February 2016 Halfway mark: Flutters into kicks into thwacks!

[haquoi123]

New thread, heeeeeeere we go!!

That's great calypso, fantastic when things finally come together :)

sighing I saw your 4.30 post this morning, right with you on the stupid awake times. Luckily I have a day off today, unlike my 6.30 start yesterday.

Woke up panicking this morning that I couldn't feel baby moving. I've felt him since, but it's not his usual 'mummy I'm awake!' fanfare and I have to admit in properly panicking and can't calm myself down. I actually did some 6am online shopping to help. I don't know what to do. DH is working and missed work last Friday to come to the hospital... I feel in a bit of a state, the pressure of this pregnancy after ds died is finally getting to me...

He's just started a his usual dance party, a few hours out of schedule. Phew. I think my stress is getting to him, he's happiest when I'm relaxed. Poor bubs

Call your midwife or MAU haqoi I'm sure they will reassure you. Have you tried laying on your side and drinking a cold glass of water?

Glad to hear x

Glad to hear babs has woken up haquoi.

30+4 here and literally since the day I turned 30 weeks I have felt heavily pregnant. My bump is aching and sore at times, my lower back is agony in work all day, and I'm big and slow. I think I feel how I did at the very end of my pregnancy with DS - and I still have some tough weeks to get through in work before the Christmas holidays. I'm due back to work after Christmas too but I'm hoping the break will make the short time back in work manageable!

We moved house so at the moment it's getting painted and we're living in chaos. I'm hoping to have the upstairs done by next weekend including new floors in the kids rooms, so then I'm going to start collecting stuff from my parent's attic and start getting my hospital bag packed and figuring out what I need to buy. Everything is feeling very busy at the moment!

Happy Friday all! Sorry for being MIA for a while!

Sympathies with insomnia issues - mine has raised its ugly head again and was awake from 3.30am today boo.

haquoi glad little one has woken up. If worried def call though.

Hope everyone has a restful weekend x

haquoi I'm exactly the same because of my losses. I am only happy if he kicks me through the night. If I wake up for a wee and can't feel him squirming I end up awake panicking for ages. Last night I was awake from 4am till about 6am. He ended up kicking about but I was too frozen with anxiety to get back to sleep. The irony is I don't think DS ever kicked me in the night and I didn't ever think about it. Oh god how I miss those innocent, naive days.

hacquoi that sucks, my placenta position makes it difficult to feel movement sometimes, it makes me panic stricken too, must be even worse for you

Cleaner was a no show so fucking fed up of flaky cleaners. I called the agency and theyve apologised and put credit on my account. Not the point though, I can barely walk and DH works 12 hours a day, we need a reliable cleaner.

Taking DDs and DNeph to the city this evening to watch the light switch on, cant wait.

Thanks for the reassurance everyone. He went quiet again and I was feeling a bit dizzy so properly freaked out again. Then DH came home and woke him up properly, and I've had about four helpings of toast, and a cuddle and feeling so much better. DH thinks it might be Friday day-off blues, which makes sense.

whoknew it's crazy isn't it how our minds just run away with us. I know that if I'm not calm, bubs will stay quiet (complete opposite of his brother), I just couldn't make it happen.

till it sounds like you're having such a hard time. Glad the agency is on top of it though, are they sending a replacement?

Fantastic news you've moved mawsy, high 5! Here's hoping the work is done quickly :)

ratty, I'd thought I'd left the insomnia behind, buts it's reared it's ugly head the last week (and crazy dreams are back too!)

Feel your pain mawsy! We moved into our spare bedroom last night as a plasterer is coming to replaster the main bedroom & nursery at the weekend, followed by carpet fitter in a couple of weeks and various family helping with painting! Exciting times but the house is a total tip as furniture etc has been crammed in wherever there is space (which there isn't much of!).

We are sleeping on the spare bed that has its existing mattress plus our main bed mattress on it! I feel like the princess and the pea! My feet don't touch the ground when I swing your legs over the side, heheh....Need to remember that for the middle of the night pees.

Glad to hear you're feeling better hacqui - cuddles are an awesome cure!

mawsy I feel the same! I only have a month left of work and I am so glad I'm leaving early. Everything feels so heavy. This baby is laying quite low too which doesn't help. I barely feel kicks, because of placenta position but I also just don't seem to be able to feel them even when the midwife can feel them with her hands. It makes me rather alarmed! The fanjo kicks aren't really kicks but more like tightenings, which is why it freaks me out as the sensation is very close to what I had in last week of pregnancy.

What a frightening time for you hacquoi I'm glad all is well. We're getting ever closer to the safe zone. I can't wait to be 30 weeks and then 35, small steps.

I'm joining everyone on the DIY this weekend. Blinds and carpet in the nursery, and new acoustic glass for our bedroom so that also has a chance of sleeping (we live on the loudest road in the UK I am sure!).

My SIL who had anorexia and still has disordered eating has just had a little girl, I do worry for the LO as her older brother has been put on a strict diet from birth, even when breastfed and isn't allowed anything vaguely unhealthy (ie bread) and I think she'll be worse with a girl. She's also quite competitive and I was really hoping they would have a boy as two girls 12 weeks apart is really going to bring that out in her. She's already saying how glad she is she has one of each rather than two of the same like us. Argh! Families eh? Rant over.

whoknew happy birthday to your little boy!

