Post by SarahCraig on May 8, 2003 12:15:36 GMT
Well, thought speaking to other mum's may help so I have decided to post a message.
Well where shall I start? I have a daughter who is 11 weeks old, but my pregnancy and birth were pretty traumatic. I am diabetic and had serverely low blood sugars on a number of occassions and ended up in hospital on a number of occassions throughout my pregnancy. Then while in hospital the medical team looking after me didn't believe that I could only need the tiny amounts of insulin I was having so they putme on an insulin infusion to test that I hadn't been lying to them.
Well I proved them wrong which was good but they still could not give me an y help with my low blood sugars. I had servere morning sickness too, until 20 weeks. Which didn't help with eating food for my blood sugar! So after much thought we had to buy me an insulin pump at huge cost. But that helped greatly.
Also being diabetic I knew I'd be induced and was at 09:30 and they thought I'd be delivered by 21:30 but no her head was not coming down far enough so I ended up going to theatre and had forceps but they thought it would be a caesarean. I had an episiotomy and she was delivered just gone 04:00.
It took her a long while to get the hang of breast feeding - about 5 weeks in total, using nipple sheilds. and she didn't put on weight really till then which was worrying. After all of this it has made me feel very inadequate as a mother. And my husband expects me to go back to work when sometimes I haven't had more than 3 hours sleep at night. He is very supportive but doesn't appreciate how hard it is to manage everything, particularly the house and his dog.
He makes me feel guilty about not earning money - he says we won't be able to buy our daughter nice things.
I have been to my GP to say that I was feeling low and I didn't know what to do - she said it was normal and to come back if I was feeling worse. My health visitor said to try the post natal groups. But I don't feel other women will understand, what should I do?
Well where shall I start? I have a daughter who is 11 weeks old, but my pregnancy and birth were pretty traumatic. I am diabetic and had serverely low blood sugars on a number of occassions and ended up in hospital on a number of occassions throughout my pregnancy. Then while in hospital the medical team looking after me didn't believe that I could only need the tiny amounts of insulin I was having so they putme on an insulin infusion to test that I hadn't been lying to them.
Well I proved them wrong which was good but they still could not give me an y help with my low blood sugars. I had servere morning sickness too, until 20 weeks. Which didn't help with eating food for my blood sugar! So after much thought we had to buy me an insulin pump at huge cost. But that helped greatly.
Also being diabetic I knew I'd be induced and was at 09:30 and they thought I'd be delivered by 21:30 but no her head was not coming down far enough so I ended up going to theatre and had forceps but they thought it would be a caesarean. I had an episiotomy and she was delivered just gone 04:00.
It took her a long while to get the hang of breast feeding - about 5 weeks in total, using nipple sheilds. and she didn't put on weight really till then which was worrying. After all of this it has made me feel very inadequate as a mother. And my husband expects me to go back to work when sometimes I haven't had more than 3 hours sleep at night. He is very supportive but doesn't appreciate how hard it is to manage everything, particularly the house and his dog.
He makes me feel guilty about not earning money - he says we won't be able to buy our daughter nice things.
I have been to my GP to say that I was feeling low and I didn't know what to do - she said it was normal and to come back if I was feeling worse. My health visitor said to try the post natal groups. But I don't feel other women will understand, what should I do?
