July 2023 (Thread 2)!

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Creating a new thread as we’re about to finish the first - just as we finish our first trimesters!

@Porcupette hello! Welcome and congrats! Hope you're doing okay 😊
I'm currently 17+3, found out we're having a boy (already have a 3 yr old). Is this your first or do you have others?

How exciting! Is your 3 year old a little boy too? Do you have clothes from last time you can use?

We’ve got a little girl who’ll be 2 next month. Our 20 week scan is booked for the middle of March so we’ll find out what we’re having then!

@mumma2oneDD I'll be 16 weeks tomorrow, but I don't think it would've come out if I wasn't messing with it.

@Porcupette It's nice to have someone around the same date as me! I'm July 30th so also barely in July

Re the house moves, we’ve just had an offer accepted but our mortgage was
declined 😫 so stressed out. We have one last chance pretty much and if it doesn’t work then we will definitely not be moved by time baby is born and we are currently living with parents after our house sale. I’m trying to think positive and know it won’t be forever but it is putting a cloud over my pregnancy. :(

Fingers crossed it works out for you! Moving is so stressful, we did it last summer and it’s just such hard work!

We’re thinking we might give up on trying to move, given timings. Our estate agents - who wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them in the face - are pressuring us to lower the price of our flat dramatically, despite having given us the valuation we’ve put it on at less than two months ago. Presumably they did that to secure our business and are now looking for a quick sale.

To be fair there isn’t much on the market that we’re interested in at the moment either. And mortgages - thanks Liz Truss! - and two sets of childcare costs are worrying me…

So we’re thinking we’ll build a big shoffice / insulated garden room in the (for London, pretty large) back garden. The price of timber has massively increased since the Ukraine war began but I’m hoping we can make it work without taking on too much debt. Hoping it’ll make room for an office, a spare bedroom (sofa bed) and some of our furniture (of which we have far too much).

Has anyone done similar?

Sleeplessness continues. Solidarity to the insomnia crew. How are you getting through it? I’m having to find time to nap during the day - trying to start work a bit earlier so as to have that time.

Welcome @Porcupette :)

@MountainLaurel7 yes, a little tiny bit, I notice it when I wake up in the mornings. Barely a drop or two, but there, on occasional days since about 13 weeks. I had the same but from much later in my first pregnancy.

@RandomCatGenerator @habiller my biggest issue is early morning wake ups - I inevitably wake up to pee somewhere between 4 and 5 and then it takes me ages to get back to sleep! It’s definitely better at the weekend when I know the alarm isn’t going to go off five minutes after I fall asleep!

oh I feel like I’m up and down like a yo-yo to the bathroom. And then at 3 my 18 month old starts crying for milk - it’s a bad cycle we’ve got into - and then at 4 the cat wants breakfast and then at 7 the baby wakes up…

One thing that's always helped me with getting back to sleep before work is to never look at the time, it honestly does help not knowing.

Oh the early morning wake ups 😩 ping im
wide awake from 5am then struggling to keep my eyes open from mid morning , driving me insane!

I am awake every hour and a half from closing my eyes - I've tried not drinking loads going to bed but I waken with a dry mouth and needing to pee so I go to the loo and take a drink. Then 1.5hrs later the cycle continues! OH has a theory that it's nature's way of getting my body geared for feeds. I usually fall asleep straight away again but it takes a while to get comfy due to the hip pain - it's never ending!

Just catching up on messages :)

Talking of house moves, me and my DH are in the process of buying our first house. We got married in August last year and are currently living together at his parents house. I can't live here when the baby is born 🤣 offer on house was accepted, our mortgage has been accepted, now waiting on solicitors. Luckily there is no chain either way, the seller currently isn't living in the house we are buying and it has recently all been renovated so is literally ready to move into. His solicitors are being so slow though and it's been a month already since our mortgage was accepted and nothing has happened due to them being so slow! It's so stressful, I just want to he moved out and settled before I am too heavily pregnant- I am 20 weeks tomorrow!
I am a nursery practitioner so have a week off for half term this week, so am using the time to sort through all of our stuff and try and get rid of bits we don't use / haven't used for at least a year. Tackled the wardrobe this morning, this is my first time of sitting down and eating something. I feel drained, more so than when I have been at work and don't feel like I've got very far!🤔

Luckily I only have to get up once in the night for a wee currently, however I have always been a light sleeper and struggle to sleep at the best of times, but have been even worse in this trimester and am so tired all of the time. Once I am awake I can't get back to sleep for hours and then my DH's alarm goes off at half 4 for work and that's me for the day then, can't get back to sleep before I have to get up at half 6. Hey ho, at least we will all be ready for the night feeds!

Hope you are all well! We have our 20 week scan on Friday. I have so many mixed emotions about it. I am petrified that something is going to be found not right, especially since I still haven't felt baby (first time pregnancy). So excited to see baby again, but so sad it will be our last scan unless we have concerns!

I'm sorry to hear so many of us aren't sleeping well! On paper, I am - I'm getting the hours in but it's really not restful sleep. I'm tossing and turning a lot as I'm really not a side sleeper (stomach sleeper usually) and I'm having really vivid dreams (some bad, others just really normal but really vivid) so I just never feel rested by the time the inevitable 6am toddler alarm clock goes off. We're staying at my mother-in-law's while we get some work done in the house and I'm hoping being back in our own bed will help - can also get the pregnancy pillow out then, which I think will help, the bed we're in at the moment is just too small to fit me, DH, my pillow and the cat!

Hi all, 18 weeks and 2 days and for the past few days I've started a new symptoms - cramping. Literally lasts minutes and is only mild. This common / normal?

I few days ago I ordered 2 matching cloth diapers from La Petite Ourse to start off my collection, and today they arrived! These are pocket diapers, which come with 2 inserts that claim they can hold 6.5 ounces each. I immediately measured out some water(12oz because my measure cup is more geared for ml) and poured it over one diaper and it completely didn't touch the outside! The real test will be if there's leakage around the leg holes but still I'm very happy with them so far. If anyone's interested, they ship to Europe as well! lapetiteourseuk.com/

@Porcupette sorry for the delay 🙈
No our 3 yr old (nearly 4) is a girl so we're starting over on the clothes side of things! Quite excited for a little change though haha

@Amyp1234 Yeah cramping is normal x

I'm also firmly in Camp Crap Sleep 😴 🤣 Keep needing the bathroom or to just change positions. I hit 20 weeks today 🥳

DD who is 21 months had been unwell over the weekend, sleepy and upset. Wouldn't eat or drink much. On Saturday night she slept 6:20pm to 9am! And still had a 3 hour nap on Sunday. She's eating again today thankfully but when I was changing her for bed I noticed a rash on her feet and a couple round her mouth. So I'll check again in the morning to see if there's any more.

wishing all the mama’s to be a very happy Valentine’s Day!

The rare time in our lives we will have 2 hearts beating inside us (or more for multiple pregnancies!) hope everyone has a lovely relaxed day today

💖💙

Hey Rutennotou - I'm not a Dr but my friends kids have just had a bout of hand, foot and mouth which sounds pretty similar to your little ones symptoms? I hope she's feeling better soon