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

Thanks all 🙂 I'm on fortnightly growth scans already, next one is a week today, so not too far away thankfully.

I can't believe how close some of you are now. Its funny, I'm due mid Jan so 32+2 today, so quite pregnant! But hearing some of you are 34 weeks just sounds so flipping pregnant! 😂 That's like baby imminent pregnant. It really doesn't seem 5 minutes ago that we were discussing 6 week scans and morning sickness!

Wow so much to catch up on! Thanks for the new thread @PartRadish.

We had our growth scan today at 32+4 and baby was 4lb 6oz, and measuring bang on 50th percentile. Also feeling super pregnant this last week especially, got a full waddle going on and takes me about 5 full minutes to roll over in bed. Went into town last weekend and was frustratingly slow getting around shops. 😂 Glad I've almost sorted Christmas shopping! Third trimester tiredness has hit me hard lately... Barely getting through work these days, basically coming home, eating tea and falling asleep.

@Onedayatatime24 I feel similar to you, running on autopilot to get through the work week. Growth scan results sound great

@tinyracoon I’ve had one cup a day since 32 weeks but was advised not to do dates until 36 weeks. You may well have heard differently!

Is anyone still taking the daily vitamins like Pregnacare etc? I’ve been forgetting so much recently, I took them every day religiously until about 7.5 months and now only remember every few days. Is that okay?? Should I try harder or are they more important earlier on?

@sashastuck I keep forgetting too 🙈 My vit D was low at last bloods so I really need to remember. Which also reminds me, I need to go take my iron. Gettimg up right now 😆

I'm over it now 32+2, if I make my 36 week growth scan I may see the consultant and they will induce me at 37 week (boxing day, so will be 37+1) feels like the longest pregnancy in the history of pregnancies 🤣

I'm pretty confident he will be here before I make 36 weeks, emotionally I'm done (family stresses I've mentioned some on here and works getting harder) but my body also feels done, if that makes sense? Like I can't quite describe it, but everything feels like my body is getting ready to expel him? I'm thinking I've got maybe 2 and a half weeks 3 at a push and that'll be it. I want him fully cooked, but I just have that nagging feeling, consultant said its mothers instinct.

I've tried RTL but ewww!! It tastes just as vile as regular tea and the fruit teas I bought to experiment with. It's been almost 5 months since I've been able to drink a cup of tea and it's actually quite sad.

You are right @LittleAlien24 hormones play a huge part, I managed to calm myself down and get ready to head home. Got in the car, called my dad and eneded up crying out of frustration/stress/worry as mum was requested to be at the hospital at 3pm today ready for her op tomorrow, to be told it'll be 4/5 hours before her bed is ready. I know it's beyond my control and I know these things happen, but the amount of shit that's hit my family in the past 4 weeks, I'm surprised I haven't gone into early labour with stress like I did ds. I got a call asking me if I would be willing to go to court regarding an incident that was over 2 years old, the next day he arrived.

Writing that down, maybe that's why I think he'll be early, I'm stressed already and my body has started to react and prepare but is still protecting him as he isn't quite ready? Is that a thing?

It's like his birth is yet another thing I can't control, but I've started physically and mentally preparing so I feel in control? Is that normal?

I am @sashastuck but it's because I'm on daily aspirin, so I just take them at the same time after dinner. I've always taken iron and vit d, so just stopped those to take pregnacare in their place.

Just placemarking the new thread :) x

@sashastuck I’m only taking iron 1 tablet alternate days, no supplements. I decided the summer plus Rhodes was enough for vitamin D.

Hi everyone, just marking my spot.
Have been so quiet recently as feel like we've had so much going on but hope you're all well 🥰

Wow new thread already. Feels like it's all going so fast now, I'm 34 weeks today and can't quite believe it!

