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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

blamber · 15/07/2014 11:11

I've been looking at the baby jogger versa but haven't ordered anything yet. I found it online for £400 including pram, carrycot, rain cover, bump bar or something and tray. Don't think you should wait too long in case there is a longer delivery time.

Ewan the dream sheep looks great!

I would also avoid induction if you could. Not speaking from experience though and I haven't read the reasoning behind wanting to induce women above 35 earlier. But natural is always best. Contractions start when the baby starts making these hormones and it does that when its ready to come out.

Also like mentioned before due dates are an estimate. I know that mine is 5-6 days too early which means that If I'm late they would want to induce me early too!

PosyFossilsShoes · 15/07/2014 11:19

Just ordered my Bednest to arrive a couple of days before Mini is due!

weeonion · 15/07/2014 12:15

Post - our bed nest is due to arrive beginning Sept so if it doesn't work with our bedframe - still time to find alternative!

Strawberryfield12 · 15/07/2014 12:58

ladydolly not too sure about special care, Rosie is very good anyway. The only case you could get priority, would be if the close for overbooking when you go in labour, so they would not send you to stevenage or harlow (or wherever), but would make exception as you are from the study.
I was thinking i could be in a group they dont induce ( basically business as normal, they just record results at the end), but when read they would do lotery to divide participants, thought - no way!

Thisisimpossible · 15/07/2014 13:51

Hi ladies,

Just spent the last 40 minutes catching up on 10 days of posting.

Elliekins we were in Croatia too last week, up near Zadar. I loved it because it was so beautiful and DP loved the price of the beer at £1.20 a pint. Sadly though I got no proposal Congratulations on yours!

Blamber and amylou I have the same worries about having a different surname to our child. DP is lovely and really excited about our baby, but so not on board with the idea of getting married. I don't want to harp on and on about it to him, after all it needs both of us to be of the same mind, but I really would like to get married for lots of reasons, not just the surname thing but also the security for our child and for me of inheritance issues etc. Not being married means many more hoops to jump through should something happen, and the travel thing worries me. Having lost my father when I was 13 I am very aware of mortality and the security is important to me.

I too have been having the odd small glass of wine from time to time now that I'm well into my second trimester. I really don't think that it's a huge issue. Interestingly all the negativity I've received usually seems to come from men rather than women! I've found they can get quite sanctimonious about it, whereas all my girlfriends who've had children are very relaxed about the whole thing and generally pro the odd glass here and there.

Although I have an anterior placenta I am starting to feel the baby booting around from time to time, usually when I eat, which is lovely because it has taken me a long time to come to terms with being pregnant, despite it being a very, very wanted baby. The movement has helped me to feel more for the bump, if that makes any sense. The guilt I have felt about struggling with my body image and not bonding up to now with it has been immense.

Great to be back on the thread, although not so great to be home from holiday! Lovely to hear all the scan news too xx

blamber · 15/07/2014 14:48

Thisisimpossible, my boyfriend has said he's not bothered about marriage, but would for me, but not any time soon. Great! Now that we are having a baby I want the baby and me to be taken care of if anything happens. At the moment I'll not inherit a single thing so like you I want more security!

Great that you're feeling movement. It does help to bond more when you're feeling there's a real little person in there. Mine likes to kick when I'm eating as well, which makes me think he loves his food. So I'm already trying to guess his character and also I'm trying to communicate with him through poking back, but so far I think unsuccessfully!

Alita7 · 15/07/2014 14:53

I'm getting so paranoid about premature labour (for no reason at all) and want Thursday to hurry up as I'll be 24 weeks and then I know they'll attempt to keep him alive if he's born. I haven't had constipation until tje past few days and I've had bad wind combined with constipation and this morning I had stomach pains so bad it crossed my mind that it could be labour but I was being silly and it was just ibs style pains and after having a small poo (couldn't get it all to evacuate -.-) the pain went away.

weeonion · 15/07/2014 16:12

Thisisimpossible - another anterior placenta here. Feeling some movements but have to say - this is SUCH a different experience to DD. very strange and I dont like it at all. Much harder to detect.
Did you all get a leaflet at yr last MW Appt about fetal movements?? I also had to sign a form to say that she spoke to me about paying heed to movements. We are to be feeling at least 10 movements in 2 hrs and if we don't - to lie down on left side for 1 hr. At current rate of feeling movement - I would be permanently on my left side on floor / in bed!!!!

blamber · 15/07/2014 16:28

Wee onion I haven't had that leaflet yet. I thought the whole ten movements an hour was outdated. I also have anterior placenta and I feel it kicking regularly but not that much.

I thought it was still too early for the whole movement thing. And it's different for us. I wish I knew what I could feel if I hadn't had this placenta at the front!

But I think what you should do is understand the pattern for your baby. So start writing down when you feel movement and how often. Then after a while you have a record of movements and therefore you can identify if anything changes.

Alita ouch yes those cramps can be bloody painful. I was panicking when I first for them too. Now I'm used to getting them now and again and knowing that its the constipation!

Alita7 · 15/07/2014 17:22

I thought the 10 movements an hour thing was after 26 weeks?

