Mommys to be in SEPTEMBER 2010

Have you tried the bookshops, they have these amazing books with questions like "what names mommy and daddy considered" and "what mommy was doing when she went into labour " and stuff and they have pages for photos... it even specifies what to put each month... they are really smart... i saw this one i really like at esotril books at cresta, but i assume exclusive books has the same stuff?

Ginah, I'm not sure how to explain how to do the pelvic floor exercises. But check out the links below. Basically it's exercising the muscles that you would normally "clench" to stop in the middle of a wee.

www.mayoclinic.com/health/kegel-exercises/wo00119

www.sgsonline.org/sgsinc/patiented/educate_articles/edpi002.htm

I kind of do them randomly whenever i'm thinking about it - at my desk at work, in the car while driving/sitting at a robot, in the kitchen while i'm cooking etc. No-one can see you doing them!

Good luck!

Forgot to say Zakumi was head down the last time I went to the dr. I hope she stays that way coz I so wanna try natural birth.

I also feel a lot of movement below the belly button, never above.

Lira some babies turn quick some delayed I know some will be head down and then turnn again. One lady from the June threads baby turned at about 36weeks. I am sure she will turn its still early dont worry.

Oh thanks huggles, I guess my pelvic floor is weak coz it happened last time as well. the only difference is that last time it happenned towards the end of my pregnancy this time its so ealry its annoying.Pliz advise on the type of exercises I can do.

Glad u figured out wha was wring with you and sorted it out. I so wish I could go for antenatal classes but I am lazy and dont know where I would go in my area.

5more sleeps before my appointment wih gynae.

Gnite ladies

Well, I've had an interesting 2 days. Tuesday afternoon I started to get a headache so i took a panado - my last one. I felt a bit off in the afternoon but put it down to exhaustion as I really hadn't slept well the night before.

Then Wed morning i woke up at 2am with another headache (probably the one from the prevoius afternoon just coming back). Of course I had no panado's left so couldn't take anything. Also couldn't get back to sleep so tossed and turned until 6am when all of a sudden I just suddenly had to run to the bathroom and vomited. 6:30 I vomited again. (i never had morning sickness so i put this down to the headache not getting treated - not unusual for me).

Anyway, I wasn't feeling great, just weak and tired and concerned i might vomit some more. So i knew it was a really quiet day at work for me so i phoned it sick and decided to spend the day at home. As a precautionary measure I went to get my blood pressure checked as I know high blood pressure can cause headaches and vomited. Well, turned out my blood pressure was super low - 90/40! So I was told to drink Rehydrate, which i dutifully did whilst spending the day lying on the couch resting.

That evening (yesterday) was the first of our normal antenatal classes. So off DH and i went a bit nervous, not sure what to expect. I absolutely loved it! WAs really nice. There are only 4 couples in our group and is a first pregnancy for all of us. Was really nice can't wait for next week. We even each got a little goodie bag with nice baby product samples etc in it. And on Tuesday I'm going for a free aqua-aerobics session (part of the antenatal deal) - quite excited and nervous for that.

Anyway, so this morning we went off to the gynae for my routine appointment - 23 weeks. He was running late but once he got there is was great. Baby was so active he struggled to get a good pic. He didn't seem too concerned about my low blood pressure and when he took the reading this morning it was nicely up to 110/70 so that is much better. I slept really well last night and am feeling much better today so that's great.

Braxton Hicks contractions actually start anywhere from about 12 - 14 weeks but we often don't feel them until later. If the "contractions" are only felt in the front (not in your back) and they are not really sore just a bit uncomfortable then it is probably BH.

Leaking urine is caused by additional pressure on the pelvic floor. Best way to help is to regularly do pelvic floor exercises to strengthen those muscles.

hey there Mama_m

you neva know what is what with this gynea's

I will be going for a full Assesment scan on the 09th June