January 2018 Babies Club

annettea

Hi everyone. Hope everyone is feeling okay.. I hope your back will feel better soon , is there a reason why you can't tell work now about the pregnancy? You have to think of yourself , your back is very important especially so early on in the pregnancy you have to mind it I'll stop nagging now
I missed a call from the ante natal clinic today, I rang back but now I'm scared .. I'm just wondering why they're ringing me. I was with them last Monday 3rd for scan and got urine lab tested. I'm sure if it was serious they would have rang me again.
Apart from that I'm wrecked!! Really tired. I already fell asleep on my child's bed for a half hour while she was going up and down the stairs. I've a feeling I'm carrying a boy and I don't know why, pregnancy is the same as last time so I don't know why

saggycaggy

Thanks Annettea, yeah I'm just waiting until after my scan on the 20th before I tell them-so holding out until then. Although trying to hide this wee bump is proving difficult already.

Did you find out why they were ringing you? I'm sure all is ok and like you say if it was anything serious they would have gotten in contact again soon after.

I've never heard of an ergonomic assessment bee06 I'll look it up thanks!

mojesius

My lower back is bad as well, went to gp the other day due to constant dizziness and headaches. Signed me off work for the week. I slept 14 hours last night, madness. I just want to feel normal. Hate missing work for what seems quite trivial when you're not pregnant

spottybananas

Anyone having back pain should consider visiting an osteopath or getting a deep tissue massage, lifesavers.

annettea

I'm here waiting for bloods and they told me why they rang. I have E-COLI . I asked was I going to die , she laughed and said to just take antibiotics they described.. I got a bit of a fright.

Toots

12 weeks today, can't really believe it. I'm dying to start telling people other than immediate family, but not sure if we should announce it today or wait until we have our hospital appointment on Thursday and check that everything's ok.

Sh*tting it about the hospital appointment - nervous about the scan that they'll say something is wrong, but it's mainly the booking bloods that I'm crapping it about. I have a crippling phobia of needles. I can tolerate injections, but blood tests or IVs usually bring on a full on panic attack. My husband is taking the day off work to come with me just in case I faint

How is everyone else getting on?

Loveinapril

saggycaggy wrote: »

Nearly 12 weeks and I have serious low back pain. Anyone else suffering?
I do have an office/desk job but I never had this with my previous two pregnancies.
I'm using a hot water bottle on my back in the evenings and that seems to help but during the day at work it's so painful and achy.

(In from the Nov thread)

Contact your maternity hospital and they will get you in for physio. I strained a muscle in my back last week and had physio. It was really good to hear how to manage it and she also advised sitting on a gym ball and getting a coccyx support cushion for sitting down. My pain sounds similar to yours in that it eases a bit standing up. There is a hormone we release in pregnancy that makes all the joints or muscles relax so this sort of pain can be common. We have a while to go yet so definitely get it looked at!

lmc106

Toots wrote: »

12 weeks today, can't really believe it. I'm dying to start telling people other than immediate family, but not sure if we should announce it today or wait until we have our hospital appointment on Thursday and check that everything's ok.

Sh*tting it about the hospital appointment - nervous about the scan that they'll say something is wrong, but it's mainly the booking bloods that I'm crapping it about. I have a crippling phobia of needles. I can tolerate injections, but blood tests or IVs usually bring on a full on panic attack. My husband is taking the day off work to come with me just in case I faint

How is everyone else getting on?

I'm the same- first scan at the Coombe this Wednesday! My anxiety is in overdrive worrying that something will be wrong and also dreading the needles. Husband has to work away this week of course my mother in law will be with me at least.

New farmers wife

Does anyone know if you go through all the questions, the medical history and all that, at the 12 week appointment on your second baby like we did on the first baby?

spottybananas

New farmers wife wrote: »

Does anyone know if you go through all the questions, the medical history and all that, at the 12 week appointment on your second baby like we did on the first baby?

Yep, they do.

New farmers wife

Oh dear God, that's a painful process!! So I can't escape another 3-4 hour appointment!

spottybananas

I learned from last time and arrived 40 mins early for my 12 week appt, was done in an hour and a bit as I was one of the first there.

