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Hey everyone. My little girl was born 35+6 and a couple of days ago she was finally discharged after around a month in neonatal. We have been sent home monitoring her sugars 3x a day with heel prick blood tests and she is also on 3-4 other medications. We are under pressure for her to gain weight but not too fast du...
I've been trying for 6 months now 😞. I feel like my eyes see lines on their own!
Can anyone recommend a good portable white noise machine. Anything but LUMI of amazon. I’ve had that one and it broke within 2 weeks.
Tested positive and now lost with what to eat - I’m such a sweet tooth person! Does anyone know of any insta / tiktok pages that have some recipes or inspo? I’ve joined GD uk but the fact you have to pay for a subscription for their recipes is just so frustrating to me
When did people start discussing there birth plans with midwives? Im 29 weeks and its not been mentioned at all xx
Looking for any advice or anyone's experience. I have since found out I have Obstetric Cholestasis and my ALT is raised very high. I have had Cholestasis before, so know more about that. But I feel like I'm going in circles when I ask what does it mean that my ALT results were high 🤷🏼♀️
Any 24 hour numbers to call for advice for newborns thats not a hospital victoria preferably
Anyone else just tempted to turn off their phone until after baby. Fucking jarring messages. ‘Baby yet’ ‘she will come when she’s ready’ FUCK OFF 😩
So ladies i got the dreaded call yesturday to tell me my results come back high from the glucose test, so i have a meeting to attend on tuesday to go through it all.. my anxiety is through the roof right now, already have a fear of needles and blood and the thought of doing my levels by myself is terrifying me 😩😂…
Hiya, I recently moved homes (not far at all) but when at the hospital as I’m there pretty much now due to being pregnant I updated my home address however I haven’t been to the GP in a recently nor have I had time to update my details (home address) I was about to do it now but then been told on google they can ask...
Think negative but the slight blue at the bottom is getting me in a spiral!
What happens at the first appointment the midwife over the phone said it’s for blood tests is that all that happens?
What's the latest you've contacted the midwife for your first appointment? I'm 6+2 but in the middle of changing GP practices because I moved house not long ago and the old practice is too far and inconvenient to travel. I will probably get a chance to visit the new one next week. I know it depends on availability b...
My baby is now a week and couple days old and we just now got out of the risk of bellilroobon and I am having a hard time believing he is a week old
At what point do you call your gp if your LO.. has a chesty cough ? I went to the pharmacy yesterday and he suggested I talk to the dr and get an inhaler for my lo, but it was quite late in the day so I couldn't call in to book an appointment & it's the weekend so the surgery is shut? Should I call 111? And see if ...
Im 13 weeks, and have no appointments in the diary for a midwife apt. My next appointment is anomaly scan, I haven't actually seen the midwife once other than booking appointment. Its my second pregnancy, just wondering what others experience is?
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