September 2024 - Thread 7! 🐣🧡💛❤️

[BeautyAndTheBump1]

As requested a new thread for us all! 🥰 can't believe its thread 7 already!

Then hopefully by thread 14 we'll all have our babies in our arms talking all things post partum!

Hi everyone not been on for a while not much to update. I also have been feeling really tired aswel this last couple of weeks like I can't get enough sleep.
My babies movements have been low down too and some on the sides, I am 24 weeks 1 day and still don't feel him loads and only feel him if I am sat or laid still.

@RitagoestohollywoodCongratulations, its my 3rd baby too, my other 2 are 12 and 8 (9 in September) then due 11th September

@Fik88 o lovely! Congratulations I am getting movements all over one minute it is low and a grinding feeling then it’s a kick/punch above me belly button, it makes me laugh how much she is wriggling about

is it just me who is getting ‘are you mad?’ Comments My life is very busy but it does make me feel abit inadequate when people say that x x

Thanks, I wish mine would move more, I think he's lazy though my other 2 were the same though.

Some of my friends think I am crazy having another especially because both of my kids are older, they always say but you're starting all over again 😂 I always said I wanted 3 though

25 week appointment went well, heard baby girls heartbeat and she was moving round like crazy. Midwife felt her too and she’s lying across my belly, not in my pelvis like I thought. Bp is also lower than my last appointment and she said that the way my bp looks at the moment doesn’t suggest pre eclampsia which is music to my ears. Although I know how fast things can change it’s great to hear. As this time last time with my daughter my blood pressure was getting higher and swelling was beginning to appear. So fingers crossed I make it past 34 weeks. All looking promising at the moment. Next midwife at 28 weeks

Can anyone explain how it feels when baby kicks the bladder. I haven't had much outside movement the last few days I think he's turned round but I keep getting this weird feeling like something suddenly makes me need an urgent wee then it stops and I am sure it's him kicking my bladder 🤦🏽‍♀️

@rupertbear91 that’s what it feels to me!
Also, I can relate to your post about not being able to breathe in deeply, I had this for the past two days and it got me worried! Happy to report that this is better for me today, so hopefully that is something that comes and goes rather than our new normal!

@rupertbear91 sounds like that! Literally feel like I'm going to wet myself in a second.. then it passes 😂 sometimes two or three times in a row

@Fik88 I’m having a boy and also due 11th Sept!

@Fik88 yeah this little one has been a surprise (struggled to conceive with both previous 2) but I always wanted 3 too so I think it’s meant to be and yea I think I am a little crazy so I won’t take the comments to heart lol x x

I'm having my first but for those of you on their third - my brother and sister-in-law just had their fourth in Feb. Three girls and a boy, ages now 7, 5, 3, and 3 months. They are very busy but the kids are so funny and a real little gang! I think it's nice if you have the energy for it (but I come from a set of four siblings myself so I'm positively biased)

@malimoon i love this, it’s so nice to hear nice things! Yea it’s hard and energy zapping but I also can’t wait lol

Im one of three and I love my siblings x x

Hi Ladies, just reading my scan notes and can see that baby is cephalic positioned and I've looked and it means baby is head down already. I am also being rescanned at 32 weeks as baby is low down and close to cervix. Doctors don't seem fussed. Has anyone else had any of these? I'm here thinking I'm going to go into prem labour!

@HRP1990 Due date buddies. Don't think mine will come then my other 2 were 15 days and 13 days late 😂

@Jojod12 I don’t think it’s anything to be worried about to be honest. I’m sure my daughter was head down very early too and I thought I was going to have her early.. but she was late lol.

@Fik88 yes same, 5 days late here! I’d prefer him to be born in Sept, so happy for him to hang on in there.. she says 🙈 not sure I’ll have the same thoughts towards the end!

@Jojod12 I wouldn't worry about this, from what I've read most babies turn to be cephalic towards the end of pregnancy anyway (and that's where you want them to be for easy delivery!) - my baby has been cephalic at every scan and whilst I can feel him turn around a bit, from where I'm experiencing kicks/punches I think that's his preferred position the majority of the time.

@HRP1990 yeah I know what you mean then they get that extra time in school. Be nice if they are on time or a few days early though rather than late 😂 haha yeah possibly not by the end

Anytime from 1st Sept 😂🤪

@Jojod12 also one to say not to worry. My son was like this so early on in pregnancy and head engaged at like 30 weeks. He was still overdue. I did get a lot of lightning crotch though not sure if related but you might have that to look forward to

Meee! 🥰😍 How old are your current two? Xx

@Honeyandsunshine1 🥰 girl 8 and boy 4 and baby due 21st September

how about you? X

@Jojod12 My first was always head down, in the 30s was engaged and midwives commented how very low down he was.......he arrived at 41 weeks 🙃😂

This is probably something really silly, but is anyone else getting annoyed with people trying to guess the name of the baby?? I’ve had so much of it this week. I’ve said straight out I’m not telling anyone, and even if they guess it I won’t confirm it, but they (work colleagues) still keep throwing names at me to try to see my reaction. It’s really starting to bug me!

@Lillers, for me, the only one doing this is my DM. She absolutely cannot compute that we won’t tell her, she’s said things like she thinks it’s terrible that she is my mother and yet I won’t tell her. She mentions it almost as soon as I see her (every couple of weeks), and she messages in the meantime about it. She will also make up names about the baby whenever she messages me, so it might be ‘How is Geoffrey Hubert today?’ I think she thinks it’s funny but I don’t think it is.

Sadly, we know that she will be unkind about the (perfectly normal) name we’ve chosen so there’s no way I’ll tell her. (When she saw the pushchair/travel system that DH’s parents had kindly and generously bought for us, the very first thing she said was ‘what a horrible contraption, with big ugly wheels, it’s not that colour is it?’ (The colour is forest green, nothing out of the ordinary!))

Sorry, this may not have been quite the response you were expecting! But yes, it is very frustrating.

I've just been telling everyone that we haven't chosen a name yet (we haven't 100% but there's a definite frontrunner) and then saying "but we're very open to suggestions" and then people get distracted listing all their ideas. Works for now but idk if that will get me all the way thru the pregnancy haha

@Decaffe that sounds draining! My mum can be a bit of an accidental Eeyore and also tends to jump to saying something negative as her first response to things, though I've decided over the years that is more of an anxiety/communication thing on her part rather than her actual feelings!

We're really struggling to come up with names- it seems to be me suggesting them and DP saying he doesn't like them so far!