Due late September/early October 2023

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Anyone else due around this time? I'm due at the end of September but suspect it might be later than that. Hoping for an October baby as it's my favourite month in the year!

I'm still in the nausea-inducing first trimester but only a few weeks to go before some relief, apparently. I have felt car sick pretty much everyday for 5 weeks, relieved temporarily by eating whatever I am craving.

I'm planning a few little holidays during the second trimester. It'll be nice to spend some quality time with my husband before we become parents. And hopefully to sleep well on hotel beds.

I am nervous but excited about the future beyond that. I'm nervous of bad news, of continued terrible nausea through the best part of this year, of childbirth, of the lack of sleep I know is coming with having a child, of the pain of breastfeeding. I'm looking forward to seeing the baby grow into a person who can speak and who I can read stories too. It's something we take for granted, but it still blows my mind you can love another person and then combine your DNA and have a child who might be totally different from both of us. There's no saying who we are all going to meet – and what lives they have ahead of them!

@Kayycatt They start measuring your bump from 28 weeks - when the third trimester starts😁

I think they also do a blood test and yet another urine test!

@WineCap ah good to know! I thought they started doing it from 25 weeks. I tried to measure it myself but wasn't sure where to start or end 😅

Crazy to think that next time I see the midwife, that's when the third trimester starts then...

@Kayycatt If I remember right, they measure around the point of your belly button. I expect it would be quite tricky to make sure it's perfectly straight if you tried on your own though! I was always measured lying down too. Are you worried about being too big or small?

I measured on the larger side and had to have some additional scans and a GD test. It was all fine though. I think I just have a short abdomen compared proportionally, so there isn't much room in there for baby. I gained almost 4 stone in my pregnancy (10st at start) and I was only carrying an extra 11 pounds of so after birth. I was shocked and slightly confused about how a baby, placenta and the amniotic fluid could weigh so much!

This pregnancy has gone so fast for me compared to my first pregnancy in lockdown. It seems bonkers that I'll be 26 weeks on Thursday. Just how?!

I hope your pregnancy is going well. I still get quite tired in the evenings but otherwise, it feels like a really nice stage 😁.

@WineCap yeah I am slightly worried that I may be on the big side. Have had a few comments saying my bump looked big. Eek!

But then I am short (1.6m) so probably there just isn't enough space for her to grow!

I haven't weighted myself since the first midwife appointment as our scale conveniently broke, which is good in a way coz then I don't have to think about how much weight I have gained.

Pregnancy so far has been good, apart from some tightening of the bump at times (can't believe still a lot more to stretch though!), been feeling fine otherwise. I do get tired a lot easier now when I walk even for a short distance and really have to slow my pace. I usually work with my standing desk but noticed that my feet have been swelling, so I need to stop doing that now.

Glad to hear your pregnancy is going nicely :) heard that the second trimester is the 'best' stage, so let's enjoy it together for a few more weeks.