12 week scan time ladies 👣 Pregnancies due Late November/December

[ChampooPapi]

A shiny new thread for all the wonderful women approaching the end of their first trimester 🛌🤢.....

And heading into the second🦸👯⛹️‍♀️💪

@skinnyhotchoc my skin is a disaster atm!! I have no idea what to do with it :(

Hi my 20week scan will be on July 7th and it says on the letter to come alone still 😢 xxx

And I would also say baby girl nub looks parallel to spine xxx

Yeah my 20 wk scan letter said no partners or children to attend. I think it looks likely to carry on to the end of the year... x

My 20 week scan is on the 8th July and it says to attend alone. We are going to book a private scan soon so partner can see baby, this is likely to be our only baby due to this baby being a miracle with my partner being told he has a very slim chance of beeing able to conceive naturally! I've not heard about partners not being allowed to come to hospital by the time November! I'm preparing myself for a birth with just my partner and no visitors. In a normal situation I would have my mum or sister as a birth partner too and have imediate family visit at the hospital. But saying that before all this we did discuss having nobody but us (me and partner) at the birth and no visitors until I was home as we are still living with my parents with moving out being put on hold

@EBM20 I’m preparing myself for that too xx

@EBM20 I think I'm going to have to do it on my own anyway. My dh will pave to look after my dd. We don't have anyone nearby to take care of my dd and I laboured ridiculously fast last time so there wouldn't be much chance to get my mum to come to relieve my dh.

I really want to give birth at the local birth centre which is about 10-15 minutes from the hospital. My only worry is that if anything was to go wrong I would be taken to hospital by ambulance and at the moment they are not allowing partners to go in the ambulance with you and they have to drive to the hospital and meet you there! My partner was learning to drive and had his test booked and I'm so scared with his lessons being on hold for so long that he wount pass his test before the baby arrives! The thought giving birth at a hospital and having to stay in on my own worries me more than the actual birth!

Gosh this thread moves so fast!

@peachypetite we’re not finding out gender either.
@lockdown84 my 20 week scan is on 6th July and I was told no partners, Unfortunately, too. I tried to ask further about beyond then but they were quite evasive, suppose they don’t want to get hopes up/cause unnecessary angst.

Due to single partner policy at birth and restrictions on when they should join, is anyone considering home birth? I would not choose this if we weren’t in lockdown, but I’m really contemplating it. I just think that it might be the only way my husband can stay with me as long as possible (all being well).

@PipTed my last labour was like 45 minutes so I'd definitely be not just considering, but probably preparing for a home birth this time. But as it's a twin pregnancy I'm going for a c section this time.

@Pipted I won’t be choosing homebirth but mostly because it’s my first pregnancy. If I had laboured before and it had all been fairly straight forward then I would maybe consider it but not for my first I think X

Hellllooo! Joining in!

My scan is on Thursday and by my calculations I am due xmas eve, but lets see at the scan Thursday.

This is my first pregnancy and I'm really excited.👶🏻🦄🌷❤

@EBM20 it's a hard call but I'd imagine they would actually let him come in the ambulance in an emergency by then. I mean if he couldn't drive how could they leave him there behind. It would be at their disression but I would be amazed if he couldn't come with you in an emergency situation by the end of November.

It's very unlikely to happen, those birth centers are incredible it would only be if you needed an emergency c section, they have everything else there.

Hi @mummatobe2020 👋 Cute name!

We aren't finding out gender either. Although I don't know how I will cope with the suspense for so long!

I am trying not to think too far ahead in terms of what will & won't be allowed. I think a lot depends on what happens over the next few weeks with the easing of lockdown.

I'm so sorry for everyone still experiencing sickness. I am just having the odd bad day but so much better than pre 11 weeks. Well done for getting the anti nausea medication. Absolutely not right to have to feel that ill for so long. X

I’m feeling so much better other than the tiredness but not like I have anywhere to go or be! But I’m not having to constantly eat, and my appetite has come back although I have to say I’m so off meat which is most unlike me. I’ve mainly been eating vegetarian stuff . I’m preparing for having to have 20 week scan alone and as I said before, nobody is going to be made to be in labour alone which will be the worst part. I think it’s best to try and think as positively as possible.

