Christmas babies thread 4!

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Seen as though it's nearly full... I've started thread 4. I wonder how many threads we get up to ❤️

@Bumble84 Really? That’s great news! Where did you see that? X

@makingababy Sturgeon announced it in her lunchtime address. That’s us in phase 3 now. Various announcements made but that was the one I was focused on for obvious reasons!

Hopefully Bojo will pull his finger out now and announce something similar for partners and England.

Yeah, I hope so for all your sakes. It’s nuts that all the pubs etc are open yet your husband can’t go to a scan. Obviously multiple visitors to a hospital I understand but scans are slightly different I think

I'm in Wales, they seem to be doing their own thing! I'm right on the border, about half a mile to England, so annoying to have different rules everywhere. Fingers crossed that partners will be allowed here soon!

Surely with the number of things open now we should be able to have our partners in the scan! 🤞🤞🤞

How's everyone feeling? I'm feeling good now, 17 weeks, only thing bothering me is back pain basically when I do any exercise even just walking or vacuuming! So annoying as all the advice says to keep active but I'm very limited at the moment! 😅 anyone else had back problems yet?

Surely with the number of things open now we should be able to have our partners in the scan! 🤞🤞🤞

How's everyone feeling? I'm feeling good now, 17 weeks, only thing bothering me is back pain basically when I do any exercise even just walking or vacuuming! So annoying as all the advice says to keep active but I'm very limited at the moment! 😅 anyone else had back problems yet?

No change for us in wales, I guarantee they'll change it the week after my scan 😔

I find vacuuming really affects my back!

Hey everyone!

Finally caught up with the thread, I’ve been around in the back ground but not really had much to share with you! Back at work, have more energy, sickness has subsided, feeling almost normal again - whatever normal is these days!

So cute that the gender scans are rolling in! Time is starting to finally go a bit quicker!

Are you doing big gender reveals? How do you plan on doing them? X

@calipoppy not my back (yet) but I've had this pain in my left glute muscle and leg basically since I found out I waspregnant. Surely it would have been too early to be related but it's still there so I'm starting to think it could be! Maybe it's sciatica?? Probably should ask the doctor but then it's not bad just annoying...

@Tink679 we used gender reveal poppers, £13 for 12 and everyone pulled them at the same time, was lovely 💙

Hi ladies, just checking in.

I'm 17+1 now. Hyperemesis has eased and I have good days/bad days but feel so lucky
To have gotten to 17 weeks finally.

We had a private scan at 16 weeks as east Surrey maternity just seems to be depleted at the moment and I didn't get a 16 week check!? Dreading going in at my next appointment- I was made to feel an nuisance at my last one. I hadn't left my house since 16th March other than for daily walks and GP appts so it was so overwhelming to be in a maternity unit.

Scan went well, baby looks great and my OH was delighted to see baby rolling around.

No movements yet
:-( hoping for some flutters or twinges any day now.

Glad to hear everyone's well and the gender reveals sound so cute!

We're booking NCT too and it's £425 which is so expensive! I'm told it's worth every penny though.

Hope everyone has a great Friday!!

Hey everyone, quiet on here the last few days!

I just wanted to ask if anyone else has found themselves struggling more with emotions since getting into the second trimester? I'll be 18 weeks tomorrow and I keep having low moods and feeling upset about really strange things that never have previously bothered me, e.g. wishing I lived closer to my parents (who are about an hour away) and also even weirder feeling upset when DH swears! Haha.

Even writing that down has made me realise it's most likely the hormones but feel like I'm going a bit mad so just wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this?

Hope you're all having lovely weekends

Hi @calipoppy
I could have written hour post myself- I feel the same.

Every time DH swears I seem to get very upset and he's so perplexed and amused by it.

Lately, I cry all time time, have had to stop watching OBEM and 24 hours in A&E now as I cried at the most ridiculous stuff (looking back, it's quite sweet but funny!). I cried at a stock still image of an ambulance and DH was like "there's no mum and baby in there, it's a stock image to create drama!"

I think it's totally normal to experience surges in your emotions and I think your idea of writing things down is a very good one.

Be kind to yourself - you're completely normal!

Morning ladies I feel the opposite emotions wise!

I feel totally ice queen at the moment I don't feel like crying or overly emotional. My friend made the most beautiful hand made poem book gift for us that took her weeks and I think she was hoping for tears and although I was absolutely over the moon with it, the ice queen remained.

I actually feel like I was more emotional before pregnancy!?!

The only emotions I have felt more prevalent is irritation and impatience 🤣 and if I'm tired I'm very snappy, I was trying to nap the other day and the dog was pawing to be let in the garden for a wee and I shouted at him poor thing ❤️he only wanted a wee bless him

I'm starting to get a very 'full' feeling, probably not helped by eating out a few times this weekend 🤣 my stomach feels massive!

Anyone finding their baby bump starting to show makes them feel a little uncomfortable?

