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Post by Weeble on Apr 1, 2010 21:09:32 GMT
HI Giz
great to have you back. Sounds like they took you seriously too. I was very relieved that the midwife listened too me. Understand how you feel about the section. I have had two both after very long labours. The first I had under epidural the second under GA. The first was a totally different experience than the second, I was there when my son was born. Personally having done both would choose the epidural, but do understand how you feel. However, this time I have asked for a star trek transporter because I can not have another labour not safe, but a section seems impossible after last year.
Pleased you have something positive - lots of scans, my one yesterday made it seem a little more real, but it is like my head is in denial. I am trying to look at the pregnancy book every night to help it sink in.
My BMI is 33 so totally get this thing, I find the scales really stressful too. Used to be 23 prior to my first son. Four pregnancies in five years, and four stone later.
Looking forward to hearing more of your story have a lovely easter
Kat
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Post by gizmoracer on Apr 6, 2010 19:59:22 GMT
If I'm honest I really don't feel like posting, not sure why. Think I'm just over tired and the sickness is making me not want to do anything at all. It's not that bad at all if I'm honest just getting old now and boring if you know what I mean. Baby has been moving about loads which is cool but also got that strange sensation to it as it doesn't feel like proper movements just yet. OMG did I wake up in agony the other night. Don't laugh it was wind, thats all just sodding wind but I honestly thought my time was up. Pain is always worse when you wake up with it anyway but I woke up unable to move and crying with pain. Managed to get to the loo half expecting to be drenched in blood which is when it occured to me the pain was high up and clearing in my stomach. Baby was bouncing about like no-ones business and not really helping. Then Jason woke up and started coughing I didn't know whether to tell him to wake daddy or not. In the end I pulled myself up off the loo with the excuse I had slept funny and my leg was numb, staggered into bed and sobbed to OH how I was in pain and don't know whats wrong. The responce I got was 'you silly tart you've got wind, go back to sleep' Well he was right of course. It's something he knows alot about and had a good giggle over it in the morning as I'm sure you lot are now (well I would be anyway). We went to Legoland on Saturday and had a great day, got soaked on one of the rides which promptly drenched the bag with the spare dry clothes in as well Thats pritty much it for now. Generally feeling yucky but ok. Had Jason up the docs with his asthma again only been 11 days since last visit and as per usual its all kicked off in our road now the kids are off school. We've counted 12 cop cars and 1 riot van up here in just 2 days. All good fun, so long as you keep your head down.
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Post by Weeble on Apr 6, 2010 20:44:13 GMT
ok impressed by the 12 cop cars and riot vans, that is the watford we all know and love. Funny we nearly went to legoland on saturday, but friends took S on thursday instead
pleased to hear everything progressing ok
Kat
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Post by juppster on Apr 7, 2010 7:24:10 GMT
Hey Giz well, you've certainly given me a laugh first thing in the morning with your "wind" story!!! thats exactly the sort of thing that would have happend to me!!! and probably the response my oh would have given too!! tee hee...at least you can laugh about it!! sorry you're still feeling a bit rough with the pregnancy...i can completely sympathise but of course i didn't have other children to look after at the same time!! Try to take it easy if you can As kat says, good old Watford hey?! it certainly sounds as though your street keeps you entertained though..plenty to gossip about! Take care xxx PS: Was Legoland mega expensive?? we are thinking of going next week??