Does anyone have any recommendations of good podcasts/books about birth, labour or even how to raise a tiny human?🤣

Still got that feeling of being out of my depth as a first time mum, want all the info I can get 😅

@EL27 your mother instinct will kick in with a baby but wait until they reach teenagers age lol im always saying why did ye not come with instructions 😁
And like my husband says. He read several books when he became father the first time but none of them told him that one day he will lift up a baby to sniff his butt 😁

@EL27 podcasts I’ve enjoyed include ‘Is It Normal’, ‘Beyond the Bump’ and ‘Two New Mums’. I never got past the first trimester stage of my books! But would be interested in trying any about postpartum if anyone has recommendations x

I’ve taken the day off today.

Woke up at 4am with what I thought was a blocked nose, went to the bathroom
and it starting gushing blood for over an hour, including some gross clots.

I could probably have worked today but it’s meant I’m now absolutely shattered and feel a bit groggy so wouldn’t have been very productive.

Nosebleeds were a symptom I’d yet to experience, and it was not pleasant!

Hi all - little late to the party as I’m now 32 weeks but thought I’d tag along as due in Jan!

has anyone’s partners been going with them to midwife apps so far? I’m tempted to bring my husband along to my 34 week app. as I know they start talking about birth etc. and think he should be involved lol

@Mushroo oh no that’s not nice. Hope it doesn’t happen again. Definitely good idea for a day off!

@EL27 i recommend the Positive birth company Book - practical ways to make your birth better (or something along those lines). Sara wickham is a very knowledgeable woman on all things pregnancy and birth https://www.sarawickham.com/articles/

@Lou98x my DH has never been to a midwife or consultant appt in either two of my previous pregnancies or this one (except my perineal midwife appt because it was straight after a scan)… he was horrified 😂😂 I think I’ve never asked him too and I don’t feel I need that support. But the ones talking about birth a bit more would definitely be good ones to take an OH to

Anyone else had growth scans recently??

I'm 32 weeks and baby is head down measuring 4lbs 12oz! I feel like this sounds massive for 32 weeks

@flowerpot258 I’m 34 weeks and estimated at 6lb 10oz - help!! Been booked for a consultant appt when I’m 37 weeks with the likelihood of being induced at 39 weeks.

@flowerpot258 @MrsJ6921 I had to go have a growth scan because my fundal height didn't get much bigger between 28 and 31 weeks, and so at 32 weeks we got an weight estimate of 4lbs 11oz which made me panic a bit!!

I followed the centile line on the growth chart which has him at like 8lb 8oz at 40 weeks 😶😶😶

@Mushroo sadly nosebleeds are a common symptom for me in both pregnancies. It’s a rare week I don’t have 2 or 3! Normally as I’m about to have a client call or meeting 🫠 so you have my sympathies!

@buckingmad glad it’s not just me - although yours sound way worse, my sympathies!

@tinyracoon @MrsJ6921 -I don't feel quite as bad now there's people in a similar boat. In my last pregnancy my girl was born at 9lbs 4oz so I'm kind of expecting a big baby but 4lbs 12 just sounds really big at this stage!

I've been diagnosed with gestational diabetes for the first time too so already worrying about size. I'm really eager to get a plan in place. I'm hoping for a section

I have discovered the joys of what I think is heartburn the last couple of days. I've never had it before so for a while was very confused as to what it was. I felt hungry, but also not hungry, in that there was that pressure one gets from an unhappy empty stomach in middle of sternum, but eating didn't fix it and it then felt weird in a different way. And I read that heartburn kicks in after eating - fine, that makes sense - but hunger ALSO brings it on because the body increases digestive mechanisms when hungry to try to spur you to eat. So can't win!

@MrsJ6921 @flowerpot258
I'm measuring 6lb 2 at 34 weeks, still having my 38 week growth scan as normal, but highly likely to induce between 38 & 39

Anyone else terrified to weigh themselves? I haven't been weighed in any of my midwife appointments since my booking one. I did lose a stone in the first trimester due to sickness but when I weighed at home in August I had already gained back what I'd lost. Now I'm too scared to weigh. I feel like a whale, and I think getting on the scales would be bad for my mental health.

@flowerpot258 my 32 week scan he was 4lb 14oz but yesterday at my 34 week scan he was 5lb 6oz. They really aren't that accurate lol. I make 9lb babies so I'm expecting him to be similar.