I probably feel him 10- 50 times an hour if I'm sat/ lying down most hours depending on how you count an individual movement as sometimes they blend together. But if I'm busy I might not notice him for a few hours!

Hopeful83 · 15/07/2014 17:42

Non baby related but for all the teachers on the thread - hurray Gove is gone

Hopeful83 · 15/07/2014 17:45

Regarding movement I have an anterior placenta too. I can feel movement and some big kicks now and then, mainly at the sides. But nowhere near 10 movements an hour. She is mainly active after 8pm. Don't feel much in the day and I'm 24 weeks today. Although sat this afternoon at my desk I did feel a few big kicks

PopcornFrenzy · 15/07/2014 17:51

I've just been lying on the sofa watching my belly, little girl was doing roly polys and I could see my belly moving with her, I'd forgotten what it was like and how much I love it. Can't wait for her to get bigger so I make out feet and hands

pinkgirlythoughts · 15/07/2014 18:05

Hurrah!

Alita7 · 15/07/2014 18:07

Then again, I'm only thinking of today and he's been very active.

Im 24 weeks on Thursday and recently on an average day I might feel 0-5 movements per hour between waking up and getting to work. Then at work if sitting he will kick sporadically, say for example if we were sat in a meeting for 3 hours he might move twice in the first hour, 50 times in the second and then 10 times in the last. Then if I was travelling and walking around for an hour he might only kick once or twice that I notice. and so on until the bus or train journey home when he might do nothing or he might wriggle about the whole way. Then while I'm cooking or cleaning he won't noticeably do a lot and then when I'm sat down he'll probably tick sporadically in groups of 4-10 every 5- 20 mins. He usually kicks a couple of times when i first get in the shower. When I get into bed I always use my doppler and normally he gives that a few wallops. Then he might wriggle a bit particular if I lie on my side when I'm falling asleep but he might not. I think he sleeps when I do (in contrast to what we're told about them sleeping when we're moving), as he usually isn't doing anything when I wake up to wee and first thing in them morning.

So, sorry if that was boring or too in depth!

pinkgirlythoughts · 15/07/2014 18:10

ooh, I love that bednest! Like the idea of renting, too-much more affordable than buying brand new, then only using it for a few months.

Annarose2014 · 15/07/2014 18:13

Am 24 wks and anterior placenta. Have felt baby playing bongo on my bladder a few times but that's all.

Actually i felt baby having hiccups last night which was very exciting.

But otherwise nothing. Have felt no.movent at all today for example. Disconcerting even though I know he's fine.

I hope my movements get bigger soon. I want to bond!

haventgotaclue1 · 15/07/2014 20:19

Snap Annarose - am learning that if I sit at my desk / relax at home - really anything that doesn't involve moving around, I maybe lucky and feel something. It doesn't happen all the time (and definitely not 50 times a day!), and it's more like a popping sensation than a kick.

Sometimes I do wish that I didn't have an anterior placenta then I reckon I'd feel more and along the lines of what others are feeling...and I wouldn't worry so much about whether it's still OK...

WinterLover · 15/07/2014 20:47

dam you all I thought id lost you all again.

Been absent the past few weeks, given up work and had a family wedding to prepare for. Hopefully I'll be around a bit more now

DS at nursery tomorrow so hopefully will try to catch up with you all xx

Strawberryfield12 · 15/07/2014 21:44

Indeed, congratulations to all the teachers - the least intelligent person of the country has left the education industry! :)

weeonion · 15/07/2014 21:50

Yup - big hugs to all us anterior placentas! Tis great our bubbas have a great big cushion right at front of womb to protect from knocks and bumps but it is a very different experience with movements. Xx

moggle · 15/07/2014 22:51

I've got an anterior placenta too but I feel quite a lot- sonographer did say it was high so maybe baby is just aiming the kicks down low. I can't really detect kicks, just general movement, rolling. I was looking at the 'count the kicks' website the other day which has some guidance but it says to only start after 28 weeks. It was more about working out what is normal for your baby and then looking for changes from that. I always get a lot of movement when lying in bed, just before going to sleep (like now!) which is nice for DH as he can lie there and feel it too :-)

Alita7 · 15/07/2014 23:28

My 20 week scan report says placenta= anterior high. I'd never of thought it was anterior but I haven't felt much around the middle high up, but get lots of kicks on either side and below so maybe that's why.

MrsDowneyJunior · 16/07/2014 00:49

Mine's anterior too and I've not felt anything at the front, it's all sides and internal.

LizLimone · 16/07/2014 01:33

Just checking in on this thread. Have been really busy and missed all of the last thread but jumping on again now! (Was Avery Jessup on previous threads but nc-ed. Am due Nov 10th.)

That sounds like an interesting study ladydolly. I fit the age requirements but am not in the UK. Re age I've had quite a few comments about 'now that you're over 35 there are more risks' etc. I'm only just gone 36, FGS! I got a charming letter from my insurance company referring to me as an 'elderly multigravida' , which was fun. Think they're overplaying it tbh. Half the moms I know round here are well into their 30s, some are over 40.