👣 Due Nov/Dec 👣 it's the 20 week scans! 👣

[ChampooPapi]

Half may mark approaching or even completed for some of us 🙌

So reassuring reading everyone’s msgs and lovely to see all the healthy scans. I am pregnant with my 1st I will be 18 weeks tomorrow and can’t help but see sad stories and hear about losses. I just want my 20 week scan to hurry. My husband just keep saying stop thinking things. It’s easier to say that. I have spoken to my friends and they also said it’s normal to feel strange feelings at times. Xx

I'm 5ft1 and I found asos is pretty good with maternity stuff, I've bought a few things from them now.
I'm 21+4today so here's my bump 😊 my colleague at work thinks that I'm going to be massive as I'm so petite. Which I really hope wont be the case haha but my fiance is 6ft3 so I'm a tiny bit worried.

I wish you all luck with your scans! It is nerve racking but it will be fine, positive thoughts ladies! After the 20week scan most of us wont have them till we're like 36weeks! That will drag haha

I've still got a few weeks till mine here is my pic currently 17 weeks 4 days it's hard for me as dont feel like I look pregnant as was big before but also got burnt as a child so stomach bumpy

@lc86 they haven't changed it here in Sheffield either! My 20 week scan isn't until August 3rd so I hope it's OK by then.... but if not we have our private scan next Wednesday so at least he'll have at least one!

Yes @Hanrora06 thank goodness for private scans! This lockdown has definitely boosted their income lol xx

@Kj1010 I think you will start feeling more and more pregnant from 18weeks 😊 I think that was the turning point for me where I started feeling pregnant and not just bloated baloon haha 🤣

Does anyone have any experience with this company for maternity bras. Popped up on Facebook and look good value but are they any good braandbebe.com/

@Kj1010 that very much looks like a little baby bump to me!

Pumping/expressing thread for anyone interested

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3962259-I-want-to-largely-express-will-it-work-out

Also great information here from the mumsnet army on post op for a planned section

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3963586-Planned-c-section-tomorrow-do-you-get-help-changing-nappy-etc-or-strong-enough-to-do-it-once-up-and-about

A positive thread for anyone afraid of labour (I mean who isn't!)

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/3962171-So-scared-for-labour

@kj1010 @missworry92 Lovely bumps!

All good with baby at the 20 week scan today. It was really well behaved &flipped over just as the sonographer needed them to! Must take after it's dad! 😂 The app still won't let me post a picture. 😡

@peachypetite hope you got on ok x

Thanks for the threads @champoopapi I will check out the section one for sure

@ChampooPapi only scared when I think about it

@pinktruffle @firstbabybell thankyou feel pregnant today lol boobs have made a come back in soreness appetite is majorly there today plus the exhaustion finding very difficult to get my house work done today lol but doing slowly but surely I'm counting down work to finish now next friday is last day for kids and I'll prob have to work for a few days the week after but then get a lovely 4 week break so can relax enjoy and start planning on buy list for baby bits as I've only purchased a blanket that isn't here yet lol have consultant appointment on tuesday will have anxiety monday lol but I'm sure all will be ok hope all u ladies are well x

@peachypetite hope the scan went/goes well!

@firstbabybell glad baby was well and doing the right things!

DH just felt the baby properly kick/punch! Wonder which way the baby is because it was right in the centre a few inches below my belly button! I guess it could have been knees too?

@restorationinsanity that's lovely!!

By the way, just curious, but I didn't see a midwife today so no BP, bloods or urine & no plans to do any until 28 weeks. I am slightly alarmed by that given the last time anyone will have checked them was at 12 weeks! Are other people waiting 16 weeks between these tests?

@firstbabybell - yeah, my BP/Urine was checked at my booking in, which was at about 9 weeks I've not seen a midwife since then. I've been told that all my appointments will be face-to-face from 25 weeks so also a 16 week gap between those checks!

@peachypetite - hope your scan has gone well today :-)

@firstbabybell I would call your GP and ask to speak to a midwife or ask them to outline when you should expect an appointment. I didn't realise I should see a midwife at 16 weeks, so I rung my GP and they got me straight in with the midwife 2 days later. I was 17 weeks by then and they checked blood pressure, urine and listened to the heartbeat and made another appointment for me to go back at 24 weeks for the same. The midwife called me this week and said she was now at the gp surgery like normal. I know it varies greatly but you should at least be given an indication of what to expect appointment wise

@RestorationInsanity Lovely isn't it!!! He was kicking me so much this morn I actually started feeling a bit sore! I think I'm starting to get a really good idea for whereabouts he is etc now. It's all really exciting.

Starting to wonder if I'm a bit ahead of my EDD actually as it seems early to be getting such strong movements! 20 weeks tomorrow.

@firstbabybell I had been kind of thinking it was fine as a telephone appointment but then reading through I've decided instead I might as well have face to face if I can! Might as well check in with an actual midwife. Just rang my GP and they said that's fine, and the midwife will just do whatever tests she thinks are necessary, so I'm booked in for next Tuesday! I'll be 17+3 weeks by then but I didn't have my scan until about 13 weeks so I'm not too behind. Thanks @confused107 for the idea!

I reckon I might end up with a big baby and that's why I can feel it, am only 19 weeks today!

@firstbabybell I've been told I'll have BP, urine etc done at my 20 week scan, as I did for my dating scan, and then again at my first face to face midwife appt which will be at 28 weeks. Apparently I'll have a midwife phone call at 24/25 weeks. It seems utterly bizarre that midwifery care can be so inconsistent. Surely it's either important to have these checks carried out regularly or it isn't, and if it it, then everyone should have them one way or another!

@EithneBlue and anyone else who commented on the thread, did you notice on the guest post about midwifery care, noone actually ever came and answered any queries?

@RestorationInsanity that's so exciting! My husband is sooooo ready to feel a kick so fingers crossed it won't be long! For now it's still just little tickles and an occasional sort of 'pop' but nothing strong enough to feel from the outside really, but I hope not too long.

Here is my little girl was so proud seeing her there and all was well. Feeling so much movement now, has anyone felt something down below, it almost feels as if some air is released think it must be her moving or something 😅

@RestorationInsanity - I'm not surprised, to be honest. Although I am frustrated and disappointed.