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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭taxus_baccata


    I hear ya on the digestive discomfort, Minty! I think I'll re-name myself Chicago! :D

    We collected our buggy and car seat yesterday, when I saw the little straps for the car seat and the tiny little head support I nearly flipped! I just cannot imagine a scenario where I'll be putting someone that small into a car and driving around with them! Jaysus the responsibility of it all! :eek:

    Last week I couldn't wait for baby to be born and now I just want to keep it safe and sound in my belly. . . . its going to be a long next few weeks I think!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MintyDoris


    I hear ya on the digestive discomfort, Minty! I think I'll re-name myself Chicago! :D


    Renaming yourself Chicago - hahahahahahhaahha, nearly fell off my chair
    We collected our buggy and car seat yesterday, when I saw the little straps for the car seat and the tiny little head support I nearly flipped! I just cannot imagine a scenario where I'll be putting someone that small into a car and driving around with them! Jaysus the responsibility of it all! :eek:

    Its things like that - sends me into a tizzy!


  • Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    Hey guys, thanks for all your well wishes yesterday. I have a quick favour to ask. I have to go for an amniocentesis today so I need a liberal sprinkling of baby dust to make sure baby stays safe and the results come back negative... I'm really worried


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭taxus_baccata


    *****Baby dust infused with love and best wishes on the way to you EmmaB*******


  • Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭jeeney


    Oh Emma, you poor thing. Lots of baby dust & prayers going your way. The very best of luck today and I hope your OH or someone else is going with you today. You definitely will need the support. Have everything crossed that all turns out just fine for you. xx


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Squiggler


    emmab, thoughts are with you today. Hope it all goes well. x


  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭elaney


    Thoughts are with you today Emmab, Hopefully all will be fine.
    sending you loads of baby dust xx


  • Registered Users Posts: 124 ✭✭TRISHKA


    My thoughts are with you Emmab, loads of ***baby dust***


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MintyDoris


    Emma - thinking of you today. Have a candle lit for you and looking forward to reading that it all went well for you x


  • Registered Users Posts: 32 Sunshine2000


    Hope everything goes ok Hun!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭SupaDupaFly


    Sending lots of baby dust and prayers your way emmab. X


  • Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    *****Baby dust infused with love and best wishes on the way to you EmmaB*******
    jeeney wrote: »
    Oh Emma, you poor thing. Lots of baby dust & prayers going your way. The very best of luck today and I hope your OH or someone else is going with you today. You definitely will need the support. Have everything crossed that all turns out just fine for you. xx
    Squiggler wrote: »
    emmab, thoughts are with you today. Hope it all goes well. x
    elaney wrote: »
    Thoughts are with you today Emmab, Hopefully all will be fine.
    sending you loads of baby dust xx
    TRISHKA wrote: »
    My thoughts are with you Emmab, loads of ***baby dust***
    MintyDoris wrote: »
    Emma - thinking of you today. Have a candle lit for you and looking forward to reading that it all went well for you x
    Hope everything goes ok Hun!
    Sending lots of baby dust and prayers your way emmab. X

    Thanks so much everyone for thinking of me and my tiny little blue bump. They put a blue dye into the amniotic sac to test to see if I had a ruptured membrane that I just hadnt noticed . So, currently junior is blue. The amniocentesis hurts like a bee sting but it is totally manageable. I was so afraid to move just in case they ended up stabbing the baby that I was paralysed from the wrist down. I could use my hand to squeeze my OH hand until my knuckles went white but that was it. But, if anyone has to have it done, it really doesnt hurt so don't be afraid.

    I had to wait a couple of hours to see did the dye run out which would indicate a rupture. It turned out that this is the case but they have also sent a sample of the fluid for testing for genetic disorders. They could also see that his kidneys are developed so that is not the problem.

    Most likely it is the membrane rupture which has occurred before 23 weeks and there is now very little fluid there :( So, I am not sure how to take it from here. Everyone in my family is praying for my baby but he is so small and so young that I just don't want to get too hopeful just in case I have to say goodbye soon :(

    Any lots of love to you and your bumps for all the support

    x EmmaB


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭SupaDupaFly


    Emmab,
    Well done for getting through the test and having a positive attitude about it. Fair play to you for being so brave! I really really hope baby is just fine and everything works out for the best. Fingers crossed for u and the little bump xx


  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭elaney


    Fairplay to you Emmab for getting through the test at least its over now.
    Take each day as it comes Emmab and take care of yourself. I will be praying for the both of you xx.


  • Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭jeeney


    Emma you really are being very brave about it all, well done for getting through it ok. Still sending that baby dust your way. Really hoping ur little baby pulls through. We are all thinking of you here x


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,954 ✭✭✭Betsie_xr3i


    Emma, i really hope things work out for you and thinking of you and your oh and your little baby, x


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Squiggler


    EmmaB, praying for you, baby, your partner and your family. Take good care of yourselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Hi all

    Hope things are going ok for you EmmaB.

    Just phoned the hospital today to find out what was happening about my 20 week scan (as suggested by my GP). They were a bit shocked to hear that I was 23 weeks and had not been invited in yet / received my scan appt letter - nor was there anything on "the system" about it. They did have the details about my first visit in March, but nothing else.

    The receptionist put me on hold and spoke to midwife who wants me in for scan asap (not that my GP thinks there are any probs but hey). So have an appt for 2 weeks time - I will be 25 weeks.

    Does make me wonder whether anybody due at a similar time to me has also not had their appt letter yet and are still waiting.

    Sorry for the rant - I know it seems small compared to others problems at the mo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MintyDoris


    Wow Fran, that would really make me wonder what is going on in there. Did you ask them why they think this happened?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Mintydoris
    I didn't think to ask them untill after I had put the phone down to be honest. I was still a bit shocked by the news that there was nothing on for me. I phoned up assuming that I would be told that there was a bit of a backlog or that my appt was such and such a time and that the letter was in the post.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 435 ✭✭MintyDoris


    Fran79 wrote: »
    I didn't think to ask them untill after I had put the phone down to be honest. I was still a bit shocked by the news that there was nothing on for me. I phoned up assuming that I would be told that there was a bit of a backlog or that my appt was such and such a time and that the letter was in the post.

    Hopefully now they will keep a special eye on you!

    Finally felt a proper kick this morning!! I raced down the stairs and when I lay down straight after, the top of my bump got soft but the bottom was rock hard and i got a proper kick. Later on, you could actually see the bump move. I have waited soooooooooo long to feel that. Happiest smiling eejet so I am

    On the flip side, I am having trouble mentally dealing with the weight gain. I have no idea how much I have actuially put on and while I know its for the best reason, I am feeling like a fat, unsexy, wobbly whale. My ankles have disappeared and I cant stop thinking about how unattractive I must be. I was never totally happy with my body but this is on a different level


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭Queen of Sheebs


    I'm with u on the weight front. This is baby no. 2 and i was all bump on no.1 until the end when i just had so much fluid built up up!! But i'm all ass, back fat and hips this time!! I keep wondering if my maternity jeans will fit me for much longer!! I'm not exercising like i did last time either....my back is sore (well more like nerve spasms in my ass) so its hard to walk sometimes. I had a wedding yesterday and shopping for a dress was a nightmare. i borrowed a dress from my sister (she used to be a size bigger than me but lost loads of weight recently:-)) and i felt pretty in it for the first time in ages. I also bought a lovely top in new look and felt nice again today. It has made a difference to how i feel about how i look (at least for the last 2 days!)
    I keep reminding myself that as long as baby is healthy that that is the important thing so really not going to get too hung up on it. Just afraid i'll soon only fit into trackie bottoms!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭SupaDupaFly


    Hi all,
    Hope all you ladies had a fab long weekend. We went shopping for our first few baby bits today. Gosh, it makes the whole thing incredibly real. Got some lovely babygros and vests for the hospital bag. They are so tiny! Can't believe in 16 weeks ill have a little person to fit into them all!

    Picked up a cradle and Mises basket off my sister today too. So crazy seeing them in my spare room. Hope the next 16 weeks flies. Hope you are all doing well out there guys. Stay safe xx


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭taxus_baccata


    Minty Doris, totally agree with you on the weight gain, far from craic! I had lost over 2 stone well before I got pregnant so to see the poundage go back up was quite difficult! :eek: I'm consoling myself with regular walks and generally trying to keep fit. I think that if OH and myself are in the routine of walking every evening, we have some hope of keeping it going when baby arrives! The kicks are magic aren't they? :D Our little messer LOVES kicking me in the belly button which feels weird, but I love it!

