhaustion.

 

[sept10]

i hear iron pills can block you up.....my Hb was just within normal so i didn't need them...phew as feeling slightly stubborn on the loo as it is if you know what i mean!

 

[truthbtold]

My iron does just the opposite I can go rather smoothly no constipation at all this pregnancy. Last time I had post partum hemroids I thought I would die every time I had to go.