August 2014: growing bumps and 20 week scans!!!

[Owlysims]

New thread!!!

Sadly that was just tje beginning of ds and his illnesses.

He has sn, is fed by a tube in his stomach and nearly starved to death; he has reflux and he completely started rejecting food. At 18months he was losing weight, took a year from him to nearly double birth weight which normally happens in 6months.
He's got compromised immune system imo need to get him checked for that once we see a dr who cares
but hes happy

Aww, isitme that must be painful to cope with. Hope you get an interested doctor soon. Glad he's happy, sounds like a real trooper smiling through his meningitis treatment.

thank you

Ooh...my belly has been moving today. Baby HH is getting stronger. :-)

HH, when my lo goes quiet I get so paranoid, but every now and then I get a real gut wrencher like she's telling me to stop being stupid :)

Sorry to hear about your troubles isitme, I hope you find a good doctor soon.

horace I wish I could feel movement properly - I have had the odd definite one over the past few weeks but most of the time I'm still unsure of whether it's the baby or just random stomach stuff. I guess its the combination of being a first-timer and having an anterior placenta, it does make me nervous though (like everything else).

I get very few movements, just the occasional flickering very low down. I attribute lack of big movement due to the way my placenta lies.

My placenta is anterior too. It's only been the last week (I'm 21+3 today) that I've felt much other than the odd flicker.

I hate how worrying pregnancy is. I'm just glad I'm getting to the home straight, kind of!

Has anyone else got a really active gag reflex?! I'm 21/40, and over the past 2 weeks have thrown up x 3 whilst doing pooey nappies! Not nice! Poor DS (17 months) just laughs!

I have an anterior placenta too am 21 +4 today. I think I know where my placenta is because there's a zone I don't feel anything. Have felt movement above, below, and to my left of it as pregnancy has moved on so I think it's anterior but to my right. Placenta should be same size as baby at 21 weeks so mine's just a wriggler like her daddy. I would say to talk to your MW if worried, but for August babies it's still early for movement. It just felt something like gas until 20 weeks.

Gag reflex, yes, bad smells make me vom atm.

I've started to feel stronger movements - there have even been three kicks with DH has felt with his hand! But it really depends on what I'm wearing and how I'm sitting. The best position seems to be slumped on the sofa with my feet up, oh and wearing PJs. That seems to push my uterus out and against my skin. If I'm wearing maternity clothes, especially over the bump trousers, I feel very little.

On the gag thing - yes yes yes! Yesterday I was on a bus and a woman was changing the pooey nappy of her baby girl! On a BUS. It stank out the whole bus, obviously, and I was gagging away until I got off : ( mental note never ever ever to change a nappy on a bus...

Sleepy that's just wrong! !
I felt ds2 move around this time (18+) but nothing atm

I'm not really worried in general lyns, I saw the baby moving when I had my 20 week scan a week or so ago, and again on Friday when I had to have an ultrasound to check for gallstones (they let me take a peek at the baby at the end). So I know she is doing it, I just can't feel much. I just think it would be comforting on a daily basis to feel more. It will come I'm sure.

I think I might have felt my first few flickers last night (am 18+4 now). It could have just been wind though.

hello

sorry to hear about your ds itisme thank goodness you did take him back to hosp. thats not the first time I've heard a story like that about meningitis. very scary.

I'm joining the convo late but I'm hopig to take a years maternity leave. i get 9 months paid from wirk so the last 3 months will depend on finances as it will only be statutory pay. and a word of warning to those not intending on going back to work just check the maternity pay policy. At my work if i leave within a year of taking maternity leave i have to pay back all my works maternity pay contributions.

still not felt definite movement at 18+4 but had a few possible movements

Disney think we are due on the same date? But I wil probably ask for elcs at 38weeks
thank you, scares me to think what could have happened if he wasnt taken back to the hospital. When I hear other meningitis stories it really hits home about what happened. That little boy who lost his limbs to it after waking his mum up in the night as he felt poorly and wanted some calpol

I've not been too well today :( up all night with the runs, then stomach really hurt and back and now I just have no energy anf feel really cold. Think I have another kidney infection will have to ring hosp....

did everyone have a good mothers day

isit I'm just over a nasty stomach bug - it lasted 12 days! I've never had one with such endurance before. I went to the dr after a week or so, but he didn't seem too concerned.

Isit, guidelines are 39 weeks for c sections now, so I'm not sure if you'll get one at 38 weeks or not. I'm not banking on being before 39 weeks, anyway.

I think it'll depend on your hospital.

It's such a good job you were on the ball with your DS. Just shows that mothers know best.

Disney I definitely asked that question after seeing some posts on mn and the answer was no even if I don't go back at all. Yeah!

Hello ladies, seem to be missing a lot of the conversation so trying to catch up.

Dragon - I had gallbladder removed last summer, was probably playing up when I was pg with DS1 and DS2. You just have to be careful, and things that are sour helped me digest when I was having an attack (pineapple / grapefruit etc).

I'm taking a year off, but thought you only got smp until 39 weeks. Though you can take a year off.

So tired at the moment, so apologies for missing so much

Horace ive not spoke to them yet but I have a lot of problems at delivery so the earliest they can do it without compromising babys health the best.
Dont have a clue yet. Dont want to try normal birth but if nothing can be done differently to prevent the problems then will have to rethink. See the consultant again next week so will hopefully have a plan in place

My niece was a 37 week section 14 years ago back in the day when they did them from that date.

It's 39 now to avoid having to give baby steroids. But obviously earlier if there's a risk to the health of mother and / or baby.

Worried now- why has the baby stopped kicking? Was going great guns until two days ago but quietened to nothing now! For my second scan tomorrow, fx all ok. Hope others having a less worrisome time.

Travis hope baby has moved into a different position therefore harder to feel?
Good luck for tomorrow. Are you finding out the sex

Travis, baby's limbs are probably facing the other way so you can't feel them as much. Kicks are intermittent at this stage. Good luck tomorrow.