Good luck everyone with scans today! Thinking of you.
Can't believe so many ladies going on maternity leave - must be so exciting even if it still feels a bit unreal! I hope you all have your phones at the ready for live updates because obviously telling us all about it will be the first thing on your mind while you're in labour!
My DH was expressing concern that I'd go 'a bit mad' at home worrying about the baby, if I take 4 weeks mat leave which is what I'd like to do. He said, but what are you going to DO all that time?! Personally I think I'll manage...garden impressed with your furniture moving skills but maybe you should stop lifting sofas at this point and just sit on them a la janie?
I'm exactly the same though - started moving a small v heavy concrete bench in our patio a few weeks ago and it was only halfway through that I thought, hmm, perhaps this wasn't the best plan.
Feeling much more chipper today as midwife has been for appt this morning and I heard heartbeat so feeling much more convinced that there's definitely a baby in there! Apparently all is well. Had been losing faith over last few weeks. rainbow I've been having a whole range of odd aches and pains - stabby, shooting pains low down, pains like someone is tugging on a string, mild period type pains, and when I've sneezed/laughed a couple of times I've had shooting pains all across my lower stomach - all quite sharp when they last but very brief and not that frequent - and asked the midwife about them, and she said all totally normal, no need to worry unless there's bleeding, it's the ligaments stretching and your insides rearranging themselves - typical of the second trimester (I'm 17+5 weeks) as the uterus moves from the pelvis up into the abdomen. So this is a very long winded way of saying it's totally nothing to worry about! (Although I had of course been worrying about it, am stopping that particular anxiety now).
Hope all is well with everyone and sorry for epic post x