Week 31

My cold has lingered on and has now moved to the chest making breathing even more difficult. I'm so tired it's scary. All I want to do is sleep.

I went back to the Dr's today and it would appear that I am anaemic. This is the reason for the breathlessness and raised pulse. I have to admit to being more than a little bit pissed off as I'd asked the midwife whether or not I was anaemic 6 weeks ago and she'd said everything was fine. I've since found out that if you have extreme morning sickness then you're very likely to develop anaemia in the later stages of pregnancy. Unless she had her eyes closed and ignored my sick visits, the midwife should have been able to put two and two together and make - anaemia as a reasonable diagnosis for my raised pulse and breathlessness. I feel as though I've been climbing a sodding mountain for the past 6 weeks and I needn't have. Now also developing irrational hatred for silly cow midwife. Glad she's going on maternity leave this week.

Dr has given me some big iron tabs - 100mgs and I'm to take them everyday up until two months after the birth.

Cold still shows no sign of shifting as we near the end of the 31st week. Baby books all say that it's miserable having a cold when you're pregnant as you can't take anything. It also mentions the 'lowered immune system' of the pregnant lady -necessitated so that the body does not reject the baby or 'alien' :)

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