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!

@TripleESept24 I can’t imagine the % is very high if it’s in a moisturiser? But I’d probably stop using it as a precaution.

I’m going to attempt to wax my bikini line tomorrow before we go away on Thursday and now I’m worried about all the burn talk lol. Wish me luck 🙈 can’t be dealing with a razor everyday when I can’t see down there to begin with.

@TripleESept24 oh no, sorry to panic you! I initially used it in the early weeks as didn't realise.. I'm sure you'll be absolutely fine so try not to worry xx

@SC126 @longingtobe23 ahh that makes me feel better. Will be nice to have them done too for if we get a nice September and babies are here 🪴☀️👶🏼

My next scan is the 11th June when I'll be 28+6, it's my diabetes test day so while I'm there they're scanning me. I feel baby all the time now so don't even think about scans these days like I used to but I'll take whatever they give me. Going to have a 3D or 4D scan at 32 weeks for DH to go to - no idea what the difference is?!

@HRP1990 @WinsandSam hopefully the % isn't that high!

I'm going to my friends salon for a facial tomorrow, she's pregnant too we are a week apart! I'll tell her what I've been using and I'll mention it to midwife next week.

I normally have Botox, can't use retinol bloody hell I'm gonna be looking old by time this baby comes 😭🤣

@TripleESept24 😂 it's hard isn't it! These babies are trying to age us

@TripleESept24 right so now I've freaked myself out! Fell into a worm hole researching. I've always taken omega 3, told midwife etc and no issues. swapped brands about a month ago and just checked, it's cod liver oil! Which you are not to take in pregnancy as it retinol 😭 now I'm scared too.. will stop taking now and hope no damage has been done

Holy cow ladies I had the most awful spontaneous leg cramp last night. It was so painful I thought my leg was gonna fall off! It’s still sore in the morning now, I’m limping 🥲

I already went out-out with preparing the garden in the spring, we did a full refurbishment (took 2 trees and few old bushes out and replaced them with new ones). Mainly because I wasn’t sure wether I’ll be feeling much like leaving the house later so I did it for myself so that I could just enjoy it in later pregnancy in case I don’t feel like going out somewhere else.
last thing for nesting we have left is actually to move stuff out of my “cave”, take it to living room and leave the whole room for the baby.

Yesterday we attended a friends baby christening party and the amount of people that offered me to sit down was humongous. I didn’t feel like I needed to sit down since I feel generally fit still, but now having suffered the awful leg cramp last night it makes me think maybe it’s just that other people knew what would follow if I don’t sit…
Cos I am like that I sometimes do not acknowledge my own discomfort until it becomes too obvious.

@Xur I have to say I am so envious that you managed to sort your garden! I practically live outside in the summer months, while DH prefers to hide indoors (literally I’ll be outside in the garden all day, and he’ll be in his office with a blackout blind down playing on his computer). Normally his cousins who have a garden business would come and do the big deweeding etc at the start of the season, and then I’d take care of the garden for the rest of the year and make it nice and live in it. This year DH said that we didn’t need to spend money on getting his cousins over (it’s mates rates but it’s a big garden) as we could do it ourselves. I’d have been completely fine with that, I did it before his cousins started their business, but I was so ill with the pregnancy that I just couldn’t do it, and DH doesn’t have the same love for it that I do so for him it’s a bottom of the list job. I’ve tried to get on top of it over the last few weeks but I just can’t crouch down/bend over for long at all.

Long story short, garden still looks awful, I’ve missed the window for getting any decent planting done this year and we don’t even have a clear space to put the garden furniture out yet 😭.

Oh no!! 😭 I was taking so many supplements before pregnancy and just stopped them all other than the pregnacare!! I used to take sea moss, apple cider vinegar and b12 as well as some others they are all just sat in my drawer! I wonder if u can even take them if breastfeeding!

Can you not have retinol whilst breastfeeding either?

Like I said I'm going to my friends salon today!! I'm gonna say to her what the bloody hell can I use/do for anti ageing 🤣🤣🤣

I feel you here!! Our garden is a massive job! Needs relandscaping paving/turfing everything! It won't be done this summer 😔 I have a bench seat out the back of the kitchen door I can sit on and that's it.

Tbh our whole house is a massive job my partner inherited it from his grandfather, so grateful as we are rent/mortgage free but there is so much to do it will be years in the making and I've just decided to try and stop stressing about it. As long as baby girls nursery is done and the house is tidy.

