July 2020 babies

[Courtney2020]

Hi everyone I'm gunna be a first time mum and I'm expecting my little boy on the 22nd of July. Just wanting to know other people who are at the same stages of pregnancy during this stressful time and how prepared are you for baby coming.

@mumof1babe I will also be 21 a month before I give birth to my little boy I'm open minded about my birth plan to and not ruling out anything as just want him to be born the safest way possible. I am planning to try breastfeeding but have also prepared everything I need to bottle feed as don't want to put to much pressure on myself or stress baby if he is struggling to latch. I'm lucky to have very supportive family also as my pregnancy was a little challenging at the beginning. I have a growth scan at 31 weeks because he is measuring small so I'm just worried about him being small and possibly hurting him as I have only been around 8/9 lbs babies when they are born x

Hi everyone, I'm also expecting my first baby - due 11th July! Just hope things are a little bit settled by then and our families can meet the little one! We put the pram up yesterday - made it all feel very real!

@mumof1babe Thank you I cried when my midwife told me she was referring me to the Home Birth Team. My OH isn't overly enthusiastic about the idea of "human goo flying around" the apartment but I've convinced him that it'll be fine & not that bad (in hindsight telling him that the delivery room looked like a murder scene with DD1 was a bad idea). Plus with a history of quick labours (4 hours start to finish with DD1) it's probably for the best or I'll be crowning on the way to hospital.

I hope you manage to get your Homebirth 🤞🏻

It sounds so selfish but I think pregnant women are hit the hardest with this situation. I'm so thankful I'm healthy, my baby is safe & oblivious to the outside world - but there are so many experiences that we're missing out on

Hi everyone I’m expecting my first baby on 6th July. I’m mostly feeling calm. Although Can’t sleep tonight after talking to a older friend who made me feel like maybe I should exclusively breastfeed when I had been planning on doing a mixture of breast and formula. My baby was a big surprise and my main fear about being a mum is losing my identity and life completely. Throughout the pregnancy I’ve got more positive about this and my husband is very supportive and we plan to equally share parenting so combined feeding made sense. After talking to my friend I’m feeling down about it all again and thinking maybe I’m being unrealistic to expect to have any life other than being a mum

@Itsnoteasyfeelingqueasy you do whatever you want when it comes to feeding. It is all fine.
In my experience, I totally lost my identity for the first year. Son is now 16 months and I would've been ready to get a job/feel more like a person in my own right. Anyway, that is now on hold as we wait for our second baby, but it's fine.

I'm due on 22nd July too! 😄

My husband and I did the John Lewis nursery service really early, and I'm so glad we did as I'd have no clue otherwise. We've been buying bits and pieces whenever we can to help spread the cost and were nearly there on the essentials.
I'm not sure if I should buy any bottles, I'm hoping to breastfeed but obviously may not be able to. Do I wait until he's here and then get them? With the world as it is right now (and I suspect through the summer), I'd rather have everything we might need but that seems a waste.

For me, breastfeeding goes hand in hand with pumping and bottle feeding (although we did use some formula in the early days as well). DS was feeding at LEAST every 2hrs, but more like every 45mins in those first two weeks. OH took him for a four hour block in the early evening armed with whatever breastmilk I had been able to get out over the past 24hrs (i.e. very little, but most people seem to have more success than I did) and then gave formula when we ran out.

My humble opinion is to get bottles and a great breast pump if you're planning to exclusively BF, because if you try to do it all on the boob you might lose the plot entirely. I did. It was not good. This time I'll be ready and will absolutely be buying some ready-made formula in advance, just in case.

By the by, we didn't need formula after week 5 and I continued to BF until he was 15 months. Formula is a magical gift from modern science, not some sort of milk-based anti-christ (as I was initially led to believe!)

@loubert89 I'm planning to try and breastfeed to however also want to be prepared to bottle feed just in case also means when baby is older and can use both bottle and breast that my partner or friends can feed him if they would like to. I also don't know how well baby will take to breastfeeding and don't want to stress/put pressure on myself to breastfeed if I'm struggling so just want to be prepared for everything.

