More Christmas Cake! Pregnancy after loss (thread 3)

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Hi all! Just popping in to say hi!

I'm now 20+2 and I've got my anomaly scan on Wednesday. Super excited but also terrified!

Welcome @leamaria and congratulations your one strong lady 😀

Hope your remaining weeks are uneventful in the nicest possible way 😊

@leamaria Aww, is your DD excited to be having a little brother?

@CobaltRose Good luck for your anomaly, so exciting to see baby again!

@leamaria Ha! I can understand that! We're not finding out with little one, partly because legs have been crossed, partly because we're up for a surprise. I have two step sons though, one wants a sister, one wants a brother, so at least 50% will be happy 😂

Morning everyone... well 32 weeks.. Baby boy is head down, engaged, placenta has moved but not enough (yet) so planning for a c-section. Been having regular BH which a couple days ago were coming thick and fast at 2mins apart!! 🙈 everything has been bought for him, baby shower has been had, maternity leave started.... I think I'm officially able to say I'm ready, just want a couple more weeks to get the house all finished and cleaned and ready and then he can arrive!!! Can't believe I'm actually getting a baby for Xmas!!! 😍

Hope everyone else is doing ok!! Xx

Hey ladies, haven't posted much on this thread but im 26wks today after 2 mmcs and a stillbirth. Luckily everything is going great but my son was born at 27+2 so as you can imagine now is a difficult time.

Anyway, i have a quick question because i'm feeling guilty now. We moved house on Friday from a rental to our own home. Everything went as smoothly as can be but we had to clean the rental and as you can imagine it is easy for people to say don't do anything in your condition but the reality is if you don't who will?

So Sunday we spent 3 hours round the old house cleaning and getting the last of the bits and the same again last night. I have been scrubbing bathrooms, on hands a knees doing skirting boards and hoovering. My back is done in. My knees hurt and i generally just ache all over.

I decided to call in sick today. I am acheing. I am shattered and that is on top of the general worry about this baby bubbling under the surface 24/7. When i explained to my line manager they asked if i was using holiday so i felt like i had to justify myself by saying no i wouldn't feel like this if i wasn't pregnant. It is pregnancy related illness. Is that ok? Fwiw this is only my 2nd pregnancy related day off this whole pregnancy and i work full time.

Also,if it matters i used holiday for Friday and Monday and my intention today is to stay in my pj's all day on the sofa. Hopefully back to normal tomo.

@Rarfy you are entitled to general sick days, pregnancy or not. Don't feel guiltily. Tell your employer that you are not feeling able to work today and on speaking to triage they have advised you to take it easy today.
Hope you feel better soon. I'm having a pj day too! 😬

Thanks @cakelaur. I just needed some reassurance. They're actually a huge employer so can't see there being a problem it's just the way i explained why i wasn't coming in and then they asked if i was using holiday. Ridiculous really.

Are you ill?

@Rarfy good I'm glad they'll let you just relax. no I just stopped going to work! 😂 I am the boss of my own company, and I've been stepping back since I found out I was pregnant (due to me being completely petrified of stepping back and allowing other people to run it) and now my replacement has started and she's great, so I just chill in pjs most days. 😂 still got 8 weeks to go, but the time flies!!! I still run errands and do deliveries for the shop, but between that, cleaning, finishing off diy around the house, my days disappear! Occasionally like today I get to put my feet up. 😬

Oh wow that sounds pretty amazing @Cakelaur. Glad you are getting some rest today sounds like you are still pretty busy even without work. Ha i wouldn't say they are allowing me to relax but i've calmed down a little after my phone call.

I have 8 weeks left at work officially today but unfortunately it doesn't look like i will be able to wind down at all. Nothing in place at the moment anyway.

@Cakelaur I'm so excited for you! Seems like only yesterday you were TTC!

@Rarfy I hope the aches ease soon. Nothing like overdoing it though when it has to be done, what can you do?

I had my 20week scan today. All went well and we have a little girl cooking!

Easing a lot now thankfully. Was like period pains this morning - had me stressing. Like you say though, what can you do?

Aww a girl lovely! Congrats. I am having a girl too!

Congrats @HidCat 💕 That's lovely news.

Yay @Hidcat, congrats on your little girl😍
So I've had another scan today and the great news is, they are happy with the little dude and have changed me from weekly scans to fortnightly scans as they are not seeing anything untoward. So relieved! Also got a perscription of tablets that might help with all the acid reflux I've been having.

@CobaltRose96 Hope you have a lovely scan tomorrow x

@Athers666
Yay I am so pleased Hun

Oh no I think I'm
Getting this acid reflux to I wake up in the night and feel like my throat is on fire :(
Did you get these from the doctors?

@Alicejj8x Me too, it wakes me up at night and makes me puke and totally burns! Over the counter stuff hasn't worked so the dr has perscribed me something...I'll have a check and post the name lol

Hi ladies how are you all?

Ive had an eventful day. Went to see minor injuries nurse due to thinking I had thrush. She wasn't happy to see me and asked me to wait an hour for the doctor. So see the doctor and he sends a script to the pharmacy. Get to the pharmacy and it turns out he wrote it out wrong so I go back to the doc. He rewrites it and I take it back to pharmacy. Its still wrong. So they pharmacist goes back to doc to get it sorted ( at this point it's been 3 1/2 hours since my appointment) an other 1/2 hour I get my medication. So feeling like utter crap I decided to cheat on my dinner and buy ready meal (naughty I know) so while I'm queuing to pay I get a call from the midwife, (I saw her at 8+5 I'm now 11+4) to tell me my last sample says I have an infection and I need to go and she her tomorrow for treatment. Honestly I could 😢.

Ranitidine is what I've been prescribed. It's worked! I have no burning throat or throwing up tonight, whoop whoop!
Lilimum what a nightmare for you. So frustrating! I hope you feel better soon.