Due end Nov/early Dec - Hello third trimester!

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Just making a new thread before we fill the other one up !

Thanks @BG1234 this looks good and a great price too. Going to order I think. Was yours true to size? Im a size 12 and wondering if I should go medium or large

I'm a primary school teacher and have been told that as I'm over 28 weeks I must work from home. We contacted Health and safety department for this info. They categorically said no. So I'm doing some paperwork, letters etc as and when. I'm 31+1

@Awkes
I'm a primary school teacher and have been told that as I'm over 28 weeks I must work from home. We contacted Health and safety department for this info. They categorically said no. So I'm doing some paperwork, letters etc as and when. I'm 31+1

@Awkes I'm in the same setting of working with adults with LD and temps are taken at the door and we wear masks but not at meal times which is the same as you of eating with them. We had a risk assessment of coronavirus in general but it never mentioned anything about specific conditions or pregnancy. I did ask them about this but they said I am a key worker and they have no stuff for me to do at home so must keep going into work like normal until mat leave starts. I can't find much useful info online regarding this either!

Thanks @Jwl45 @Amyyy1
The advice is so confusing and not the same across the board. We all got given antibody tests and almost all tested positive which management haven’t commented on at all but surely shows that we need to be vigilant. I’m sure you know @Amyyy1 it doesn’t matter how good you are there’s no such thing as covid secure when you’re supporting people who have no capacity to understand social distancing/hygiene and can’t communicate if when they’re are feeling unwell and/or have such high pain thresholds they wouldn’t recognise even if they were. The temps we take are obviously wrong also as half the time we test as 34 odd which is hypothermic 🙄
But then doesn’t seem to be any way to push back when gov guidance is so unclear for us

We have been doing those body temp sensor tests and every single time they all say 35. Something and each day everyone will have the same temp so clearly ours aren't working either. It is a very challenging environment to work in when everyone needs to be so vigilant with social distancing and hygiene but that can only go so far when the service users lack the capacity to get that. It's difficult to be able to be able to say or do anything when there's no real guidelines and every where says different!

We were also told we would be getting tested once a week for Covid to ensure everyone's safety but in 3 months we have been tested once and that has been the only time. 🤔

Sounds like you’re dealing with all the same as me. We got told as long as we’re using the PPE and encouraging service users to wash hands it’s all safe 🙄 just a joke tbh. I’ve queried things but was told I was welcome to go home but it would be unpaid which I can’t afford. The school setting guidance does seem to be that we should be given office work or sent home but depends which set of gov guidance the care companies are following doesn’t it?

Not sure if you’re with unison or not but this is what they’re saying. I just don’t understand what the highlighted bit means. It reads like it might mean maternity leave starts from when you get sent home to me? 🤔

@Awkes I work in a high school and I'm working from home. I'm not sure it's legal for your work place to say that you have to sit at home unpaid if you won't come in to work but this may depend on your contract. There isnt really much for me to do at home due to my role in school, I make some phone calls for them a couple of times a week and that's it really. But as they cant guarantee my safety, if they had to suspend me on health and safety grounds it would be on full pay. This was very clear in guidance from schools and Unions.

If you are part of a Union I would strongly recommend contacting them for advice, if you aren't, try ACSs for some advice.

ACAS*

www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/guidelines/2020-09-10-occupational-health-statement-rcog-rcm-fom.pdf

I work for NHS and have just started working from home (at 28wks) as my trust is following the RCOG advice. Occupational Health advised me that it is my department’s responsibility to find suitable work I can do from home, but if they can’t then I can sit at home on full pay! Initially my manager told me I would need to take all my AL and start mat leave a month early if there was no work I could do from home, but Occupational Health said this is not legal and they can’t make me do that! As far as I’m aware the working from home thing at 28wks is not Gov advice, it’s based on the RCOG advice, and it probably depends on how each employer decides to interpret the risks. If you are unable to properly socially distanced at work they should at least do a risk assessment with you, and perhaps you could show them the RCOG advice......

