May 2017 #7....... Final months, rapidly growing bumps

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May 2017

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jugoo that's pretty much what I'm planning too - I realised I could have over a month of four day weeks for the 'price' of one week of leave

@coxsorangepippin cheers to three day weekends!

We're actually starting to feel quite organised, we have all the bit stuff now, it's really just little/non-essential things left to get now.

I was also thinking about doing the same after mat leave. So instead of being off work two weeks longer could have ten week of four days. Got to see if my work will buy that though!

I didn't realise dry hands were a pregnancy thing - I thought it was just me and the cold. Although I never usually have dry skin at all and hardly ever moisturise!
Boots used to to an unscented own brand hand moisturiser that was excellent and fab for my sensitive skin. (Blue tube) Keep forgetting to look though so I just chuck on some sensitive Nivea face and body whenever I remember.... for me it gets worse when I'm out in the cold - so remember your gloves ladies! And plenty of water (sick of hearing that phrase!) seems to lessen the itching.
I also didn't react at all to my rings last time, only had to take them off at the end due to swelling, but they've been off since before I even knew I was pregnant this time! I pop them back on for church and special occasions/photos because I just feel so weird without them!
I haven't even thought about leaving work yet - someone asked me yesterday and I just ermm'd at them! Have to change nurseries for my little one too as I work quite far from home... lastmin.com here!

Baby brain has totally arrived here - yesterday was in work and did loads of silly things!! Kept staring blankly at people as it was taking me ages to work out what people where talking about

Then last night I had Tesco click and collect food shopping booked for 3-5pm. Husband forgot about it and text me at 6pm to say we didn't have any bread or milk - I forgot about the Tesco shop and sent him to the local co op! I arrived home at 9.25pm and he remembered about it so we went to Tesco but it was too late they'd returned it all!!

Thennnnn this morning I was looking for my purse to go to primark for some black clothes to wear to a funeral as I don't ever wear black. I've lost my purse!!!

Thanks for buggy info fuzzy I'll check it out online.

My skins really dry and itchy particularly on my back?! Got hubby to rub coconut oil on it last night.

Badger my skin is starting to get quite dry as well. But it's hard to know how much of that is just cold weather!

Anyone had their 25 week appointment yet? Looks like DH is going to be travelling again and will miss it (he missed the 16 week) and trying to reassure him that it will be ok.

Yes cinnamon another great stat - 99 days to go - double digit day - for us, bright, sal and teainbed

off to midwife appointment with pee in pot in handbag, report back later :)

MrsJW the only appointment my DH has made it to so far is the dating scan, he's been working away for the others and will be for the next one.

I have dry skin anyways but its been terrible during pregnancy right from the start! Especially my scalp which is a bit embarrassing at times.

mrsJ DH hasn't been to any of my appts,just the scans. I don't think he is planning to come to any with me.

DH won't be coming to any of mine either apart from the scans. He only did last time when things got scary.

MrsJW DH has come to the first MW appt and both scans, he hasn't been able to make any of the other MW appointments, and would probably have been a bit surplus to requirements if he had, only thing I felt he missed was hearing the heartbeat, so I recorded it for him at the first appt I heard it, but didn't bother at this one.

Less dry skin, more ridiculously dry lips.... definitely a pregnancy thing.... yipeee!!

Nurse I'm trying not to laugh because I know I'll have days like yours to come but the back and forth to Tesco is quite funny

DH hasn't been to any of my midwife appointments only the two scans, really not missing anything.... Have my 24 week appointment tomorrow, think they get more regular from now.

For those of you like me who haven't bought anything yet and are on number 1... I got an email from Mothercare today about their expectant parent events, running in stores from 20th Feb - 3rd March... I was sold on the gift bag for every mum-to-be Might learn something, might be more bamboozelling

Rise my lips are terrible too! I sort of assumed it was the weather - they were quite bad a couple of years ago at this time of year, and I'm terrible at looking after them, but maybe it is a pregnancy thing.

We've just signed up for the mothercare thing too. DH may struggle to make it, but I was convinced by the gift bag!

DH had planned to come to all our appointments, but work keeps getting in the way. I do like to go together, but he travels so much it's not always possible.

I'm another one with dry chapped lips, I had assumed it was either the weather or the cold I've picked up... maybe it's a combination of those 2 and pregnancy!

