Feb 2020 Bus Pt 4

[Juno231]

For the small group of ladies still here from the original February bus from 2020.

Maybe 2022 is when we finally get our babies?

@MimiArm
@paintfairy
@MrsTwentyNine

@Decaffe Aw thank you very much ☺️ You couldn't make it up!

I know, I kept gasping all the way through then when @Juno231 posted I proper !!

@paintfairy good luck at gender scan!!! Let us know when you find out 💙💖

@MrsTwentyNine its been moved to tomorrow! They had no staff. 🙄 But I'll let you know!

@Decaffe thank you! We certainly had to wait a long time but can't believe we all made it in the end and within weeks of one another!

@paintfairy can't wait to hear what you're having!

Going to a friend's today who had two kids (one of each) - she's planning on giving me a lot of her baby stuff so I'm super excited 😍

Ah @Decaffe how sweet of you!

@paintfairy oh how annoying but nvm one more day!

It's a girl! 💖

Really surprised. But now we have 2 of each on here! 😁

Yaaaayy! I'm so excited for you!!! congratulations!

Yesss just like you predicted we have 2 girls and 2 boys 💖💖💙💙

@MrsTwentyNine let's hope they are all right! I think I'll still be wary of buying too much girl stuff, just in case. 🤣

How are we all doing lovely ladies ? I'm 24+1 so you @paintfairy and @MimiArm you must be around 20 ? Have you both felt any movement yet? 😄

@Juno231 how is second trimester so far ?

My bump has popped over the last week and I finally look "pregnant" and not just fat haha. I mean I probably look pregnant AND fat but I'll take that 😂

@MrsTwentyNine Hey! All good here thanks. I'm 19 weeks now and have my 20 week scan on Tuesday of next week. Going for flu/whooping cough jabs tomorrow.

I think I've started to feel movement (I get random short shopping pains that comes in a series. I've been monitoring them this past few days and fairly sure it's baby doing it. I've an anterior placenta though which makes it harder to feel apparently!

Hahaha - I feel your pain. I look pregnant AND fat too. I'm thinking that by the time I get to 30 odd weeks I will be massive and very fat looking.

So, I found some pregnancy workout videos on YouTube and started yesterday. I do the 10 mins upper body workout before work and the 10 mins lower body workout in the evening. I figure that it I could at least tone my arms, I won't look so bad come summer when I'm wearing summery tops!

How are you feeling? Are you feeling lots of movements now?

@MrsTwentyNine shooting pains not shopping pains 😂😂😂

@MrsTwentyNine 18+4 over here and my 20 week scan is next Friday.

I think I look pregnant in tight things but yeah otherwise just fat. 🤣 I've felt odd movements but it took me a while to clock what it was as it's so slight. I expected greater things. 🤭 I imagine when it is a lot, I'll be cursing. I permanently also feel I need to wee. But not much else to report really. Other than it still seems bizarre this is even happening.

Ahh how exciting @paintfairy @MimiArm !
My movements have increased and it's obvious now but it also means I have bouts of anxiety when he is relaxing and I don't feel anything for a few hours!! I would do anything to fast forward the next 16 weeks!!
@paintfairy I know what you mean about them being subtle ...don't worry it gets more obvious haha. I'm waiting to see if I can tell when he flips over etc but not yet

Good luck with your 20 week scans! It's so much more detailed!

Exercise seems like a great plan @MimiArm ...something I haven't done in a very long time!! 😩

@MrsTwentyNine 16+1 today and all good! Still enjoying an easy pregnancy so far. I have my 16 week appointment at 17 weeks but not got my 20 week scan until 22 weeks, so I've snuck another private scan in on the 5th of march as I couldn't wait that long! Would have been 9 weeks between NHS scans.

Am in the process of chasing of chasing my midwife as I should have had an obstetrics appointment to measure my cervix but they've forgotten about it 😅.

Otherwise no bump yet! Pretty sure I felt two pops the other week that couldn't have been anything other than the baby but haven't felt anything since. I think I have an anterior placenta so feeling movements is probably still quite a few weeks off. Do show us a bump pic if you can/want!

@MimiArm I'm impressed you're exercising and good idea about the arms! I keep seeing all these pretty summer dresses but would hate to have my arms out. I've not been exercising at all but did recently join a pregnancy yoga class which has been great so far.

@MrsTwentyNine @Juno231 @paintfairy

Bump-date lol

Ahh gorgeous bump @MimiArm !!! How do you feel?

@Juno231 hope you managed to chase the midwife! Any more pops? Sorry thought I'd replied to your message

@MrsTwentyNine Hey! I feel ok. I just have a sore lower back all the time and nerve pain shooting down but I found a few weeks exercises to help (and they tray do help!).

