Ex chartstalkers pg or just taking a break!

[reallyoldmum]

OK ladies I'm not going to post this anywhere else for now but just to let you know I have just got back from the hospital - I woke this morning and spent the first 10 minutes since then I have been getting tighenings that are gradually getting worse and a lot of pressure down below - popped into our PANDA unit to check George's heartrate this evening and when she saw the tightenings on the machine she offered to "take a look" - apparently he is very very low and his head had my cervix lipped on it - I am approx 1.5 cm dilated and she has now unhooked my cervix - they have sent me home to get some tea - it could all stop and lead to nothing but at least we are heading in the right direction. Typical as we are supposed to be meeting Hannah at the airport tomorrow afternoon at 3.00 pm - not sure if I dare go even if I havent had him as my waters are poking through my cervix apparently.....

Right everything is now bound to stop but I thought I would just share the news with you ladies

Jane x

 

[Tasha20]

OMG!! ROM I hope he wont be long now hun!!

Good luck!! I can't wait to hear more news!!!


Kitty as for my nipple comment, i re read and yes i can see why that caught his eye

How is everyone else? I haven't been on much lots of not very nice things have been happening here I wont go into it but basicly we are in trouble financialy, so been trying to sort stuff out.

Hope you are all ok

 

[reallyoldmum]

Just to let you know - it all stopped decided to take a couple of paracetamol at midnight and see if I could get any sleep and although I had a couple of pains big enough to wake me through the night this morning it all seems to have stopped.... now I'm in a right pickle - Han arrives at 3.00 at Manchester and I'm not sure whether to go or not....... Got my midwife at 10.00 so perhaps she can tell me more Feel such a fool as I really thought this was it....

Jane x

 

[Tasha20]

ROM I know people say this alot but maybe if you got in the bath it will help bring them back on if it were the start of true labour?

 

[Trudyscrumptious76]

Ah ROM don't feel a fool even the nurse said this could be it. George just looked at his diary and realise his big sis was home today not yesterday so he's waiting to make his grand entrance!! I'm sure the Midwife will give you good advice.

Tasha hope everything works itself out. We're not silly with money but our mortgage has been £120 more a month since Sept. It's really screwed up our accounts. New one starts Feb thank goodness. It's not easy at the moment for most people with the credit crunch. It'll get better hun. There are lots of good places to go and get free impartial advice out there.

 

[Chrissy1]

Hi ladies..... Crikey it's a while since I posted in here. Glad to hear you're all doing well but a baby really does take up a LOT of time, especially one who seems to want booby consantly!!!

Me and Poppy are both doing really well.....I'm still exclusively boobie feeding which is a big thing for me because I didn't think I wanted to boobie feed at all but now I'm doing it I love it and I'm not looking forward to stopping at all!! Pops is a little gem, she's a really happy baby and is always smiling even when she's not looking at anyone, it's very funny to watch her. She sleeps like a dead person though!! I put her to bed at about 9:30 ish at night and most days I have to wake her the next morning (she's still sleeping now!) She's been sleeping through since before christmas and we put her in her own room on boxing day and she's been fine ever since. She's a little fatty though, I'm dreading having her weighed again. At least she's happy! Here's a few pics on her taken since she was born up to christmas http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=37662&l=62f9f&id=699309603

I've only had a quick read through the last couple of pages, glad to hear you're all well

ROM: make the most of the rest time and get some ..... Sounds like it's not going to be too far off now so rest as much as you can. My latent phase started on a Wednesday afternoon and I had contractions every 5 minutes or so until Poppy was born on Saturday so for 3 whole days and nights I didn't have a wink of sleep and I couldn't eat anything either because I was being sick. I was soooo exhausted towards the end that I was almost falling asleep while I was pushing and within 5 minutes of her being out I'd fallen asleep through exhaustion on the sofa and I had to be woken to push out the placenta Really hope it won't be long but labour is really really tiring so make sure you rest, good luck hunni