New farmers wife

I plan on being a bit early but can't be too early as app is at 9! On my first I didn't know about taking a ticket for bloods so I ended up the midwife giving everyone a ticket after all the questions which added at least an hour if not longer to the process

spottybananas

My appt was 9.30, outpatients opens at 9 so I was there for 8.50, taking no chances! We don't have a ticket system here, just wait & queue and first come first serve!

Toots

lmc106 wrote: »

I'm the same- first scan at the Coombe this Wednesday! My anxiety is in overdrive worrying that something will be wrong and also dreading the needles. Husband has to work away this week of course my mother in law will be with me at least.

I wasn't sure if my hubby would be able to come with me because he came down with this awful throat thing last week - they thought it might be strep throat, and if it was then he wouldn't have been allowed in the hospital because apparently it's really contagious. Luckily he's grand now and has been given the all clear to go in with me on Thursday.

I'd have been mortified if I'd to ask anyone else to go with me and hold my hand I went in for the booking appointment on my own on my first, and thought I'd be grand....... fainted during the blood test and then spent about half an hour lying in the back seat of my car on Merrion Square waiting until I felt well enough to drive in to work. :pac: I blame my Dad! It's all his side of the family that are squeamish. Last time around my sister was asking what the Anti D injection was for (I'd mentioned that I wouldn't need it) and she passed out when I was explaining it!

saggycaggy

Loveinapril wrote: »

(In from the Nov thread)

Contact your maternity hospital and they will get you in for physio. I strained a muscle in my back last week and had physio. It was really good to hear how to manage it and she also advised sitting on a gym ball and getting a coccyx support cushion for sitting down. My pain sounds similar to yours in that it eases a bit standing up. There is a hormone we release in pregnancy that makes all the joints or muscles relax so this sort of pain can be common. We have a while to go yet so definitely get it looked at!

Thanks a mill Loveinapril, I've my appointment in Rotunda on Thursday so i'll mention it to them then. Just gone the 12 weeks and still feeling a bit crap-physically and emotionally, I think it's the 3rd child fear on top of everything. I've searched so many blogs about it and it's common enough for the 3rd one to throw you and then listening to Matt Cooper yesterday on the costs of education for children freaked me out even more:o

Toots

If it's any consolation, I'd imagine that by the time the kid is going to college they'll probably be paying for it themselves with student loans.

saggycaggy

Yeah mad Toots, I guess it's everything and you want to do your best for your children etc, I need to get more positive than negative. Roll on Thursday-might even see you there!

Toots

Might indeed! If you see someone getting carried out after a blood test, that's probably me :pac:

saggycaggy

lol Toots-best of luck with it!! close your eyes and pretend you're a million miles away:)

Toots

Thanks! I'll be bringing a cold sugary drink with me just in case

yourdeadwright

We got a lend of a doopler yesterday
She is 16 weeks gone but i was against her using it as i was afraid if she didn't finds the baby which can happen for loads of reasons  she would worry herself sick and last thing she needs is the stress
,But she decided she wanted to and after 25 nervous minutes of trying she eventually found the baby and it was amazing ,It was one of them memorable moments for me ,
We have both now agreed we wont use it again and wait till the 20 week scan ,

Toots

So my 5 year old wanted cereal this morning but the milk had gone off. He turns around to me and goes "have you not started generating milk yet?" I nearly wet myself :pac:

Toots

How did you get on today Saggy Caggy?

saggycaggy

Toots wrote: »

How did you get on today Saggy Caggy?

All good Toots-wriggly baby in there measuring a good size! I was thinking of you when I was getting my bloods done as it took them 4 attempts to get my vein-seemingly I have thin veins. The trainee midwife tried both arms but no luck so the other midwife tried it then and eventually got it phew! The sorest part was taking off the plasters last night.

How did you get on? I was gone by about 3pm-I kept wondering were you there in the waiting room at the same time as me :P

Toots

saggycaggy wrote: »

All good Toots-wriggly baby in there measuring a good size! I was thinking of you when I was getting my bloods done as it took them 4 attempts to get my vein-seemingly I have thin veins. The trainee midwife tried both arms but no luck so the other midwife tried it then and eventually got it phew! The sorest part was taking off the plasters last night.

How did you get on? I was gone by about 3pm-I kept wondering were you there in the waiting room at the same time as me :P

Possibly was! I think I was in all 3 at one stage or another. There was a few waiting so they brought me down to the private clinic to take my details and do the bloods but there was nowhere to lie down and the midwife barely for the strap on my arm when I started to get dizzy so she just did my history and said she'd bring me back upstairs so I could lie down while they did it.