I overdid it today though as gutted out the storage cupboard upstairs and the bedrooms and now I'm crippled!

How are you getting on?

@MimiArm I had to take one without my head. 🤣 This is today. Its funny as you can't really see it from the front? I can't believe how fast its going either? 21+2 now. Aaarrrgghhh. I'm starting to hurt also. Hips and thighs do and if I've walked its worse! After my dog walk Sunday my knee was also really hurting. 🙄
I'm definitely feeling the baby move more now though. Proper obvious ones and I can tell its that. I can't decide if I like it or not. 🤣
@MrsTwentyNine All OK with you?

@MimiArm ah I didn't see that you'd written on here!

I've attached my bump from last week. Am 18+5 now - still no movement felt @MrsTwentyNine though! Last week was when I popped btw, before then I could quite comfortably wear my regular jeans as I didn't really have a bump.

Nothing exciting going on. I've got cervix scans every two weeks which is annoying as the length seems to be fine but they can't dismiss me unless they find my hospital records from my 2017 LLETZ procedure. I have a feeling they just haven't bothered to request it formally?

@mrstwentynine how far along are you now?

When is everyone thinking of starting their mat leave?

@paintfairy Nice bump pic 😁 I feel your pain (literally). I've been struggling with the dog walking too as it makes it worse.

I'm envious of your obvious movements! Hoping mine are obvious soon!

@Juno231 You have definitely popped! What is an LLETZ procedure? I'm lost on why the cervix scans (no one has ever mentioned one to me before or performed one).

Gorgeous bumps ladies!! @MimiArm @Juno231 @paintfairy you've all popped!

Mine popped late at around week 23/24 I think. I'm doing good. I'm 27 weeks today 🤞🏽 13 weeks to go...and I'm hopefully starting mat leave end of May..how about you all ?

I didn't feel movements till week 20 and they only got very very pronounced in the last week as I can feel him roll (I think it's a roll) as you feel it in different places...crazy!! He doesn't have a strict pattern. I've already been to triage once because I panicked last week at work I couldn't feel him all day - oh yes, I've already got to that stage too haha!

Got my OGTT next week which I'm worried about as I've gained 10kg already and eating carbs like there is no tomorrow!!

Anyone thinking of doing hypnobirthing? I've just started the book from positive birth company. I've also signed up for free classes by Honest Midwife and Baby academy! It's al becoming very real!!

@Juno231 I have no idea when I'll start maternity leave. The day before the baby comes? 🤣🤷‍♀️
@MimiArm They only do scans if there's some indication of a previous problem. Or if you go in with an issue then maybe they do. You'd hope.
Yeah the dog walking! God. You think you can just carry on as normal but it really doesn't work like that? I'm not even that fat! But everything is suddenly a struggle. I feel like I've ridden 20 horses a day or something. Its difficult! Dread to think what we'll be like later.
@MrsTwentyNine what's OGTT? Someone mentioned hypnobirthing to me but I've not heavily looked into it. I've signed up for a generic antenatal class though that covers a bit of that, yoga, and several other things. Starts next month. I'll look up the free classes.

@MimiArm LLETZ is the procedure used after a bad pap smear. I had the highest level of dodgy cells found so presumably the lobbed a fair chunk of my cervix off to stop me from getting cervical cancer. Scan showed my cervix length is fine but I'm not being discharged from obstetrics led care over a tick box exercise which cheeses me off. Especially as you're then not meant to travel but I have a 2 week holiday planned end of April I'm planning on taking regardless if my cervix length continues to be good.

@paintfairy OGTT is the glucose test for gestational diabetes. Not sure who gets it or why though!

@MrsTwentyNine funnily enough I think I felt baby last night! there was a lot of muscle twitching in one specific part of my abdomen so I reckon I mustve been getting little kicks. Glad your visit to triage was a false alarm though! So if I'm reading your dates right, you're starting mat leave two weeks before due date?

Not sure when I'll start mine. I think I'll try and leave until the due date but maybe take a couple of days annual leave ahead of it just to wind down a bit.

Oh and yes to hypnoborthing! I actually got the positive birth company pack during the mother's day sale last year (worth waiting for perhaps paintfairy?). Annoyingly I think it expires after a year so I need to remember to download all the stuff before the end of this month as I've yet to look at any of it.

Anyone signed up for any antenatal classes? Mine start end of May!

@Juno231 mine starts 12 April. Its a 6 week block but there's another after that, if I wanted to carry on. They also do proper antenatal classes you take your DH to. They are more expensive and again, a block. But on a day DH does something else, typically. I'm not sure we need that though. They do an afternoon workshop that you can do on a Sunday, as a one off, so if I felt we needed to go then we could do that? My nhs ones are all online (DH can join in those).