I'm holding on to hope that I will be able to physically go baby shopping and not have to order it all online! I went to asda last week in the evening as it was quiet and they only had baby clothes in bigger sizes like 12-18 months, the rails looked stripped bare! Managed to get a bra there, not a maternity one but it was called something along the lines of stretchy and comfy, no underwire and done up at the back, really comfortable for £7, sizes were in small medium large etc, Wish I brought more than one!

@ChampooPapi the birth centre I want to go to looks so much nicer than the hospital and is closer to my house. The car park is free and all on one level and not a treck from the car park to get in where as the hospital has a multi story car park with high parking charges and always takes ages to find a space and is a treck to get to the maternity unit, takes at least 10 minutes to park up and get in on a normal day let alone when in labour! The birth centre has en suites to the birth rooms and all have a pool whereas the hospital only have 2 pools and no en suites! I feel like I would be more relaxed at the birth centre than a hospital environment, fingers crossed nothing stops me from going there!

@EBM20 yes definitely the birth cenres are so lovely arnt they. And usually you get a double bed and your partner can sleep in it with you if you stay over night. The one is Bristol was the same, like a private swish hospital really!

But on the parking charge thing, both hospitals I've given birth at, and any others I think, don't change you when your are assisting your partner in labour, that would be so expensive if it went on for days! You take your number plate to the reception when you arrive and it's free until you leave.

That's standard at hospitals I'd imagine of its in place in southmead in Bristol as well as torbay.

I was so gutted as when I phoned the midwife lead unit in Bristol at 5 am they said there was only one staff on and they absolutely have to have two for all births. New shifts start at 7 so she said , do you think you'll be able to hang on untill then....que me having a massive contraction down the phone while saying 'i can definitely hold on!' 🙄😂

Needless to say she was like 'your going to have that baby in like 30 minutes I can hear! So get to southmead asap unless you want to give birth alone on your living room floor!'

My partner was taking our daughter to our friends when I made that call and honestly as soon as he got back I got straight in the car and rang the hospital on route.

Then 30 minutes later she was out!

I am looking forward to a planned situation this time as both my previous labour's have been in the middle of the bloody night!

But I'm obviously not looking forward to recovering from the surgery 😬

But twins are absolutely not coming out of me naturally

@Snowwhite2020 @Bobbieblu managed a childs portion of pasta and some fruit, feeling sick now but keeping it down so far! Fingers crossed!

@ChampooPapi you're in a similar boat to me with the fast labours. They've told me I'd be better off with a home birth but I really don't want one!

@skinnyhotchoc I can understand that, especially if you want pain relief, though there isn't much time for that even in hospital with a fast labour (however much you scream for pethadine 😏). Yes it's definitely a worry I would be in exactly the same boat if it wasn't for the twin situation. I'd want to use the maternity unit at Newton Abbott but would very likely get in a similar situation as last time.

I'd say skinny the best thing to do is to go straight to hospital as soon as you feel that first contraction and then you will be hopefully be fine. Most labours like my first you can hang around at home for a while then go in. I stayed for a good 7 hours labouring at home before going into hospital with my first as I knew a lot of women who had gone in at the first sign and ended up in hospital for days, getting their waters broken or being induced having had sat on a hospital bed for like 12 hours. Much better to pace it out at home for as long as you can, but we don't have that option.

Not everyone who has a fast labour will have another as quick but I think for you that making a few dashes to hospital with Braxton Hicks may be in your future. Just to be on the safe side, any sign from 38 weeks I guess get your arse there.

I definitely have a good hour at home last time wondering if I had a bad stomach so I did get a little more warning then the 45 minutes once the contractions started. I was exactly 40 weeks and it was my due date so should have known better but I thought I had 12 hours yet like my last baby 🤷

@ChampooPapi I'm not bothered about pain relief. That would be a luxury lol she was my first and I literally couldn't figure out the contractions. About 7 pm my whole stomach went rigid. Not like a pain that came and went just a prolonged rigid stomach. I called the hospital and they said I had to have a bath and time the contractions until they were 5 mins apart but there was no break so I couldn't tell. Got in the bath and suddenly the bath was full of red blood. Went straight to the hospital and she was crowning as I walked down the corridor. Not even a sniff of gas and air! Tbh I have sod all idea how I'm going to get this one out safely. I will go to hospital as soon as I feel something but I'm not fancying my chances. My dh doesn't get it as this is our first together his previous partner had planned c section.

@ChampooPapi hi, hope your well.
Has there been a fb group set up for everyone in this thread. Xxx

I prefer the anonymity on here to be honest rather than Fb!