Went upstairs and the midwife who did them was so lovely, I was crapping it cos I had a really bad time with booking bloods last time round but she gave me a big glass of Lucozade beforehand and then used a baby sized needle so I genuinely didn't feel it until she was putting the plaster on. For the first time in my life I was able to stand up and go straight after the test. Usually I have to lie down for a few mins til my head stops spinning

The consultant was lovely and he spent ages on the scan so we got to see loads of baba (who was going bananas possibly due to the sugar rush from the lucozade) I thought he was having trouble getting measurements but he was actually just trying to get some good pictures for us.

I've to go back at week 28 for a Glucose Tolerance test, so I'm nervous about that, but the fact that I was grand at the bloods today is a confidence boost. The poor hubby will have to take the day off to accompany me for that though :pac:

I was wondering would I see you in the waiting room, but everyone in the room with me all seemed to be super pregnant, I think I was the only one in that room on their first appointment.

saggycaggy

oh I thought the same thing too! There was only one or 2 others that seemed in the early stage.
Were you wearing a striped tshirt by any chance? I don't know why but there was a lady at the door as I was leaving the receptionist and I wondered was it you!!

Awe you poor thing-at least that bit is all over for now.........labour will be grand in comparison:p
I'm back at 20weeks for the big scan and then 24weeks for next visit to the clinic.

Toots

Yes I was! I also had my hair in pigtails :pac: I think I was going back in to hand the forms in at that stage.

saggycaggy

Ha that's mad! I would have passed by you so leaving the office then. We may meet again!

How's everyone getting on? TGIF!

lmc106

First scan and bloods were on Wednesday and even though I cried through the whole blood test and felt like I was going to pee myself from nerves while waiting for the scan - everything was fine thank God. Baby was rolling all around the place and the tech said we had a super active baby... sounds like a good dose of daddy's genes got passed on then!

Still feeling sick and throwing up most mornings. I'm going to tell work the news today so they can take some mercy on me as I may need more breaks/ maybe cut back a little on shifts. When is everyone else announcing the news and how? I love fun announcement stories

Toots

I think my 20 week scan is the 15th of September, but AFAIK it's in the main hospital bit.

Dee01

I'm due 31-1 but my scan isn't til next week. I'll be 13 weeks then. I wasn't sure what group to go into, but it's nice seeing what you guys are going through so I know what's to come!

I have pretty much had a perfect pregnancy really so far apart from the tiredness.... that has been incredible. I forget whole conversations even took place! But now Today I've been hit with nausea and feeling dreadful like a tonne of bricks. I don't know how you Mammy's who have felt like this all the way cope. I'm In bits!

Hope you are all going to have a nice relaxing weekend ladies x

Toots

Got a call from the hospital today to say that my pee sample came back showing "multiple growths" so I've to go in tomorrow and do another one so they can make sure I don't have a UTI. Thing is with UTI any time I've had one before the main symptom is needing to pee all the time, but that's kinda par for the course anyway when you're up the duff! :pac:

Loveinapril

Toots wrote: »

Got a call from the hospital today to say that my pee sample came back showing "multiple growths" so I've to go in tomorrow and do another one so they can make sure I don't have a UTI. Thing is with UTI any time I've had one before the main symptom is needing to pee all the time, but that's kinda par for the course anyway when you're up the duff! :pac:

(In from the November 2017 thread)

I've had those results a couple of times now and had to retest and it has always come back clear. I am currently waiting on lab results from a urine sample I gave on Thursday that had protein and white cells. Apparently the UTI symptoms in pregnancy are often silent. I am sick of peeing all over my hand while aiming for the stupid teeny sample containers!

Toots

Loveinapril wrote: »

(In from the November 2017 thread)

I've had those results a couple of times now and had to retest and it has always come back clear. I am currently waiting on lab results from a urine sample I gave on Thursday that had protein and white cells. Apparently the UTI symptoms in pregnancy are often silent. I am sick of peeing all over my hand while aiming for the stupid teeny sample containers!

Oh my god, it's just the worst! I usually manage to pee everywhere but the feckin container I went to Holles St for my first baby and their sample containers were actually quite big - I used to rob a pile of them every time I was in so I could use them for when I had my GP appointments because they used the little narrow jars.

