PAMPERS JULY 2010

morning ladies,

hope everyone is well.

naomicee -sorry to hear about your terrible evening.. atleast you took care of it.. like newbie said alot of ppl would not have bothered.

well ladies- as for the bleeding with my csecs- the 1st one i think i bled for about 3weeks and 2nd one was less i think about 2 weeks. for the first week i used pads cos it is nogall quite heavy. but thereafter i switched to tampons.. just the bigger ones, and as my period started getting lighter use the smaller ones.
it was definitely less than 4 weeks cos after i stopped bleeding my husband and i couldnt wait to make love again... and this well before the 6 week checkup. i definitely think if you have csec then your bleeding will be lighter than normal birth cos the gynae suctions and cleans out basically whatever they can before closing you up.

newbie is it really true they can give tranquilisers before giveing the epidural??? omg- i think i must definitely do that............ will have to find out whether it reaches the baby or not.. wouldnt want to put her at risk.. but i am so freakin scared of the epidural. but then again once you get the epidural and get into theatre baby is out so quick i dont think there would be chance of it getting that far in your blood stream.

newbie- i havent experienced that yet with this one but with my daughter i can remember her turning you could actually see her face going over... was a very weird feeling.

have a great day all..

ps - juandre how did the appointment go... did you see little one nicely????

JO_C - lol I know, i also just realised, but i guess after the op, u are in pain, but u deal with it. I am still terrified of the whole process and will be discussing it with my gynea on tuesday, I need to know everything..

I was uncomfortable for the last 2 weeks, but now, much better, wonder where she has moved to... lol

As for winter maternity wear, I have to wear black suit pants and a jacket when I see clients. Edgars has these gorgeous maternity pants in black.. The dont look like much on the rail, however on, they look like a pair of suit pants with a nice elastic band. I have bought 3 pairs, and i can fit into a size 12 with them. They are warm and seriously comfy.. The label says "due date" maternity wear and they are only R225.

When will you stop flying, i hope this is ur last one. BTW where are u having your LG..

Also girls, I know Ashbabe is in cape town an JO_C, any other captonians..

Morning ladies,

All up and about early this morning I see

Juandre - how was the Drs visit yesterday?

Ash - How did things go with the Department and queing etc. yesterday?

Newbie - glad the class was better. See knowledge is power. Must admit though my heart skipped about a thousand beats when i read your words "major surgery". Strange, I know that it is, I mean its not a little nick and done, but like mentioned before denial is my best coping skill and reading those words made it impossible to pretend (mentally) that its anything else. I guess its good though, cause the days are getting fewer and fewer.

Naomi - What and night - you can say that again. Shame man, you must be buggard!! I agree with Newbie, see if you can catch up on some rest. I know what you went through though, I had the same with my domestic about 2 years ago, the clinic misdiagnosed her, so I took her to my GP, who said unrinary infection, but by that night she was in extreme pain, so she went to hospital. She ended up spending 3 days there, they had her on a strong IV antibiotic, after that I sat her down for a discussion on aids and unprotected sex, we went for HIV tests together, we were both neg, but I explained that her infection could so easily have been the virus and that you can't undo it once you have it, so now she is so aware and quite pro testing and I see every now and again she has a new "test" t-shirt or beanie on and she, so thats quite cool. The sad thing that struck me is that your domestic is getting and STI from her hubby and I know culturally he will NEVER agree to wearing a condom, so they are going to repeat the pattern until eventually its too late. See if you can maybe chat to her, or get her to a clinic that can explain to her that if she is sleeping around that is how she got sick and if not, then he is making her sick! Good luck girl!!

Newbie - Your 4am experiance sounds so cool. I think my little one has also moved into a new position, I didn't get to see it, but boy-o-boy can my pelvic bone feel it. I have been so uncomfortable for the last 2 days and even painful most of the day! Hope she finds a more comfy spot soon.

