The Pregnant Womans Moan Thread.

nikpmup

January wrote: »

Do they make all women over a certain BMI do the glucose challenge test now or are there certain criteria set out?

A friend of mine is attending Mullingar and she said they screen everyone there, Holles st. gave me the impression that they screen everyone as well, but they may have tested me because of family history (2 sisters with GD)

Synyster Shadow

January wrote: »

Do they make all women over a certain BMI do the glucose challenge test now or are there certain criteria set out?

I lost weight during most of my pregnancy but they found glucose in all my pee tests so made me do GTT test. It depends on the doctor I was 17 weeks gettin it done and I had thought it was early for it

Neyite

January wrote: »

Do they make all women over a certain BMI do the glucose challenge test now or are there certain criteria set out?

Well, they made me get one, and ya know the size of me

I think it's based on your urine sample or in my case, if you have an existing endocrinological issue you are more likely to develop gestational diabetes so offer the test in that case.

Just don't do what I did and drink a pint of mi wadi half asleep about 2 hrs before the test is due to start. Derp.

Das Kitty

Now UCHG do it for everyone over 30 years old and higher BMIs. There's a different drink down here too, tastes like blue mr.freeze.
You can always refuse it.

nikpmup

Das Kitty wrote: »

Now UCHG do it for everyone over 30 years old and higher BMIs. There's a different drink down here too, tastes like blue mr.freeze.
You can always refuse it.

The drink they gave me was this luminous greeney-yellow stuff, it was like glucose tablets dissolved in water. Yeuch! I reckoned it was better not to refuse it, it's only a little discomfort in the grand scheme of things......

January

Neyite wrote: »

Well, they made me get one, and ya know the size of me

I think it's based on your urine sample or in my case, if you have an existing endocrinological issue you are more likely to develop gestational diabetes so offer the test in that case.

Just don't do what I did and drink a pint of mi wadi half asleep about 2 hrs before the test is due to start. Derp.

That would be something I would do... Must remember to remove all drinkable sources from my reach before I go to bed if I do have to have it!

Das Kitty wrote: »

Now UCHG do it for everyone over 30 years old and higher BMIs. There's a different drink down here too, tastes like blue mr.freeze.
You can always refuse it.

Mmmm blue mr. freeze is nice! I wouldn't refuse it but just really don't like lucozade.

inlikeflynn86

Just cleaned kitchen, scrubbed all the presses and folded a tonne of washing...

My moan is i cant catch my breath and i asked oh to this months ago.... Ugh milk and cookie time...

red fraggle

light headednesss/dizzyness is my moan. think its the tiredness and long weekend in work. doc told me today cos of my job he will sign me off when i want! soooooooooooo tempting! im 30 weeks on thursday. work can be stressful and i travel an hour and a half to and from.

also the heat! i loved the other day when it was cold but i found today hot!im sitting here in my house too warm with my head feeling funny! might be an early night!

Chattastrophe!

I've got a pain in my lower back like someone is shoving a spike up through my spine from the bottom. I think spending most of Thursday night on a hospital trolley didn't help ... it sucks, because I wasn't actually getting any back pains at all so far ... about the only symptom I wasn't suffering from. :rolleyes:

Neyite

Battlestar Tlachtga wrote: »

I've got a pain in my lower back like someone is shoving a spike up through my spine from the bottom. I think spending most of Thursday night on a hospital trolley didn't help ... it sucks, because I wasn't actually getting any back pains at all so far ... about the only symptom I wasn't suffering from. :rolleyes:

I think I heard it referred to as Vagina Lightning on this thread when I was on it - a short sharp pain that jolts your nethers? Yup, thats VL.

Hello Lady!

loubian wrote: »

I used piriton when I was pregnant. N a cold face cloth over your eyes does wonders for hay fever headaches. Press it into your eyes n temples to cool your sinuses down

I was told absolutely not to use pyriton or anti-histamines as they cross the placenta and can slow the babys heartbeat. Total pain in the bum because I suffer with sinuses on a normal day, and since pregnancy have had no relief. All I can use is a netti pot, which does help for an hour or two but the relief doesn't last very long.

