June 2019 - Part 6!

[Kescilly]

Welcome to the middle of the second trimester, ladies! Apologies if anyone has been left off the list!

Kescilly, 1st baby, due May 29th

rollerskaterdata, 2nd baby, due 30th May

Sassehmonsta, 2nd baby, due 31st May

Torsz, 1st baby, due 31st May

PeachPotato, DC2, due 2nd June

Fee1234, 1st baby, due 3rd June

Stellarfox, 1st baby, due 4th June

Fiona1619, DC2, due 4th June

Ksjourney, DC2, due 5th June

Mummytomollyandbean, due 6th June

MadeInCornwallx3, DC 3, due 7th June

SK17, DC1, due 7th June

ExcitedMama, DC2, due 8th June

Fabuluce, DC2, due 9th June

Silversister, DC1, due 9th June

Chocomalt, DC2, due 9th June

annihall, DC1, due 10th June

lstef, DC1+2!, due 10th June

Bimbabo, 1st baby, due 11th June

Diamondbutterfy, DC3, due 11th June

Heebyjeeby99, DC1, due 11th June

CrazyCowLady, DC1, due 11th June

KoalasAteMyHomework, DC2, due 12th June

Toasterstrudle, DC2, due 13th June

Napssavelives, dc3, due 14th June

Kimbishop86, dc2, due 14th June

Toomanyflatwhites, dc2, due 14th June

Blondcat, dc1, due 14th June

emily1511, 1st baby, DD 16th June

hexagon01, DC2, due 16th June

R4ch4el12, 1st baby, due 17th June

HoneyPea, 1st baby, due 18th June

2countries1bump, 1st baby (girl), due 19th June

Spargle, 1st baby, due 19th June

Curlypasta, dc3, due 20th June

Holly257, DC3, due 21st June

WeeBean, 1st baby, due 21st June

Bigonesmallone3, DC3, due 22nd June

Pigriver, DC2, due 22nd June

mindthechaos, DC3, due 24th June

Socktastic, DC2, due 24th June

Reastie, DC2, due 24th June

thedocisin, DC2, due 24th June

MauisLeftNipple, DC4, due 24th June

LauralovesLuke, DC1, due 25th June

Coastergirl, 2nd baby, due 26th June.

JBCG 1st baby, due 28th June

Good luck LauralovesLuke

I made a quilt for my first baby so I’d better make one for this one!! My advice is to make it a bit bigger than you think, his is 90cm by 150cm (I think, I could check!) and it means it’s still big enough for him to use as a summer quilt now he’s 5!

I'm working on a nursery mobile @kescilly as I have a few sheep and consequently lots of fleeces wrapped up in paper bags waiting for me to get round to doing something with them I like needle felting so hoping to have a bit more time to mess about doing it in the run up to June as I ease off doing the manual work....when there'll be more fleeces because we'll have just sheared again #oops

Hope all goes well @lauralovesluke !

I had a rough weekend with indigestion reading to sickness and insomnia so feeling like a zombie today. Good job I've not got many lessons today so hopefully can bumble along- it's still easier to be in than set cover work so I can't be feeling that bad

Good luck for your scan today @LauralovesLuke

Got a question regarding maternity leave and pay. I know I have to agree to a start date etc with my employer by the end of Feb, but is that also the date he has to hand in the forms by?
The reason I'm asking is that he's quite unreliable with things like that, and I will have to keep chasing him up to sign all the legal bits otherwise he just won't do it. I'm just worried that if he misses a deadline or something I won't get my pay agreed... or is it just important I have proof that I told him on time and he can take as long as he wants?

I have had enough, and am so fed up today. Fuck you gestational diabetes, and fuck you blood sugars. Now on 4 units of fast acting insulin 15 mins before dinner, 12 units of slow acting at bedtime, and 1g metformin with my dinner itself. I'M SO FED UP. I also just cried down the phone to the diabetes nurse when she called and she sent me hugs, which was nice. BUT ARGH.

Re: crafting, I made DD a blanket from squares that me and some friends made for her (each friend did a few 6inch squares and I joined them and did pretty stuff with them). Each year I try and add to it somehow, so it grows with her. I kinda failed this year to add much, but she loves it and has asked me to do the same for her little brother. I have found a 10inch centre square and just need to ask for 6inch squares as input from friends/family and actually do something with it.

Thanks to those for positive info on Strep B, feeling a bit better about it all today.

Could someone let me know how I join the FB group?

Thanks!

