Due April 2023 💕 into the second trimester 🍂🎇

[Cuppasoupmonster]

Welcome back ladies. Here we are, second trimester 🥰

@Tubbytele DD is 3.5, I reckon if we let her she'd want to sleep in our bed into she's about 10! Unfortunately we only have a double bed, and no spare bed, so we all squish in together. It's lovely and cosy sometimes but annoying at other times! Cosleeping is the best though, I wouldn't have it any other way.

How old is your DS? He might transition to his new room really well, DD did she loved it, she just wakes up in the night and misses us I think! She was a total boob monster too but having DH do bedtime in her new room meant she didn't ask for it before bed any more and switched to having it when she woke up.

@Tubbytele you can cosleep with both, just need to have baby and toddler on either side of you (or toddler on dad's side!) But yes getting him used to his own room is a good idea, do you have a floor bed? His helped the transition for DD. DH still often sleeps with her in her room ATM, and we have gone back and forth with cosleeping a bit since she started in there a few months ago, but I'm fine with this - I like to think of it as musical beds 😂 we have a super king too so hoping if we do all need to cosleep at times it won't be too uncomfortable haha.

Also just wanted to mention I'm also a fan of the second baby book by Sarah Ockwell Smith (I know someone else mentioned a while back). I've read most of it. Really good tips!

@ancienthouse I love cosleeping too! It was the only way we all ended up getting some decent sleep and since then haven't looked back. DS turned 2 at the end of last month. Really glad to hear that the transition worked well for you and DD, hoping it's the same for us!

@Skylark1990 thanks for the book recommendation, will check it out. We've actually been looking at floor beds. We had to put these toddler barriers around the main bed so DS doesn't fall out the bed and he loves using those sides to rock himself as they have slight flexibility. They wouldn't work with a floor bed but definitely looking at all the possible options. We and the other health professionals involved with DS suspect he has high functioning autism so the rocking on the barriers is a massive comfort to him so thinking whether it's in his best interests or not to keep or take it away. I think we will be doing a lot musical beds too 😂

@Skylark1990 Ooh thanks for the recommendation, I was looking at getting that book. I like a lot of what Sarah Ockwell Smith says.

My favourite parenting book I've read is Phillipa Perry's The Book You Wish
Your Parents Had Read, it's so good. It helped me not just with parenting but relationships in general! It makes so much sense.

Good evening ladies!

scan day! hooray!

After my appointment accidentally being cancelled, I was fitted in finally today as I’m away for 5 weeks. They didn’t book me a scan until 14+3, the cut off for chromosome testing is 14.1. I have no idea why I didn’t have a 12 week app, especially when I’m 42.

thankfully I’d gone private with my scan being so far along, but otherwise they would have taken a persons opportunity away to have their baby checked when considered higher risk. It’s been a shocking system and support network I’m sorry to say, and I’ll find a positive anywhere usually.

aside from that, what a glorious day of wonderful wriggly baby visuals. They didn’t do her heartbeat which surprised me but we saw lots of her getting her groove on in there. She’s definitely my child. She can move more that her father already 😁

@Pommy1 so glad they managed to see you in the end and you got to see baby!

@Cuppasoupmonster I had to have 2 or 3 anti d injections last time as it was before they checked baby's blood group in pregnancy, and I have to agree that it takes a long time to go in (also not looked at the syringe!) and it does sting, so just be prepared for that. It's not horrendous, but it does sting enough to be glad I don't need it this pregnancy.

@Pommy1 lovely scan pic and glad to hear that you were seen.

@Pommy1 that's a lovely scan photo! xx

Hi all! I am due 24 April. Can I ask a question about the blood test they did for Downs/Edwards/Pataus? So, they took my bloods at the dating scan, but on the letter i received with the results, it said I should have had a nuchal translucency (NT) scan, as well. I have been trying to get in touch with the miwives for the past week and a half but the number they gave me doesn't work, and they don't respond to my emails. I am wondering if they perhaps missed my NT scan by mistake? The dating scan is all I have had.

Let me know if any of you others have had an NT scan or if you're like me and only had a dating scan.

@Quinny2288 was your dating scan at 12 weeks? That's the scan where they measure the nuchal translucency. Do you have a copy of the report from that scan, does it have a NT measurement on it?
Perhaps they couldn't get a measurement but they should have mentioned it at the time as it's pretty important!

Hello! Yes, I had it at 11 weeks and 5 days. I just had a look at the results and it does in fact have an NT! Thank you for advising me where to look, that has really settled me. <3

@Pommy1 congratulations! Lovely scan photo 🎀💖

@Pommy1 so glad they finally saw you

@Pommy1 glad you got your scan and lovely picture 🥰

@Pommy1 gorgeous scan pic! 😍

@Pommy1 lovely scan photo, congrats!

Sorry if it's already been mentioned (I've had a few days away from computers, trying to catch up!) but is anybody else feeling baby movements and/or round ligament pain? I've had 3 occasions of a light fluttery feeling in the past week and the MW has said this will be baby (although early as is first baby and am only 16 weeks), today I've been having what I can only describe as really quick stitch/stab type feelings? I googled and the first thing to come up was round ligament pain, but I don't feel it's painful enough to be that and it's realllly quick, and feels in a similar place to where I felt the fluttering. Could it be baby moving? Trying to stop myself panicking that it's a bad thing!

@alwaysseeingstars I've had what I think is round ligament pain, it stopped me in my tracks yesterday whilst I was walking and was sudden! It only lasted a second but was intense. has only happened once.

Omd I think I just felt a weird flutter, didn’t feel like my usual weird bowel movements.. I’m 17+2 not sure if it’s a bit early

@Chocolat I think I felt movement first time round about then, I wouldn't say it's too early. By 20 week scan you could see movement from the outside. @alwaysseeingstars I'm getting stabby / stitch type pain occasionally, usually on standing up and I take it to be round ligament pain. It's also not as painful as it could be, hurts a bit but not terrible

@MamaMenna @Biscuitsplease thanks ladies! I'll put it down to round ligament pain and stop stressing 😂

@alwaysseeingstars that’s exactly how I’d describe a pain I get and I think it’s round ligament pain. Sometimes can be really sharp but sometimes less so, seems to very.

Omg @Chocolat how exciting!! Can’t wait to feel him move 💕

@AliceinSlumberland thank you, that's reassuring! Think I'm just desperate to feel baby move again now as I've had the 'fluttering' feeling 3 times but they are very spread out. Can't wait to get some routine to movements (then have something else to stress over 😂)

@alwaysseeingstars im also getting round ligament pain, has been happening since pretty early on. Really sharp pains that take my breath away if I move/cough. They can be quite severe!

@MamaMenna ah that’s so nice to hear!

@AliceinSlumberland i think things start to feel that much more real when you feel movements 🥰

Gender scan for me tonight!! So excited but also very very nervous, anyone else get nerves before a scan? Have a feeling it will be like this until baby is here ✨