Kmac: Try not to give up, even if you have to top up with formula at least Kian is getting some booby milk. I found with Poppy that I just let her get on with it and fed her when she needed it and I fed her until she spit out my boob so I know she'd had enough. Sometimes I would burp her, leave her for 10 minutes then try to put her back on again just in case she needed a rest and hadn't had enough and that seemed to work well. Also I tried to do a little bit of expressing in the morning, lunchtime and late evening to help to increase my milk supply. I started off only getting an ounce of each boob but it eventually went up to about 4 oz and there was still enough for Poppy when she wanted to feed...... I ended up with a freezer full of breast milk though because we only gave her one bottle a day It's soon depleted though over christmas when I wanted to have a bit of a drink and went out a couple of nights. also she had a growth spurt so I wasn't able to express as much because she was taking more at feed times so my reserves went down even more then. I hope you manage to carry on

Tasha: Sorry to hear about your troubles.... I had that about 5 years ago and it's such a worrying time. Hope you manage to sort it out

Babydust: don't mind putting up house piccies but I'll have to actually take some first.... LOL!! Like you I missed what's going on elsewhere but I prefer to stay out of it anyway Glad to hear you and LO are doing well.

Choky: So nice to hear from you. I can't believe that your little boy is a month old already!! Saying that...... I can't believe Poppy is over 3 months old. It really does seem to go so fast with a new baby. glad you're both doing ok.

Was going to say hello to you all but I think my princess is about to wake up (not bead seeing as it's 9:10 now!!) so I've gotta shoot

to anyone I've missed......catch up with you all again soon

 

[Tasha20]

Thanks hun

Yes we are seeking advice, just hope it all goes just as quick as it came!

 

[Kittykins]

hi all!

ROM - FX for you! Guess you/Dave will be meeting Hannah in 15 mins so you won't read this for a while - but wouldn't it be great for H to be there too? At least then you wouldn't be worrying about whether she'll get home safely, whether everyone will meet up ok, whether she'll make it in time... So it's brilliant news that things are starting, but even better that George is holding off for the moment!

Tasha - to you. Hope you can get everything sorted quickly.

Hi Chrissy, lovely to hear from you again! And if you can put some of those pics on the Stalkers Photobucket album, for those of us who don't have Facebook, that would be much appreciated!

to everyone else, I've already forgotten who's posted

I'm starting to get a bit of a bulge I don't really know how I feel about this. It probably sounds silly, but I really hate looking in the mirror at the moment and I feel very self-conscious about my body. I don't look pregnant at all, I look like I've been eating a lot of fast food or something. I keep telling myself I'm pregnant but it's so hard not to go out for a really long run, or exercise frantically to get the weight off. I tried on a swimming costume this morning, thinking I'd go for a swim, but it was a bit tight... I could get away with it, but I know that if I go swimming, anyone else there will just think 'lardy'. I'm still in my jeans (though I've stopped wearing a belt as of this morning - don't need it any more and it adds bulk!), still in normal tops. I don't expect any of you to say anything, I'm just rambling...

Anyway, I had my 16w midwife appt this morning and mentioned it to her, expecting to be told I was a bad mother already. Instead she said she was so glad I'd said that - when she was expecting her second, she'd told another MW that she really wanted to go shopping for a corset, she felt so bad, and got a telling-off! I felt a lot better that at least I'm not alone!

Sorry for all that, but it makes me feel so much better to confess it all!

Hope everyone has a great day...

 

[kmac]

Hi everyone

Nice to see you back Chrissy! Glad all is going well! Thanks for advice on BFing!
rom - how are you feeling? good luck for when it all starts properly! do you have a text buddy?
Tasha - hope you get your money worries sorted. It is more difficult for everyone at the moment, not that that is much help
Kitty - glad you are well. I got a nice maternity tankini from Mothercare. I don't think anyone actually pays any attention to what anyone else looks like when they go swimming. I was really paranoid too but from your pics I would say you don't need to worry about what anyone may think!

My DH is on paternity leave now so we have had quite a nice day - it was good to get out of the house!!

When the MW came yesterday Kian's weight had gone up so they have finally discharged me - no more daily visits! The health visitor also came round, and she comes back in a week to weigh him again.
I'm just trying to feed Kian myself as much as possible but he still seems to need the top ups. There is a BFing clinic at my health centre so I think I may go along there just to check he is going on properly and might be good to chat to some different people about it. Just hope I don't get more conflicting advice!! Think it's tomorrow actually - better check as memory like a sieve just now!

Hope everyone is ok

 

[reallyoldmum]

Chrissy lovely to hear from you - its nice to hear things are going so well.

