Re: babies in the summer.

May 14, 2001

Georgia wrote

>with wasps, hayfever and smelly car fumes to contend with here in

>tarmaccy old surrey.

>Georgia.

>(But I am reeeely pleased to be having another!!)

Just out of curiosity Georgia, where in tarmaccy old Surrey are you?

Anywhere near Woking?

And to stick to the subject, I had DS in Aug 99, 2 weeks late, raging

summer and feeling like a roasted pig. but boy it felt good to get

that baby out! I advised Dsis to avoid summer babies like the plague

after that, but she is now due 10th June, and suddenly went into a

panic when her ankles swelled last week and the midwife wrote Severe

Odema all over her notes! Oh and she has to have the wedding ring cut

off.

Kirsten

May 14, 2001

Georgia

> I feel quite a bit grumpy about being big fat and sweaty in the middle of

> horrid hot airless days

LOL, your message was so true to how I feel ... but just think when you've

had your baby I'll still be ... sweaty and big and hot and tired ... *and*

desperately pining for my 'camping fix'

> -*And* the baby is jolly big and I look already like I'm over 9 months

Yep I'm only 23 weeks but look like I'm going to " drop any minute "

> how am I gonna get a humongous great baby out?? shh'ouch!

Mari weighed in at a beautiful well nourished 9lb10oz and was born at home

with no problems, slight anxiety setting in now when I look sooooo big!! and

this will be my third - eeeekkkk

> (But I am reeeely pleased to be having another!!)

Ditto, I'm reallllllllly excited but grumble a lot, seem to always get every

minor complication possible combined with complications affecting the babies

............. but I *love* being pregnant )))))))))

Jenni

(& Gethyn) 16.5yrs, Mari 3yrs (HB), Babi Bach exp.09/2001

May 14, 2001

> Kirsten wrote: her ankles swelled last week and the midwife wrote Severe

> Odema all over her notes! Oh and she has to have the wedding ring cut

> off.

Kirsten

I had to take my wedding ring off couple of days ago - for fear of having to

have it cut off I love my pregnant body but going from being a size

10-12 to having really bloated feet, ankles, legs and hands is awful, I hope

it doesn't sound vain but I find it so ugly and it is painful as well. What

advice has your Dsis has been given about the Oedema as the advice I was

given last pregnancy was c**p and purely consisted of 'put your feet up'!

I've been researching this time and have found the following to help:

- drinking lots of water helps

- sleeping with feet up on a pillow

- sitting with legs elevated against a wall couple of times a day (or yoga

positions)

- increasing potassium in diet: bananas, dried apricots and avocados are

good sources, it's possible to use supplements but potassium tablets are

too exotic for Asda so I haven't found them yet!

- swimming

Anyone with any other ideas/tips??

Jenni

(& Gethyn) 16.5yrs, Mari 3yrs (HB), Babi Bach exp.09/2001

May 15, 2001

Jenni,

Thanks I will pass this info on to Dsis, She has had the usual 'put

your feet up'.

Kirsten

Re: babies in the summer.

>> Kirsten wrote: her ankles swelled last week and the midwife wrote

Severe

>> Odema all over her notes! Oh and she has to have the wedding ring

cut

>> off.

>

>Kirsten

>

>I had to take my wedding ring off couple of days ago - for fear of

having to

>have it cut off I love my pregnant body but going from being a

size

>10-12 to having really bloated feet, ankles, legs and hands is awful,

I hope

>it doesn't sound vain but I find it so ugly and it is painful as

well. What

>advice has your Dsis has been given about the Oedema as the advice I

was

>given last pregnancy was c**p and purely consisted of 'put your feet

up'!

>I've been researching this time and have found the following to help:

>

>- drinking lots of water helps

>- sleeping with feet up on a pillow

>- sitting with legs elevated against a wall couple of times a day (or

yoga

> positions)

>- increasing potassium in diet: bananas, dried apricots and avocados

are

> good sources, it's possible to use supplements but potassium

tablets are

> too exotic for Asda so I haven't found them yet!

>- swimming

>

>Anyone with any other ideas/tips??

>

>Jenni

>(& Gethyn) 16.5yrs, Mari 3yrs (HB), Babi Bach exp.09/2001

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May 15, 2001

>.. but just think when you've had your baby I'll still be ... sweaty

>and big and hot and tired ... *and* desperately pining for my

>'camping fix'

Awww, poor you, but you'll only be about 4 weeks behind me I reckon,

and at least you'll probably get to labour on a slightly cooler day!!