My gripe today is combined care! I keep getting shoved around from my GP to the hospital and back. The combined care only allows you x many visits to your GP, but because I am having twins I am supposed to be monitored more regularly. On instruction from the hospital (except for one visit I made myself due to a bad cold and stuffy chest - I normally would have just taken a cold and flu remedy but being preggers HAD to go to the doc!) anyway, due to the visits to the doc to check my BP/urine as advised by the hospital, I now only have 1 visit left under the combined care, all others have to be paid for! :mad: I am now 23 weeks and need to go to hospital every 4 weeks, and GP in between. When I get to 30 weeks I will be seen in the hospital every 2-3 weeks and GP possibly a few times too. Surely common sense would dicatate that multiple pregnancies should get a higher allocation of visits? I mean its fairly standard practice for multiple mums to need more doctor supervision!

cyning

Hello lady on my last pregnancy from 20 weeks on I was either with my specialist, hospital or GP every week: I didn't have to pay for the GP visits because they were pregnancy related whereas if I went in with a kidney infection (which I had at 13 weeks) I did have to pay. I thought that when its a higher risk or multiple pregnancy you got more visits? It doesn't seem right that you should have to pay

I'm sick of gagging and puking. I gave myself a nosebleed puking this morning. I need to get my eyebrows waxed but I literally can't bare the thoughts of being touched and they look like two hairy Molly caterpillars crawled onto my face and died.

I also have really hairy legs but noone can see them except my husband and its his fault I'm sick so he can go cope

I may not be entirely rational today!

Das Kitty

Oh lord cyning, I am so hairy. Not just the normal places either. My neck has long fine ginger hair on it. You wouldn't notice it 99% of the time, but you can tug it.

I also have a lower back beard and a hairy bum. If my hair was dark I'd look like a gorilla. I suppose an orangutan isn't much better!

The hair on my arms is really long. My son calls them my wolf arms.

I remember this from last time and it was months and months before it all fell out. Guess I'll just have to put up with being a woolly woman for a while!

nikpmup

I've been going to the beautician regularly; having every blade of excess hair removed after a friend of mine's horror story involving a sudden early labour, emergency section, no time to get tidied, and her husbands comments in the operating room which went along the lines of "the 70's called, they want their pubes back!" I'm remaining a hair-free zone until after this child makes its appearance, regardless of cost or pain!

pwurple

nikpmup wrote: »

I've been going to the beautician regularly; having every blade of excess hair removed after a friend of mine's horror story involving a sudden early labour, emergency section, no time to get tidied, and her husbands comments in the operating room which went along the lines of "the 70's called, they want their pubes back!" I'm remaining a hair-free zone until after this child makes its appearance, regardless of cost or pain!

Seriously, pubes are the LEAST of your dignity issues during labour. The body empties. You are fairly likely to be vomiting, peeing and pooping as the baby appears, in front of a group of people... let alone the help you may need cleaning stitches down that direction afterwards.

Husband who implies you're not sexy enough during birth deserves a melon up his butt.

Hello Lady!

I normally do my own, but given that I can no longer see my lady garden, I think I may need to call in the experts. I may advise them to bring a flymo strimmer and extra blades!

January

I never did anything to prepare for labour... I did attempt to shave my legs on number 2 because it hadn't been done in a few days but I got half a leg done and ended up leaving it because I was in so much pain...

Midwives, nor my partner, commented on it (if he had I'd have decked him!)... I did poop, I'm sure of it, but the midwives never uttered a word either, cleaned it without any fuss and we carried on.

clareames

oh my god does that really happen? pooping??? my worst nightmare...

Hello Lady!

cyning wrote: »

Hello lady on my last pregnancy from 20 weeks on I was either with my specialist, hospital or GP every week: I didn't have to pay for the GP visits because they were pregnancy related whereas if I went in with a kidney infection (which I had at 13 weeks) I did have to pay. I thought that when its a higher risk or multiple pregnancy you got more visits? It doesn't seem right that you should have to pay

I know! Its so annoying! I think they make the rules up as they go along. I had 2 visits outside of normal bp/urine checks - one for a very bad headcold and the other for my sickness/IBS as I couldn't take anything OTC without a doctors prescription. Those two visits should have been put against my GP only card, but they weren't, instead they went against my combined care package. Meaning that now, I have 1 visit left. If due to increased risk I need more visits, I can get 5 more, but my GP says that if I am high risk, and with having twins he would feel more comfortable if all my future visits are with the hospital.

All a big old swizz if you ask me! Don't know why I bothered signing up for combined care TBH, but in my ignorance I didn't realise I had a choice.

pwurple

clareames wrote: »

oh my god does that really happen? pooping??? my worst nightmare...

'fraid so. But, as january says, they don't mention it, and carry on. I do vaguely remember my husband taking a look, and saying/laughing (during me pushing for a contraction)... 'did you just poop?' I think the midwife nearly decked him on my behalf. And I told him to get himself back up to my head, and don't be looking down that end.

I'm pretty sure it's considered 'good luck' in some cultures. God only knows why. To make us feel better maybe.

January

clareames wrote: »

oh my god does that really happen? pooping??? my worst nightmare...

