Babies due in November 2016 #5

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Oh Smells totally understand the weirdness..... It will be my little girls birthday four weeks before my due date....it's not her first birthday without us but it's a tough day regardless and with being pregnant this time round I'm fully aware that it's going to be even harder. I just wish so much that she was still here and that this little baby would get to meet his big sister, she was so very lovely.

Smells of course your first baby counted, if you felt like a mother then you are. People are just thoughtless.

My due date with my mc baby is September 25th, this time round it should have been his or her first birthday but I'll actually be 33 weeks pregnant. It was weird last year as I was having a rough time at work and kept thinking about what I "should" have been doing instead. Not sure how I'll feel this time around, I feel much more connected to this baby now so I'm hoping it'll be a case of "if that hadn't happened I wouldn't be where I am now" but who knows. Be kind to yourself

I've been wide awake since midnight and hungry for some reason. I gave in at 1am and got a yoghurt and some chocolate - healthy combo! But feel quite comtent, albeit still awake now.

Need your little girl sounds lovely, and I'm sure your little one will grow up feeling like he knew her as you talk about her so fondly and I imagine your friends and family do to.

Just catching up after 4 days wifi - free for our house move. All settled & unpacked in our new place, mostly thanks to DH (I mainly napped!). Nursery is raring to go but totally empty!!

Total lolz at the range of preparation we've all done, I've got a very detailed spreadsheet but yet to actually own very much in the flesh!! Apart from my aviation buttery from Mamas & Papas, which DH agrees is awesome.

Has anyone found any nice nursery wall stickers? Mamas&Papas had a nice Patternology tree one but it seems to have disappeared. There are tons on amazon but a lot look quite garish.

My nipples leaked at work. That's all I have to say about today. Gah!

Smells, she was an insensitive cow to have said that

Well, I saw the midwife today for my 28 week check up and promptly sobbed the whole way through it. I thought that I'd perked up a bit and was doing better but clearly the issue is still there in the background. She was very lovely about it (like everyone else she says working f/t with a 4yo and a shift working partner is getting too much - but then, what can I realistically do about that?) but has said she'll come and do a home visit in a few weeks time to see how I am. I do really appreciate the interest and I know it is good of everyone but I feel a bit weird that its all over my notes, don't know why.

On the nice side, DD has been at my parents for the past few days so DP and I have been able to enjoy lay ins, the cinema and dinner out, which has been lovely and really good for us to get out of the usual stress day to day routine.

(Oh yes, all of you doing this for the first time, who knows, you too might realise you haven't been to the cinema in 5 years one day )

Thank you Cake and Need I'm so sorry for the loss of your children, you are both so amazingly strong.

Thanks to you too Fedup and Thurlow

Been a bit more anxious than usual today and little one wasn't doing her usual cartwheels after breakfast this morning which was a bit upsetting. She was still moving, just much more gentle than normal. Just got home after 2.5 hours on the train and I felt lots of kicks which I could feel over the vibration of the train, so trying to not get worked up about changed movement. Having a lie down for an hour now before we're off to dinner so hoping she wakes up a bit now. I thought it would get easier once I could feel her properly but now I just spend so much time stressing about how much she's moving and if the kicks are different to the previous day

Thurlow, sounds like you've had a really relaxing couple of days. Glad you're getting lots of support from your midwife!

Latinata have you tried Not On The Highstreet? From memory they have cute stuff, can be pricey though!

Bobcat85 - I think the Purflo looks great - many thanks indeed for the suggestion. All the reviews are pretty positive - although I think it's larger than a lot of people expected. I had been looking at the Cocoonababy - which is pretty expensive and I'm not sure whether it will be too tall in the Chicco which I've got. So I might well go with the Purflo.

Smells - I'm so sorry you had to go through that. It's just insensitive. An acquaintance told me a colleague of her said to her after a loss: 'well, you can always try again' and she was so hurt and angry that she snapped back at her: 'if my husband had just died, would you be telling me I can get on tinder?' I thought that was actually a really good analogy and she was brace to confront things like that.

Will start watching out for nipple leakage. What did you do bollyroo? Cover it up somehow? I have some pads but I don't think I can wear them every day just in case.

smells I feel the same re movement, it's like it's all our responsibility now to to monitor and make sure baby is safe isn't it? Before I could feel movement I just felt like if something went wrong it was pretty much out of my control (still is really, but I still feel more responsible somehow).
I hope baby wakes up and has a little party soon for you.

smells I read that they're much less active when going through a growth spurt - we had a very quiet day last week which worried me but the next day she was kicking like crazy and my bump was noticeably bigger! I'm trying to see that as our current pattern - she has very active days, then quiet ones when she's concentrating on growing.

