Anyone else 30wks or simular?

[p555nat]

Hello,

Im new to this site, but enjoying reading all your views on... well everything?

This is my first baby and I'm 23, so lots of my friends are not 'in that zone' at the moment! Its nice to chat to some people in my position as friends are unsurprisingly disinterested in how exciting my baby doing summersalts is!!!

I had forgotton what my feet look like and am expanding by the day! Not had any major upsets, apart from liquid gaviscon being my best friend in the world and an unheathly craving for chocolate milk!!

Would love to hear from anyone else and how your pregnancy is going?

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hiya i am nearly 24 and this is my 3rd baby, and last i am 32 weeks gone due 23rd dec, when is your date, am hoping and praying i dont go on christmas day! lol xx xx

Hey there p555nat. Also 23 and expecting number 1 so I know how you feel about friends! Currentlt 31 weeks. Come over to antenatal and join us on the due in December thread! You'll be in good company regarding the chocolate milk, they havea Milo obsession.......

gosh a xmas baby! what a treat! Extra presents!!

Yeah,kinda hoping it comes before so I have my baby on christmas day, i'd hate to be huge and overdue, expecting something to happen all day!!
Onthe other hand my eldest daughter will be 5 on the 6th dec, so looks like december is going to be a busy month every year from now on in!!

Yes lots of my family have December and January birthdays! there is obviously something in the water around....April time???

So hows the pregnancy going?

Yeah ok, he was breech up to wed then turned which is good, was panicking about needing a section!! Only thing is the branston hicks are really strong, but my midwife is trying to locate me a tens machine, for these last weeks.
How are you this is your first right?? Have you been keeping ok, do you Know what your having? take care xx

yes, things going ok, its my first! Couldn't resist finding out, its a girl!! Bit uncomfortable, lots of streching type pains when I walk, but trying to keep as fit as pos. Burn out v quick but overall enjoying it! Bit nervous about the birth though but who isn't! Hormones all over the shop but hey, comes with the job I suppose! (smile)

Hi
I am 29wks and due in january[14th]. I am 28[nearly 29] and have a just 3yr old son and a daughter who will be one in dec..join the due in jan thread to chat to loads of others due the same time some on their first some on their 4th/5th.
take care

Hi p555nat.
I am just 30 weeks now - due Jan 5th. Couldn't agree more with you about the Gaviscon. I have 2 dessert spoonfuls every night. Also had a huge choccie milk craving in second trimester - seems to be quite a common one. I am in opposite position to you as age 35 so all my friends have kids already, but it's a mixed blessing as I get a bit of information overload. At 23 your body is in much better shape to be having a baby, for sure! Good luck with it all.

Hi p555nat! And Indith and Nemo! I'm 27 and expecting my second baby on 9th Dec. I had my son when I was 23 and was (and still am) the first of my friends even to think about babies - even now none of them are anywhere near!

We are very lucky that we can enjoy our babies in our twenties - well done! I can thoroughly recommend having a baby at 23, it's a shame so many people put it off because they are saving up, waiting for their career to kick off / settle down etc. 23 is the perfect age if you ask me.

Anyway the only downside to having my son at 23 was that I didn't have any friends with babies. Do you know any other pregnant people? (In real life I mean, not just on the internet!) I just used to take him to art galleries, parks etc on our own. I had a great time and didn't feel lonely back then but in retrospect it would have been great to make friends with babies the same age. I was just too pathetic and shy, and intimidated by the older mums. If I had had friends in same situation maybe I would have had more confidence. Anyway that's my advice - go to any mum & baby / antenatal things you can find, you're sure to find some that you like, even if you only go to others once or twice.

Sorry for the long rambling post. I'm in London - whereabouts are you guys? (Within meeting-up distance?) Ooh I've also been craving chocolate milk - so weird - never happened with my first child, I have been craving it all through this pregnancy, but until today had never really heard of anyone else craving it! In fact I need to get some right now!

Can't wait to have a little baby to cuddle, I'm getting really impatient now!
Take it easy,
Love from Indiemummy xxx

Hiya, yeah with you on the hormone thing, my poor hubby, one minute i'm being lovely to him the next biting his head off, bless him he's being so good with me, though maybe third time round he knows thats the easiest way to be!! LOL
I always worry about giving birth too, then just think, look how many women have managed it before us and come off ok, take care xx

Hi im 25 and expecting first baby on dec 10th. I also live in london and also have hardly any mates with kids or even thinkin about kids. Ive had some strange reactions to being pregnant one of my friends finds it really funny and another says its scary. I cant wait i do agree that early mid 20's is a good time for pregnancy more energy more chance of getting figure back. Im spending my time sitting around on maternity leave its great.

hey,

Its nice to hear so many people in the same boat. Indiemummy - completely agree with being a bit intimidated by older Mums! Went on a tour of the Lindo wing at the weekend and me and my partner were by far the youngest! Everyone was taking it very seriously and me and my partner rather enjoyed it and had a joke with the mid wife! Oh well I suppose every parent approaches things differently.

Also lots of pregnancy police out there (anyone else read the book 'best friends guide to pregnancy') Great book, very humorous. Anyway I digress, she has a section on the pregnancy police, people who have had babies that mean well but tend to bark at you about what to do and what not to do!! My view is pregnancy is meant to be a wonderful time, and I think we need to enjoy it as much as possible! Not panic because people keep telling us horror stories! That?s the main thing I have found a bit annoying, is everyone has an opinion! If its not them constantly saying 'oh aren't you getting big' its them scrunching there nose up at names you?d like to call your little darling, or especially girls with no babies saying how hideous labour is and that they would NEVER do it!!! None so funny as folk, or whatever the saying is!!

Rant over!

I was 23 when I had my first. I'm 27 now and 29 weeks pregnant with my 3rd. Dd is 5 in Feb, ds was 3 on sunday and this is another boy. I'm due on Jan 14th but will probably be induced at 37 weeks (christmas eve!) because my waters have been leaking since 22 weeks and I'm on bedrest, that's if I don't go before then. I've been getting stronger tightenings these past few days and am in two minds whether to call the hospital or not, probably will do later if they continue. This will be our last one, I'd love to have more but I don't have easy pregnancies and have had 5 miscarriages and couldn't go through any more.

hiya i'm 28 (29 tomorrow actually!), only at 19 weeks but thought i'd just post to say i agree about it being a great thing on the whole to have your kids in your 20s and i can't think why more people don't do it, i certainly wish my friends would, none of them are even close except for one! i have found it a bit lonely.. got pregnant at 24 and had dd when i was 25 - lived in london with her dad but we separated when she was 2. now pregnant with no 2, partner not around, it's tough but i'd never be without my child(ren) and i'm glad that i'll be young enough to still be young(ish) when they're teenagers!