Due September - Thread 5! 🐣❤️🧡💛

[Lillers]

New thread! Can’t believe we’re on 5 already.

@Cinai yes to the cramping/period pains! I'm 15+5 and it's still getting me. Seems to be a theme throughout for me sadly! Not sure if not helped by my age and being my first. My 40 year old body is the WTF is this 😅😅

15+1 and not being sick (I haven't at all, lucky I know) but still feeling sick, consistently, every evening... And today have been having lower back pain @Cinai for the first time in a while.

My partner has been great so far doing all the cooking and loads of housework etc but yesterday he fractured his tibia 😫 waiting on a callback from fracture clinic this week (he got x rayed at urgent care) but might be weeks of him in a cast and on crutches... Much worse for him ofc as he's in pain and miserable but all of our pre baby jollies we have lined up for the next few months now looking a bit precarious hahaha. Oh well

@YellowZ Isabella Oliver have some nice long sleeve plain and striped ones! https://isabellaoliver.com/collections/maternity-tops-tees/products/arden-maternity-top-navy-and-white - I have a few pieces from them already and the quality is great.

Thanks @HRP1990 I hadn't looked at Isabella Oliver x

Oh amazing 🥹 are you going to do a refresher course? Or are you confident you can remember it all and tune back in? I’m stuck in the middle, I think I might do another course just to make sure it’s all fresh in my mind. I still can’t believe how much it helped me, I thought it was BS when I had my first. And I thought “what I don’t know can’t hurt me”

…but it did indeed hurt me 🤣

@Honeyandsunshine1 well, I still don’t believe I could ever breath a baby out lol. But the breathing did really help me to a certain extent! It were only 2 years ago for me, so I’ll probably ask Dr Google to provide me with what I’ve forgotten?

@Cinai I had cramps that floored me on Friday - I was bending down to tie my sons laces then as I went to get up I got sharp shooting both sides it hurt so much!
then also when I twist over in bed sometimes - but I do remember this from my son (ligament pain and stretching as they grow) I think I just hurt myself on the position I was in 🫠

I am going to ask midwife today!

@longingtobe23 I have exactly the same, at night I would turn too fast and it begins to hurt, it’s so weird!

If I wasn’t pregnant, I’d have been running the Brighton Marathon today.

Instead, I’m eating half a pack of cookies to make up for the breakfast I threw up 🤷‍♀️.

Took a bump pic this morning, it’s really becoming a proper bump!

@Lillers wow wow 🤩 look at that bump! It’s definitely bumping!🥰

Thanks @Xur! It’s definitely popped in the last week or so!

@Lillers oh wow that's such a lovely bump. I wish mine looked more bumpy, I still just look like I could be really bloated.

Those of you with children already, do you get dug in the boob my sharp little elbows/knees/shoulders on a daily basis or just me?? It's uncomfortable at the best of times but my boobs are so tender it's literally agony every time my DD accidentally does it (which is all the time 😣)

@HolyMoly24 Thank you! It does depend what I wear but yes, it does seem much more bumpy these days!

@HolyMoly24 I don't have littles but I do have cats who LOVE to trample on my sore pregnant boobs 🙃

@Lillers what a lovely bump! We’re watching the Brighton Marathon today at a friends house, their road is closed as it’s part of the course!

@HolyMoly24 yes! My daughter climbs all over me, belly included 🙈 I’m constantly on guard in case she takes me by surprise.

@longingtobe23 @Xur yes, I also get these sudden sharp pains when I turn in bed to quickly, or make another quick move…I even get them when I lay in bed and sneeze! I put these down to ligament pain.
I see the midwife on Tuesday and will mention the period-like cramps in my lower back. But since these are mild and others experience the same, I guess it’s just one of the many small pains and discomforts of pregnancy 😅

Thought I'd join the bump pics 😃

The bump pics are so cute! I just look fat still 😂 waiting for a 'cute bump' to arrive.

I can sympathise with the being bounced on our two little dogs keep standing on my boobs and it's blooming sore!

After yesterdays gender excitement it's back to reality of being back in hospital on fluids 😭 it's meant to be my family birthday gathering this afternoon and there are still some relatives coming we haven't seen yet and wanted to tell them about the baby. Really hoping I get sorted and out by mid afternoon 😔

@HolyMoly24 omg yes the toddler elbow to the boob 😬 he likes to smash his head into me as well. They keep saying at work I shouldn't be lifting stuff etc and I'm like please, I'm a human climbing frame most of the time/carting round a 15kg child when he's decided he doesn't want to walk to the park, after all.

@rupertbear91 sorry you're back in hospital x

I am very long in the body but I have a pouch popping out so far making leggings look unflattering haha! But I am still in my jeans and normal clothes…
however work clothes will go on Tuesday after 2 weeks off so I will see!

I didn’t show with my son until 5.5 months 🤷🏼‍♀️ wonder if girly will be hidden as well

is anyone waiting to tell work? I think I’ll be seeing if I can go to end of May or when I get my MATb1

Hey everyone!! My EDD is 25th of September!! I’m so excited to find out the sex if they can tell us at the NHS 20 week scan! Lots think it’s a boy and the skull theory seems to agree but some think the nub says girl - any guesses? The scan photo was from 13weeks 6 days ❤

I'm impressed with these bumps. I think mine still gives off bloat.

@SC126 ah no that’s super cute! How far along now?

I just clicked my next appointment is JUNE! Lord heavens 🤦🏼‍♀️😂

@Lillers i also threw up my breakfast today - enjoy those cookies!!
lovely seeing all the bump pics , mine seems smaller today so must’ve been a bit of bloat 🤣

@longingtobe23 im 18 weeks tomorrow. My next midwife appt isn't until last week of may too as less appointments with a second child. Couldn't believe how far away it is. Not long until 20 week scan though I suppose.