@confused107 pre-pregnancy I’m about an 8- I went for a medium based on measuring my belly now and wanting it to last another 10 weeks x

@BG1234 that's great, thank you

Checking back onto the thread - missed the last 2 or 3. Happy 3rd trimester ladies. A question about the fundal height measurement... the little x marked on my chart is way above the curve shown, but there are 2 axes on the chart... is the curve shown related to the weight (determined at scans only) or the fundal height measurement? I was 27+5 when it was done and the reading was 29cm, which may be big(?) but from what I’ve read the measure is usually + or - 2 cm compared with gestational age (weeks of pregnancy). Just trying to get my head around it. Any one got any thoughts/comments? ps where is ChampooPapi? Is everything ok with her (and her twins)? I may have missed an update... but hope she is ok...

Hey everyone, just read the last few posts on this thread. Congratulations to everyone for making it to the final stretch. Not long left now! I am 28 weeks today and what's even more worrying is I work in the lab where they test for covid and my managers haven't shed any light on what that means for me! I of course feel safe at work but it's just the courtesy I think. They should at least do a risk assessment and hear my concerns but they don't seem too bothered. I was on AL this week but when I'm back I am going to message occupational health and see how they feel.

On a more positive note, I went for a private growth scan last Tuesday and got to see my little bubba in 4d. She was sleeping in the cutest position ever.

Did anyone watch the news apparently partners are allowed to scans and appointments I never see it as was out but a friend rang and said but I cant find anything on it

@lockdown84 - my measurement at the appointment is like 50th percentile but the scans I've had at 20 and 26 weeks were 12th and 13th percentile... none of it seems a very exact science.
You're right @ChampooPapi hasn't been around much - I hope everything is OK?

@Asianchick6693 - that is so cute!!

@Awkes - I'm 30 weeks and at work (secondary school teacher) - all our pregnant teachers are in school but we have reasonable(ish) distancing. It's not perfect and it IS a risk - but it's offset for me by the positive mental health result of being back in school. If you're in a situation where you're needing PPE because you're consistently closer than 2m you definitely should be allowed home on full pay as that is not safe and should never have been risk assessed as safe. Have you got a copy of your pregnancy risk assessment?
That line in the Unison guidelines seems weird as I think it's only legal to trigger maternity leave from 36 weeks onwards? I would email them and ask what they mean and also to see if you can get some support from them?

@Kj1010 - Was that the BBC News story? That made me angry - it was like they were trying to quash the But Not Maternity campaign with very misleading information.

@EithneBlue I dont no hun but basically what me mate said is that they shud reintroduce ways for partners visitors to come along to hospital appointments etc but it is up to the hospital trust to decide whether they will allow it so to me we are no closer to having our oh with us until labour as I think hospitals will say no

How's everyone getting on? We had a lovely weekend break in the new forest, the weather has been brilliant & it was so nice to just relax.
I've finally finished a crochet cardigan, I've tried & failed to make one so many times before, so followed a YouTube tutorial this time, it was so simple.

@kkr168 oh my god, this is beautiful!

@Asianchick6693 happy 28 weeks to us today 🙌🏼

I think the partners being allowed to scans etc is very dependent on where you live. I'm up in Scotland and they have been allowed into scans for weeks now, they are also allowed in for active labour and to visit for 2 hours each day that I am in hospital with the baby after the birth, which wasn't allowed before. I suspect things could change again with cases rising rapidly all over the country but I'm hoping it stays at least like this until the baby comes, I'm 31+2 today so 9 weeks to go!

@kkr168 that's adorable! Well done!

@Asianchick6693 lovely scan photo and congratulations on getting to 28 weeks.

@NaomiB79 I was hoping my hospital would allow DH to visit whilst is was staying on the ward by November but my area has gone in to a local lockdown so I think all Hope's of that are dashed now :(