I see on Amazon that you can bulk buy the larger sample pots, so I think I'm going to do that for the future, but they asked me specifically to do the sample while I'm in the hospital tomorrow, so I'll use whatever jar they give me there.

Toots

Just got another call there and apparently I'm not immune to rubella! I've to be vaccinated again after the baby is born.

mojesius

Anyone else starting to show? I've gotten huge the last couple of weeks! Jeans becoming an issue ðŸ˜

Toots

mojesius wrote: »

Anyone else starting to show? I've gotten huge the last couple of weeks! Jeans becoming an issue ðŸ˜

Yep! Not so much pregnant looking, but certainly looking fat Jeans haven't closed since week 10, but I got one of those bump band yokes that cover up the open fly, so I'm still in the jeans just with the buttons open. I think leggings under dresses are going to become a wardrobe staple soon though.

Pocos

17 weeks today and away on holidays! I was told before bumps love heat and I can really see an increase in the bump this week! Not sure how big as all clothes with me are summer dresses and elasticated shorts. It will be interesting when home what the jean situation will be like. I don't look pregnant but someone who needs to to lose a few pounds!!!!

saggycaggy

I'm coming up on the 14weeks now and defo not able to hide it any longer!! by evening time I feel huge.
I'll have to go buy maternity jeans this weekend-New Look have some nice ones that aren't too expensive.

mojesius

saggycaggy wrote: »

I'm coming up on the 14weeks now and defo not able to hide it any longer!! by evening time I feel huge.
I'll have to go buy maternity jeans this weekend-New Look have some nice ones that aren't too expensive.

Great. I'll take a trip to New look this weekend thanks for that. I'm the same, I expand progressively during the day, like that feeling when you've eaten lots of pizza or bread

spottybananas

I find h&m jeggings and jeans fab too, and not too expensive. Currently wearing my h&m €30 jeggings through second pregnancy, wore them from 17 weeks last time until about 8 weeks after!

saggycaggy

mojesius wrote: »

Great. I'll take a trip to New look this weekend thanks for that. I'm the same, I expand progressively during the day, like that feeling when you've eaten lots of pizza or bread

Except I'm feeling it because I have actually eaten lots of pizza and bread:P
I'm still on the carb stage and hate it-eating so so much but feel I need it.

Some of the jeans in New Look had the over the bump band which just sagged on me at this stage but I tried on a pair called something like Jenna that fitted perfectly......I just have to wait until pay day tomorrow to buy them!!

New farmers wife

On my last pregnancy I had a pair of over the bump jeans from next, got them in the sale, I loved them. Not sure if they'd fit this time tho! I got a few nice bits in h&m last time. I want to find some stretchy skinny jeans, I have penney's ones but need something that will be over the bump.

lashes34

I got the Jenna over bump ones in New Look and they still sag at 20 weeks.

Got two pairs on boohoo and they are perfect. Were about €26.

saggycaggy

lashes34 wrote: »

I got the Jenna over bump ones in New Look and they still sag at 20 weeks.

Got two pairs on boohoo and they are perfect. Were about €26.

oh maybe it wasn't Jenna so as these were under the bump the ones I tried on. If I get them tomorrow I'll let yas know! must check out boohoo too, thanks.

lashes34

saggycaggy wrote: »

oh maybe it wasn't Jenna so as these were under the bump the ones I tried on. If I get them tomorrow I'll let yas know! must check out boohoo too, thanks.

Pretty sure they had Jenna under and over the bump!

tea_and_cake

lashes34 wrote: »

I got the Jenna over bump ones in New Look and they still sag at 20 weeks.

Got two pairs on boohoo and they are perfect. Were about €26.

How did you find the boohoo jeans? Did you get maternity or go up a size?

Toots

I've got jeggings from new look (not maternity ones) but I'm getting great wear out of them cos they're so soft. Button hasn't fastened since about week 8 but those belly band yokes are a godsend.

lashes34

tea_and_cake wrote: »

How did you find the boohoo jeans? Did you get maternity or go up a size?

Got two pairs of maternity ones, over the bump. Didnt go up a size. I never know what size I am in jeans. In Penneys I am a 14, got a 12 in New Look and they were a little big so got 10s from BooHoo and are a perfect fit if that is any use to you!

Edit: codes from boohoo are DZZ70224-132-18 & DZZ70222-106-18