Due July 2022 (thread 4)

[CaptainCarp]

Hi all another new thread as the old 1 was almost full!

Previous thread
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/4445441-Due-July-2022-thread-3?pg=1

@KizboBaggins The recommendation is usually from 36 weeks just purely because you have to hand express which could bring on labour from the stimulation. Check with your midwife though & see what she says 🥰

@HotToddyColdSauvignon Hopefully your measurements are slightly off & baby will be a bit smaller for you 🙈🤞🏻

For my labour, it'll just be my husband- part of me wants my best friend there too but imagine DH wouldn't be too chuffed with that 🙈😂
Afterwards, I really want a couple of days to settle in with baby before having any visitors. I'm already getting anxiety about the anxiety I'll have watching my wee baby being passed around like pass the parcel 😭😂 That's my little baby - no touchy! 🙈😂

I'm the same @Lianna93 .. No idea how I will get visitors to stay away but I'm hoping people will have common decency and text to schedule a visit rather than just dropping in on top of us 🙈 here's hoping!! I don't even mind people holding the baby, it's more to give us time to rest and find out feet a bit, as this is our first! Hard enough trying to mind ourselves nevermind hosting others 😅

@Confusion101 My DH says he'd be quite happy for his parents to visit at the hospital or be immediately round the house & I just looked at him... Sorry, but we're not entertaining guests 6 hours after I've pushed a whole human out of me 🙃 Let me heal first & learn to feed my baby 🤦🏻‍♀️
He doesn't get the anxiety I have - he's just super excited & wants to share the excitement with everyone - which is great but I have to come to terms that I suddenly have to share the baby I've grown & carried for 40 weeks. Im not ready 🙈😂

My hospital let you have 2 birth partners but I’m just having my partner. They’re still not letting children visit afterwards. I’m gutted as I really want my DS1 to come in and meet his little brother in the hospital and get some photos like when I was born with my brothers in the hospital chair. Tbh my DS1 would probably be a nightmare pulling out wires, pressing buzzers etc so maybe it’s for the best 😂

I'd be gutted if my daughter couldn't visit -
In my eyes if a restaurant classes her as adult paying price like at last nights oriental buffet £8.95 for under 10's and £18.95 for over then I think she should be allowed!! (She's 11 in august) but if that's the rules that's the rules I guess

I will check with the hospital closer to the time

Re guests I'm happy to have people over
Last time I did over do it and had my mum sister kids and step dad over the next day thinking it would be fine as it wasn't we were so tired where we hadn't slept in days
This time I will have more time but I've said I will see how I go rather than put any pressure on

No one will just turn up they will text first

Little tip which I plan to do is buy nice biscuits and snacks ahead and I'm going to leave them out on a tray with the kettle/tea/coffee at hand and literally say help yourselfs if you want a drink! It worked fine and then your not 'entertaining' which is more my stress then anything else

There's no one in my friends/family that I wouldn't feel uncomfortable them doing that and anyone I wouldn't want wouldn't be coming over ! So I don't feel anxious about that

I think I'll enjoy the company/change of scenery

Also people will bring things to you
I found people coming over bought nice cakes / biccies anyway so it's a nice treat

But I will definitely give myself more time this time

X

@strawberrysummer19 my hospital just say no children. I think it’s because they apparently spread Covid more from school etc. But tbh at 11 years old your daughter can wear a mask/ have temperature checked etc! So I don’t see why it’s a problem but I guess it’s each hospitals policies 🙄 I know I have to stay 48 hours after birth and I’m going to miss my DS1 sooooo much, never been away from him for longer than a night. Mind you, it will be a nice break from looking after a toddler 😂

@strawberrysummer19 my hospital is still no visitors at all, other than the birthing partner. And even that's only just increased to allow them more hours. Up until now they were only allowed to come 2 hours a day.

@Lianna93 I think it will be quite weird handing the baby over to other people when he's just been with me in my belly this whole time. In a way I don't want him to come out lol I was with my parents yesterday and my dad said something about looking after baby if I needed to go out and I felt funny about leaving my alien with someone else and thats my dad fgs lol gonna be hard to hand them over for sure

With visitors I'll only have my parents I think once I'm back home. They're not so bad. I have a friend who lives literally the next road over and I know she'll wanna come visit as soon as I step in the door but she's had a kid herself so hopefully she knows we'll need time in the bubble first before intruding

How many cellular blankets is enough? I brought one and my mum has got 3 more so is 4 good enough? Same with bottles, I have 5 that have been given to me. Looking at my list of things to buy and it's very nearly finished 😁

Hi all - I am currently 28 weeks pregnant and my husband has just tested positive for Covid. So far my tests are negative but I am now terrified of catching it and the baby being adversely affected. Both my husband and I are triple vaccinated but he is already really quite unwell (fever, cough, achy etc). We are in a country where Covid hasn’t been very widespread until recently (HK) so I doubt I have been exposed previously which makes me worry that I might get very sick with it in a way that harms my baby.

I think I saw some others on the thread had tested positive and wanted to know how you got on? Obviously I will keep up the daily testing (and my husband is self isolating in a room on a different floor to me) but should I be very worried? Any tips on what I should ask my doctor for if I do test positive?

I would be hugely grateful for any advice!

I tested positive around 10 weeks ago, so let's say about week 20. 24 hours of being a bit sniffly and really nothing else- I remember being a bit hot for about 15 minutes at one stage. DH came down with it a few days later and was sicker, albeit not for longer than 48 hours. DC1 had no symptoms whatsoever while testing positive.

