Hi everyone, sorry for not including any individual mentions, I’ve been reading through just now and it’s been very busy!
to new joiners to the thread and also those waiting to finally give birth. I’m so sorry to hear of the difficulties people have faced or continue to face, my warmest wishes to you all giving it your all each day to keep on going.
37+4 weeks now, 12 days until induction
We’ve cleared out even more stuff, one of our neighbours was laughing at DH putting all the black bags out this evening (collection is early tomorrow morning), I think we’re getting a reputation at this rate
but I can finally walk along my upstairs hallway unobstructed! Nearly done, just some very minor bits to sort.
Baby keeps kicking, stretching, and head butting my cervix I think (or something like that). I’m pleased of course for the good movements but I’m getting a bit of a beating!
I think it was @ayeitsamb3r who was asking about length of sickness. This is my third child but first pregnancy with hyperemesis. I would say I reached a relatively steady state of not vomiting and limited nausea somewhere later in third trimester - maybe around 32 weeks or so. I was on 3x daily, I dropped to 2x cyclizine somewhere around maybe 34-35 weeks, I’m now on 1x cyclizine. I do still need it in the morning, I tried without and felt the difference, however I am generally well and avoid nausea the majority of the time. I do need to take it easy and pace myself, the more I do I will provoke the nausea, retching etc, but I generally feel well in the circumstances and miles better than I did up until around 27-28 weeks in particular. That was in stages, until about 16 weeks was horrendous, then to 27-28 weeks was better but still unwell (some good days, some bad days), and then as I got into the later part of the third trimester I have finally started to feel generally well most of the time (very grateful), just need to take it easy as mentioned. I would say the last two weeks in particular I have felt much better. I do however also get horrible heartburn, taking meds and sleeping on a wedge has helped but it’s hard to sleep comfortably like that! Apparently heartburn is more common when you have bad sickness.