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MintyDoris wrote: »Do you reckon the baby will stay head down? I am finding it hard to figure out how mine is lying. The midwife did say though that if I am suffering from pressure, it's probably a sign that 'he' is head down
I thought it was really lovely to see all the well wishes for Emma, especially from posters in other threads. Gave me a warm, fuzzy feeling (and no, this time it wasn't reflux
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I really hope so. Previous baby was head down throughout the pregnancy so I guess I was hoping for similar co-operation from this one. But it's a relief not to have a transverse baby anymore, that was really uncomfortable. Pressure is usually a good sign. My former midwife says that if you push gently (side to side) on the upmost part of baby and feel the rest move it's butt, if only that bit moves it's head (bobbing on neck).
Yes it's been lovely to see all the support for Emma and Max. I hope they're both doing well. And all the other mammies and babies of course.0 -
Hello everyone!
Decided I should finally post in here, after snooping around a few times
I hope everyone is doing well!
I'm due on the 19th, can't believe how the time has flown!
Awww, that's the name we've picked if we're having a girl hahaemmabrighton, I think you made the right choice of name, how much had your brother had to drink when he suggested Indie?
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Hi ladies
My guys down for the last 5 weeks or so hoping he waits that way knowing my luck he'll flip before I'm due :rolleyes:
Had an awful time at my hospital check up today
Asked midwife about the average feeds for a baby fed on expressed breast milk. She goes on a rant how about it is not possiable to just pump the milk and that I will have to nurse at night. blah blah I knew she was talking Cr*p but then she got another midwive to talk to me and said aslong as you nurse for the first week to establish your supply you will be fine while the other one stood over me and then started on about how I will breast feed at night and throwing nursing info sheets in my face!
She also check my urine and said there is a trace in it. I explained that I have kidney problems and a small trance like that in my is normal. (I've been getting kidney infections over an extra tube which extracts the fluids for 5 years+ now and can read the tests myself it didn't look like I had a trace) So they asked me to do another one.
Was in the mean time called to the doctor a new one who had no clue about my problems with my kidneys even though it is clearly stated on my file. Made a big fuss about antibiotics (which I had to tell her which ones I take to clear mine, she wouldn't believe me and had to scroll through my online records until she found out I was right). I told her I will hand in the second sample first as it nearly always comes back clear but she said no. The she told me if I did not go to antenatal classes I will have complications at birth WFT????
I handed in the sample which surprise surprise came back clear, but another one of midwives threw it in the bin so I had to do another to get sent to the lab which she check first and again came back clear.
I actually started crying just broke down because every time I go in I seem to have to reexplain the most obvious things. This midwife did bring me into the office and calm me down with H2b when she heard what the others were saying she freaked out and made the first midwife (who I was then told was on her first few days of training ) apologize to me, I couldn't really see her as I had the ever so sexy mascara eyes but h2b said she was giving nothing but dirty looks. Now I understand you have to start training somewhere but a little bit of manors go a long way!!
Sorry for the rant
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elaney: I'm with UCHG. I don't know what they were playing at tbh but I am sticking to certain ones now and leaving all questions to them and GP. Glad your finding them good
Fran79: It really is annoying, I could see it wrote down right there and she still made me reexplain!!0 -
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Happy Monday ladies! Hope you all had a good weekend.
DollyB, so sorry to hear that you had such a miserable time at your hospital check up last week. I hope you've recovered from it and that future appointments are less stressful. Re the nighttime feeds, my sister had intended to pump and share bottle feeding duties with her husband, but she scrapped that, found it much easier to just reach over, bring baby to boob, feed baby and drop back in cot. Disturbed sleep less for everyone. She's on number 3 now and has exclusively bf each one until weaned. But everyone is different and no midwife (or Doctor) should be telling you what will work for you.
elaney, that seems a long time between visits. Are you doing combined care? I thought from about 30 weeks appointments were supposed to be every 2 weeks (4 at the outside). That said, it must be nice to know that they're not worried about you and baby.
