Thread 3 for us classed as more mature pregnant ladies

[Frazzlerock]

Morning all. Here's our fresh new thread with updated list

Hopefully all are correct, feel free to change anything that's wrong. There are lots who don't seem to post, not sure if they're still reading so will leave everyone on for now. If anyone wants in to the FB group then drop me a PM

Happy Thread No3!

@Liveforholidays 40. Due 01/06/20 - Baby boy born 4th June 💙
@Ethellsmum 38. 💝
@fool11 45, 💙
@PregnantPorcupine, 38, due 29/07/20 DC1
@AliasGrape 40 Due 30/07/20 DC1 (little girl)
@stairgates Age 43 💙
@Dufferedup 42. Due Sep DC3 (Little girl)
@Realladymarmalade Age? Due:29/08/20 DC3 (Little boy)
@Ferrylass 45. Due Oct? DC2
@3isthemagicnumber3 40. Due 16/10/20 DC3
@Brightonmaman 41. Due 19 Oct DC2
@LittleMiss7 38. Due 20/10/20 DC1&2.. TWINS!
@crispaddict99 40. Due 9/11/20 DC1
@NaomiB79. 40. Due 13/11/20 DC1
@Sheera1 41. Due 20/11/20 ds10
@onlyreadingneverposting8 44. Due 24/11/20 DC (darling child)?
@Frazzlerock age 41. Due 26/11/20 DC3 - 7th pregnancy
@EveningReflection 38. Due 04/12/2020 DC1
@MariaDingbat 40. Due 07/12/20 & FTM dc3
@jalu47 38. Due 13/12/20 FTM
@AuntLucy 44. Due Dec
@passthemustard Age? Due Dec DC5
@sunlight81 Age? Due Dec DC2 & 3 TWINS!
@countingblessings 40 Due 21/12/20 DC2
@LJEva 42. Due 25/12/20 DC2
@Liese27 38 Due 9/01/21 DC2
@Clarkel1 39 Due 10/01/21
@footprintsintheslow 40 Due 10/01/21 dC3
@pinklillie 39. Due Jan DC1
@sk283 40. Due 21/01/21 DC2
@Antihop 42. Due 21/01/21 DC2
@mlctobe 41. Due 21/01/21 DC2
@Mummymilla Age? Due 24/01/21 DC3
@Viennoise 38 Due 26/01/21 DC1
@Louscarlet 39 Due 30/01/21 DC1
@MaryShelley1818 Due 09/02/2021 DC2
@gilljill1980 40. Due 16/02/21 DC2
@BuffaloMozzerella 40. Due end of 02/21 DC2
@Chickoletta Due End of March DC3?

They sound great @naomiB79. I love his to death but sometimes he is really hard work. He always does catch up eventually but it is exhausting a d just don't have the energy. Fingers crossed he is on track now till baby here. Once here I think he will be great for a good long period at the Starr anyway. Novelty will wear off especially once back at his work.

The range for weight gain is pretty huge. Seems to say the heavier you are to start with the less you should put on but depends how high your BMI. Range is like 11-40 pounds. Check with your midwife if concerned.

@jalu47 I don't think anyone here has been diagnosed with gestational diabetes but they also aren't doing the proper test just a blood glucose spot reading rather than the fasting then 3 hours as you say. Surprised they are doing it but it is good that they are for you. My friend had it and is a healthy normal BMI so weight not always and indication. It was manageable. She just had to be careful what she ate and test her levels at points in the day. Xx

@NaomiB79 I gained 3 stone with both of my boys.
This one I have gained about 1 and 3/4 stone so far. I thought I'd be heavier by now but there's still 6 weeks to go as of Thurs. I think I started off heavier this time than I did with the boys as I reached 12 stone with them and I'm 11st 6 this morning, so I expect I'll go way over 12 stone this time.