As for me; Had a real early night last night, and slept well, but woke up tired, I have been really uncomfortable the last 2 days. Too add to the frustration of I DON'T HAVE ANY WINTER maternity wear!! and winter has arrived in cape town. I have been looking for pants that fit for months now, but have had now luck and this morning that became a problem. Then I needed to put petrol in my car, so I tell the attendant to fill up, but can't find my garage card and as its a company fleet car, its against fleet rules to put petrol in with your own cash!! That is now my morning started!! I have a crap day ahead, 2 x 2.5 hour staff session and I feel teary and mizzy, so I need to scrape together the energy and positive vibe to get through today! Then in PE tomorrow another early morning late evening on that one, so I am not in a good place. Trying to count my blessings as I'm sure it could be worse..

After yesterdays air disaster I'm gonna be even more of a wreck flying to PE!! URGH!!!!

Hey girl

Wow thats sounds like an awful night, shame.. Hope everyone will be ok.. And good on u for taking her, some people just wouldnt.. i totally get what you mean about hospitals being rude. I have been there and done that.

I think u should go speak to your boss and get ur ass home. Go see to your soon and make sure he is ok. Then go home, get into bed with him and go sleep. you are preggies and cant afford to be so tired and stressed and being at work is not helping anyone.

Newbie, you CANNOT use tampons! sorry girl...

Sho guys, what a night!! I get home yesterday, and I find my helper in tears, complaining of abdominal pains. So I give her a pain killer, and let her lie down for a bit then I call her husband to let him know she is sick, his phone is off, after 2 hours she is now hysterical, so we take her to Edenvale hospital...oh my word!!

first we wait to get a file opened for her ,at R120...then we sit in a massive queue for the nurse to check her bp,sugar levels etc, then we wait and there is only one doctor on duty, and every second person is an admission case, and this 1 doc on duty has to by herself go get a stretcher from lordknowswhere,and take the patient to the relevant ward, then just after midnight, its my helpers' turn to see the doc,she has an sti that has been left untreated for long and caused swelling in the uterus.they gave her pills, and to top it all off we still couldn't get hold of her husband, so she slept over at our house, this morning I left her sleeping, she was no longer in pain...will see how it goes.

I got so irritated with the hospital, it was filthy, we waited for 4 hours before she could get help,and there were people who were far more sick than her,and the nurses were very insensitive, being all judgemental towards her (ok, I'll admit, I also got a bit irritated because she said she'd had a smelly discharge for more than 2 years!!) but then, its just me, how can they as medical staff also judge people like that?? we only got home after midnight,then my son woke up starts coughing real bad, and ends up throwing up.i gave him some cough syrup and some panado for his headache and hand put him to sleep, he only dosed off at 3 in the morning.He seems fine today, but I've made a doc's appoitment for him for 11:00,hope its nothing serious, I'm so tired!

Morning girls...

Its pouring with rain here in cape town, I am loving it, but I sort of work from home so it suits me.. Not too up to seeing clients today and I am no where with making target anyhow so I might just stay in..

Antenatal classes were alot better last night, still a bit boring but very informative. We learnt about pain methods (epidural, spinal block, pethedine, gas and breathing techniques
) and then about a c-section in great detail and of course watched the video of the spinal block c-section. It was scary, but informative and I feel slightly better. According to our teacher, she said if you are a very anxious person, you just speak to you anethetist before hand and they can give u tranqualisers... Its a major major op though... But I am still leaning towards the c-section than natural because of the keliod scarring.

Also at 4am, baby Reese looked like she was moving house inside me. and it looked like a head or elbow, almost popped out of my stomach. Think she was turning. But I got up and watched in amazement. It carried on for about 10 minutes.. Wasnt really the most comfortable, but wow, pretty amazing. I think she turned 180 degrees judging by all the movement and for some reason I have felt a sense of relief, almost like I am not so full... Think she was lying in a funny position before.

Patty - i think hubby will always find us irrisistable, thats what love is.. So enjoy it

naomicee, Jo_C , Patty and Sindy. Yes I am not looking forward to bleeding again, must say I havent misseed it at all. But even less than that, I hate surfboard pads.. arrghh, i am going to ask my gynea if I can wear tampons? Lets hope I dont bleed too much. Before I fell preggies, I bled for about 5-7 days.. Nt so lucky as some of u girls that only have a period for 3 days