May 2013 - we've seen our babies and our trousers are tighter as we enter the second trimester!

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Hi ladies:) another lurker here. Not sure anyone will remember me. I do keep up reading your posts though!!

Was so glad to read about all the healthy scans. We are team blue (already have a DD so very excited about it)! Been having a much tougher time with this pregnancy - just up and moving after a week in bed (flu for a second time??!) luckily we were with the in laws. They have helped out so much - I shudder to think how I would have coped if I had been alone!

10 - I just wanted to say that I hope everything is going well for you and bean! FX for you.

23+3 (EDD may 1)

Hope 10 pops up soon & everythings goin ok :-) fingers crossed for you n bean Xxx

Oh & welcome and congrats on bein blue gold I have two and there brill xxx

Welcome aberjen

Elly you have an awkward baby! Hope next week he/she is more co-operative!

Nice to see you back SeaSalt wow 9 weeks to go in Singapore - kind of wish I was going home in 9 weeks :( But hospitals etc here seem great so perhaps a blessing in disguise. Family have also said they'll visit in June which is lovely.

picklep that's good advice from AA about the night weeing, apparently the baby can sit on the bladder a bit, making you think you need to go, but you don't really, it's just the same sensation. So try to make yourself go back to sleep. As AA said I've managed to stay at one wee per night now after a few nights of going about 4 times!

Hey 10 poor you :( Please try not to worry - if you remember a while ago I had the big tear on my placenta too and now it's totally healed up. It went from being a big blob, then 2 weeks later was 'organised' and then 2 weeks after that has completely gone with no trace.
Since the scare I have really decreased my activity level to a bare minimum though, and I think that must have helped the recovery time internally.

I'm SURE it'll be absolutely fine in the long run - just really make an effort not to move around when it's not necessary - I take it you've been signed off work? It's annoying to be sitting down so much but I just think of it long-term, May doesn't seem a million miles away now so hang on in there. Sending hugs.

Glad your brother's fiancee's mum reassured you 10. Personally, i'd ring midwife and ask about work. Phone in sick on Monday and go from there. I can't imagine working for a week or two is the best? Not sure.
Glad you can take it easy for the next couple of days at least x

10 soooooooo glad to hear from you .. Ive been checking in every couple of hours today hoping you would post. How lovely to have the reassurance from your MIL and also berri - this is really where the power of mumsnet and sharing experiences kicks in. Rest up and enjoy the others running around after you! x

Ohh oops just realised not your MIL - anyway - she was reassuring and thats the main thing!

10- thinking of - put your feet up and go sick. You will get no thanks for being at work- it's not your fault why's happened. Chill and relax and hopefully all will mend itself. Glad you have a sensible sounding board in the known midwife ;-) xx

How awfull 10 and what an unsensitive arsehole of a consultant :-( what hospital are you under ?? I agree with maybe you should definately stay off work for at least a few days xxx

10 just wishing you and your baby well. Your consultant does not sound particularly sensitive :( and understanding. I agree that you need to rest too.

Everyone is so excited and looking forward to meeting their babies, it's just lovely to feel this coming through all the messages.

hi all, not been around for a while but have been lurking.

10 so sorry to hear your news, hope that you are putting your feet up right now. I would definitely take some time off work, your baby and your health are far more important than work. If it's anything like my work, you will not win any medals for struggling on, you have to look after yourself.

artigene lovely to have a quick holiday before baby arrives. Personally I'm very risk averse and having experienced health care in less developed places, I would avoid going anywhere remote at 27 weeks - in my mind if anything happens your location could mean the difference between baby making it or not. I know someone who went into labour on holiday at 30 weeks, luckily she was in France where the health care was fantastic. But her DS was in NICU for a few weeks and she obviously had to stay, fork out for hotels, navigate the foreign language in a very very stressful time. Anyway, sorry for the downer! Like I said I'm very risk averse, this being my 5th pg and only having a DD and a bump to show for it. Have a lovely time wherever you go!

I have a question for you all - is anyone having Braxton Hicks yet? I've been having them since 18 weeks and it's unsettling me a bit. With DD I didn't get them til at least 32 wks. I think they're worse when I'm dehydrated, so I'm glugging back bottles of water, but they were quite intense today.

10 if you really feel that you need to go to work, could you speak to your line manager and arrange to go in a little later and leave a little earlier so you avoid rush hour?

hi 10, I know what you mean about work taking your mind off it all, chottie's suggestion sounds good. I did half days for a coup,e of weeks after I had pneumonia, work were very understanding. Although I went back too early and got ill again, but anyway!

Oh and good to hear your docs didn't have any concerns about BH, thanks. My midwife was a bit iffy about them at 18 wks, but I was feeling dizzy and not properly well at the time, so she might have been iffy everything together.

What do BH feel like? I doubt I've had them so I'm curious. I can't get over how much I can feel my baby move now! It's amazing! X

BH are like your tummy going hard and feeling very tight. It can take your breath away, I nearly had to stop crossing the road today. Not advisable in central London!

I've been having BH for a while now - doc said you only need to worry if you have more than 4 in an hr, or if they're combined with any other funny symptoms!

10So good to hear from you.What a shitty consultant.Hope you are healed up soon and getting plenty of rest.

10- pleased to hear your bosses are better than mine- ( recall we do same thing ;-). ) I'm still on full nights avert ten days and they are avoiding any discussion! I plan to take the next two off next week( had taken off anyway to move house but prob delayed ) and then I'm gettinga fit note! Gp indicated at booking in appt that if work arsey she would happily wrote me off nights.... My place will only alter shifts medical advice not niceness! It's. Killing me staying awake 22 hrs from getting up on the day of my first night with DS and staying up til next day 8am! It can't be gods for me!