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Post by gizmoracer on Apr 7, 2010 16:08:03 GMT
By midnight last night the count went upto 15 cop cars and 1 riot van. Who needs to train spot these days, it's far more fun to cop spot. We are fairly close to South Oxhey as well so anyone who knows Watford will know how South Oxhey is worse, hense all the fun we get here. There was also a major power cut last night. Took out most of south oxhey, northwood and west watford. We were ok but they were all out from about 9pm through til 3am. The kids should have been stopping at the in-laws last night but at 10pm we got a call to say Jason had been sick with his asthma and was in quite a state. I was dreading having to take him to the hospital as I really really hate having to do this. They will always prat about with his blue inhaler for hours (which we have already done), and not give him a nebuliser until he is so bad they need to give him oxygen. Then you get the panic of 'oh how are we going to give him oxygen and a nebuliser at the same time' This is a childs life they are playing with, makes me so mad. He is then stuck there for at least 36 hrs. Then they have the ordasity to tell me at his check ups that they want to reduce his medication, on the basis of he hasn't been in intensive care so isn't that bad. I swear any health professional that works with children should only be allowed if they are a parent themselves. Ok off my soap box and back to the story. When we got there it wasn't his asthma at all, turns out to be more of a virus so we took him to Boots (which is now a 24 hr pharmacy) and got some medicine. He then slept in with me all night. Seems much better today. Today has been hell. Jodie was still at in-laws so we dropped Jason back there, had to go to the hospital for OH to get a dental x-ray. 2 hrs we were there 2 sodding hours, it took 1 hr to get the x-ray done and another hr for her to remember that we were there and get the bloody thing printed so we could take it to the dentist. Had bit of trouble there too and then had to take some stuff to my parents to drop off in the loft. By the time we got home we were all knackered and feeling rotten. Gonna be an early night tonight me thinks. Tomorrow I'm taking Jodie with me to Bedford to collect a crib I won on ebay. Only £15 well pleased as it is £75 in the shops. Oh yeah Legoland. Well it is quite expensive to be honest, there is no way we could have afforded it last year. They have a website, take a look. It is well worth a visit though. We have got full annual passes this year as my Mum paid for them. It works out £3 cheaper to get an annual pass than it does to visit twice. The food there is really nice but obviously not cheap and all rides are free, all you do is pay for any photos or the kids driving licences etc. Juppster where abouts are you hun? Near to me or just know the area?
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Post by juppster on Apr 7, 2010 16:30:38 GMT
Sounds as though you had a nightmare Giz...your poor lo..i hope he is feeling lots better.
I am in Basingstoke but have family in Northwood, Rickmansworth and Hillingdon and hubby comes from Harrow so have been to Watford a few times and heard many stories!!!
I hope you have a more peaceful night tonight...no more wind incidents!! xx
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Post by winegirl on Apr 7, 2010 18:18:04 GMT
Christ Giz - have you managed any sleep the last 2 days!! What a complete mental couple of days you have had! Hope you are doing ok with it all??
I LOVE Legoland! We have been twice now with Isabelle, but only go when we can get vouchers etc because of the price... Hoping to do it again this year!
Hope you have a decent evening mate that is as peaceful as possible for you!
WG xx
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Post by gizmoracer on Apr 7, 2010 19:09:58 GMT
Sleep ? sleep no doesn't ring any bells LOL. It's not been too bad to be fair, hubby is home so I've had plenty of rest, it's just the waking up with a headache that gets me coz they take so long to get rid of. The wine is out this evening and the kids have had a dose of medicine to help Jason's cough and Joeys headache coz shes over tired should help them sleep as well hopefully, mind you they are shattered anyway. Hubby's watching the footie so I might just go chill in bed with my new dsi xl that I got for my birthday ;D Bit dissappointed, seen no coppers today, not even the plastic kind. Perhaps things have calmed down for a day or two. Other than mentaly tired I'm ok. Have to admit I'm having serious problems getting through to my parents just how ill Jason is though. Hubby summed it up as an ex smoker. My Dad has emphasema and still smokes like a chimmy and indoors too, they both do. Their house has had over 35 yrs of it now so it's ground in and the place stinks even when Mum makes the effort to air it, their clothes do as well. It's