June 2016 #6, Blue? Pink? Yellow? Where did the first 20 weeks go?

[nehagarg]

Loving the latest scan news! Happy new thread everyone.

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haaha, true Laughing. Like you, Eastend, I am trying to think as far as the ride to the hospital and then magically coming home with a newborn. Totally ignoring the part in between

Laughing .. Thats super cool. I have completely lost interest in my work too. Very happy that it will be someone else's problem soon. 13 and a bit weeks to go!

Nehagarg nope, not even as far as the ride to the hospital, lol! Still mentally decorating the nursery!!!

I am actually finishing my job next week and changing to another form the week after. I've been at this one for almost 6 years- I hadn't even met DH and was free and single. How things change! Fortunately my new work still give me 6 months full pay for maternity leave despite me giving them 4 months service at best!! In total "de-mob happy" mode here!!

Good luck! I hope they do. Have you told them you are preggers?

I have been at mine for 10 years. Literally celebrated my 10 year anniversary the day I found out I am pregnant. Couldn't help thinking that 10 years ago when I started this job, I was 22 and 10 years before that, I was 12!! Feels like a life time!

Yup- the HR rep was the second person to know and they've been very good about it. After previous EP and MMC I didn't want to make career decisions based on something that may not happen!

Ahh 22, that really WAS a long time ago!!

I had an anterior placenta last time emma helpfully I can't really remember when I started feeling regular movements but I think it might have been about 25 weeks before I could reliably feel them. This time my placenta is sort of round the side and I can definitely feel much more, I'm getting real proper thumps now.
God yes my work brain has totally checked out, I keep having to force myself back to the task at hand (I'm not MNing from my desk at all, nope)

Emma I've got an anterior placenta this time. I'm 23 weeks now and have only just really started feeling movements on a daily basis and they are very light compared to how I felt them last time. My DH felt his first kick this week compared to about 18 weeks with a posterior placenta,

I can honestly say the bit when they actually come out hurts the least.

My worst bit was injections in my foof and being stitched up. The baby bit is the easy part....

I have an anterior placenta and really only felt definite movement in the last couple of weeks (am 22+4 now). Certain it was earlier last time, more like the 17 week mark.

Can't scan back, but hope the person at George's for the Fetal Medicine scan is okay.

I had an epidural for almost all of labourer last time. DS was back to back and what I did see of labour was agony. But thankfully was in theatre prepped for a section if the forceps didn't work, so didn't feel the actual vagina bit. Phew.

Saw consultant at 20 weeks and had a little weep on her about delivery (third degree tear last time, plus a few other complications which meant it wasnt much fun). She offered a CS but I don't really want that. I want what she can't give me: guarantee a vaginal birth will be straightforward this time. Having growth scan later on and will make final decision then, but as DS was 9lb6oz, this would have to be utterly whopping to make me want a section... If only there were a nice easy trouble free way...

Hope all went well amber.

Emma anterior placenta here too and I'm feeling kicks very occasionally now (22+1), I can feel some of them from the outside but even they feel very light inside. So if I'm busy I don't feel them at all but can when I'm relaxing,

Eastend I'm another first timer not thinking as far as getting to the hospital. I'm also excitedly planning the baby's room even if they won't sleep in it for a few months!

Yep, as a fellow first timer, I'm definitely not thinking about the way(s) out!
I also have an anterior placenta emma but I'm only 20 + 3 and haven't felt any movements yet. I know that's probably normal but it'd be nice to feel something! A friend who also had an AP first starting feeling things at 23 weeks though :)

"I want what she can't give me: guarantee a vaginal birth will be straightforward this time" - oh, if only :(

Eastend2015 - wow, six months full pay for four-ish months service is great!! Good luck for Monday!

I have a very low tolerance for pain and I managed on gas and air with the other 2 so hoping to do the same this time. I found the head coming out the worst part...it burns!!! Not wanting to scare anyone but that's a very short part of labour if you look at it that way. The joy and relief when baby is out is amazing, if it was as nightmareish as people build up in their heads we would all only have one child!!

I have had ant placenta both times. With my first I didn't feel anything til almost 28 weeks. This one I have been feeling since 12 weeks. Finding it hard to keep up with this thread moves so quickly.

I have an anterior placenta and my experience seems so different! I could feel flutters at 16 weeks and definite bumps and movement by about 18 weeks. I've been able to see and feel big kicks from the outside for a good few weeks, and he seems to spend all day in there kicking around (I'm now 24+2). It's making me worried that my placenta is really thin/inadequate or something- it does seem to be more the norm that people don't feel much till later. Is that even a thing?! Hmm, I can always find something to worry about. I have a midwife appt next week so I'll ask her.

belleboo when they were talking about the baby crowning in NCT classes, DH started singing Johnny Cash's 'Ring of fire'. I was trying not to laugh! Thankfully he didn't do it during the event or I might have killed him!

Haha well done for not laughing!! That part sticks in my head, definitely asking for the happy gas earlier this time they didn't give me it until I was fully dilated last time

I'm not sure I can have gas and air here. I'm too scared to ask in case they say definitely no!

I had gas and air, pethadine and finally a spinal before forceps in theatre last time! DS1 was a tricky birth though - induced at 38wks for gestational diabetes and he had craniosynostosis (prematurely fused skull plates) so he got a bit wedged! Will def go for the drugs again his time but would be nice to avoid the spinal if possible (although I reserve the right to change my mind!)

strawberry, if you don't mind me asking, how did you get on with the pethidine? I've heard a couple of negative stories, and I think I'm too scared to use it, but if I can't have gas and air, maybe I need to consider it as an option?

I had pethidine. It meant I got to sleep for a while although OH said my face still crumpled as I was having contractions.

I'm being kicked in the cervix , not pleasant!

Looking round baby shops today and MIL asked to buy us the Next to me! Happy days

I think it's best not to worry or plan too much about labour. ... It will be whatever it will be for better or worse, but you'll get through it regardless. Just be prepared to go with the flow... that's my plan at least!

I'm in the same boat as you guesshowmuch, 9lb+, offered a c section due to difficult labour and growth scans but even if they predict 10lbs, i still wouldn't go with a section. Just remembering i got through the first labour unscathed, I'll get through whatever this one throws at me

I was fine with the pethidine biking if I remember rightly though the midwife gave it to me with an anti nausea drug. So whether that helped I don't know. Worked well for me, meant I could doze between contractions.

I hated gas and air. Took 3 breaths and then no more!!

torfhinn - go for it! A good friend of mine gave birth to a 10lb baby at home in a pool after a traumatic foreceps delivery with her first. Keeping my fingers crossed you have an easy peasy speedy birth this time!

Well I've noticed today that I haven't had a headache for a whole week - woohoo! My hair is AMAZING too after a horribly greasy first 20 weeks. I'm still horribly tired and starting to waddle but I'll take any positives!!!
I hope the rest of you are doing ok too x