Send me a private message I guess for the FB group, and I shall have a go at adding people! It didn't work last time but then there were FB issues so who the hell knows :)

@SassehMonsta that sounds utterly miserable on the GD front, I'm not surprised you're fed up. Does it instantly make you want to eat All The Things? It totally would with me. I've got to book in for for my GD Test and the thought of it makes me want to consume my body weight in sugary shit. Ridiculous but true.

I'm very impressed with your crafting skills. That sounds amazing and so wonderful for your children to keep.

Thanks @Fabuluce. Yes, I want to eat all the custard filled doughnuts, ever. And all the roast potatoes, the white bread, and the starchy carby goodness of pasta. I can have a small amount of each, but never enough to curb my cravings for them! I know the feeling - tbh, if I had thought about the GTT more last pregnancy, I wouldn't have spent a week away with DH eating desserts constantly....!

@SassehMonsta thanks, will do!

I crocheted a blanket for ds and have started a new one for this baby. DS was a winter baby so I made loads of hats and things but doubt we’ll need any for a while.
I also like to sew so may make some harem joggers or dungarees even though we have enough clothes!

Thanks all - it went well inasmuch as the baby is healthy - as other people have experienced, the baby was extremely wriggly (despite me rocking in the waiting room like a pillock hoping s/he would go to sleep!) and every time the sonographer moved the wand, the baby was moving away like it was a game of hide and seek - the little monkey!

We don't know whether the baby is a boy or a girl, but the measurements for the femur were at the higher end of average and as my DH is over 6' we're thinking boy - anyone with a second baby did you predict the gender of your first based on measurements??

I'm also very impressed with the crafting! And I hope that those with GD you are able to get the support/help you need for a healthy baby xxx

@SassehMonsta gestational diabetes sounds awful, poor you!

@LauralovesLuke wiggly babies are great but a nightmare to take a picture of! Mine kept on racing away from the scanner too. I have to have weekly dopplers at the GP surgery and this baby wriggles away every time - we can hear the baby wriggling but getting it to stay still long enough to hear the heartbeat properly is a whole other ballgame.

Well, I needed a rest but not sure this was the way to go about it! My little boy has chicken pox. Poor little dude is covered. So we are snuggled on the sofa which is lovely, but means I won't get paid. From what I've read, baby is safe because I had it when I was little so I have immunity.

So much sympathy to those with GD. I had it last time. My 16 week test was clear this time but have to be tested again at 28 weeks. Dreading having it!

I still don't feel particularly pregnant. Only getting little bits of movement. Having just said that, my little boy is laid with his head on my tummy now and I'm feeling much stronger kicks right under his head!

Not good about the CP @coastergirl but thanks for putting my mind at rest re movements; my bump has “shrunk” again and I don’t get a lot of movements, I feel “swoop” and “tickle” but not jabs or definitive movements; have had those before but only now and again.

My bump is still different sizes throughout the day!

Today I am going through the first batch of applications for my maternity cover and it is soul crushing. Everyone is either vastly overqualified which makes me feel bad for them, or incapable of applying for a job properly. I thought it was basic common knowledge to tailor your cover letter and CV to the job you are applying to?? Apparently not...

Has anyone experience mild cramping recently? I was quite uncomfortable sleeping last night and felt a bit crampy this morning and then it went away once
I got up but feeling it a bit again now. I did try to ring the midwife but I’ve left it too late! Did have sex last night so I don’t know if it could have anything to do with that!? I’m 24 weeks today

@stellarfox could it be Braxton Hicks contractions, or round ligament pain? Does your bump feel really tight when it happens? Deffo no harm in checking with your midwife but alongside no other symptoms I would say that sounds quite normal. Happens to me sometimes too

@stellarfox I had lower back cramping last week felt like period pains. Rang midwife who said to take paracetamol which made it go away, she said if it was anything to worry about then paracetamol wouldn't have taken the pain away. Rested for a day after and haven't had it return since then

Posting here as have nobody to tell. The baby has hiccups!

Napssavelives that's lovely. It always made me smile when ds got them before birth, he had them several times a day towards the end. I think it must have been 30+ weeks before I felt any though, and none yet here this time.

Thanks both! I woke up with it again this morning so will ring the midwife. Better to be on the safe side! Midwife is always first point of call with these things is that right? I’ve had a bit of trouble getting through before so hope they pick up today. @rollerskaterdata hopefully it’s round ligament pain but my bump generally feels quite hard and stretched so I don’t know. @fee1234 hopefully I’ll get the same advice!

@napssavelives that’s lovely! Can’t wait to feel hiccups 😊