Fran 79, it really is so frustrating when they don't bother to read the notes in front of them. Only had 3 hospital appointments on my first and was sick to death of repeating myself by the third. Actually, had the same at my booking appointment at the Coombe this time. First you fill in the form and send it to them, then you sit at the little window and repeat all the same stuff over again, then they take you into a little interview room where they ask you all the same questions again (only with a few domestic violence/drug questions thrown in) and then you meet with the consultant, who sits there with the bl**dy file open in front of him and asks the same stupid questions all over again! What a waste of everyone's time.
A properly conducted antenatal appointment shouldn't need to take more than 20 minutes, including time to ask questions. That's more than enough time to check urine and blood pressure, listen to baby's heartbeat, do a bump feel/mini-scan and check that Mum is ok. So why on earth is it necessary to keep pregnant women sitting around (if they're lucky enough to find a spare seat) in hospitals for half a day?
I'm now officially beginning to waddle. Baby seems to have dropped down and so I'm back to needing to pee about 50 times a night. I am also HUGE. I don't remember being this big at term last time - and there are 9 more weeks to go!
But it's all part of the fun. Baby still seems to be happy sleeping through the night, if I roll over to get more comfortable I can feel him or her moving around a little to resettle and then all quiet again. Hopefully that means a good night sleeper after birth.
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Glad you are feeling alot better now Jeeney. Must have been scary. Take it easy going forward although not easy with a little one i know.
Yeah Squiggler back in hospital at 38 weeks although will make appointment with doctor before then. Was a bit surprised about it. I was sure i would be back around 35 weeks.
Im not as big this time compared to the last i think its because its a girl and i have feck all appetite compared to last time.I have just put on a stone so far compared to two this time last pregnancy. Sickness is back everyday
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Hello again all!
Fran79, when did you find out that baby no 1 had a knot in his cord? Was it noticed before the birth?
At least baby sleeping through the night means one of us is I wish I could sleep as well as baby and his/her daddy. This humidity is killing me and to add to my general misery I managed to hurt my left hip yesterday so it hurts whichever side I lie on. Moan, moan, moan...
But, I did have a few giggles at the expense of the HSE/Hospital the other day when we finally received a letter from them outlining the proposal for care they've come up with. It includes dating scan (at 32 weeks, really?) and numerous other scans and tests which would have needed to have been done months ago to have been anything other than a waste of time and money. It also proposes monitoring procedures which are unsupported by any medical studies (all of the studies conducted concluded that they bring about no improvement in outcome, and actually increase risk of trauma/harm to the mother and baby).
If we hadn't made our own alternative arrangements for antenatal care I'd have had none for the past 4 months and now they send a proposal that clearly wasn't thought out and does nothing to instill confidence that they know what they're talking about (or doing).
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Hi everyone,
the heat it still getting to me this week, i invested in a fan for my bed side locker on monday (well worth the €6.50) sleeping better at night now.
this is my first week on maternity leave, i thought i'd have more house work done by today but i suppose tomorrow is another day.
5 more weeks till due date. Has anyone packed their hospital bag yet?
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Hey girls how are ye all doing?
I've had a bit of a drama week tbh..very bad pains on monday in my back went to maternity unit and like I thought they also thought kidneys. They done a trace and baba was fine but they suggested steroids just to be sure. So I said I would stay in and get the other steroid the next night. As they done more with trace baby's heart beat went low but was still healthy they got a fright as it was reading in at 110 for baseline but when baby was kicking it was shooting up to 160-165.
Long story short they told me 3-4 times I was going to get a C-section but thank god the consultant stopped in and said there was no need. They kept me in and kept saying something was wrong but they didn't know what then when I got talking to the doctors who said no they baby is 100% fine not a thing wrong but they did say they haven't seen a baby move so much before, I'm probably in for a handful got let out yesterday and they have me switched to the head consultants clinic who was shocked by all the different stories I was getting told which were all wrong.
Seriously you really would want to be able to speak up for yourself in there!0 -
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