Morning everyone! Hope you all had a nice Christmas? We did but am exhausted now, haven’t stopped for three days! Today is a chill out day - am still in bed and the only plans we have are to move to the couch, watch films and eat leftovers. The weather is meant to be vile here today so the perfect day for it!
@Starfish762 I didn’t feel movement until about 21/22 weeks (also anterior placenta) but I think as you’re not a FTM, odds are you’ll feel it a bit earlier than that.
That’s great from your trust about not measuring, it does seem like a very arbitrary way to do things!
Welcome, @Noornie and congratulations on your BFP. It is SO hard not to worry, I think most of us still do but the first trimester was by far the worst. As PP have said, small milestones are what got most of us through, just one small step at a time rather than looking at the bigger picture. I hope you feel better soon, maybe call your GP for advice if unsure about what’s best to do.
@DanceM1 I’ve had three occasions where I’ve leaked and started panicking about fluid! I think in my case it was just a bit of wee and a bit (a lot) of discharge! Completely understand the worry though. From what I can gather, you should change your pants or pop a pad in and see if it continues to happen, if it does, it could be waters, if not, probably just pee/discharge. The smell is a giveaway, too. I’ve been trying to do my pelvic floor exercises for a while now but always forget, just do them whenever I remember. Think I’m possibly averaging about once a day now, so getting better!
@Threnody How lovely that you told the children, must make it a bit more real now, too!
Officially hit 29 weeks yesterday, which is madness! 11(ish) weeks to go 😬 Baby girl had a really active few days over Xmas Eve, Xmas Day and Boxing Day, which was such a relief. My mum even got to feel her move 🥰 She seems a bit quieter this morning but have felt some wriggles in there. I think all of the movement has stopped me from worrying so much about my growth chart - as someone mentioned, my ethnicity is down as ‘other’ so it’s not very accurate anyway and my mum was saying that both her and my auntie had small bumps but I came out around 7lbs and my cousin was 9lbs! I’m quite slight normally, too, so makes sense that my bump is smaller.
I didn’t get to tell my siblings! One of those days where there just wasn’t a moment, but my dad and his wife told them on Christmas Day and when I FaceTimed them my brother asked to see my belly. They didn’t seem too interested though 😂
Hope everyone is doing ok! Xx