    Oueen of Shebs: you are so right, a new top etc. and dolling up can make a huge difference. I felt like an elephant on Friday, went to shopping centre bought a t-shirt for €8 in DP and wore it on saturday with make-up etc. Felt a million times better!

    Supadupafly: the tininess is astonishing!!!!

    Well its the start of another week, can't belive I'll have 27 weeks down on Friday! Feeling a little nervous about starting the 3rd trimester, I think I am getting a little bit slower and tireder already!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Squiggler


    Hope everyone is doing well.

    Emmab, still thinking of you and hoping that all is well.

    Sometime during the night baby moved from a transverse position to what feels like head down. Yesterday I was feeling kicks on the left, punches lower right and hiccoughs on the right side but now the hiccoughs are down low and kicks are up at the top of the bump. Hope he/she stays that way now.

    We're still trying to sort out our antenatal and birth care with the HSE, but at least they have finally scheduled the meeting we agreed to nearly two months ago :) It's not like there is any urgency or anything!

    But we're doing fine without them. Went to my GP (who's 100% behind us) for a check up yesterday and everything is spot on.

    Other than that experiencing the same weight gain as the rest of you. Just trying to eat as healthily as possible and avoid "filler" foods because I was already carrying extra weight before the pregnancy.

    Only about 16 weeks to go.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    Hey Squiggler, thanks for thinking of me. I don't really have any good news. I woke up at 2 am on Friday night and was bleeding. I went straight into Rotunda where I was assessed and kept on a ward until the consultant could see me in the morning. The bleeding was a bit less and he said he was happy to discharge me until Tuesday. This morning, there was a lot of blood on my pad but it was watery as if the blood had mixed with the amniotic fluid and spread more. I rang the hospital again and the midwife told me to wait and see how things progressed this morning and to come in if it didn't stop or I got other complications. It is such a worrying time.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Squiggler


    Emmab :(. Keeping you all in my prayers.


  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭elaney


    Keeping you and your little one in my prayers as well Emmab. Hopefully the bleeding will stop soon.


  • Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭jeeney


    Oh emmab. Had been thinking of you too & wondered how u were doing. I do hope the bleeding has stopped by now for you and is one less thing for you to worry about hopefully. Big hugs xxx


  • Registered Users Posts: 72 ✭✭Inishowen lady


    I'm not exercising like i did last time either....my back is sore (well more like nerve spasms in my ass) so its hard to walk sometimes.

    Queen of Seebs- ass spasms, I'm crippled with them, I'm doing Pilates stretches and getting rubs of hubby, but not getting much relief? Have you found anything that works. I mentioned it to my midwife on my last appointment but she couldn't really help with them


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭Queen of Sheebs


    I've an appointment with physio in the hospital tomorrow. Consultant referred me last week. Surprised that i got an appointment so soon! Will let u know how i get on.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Hi all

    Having my 20 week scan tomorrow (at last, will be 25 weeks tomorrow too!!)
    Cant wait - really excited!


  • Registered Users Posts: 582 ✭✭✭emmabrighton


    Squiggler wrote: »
    Emmab :(. Keeping you all in my prayers.
    elaney wrote: »
    Keeping you and your little one in my prayers as well Emmab. Hopefully the bleeding will stop soon.
    jeeney wrote: »
    Oh emmab. Had been thinking of you too & wondered how u were doing. I do hope the bleeding has stopped by now for you and is one less thing for you to worry about hopefully. Big hugs xxx

    Hey everyone, just a quick update. I had another scan yesterday at 25 weeks. My little baby is considered small. He weighs 1lb but should be 1.5lb. Also the amniotic fluid had dropped to a pool of 1.5 cm when it had been at 3.6. But...i had gushing the night before so I blame that.

    The results from the amniocentesis are not back yet. They imagine it will be back on Friday so I have another appointment then and I just have to wait til then to hear back.