Hi saluki!

It does make all the difference doesn't it? Really glad to hear the room is sorted (has the sofa arrived?) and that you're ploughing on. I'm actually a Northerner-in-exile calypso, from the really quite north west of England down to the almost-falling-into-the-Channel-South East! Been here 13 years, after swearing I'd never go past Manchester . My Mum says it's brass monkeys up there at the moment though.

That sounds worrying re. your SIL xing, small children shouldn't be on diets of any sort unless there's a medical need. And that's she's getting the competitive crap (over an issue that is not a competition) in as well. Sounds like you'll be having fun.....

We've got a sort-out weekend ahead: parcels to be picked up, birthday and Xmas presents to sort, Xmas tree to order, etc, etc. It's all going so quickly!

Hi everyone, thanks for the welcomes!
@calypso, sorry don't know how to tag people!
I'm having an induction as I am well over 40 (44!). I have asked for an early induction for two reasons:
My friend lost her baby soon after birth, she was 42 and had been allowed to go 8 days beyond her due date. I've been reading up and in Scandinavia they induce older mums two weeks early and it apparently reduces risks of still birth, cerebral palsy and other problems.

1. I do not want the baby born on the 29th February! I know that's a crap reason.

They've said though that as DS1 was two weeks early, that this one could be early too.

Two words: back fat
In a massive grump about it. My bump is still quite small but my back has rolls of fat. Not just bra strap fat, but a roll at the top, a roll by the bra, rolls underneath and then love handles. Ugh. I know it's normal and it's fat stores for labour and breastfeeding but I don't like it! Im so small normally that it really shows. I just hope I lose it as easily in my 30s as I did in my 20s.

Had first growth scan yesterday and all looked OK. Measurements have evened out now to be all just under the 50th percentile. Amniotic fluid was just over 50th percentile. Only slightly concerning one is that the umbilical artery PI was high, around the 85th percentile. Apparently it's only considered bad if it's over the 95th though, but it is another indicator that I may develop pre-eclampsia, or that the placenta may start to fail. Just have to wait and see how it looks at the next scan.

Baby is still really active though and we saw her yawn on the scan which was the cutest thing ever, and she was sucking her thumb again

Clara dd has a princess and the pea bed (two mattresses and a memory foam topper), the bed looks funny when it's not piled up now!

Morning all. Finding it harder to pop in as feel so busy I get into bed at the end of day and just flake out. Sounds like I have missed plenty.

hacquoi I haven't had a previous pregnancy but I had a freak last weekend when bubs decided not to kick the crap out of me in the evening watching telly (which is a usual pastime). Told DH who got ridiculously panicky and made it worse.

After 90 minutes of cold drinks, lying on left normal service was resumed. Can't imagine how difficult this feels when you have had bad/sad experiences in the past. If you need it you should get reassurances from the antenatal lot.

Feel strangely comforted by the amount of diy going in. We have loads to do and I feel mildly panicky for no good reason - its not even major stuff now. Have had to set a schedule of doing something for 1 hour when I get in from work so I don't overdo it but can contain the feeling of not doing enough.

Pelvic pain much better (after rolling over in bed and my symphysis pubis letting out an unearthly crunch) but now getting leg cramps. Awful relentless muscle knots if I dare extend my calf in my sleep.

Pregnancy really does know how to prepare you for sleepless nights

Just noticed there's a July 16 babies thread. Blimey!

madsaz I'm also getting terrible leg cramps when I'm trying to sleep. It can feel like my leg muscles are ripping when I try and stretch them out in the night. Got hardly any sleep last night because they were so painful. Getting really bad cramps in my gluteals as well. I stretched before bed as well. The only comfortable position is on my back, which obviously I can't sleep on.

TMI My bits have trebled in size, the entire area looks like it has been pumped up with fillers. Just how big is it going to get down there? There no longer is an inner section, it is all just out and getting irritated.

rufus how are you accessing a view of your bits? It's just occurred to me that I've not seen minr for about 5 months and have no idea what's going on down there! DH could at least tell me when we were having sex, but now that's off the cards (sob, another 8 weeks to go) I've shunned it. My belly button on the other hand, it's not so much an 'innie' or 'outie', as a 'flattie'...

haquoi that sounds worrying for you. The squirms and kicks seem a bit gentler to me at the moment.
But yes. The night waking has been a permanent feature of this pregnancy, lately i wont got back to sleep unyil i've felt the kicks with my hands (rather than thumps).

Glad I'm not the only one sighing

New thread btw!
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/2513378-Feb-2016-babies-Welcome-to-the-3rd-trimester-the-final-stretch-in-more-ways-than-one

Posted too soon. Did you get in touch with a midwife?

My belly button is still an innie .... getting shallower tjough.

No I didn't in the end. Bubs was moving enough that I felt reassured. He's been quiet today (literally just kicked me twice) apart from hiccups, but when I counted kicks he passed the 10 in an hour test in about 2 mins, so I'm not too worried. I might go in on Monday and see if they'll listen in, but i don't want to head to Carlisle, it's really stressful going all that way.