heartbreaking coz the kids get on really well with them and want to go round there but I just can't let them and even having them come here you can smell it for days. The biggest problem at the moment is the kids furniture. We desperatly need to change it, the damp and mould in their room has completely saturated their beds and units, some of it looks like its been left out in the rain its so bad. I went to get their clean pj's out of their draws yesterday that had only been in there a week and they were damp and smelt terrible. If we can change their beds for metal ones that have better ventalation and can be kept clean it would really help. However, and here's the problem Mum paid for all their furniture a few years back when we lost my grandparents in Belgium, it's symbolic and very expensive. My mum is never one to replace anything unless it is completely knackered and very very old. So she will take offence to us getting rid of this and I can understand why. We tried to test the water earlier with her and she got quite angry about it all. Why is life so complicated
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Post by Weeble on Apr 7, 2010 21:33:56 GMT
Oh Giz, mothers who would have them hey, my mum does that sort of thing all the time - you poor thing, you are quite right about Jason's asthma and your parents smoking and the damp. I had very bad asthma as a kid, stopped breathing when I was under five and my Dad smoked round me. There is hope I only take the odd dose of ventolin now. The buteyko breathing method is supposed to be brilliant have not tried it myself but have heard good things. My family live near to you as well bits of south bucks and herts either side, watford is their local hospital too. We used to come to Watford to watch Saracens play in the days before kids.
Shame that your own little TV show is over, but I would imagine the peace and quiet is welcome. Thinking of you
Kat
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Post by gizmoracer on Apr 15, 2010 5:56:52 GMT
Still don't feel like posting but must make an effort. The virus that Jason had promptly spread like wild fire around the house and tbh the last few days are abit of a blurr. My immune system always take a battering when pregnant and boy do I know it right now. Have spent the last week coughing so much I can hardly move, drifting in and out of sleep, headaches from hell again and heaving up loads of phlem. Really fed up with it all now. I've had a couple of days of crying too but to be honest I'm sure thats just where I'm sick of being ill. The kids started their level 2 in swimming with a new teacher. Jodie really impressed OH which is good and took to the teacher which is a relief coz I was worried he might be too strict for her. Jason's not so impressed, basically he isn't used to being challenged and this teacher is doing alot of work on breathing. This will do Jason a world of good but he finds it really hard. My parents took the kids to Willows farm on Tuesday, OH and I were too ill to go along so spent the day in bed watching prison break. I had a letter from the hospital about a dietitian appointment, it said the waiting was about 2 weeks so I rung up on Tuesday and they gave me an appointment for today Not really in the mood for it. Just hope they are nice coz a lecture won't go down too well with me today. Anyway I've lost 2.5kg since falling pregnant so there isn't much they can say. We have also got a survayer supposidly coming round on Friday to look at the damp and the walls that are falling down. So fingers crossed. If we are lucky he will say we have to be moved to get the work done which will give us the top priority to move and my neighbour has just got keys to her new place so I can push to get her house next door. Probably won't work but worth a try.
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Post by Weeble on Apr 15, 2010 8:22:00 GMT
Hi Giz
great to hear from you been wondering how things have been going. There is so much going on in your life, can you get a letter from the hospital that the damp is making Jason's asthma worse, it may help with getting moved etc and you can always get a letter that your mental health is affected as well.
How is the pregnancy going otherwise, I am very impressed by the 2.5kg weight loss, I think you lost it sent it down the line to me, i doubled it and put it on. Going to have to do something about that as well.
Thinking of you and fingers crossed for tomorrow
Kat
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Post by monica on Apr 15, 2010 8:29:23 GMT
Dear Giz
Poor poor you - I hope things start to improve and most importantly you and your family feel better. I too was plagued with viruses when pregnant and it's not what you need. No wonder you've been feeling down.
Good luck with the surveyor - it's disgusting how long this have taken especially given that you are pregnant and with your son's asthma. Fingers crossed for you.
