I have started to pick up a bit this week, not been as uncomfortable in the days now, just the nights, though his movements are becoming VERY painful. I am still finding myself to be tired in the evenings, but I don't seem to be that tired throughout the day any more. I am still nearly always hot and sweaty, and the weather has picked up a bit now so as you can imagine I am not loving the heat. The only other new update I have is that I had an antenatal appointment yesterday, just a regular check-up, and they had to take more bloods. Nothing serious, but at my last appointment where I had my bloods done (twenty nine weeks) I was borderline anaemic, and they needed to do another test to see if I need iron tablets. It explains why I've been feeling so awful and drained all the time. To be honest I just put it down to being pregnant and having a young baby on top of a house to sort out! So anyway I just gotta wait for them to phone me with my blood results now to find out if I need to get some tablets. My blood pressure was slightly low, but it usually is and it was when I went all dizzy and faint from having my bloods done anyway, ha ha. I forgot to mention my swelling to her, and I forgot to ask her to measure me too, because I was in such a tizz from my bloods. It took her a while to find Tyler's heartbeat, I knew he was fine but of course I am still going to worry. When I moved onto my back (I was lying in foetal position, feeling very sick, haha!) and she found his heartbeat, she said it was probably because I was in an awkward position and wasn't co-operating very well. She said he sounds like he is feeling better than I am anyway, ha ha! She felt his position too when she couldn't find his heartbeat, but she never told me or wrote in my notes what it was. Again I didn't ask because I wasn't feeling too good and it wasn't the first thing on my mind, ha ha. That's about it I think. Five weeks to go! I can't believe it!
I would reccomend you getting floradix Iron supplement (you can buy it from holland and barrat) apparently spatone is good, I have never tried it but I have tried floradix. The iron tablets the docs prescribe can make you really constipated and you can end up with piles from all the pushing if you are unlucky!
ReplyDeleteFloradix capsules are cheaper than the liquid but I found the liquid more effective so I took that first and moved on to capsules after. I was severely anaemic and had to stay in hospital for abit longer because of low iron count and I go in and out of being anaemic I now just take multivitimans with folic acid (which is iron) but when those are gone I am going to go back to floradix. It seriously changed my life though I was so weak and dizzy until I started taking them now I have energy and everything!
WHen I was pregnant I took prescribed iron tablets and they hurt my tummy so much I ended up in hospital! Yuck yuck yuck!! Hope you feel better soon X
Totally forgot about Floradix! My auntie bought me some after I had given birth to Lilia and I took it religiously until it ran out :D I had the liquid form too :}
ReplyDeleteOh no, that is awful! Anaemia is so draining, I can't imagine having it all the time D: !