Ladies due in Sept/Oct/Nov 2012, gather here!

[Bumblebee]

how is everyone else doing? I'm been offline lately due to a cold and sciatica, hope everyone is fine and well xxx

[HappyLea]

Well i have just phoned the out of hours doctors team as i cant handle the pain any longer, the pain killers are doing nothing. Even tho the doctor i saw today said she could give me a higher dose of pain killer if needed he said he wont as its not safe in pregnancy and there is nothing else he can give me. I just have to put up with it

Im on 15/500mg Co-codamol, does anyone know if i can do/take anything else? Im at my witts end, im in pain lying, sitting, standing and walking (if you can call it walking)!

[purplepoet20]

This might hurt a little at first.... Try looking up Yoga for back pain but also Yoga for Pregnant women (some moves you can't do while pregnant). Do as many of them as you can a 2-6 times a day. When the pain starts to go away continue doing them 1-2 times a day until delivery. I had really bad pains with DS1 just from being pregnant and I ended up paying for a prego Yoga class.

[Hobbermittens]

Happylea, I am so sorry you hurt your back! Back pain is so awful. Can you get a massage or go to a chiropractor? Those things might help? My DH gets back pain a lot, and he takes muscle relaxers (I would bet you can't take those when pregnant) and he alternates heat and ice. I hope something works for you soon--I know how hard it is looking after 3 kids while pregnant, and being in pain on top of that sounds just miserable!

[HappyLea]

I am doing the alternating hot/cold thing at moment. DH has managed to get tomorrow off work which is fab. If its not eased by tomorrow i will have to go to either A&E or a chiropractor. I would much rather have full blown labour pain than the pain im in now, at least you know you will be rewarded with a sweet baby at the end of it.

If i wasnt pregnant a nice bit of alcohol to take the edge of the pain away would be nice

DH just gonna make me something to eat and then im gonna take myself off to bed to see if i can find a comfier position.

BACK PAIN SUCKS!!!!

[Mochagirl]

I feel like such a failure as a mother today. I got stuck at the grocery store (all the debit and credit machines were broken, so the line-ups were crazy), and I ended up being 10 minutes late to pick ds3 up at preschool. I did call to tell them, but not until it was the actual pick-up time, so they didn't get the message until after he'd stood at the door watching for me only to have me not arrive. When I finally did get there, he was at the window watching for me, sobbing so hard he could barely breathe. It truly broke my heart that I hurt him like that! He's not even 3 yet, and I'm always trying to teach him that mommy always come back...and then I didn't come. I know it's only 10 minutes, but I'm sure to him it felt like an eternity. I brought him out for a special lunch and gave him tons of treats, but now that I have him down for his nap, I'M the one crying like a baby!

[Bumblebee]

I feel like such a failure as a mother today. I got stuck at the grocery store (all the debit and credit machines were broken, so the line-ups were crazy), and I ended up being 10 minutes late to pick ds3 up at preschool. I did call to tell them, but not until it was the actual pick-up time, so they didn't get the message until after he'd stood at the door watching for me only to have me not arrive. When I finally did get there, he was at the window watching for me, sobbing so hard he could barely breathe. It truly broke my heart that I hurt him like that! He's not even 3 yet, and I'm always trying to teach him that mommy always come back...and then I didn't come. I know it's only 10 minutes, but I'm sure to him it felt like an eternity. I brought him out for a special lunch and gave him tons of treats, but now that I have him down for his nap, I'M the one crying like a baby!

aww bless thats totally understandable, I felt guilty like that when I first enrolled my daughter to nursery she was 1 and a half and because she was the only child then I thought it would be beneficial for her to spend a few hours a week with other children in a learning environment and the first few weeks were so hard, I felt so guilty leaving her there and she'd cry but now she just loves her nursery and shes learned so much, we all have days when nothing goes right, don't be so hard on yourself and you're not a failure you're great mum

[Mochagirl]

I don't find it as hard when they're sad when you leave them there, because they know you've promised to come back, and in my experience are usually fine the second you disappear. I just hate that I broke that promise to always come back - I just keep picturing him lined up against the wall where all the kids wait for their Moms and anxiously inspecting every face that came in hoping it was me. Usually he yells out 'Mommy!' and leaps into my arms the second he sees me. By the time all the other kids were gone the teachers realised I must have been delayed, but the damage had already been done and he was inconsolable. Aw, darn...now I'm crying again!

[Bumblebee]

Well i have just phoned the out of hours doctors team as i cant handle the pain any longer, the pain killers are doing nothing. Even tho the doctor i saw today said she could give me a higher dose of pain killer if needed he said he wont as its not safe in pregnancy and there is nothing else he can give me. I just have to put up with it

Im on 15/500mg Co-codamol, does anyone know if i can do/take anything else? Im at my witts end, im in pain lying, sitting, standing and walking (if you can call it walking)!

are you sure you haven't got a slipped disc? or it could be sciatica because thats what I have but that's nerve pain, if you got the pain suddenly it could be slipped disc? I'm not sure, but with Sciatica sometimes the pain is so bad for me that I can't walk even a few steps and the pain is in my butt and hip lower back and inside leg. Its a sharp shooting pain.

[begonia]

Oh Mocha, heartbreaking!!! FWIW we MISSED DD2's spring program (singing) at nursery school. I actually PAID to have reserved seats (the preschool "sells" the front row as a fundraiser) so we could be front row for her, but I thought it was at 11 am and it was at 10 am, and we missed the whole thing. I was devastated. We went to her classroom and her teacher saw me and mouthed "she doesn't know" so I just told her she did a great job.

But then we got the DVD of the program and as all the kids are filing in you see them all spotting parents and waving, and I can see my DD2 just craning her neck looking around for us ... it breaks my heart that we weren't there for her, even though she thinks she just missed seeing us

It'll be OK but I understand your heartache... this was 3 weeks ago for me and I could still cry about it.