Due January - Part 9!

[PartRadish]

Couldn't see another and the old one is full. Will copy the list from the last one, the tags are really temperamental though and it definitely has quite a few people missing sorry 🙈

@Kalodin
@buckingmad
@FirstT1meMum
@Vikki7
@sashastuck
@xLJ1990x
@suz2285
@TunnocksTCake
@Mummyme87
@Redpanda21
@Luhou
@RootsHere
@Matildahoney
@flowerpot258
@Ttcdcno1
@Onedayatatime24
@PartRadish
@youaremysunshine03
@Dannic2018

@buckingmad ooh, you're tempting me. Although just ordered a new changing bag when I still have DD's 🙈

They're normally £55 but had an offer on their fb page, had one last pregnancy and it was fabulous.

@Mummyme87 @PartRadish no advice just solidarity. Tomorrow is a new day! Feel better for a good cry and opening a box of qaulity street.

Had a lovely letter from the NHS Friday about claiming my dental treatment without the correct exemption. I wrote to challenge it, my dental receptionist didn't even as if I was exempt, just ticked I was (possibly because I'm very obviously pregnant) I didn't even think about it as ds was acting up...
They replied yesterday morning saying that I don't have a exemption on file, I apologised and said I thought it was as my midwife told me at my booking in that she'd sort it and email it to me, stupidly I never questioned it when I didn't get the email and the reply I got yesterday afternoon (3 responses in less than 24 hours, I was amazed) said that there is nothing about me being pregnant and I am not entitled to free dental care at the moment and I have to pay the fee (but I can't pay it until the pcn is issued, so have to wait for that letter to arrive) or pay a £100 fine. Luckily I'm seeing my midwife Wednesday so can ask about it then.
Just wasn't the kind of thing I needed on top of everything else thats happened over the past month and a half🤦‍♀️

I feel you on the needing to slow down but not able to @Luhou it's getting so busy at work, so much staff sickness, I'm being pulled to other classes, bit of a shock to the system bouncing from 3 to 1 to 5 to 4 and then back to 3 over a week. I asked if I'll get a chance to hand over to the cover TA before Christmas, but doesn't look that way. I'll probably have a detailed sit down chat with my class teacher this week or next, although she knows what I'm doing as we talk about plans every morning, so she shouldn't struggle to direct someone else.

I can't bend over without feeling sick, heartburn has really upped this weekend and baby is rolling around like a rotisserie chicken in there!!! Literally his feet are circling in my ribs and diaphragm he's also punching down, I can feel him in my hips, bum and also like he's trying to get out - another with lightening crotch and super soft/fleshy feeling down there. Sitting up straight is hard too, I feel like I'm constantly trying to catch my breathe, worse when I eat.

I don't think I can physically do this for another 6 weeks... although I think he'll be here in less than 2. Not sure I'll cope that long either 😅

@Hummusanddipdip i'd call your midwife tomorrow. She sent mine over during my booking appointment to my email. It took 2mins.

It's just all a struggle now, but we're nearly there.

I wish I could @Luhou but this midwife wouldn't give me her contact number (my previous one with ds dis, and she in turn would check in inbetween apts) and she's only in my gp surgery Wednesdays. Her reasoning was she doesn't want to get calls or texts while she's with someone... it's all been very odd.

She's good in person (very chatty and personable), but I feel like she's a very much a there and gone forget kind of person? She gave me the mat helpline numbers and stuff, but I've got no way of contacting her outside of Wednesday's. I know how ridiculous that sounds. I didn't get my matb1 form until I was 30 weeks because it wasn't done at my 24 week apt (had to call the surgery 3 times to get that sorted amd my gp ended up filling it in) I think maybe because my apts have been very to the point, I've not had much to talk about regarding discomfort until this past couple weeks, that I've been very much an in, check urine, blood pressure, check baby position, ask dv question and out patient?

Another one here with lightning crotch and very soft and fleshy down there, been laid on the sofa the best part of the day and paracetamol aren't touching it.
Is this the beginning of baby potentially being ready to come?!

@Hummusanddipdip it’s all online so quite quick now, not everyone has access to getting the exemption forms. My midwife doesn’t, had to get a colleague at work to do it. Call the helpline and see if they will do it for you?

@Matildahoney not so much baby coming just end of pregnancy, everything is heavy and bloody uncomfortable.

Almost had a cry in bed last night. I was so tired I went to bed at 7 but was so uncomfortable I couldn’t get to sleep till 10. Just 6 days left at work. Going to bring my gym ball home with me today cause I’m uncomfortable at work no matter what whereas at home I think it’ll be more helpful. Was contemplating working an extra week from home and saving the holiday but I am done. I want to have a nice chill week with DH and DD before Christmas.

Goodness ladies, seems everyone is struggling now. It's reassuring to know you're not alone but its hard work! i'm another with very swollen down there parts, not enjoyable, and there's definitely things sticking out where they shouldn't be! So glamourous, lucky i'm not sore, just doesn't feel the nicest!

I have a ridiculously busy week at work this week, but next week should be quieter and then it'll be done. I had covid last week so worked from home and did have a bit more down time so I think that helped. I'm running a big exam at work this week and I hope I haven't forgotten to do my job, it's a lot of stress. I'm gonna be a nightmare when I get back from Mat leave, i'm planning to leave detailed notes (mostly to myself) so I can remember how to do my job tbh!

