Due February 2023 ❤️💙💛💖 Thread 2!

[Peonies94]

A thread for when our old one fills up!

@Cocolatte24 Thank you, someone has already sent me the link ❤

@Akmc

I can say my belly button is hurting and I am also on my third pregnancy. You should get that checked out by your GP.
I have bad bloating definitely showing and bad constipation.

Second pregnancy and my belly button is huge, fortunately no pain so far but I remember it well from my first pregnancy so I think it will be a matter of time before I get there 😩

@Scorpio8 thanks. We’ve spoken about your constipation before and I’m sorry to see it’s back again, I had it with my second pregnancy (and it episodically continued right up until this pregnancy), and I don’t know if it’s because my vits have a probiotic or something, but that chronic problem has gone away currently, though I do have a job lot of fybogel upstairs for when it returns, so you have my sympathy if you’re still going through that! I hope the midwives and docs have helped with that.

I’ll mention the belly button at the 20 week scan as there’s a midwife to talk to there hopefully. @Cocolatte24 thanks and welcome to the club, crap though it is! It’s so weird, this thing yesterday was like an appendage 🤮. I’ve had a cold with a terrible hacking cough and think I may have popped something out as my abdominal wall separated with my second child and you could literally fall down the gap for months and months afterwards. I’d been to a PT and the gym but clearly haven’t done enough so I think I’m just really weak there. Weirdly it’s gone down a bit today. I assume you had pain also? Our bodies are really amazing to put up with all this. Stretch Armstrong has nothing on us! 🤣🤣

@Akmc

I had to go my GP surgery and the lady doctor prescribed me fybogel. So hopefully that will help me.

@Cocolatte24 I kept the link private until I announced my pregnancy incase anyone I knew came across it as it had my name on it.

If anyone would like to join the Facebook group - the link is here, valid for 48 hours or 20 clicks

fb.me/g/p_k2mPGtnehNnwxfHi/qW5Qwo65

@Akmc yep I had really bad pain and it was so sensitive! The stretch marks around my belly button are the worst. I dread to think what I’ll be like near the end this time given the size of my bump at the moment.
I was clear of stretch marks up to 38-39 weeks last time and feeling so proud of myself and my religious bio oil treatments and then bang, skin was basically just ripping 😭😭

Rather selfishly, I’m glad to hear there are others with bumps. I looked at “19 weeks pregnant” images on Google and was instantly depressed. Finally found one that looked representative… and it was of a QUINTUPLETS bump! 🫠🫠 Though as I’ve not felt anything yet I’m convinced this child is in some weird alignment right now. Oh and on the last minute stretching, totally the same story here, it must be so common as the babies are just SO BIG, and I’m sure you remember how quickly your babe managed to grow out of their first onesie. It was less than 2 weeks for us!

@Cocolatte24 whoops, sorry.

Could someone share the Facebook link please?

@YoureAMeanOneMrGrinch Would you mind also sending me the link please? ☺️ Thanks x

@Rowse @MrsD2021

fb.me/g/p_A6qzER4xByQz87JM/vrtKlYR3?ref=share

Thank you so much!

Brilliant, thank you!

Please could someone share the Facebook link again, would love to join! Last one has expired :)

@SJ1994 here you go

fb.me/g/p_5cNUDWLPCoHUyD6B/Rf0gwBqa

@YoureAMeanOneMrGrinch Thank you!

Anyone feeling baby move yet? I haven't and it's my first. Anxious to feel her soon!

I was feeling something from about 14-17 weeks... whether it was baby or not I have no idea. 18 weeks now and I haven't felt much for the past few days at all... except for maybe 2 or 3 definite pops. I'm thinking what I was feeling before may not have been baby but something else, it's so hard to know when it's your first time! I'm just reassuring myself with the fact my midwife said if I'm lucky I'll start to feel at 18 weeks and trying not to worry too much about it! My baby has definitely moved further back in the past few days thanks to me no longer being quite so backed up (tmi), as I used to be able to feel it just by pressing lightly on the bump. Now I can't feel it, and I'm sure it hasn't disappeared... hopefully😅

I feel occasional "pops" especially if i try getting up too quick.. 18 weeks.. Second pregnancy... Im hoping by 20 weeks will feel more

I've been feeling a lot of movement but found out I have a posterior placenta. With my first I had an anterior and definitely felt it much later and took a while to feel noticable movement. Try not too worry, I'm not sure how far you are, but it can vary and hopefully it'll be soon.

I had an anterior placenta last time too and didn't feel anything until quite late....hadn't even felt baby myself at this point last time and today my husband felt this baby for the first time! Posterior placenta makes a massive difference.

@FlyOnTheWall89 I started feeling the baby this week but like others said, I have a posterior placenta so was expecting to feel earlier. Do you know where your placenta is? Saying that, I only feel the baby if I am sat still or laying in bed - feels like a little goldfish in there 😂

Thanks all. I'm 18 weeks on Tuesday. At my midwife app last week, they did listen to the babies heartbeat which I didn't know you could ask them to do so I'm just having one of those panicky is everything okay pre-20 week scan episodes. I feel great now and full of energy and except feeling rounder, it's hard to imagine a little person is wiggling around in there. No idea where the placenta is and I checked my maternity notes and it isn't mentioned anywhere annoyingly. @BritInNZ glad you're feeling something - so excited for us after our long journeys xx

@FlyOnTheWall89 i felt movements for the first time last week, I was alnost 20 weeks, it was like a little tap inside! A few days after I’d felt them the first time I went on to feel them loads! It’s normal to feel them anytime between 16-24 weeks! It does make you panic though!