The Pregnant Womans Moan Thread.

angeldelight wrote: »

Thanks for the tips! The only way I could walk at all last night was sideways like a crab haha glamorous!

You just reminded me of angel delight. I think I'm gonna get some of that in the shopping at the weekend

That's if I can keep it down. At 16 weeks, I was morning sick free for 4 days but it returned tonight hopefully it's just a one off bad night!

I think I'm going to lose my mind.

After arriving to hospital with protein/blood/glucose in sample, headache and high blood pressure yesterday morning, my blood pressures were completely normal overnight in the hospital. Due to be induced on Monday but justarrived home AGAIN now (this is like my third hospitalisation this month). Pissed/upset at driving home for what feels like the millionth time, still pregnant because I was 0.02 below the cut off for protein and it's the weekend so there was no consultant to give the go ahead to inducing me two days early. The doc even apologised and said if it was tomorrow they'd have induced. Bollox on it. For the sake of 24hrs?

So upset. Irrationally so. Particularly given that I was so tired this morning after being kept up all night on the ward all I wanted to do was come home. Now I'm here bawling my eyes out because I once again walked out without a baby in my arms.

Enough of a rant? I could probably keep going

I now have an even worse headache from crying

Kashton Important Spacewalk wrote: »

You poor thing mirrorwall Can't say anything to make you feel better but I was in the very same situation as you last year with my little boy, in and out of hospital for 6 weeks before they finaly induced me so I really feel for you, it's such a pain in the árse

Also, it's shocking that there's no consultant available during the weekend :eek:

I'm not sure if it was that there wasn't one available at all, or that my team consultant wasn't on but one way or the other Im home again.

It is just so incredibly frustrating. I know it's like 48hrs now but it's another 48hrs of monitoring symptoms and worrying. I'm completely sick of it. I'm also not sure I even believe the BPs I got on the ward, they were totally out of line with my normal reads, all on the same monitor and of course the first read I've done at home this evening is my usual 140s/80s unlike the bizarre ones on the ward of 110/70s. And my monitor isn't wrong because it always matches perinatal/assessment. And I've been in perinatal three days a week for a few weeks now!

Then again I've been crying so I've probably spiked it myself at this stage

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

I'm not sure if it was that there wasn't one available at all, or that my team consultant wasn't on but one way or the other Im home again.

It is just so incredibly frustrating. I know it's like 48hrs now but it's another 48hrs of monitoring symptoms and worrying. I'm completely sick of it. I'm also not sure I even believe the BPs I got on the ward, they were totally out of line with my normal reads, all on the same monitor and of course the first read I've done at home this evening is my usual 140s/80s unlike the bizarre ones on the ward of 110/70s. And my monitor isn't wrong because it always matches perinatal/assessment. And I've been in perinatal three days a week for a few weeks now!

Then again I've been crying so I've probably spiked it myself at this stage

Sorry you are feeling this way mirrorwall. You will have your wee baby very soon now. In the meantime if you land back in hospital again and are unhappy with the blood pressure readings the midwives are getting. Request they either try with a different automatic machine or more accurately do a manual blood pressure using a manual sphygmomanometer.
Best of luck for next week

Thanks everyone. OH brought me out to cinema so nicely wrecked and calmer now. BP still high on home monitor tho (155/102). To bed anyways and I'll worry about it tomorrow! Roll on Monday

Sligo1 wrote: »

Sorry you are feeling this way mirrorwall. You will have your wee baby very soon now. In the meantime if you land back in hospital again and are unhappy with the blood pressure readings the midwives are getting. Request they either try with a different automatic machine or more accurately do a manual blood pressure using a manual sphygmomanometer.
Best of luck for next week

That was the wierd thing, it was a manual machine though they seemed to be having serious trouble getting it to pump. All reads at home since have been 148/94, 155/102 and 137/92 which are my normal levels (except the second which was high) and my levels since medication two weeks ago have been 130-145/80-95 in perinatal and at home.

The ward reads were 110-125/70-80 which are bizarrely low after two consistant weeks above that, particularly when in perinatal that morning I was reading 140-150/90-95. The drop literally occurred within an hour of transfer from perinatal and they didn't change/give me different meds.

I don't know, maybe I'm just less stressed or something on a ward but
I've no idea how/why I would drop so significantly for just 24hrs and then rebound

When I was having trouble with my bp it was jumping erratically, it never stayed high or low. They would take a reading before bedtime that might be 140/85 and then in the middle of the night it would have shot up to 150/105 and be back down at 130/70 in the morning. I also had just borderline amounts of protein in my urine. The only other symptoms I had were a constant dull headache and high uric acid levels in my blood. They always told me that if I got a diastolic reading of 90 or more on my home monitor that I was to ring them and come in for observation but that's with a base reading of 130/70.

spottybananas wrote: »

I'd love some Lucozade right now How did it go angeldelight?

I'm really fed up today. Heartburn is just driving me mad, I can only eat so many chalky Rennies and I refuse to have Gaviscon because I will puke, I hate it. I look like a frump, getting towards looking like an actual bump but not there yet. This has the interesting side effect of nobody realising I'm 7 months pregnant and I get no leeway, as in if I ask for help carrying something big in a shop, or if I feel a bit woozy and hot in a queue/shop I just get looked at like a whinger

Very much having a "what have I DONE" day, can't imagine being able to cope with all the daily crap of work, house, boring grown up stuff and a tiny human to mind...

Funnily enough I hated gaviscon prior to pregnancy but when I was stuck one day in second trimester I had it and found it way better.

Zantac/ranetitdine is also perfectly fine during pregnancy though run it past your doc if you need to. I ended up on emeprezole for the last 5 weeks because mine was so bad! If it's constant and you findnyou are practically overdosing on meds and still uncomfortable say it to the doc emphasising that it you are maxing out and still extremely uncomfortable and they can sort it for you

spottybananas wrote: »

Thanks, yeah I've to go to the doc next week for my next appt so will mention it then. I've taken nothing so far other than Rennies so definitely not overdosing on meds, but will definitely be asking for help making it stop! When it spreads to a pain in my upper back is the WORST

It's not so much the overdosing as running out of it I got zantac when I realised I was taking the max dose of rennie by 2 o clock int he day!

spottybananas wrote: »

I didn't know there was a max dose of Rennies! I haven't been taking them that much so I doubt I've reached the max but most check it! Hopefully she'll help me out next week.

Fingers crossed also I found water shocking for heartburn unless I nibbled with it and used four pillows for most of the pregnancy too! Good luck with it