Minsters Side Car - Thread 7 - annoying neighbours, second hand bargains and how many sleep suits should we buy again?!

[larrythelizard]

Babies due in 2022

@Lexber 20 April 💜💙
@DKDK123 12 May 💜
@bez91 14 May 💛
@Minster2012 22 May 💜 (C-section the week before)
@whatwonder 5 June 💛
@feliznavidad2 5 July 💜
@SWAttempting 23 July (will be delivered in June). 💜
@paintfairy 24 July 💜
@Vil10 1 August 💛
@Juno231 11 August 💜
@kaylsd 15 August 💛
@larrythelizard 18 August 💛

@Kirky658 11 August 2021 💜
@Kate105 14 October 2021 💙
@Justanothercyster 10 November 2021 💜
@2020Mission 27 December 2021 💙
@blackcurrantqueen 17 January 2022 💜
@Crazydoglady123 29 January 💜
@Haiyaa 1 February 💙
@becarefuloutthere 26 February 💜

@Vil10 I got quite paranoid with the movements they never felt that strong to me, but I didn’t know what to expect
@Minster2012 we let ds paint his wall Chelsea red, so not the best judgement from me maybe
@paintfairy of the hundreds of names I found, analized and chose dh only accepted one, so... but everybody says it suits him, it is one of those classics a bit out of fashion then, now much more common, we do have the girl name from then if she ever comes

@paintfairy I literally have no idea? She just said that she was told she had a 1 in 10,000 chance😂 I think she might've got mixed up with the first trimester screening results maybe! I don't know why I'm so bothered about a report when they've said everything was fine I suppose I'd just rather have it there in writing but the app is so vague it doesn't really tell you anything! Yeah I think pulses is what I can describe them as today but I can't be sure, who even knows anymore!

@Minster2012 that is pretty full on! And definitely lucky you can take the time even on the shopping and cleaning taking a hit, but needs must lady! I think mine are just becoming a little bit stronger flutters, I can't wait for the OH to be able to feel them too! I'm also confused about the chance thing, I think she's got it mixed up!

@Minster2012 oh and I think I'd have been a bit pee'd off with my parents letting my children make a decision like that without consulting me first, so nope YABU

@Franklydear I felt quite paranoid too, I think because it's different for everyone you don't quite know what's right or what to expect!

@Vil10 I haven't bought anything on the haakaa website. I just got the haakaa silicone pump with lid on Amazon https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07G43F123 you can get the pump on its own for £15 on Amazon if you're confident you won't need the lid. This is just to collect letdown and won't be of use as a way to manually express milk. I didn't get it until weeks after I got and started using the electric pump.

@Vil10 I have the same one as @2020mission but I do use it to manually express too! I have a pretty fast letdown so it doesn't take me long at all to get enough for a bottle... I'm basically a highly efficient milk cow 😂🙈

Also @Vil10 I have 2 because I use one every day so I can wash one and wear one so to speak... but maybe worth just getting one to start and see how you get on!

@Vil10 one of my sorting around ones is on Easter Monday too ☹️that will be an arse

So that haakaa thing is just to catch milk that comes out of the other boob whilst you express from one? Is that right? So a glorified cup?? @2020mission @Kate105 am i thinking right? I'm so confused 😂

@Franklydear If you allowed him to choose that's fine, it's your house! That was the annoyance I was like errrrrm it would've been nice for you to offer & consult 😜

@Kate105 efficient milking, efficient parenting see!

So yeah we've had snow as well tonight. Wtf I was wearing sun cream at the weekend IT'S SUMMERTIME NOW

@Minster2012 I'm glad you asked that! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Frigging clueless over here!
@Vil10 🧐 your friend sounds crackers, wouldn't worry about it. 🤣 I have a 1 in 10,000 chance of sleeping tonight though. 🙄

Don't think I will bother with a haakka I will hopefully have a baby on each tit 🤣🤣🤣

I could never get the hakaa haakaa?? to stay on right, just googled it and it appears I wasn't doing it properly. 😂

How are you @larrythelizard? Don't think you've posted today

As if bloody Covid and blood thinners wasn't enough (I'm on bloody antibiotics for an infected scratch on my arm too), think I've got thrush again. 😫

@feliznavidad2 tbf I'd guess the antibiotics would be the culprit for the thrush! My wee has been stinging a bit today so I'm worried I'm getting a UTI...

@vil10 I'm getting the same haakaa as @2020mission off of Amazon. And yup it's for let down although seems to have a light suction ability to help it along a bit.