I should probably stop weighing myself really. DP thinks the rest of my body hasn't got much bigger at all, except my hips and thighs (to be expected I think). He said he's really surprised I have stayed "so small" considering the size of my bump so maybe I should just stop with the scales!
I do miss the exercise though, I should probably do some yoga or something but I'm more of a runner really, I love running and really hope it doesn't take too long post section to get back into it!

Is anyone following any good yoga videos I could try out?

Thanks all for advice re weight gain. I have mentioned it to my midwife before and she wasn't concerned. I also had the test for diabetes at 28 weeks and it came back negative so I know I don't have that.

Will just try and be really healthy for the next 6 weeks and then like most of you have said weight myself in the new year (which will be six weeks after my due date) and deal with it then.

I'm due to get married in Jan 2022 so that gives me a good goal to get my weight back down and focus on being healthy. With Covid restrictions likely to get more severe I guess going for lots of walks with the baby is about the only thing I'll be guaranteed I can do once she is here XX

Thought I'd say hi! I'm 24 weeks due 24th Jan. I'm 39. Hope you're all well

@NaomiB79 oooh that's three weddings on the cards now. I'm due to get married in April next year (although beginning to think it still might be too soon re Covid ) and @Sheera1's due to get married too - if her DP tows the line . When is your date Sheera?
We've already cancelled ours once, and thought a whole year to postpone would be more than enough but I' not so sure now but I don't know if our suppliers will postpone for a second time.

Hi @Mumof3almost4 welcome to the group and congrats on your pregnancy! Is this your first?

ahh sorry, should have noticed from your name that you have 3 already! Doh...

Thanks @Frazzlerock. Ha yes this is my 4th, big 13 year old gap though!! It really is like starting all over again.
This pregnancy is going scarily fast. I'm also worrying more this time, I was so laid back with my other children.
Exciting times though!!

@Frazzlerock I know what you mean re wedding planning so difficult to know how things will be next year....I'm worried we can't have the wedding we want and it's more than a year away! Fingers crossed we can all get married as planned.

@Mumof3almost4 welcome to the group, how's your pregnancy going so far?

@NaomiB79 thank you! I had the usual sickness and fatigue up to 14 weeks. I then got a second wind and have Ben back to the gym and swimming keeping fit. I'm losing motivation now but think that's the weather too really makes me want to hibernate.
I am getting terrible trapped wind at tea time which is ruining my meals, I love my food so that's disappointing ha.
I'm sat about to officially hand in my mat leave dates and time off but have worried myself a sick that I'm jinxing everything by planning it. I know it is insanely irrational. Is anyone else as daft as me?!?!

@Mumof3almost4 I'm definitely more paranoid with this one but I wonder if that's age and being more aware of the things that can go wrong? With my 2 DC I was in my 20's and pretty naive, I think when you're younger you think "that will never happen to me".
I have big age gaps too, my eldest is 15 and youngest 11 so I have forgotten so much stuff, despite spending many years in the childcare sector - but I gave that up 7 years ago.

@Frazzlerock yes I definitely agree with that.
My eldest is 18, youngest 13. This is my first with my partner so I'm really excited.
I'll have a read through the thread and see where everyone is up to

@Mumof3almost4 I'm the same with being quite anxious. This is my first and I'm 41 so I think that this is my only chance to have a child. We tried for a long time to conceive and I have worried the whole way through that something will go wrong. I think it doesn't help that the medics talk constantly about the increased risk of having a child when you are older!

With 6 weeks to go I am super excited tho, can't wait to meet our little girl and be a mummy (although I am terrified about the giving birth bit 🙈) xx

Hi @mumof3almost4 You are in good company with worrying on this thread. Please feel free to talk about it as we are a good bunch on here. I have 6 weeks to go ytday!! Eeek.

@NaomiB79 yes a other wedding! As Frazz says I am booked for June 2021 wedding having postponed from July 2020 and will be hitting the diet and walking once this one is out. We can motivate each other.

