Due December 2012 - 3rd trimester here we come

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running out of space as fast as ever... here's a new link

I've been getting them since 16 weeks. It's most annoying when trying to eat and bend over at work!

I fell over lots last pregnancy, unless you're rhesus negative then you don't need to worry, especially as you didn't hit the bump. It's more likely the shock to you which caused the tightening

Hi spotty, that's reassuring to know, i thought it might just be a shock causing it and he seems fairly active again now.. (am normal a positive blood.)

On another note, I've just seen an ad for something called Elastolabo in a pregnancy magazine, so looked up online and if it works it sounds like a great thing, (clinical research that I can find sounds good,) but costs £25 which is a lot for something that I can't find much info on.

Has anyone used anything like it or for the same purposes? It's for perineal massage,.to increase skin elasticity and reduce tearing likelihood...

Eek at perineal massage! I think I tried one of the gels from Mothercare with dd, but only once or twice and the sensation scared the crap out of me so I stopped and buried my head in the sand instead!

On a similar note, anyone on dc3 or more with dc2 did your previous tear/scar tear again? I've got a massive episiotomy scar and scar from a tear which I'm worried about!

I think it was braxton hicks...panic over nothing and felt the baby move after! I didn't feel my tummy get tighter though? Maybe I actually had a stitch pregnancy is one big worry! Hope everyone's having a good weekend!

Hello everyone,

I'm more of a lurker than a poster, especially on these big threads, but hope its not too late for me to join?

I'm 30weeks today and can't believe how fast the time is going! So far I have quite a neat bump and most people don't believe I'm this far along. I've also been getting lots of braxton hicks which are weird feeling, especially after sex!!

I went to my first NCT nearly new sale today and got some real bargains, a pristine baby bouncer and floor mat/activity centre thing, each for a tenner, five baby grows for £1.50 and a wedding outfit for my LO, brand new which I'm chuffed with. Plus a Dorothy Perkins maternity dress for £6 perfect for a wedding I need to go to a month before due date (I was dreading finding a suitable dress for that one).

Hope everyone else is doing ok and getting excited too!

C&C

Spotty I had a scar from dd. it didn't tear again with ds. Have never experimented with perineal massage either! (the tear from dd was 2nd degree, not huge but needed internal and external stitches) with ds I had nothing.

Painting is going well do far we have drawn all the lines, and mums painted the red and yellow and is now painting a sunshine, only 4more colours and a cloud to go :)

Oh Stacey we need a pic when it's finished!

Welcome c&c we're all very friendly on hear and LOVE to chat!

Spotty, I'm crapping my pants about tearing my episiotomy scar too! With dd I just had a minor tear but with ds who came second, the obs was a butcher and i'm sure he used a samurai sword as opposed to a scalpel to do my episiotomy. It infected, granulated and eventually took 3 months to heal. If it tears again I have a horrible feeling its going to be nasty

Talk of tearing is making me squirm! Didn't realise you could get cream to help

Went for 3D scan this afternoon. Managed to get a good look at arms, hands, feet and top of head but LO was determined we were not seeing his/her face and kept hands over it throughout. They're going to do a rescan next week for free so hopefully more luck then.

Also found out LO is breech atm. Keep telling myself still loads of time to move, but hasn't stopped me spending lots of time on spinning babies and trying to do the scary-looking inversions.

I had a 3d scan, i thought it was a bit creepy, myself! Kidlet had his face pressed into the placenta the entire time (he luffs his placenta!) so we didn't have a good face pic.

Maybe it was the odd bronze coloring, but I don't like looking at those pics.

Welcome coffeeandcream

ispy and monster my baby has been face down in the placenta for both my dating scan and anomaly scan. Was hard to get him to move so that they could see his face.

Yesterday I was worried about movement, but today there's been loads! I ate quite a lot yesterday; I wonder if that made a difference.

Hope you're ok utopian falls are never nice. Big welcome to coffee
Another one starting to worry about tearing again.. 2nd degree inside and out although was v lucky did heal up well.