My lips are reeeaaally chapped but I'd assumed it was a combination of the weather and the fact that I keep sticking my tongue out in concentration when I'm walking 🙈

blossom why do they think your placenta is unlikely to move? Is it totally covering your cervix? 28 weeks seems early for a re-scan. Mine is low too and they booked me in for a scan at 36 weeks. I persuaded the consultant to change it to 32 but she wrote down that it was for a growth scan because she said the sonographer would say it too early for a placenta scan at 32! I'm desperate to know if mine is moving too.

Badger no, I haven't had a home birth before. I was in hospital last time.

Ha DH would have a fit if he though he was expected at all the appointments! He went to one of the four scans I've had so far. Was at hospital antenatal clinic this afternoon, its two weekly at the moment but will be weekly from 30 weeks!

Another one with really chapped lips!! What's that all about?!? I'm taking omega 3 oils too so maybe I'll up the dose.

Having an emotional day today sometimes these preggo hormones make things more difficult! Looking forward to a new day tomorrow.

I'm sure it will fox. I've heard that most do. I quite fancy a home birth but worry about whether DD would understand what was going on (she will stay at home with my sister regardless of where I give birth) and it was so quick last time Im concerned the midwife may not make it last time. I did have a good experience in hospital last time, it just wasn't the calm water birth I had imagined!

I'm probably rooting for a home birth this time too although I've not yet decided definitively. I was down for one last time but then they started giving me grief about going over 42 weeks (I wasn't, the scan date was wrong) and I agreed to go to MLU. Then things got interesting. Anyway.... I'm booked in for a hypnobirthing course (I used the CDs last time, but was so fed up when the midwives made me transfer in labour I didn't keep up with it after then, so hoping a course will be better) and have requested my notes from last labour / birth and we'll see where I end up from here. I'm also toying with the idea of a doula, as I know OH found it very hard to be with me in labour - he'll be there this time too, but I might want someone a bit less emotionally involved willing to fight my corner (as if my labour is anything like last time I didn't want to talk to the midwives at all and just wanted them to leave me alone - and as a result agreed to things I wouldn't have done had I not been in labour). The hypnobirthing teacher does do doula work, so if I get on with her I might see if she has availability.

My hypnobirthing course is really good savage and has been hugely helpful in giving DH the confidence to know how to support me in labour. Totally know what you mean about agreeing to things you wouldn't normally. For me it was that I couldn't remember to ask for the things I wanted.

Esme one of the reasons for a planned home birth is so that the midwife can get to you rather than you having to try dash to hospital. How old is DD? I'm on a FB group about home birth and often those with children report going into labour once kids are asleep / out the house and labour/birth happens entirely without the kids realising (conversely other kids love being involved in the whole thing and you could, eg, tell DD that you'll be mooing or whatever as part of getting the baby out and practise mooing together beforehand so she's not shocked it's a bit noisy, although I think if my DS started mooing while I was in labour I'd not find it very funny!)

We'll need to start telling DS what's going on, but tbh I think if we put a DVD on for him he'd not even notice! He has already asked how the baby comes out, but I evaded the question as I need to then have my full ducks in a row about where babies come from and why certain bits are private (I can tell - I'll say baby comes out of mommy's vagina, he'll say what's a vagina, I'll need to show him a picture, he'll want to see my vagina, I'll have to explain that some bits are private, he'll ask why... he'll then mull over why he doesn't have a vagina and why he has a penis, and then he'll ask what his penis is for....). He's perfectly happy there's a baby in my tummy and that it's in water and it gets its food from me so doesn't need to breathe (he twigged this was an issue as it was in the water!) or eat etc, and he remembers everything you tell him.

I knew what I wanted but just didn't want to talk to anyone except OH and I think even he struggled to get anything out of me. I know that sounds completely and utterly ridiculous now. (Next time I have a somewhat more detailed birth plan and I think part of that will be that midwife requests etc come through OH, and they will need a valid reason for any intervention.)

I was completely with it mentally though (aside from the time compression thing that happens) - I remember when they shoved the consent form under my nose for the epidural / theater in the end (probably 30 hours of labour in) after having rattled through the potential complications and I was thinking "if this is how you get informed consent, you're having a laugh". (I'd done my pre-reading so I knew all of the issues they'd mentioned, but if I hadn't I'd not have had the foggiest what I was signing up to.)

Yep,chapped lips too!