Argh I still have another week until my 20 week scan (I'm 21 weeks tomorrow!) and I cannot flipping wait! I'm also getting stupidly excited about my holiday but seeing all you ladies catch covid now I'm a bit scared I'll catch it too and won't be able to go 😂

So our house renovations will start mid May and we need to find a flat nearby to move into for 6 months. Except everything around us gets snapped up the same day it comes on the market so I'm getting a bit concerned we might end up homeless 😅

Never rains but it pours @feliznavidad2

@Lexber yeah I think you'll permanently have live boob attachments!

To me if just looks like a cup that suctions on? It's all REALLY confusing @paintfairy but I think I'm gonna leave it a bit see how I go...if all else fails I can ask DH to be useful & hold a cup over my tit 😂thankfully I should be ok for sleep but my friend who had her section yesterday is worrying me saying she hasn't slept a wink despite mask & earplugs & not cos of the baby

For anyone looking for maternity/BF friendly nighties for summer umm births, just found these on the Freemans website which look ideal. And 95% cotton.

https://www.freemans.com/products/maternity-nightie//A-9431600_10

Wide awake club 😬

2nd loo trip of the night and not able to drop back off been awake since 3.30am and now the little fella is having a party...

Hey @Lexber bless you, same here. DS is coughing away and my throat kills. 😒

Contemplating getting up and making a cup of tea.

Morning, ladies since you all awake, caffe and breakfast on the go here, af is finished and I feel me again, boobs not painful, still a bit bigger than usual, which dh is happy about, cos dd was not enough, no cramps,
@Juno231 we can count down the days with you, 6 months?! I know it’s not doable but a hotel, like a decent one with concierge, not the moon one

@Juno231 god your scans all seem to be very late, 20 weeks at nearly 22?? That's not fun. Think positively, you won't get covid & your trip will be fine! That's exciting about the renovations, could you try do a flyer drop yourselves around the area to try get things before they go on the market? Def stress the pregnant card for the estate agents 🤞🏻

Pleased AF has finished @Franklydear so it seems the mid cycle spotting was probably a ridiculously light AF then?

Hopefully you ladies get some naps today @feliznavidad2 @Lexber

@Minster2012 if thats the case then this cycle was 19 days, I bet on a ridiculous long cycle and the spotting a miss, obviously wrong either way

@kaylsd is it your 20 week scan today? If so good luck xxx

@Vil10 it's only natural to want everything sorting, I said to DH the other day that I have an overwhelming need to repaint the fence before baby arrives, I think it's nesting but as if anyone actually gives one about a fence looking nice 😆 trying to lower my self expectations this time round as I'm sure they were a small contributing factor for suffering PND last time although I'm talking about painting a fence so I'm obviously not doing very well 😂 April would be perfect time to move in and get bits done during the warmer weather. On the movements I'd say it wasn't until like 24+ weeks I started to get proper boots, it's changed again now as space is limited and it's just like they're moving from side to side.

That's quite a concoction @feliznavidad2 I've managed to avoid thrush since the first trimester but I think I have it too so you're not alone, pregnancy just keeps on giving 🙈

@Juno231 that's a pain with finding somewhere, alike @Minster2012 suggested can you contact local agents and explain your situation? They might be able to earmark you for viewings of places before they go on the market?

[quote Minster2012]@kaylsd is it your 20 week scan today? If so good luck xxx[/quote]
Thank you for the check in angel!
Covid has wiped the life out of me, I've never felt as drained and fatigued in my life! Adams started today testing positive which is rubbish but I rang antenatal and they still allowed us in despite being positive which was amazing as we thought we'd have to be rearranged!

Baby is absolutely perfect, measuring at 31st percentile and the sonographer was really lovely explaining every single part to us and showing us the screen at each organ however
My placenta is low and covering partial of my birth canal or something? Needs to be 2.5cm away and it's varying between 1.9cm-2.5cm but I had an internal and it was clear so I'm being brought back at 32 week to have another scan to check if the position has moved as the baby grows! I don't know if anyone of you ladies have had the same / heard of anyone with the same but my understanding it just may impact on the birth choices if remains covering the birth canal / can have spotting / bleeding episodes in second trimester as baby grows

Sorry for being a shit passenger, covid is the devil :(

Praised from bestie boy, it's like I have my own Indonesian child!

@kaylsd an early scan (16wks) showed my twin 1 placenta was low and I had a couple of unexplained little bleeds around weeks 15/16 which they put down to this. It did move more to the side and now is clear and he is head down.