Love
Monica
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Post by gizmoracer on Apr 15, 2010 16:16:59 GMT
Thanks ladies. I feel really guilty for not being on here much at the moment but when I can't find anything positive to say sometimes its best to stay quiet. Or to quote Thumper from Bambi 'If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all'. I already have a letter from the hospital regarding the damp and Jason's asthma and we now have a backup letter from the GP as well. I'm waiting on what is said tomorrow but will be talking to my GP and asking for a letter stating that I can't be moved unless it is perminant, that should stop them from sending us to a B and B while they do the work I hope. Mind you I had a letter from the GP when I was pregnant and due to go into temp. accomodation. This one said that due to my mental health I had to go into a temp flat and not a hostel. Guess where we ended up? In the worst hostel in Watford, the day we arrived I saw a man being held with a machette up against his throut, this did my PNI the world of good as you can imagine on top of loosing the baby. Have to admit, dispite being plauged with illness this time round I haven't been on antibiotics ..... yet, which I did in the first trimester with both of my children. The dietitian was ok, quite friendly and actually listend to me. She also made me an inch taller Mum's not happy coz I've overtaken her again (she grew 2 inches when she had her back operation and was taller than me but not anymore lol). The dietitian basically said I knew what I was doing and where I was going wrong and that really all I needed was a bit of extra support. She has said not to change much at the moment because of being pregnant but basically keep an eye on portion sizes and keep a 'mood food' diary to try and identify what triggers off my comfort eating. Then when I am feeling more upto it to try and do some walking or join a pilates class (which was my idea). I'm sat here infront of the window trying to ignore whats going on outside, have kept the blind down but it looks like we have every kid and teenager on the estate hanging around by the fence. They keep running right past my window, sitting on our bins and generally causing the usual disterbance. There is also a group of them running up and down the stairs screaming (they were at this til gone 9pm last night). Gonna be so glad once next door have gone, should be this weekend. Feeling quite tempted to pour oil over the stairs or glue the door shut in the early hours LOL. One thing I will be doing once they go is putting up a taller fence out the front between the 2 windows to stop the little sods from hanging about by our window and cutting through.
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Post by Weeble on Apr 15, 2010 18:10:33 GMT
HI Giz
what a rubbish time you have had with housing. My sis lives in your neck of the woods and has had some pretty hard times with her accomodation, particularly when she had to leave after her partner threw her down the stairs. It is not something I have ever had to manage but I think it is really unfair that you have to keep dealing with this.
Well done on the dietician, how do we grow and inch too??
A mood food diary is a really good idea, I am a comfort eater, may give it a go, to see if I can suss it. Any tips on how to do it
please keep posting you bad as well as your good days we really want to listen
love Kat
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Post by gizmoracer on Apr 15, 2010 18:36:44 GMT
Not a happy bunny, just thrown up and peed myself at the same time (tmi sorry). It's ok you can laugh. This cough is driving me nuts, have hardly got anything to cough up now so I keep heaving instead and it's horrible coz I panic and loose control of other parts of my body at the same time. Thankfully though it was only a little bit, not bad considering I had just eaten. Worried the kids though coz it's not normal for me. OH throws up at least 10 times a day so they are used to that but not me doing it. The mood food diary I think is. Write down when you are hungry or reach for food and think about how hungry you are on a scale of 1-10. If it is 9 or 10 then eat if below 8 drink or do something else and if a few mins later you are still hungry then eat. You also have to write down what you had been doing just beforehand or how you felt. ie, bored, or had an arguement so feeling low that sort of thing. As for growing, you got me must have been the shoes I did get a 'wow mum thats really good, see I told you not to give up' from my son rather cute really. My mum grew by having a tumor removed from her spinal cord which I guess straightened her out a bit. Funny really coz my Nan keeps on that she is shrinking when in reality she is so bent over that if you look at her from behind she is like a headless body. Right thats me done for today, kids are in bed and thats where I'm heading. I know it's only 7.30pm but what the heck, snuggles and prison break sounds good to me. omg I'm getting old. lol.
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