Although, I expect you'll still have to employ a specialist wasp

swatter, ha! ha!

> Yep I'm only 23 weeks but look like I'm going to " drop any minute "

I'm getting fed up with all the " not long to go now! " comments from

all and sundry, and then when I say thru gritted teeth, yes actually,

three and a half months, they say " Ooh, twins again?, Are you *sure*

its not two in there? "

Oh ha, ha, very funny.like that makes me feel good.

> Mari weighed in at a beautiful well nourished 9lb10oz and was born

>at home with no problems,

Hmmmmn, thats very good to know,as my mw only concern about me and HB

was shoulder dystocia, which I must admit has p*****d me off a bit as

I felt absolutely confident about my ability to git a baby out until

she started niggling, and even though I'm a jolly tall, big boned

girl, and my likkle sister was 10lb 9 and one of my aunts babies was

over 11lb and no probs, its just that being knocked off balance

ever so slightly psycologically feeling thats a bit hard to go with

until you can get to look at it in retrospect!

but I *love* being pregnant )))))))))

Yes, and sweet baby is kicking and turning around like a brick in a

tumble dryer at the moment which makes me go all maternal, aww, what a

love!!

Georgia.

& Adam, Francis Age 5, Age 5, and big lump. Due Aug.

May 15, 2001

>.. but just think when you've had your baby I'll still be ... sweaty

>and big and hot and tired ... *and* desperately pining for my

>'camping fix'

Awww, poor you, but you'll only be about 4 weeks behind me I reckon,

and at least you'll probably get to labour on a slightly cooler day!!

Although, I expect you'll still have to employ a specialist wasp

swatter, ha! ha!

> Yep I'm only 23 weeks but look like I'm going to " drop any minute "

I'm getting fed up with all the " not long to go now! " comments from

all and sundry, and then when I say thru gritted teeth, yes actually,

three and a half months, they say " Ooh, twins again?, Are you *sure*

its not two in there? "

Oh ha, ha, very funny.like that makes me feel good.

> Mari weighed in at a beautiful well nourished 9lb10oz and was born

>at home with no problems,

Hmmmmn, thats very good to know,as my mw only concern about me and HB

was shoulder dystocia, which I must admit has p*****d me off a bit as

I felt absolutely confident about my ability to git a baby out until

she started niggling, and even though I'm a jolly tall, big boned

girl, and my likkle sister was 10lb 9 and one of my aunts babies was

over 11lb and no probs, its just that being knocked off balance

ever so slightly psycologically feeling thats a bit hard to go with

until you can get to look at it in retrospect!

but I *love* being pregnant )))))))))

Yes, and sweet baby is kicking and turning around like a brick in a

tumble dryer at the moment which makes me go all maternal, aww, what a

love!!

Georgia.

& Adam, Francis Age 5, Age 5, and big lump. Due Aug.

May 15, 2001

>the advice I was given last pregnancy was c**p and purely consisted

>of 'put your feet up'!

> I've been researching this time and have found the following to

help:

>

> - drinking lots of water helps

> - sleeping with feet up on a pillow

> - sitting with legs elevated against a wall couple of times a day

(or yoga positions)

> - increasing potassium in diet: bananas, dried apricots and avocados

are good sources, it's possible to use supplements but potassium

tablets are too exotic for Asda so I haven't found them yet!

> - swimming

> Anyone with any other ideas/tips??

> Jenni

> (& Gethyn) 16.5yrs, Mari 3yrs (HB), Babi Bach exp.09/2001

Dear Jenni, I have also just started to puff up, last time I was fine

until two weeks before my twins were born. I spent all day stripping

wall paper off the lounge wall, quite happily and when I proudly

showed Adam what I'd been doing all day , all he could do was shriek

and point at my Feet, (Which obviously I couldnt see, under my

astounding girth, (in fact I probably didn't see them for about 6

months in total, and when I finally did the state of my toes made me

cringe to think some MW had sat and stared at them while I was busy

pushing the boys out!! cringe, cringe..)

Thing is I've got middlin bad reflux so need to keep , my head higher

than my stomach , The baby likes to lie transverse, so I'm tring to

keep my pelvis lower than my stomach, and if I start putting my feet

up a wall as well, I'll be completely contorted!!

:0))))))

Now, thats the sort of problem that I find DH, or should I say

DPartner ?/ DL (Lover?) will just look at me completely blankly over!!

Georgia.

and Adam, Francis age 5, age 5, and big lump due Aug.

May 15, 2001