    The staff in the Rotunda are lovely but I have to admit that I have begun to dread going there as I only ever receive bad news. In fairness to them, the midwives are so upbeat and the sonographer is empathetic also but the consultant makes me die a little inside every time he gives a prognosis.

    I hope all your little bumps are cooking away nicely for the next three months or so - just as they are supposed to!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭taxus_baccata


    oh Emmab, I don't know what to say, your little one is such a fighter. I keep you in my thoughts and I'm sure all of us have our fingers crossed hoping that you'll get some good news soon. How many weeks are you now?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Squiggler


    emmab, I feel for you so much. Hoping that the results won't bring more bad news on Friday.

    As to the weight estimates, just remember they are only that. There are so many reports on here of women being told at scan to expect a bruiser and giving birth to a 7 pounder or being told baby was small and having a 10 pounder.

    As before, keeping you in my prayers. *hugs*


  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭elaney


    Enjoy your scan today Fran79. Feels like ages since i had mine not back in hospital until 30 weeks.

    Emma, fingers crossed everything will be fine on Friday.


  • Registered Users Posts: 32 Sunshine2000


    Emma I hope Friday brings u good news and that u can get on with your pregnancy. Babies go through growth spurts all the time and I'm sure that's what is going to happen to your baby. Pregnancy is definitely a rollercoaster of emotions. Thinking and praying for you and your baby x


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭taxus_baccata


    I have hospital app with midwives tomorrow. Reading a book called "ina May's Guide to Childbirth" I would have been all on for an epidural, now I just don't know! I've so many questions for them tomorrow and I don't want to come across as a tree hugging hippy or a contrary mary! (if ye know what I mean?!) So far my list of questions includes, will i be able to eat and drink during labour, will I be shaved (down below, it says in the book that they sometimes do this - I do not want a blade near my nether regions!), who can be at the birth, I think I'd love to ahve my mam there (she knows EVERYTHING ;)!) All the tests I got at 12 weeks: no one has ever told me the results of them - no news is good news I suppose!

    Are glucose tolerance tests routine? I hate needles, although by I now I think I'd suffer anything to protect bump!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Squiggler


    All of those are reasonable questions, and I'd be very surprised if they take issue with you asking them. Depending on the hospital you might also want to enquire what their policies are regarding rupturing the membraines, episiotomy, and internal monitoring during labour.

    The best advice I can give you is to start researching birth plans now, draw one up with your preferences, and discuss it with your practitioner.

    If I haven't been written off as a contrary mary you surely won't be ;)

    Remember, this is your body and your baby and it is very important that you are comfortable with everything that happens during the process, and that includes understanding what is being done and why, and having given permission for it to happen.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭taxus_baccata


    Thanks Squiggler! I'm a bit worried as I'm going public and my care is going to be midwife led, I's always thought to myself that "sure the hospital knows best" and that I'd leave myself into their hands! After reading bits of the book I'm not so sure anymore. I'm not afraid of giving birth, but now I see that I'd like to give birth the way I want to! Hoepfully I'll be able to do that! I'll report back tomorrow! :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭taxus_baccata


    Just re-read my post, can't beleive that I'm actually going to give birth, to a person, a tiny little person, it's mad! ;):D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Squiggler


    Thanks Squiggler! I'm a bit worried as I'm going public and my care is going to be midwife led, I's always thought to myself that "sure the hospital knows best" and that I'd leave myself into their hands! After reading bits of the book I'm not so sure anymore. I'm not afraid of giving birth, but now I see that I'd like to give birth the way I want to! Hoepfully I'll be able to do that! I'll report back tomorrow! :D

    Midwife-led care is probably the best option for having the most choice as the midwives seem generally more inclined to let nature take its course and let mothers listen to their body more. Consultants tend to be more inclined to active management and unnecessary intervention.

    Best of luck with the appointment :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    Sorry to hear this Emma. Will be thinking of you Friday.

    This past week bump has started to feel stretched, uncomfortable and in the way! Finding it really uncomfortable to sit at my desk in work and find a position that works for more than a couple of minutes before I start squirming and readjusting! Also find it hard to get comfortable at night in bed and have definetely developed the pregnancy waddle when walking!

    Is it just me or do some people tend to just stare at pregnant women? Maybe I do it and don't realise!


