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September crew - baby bumps are appearing and we're emerging as team blue, pink or yellow! Thread 8 :)

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Treaclepie19 · 28/04/2015 16:33

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ovumahead · 06/06/2015 21:41

DoNot it sounds like the right decision for you. Once you've made the decision to take them, you must also make the decision not to beat yourself up about it! I really hope you feel better soon. Are you looking after yourself in other ways? Healthy diet, seeing and talking to others every day,gentle exercise? Social contact and support is the biggest protection you can have against depression pre and postnatally. Wishing you all the best Flowers

DoNotDenyMe · 07/06/2015 19:22

Thank you ovuma, very kind. Will do Smile

Purpleball · 08/06/2015 07:59

Ooops fell off the fred.

I was just wondering how much movement you're all getting. Mine is still quite faint and can't be felt from outside. I'm 24+6

londonliv · 08/06/2015 12:48

Purple I have to admit I don't feel a huge amount. I'm 26 weeks and don't feel much movement at all - very sporadically. I do have an anterior placenta so I'm not sure if that is also something to do with it. Have you checked if you do? Mine wasn't mentioned during my scan but then I read it on my notes...

squiish · 08/06/2015 13:01

I am feeling lots at times and not much at other times, must depend on what I eat and where he's led maybe? Could be the placenta as londonliv suggests. If you are worried I would ask your MW.

I am starting to get really tired again and feel like I could eat, eat, eat at the moment! Hmm Other than that all good here Smile.

bonzo77 · 08/06/2015 13:16

mummybexta i think that something like 70% of low lying placentas move up (mine did in my first pregnancy). It's entirely possible that what you are now feeling will reflect that. Obviously the scan will confirm / refute that. If you bleed or start to contract before then though it's really important that you go in and tell them that your placenta was low at the 20 week scan.

Absolutely masses of movement here, clearly visible and feel-able from outside. Much more so than with my last 2. Both of those had anterior placentas and this one is posterior, so I think it makes a big difference. Sometimes it makes me jump or wakes me in the night!

Purpleball · 08/06/2015 14:28

Thanks. I'm at the consultant and for a growth scan tomorrow (diabetes) so I'll ask then. I do get movement just quote faint.
My placenta is at the back - don't know if that's anterior

bonzo77 · 08/06/2015 14:51

Anterior = front. Posterior= back.

Purpleball · 08/06/2015 16:10

Thanks Smile

MummyBexta · 08/06/2015 18:33

Thanks for the advice Bonzo77
Will have to wait until scan at 32 weeks to find out! Fingers crossed

Matilda30 · 08/06/2015 20:16

I'm having lots of movement (low, posterior placenta) although last week he was a naughty boy and hardly moved so had to get checked at the hospital -all was good thankfully! I'm also feeling really hungry lately like others.

MummyBexta · 08/06/2015 20:23

Yes I'm feeling really hungry at the moment too!

Treaclepie19 · 09/06/2015 09:40

I'm starving all the time too!
And also had to go get checked on Sunday as he hadn't moved all day. All was fine, he was obviously having a lazy day!

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September crew - baby bumps are appearing and we're emerging as team blue, pink or yellow! Thread 8 :)
Maths88 · 10/06/2015 05:31

Not felt any movement for a couple of days and really starting to get anxious. I'm gonna ring midwife this morning but I feel at 26+4 they are just going to tell me I'm being silly.

Pregnancy really does make you neurotic doesn't it?!

ovumahead · 10/06/2015 06:03

They absolutely won't tell you that you're being silly. They'll probably ask you to go in for a check. Call them asap, don't delay, it's just not worth it! Hope you get some kicks soon.

MummyBexta · 10/06/2015 07:14

Someone told me they went to hospital to get checked due to lack of kicks and they told her to drink some lucazade and it got baby moving. You could try that while you wait/are on your way?But totally agree with Ovumahead - we went for hospital maternity ward tour and they said don't hesitate - always get reduced movement checked out

Maths88 · 10/06/2015 07:38

On train back home to hospital now. They told me I should have gone yesterday and I felt like I was being told off tbh but heading there now. Stupidly I had gone all the way to work an hour away!

Treaclepie19 · 10/06/2015 08:16

Hope all is ok maths, when I went in on Sunday they emphasised always going in even if you think you're worrying over nothing.

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HaveTeaWillSurvive · 10/06/2015 08:23

Hope you're ok Maths, I had my first no movement meltdown on Sunday night, DH was brilliant and after a bit of internet research played some loud music into my bump which set things off again - worth a try while you're travelling. I'm 26wks as well and if bip faces the wrong way I feel almost nothing. Flowers

Maths88 · 10/06/2015 10:48

Thanks guys. Been in and had scans and a trace and things seem fine. They were lovely about it and have booked me a return appointment for tomorrow which I am to go to if movement not back or cancel in the morning if it is. They also took bp which has tanked from 140 over 90 to 85 over 60 which they were a bit concerned about - been being treated as hypertensive all pregnancy so far - but as I have an appointment next week anyway they said they'll leave it and recheck then.

Thanks again and I def recommend getting checked to anyone not sure, they were so great about it when I got there.

HaveTeaWillSurvive · 10/06/2015 11:26

Great news, been worried about you all morning - one big family here!

Treaclepie19 · 10/06/2015 12:09

That's great maths :)

They only listened to heartbeat when I went in. Wouldn't do anymore until I'm 28 weeks.

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misssmilla1 · 10/06/2015 13:40

I'm getting loads of kicks one day and then it all goes quiet for a couple of days. I'm worried and mentioned it to the Dr, but she didn't seem particularly bothered at the time. I plan to ask her next week at my next check up what they consider 'normal' and when to go back in if I think there's reduced movement. Atm, I think part of it is because he's transverse lie, so he's diagonal with his head down by the bottom of my stomach and feet up by my ribs. It's a bit weird because you can see it now from the outside as he's got bigger; when I look down on my stomach, it's all lopsided!

In other news, I am dragging my manager to talk to me about maternity cover. We're going through an org re-structure and I think I could end up with a new boss; as a result, I'm trying to get my current one to commit (in principle and in writing...) to my maternity handover and leave proposal, especially as I'm asking to be considered for unpaid leave of absence to extend my leave period.

Maths88 · 10/06/2015 15:06

Treacle I wonder if it's because here it's all private healthcare. Not sure but they were very thorough.

Miss it is so difficult to know what's right isn't it?!