Stay well hydrated, move around as much as you can and try not to worry. If you test positive let your hc professional know and ask their advice. Fingers crossed for you that you manage to avoid, hopefully your DH isolating will be effective- it's not inevitable that you'll catch it. Best of luck xx

@Fingerscrossedfor2021HK

Should add both DH and I are triple vaxxed, DC1 not.

@Fingerscrossedfor2021HK I had covid a few weeks ago, kept water and paracetamol in me at all times. I was fine and baby was fine and has been fine in all scans since. Hosp told me to monitor baby's movements. I had vaccine and booster got, and had never tested positive before.

@MollyRover @Confusion101 - thank you! I am still negative this morning… fingers crossed!

@Fingerscrossedfor2021HK I hope you manage to dodge covid!

Re visitors, most of OHs family live abroad so haven't gotta worry about them turning up and my family don't turn up unannounced anyway. My parents only live 5-10 mins up the road and my dads side of the family live about an hour away and I think they will all want to visit on the same day so I'm thinking they can go to my parents house and we will bring baby up to their house. That way I haven't gotta worry about entertaining, doing drinks, making sure the house is clean and making sure the dog isn't being a menace, he is so friendly he just loves people and will want lots of fuss.

Talking about dogs, my poor little guy was attacked this morning in the park by another dog who was off the lead, i had to grab the other dog by its harness to get it off him while the owner just wondered over claiming her dog wasn't aggressive 😐 after it was all over I just thought what if that happened while I had a baby strapped to my chest. Why can't people just keep thier dogs under control 🙄

@ChinChilly awww god that is awful, I hope your dog is okay! It's a good point, you would hope these occasions would be rare but we also have a little dog who is often scared by bigger dogs off lead running up to him. People shouldn't let their dogs just run up to others, and especially if they are aggressive anyway! It will be scary having a baby in the mix as well... I wish dog owners had to go on dog training classes like we go for antenatal appointments!

@ShellUK09 he's ok thanks, he was abit put out at the time but soon over it. He's such a softie though he doesn't even attempt to retaliate. That really annoys me too or they'll shout don't worry he's friendly as it's running towards you at full speed...I keep my dog on a lead, not because he's unfriendly but because his recall is non existent, he's got a decent extendy lead so he can go off and have a sniff. People should definitely have to do some sort of dog training especially with the amount of dog attacks on the news recently

@ChinChilly sorry to hear about your dog! This has happened to my boy quite a few times and it breaks me heart. He's so lovely. He's a black lab and dogs don't always like him... I always worry one day it'll be a bad enough incident that it will make him reactive and change his life forever. He doesn't deserve that.

I also worry about how I'm going to manage with a baby and an excitable labrador... but I'm sure I'll figure it out. I currently spend a lot of time walking him and feel sad I might not be able to do as much when baby is here.

@Fingerscrossedfor2021HK another triple vaxxed covid positive preggo over here! I got it when I was about 22 weeks I think, and it was all fine thankfully. Plenty of rest and fluids as others have said! Hopefully you don't catch it anyway!

Breaks my heart ... not me heart 😅

@KizboBaggins Mine is fox red lab and he gets the same reaction from some dogs, I did wonder if it was because he's still got his 🥜 Lol. I feel sad for him when stuff like that happens because he's so happy go lucky. Our dog before him was a black lab and he was attacked as a puppy and it made him a nervous wreck around other dogs.. we couldn't even take him to the park as it was just too stressful for him.

I'm wondering about the logistics of walks with the dog and baby, our dog is 3 so he's coming out of thay excitable stage and as long as he gets his morning walk he just snoozes all day but he's abit pully on the lead so it's definitely not gonna work with a pushchair when I'm on my own

@NamelessBaby1 Thanks! Nice to be part of this group.

My glucose test went alright last week, I didn't feel too bad drinking the liquid. However, I found out today that I failed the 1 hour test. I'm going back to the Dr. on Wednesday for the 3 hour test. Disappointed! But must do whatever's best for me and the bump.

I walked our dog with our first and it was an excellent reason to get out of the house every day either with the buggy or a sling. I timed it with naps and listened to an audio book, it was lovely actually.

Have you tried a halti on your pully dog? Ours pulled like anything as a puppy and a halti completely solved the problem. She's really good on the lead now. She's another who was badly attacked as a puppy by another dog and is now terrified of other dogs, it makes me so sad to see her trying to run away from even the friendliest dogs. Thanks so much for that other dog owner.

@Mattieandmummy I have thought about a halti, we're working on it with him atm and some days he is better than others so if that fails by the time baby is here.. halti it is. Oh your poor dog, that's such a shame! Why can't people just be responsible with their dogs.. I just want to walk my dog in peace

@ChinChilly ahh fox red labs are gorgeous! I've been using a GenCon lead with mine (basically another version of halti) but only really in new places where he's over excited, just so he's used to it when baby is here. But when we walk locally I've been loose lead training and he's getting better but if he sees an empty greggs wrapper on the floor he loses his tiny little mind and lunges like something possessed

@Mattieandmummy that's so sad about her becoming reactive. Poor thing. I'm really hoping baby will like the sling so I can walk the dog daily too.

32 weeks today.... how has this flown so quickly?!
This threads almost done & our next thread will likely see a lot of us having our babies 🥺🧡