@TripleESept24 I completely get the whole house project thing! Ours is ok, and completely liveable as it is, but there is so much we want to do to make it what we want it to be (hence why the garden is so far down the list).

I had a little space outside the living room window with a little bistro set that I could sit at, but then DH cleared the garage to make room for clearing out the nursery room and put the bbq in my bistro space - so now I only have the back doorstep to sit on 😂

We will get there one day!!!! 🙏

Over the counter retinol won't have done any damage so don't worry, they just can't say it's safe to take in pregnancy as can't test it, it's the oral vit a (like roaccutane) that you def can't take, I follow Caroline Hirons on fbook / insta & she said she used retinol through her 4 pregnancies & so did a lot of her dermatologist friends. It's obviously personal preference if you carry on using or not (increased skin sensitivity also an issue), but you won't have done any harm using it

I hope so! Thanks, I just looked at my bits and they must all be low %

@Lillers I already did a massive job last year, my partner doesn’t know that much about gardening, because he’s been raised in a flat. I’m a country girl, every single generation in my family, from either side were horticulturing and agroculturing to supply their families. Last year he didn’t join me with any of the garden work, which might sound funny to some cos I was literally taking out old tree stems and dead palm trees by myself. This year I got him to help me. I don’t think he was keen on seeing a pregnant woman cutting down trees by herself and repairing fences.
But he knows well enough if the garden is not going to be tidy then I’ll go insane and take him with me.

@TripleESept24 I continue taking collagen along with pregnacare, I don’t think you needed to stop apple cider vinegar, that is considered safe . B group vitamins are inside Pregnacare.

@Xur are you taking collagen for anti aging purposes? What other benefits does it have? I take it we can use collagen face products too?

@TripleESept24 well, you know we have natural reserves of collagen that wear off with time. When a chunk gets taken out is when we get pregnant. Our body uses two thingies from our bodies to grow a new body-aminoacids, from which majority is stored in the fat of our tights and hips and our natural collagen reserve. From here often comes the saying “kids take our beauty.”
Collagen is a massive reagent in the production of cartilages and we know our babies have mainly cartilages until it grows into bone.
Before pregnancy I took collagen to help keep my wrinkles in check, now I am taking it For that and it will help my skin, nails and hair. Many women suffer with fragile nails and hair loss after they have their babies. This should help minimise it.

@TripleESept24 since we can't carry on with Botox whilst pregnant 🥴 I’ve been taking collagen powder and popping it into smoothies/iced matcha’s! Also fish oil instead of cod liver oil for the same skin/hair/nails benefits!

I’m often guilty of moaning about how much being pregnant sucks, but has anyone noticed any positive side effects? For me, this is the first time in years that I haven’t had to deal with hay fever. I normally get it from late Feb/early March and by this point in the year would normally be on 2-3 antihistamines a day. But this year, hardly anything, it’s great!

@Lillers because I’m not getting any periods, I’m also not getting the period acne. The skin on my face is banging!

@Lillers no spots for me! My skin always clears up in pregnancy which is a blessing. Probably the only thing though.

Does anyone know if you can use red tiger balm in pregnancy? The leaflet just says to consult a pharmacist then it says do not use excessively during pregnancy 🤷🏻 I've got horrible pain in my shoulder blade which I have been taking paracetamol for but was hoping I can use something else for it as it's a really niggling pain 😩

@Xur I got the worst leg cramp a few days ago too. I woke up screaming, my DH massaged it, went to get a heat pack, it took about 10 mins for it to go away. My leg was sore for about 48 hours.

Dehydration is a big cause apparently. I was quite dehydrated as we were sat outside for about 4 hours the night before for a dinner (where I live is extremely hot and humid at the moment).

Is anyone noticing a pattern to movements? Baby girl moves a lot in the morning and the evening. But during the day I barely feel her unless I really focus. Some days she’s definitely quieter than others too.

@Lillers I'm so jealous! I suffer pretty badly with hayfever and I'm usually on the highest prescription antihistamines from the doctors. Hayfever has kicked in full force today and I'm definitely missing being able to take them ☹️ does anyone know if we can take normal over the counter antihistamines?

Not going to lie this pregnancy is seriously kicking my butt! I've been so poorly with one thing after another I'm struggling to remember to enjoy it as this will definitely be my last 😔