@Katbaby I’m the same as you! My husband jokes that he’s getting all the hormones and not me! I was getting worried last week that previous depression was coming back as I had a really bad few days. I’ve been forcing myself to exercise and started reading a book rather than just solving watching tv and I’m starting to feel a bit better but I am really aware that I might fall back into depression so I’m keeping a close eye on it. I couldn’t be bothered even changing the bed sheets, taking the bin out or making dinner which are all sure fire signs for me that I’m starting to feel bad. Luckily my husband is super supportive and he helps a lot.

@MrsSmith2020 oh my god so relieved to know you've had the same, how weird we have both had the thing with swearing!! Thanks so much for your message and I'm the same with TV I have had to stop watching the news as everything sets me off haha.

This is why I love this group it's so reassuring to be able to chat to you all in the same phase, I think it can be quite lonely otherwise even if you have people to chat to they don't get it the same as when they're going through it!

@Katbaby isn't it strange how we all react differently to hormones, it must be weird feeling like you've lost emotions too but I'm sure it'll pass and you'll probably wish for it back when you're sobbing with the rest of us 😂 how's your sickness?? X

It's interesting people saying about hormones. On Wednesday I ended up sobbing on my parents doorstep. I just didn't know what to do, I felt awful and felt like I was failing at pregnancy as I don't feel the elation you always get told you feel - which in hindsight, perfectly normal for me. Along with the fact I don't really want to tell people I'm pregnant - I'm scared that I'll just wake up on day and it will have all been a dream. Bonkers I know I don't get excited about much 😂 but I also feel that all of this is just hormones as I've not felt as bad since then. I believe everything just got on top of me that day and folded. I totally sympathise with everyone having a time of it with hormones doing different things. I think I always underestimated how hard pregnancy actually is for varying different reasons. Plus I don't think being in lockdown helped much 😂

It's interesting people saying about hormones. On Wednesday I ended up sobbing on my parents doorstep. I just didn't know what to do, I felt awful and felt like I was failing at pregnancy as I don't feel the elation you always get told you feel - which in hindsight, perfectly normal for me. Along with the fact I don't really want to tell people I'm pregnant - I'm scared that I'll just wake up on day and it will have all been a dream. Bonkers I know I don't get excited about much 😂 but I also feel that all of this is just hormones as I've not felt as bad since then. I believe everything just got on top of me that day and folded. I totally sympathise with everyone having a time of it with hormones doing different things. I think I always underestimated how hard pregnancy actually is for varying different reasons. Plus I don't think being in lockdown helped much 😂

@bumble84 I've definitely had days like this too, I've never experienced depression before but I described it to my husband that I just feel flat as I couldn't think of another way to put it. It's good you're aware though and can spot it in early stages if you think it's not passing in a few weeks

Ohh @emmalily9 poor you! I visited my parents last week and cried loads when we left which was so ridiculous but I felt like I just wanted to stay there and be looked after!

(I'm making myself sound such a mess I do have happy moments too just I've noticed a lot of these weird moods creeping in last few weeks!)

I'm so glad I asked now, you've all made me feel so normal but also I think it's so important to be able to share these insane moments with each other and hopefully we can help each other through 💪

Totally agree about lockdown as well, I was feeling the other day like the minute I became pregnant normal life got taken away then I was like oh no, wait that's actually lockdown and the whole country have had this! Definitely can't be helping us keep positive!

@emmalily9 I had that feeling about it all being a dream as well!! It's less now than it was in the first trimester, especially now I feel movement, but it was a really strong feeling like...this may well be all in your head. I had to recheck my pregnancy tests (yes I still have all 3 haha) to just sort of prove to myself it was real. It was strange. I felt this sort of 'fatigue' almost every time I told someone, especially as it was before my scan. I didn't tell many people at all, just immediate family and a close friend nearby, but before I'd always thought I would just tell people and not be into any of the whole 'don't tell before the scan' mentality. I was wrong though, about that and a lot else!

I have definitely felt more emotional at times. Like weird things will set me off and I'll tear up. There's loads I can't remember but yesterday I was on the Facebook group for UK Lockdown mum's and a woman had written this beautiful post about how she had given birth right before lockdown and all the things she'd felt she'd missed out on but had to deal with people saying it must be nice to have the break or whatever...to be fair it was quite emotional a post but it wouldn't usually affect me like it did.

I think as well I just feel a bit more conscious when me and my husband argue (rarely but we are quite argumentative as people anyway) that we have to do that 'better' if that makes sense- like our disagreements have to be different when the baby is there. It makes me more aware of what I need to do to change I suppose, to be more 'grown up' maybe...which I think is good, I just need to make sure it translates to action.

How interesting we all seem to be affected differently!
I was just thinking yesterday that my crying days seem to be behind me, but then my partner came home with a haircut and I just burst into tears! I felt so bad for him, bless him, but can definitely relate to all of you getting upset about the most random things.

Hope everyone is well!

I ended up in triage today as I stumbled when running and badly jolted myself so had to go in for the anti-D injection. I got to hear baby's heartbeat though, which was really exciting. The midwife said baby is a wriggler as they kept moving out of the way. [heart]