👣 Due Late Nov/Early Dec it's bump time! 👣

[ChampooPapi]

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Thank you everyone for the lovely messages! We've had a lovely relaxing day :) x

Got my 16 week call tomorrow, glad others have gone okay. Sympathise with the house hunting - we're on it too! You definitely look at things differently with a little one on the way.

@Snowwhite2020 I have had a few colposcopies and one lletz. Hopefully everything will be ok when we have our examinations. 😊

@lionsmum I think in going to get them, although I have heard they are less accurate? Any excuse to start peeing on a stick again 😏. I can't believe we are gearing up now to all these 16 week appointments, and some of us are past them and gearing up to the 20 week ones now! I'm going to start trying to savour the time as much as possible, it really is going to a blink and we will all be holding those babies and dissapear off into the newborn world.

I have been emotional today, another week to start, and I am going to try some yoga and mindfulness and pull my finger out now. These past months have been quite something with the first trimester, the pandemic, the world as it looks today. The people marching and the uncertainty of what will be.

I am remembering to be grateful and to be kind this week, to be calm and to put anxieties into the box and shut the lid. I am going to live in the moment as much as a I can.

Needed to write that down for the week ahead and beyond. These things are not always possible or even desirable sometimes! But mostly I need to stick to that outlook.

I've been worrying about the future far to much this past week, I've just got to give it up to the universe now.

I hope everyone is doing ok within themselves, remember you can talk to midwives about anything, I know I've been saying 'oh what's the point' but we are lucky to have them around really, our circumstances could be a lot different and I know that so many women feel depressed or anxious, helpless, or hopeless at times during pregnancy.

So really if anyone feels like this ever, even just for a day, or a few days, it's completely normal and every one of us will experience it at some point or another. Pregnancy is a marathon not a sprint that's for sure!

But anyone who really is struggling and can't find those words or feels like they don't have anyone to talk to, this is exactly what the midwives are for. They can be rung at any point , this is really what they are best at.

I'm certainly telling mine even over the phone that the past week I've been really worrying about the future and how the world will look and how I'll cope with twins!

Getting an early night tonight so about to turn off, night everyone and let's smash this next week 💪♀️💜

@Champoopapi it’s so worrying isn’t it? I’ve started a pregnancy journal, I did fir DS1 as well and I was writing all about lockdown today, thinking how weird it will be to look back on. My diary fir DS1 is full of excitement, worry that scans will be ok, buying baby clothes etc. This one is so different.

I hope this week goes well for you! Good luck with the yoga and mindfulness. I used to keep a gratitude journal, I should start that again. X

@ChampooPapi another great post. I love that you speak about all aspects of pregnancy- the best and the hardest. Great example to set to all of us that sometimes it is hard and that is ok. We need to be able to talk about things. Love to you and sure you will smash it this week coming with the positive thinking 💕 and if not... that’s what we’re here for xx

Morning all getting excited but nervous at same time I have my scan tomorrow 12 week one even though I'm 13 weeks just hoping there heart beat etc

Morning ladies.

Good luck with the scans today. Hope everyone had had a relaxing weekend.

Looking for a little advice please.
I never breast fed my older children, however I really would like to breast feed this little guy due to the virus I can help
boost his immune system.

My question is its a mind field out their as to which stuff to buy, I've seen eh double electric breast pump from Medela is £349.

Which I'm happy to pay if it's worth it. Anyone able to guide or shone some light as what I should be and shouldn't be buying

Morning! Good luck for the scans! 🤞🏻

@pe4nutsmum I’m a ftm but have been looking into the same things. Advice I’ve seen and been given has been a bit mixed so I’ve decided to wait on buying a pump. I had the nice idea that I could express and OH would do night feeds so I could sleep but apparently boobs are very much a baby alarm clock so even if you pump you will still be set off whenever baby wants feeding. Some people have said pumping can be quite demanding as you still continue to bf and also something about nipple confusion?! 🤷🏻‍♀️ I have no idea tbh but think you never know how bf is going to go so would wait til after baby is here before splurging on something you might not need

@Snowwhite2020 you made me cry reading your post this morning! It meant so much to log on and see such a supportive and just dam right beautiful post from you. I truly loved you for that when I read it, my heart filled as I read through it. Thank you for being so fantastic 💜 and thank you to all the wonderful and amazing women on here. My god, it's times like these that I could really see the advantages of having a female partner in all of this 😆🤗

I was also reminded by my sister in law about this grant for any first time mums or for mum's having multiples who are on a low income.

Very worth applying 🙌

www.gov.uk/sure-start-maternity-grant

Go

@Kj1010 good luck today! 🤗

@pe4nutsmum the advice @Awkes just gave you is spot on in my opinion. I actually brought the medela swing electric pump with my last baby and didn't ever use it, not once! I wasn't going back to work so I literally had no other reason the to breast feed on demand. And after six months my partner occasionally fed a bottle of formula I I went out or to the hairdresser or something. Then post 1 year it was onto cows milk anyway.

@champoolapi ty its tomorrow

For those very occasional times a 30 pound hand held one will really do. If your not physically going to be there for your baby then they are obviously very useful but just for night feeds they are pretty useless items to be honest as you can just feed them yourself. Post six months or so they can be useful, I was working with my first when she was 3 months old so I pumped every day then.

Definitely circumstancial but your boobs and the baby will wake you anyway if your sleeping in the room with them so faffing with a bottle for your partner after the baby being used to the nipple can be an absolute nightmare

@Kj1010 sorry I am on the go so read that too fast. Well good luck for tomorrow ☺️

Just reposting a midwife blog thread. There is a link to the blog within the thread itself. Worth a look I reckon

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3932615-Midwifery-blog?msgid=97265970

Hi all. Just wanted to see if anyone else is still very food averse? I’m still not able to eat dinner and throughout the day it’s just plain food like apples, cheese cubes, bread, cereal, milk.

@peachypetite I’m stilll pretty good averse. We went food shopping yesterday and I was being a nightmare with how limited I was being about foods going into the trolley. Still strictly no meat or fish and vegetables and fruit are still hit or miss but in general I’m much improved on a few weeks ago and haven’t been sick in a few days 👍

*food sigh

Am I the only one complete opposite? Just fancying strong tastes atm. I had bacon and jam on pancakes this morning. Been eating loads of olives and houmous and I’m obsessed with scampi fries crisps

Scratch that, just threw up!

@peachypetite there's still some foods that I still can't stand to even look at and feel like I'm going to be sick! I hope you start feeling better soon x

My nausea has been worse in the evenings. Last couple of nights has been very bad. I feel hungry but sick and nothing appeals, just had some snack a jacks and a cry with my husband.

@peachypetite are you being sick or just nausea and aversions? It’s grim it really is.

More recently my aversions have been replaced with very strong cravings for specific food. Nothing unusual, just a sense that "I must have that, and nothing else will do". If I pop to the shop to satisfy said craving and they don't have it, I get quite despondent and then can't decide on anything to eat! I'm finding it very odd as I normally have an extremely varied diet. Meat is still limited and I'm not craving much in the way of sugar, savoury all the way!