Kmac great news on Kian's weight..... enjoy your time with your DH

Kitty you wait I feel like I am carrying around a sack of ferrets!!!

Claire, 2 weeks!!! oh my god I was hoping for two days

Tasha hope all is OK

Well I am in pain - regular tightenings about 10 mins apart but I have had them for 24 hours now and they hurt my back is really bad and every kick is agony Apart from that I'm fine Hannah is now home and my lovely tidy house is an absolute tip!!! Tomorrow we will sort it but for tonight I have to turn a blind eye Its lovely to see her but she has had the phone to her ear since she walked in So many people to catch up with..... Right I am off to have a long soak in a hot bath - Kitty is my text buddy with Flossy as my back up but I doubt I will be needing their services tonight.... Just hope I can get some sleep....

Jane x

 

[Tasha20]

Thank you, Trudy, Kitty, Kmac, babydust and Rom

Kmac im so pleased its going well and I think it would do you good to go to the bfing clinic, at the end of the day wjat ever advice you get, just pick that bits and pieces that sit right with you

ROM googd luck, hopefully that nice relaxing bath will get George moving

Kitty I honestly wouldnt be worried about what other thought, but saying that i'm the same except I have more of an issue with old stretch marks (ones on thighs) they seem to be more prominant now and I find it incredibly embarrising... But really noone gives a toss, other than myself

Honestly I wouldn't worry

 

[Mildly]

Hi everyone

babydust ouch your poor thumb

Tasha sorry to hear about your money worries Hope things pick up soon!

ROM, how exciting, come on George! Hope you managed a good night's sleep

kmac, hope you and OH are loving every minute cooing over Kian Great news on the weight gain

kitty, I know how you feel about the weight gain, I really hated the 'fat stage' It will look much better when your bump is more bump shaped, if that makes sense!

Chrissy, Poppy is lovely What gorgeous blonde hair! And yay for sleeping through

Loola lovely shoes

Well Monday I did a really stupid thing, I slipped on the bottom stair whilst carrying Oscar down. Luckily he landed on my soft and squishy belly (I knew it would be handy for something!) but I fell twisting my leg under me. We got Oscar checked at A&E and he is fine, thank goodness. I have a bruised skin bone and possible torn ligament around the knee area so have been hobbling around for the past few days. Still it could have been a lot worse!

To continue on with my Oscarspam pictures; here is one from a shoot we did in readiness for my OH's birthday - I am making a photobook using the snapfish website. Our house is very gloomy being a small mid-terrace so I had one hour when the sun came through our bedroom window to take these shots! I will spare you all from having to look at them all

 

[Loola]

Hi ladies Just posting a quick hello - I have been reading your posts but havent had time to post, well now I do as the entire Council email is down and will be for sometime so Im finding it hard to do any work

Its great to see you Chrissy!

ROM hope you are enjoying your first day with Hannah? Hope George makes his move soon so Hannah can be there with you for the birth!

Kitty it wont be long before you have a proper baby bump!

I looked at Kirstie and Sallys facebook pics of Kian and Isla yesterday, what absolutely gorgeous children you have, and you both look so well

Babydust - Your poor thing! I hope your thumb isnt broken

Tasha - I hope your money worries are over soon - you can only do your best and Im a firm believer that no matter how little money you have you will always find a way to cope, and it will get better

Chok - great to see you back too! We have missed you!

How is Trudy doing? bought anymore maternity trousers?

Well I have no news at the moment. I am worried about basically my friend is pregnant, she was pregnant a few years ago, and during the labour the baby choked on the mucous plug. The Dr's tried to save her baby but she had lost 2 much oxygen and her life support machine was turned off 2 days later. It was afterwards that they discovered that my friend had Group B Strep which is why there were complications. Now of course my friend is totally panicked about losing another child. Most women worry certainly until 3 months, but I just cant imagine what it must be like to lose a child at the very last moment. She is going to worry for the entire pregnancy and beyond.
So even though the hospital know what happened last time, they cannot do anything for her and she has to pay for tests privately which i think is disgusting and apparently in England and Wales they do not automatically test for it, they do in Scotland and Ireland though? You would think that under the circumstances they would keep an extra eye on her wouldnt you. I just feel so sorry for her, she has been going to counselling because she feels she is not bonding with her baby as she is so worried about losing it. I feel so helpless - I cannot reassure her that everything will be alright because I dont know if it will be

Sorry Ive probably really depressed everyone now. Have any of you been tested for GBS?