Also have sausage hands and feet - not constantly but on and off, and the blurry eyesight too. BP fine so it's nothing to worry about but just "normal" pregnancy stuff! I'm still achy round the hips too but way better than it was and i have the chiro again in a few weeks.

I attended that online physio referal thing last week which is basically just them giving "standard" advice and leaflets, and then I can now refer for physio but there's not much point at this stage i don't think, it's able to be used up to 6 weeks after birth so I may wait to see if i need anything once baby is here....

Shouted horribly this morning at the kids, they are just such hard work at the moment. My tolerance is so little right now I have no room for anything. I got home from school run and cried. I’m finding the mental load too much right now, it feels like there is something happening everyday and so much to do 😞

@Mummyme87 we had the same morning. I worked my self up so much my lower back and stomach are hurting. And I can barely walk. The stress sometimes is just too much. I want to just relax and be happy every day. Now I'm in my bed because I can't deal with today.

@Mummyme87 another with little patience for DD at the moment so can sympathise. I definitely think being pregnant is worse than the newborn stage. I said to DH yes you get less sleep but at least the sleep does something and refreshes you. No matter how much I rest I'm still sore and uncomfortable, there's no reprieve!

13 more days of work including today. Only 3 or 4 of those will be in the office. Trying to be conscientious and prepare handover docs etc. but similar to others here, people keep sending new things my way and I've just had enough. I'm tired and sad and what I want to do is focus on "nesting" not faffing about with reports and funding outcomes. Need to tidy out my pedestal when I'm in the office as well as there's going to be a move to lockers at some point over the next year and don't particularly want people to rummage through my gym gear! Might just drive into London one day and shove it all in the car.

Cried again because my iron infusion has been cancelled as there’s a massive leak on the antenatal ward (happens a few times a year), so now need to fit it in this week. Waiting for a call back.

Sorry so many of us are struggling, we're so close now but maybe knowing that makes it harder!

I am 36 weeks tomorrow and so so done with work and any form of social commitment. Had a lovely weekend with friends as a sort of mini baby celebration, am paying for it today though after a night of heartburn and insomnia. Think that's my last big thing now, except for parents visiting at the weekend. I'm not receiving any visitors after that 😂

And only 2 weeks at work including this one, but what with back and forth to hospital for extra scans my concentration is at an all time low, and I have no idea how I'm going to fit in my to do list before I go. But starting not to care now, baby is the priority.

You're all doing so well. I'm about 4 weeks behind some (due end of Jan) and just starting to feel a few more aches and pains. Also needing to stop eating a good few hours before bed so I don't get heartburn. Baby is lovely and wriggly though!

It sounds like we're all in a similar boat right now. I'm so stressed about getting everything ready for baby but sciatica is making sorting anything out impossible. I had a cry at my husband this morning and then wrote him a full A4 list of stuff that needs doing 😂 Only 16 days until my csection 😱

Managed to bump my “under bump” (I think front of pelvis) on a worktop this morning when reaching to a high shelf. Felt horrible to me and even though it wasn’t a really hard bump I keep being paranoid about the baby since I know its head is down there 😣

@WitcheryDivine my poor baby isn’t even out of the womb and she’s been bullied by her older sister this whole time. She’s been kicked multiple times a day. I’ve tried my absolute best to protect the bump but 2 year olds are feral 🫠 as long as you’re not rhesus negative then I’m sure you’re fine but always ring if you’re worried.

Im pretty sure I’m starting to lose my mucous plug. Lost it at a similar time with DD and waters didn’t break for another few weeks after that.

@buckingmad how do you know if you're losing your mucus plug? And how long does it take?
TMI but I seem to have lots of sticky clear discharge at the moment.

@Matildahoney everyone is different but with my DD I just had a big blob fall out at once maybe a week or so before labour really got going. Some people never lose it, some lose it in clumps (today was more of a clump than the amount I lost with DD). Some people it then grows back and isn’t a sign of labour starting, others lose it and go into labour straight away! Some have blood within it so is more pinky, others don’t.

Sooo not much help sorry 😂 I think discharge does ramp up anyway near the end but the mucous plug really is quite thick and…mucousy 😂

Anybody really struggling with itching? Particularly around knicker line. Driving me mad.

@Luhou I’m very itchy but have been since 18weeks, still having fortnightly bloods done. I do get itchy above my knicker line but that’s my CS scar, gets super itchy in and out of pregnancy

@Luhou i normally suffer with eczema around my bikini line to the point I end up scratching myself raw unless I regularly wax, moisturise and exfoliate but I’ve done none of those during pregnancy and not suffered! My one good pregnancy symptom 😂 weleda skin food is my go to for any itchy skin, it’s a bit greasy but is the only thing that works for me.

I’ve had to stop lifting DD. Carried her from the bath and had to put her down after 2 steps, felt like my stomach was about to split open! So annoyed that I haven’t kept up with my Pilates this time round. With DD I was lifting 20kg horse feed bags and stacking hay bales the day my waters broke. I hate being so reliant on others!

Dh had to tie my laces and help me take my boots off today. I can't bend over enough to do it alone. I said I don't remember having this problem with ds, but I'd already been off work 3 weeks at this point, and it was summer, so didn't need to bend over as much.

Yes to the itchiness. My belly button is quite itchy too, but I've got a stretch mark on my piercing which I think is the cause?