I am fully expecting June 2021 to still have restrictions tbh. Mayne not as severe as the 20 we are allowed in Scotland just now.
We ripped up our plans because of this baby and tbh the planning got out of hand so we got deposits back due to covid and are planning 100 for a catered BBQ at my parents lovely garden and then a bus to a hotel for a dance and buffet. It is costing me a fraction of what we had planned originally and is more us. If we have to 20 or 30 we will still go ahead and move the evening do for another time once we can have everyone.

And yes Frazz if DP behaves. Lol.

Tbh he has stepped up. Came home ytday to a big apology saying he hasn't been taking good enough care of me or being interested enough in baby stuff. Been sticking his head in the sand and letting me worry alone. Was good to hear and hoping he keeps it up. 🙈😁.

Getting pretty tired now but I am juggling full time working from home and home education for my son and today was pretty full on. Find myself getting really grumpy with people not doing their jobs properly a d getting quite stressed.

In good news my boss has arranged that I will do a formal handover of all my clients on 19th October. I still have 4 weeks till mat leave so guess I get to slack off so quite happy about that although my cover is on holiday after that so I will be covering my own clients again straight away which is a bit silly. Or maybe they will have someone else cover...

Think they think I am going to pop early.

Hi ladies hope your all doing well , haven't been on in a while been busy decorating moving rooms etc. Everyone keeping ok? That's me 26 weeks now and staring to waddle 😂 quick question does anyone have like pressure down below at this stage? Feel like everything is very low down and like the baby is goi h to come out my ass 😂 sorry TMI... but seriously feel like I have a sore bottom and just pressure down there had it a couple of weeks now, probably just baby getting heavier and heard if it's not your first baby this can happen, anyone else? X

Hi @Mumof3almost4 welcome to the group!

@Clarkel1 no pressure down below for me but it is very normal and dependant on baby's position.

I've started getting some pretty heavy duty Braxton-Hicks contractions the last day or so. Actually makes me even more impatient for this last stretch to be over and baby here! We might have decided on a name too!!

@Clarkel1 I've got quite bad coccyx/tailbone pain which makes my bum ache if that is anything like yours?

Hi @clarke1 I ma feeling baby really heavy and low and for quite a while now. Sorry if TMI but often when I am constipated I feel it more. Baby is breech so also kicking/standing on my cervix and feels like it wants to fall out!

@@onlyreadingneverposting8 what are the names of your children? Would love to hear them.

We still can't get a boys name. Have about 6 but none really popping out as the one.

@Sheera1 in age order:

Xanthe
Nikolas
Gregory
Dennis
Hebe
Olympia
Timothy
Perseus

Think we have decided on Ennea (En-ay-a) for the baby. It means born ninth.

Yes very sore tailbone can't sit on it properly also Braxton hicks quite bad but sounds like this can be normal xx

Poor you. I'm uncomfortable sitting too now - especially on the sofa. Unfortunately I think that's a result of your ligaments loosening up for birth. Do you have a birthing ball yet? I found that SO comfy to sit on and relieve pressure. It seemed to press in all the right places. You could try that and see if it helps.

No idea if it's the same for everyone but I noticed in my last pregnancy that my bump would go really tight and have BH if I'd been doing a lot physically. Like at the end of a long walk. If you've been doing loads of decorating perhaps that could be contributing?

I LOVE your names @onlyreadingneverposting8!! Esp the new one. It is perfect.

I like Xander but would love Lysander but won't be allowed it. I love Ariadne too. Xxx

@Sheera1 Xander was one of my absolute favourites but figured out DP and I would say it differently - a north / south thing! I would say it more like Zander and he would say it softer, sort of like Sander.. so we've sadly scrapped it!

Xander is on our boys list too @jalu47 I would say 'Zander' as well

I still keep going back to Seth, Theo or Rafferty. No matter what names I try to think of I go back to those three but Seth seems to stand out the most for me. Although, being from the South East, we run the risk of people saying 'Seff' which will really bother me...
I think we're going to have to wait to see what he/she looks like and then look at our lists again. Poor little thing might be nameless for a day or two!

@Frazzlerock Theo is right up there for me too, as was Joshua and Zachary, but think we've agreed on Benjamin now..