 

[Tasha20]

Thank you very much everyone!
Just quicky from me!

Went well and couldn't find cause for bleeding last week, he/she was a right wriggler!

Heres our bubba

 

[Trudyscrumptious76]

Oh Tash I'm so glad everything is ok and that you got to see lil bean again!

ROM - Glad han is back safe and sound, hope she's put the phone down now and started to spend time with you before Georges debut, which doesn't sound like it's too far off!

Babydust - Hope the thumb is better. Are you just trying to get more sympathy than DD??? Please, please, please post some more pics of Zak. I love when babies have chunky ham shank legs. (am I weird?) Don't you worry about his folds, you keep feeding him I love a chubby baby, once he's on his feet it'll all drop off. I hope my baby has ham shank legs, I'll be secretly feeding it lard when no ones looking!! (only kidding social services!)

Hi Chrissy.

Kmac glad Kian's weight is up and that DH is around for a bit now.

Loola I hope you're coping without the work e-mail you poor thing not being able to work. Sorry to hear about your friend. I don't think I've been tested for that. Having said that my mum is a nurse and once a year she sends me off to the doctor with a long list to be tested for. All in that medical short hand so I don't have a clue what I'm being tested for!!! I then report back and she can rest easy for 5 mins before she finds something else to annoy me with. So I could well have been tested in the past. I'm very jealous of your plans for the weekend!

I've been shopping up a storm you'll be pleased to know. I blame kitty!! She found me an amazing bargain on e-bay a Mama's and Papa's dresser which I got for £21. You're a star Kitty feel free to point anymore in my direction! Now I've started I can't stop. I dragged DH to the sale's in a last ditch attempt to find some baragain maternity trousers. Does anyone have suggestions as to where to find maternity skirts that don't cost a fortune. I found one for £9. I ended up in Primark and got even more t-shirts I don't need They are a-line though so when I'm massive they'll cover the bump nicely in our hot hot summer! I got some combats on e-bay. I just need 1 more pair of work trousers and some more jeans. I'll go Top shop and get those.

Any of you ladies pg in summer? Does the over bump material make you hot? I really don't like the idea of the over bump in summer. I hate being too warm at the best of times and I just think the added layer whilst being heavily pg will tip me over the edge and I'll be a grumpy mare. I try to wear as little as possible in summer usually cut off shorts and a vest'll do me. So I'm restricted to under bump trousers but there don't seem to be many. Maybe it's the wrong time of year.

Great to see you Chok. Glad little Harvey is doing well. Dare I say it pictures please!!!

Kitty I know exactly how you feel I was so proud of myself for dropping a dress size last year and I love being pg but I wish I could hold a sign up saying I'm not fat I'm pg. Somedays, I don't know where Cuthbert goes but its just looks like a roll of fat. Other days it looks like a mini bump, but with it being cold when I'm wrapped up I just look like I've eaten too much!! Especially with my craving for junk food. I know I don't look big, my 'fat' clothes from last year still don't fit me but I do wish I had a proper bump so that everyone knows.

Having said all that I'd give anything to have looked like you look now before I got pg!!! My tummy has never been completely flat even as a teenager. Try not to worry too much what other people think at the pool, they're probably thinking I can't get in next to that skinny lady. Once you get your bump and need help out of chairs you'll remember this time fondly.

Hi Sally, Flossy, Sookie, Welshpolly and anyone else I've forgotten!

 

[Trudyscrumptious76]

Forgot to say in my huge post I don't know what's happened on the forum but I read the post about banned members and I'm shocked. One of the girls on the list has been so lovely to me. Especially when I had my m/c. I think I'll hide here with the rest of you for a while. It's such a shame. It used to be such a lovely supportive forum, hopefully it will be again soon. Don't any of you go getting yourselves banned!!!

 

[Kittykins]

I don't have time to post on any of the gossipy type threads much! I post occasionally in tri 2, and sometimes if a recent post in one of the other forums catches my eye on the index page, I'll pop in there. But this one takes up more than enough of my time! TBH, if someone disagrees with something I say, it's easier to walk away anyway - why would I want to waste time in arguing with sb I don't know, don't care about and don't agree with?!