Has anyone any bargain 3D/4D deals they would care to share ?! In the south please so so jealous of everyone's. I want one for my birthday (brat emotion)

C+c I saw mine online, it was a groupon offer reducing the price from 230 to 99 quid. Then I went onto the actual website of the company and noticed they had another deal with a 5 minute shorter video from 190 to 74 quid so just phoned them direct. I'm in Scotland but there must be similar down ur neck of the woods? Do a google search for baby scanning then trawl through the options looking for their best deals. I'm getting 6 photos, 10 min DVD, CD Rom and 20 mins scanning time (I think) for the price. 20 mins with a full bladder will be plenty I think! Hope that helps!...
Oh its ds's second birthday tomo, i'm too excited to see his little face when he sees his gifts

Aw I hope the talk of tears hasn't scared anyone. I think they are rarely bad. Mine healed quite quickly and as I say the scar didn't tear the 2nd time.

I shall try and get a pic of the nursery up but I tend to take pics on my phone and can't get them onto my profile from it (and DH has the digi camera in India. Tomo it will only be 7days until he comes home, I can't wait)

I'm glad babies are being better behaved today. Tadpole has returned to his/her normal situation of being a fidget arse!!

I hope everyone has a good nights sleep!

Sorry need to vent/ clarify thoughts. On sobbing sofa cos school just contacted me to send the yr6 psych report I wrote while I was signed off work in June cos I felt so guilty and thought id lessen the blow (avg 6000 words) to get ahead for Sept when I thought id be back - plus I was so proud of the child and really want to communicate an accurate picture of him for his next school (process starts now) and on first impressions people think he's a bull in a china shop when its actually mostly anxiety. I think I'd mostly finished it but the email has reminded me what a failure I feel letting depression, anxiety and sheer loopiness get the better of me, though I know its partly chemicals.

I know its silly - I shouldn't have been working while off anyway but I'm responsible for so much (not least the kids and their parents) and its all been left hanging whilst ofsted are on their way. And I know that LO is much better off this way.

I feel in a weird no man's land not really of a part of society or of use to anyone except LO who I've never met. Is that a little normal?

Ahh very sweet mwah!

Don't feel bad or guilty about it Clarella. Your LO is much better off and has to be your first priority.

As far as no-man's land goes, I think that's a good way to describe pregnancy! Often so lonely and isolating, with all the hormones and anxieties.

I'm a bit of a mess at the moment - have a few quite stressful things going on which I'm worrying about and causing me to lose sleep and feel generally terrible. Seem to regularly call DH in tears about something or other. DD keeps telling me to stop crying, poor thing, which makes me feel so guilty!

Hadn't even thought about old scars tearing. I had bad 2nd degree tearing with dd even though I did do perineal massage! Took a few months to feel normal again. Not looking forward to it happening again, praying that it doesn't!!

Happy birthday to your ds mwah

Ds = more excited about going into nursery this morn than the oodles of pressies and cake he woke up to! Got to love them at this age, just no concept of the things we think are important

Hope your DS has a lovely birthday mwah! Clarella and Walnut, hope you feel better today. It's rough when you have to deal with difficult stuff during pregnancy, everything seems magnified. Take care x

Totally understand the loneliness of pregnancy Clarella I'm lucky enough not to have had too many problems . Last week I met up with a friend I've not seen in ages! One or other of us has been too busy so it's taken a good ten weeks to finally meet. I found out (hard not to notice) she is due one week after me! She hasn't told anyone though because this is her third pregnancy and the first to get this far.
It made me realise how little worrying I actually do about the bean. I'm trying hard to get on and do really normal stuff and my poor friend is slowly ticking off every day and not allowing herself to contemplate there being a happy ending with a beautiful new baby in just 14 weeks time.

Aww Walnut my DP is slowly getting used to the short fuse temper and sudden tears... although I know he's desperate for everything to be normal and a bit more chilled... Although I think thats a lot further away than he realises

Hello coffee!!

Clarella I know exactly what you mean, don't feel as bad as I did in last pg when I cut myself off from the world but I still feel isolated and lonely now and again. Make sure you tell your midwife how you're feeling, she will probably have loads of different groups you can go to. Don't hide yourself away x.

I had my 3d scan a couple of weeks ago and it was brill but my dsis and mil are a bit freaked out by the pictures. Actually I'm going to upload them now along with a bump pic. 30 weeks today, woohoo!!! I have another scan to check on the water this afternoon, dh hasn't been able to come to the last couple because of work and last pg I would have been going a bit mental about this but I feel strangely calm and feel a bit sorry for him as I know he would love to be there.

I did it! I was brave and uploaded my bump and some 3d pictures, sorry about the claw hand on my bump pic, didn't notice until I'd emailed it to myself.

Lovely pictures Strawb! Is that dark hair I see?! If you have an iphone the photos on your camera should automatically be in you photo stream from icloud?