If it hadn't have moved it would have meant a section as baby wouldn't have been able to engage properly as it would have been partially blocked in my case. The fact it's already partially across means it's could quite easily move for you - it's amazing how much things can move/change in weeks! Xx

@paintfairy oh no not you in the covid club too! 🙈 Hope you don't get it too bad. Great bargain on the sling. I think it was you that mentioned vinted? I usually use ebay or marketplace but decided to have a nosey on vinted last night and ended up spending about £25 on extra baby clothes that I really didn't need 🙈 But it's like going into primark or home bargains you go ooh that's cheap I'll just have that, till you get to the till and realise it all adds up 😂

@Vil10 these are what it says on my notes for the 20week scan, nothing exciting essential just 'normal' beside all the body parts they check. On the haakaa, I got the Lansinoh version on amazon because it comes with a lanyard and I remember from trying with DS it fell off my boob and what little milk I'd tried to gather was gone and I was devastated. 😂 On the kicks, they start off as flutters then it'll feel like if you poke your belly in a bit with your finger imagine that in reverse from the inside poking if that makes sense or you might start to feel little rolls from the inside. Once you're a bit further on and the proper strength kicks happen there's no mistaking them, some may even make you say 'ouch!' out loud as they can be bloody sore! I've now changed mines name from Emily to Kung Fu Panda at the moment as it feels like she's beating me up from the inside 😂

@Lexber yea I think your boobs are going to be in constant demand as it is 😂

@feliznavidad2 you're having a right time of it 🙈 rest up when you can.

@Juno231 not to scare you with covid stories but make sure you have a good travel insurance that covers covid while you go. FIL is on holiday in Egypt at the moment luckily he's not bad with it but he's going to have to fork out for a longer stay there before he can fly home again.

@bez91 I've been feeling the random urge to garden nest too 😂 My house is in chaos but I really NEED the garden tidy which doesn't make sense.....tho maybe because we're having late spring babies our bodies know we'll be spending a lot of the summer in the garden with them 🤔

@kaylsd glad to hear baby's doing well (even if you're not, poor you). If the placenta is too low within certain measurements of the cervix by the time baby's due to be born then usually they'll do a section. However from what I've heard for most people it moves further up closer to the time as the baby moves and womb shape changes so try not to worry about it too much just now. And yea you might get some spotting or bleeding, I had loads from 24 weeks onwards last time but I also had a fibroid pushing down on the placenta and baby that liked to jump on both so hopefully you won't experience it to that extreme and to hopefully reasurre you that despite all the bleeding I had (got to the point in 3rd trimester it was every 3-4 days passing clots the size of my palm and loads of blood), baby was born perfectly fine and healthy.

I have an unexpected child free afternoon 🥳 I'm guessing DH phoned his sister last night and asked her if she could take DS for me today as its not a usual thing to happen. But I had a few dizzy spells yesterday to the point I had to lie on the floor with a wet towel on my head as I couldn't even sit up. I think between that yesterday and the hospital trip the night before its given DH a fright. I told him I think this is my body now telling me enough enough I need to slow it right down and rest. By this time last pregnancy I was in hospital on complete bed rest, the most strenuous thing I did was eat my dinner that was brought to me! This time round I'm dropping DS at nursery, coming home working from home, picking him up, entertaining him, making the dinner, tidying up, not sleeping at night but no time foe naps during the day and my body's now screaming stop. I think DH is feeling guilty as he works 6days a week and doesn't get home till DSs bed time so can't help with drop offs/pick ups, the entertaining him or cooking dinner so I think roping in outside help to give me a rest is his way of trying to lighten the load for me. Tho now that I have free time and I'm supposed to be resting my mind keeps wandering to the housework that I really could be doing to get it out of the way. 🤔

@Juno231 is right @Minster2012 @paintfairy it's a suction cup which catches the let down from the other boob while you're feeding, but if you get it attached properly it's also got a bit of vacuum suction to it so it squeezes out a bit more milk than you would usually get! I get about 60ml from a single feed which sounds pathetic but is actually half a bottle for PTSD as BF babies don't take much in volume at all! It's really cool actually, your milk just gets fattier when they need more calories so the baby doesn't actually drink more in volume past about 6 weeks?!

In a major case of "you win some, you lose some", PTSD slept through last night 🙌🏻 (although I woke up at 4am in a panic in case I'd slept through him crying...) but we had a nappy poo yesterday. Turned my back for a second to get a clean nappy and PTSD had managed to pee EVERYWHERE. All over himself (head to socks) and halfway across the carpet. FFS 😂🙈