I do notice though that I spend less time on here now I'm definitely pregnant. I spent ages here when TTC, looking for anything that might help, then ages on here with the m/c, looking for answers/hope, but I just have less need of info/experience right now and only come on to check up on you lot . I can see if you used the forum mainly as a means of communication with others, if you were stuck at home all day and didn't have friends/family nearby, you could end up spending a lot of time here and taking things personally - and I guess it really would turn into a virtual office situation for you, with gossiping behind backs at the virtual water-cooler/coffee machine. Let this be a warning to all of us to keep busy!

Tash - woohoo! great pic, and fantastic that there's no cause of bleeding, almost certainly must have been the cervix then. You'll just have to tone down your love life a bit Have you told Olivia yet? Does she understand at all?

Babydust - MORE PICS PLEASE!!! And yes, you really should see someone - can you go early in the morning when it's quiet? I can thoroughly recommend not going at lunchtime - if you get left there for six hours, pregnant and bleeding, I'd hate to think how long you get left with a sore thumb! Might be worth making an appt with your GP first - s/he may well be able to rule out a break, in which case you could avoid a trip to hospital. It may be a sprain, or even just really severe bruising - if you get bruising in the joint, that would be very painful, inflamed, and would prevent you from bending it. As for the lollipop stick You can get proper thumb splints from Boots, which would give you more support. But don't leave it - if it is broken, you don't want it to set badly, as they'd need to rebreak it and it would take longer to heal. Also it could make you more prone to arthritis in that joint.

Loola - I was asked at my first appt if I'd ever had group B strep. I said 'I don't think so, would I know if I had?', to which the MW said 'yes, absolutely - and if you had it in the past, we'd be testing you again now because it's dangerous for the baby. But if you don't know if you've had it, you haven't and we won't test'. So based on that, it seems very odd and irresponsible they're not testing your friend. I'd be kicking up a fuss. But then, I often kick up a fuss Best wishes to your friend, anyway

Mildly, that's such a great photo! Oscar 's expression is hilarious - he's like 'yeah? and what do you want THIS time? can't you just leave me alone? and look, the sun's right in my eyes. Thanks a bunch.'! He's so cute, but his expression is so cynical!

ROM - my phone is definitely on! I haven't even dared go to the library today, just in case!!!


Trudy - can I point out that I told you about the dresser to try to SAVE you money, not to encourage you to spend it?! At no point did I suggest you might like to splurge on maternity clothes!

Having said that, I popped into TK Maxx the other day (it's temptingly positioned next door to the supermarket - so easy to divert...) and I bought a 1.0 tog Gro-bag, and they also had the TommyTippee range, which I'd already earmarked since it's come out well in several different reviews. So I bought the Closer to Nature electronic steriliser, the breast pump and 3 mini-bottles (the steriliser comes with 3 full-size), all for half RRP. I guess I'm planning to BF, but I think I need the bottles just in case anyway, and also I guess I'd need to express at some point? My mother told me that as the baby's due mid-July, it would probably need small amounts of water as well, if the weather's hot, so I thought the small bottles would be good for that if we're out and about. All comments welcome, of course - I've not done this before!




to everyone else.


I went swimming yesterday after my yoga session. I admit to pushing out my tummy a bit in the hope I looked more pg than fat but DH told me last night that I just look tubby when I do that I had a meeting last night for a voluntary body I'm on, and one of the other women (also my next door neighbour and a good friend) was just looking at me, saying 'where the hell is it hiding?'. I think in my bottom. That seems to be the only part of my body that has visibly expanded

I found swimming quite hard - I was telling myself I could only go if I took it easy, but it was so difficult not to get competitive. There were a couple of other guys there doing front crawl in the front crawl-only fast lane, and there are three other lanes - one slow, which always has a couple of old ladies in and the lifeguard needs to check frequently to make sure they are still moving and not actually dead (I'm sure it's the same 2 old ladies each time - I've never seen either get in or get out, and they have identical flowery bubble swimming caps); then there's a medium, in which people who can't quite swim but think they can flounder around a bit, doing breaststroke arms and front crawl legs; and then there's 'fast', in which there's always a fat bloke going sideways, bouncing off the lane ropes, and getting in the way of the other 5 people who are all going different speeds and strokes, and the one person (usually male) who tries to do back crawl in an overcrowded lane and has to keep switching to breaststroke as he wallops yet another person on the @rse. So that's the pool. Clearly I had no option but to get in the crawl-only fast lane. But then of course you want to be the fastest in it, and as soon as you get in, the other two noticeably speed up, as they get more competitive too.