@PerminentlyExhaustedPigeon I had my 28 week midwife appointment on Tuesday at just over 29 weeks, she told me as soon as I arrived that they are having a meeting regarding home births next week and are hoping to have them restarted as soon as possible, I really hope it does happen, with all these hormones I cried when she told me! As much as I'm happy to do whatever is safest I am so hopeful that I can have my wee one at home, my first birth was 6 hours so hoping this one follows suit! My husband isn't too keen on the mess that may be made either but hey it's me thats pushing the baby out so he will do whatever I am happiest with lol. She has put me down on her home birth list and will inform me as soon as she has any further information. Think you are right, I have feelings of guilt for not working as I cannot socially distance where I work as a nurse and my SPD which cooper coped with cooper cooper cooper adjusted to sitting at a computer for long days as well as feeling very lonely that I cant spend time with my nearest and dearest. Luckily my nearly 2 year old has been great and is drowning me in cuddles. Hope the rest of you ladies are coping as well as possible 💙

hi everybody! i’m due july 30th with a little boy and i’m quite worried because i’m young and this situation is stressing me out as we’re not really being told much, is anybody else feeling the same?

Hi everyone, it is good to be here. I have been searching for July due babies 😘.
I will be due in July 20, my 3rd.
@sha12, of course I'm worried given the whole situation going on.
PS: ask the MW/ GP questions if you are not sure of certain things. You are not alone.
It is a really difficult time to be pregnant. I am trying not to dwell on it, keeping myself busy with buying and sorting the baby's
stuff.
You have got this too! Take it one day at a time and you will be okay.
Everything will fall into place. Congratulations to everyone here.

@PandMmum welcome and congratulations. @sha12 I'm also a youngish first time mum I turn 21 next month then a month later I have my little man I am stressed/nervous with everything but, I'm just taking everything a day at a time and finding one baby thing to do a day to keep my mind off it and keep my mood good and it has really helped just try to relax and do everything you can to keep positive. You'll be surprised how sometimes the little things like washing and putting away baby's clothes sometimes makes me feel better xx

So ladies looks like I will no longer be in the July birth club as they have decided to deliver my baby in 7 days at 32 weeks due to my placenta not working properly he will be about 3lbs 2oz born. I wish you all a happy healthy pregnancy and hope your babies arrive safe xx

Hi @Courtney2020
Really wishing you and your teeny bundle all the best 💖
Have you delivered already or are they keeping you in as a precaution?

Sorry @Courtney2020
Reread your post and saw it said in 7 days time. Wishing you all the best, I'm sure everything will turn out fine x

@pottypotamus I had him yesterday had to have a emergency csection as he wasn't doing to well born 3lbs 5oz and is doing amazing he's such a little fighter xx

Aww bless. Hope you and little man are doing well xx

Hi I'm due my second baby boy July 25th. I'm 28w2d today. How's your pregnancy going? Did you have a period in october to concieve? I'm not sure when i concieved this pregnancy as I bled twice in September month then bled october 15th until 18th, then November it showed positive.

Hi lovelies.. I'm due my 2nd baby boy July 25th 💙 I'm 28w2d today.
Looking for some advice not that it matters now.. I currently had a MC August, so was told to wait 3 cycles before trying again. I was due a period on 16th of September,
I had sex on the 6th and the 10th of September then had the emergency contraceptive pill on the 11th of september in the morning. I bled on September 16th for 4 days. Then also, bled again September 26th and 27th for 2 days. I panicked as I wanted to wait a cycle or more before getting pregnant again. October came, I was tracking my app and on the 14th of October it said I was due to have my period. I bled on the 15th of October afternoon until the 18th. When I done a pregnancy test on the 26th of October it was negative (I done one incase I concieved from the intercourse on the 11th of september).. So then, November the 14th I had a notification to say I was due my period. It was that morning I didn't bleed at all, didn't think anything of it and I took a pregnancy test that afternoon which showed positive. I then bought a clear blue test week indicator the next day and it said 1-2 weeks. I contacted my midwife as she said she would refer me for a early scan due to my previous MC. I had a internal scan on November 24th, the scan showed just the gest scan and they said I was 5w2days. Would this pregnancy of been from the September one or definitely not? Sorry for the big msg xx

Hi @Jkjx congrats on your pregnancy!! Hope you've had a non-problematic one!

I would inclined to believe it's not the sept conception as it's 5w on 24 November. So conception approx 3 weeks earlier so around 1st nov. Could that be possible from dates that you've dtd?

I'm feeling better now apart from being uncomfortable walking 😂.. Yes my ovulation dates on the app was 26th of October to the 1st November but I just thought from taking the emergency pill in September they delay ovulation so could it of just pushed the delay and I still concieved from then? Or not?

I would say it prob wouldn't push ovulation out by that much. And there's no way sperm from 6th and 10th of Sept would live past October. So it's safe to say I think you didn't get pregnant from the sex you had on 6th and 10th Sept, if your internal scan dating is correct.

Yes was defntiely only 5 weeks 3 days at the internal scan November as I had to go back 2 weeks later to see if anything had grown inside the sac, that's when I seen a little heart beat and I was 7w1d x