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    I have hospital app with midwives tomorrow. Reading a book called "ina May's Guide to Childbirth" I would have been all on for an epidural, now I just don't know! I've so many questions for them tomorrow and I don't want to come across as a tree hugging hippy or a contrary mary! (if ye know what I mean?!) So far my list of questions includes, will i be able to eat and drink during labour, will I be shaved (down below, it says in the book that they sometimes do this - I do not want a blade near my nether regions!), who can be at the birth, I think I'd love to ahve my mam there (she knows EVERYTHING ;)!) All the tests I got at 12 weeks: no one has ever told me the results of them - no news is good news I suppose!

    Are glucose tolerance tests routine? I hate needles, although by I now I think I'd suffer anything to protect bump!

    It may vary from hospital to hopsital but speaking as someone who has given birth twice at Holles Street I will try to answer your questions from my experience!

    They don't encourage you to eat during labour in case you need you need to go under general aneasthetic. I was able to drink water, not sure what their policy is on other drinks. For a vaginal delivery they do not shave you as a matter of routine not sure about a c-section. You can chose whoever you want to be at the birth, but only one birthing partner allowed. They don't tend to contact you with your results unless there is a problem but all results should be placed on your file which you have access to. The glucose tolerance test is not routine. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 189 ✭✭taxus_baccata


    phew! I was having a freak out about the shaving! silly compared to all the other things one could or shoul worry about!!

    Vel, I know what you mean re: the staring, but I've also noticed that people are a LOT more courteous to me since I got the bump and I've gotton a lot more smiles! I've gotton a lot of bump rubs (mostly from people I know fairly well) which I love, I think its sweet the way people want to say hi to bump, but thats just me, I can see how it could get annoying.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,318 ✭✭✭Vel


    phew! I was having a freak out about the shaving! silly compared to all the other things one could or shoul worry about!!

    To be honest, talking about it now I don't like the thought of it but during the throes of labour they could have told me they were wheeling me outside to Merrion Square where they were going to hold a raffle with the prize being the chance to shave me and I would have agreed to it if it meant speeding up the process and getting the baby out!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭Squiggler


    I don't think any of the hospitals go in for routine shaving any more, it had no practical purpose beyond making it easier for them to see what was going on and only increased risk of infection for Mum (and discomfort during recovery with itching etc). They used to administer routine enema's too - nice!

    Vel, t's funny how everyone is different. I wouldn't like anyone (other than hubby and people who have to like midwives etc.) touching or rubbing the bump.

    We're still trying to decide whether we want to get a gender determination scan done. When he thinks yes I think no and then I change my mind but so does he :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 351 ✭✭Fran79


    Emmab sending you good vibes for Friday - hope you are feeling ok.

    Had my scan (they were running over 2 hrs late and the sonographer thought I was there for a booking scan at 12 wks and 3 days - rolls eyes)

    All good news, looks like I'm having a boy so a little brother for my current boy. My boy was delighted to watch the scan screen, I think it seems a biy more real to him now lol.

    Hope everyone is well


  • Registered Users Posts: 32 Sunshine2000


    Hey ladies, this is a question for anyone living in Dublin or who knows Dublin. We plan on going for a night away to Dublin next month and I hope to have a sneaky look at the furniture collections in mamas and papas but from looking at the website I see they're are three stores, Arnotts, Blanchardstown centre and Dundrum town centre. As we'll only have time to go to one I want to visit the best one, any ideas on which store is more worth while?
    Hope everyone is doing ok. I feel the time has starting to crawl again but I'm sure it will fly by.
    Has anyone started thinking of the hospital bag yet, my mother is starting to put the pressure on me to get it sorted. I feel if I had a final list made of what I need I could relax.
    Emma thinking of you and your precious baby today! X


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  • Registered Users Posts: 324 ✭✭elaney


    Congrats on the boy Fran79. I hope to find out gender of babs at my next scan.
    I haven't even thought of hospital bag Sunshine2000, the last time i packed it around 32 weeks. I have absolutely nothing bought for this baby so i must get my act together. I have all the big stuff like pram and crib ect...
    I used the list they gave me in the hospital for my bag and added in what little bits i needed extra i was only in for two nights so didn't use half of it.


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