Yep, it really happens. I was worried about it at first but honestly, you don't even realise... like I said, midwives are really discrete about it and all that pushing down there is bound to make an impact!

Das Kitty

If you're lucky you'll have a dose of the runs a day before labour starts so there won't be too much. Meh. I reckon most people have other things on their minds when they're in labour.

Fear of inaccessible ingrowing hairs has kept me out of the waxing salon.

Synyster Shadow

Oh labour is defo full of first times!!

But nearly every woman poop's and they continuously change the pad/sheet under you and neither you or hubby will see it. They'll have him busy helping you concentrate. And my hubby never planned on lookin and when the time came couldn't stop. Since then he's a new respect for me and it never put him off goin there again hence been pregnant again so soon

Suucee

Hello lady if you have a gp visit card should you have to pay for gp visits outside of combined care .
On my last pregnancy i was at the doctors alot as had bowel adhesions and due to the MS and incresing size of my tummy i had a lot of pain and i never had to pay.
This time ive been 3 times already at 13 weeks and havent had to pay. First time was to confirm pregnancy, second was kidney infection and third was 12 week check.

Re the pooping ive no idea if i did or not. No one said and id rather not know. I did have diahrea the day before which also broke my waters. But tbh theres that much going on you dont really care when you have shaved or waxed last or if you poop. Getting baby out is all that matters.

My moan for the day is people parking too close. I remember this from last time but only had a problem when i was well on with a big bump but today i came out of a shop with my 16 month old and someone had parked so close it was such a struggle to get her in. My lower back is very sore and getting her in to the car is a struggle at the best of times with the door fully open. I dont know how the driver got out of thier car they were that close.
I think i might start have to start parking in the secluded car parks.

nikpmup

I'm roaring with laughter at the poop stories, as well as ca*king myself :oops: (a nurse friend of mine advised using lactulose for a few days before the birth to clear you out, so theres nothing there to produce!)
As for the ladygarden, TBH it's more for myself - I know dignity goes out the window but anything I can do to help I reckon a good wax will be more comfortable in the post birth period as well.
My friends hubby's comment was tongue-in-cheek, she laughed about it afterwards..... :P

Roesy

Not a big moan but I had to take off my wedding and engagement rings this morning. Woke to find them feeling really tight. Found it hard to take them off. Feels weird not wearing them but it'd be worse if they got stuck I suppose!

Das Kitty

Roesy wrote: »

Not a big moan but I had to take off my wedding and engagement rings this morning. Woke to find them feeling really tight. Found it hard to take them off. Feels weird not wearing them but it'd be worse if they got stuck I suppose!

I did that on Monday. I sent my husband in to town to get the settings checked and have them polished while I wasn't wearing them. €80. Jaysus!

Hello Lady!

Suucee wrote: »

Hello lady if you have a gp visit card should you have to pay for gp visits outside of combined care .
On my last pregnancy i was at the doctors alot as had bowel adhesions and due to the MS and incresing size of my tummy i had a lot of pain and i never had to pay.
This time ive been 3 times already at 13 weeks and havent had to pay. First time was to confirm pregnancy, second was kidney infection and third was 12 week check.

Hi Suucee,
my GP visit card expired in July and I have been refused a new one because I got a €1000 payrise which means I am no longer eligible! never mind the fact that of the €1000 by the time the tax man and PRSI man and USC man gets a hold of it, its worth bugger all! :mad: I don't know how I will manage after the birth as I have an ongoing medical condition which affects my immune system meaning I get infections quite regularly and need a trip to the doc each time to ensure that it doesn't turn into a 3 week long illness. I usually attend my doctor at least 8-10 times a year in addition to my hospital check ups. In the past I could make a note of this on the claim and one year even though I was earning a bit over the threshold, with the number of visits etc and an ongoing health condition they gave me the GP visit card. But this year there wasn't even the option to include information like that. I hope my health takes a serious turn for the better or I will spend all my wages on GP fees. My husband recently got a new job which pays VHI, but the BIK tax per month is almost as much as a doctor visit per month! but think we will just have to bite the bullet and join.

They should have taken the two visits which weren't direcly maternity related against my GP card but they didn't and now its too late apparently because my card has expired. So I'm stuck with the only option of paying for future visits. I think I will just have to push my consultant to move all my future check up appointments to the hospital midwife, and at least then it will be covered.

nikpmup

After the conversation about excess hair, I've noticed that the hair on my belly has started to sprout!! My bump now has a coating of baby blonde downy fluff, but it's getting quite thick, and some of its quite long! The weird crap that pregnancy does to you!!

Hello Lady!

Yep - have a hairy belly too! but my hair is dark! I feel like a yeti!