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

@LauraLovesLuke you can put in your birth plan that you want to avoid forceps if at all possible but as hexagon said if baby is too low and past the point where a c-section is safe and they have to get them out because of heart rate dropping or something then they’ll do whatever they need to. I’m fresh from my VBAC class today and this came up.

That being said with my first I got to fully dilated, pushed for an hour, then they didn’t want to let me keep going as he wasn’t coming out & my temp went up so I was taken to theatre and they attempted forceps and then did a c-section.

Thanks Kescilly. I’ve had my 20 week scan and a repeat two weeks later as she was being a bit of a monkey and they didn’t see the whole spine first go. She was very cooperative on the second to though and it was nice to get an extra peek!

I’ve got my B1 form after midwife appointment today. Heard the wee heartbeat for the first time also. Much excitement.

I may be hoping for too much but as my section is planned for the Monday I’m aiming for stopping work on the Friday before. My job involves walking around the wards and seeing specificate patients so feel that if it takes me longer to do then that’s fine. I also believe that the exercise of walking daily will do me good. Added advantage is if I do go into labour it’s only a short walk to the labour ward 🤣 might be crazy though??!! xxx

When I had my csection DS was so low down that they had to push him back up from the business end while pulling him out the sun roof. He had quite a ridge in his forehead where he'd been wedged for ages.

No cold here but bunged up enough to snore delightfully in the night. Oh the glamour. Hips are starting to ache now though. Only another 19 weeks to go of ache!

@Bimbabo There's nothing wrong with working up to your date per se but your might appreciate the rest before the baby comes. It's so astoundingly full on when the baby arrives and is the only time IMHO when a person has major surgery that you get no proper recovery time!

@Kescilly please can you add me?

Age: 38 (today is my birthday!)
Predicted Sex if baby: Girl nr 3
Location : London

Due date: 6 June

Terrifying 20 week scan where sonographer told us she thought there was a hole in baby's heart. She called her colleague and then head of department, neither agreed but was sent the next week to fetal med consultant plus fetal cardiologist.

Everything totally healthy and fine! A nerve wrecking experience and does put things into perspective.

@fee I am stopping at 30 weeks (taking my full 6 weeks annual leave first then start mat pay at 36w) - I have PGP already, carrying twins and am a support worker which involves bending down and going up and down stairs a lot - I might not even make it to 30 weeks if I can't do my job safely.

ﹰHonestly ﹰI can't wait to finish. I was off sick Nov and Dec and theyve given me sick pay this month, which is in my qualifying period for mat pay and as I only work part time its taken me under the earnings limit for smp this month. If Feb isnt enough to average it out I may be applying for maternity allowance even though I have worked my full hours in January. Fucking joke! So now I'm back to worrying about money but it will just have to work out somehow.

@fee I’m working up until two weeks before the due date because I want to maximise the time I’m off with baby. I do work an office job so not physically difficult, though I do have to do a fair bit of driving once a week. I think I’ll manage, but might work from home a bit more towards the end!

Happy birthday @madamdarkin !
My scan is on Monday. Quite nervous! I'm hoping to get to 38 weeks at work as shirt & easy commute plus minimal timetable as most of my classes will go on exam leave when I'm 36 weeks. We shall see! Not doing too bad with the health just a bit of eczema, indigestion and tiny nose bleeds, surely I can't keep having this amount of luck?!

Thinking about names! I’m waiting for a phone call from the midwife for blood results. Insanely itchy , so much so that I’m making myself bleed. They beed to rule out Obstetric Cholestasis. Ffs! 2019 has been shit so far

@Napssavelives fingers crossed for your results. I was tested for that multiple times last pregnancy. I was itching so much that I bled too. It was PUPPS with me. Not dangerous but highly unpleasant. I've read that it's very unlikely to reoccur.

We are struggling with names! He has two older boys called Jack and Callum, and I have a three year old Callum! We love Benjamin, but can't use it as initials would be BJ. It's so difficult!

Another planning on working up until 38 weeks (with annual leave for the final 2 weeks) to maximise time with baby. Low impact office job and I work from home a couple of days per week and will be straight on maternity allowance so can't really justify doing anything different ☺️

Although my family seem to have babies 2-3 weeks early so I may end up having to stop work earlier than that!

I think I’ll stop work at 36 weeks, I’m a nurse so job quite demanding

Happy birthday @madamdarkin! Hope you have a lovely day - enjoy lots of cake as you can't have the bubbly! I had a fetal cardiac scan too - it's a bit daunting having two specialists there but at least you walk away feeling like the baby's been really thoroughly looked at. What a relief it must be that there's no hole in the heart.

@Napssavelives sorry to hear you are itchy, you have my sympathy. I occasionally have an intensely awful heat rash that is enough to drive me loopy but at least I can take drugs then. Fingers crossed for you. Have you narrowed down any boys names? Want to share??

I really like Noah. Other names include Jude, Arthur and Joseph

I already have an Oscar And Elliot

Thanks to all re: info on forceps.

I work in education and so May half term at 37 weeks seems like a sensible place to stop! I was going to go back for a week, but what's the point.

@naps we also have Elliott as top choice! For both boy and girl!

Oh see @laura I'm the same but going to try to sneak that first week after half term as I'll have at most two hours of lessons a day with a gap in between due to exams...seems a shame to 'waste' a week mat leave. Although the idea of last day at work being 36 weeks (37 on paper obvs not chucking half term away) does appeal! Will have to see how we go I guess.

Hi @DinoMamasaurus, my previous birth was pretty much exactly that too! Except he was too high up to even try forceps so they went straight for the section. It’s weirdly nice to read someone else had the same experience??

Very happy birthday @madamdarkin.

Names wise I like Martha and my boyfriend likes Marnie so in my head she’s a little MarMar which hopefully won’t stick ha ha. We have a Harris already.

Anyone else starting to get unusual pregnancy side effects? As with my previous two my boobs now smell of crisps; salt and vinegar to be exact.

This charming aroma will now continue to whenever my milk supply ceases.

Does anyone else have unusual aromas or fragrant boobs?

Ps @madamdarkin and @fabuluce

Another one for the feral cardiac scan here, was in the chic environs of St George’s yesterday with its non functioning lifts (fun).

*fetal

Not feral

My sister calls it the fecal clinic 😂

Just had my first consultant appointment, which I have to have because I'm 40. It basically consisted of him showing me on his phone a chart of still birth rates related to maternal age, and then the affect of weeks gestation on that, and then him telling me I would be induced between 39 and 40 weeks.
So that was nice.
Does ANYONE actually see nice midwives/consultants/humans who seem to give an actual shit?? because thus far I've yet to see anyone during this pregnancy (oh - except the lovely trainee sonographer last week) who showed even the vaguest ability to interact in a friendly manner...

@toomanyflatwhites

Consultants? No. Bedside manners of a robot, zero milk of human kindness, mostly see you as an inconvenience to be “dealt with”.

Midwives? This time round I’m a big fan of my midwife team, first pregnancy they were good too.

@PaulHollywoodsSexGut well so far that's the consultant plus two midwives who've been like this. Last time I saw the same midwife for each appointment and she was lovely whereas this time I've seen a different one each time and neither were much cop. Glad you've been luckier this time round though!