Onthemetro-oh really I didn't know that, I was kinda of browsing In store and I saw it at the corner of my eye,I didn't think to check if the mattress came with it or not, you kinda just assume it would

Hope everyone's ok, I'm feeling super uncomfortable today! My son had another op on his foot today to have his plate and screws removed so been stuck in hospital all day, made the biggest mistake of wearing my maternity jeans today (knew I should of put my leggings on) i put the jean on this morning and they felt a bit tight but I just thought that they'd stretch out a bit but they didn't! So I sat all day with them digging in underneath my bump I shall not wear those again that's for sure!

I don't know about any of you but I feel so compact under my bump and if I bend down I can actually feel my bladder acting like a sponge and absorbing fluid to the point that when I stand back up There's so much pressure that I feel I might wet myself does that make sense? I'm also so fed up of weeing like it's literally every 30 mins and I feel like I'm going to burst, and it's only going to get much worse!!

sorry to hear things are tough for so many people at the moment.
I'm afraid I'm only here to moan. I'm coming up to 26 weeks and hating being pregnant. I can't walk very far without getting breathless, I'm exhausted all the time, muscles ache and the nausea has returned. And I have varicose veins. Work is really full on at the moment and I'm on day 9 in a row without a day off. My boss thinks I'm being a bit pathetic.
I've moaned to DH but he just reminds me I should be grateful, because we had so much trouble getting pregnant. I don't feel grateful, I just feel overwhelmed!
Anyway sorry to be on such a downer, but it's cathartic to write it down and just tell someone. Hopefully things will feel better soon.

Cockles - I really know what you mean. I go from moments of being really happy to moments where I'm just so uncomfortable. Breathlessness is horrible and that is a really tough schedule. I'm guessing your boss has never been pregnant?

I did discover a good tip for heartburn yesterday: putting rolled up towels under one end of the mattress to tilt it up. It really helped and I slept through to 7am, which feels like a miracle.

Lots of down there kicks today! Eek very strange sensation!

Cockles I'm with you. Today is the first day I've taken as sick so far but I feel awful.

I'm so happy to be pregnant and for the most part think I've been quite lucky in feeling really well since the sickness passed but I do get heartburn, and get breathless when exercising (or even walking upstairs)

This last few days though I've been quite busy and I'm really feeling it today. Achey all over, really tired but restless at night which is so frustrating. DH is going to pick up a pregnancy pillow for me to see if that helps.

I've taken the day off and been back to bed for 3 hours and I'm going back now after only being up for an hour. I feel like I could sleep all day so hoping that if I do nothing today I'll be back to normal tomorrow.

cockle I'm with you, pregnancy is hard and 9 days in a row at work is really tough, pregnant or not.
My back is really hurting, I don't sleep well because my hips hurt and I feel breathless/dizzy if I so much as walk up the stairs in my house. I feel like a crap mum to my little boy and also feel like it's only going to get worse

Can completely relate to the breathless feeling - I guess we are all at that stage. I've also got a pounding heart. But as I work from home on my own business it's much easier - my heart goes out (in a pounding sort of way) to all you ladies in full time work with less than sympathetic bosses.

This afternoon I will be taking both my dogs for a massage - not such a bad life for them . . .

Needanewjob - oh yes - I feel he's sometimes kicking directly on my cervix from the inside - a bizarre feeling indeed. I feel he's got quite a lot more lively over the past week or so.

cockle I'm with you. We're away at moment and the great British weather means we're doing rather than relaxing on the beach, it's hilly and I'm struggling. DH doesn't seem to get it either when I say I just need to sit for a bit!

Ugh. Joining in with you exhausted aching mamas. I have 2-3 nights of rubbish sleep then am so exhausted I have one good one, 24 hours of energy and then back to square one!

My bump has ballooned in the last few weeks and feeling really as though I'm hauling around a tiny but heavy human!!

Completely understand the not sleeping well Cake. My hips are bad and have to get up twice a night to wee. If it helps my midwife referred me to the physio, so might be worth mentioning to your midwife.

No problem corinne. I'd not heard of the Purflo before but the reviews are all quite good and some people have used it with the next to me crib.

Having my whooping cough vaccination this afternoon. Not a big fan of injections but nevermind.

I am so glad I am not alone with feeling crappy about not enjoying pregnancy! We struggled so much to get pregnant and all I seem to do is moan. Huge sickness this morning in the street (totally embarrassing) little sleep last night, hugely hormonal - broke down sobbing in the street like a mad woman, pulled myself together enough to get to work, someone told me I didn't look well - huge sobbing meltdown again. Feel so much better for letting it out but mentally pregnancy is taking its toll. On the bright side only 16 weeks to go.

An other one for the moan train. Have no NO energy at all. Want to cry can't find anywhere private to do it. Also have a house full of builders and no running water.

After spending almost the entire day asleep so far I am starting to feel a little better. Sorry to see so many of us aren't feeling fab.

All this "glowing" lark seems to be a myth although I do have one friend who keeps telling me I look "really well" which I'm taking to mean fat. Rude.

and for all of us.

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