March 2021 #4

[holb54]

Thread for anyone due in March 2021 💜 including those due end of February and early April 😊

@aureliacecilia I’m the same. A couple of friends of ours are really struggling for have babies. I’m feeling a little nervous about telling one of my friends although I know how supportive and happy she’ll be.

@aureliacecilia we won’t be doing social media announcements- neither of us really use it so don’t feel the need. Also similar that I’ve had a few friends really struggle with fertility and I know how much ‘announcement’ posts affected them.xx

@Sussexbysea it’s really tricky isn’t it- one of my friends struggled for 3 years and then was able to have a beautiful boy through IVF. She used to tell me that she was always happy for her friends who told her they were pregnant but used to just be so so jealous to the point of anger.xx

I'm very glad to hear your friend has had her much longer for baby, @Enjoy07. Sorry to hear your friend is having a tough time conceiving too, @Sussexbysea (and I'm also delighted to see you back on the group). My friend has an IVF baby and is now unexpectedly pregnant again naturally - wonderful but a little overwhelming for her as baby #1 was only four months old when she conceived!

With the last of the scans next week I'm looking forward to getting to know you all better on Facebook. Hopefully we can start getting the wheels in motion for that towards the end of next week?

We've started getting the baby's room ready now. We're not doing a nursery but rather making a lovely guest room with a cot in it and storage for baby's clothes. I'm expecting baby will be in our room for at least six months and then if it follows its brother it still won't be sleeping through the night. I'm hoping we can set up a nice space to sleep next to the baby, either in its cot or the bed, and also have somewhere lovely for one of us to have some respite when the night wakings are too much! The guest bed can then be my son's when the baby is bigger and needs more space in the room for toys!

@Danni2021 not sure it counts as next week but mine is tomorrow Will finally get to see my passenger!

@aureliacecilia is your goal to make a second Facebook group then?

@Jebbs I thought that was what was happening as most of the women here aren't yet in a Facebook group? I could be wrong. I thought we were starting one then and just waiting until everyone had had their scans as a courtesy before migrating. Happy to be corrected if I've got the wrong end of the stick though.

@aureliacecilia I honestly have no idea. There's already a group that people are being added to if they ask to be... no idea how many people are on this thread as well as in the fb group but I think there are a few of us. I'm not really bothered either way tbh and am quite happy to help people migrate to either a new group or the existing one if it can be of help. I'm just not aware of a decision having been made or if there were reasons given to want a new separate group.
That said I managed to miss about a thread and a half as these threads fill up crazily fast so may well have missed all of that!

I don't think there's been any real decisions taken. I just assumed the active users on here who have been chatting for the last 9 or 10 weeks would want to carry on building those relationships and putting a real person behind a username. Happy to go with the flow.

@aureliacecilia baby will be sleeping in my partners office. We did this with our daughter too. We’re planning on building work next spring that will allow baby to have their own room. Like you say, baby will be in our room for 6 months anyway. I’ve never known a baby to make the most of their own room in the first year apart from sleeping.

Hi all, been following this thread for a while now. Due 24th March and have my first NHS scan on Monday. I have already had a private scan at 8 weeks due to a blighted ovum in Jan and couldn't wait 12 weeks to find out this time. So I deff know there is a baby in there this time but still find myself nervously awaiting Monday.

So after taking antibiotics for a week for tonsillitis I went to the doctor yesterday feeling very unwell and with my throat sorer than ever. He decided I had a virus. Last night my temperature went up to 38.5 and I’ve got a very nasty chesty cough that won’t let me lie down. I rang him this morning and based on my new symptoms he referred me for a Covid test. I had that done couple of hours ago. I’m also on another course of antibiotics for the chest.

I’m supposed to be going to my partners sons confirmation tomorrow. We had a lovely day out planned, instead I’ll be home alone waiting for a call ☹️

@Jebbs @aureliacecilia I think people on this thread would like a fb group just for us not others too. That’s the feeling I got when we discussed it around 4/5 weeks ago.

Personally I’d prefer a group with people just from here.

How does everyone else feel?

@TheFoz you poor thing!!! I had covid when I was about 5 weeks pregnant.

Hope you get your results quickly.x

@emmafou1807 welcome and congratulations lovely. Fingers crossed for your scan date. I was so nervous for mine xx

Hello! I’m late to the party but would love to join you guys. I have just had my 12 week scan- I’m 12+4 and due 29th March. I’ve been too nervous to join a group before now!

@Sussexbysea I agree with you on the Facebook group, our group here has been so nice and would rather it's just us from this thread to be honest

@aureliacecilia can't wait for the Facebook page! Could easily start getting it underway now in a week or so

I'm happy to volunteer to set the group up if nobody else is particularly interested in the setting up of it but happy for someone else to as well 💕

@aureliacecilia we've gone for the same approach here, we've got a spare room that we decorated when we moved in jan that I'll just pop a cot in and some cute animal prints on the wall!

I've still not bought anything for little baby yet and I'm 15 weeks today, need a little confidence boost to start I think

@holb54 happy for you to set it up lovely

@TheFoz Hopefully its negative and you feel better real soon!

congrats @pinacollama

Anyone else still waiting on the screening results and can't relax? Its been a week since my scan and when they rang to tell me about the low PAPP-A they did say they were low risk, but I just need to see the number for myself! They said within a week but thats obviously now passed :(

Hey ladies, sorry been quiet on here, busy week with work but just had a read and a good old catch up! Looking forward to a Facebook group! We have a private gender scan booked tomorrow, eeeek!! So excited and nice for my hubby too as he still can't come to our nhs scans. 17 weeks on tues and time seems to be flying now! Also getting larger by the day! Haha! Xx

I agree about the Facebook group - thank you for volunteering to sort it @holb54 xx
@TheFoz hope you’re feeling better soon xx

@holb54 rubbish at setting that up but if you need a hand getting people over then I'm happy to help. (If you're setting it up directly as hidden/secret then it'll have to be by invitation or you could set up a group with a really obscure name but not hidden, we all join then you hide it and change the name.)

Sorry, just read that again and didn't make much sense. It was meant to be a go for it @holb54! Thank you in advance

@LottieDot i havnt had any screening tests at all 😔 baby wouldn't stop moving and it took 30 mins to just get a measurement so they couldn't do it. I have to wait for a blood test in 2 weeks.

I haven't told work yet, we just got an email saying there will be more redundancies so now I feel il be at risk if i tell them now!

Welcome and congratulations @emmafou1807 & @pinacollama!

I'd also agree about having a facebook group for us and happy to help with anything x