So basically I shot off too fast - it was actually slow by my standards, but it was still too fast - and after eight lengths, during which I'd rather satisfactorily lapped one guy twice, I paused for water. Standing at the end, I suddenly felt REALLY dizzy - and drank half a litre straight off. I decided to slow down a bit, and not overtake anyone, and stick to 4 lengths at a time (normally I do 4-length sets to warm up, then do 60 or so lengths without stopping as a main swim, so it really was a huge compromise on my part). But of course, then the faster guy caught me up on my 4th length... and i had the dilemma, do I stop as I should, thus making him think it was the fear of being overtaken, or do I shoot off and do a couple of lengths super-fast to prove that I'm not really that slow?! I did the right thing and stopped for water, but boy did it hurt my pride People told me that pregnancy was about compromises, but I didn't think that would be one of them!

I rescued my vanity a little at the end though. All three of us happened to stop at the end at the same time, and one of them asked us what we were training for - he was training for a triathlon I did a couple of years ago so we chatted about that. The other said he was also doing a triathlon. Then I said I was just training to give birth and that the baby due in July was going to be the main event of my season this year!


Anyway, I thought that might make some of you laugh. And it might make you laugh even more to know that I was completely shattered for the rest of the day, and that I slept from 10pm last night to 10am this morning, and am now going to have to work most of this evening to catch up with my work! DH shook his head when I told him, and called me a 'pathetic tellytubby' Ok, I'd better get off the forum - I seem to have spent 30 minutes just writing this huge post and looking back at all the messages!

 

[Tasha20]

Thanks everyone for comments about picture.

Babydust OH thinks Boy so its 50/50 still I guess

Kitty I have told Olivia and she saw the pic yesterday and listened to baby on the doppler, she says baby ect but I don't think she really understands.

Kitty as for the tommie tippie range, I had that breast pump and it was brilliant. Though any bottle that says closer to nature or close to breast like is rubbish, nothing like boobies But they were fine for awhile until Oli refussed ebm

Also as for you Mum saying he/she will need water, this is simply not true (not trying to say your mums wrong... well I am sorry) Breastmilk has a very watery substance before the much thicker milk, Fore and hind.

Breast milk is 88% water, so no need not even in the hot summers (we never have )

Heres my favourite site on all subjects breastfeeding related!

http://www.kellymom.com/nutrition/solid ... water.html

Oh and Mildy Oscar looks gorgeous!! and babydust get some piccies on of your little munch!!

Loola group strep B is more likely to happen if the woman has had it before, the chances increase! she must get a second opinion.

 

[Trudyscrumptious76]

Sorry Mildly I got half way through Kitty's post and realised and I hadn't mentioned the gorgeous Oscar. He's adorable. You should try him out baby modelling he's a natural!!!

 

[Trudyscrumptious76]

Kitty I was on the phone listening to this woman wibbling on and reading your e-mail, she was having a right moan, then I start laughing at the old ladies dead or alive comment!!! I tried to turn it into a sneeze. I'm glad I'm not the only one needing 12 hours sleep after what I consider a normal day. We took the dogs out on their weekly Sunday trek, nothing too difficult only one or 2 hills, once I got home that it was it until Monday morning.

I don't care what you say I'm blaming you and I'll tell my bank manager that!!! There are some great bargains to be had it's fab. I'm glad I'm not the only one looking at sleeping bags, I saw a 1.0 tog one for a pound in TX maxx. I was so tempted to buy it and just dye it blue if it's a boy!!! I popped into the one in Manchester yesterday and they have slings for £19.99 this one http://www.thebabasling.co.uk/ and these the first 3 http://www.thepeanutshell.com/shop/baby ... ble_slings. I've always liked the look of the peanut shell ones.

I think I need help now.