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!

@MrsM89 next consultant appointment is 10th June, but fingers crossed if everything is looking okay (ie hasn’t got worse!) at that one we shouldn’t need any more extra scans as they’ll just deal with baby’s kidney when he arrives. Is 25 week midwife appointment only for first timers?

@xur I am with you on the farting for Britain it's terrible! The midwife at my 24 week appointment today said she couldn't feel baby's position because my abs are too strong I swear it's from trying to hold in the gas 😂😂

I was asked preference for birth plan by consultant at 16 weeks and I know she wrote it on my notes but I'm high risk so I'm not sure if that then is just discussed later to decide if it's possible

We’ve decided on a name, but we aren’t sharing it with family (despite their attempts to get us to reveal it and suggestions that it’s totally unreasonable for grandparents to not know the name of their grandchild 🙄!).

Also purchased the Cybex car seat. It’s arriving in August.

Attempting to decorate the nursery this week, which has involved some disagreement over wallpapers! DH told me I was behaving quite badly 😂 which snapped me out of my sulk when he didn’t like my first choice. Blaming the pregnancy hormones because it did not warrant a 24 hour sulk! We have agreed no wallpaper now. Just panelling.

I’m not bothering with a steriliser. Hoping to breast feed but if that doesn’t work out or we want to pump/combi feed then we’ll just use a 99p bucket from B&Q and some Milton sterilising tablets. We have got a couple of MAM bottles already through various freebies and I think they are self-sterilising in the microwave anyway.

Has anyone experienced any milk leakage yet?! I think I might have leaked some early milk last night. Almost 23 weeks and Flo says this is a possibility around now.

@RosiePH haha. This sounds like me. I won on having top half of one wall wallpapered hopefully much to dh disapproval lol
What colours are you going for? All our wood for Panneling arrived yesterday. Excited!
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@xur standard is around 36/37 weeks for the birth plan convo but my midwife has always mentioned the place of birth intermittently throughout.

I have my 25 week appt on Friday. Baby has been moving loads today and my ribs are sore.

@mrsbgb I don't have 25w appt either and 2nd timer here. My next appts are 28w, I've got a whole week of them - GTT, growth scan, consultant and midwife. Work are going to love me!

I don't have a 25 week appointment booked in and I'm a first timer. Will give them a ring tomorrow and check if that's an oversight...all my midwife appointments have been a week or two late due to midwife holidays so I wonder if they just decided to skip to the 28 week one. Feels a bit cheeky to do that without telling me that's what was happening though!

I have a 25 2nd timer but big gap? Not sure that helps!
but I think the measure and feel the bump? If I remember from last time…

today the lounge took the hit - skirting cleaned, paint touched up, mopped like my life depended on it then ordered blind samples!

the wallpaper/ panelling @RosiePH @MrsM89 made me chuckle the one I wanted was coming out at £300 before we even got all the other bits 🫣 I have ordered similar samples if that too and hoping I find an alternative hah

I had a 25 week app last week and I'm a 2nd timer. My next is now 28 weeks. However I did notice on my notes it says 25 week isn't needed for second+ pregnancies so I think it was a mistake which I didn't complain about.
@longingtobe23 they didn't measure bump. She told me they dont do it until 28 weeks 🙄

@Xur my midwife told me at my last appointment (25 weeks) to do my birth plan. Not sure if everybody got the little bounty book with their first appointment but there's a little guide in there about it and on the NHS website I think I've seen a guide too. I've actually set myself some time tomorrow to do mine and finish the big Amazon order of 'baby bits' that grows by the day!

@MudandMoet I didn’t get that. I got the badger app and it has a section for birth plan, I filled that in at my own time, some weeks ago…But seems like no one’s looking at that yet.

I think 25w is meant for 1st pregnancies.

@longingtobe23 is that the wallpaper price? What's it like x

Ladies,
I hope you realise that 3 months ago we were all sat stressing here about passing the 1st trimester mark right?
And now we’re sitting here chunky and sassy.. 🤣

I’m a first timer and have a 25 week appointment next week, but I was told to book it myself and have it with the GP.

How weird different areas different rules I guess!
also gutted they won’t measure bump for a bit longer I’m worried I’m huge now she’s popped from no where haha! Goes l will know soon enough
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@MrsM89 I added a pic of the paper nothing too grand guess I just picked a pricey name! But luckily tonnes of stripes on their way to me for a better price.
I could just do a feature wall if all else fails with a mix of panelling … I was fun when I started now I’m sweating plenty of time though everything just seems out of stock or 12 weeks lead time for the furniture too!? 😅

@Xur yes on the farting, it’s horrendous. The smell is ungodly. My digestive system has well and truly slowed down.

Ive had a 25 week appointment as a 2nd timer only due to complications with my daughter. I made it just shy of 34 weeks with her and a birth plan was never mentioned. Not that her birth was anything like I planned.

My consultant asked me what I would like to happen when I saw her at 24 weeks though. But I’m very open to what will be will be. Im not too bothered about a birth plan. Having our first just made me realise how unpredictable birth is.

I'm 25 weeks on Friday.

Do people still have really active days with lots of kicks and then quiet ones??

A few nights ago she was non stop kicking through a whole film we watched. Tonight, hardly anything!

I've found if I give my tummy a prod and a shake now she will give a little kick back. But she's not crazy active like she has been.

Are as still ok to be getting quiet days?? When is it we should start worrying about days with not much movement?

Also I have. 25 week appointment but they only gave it me as I had my daughter 20 years ago so feels like first time all over again and it's my partner's first baby!

I have quiet days too and more active days - it seems to be that is beginning to become part of the 'normal routine' for us!

@Emmaev im not bothered about any birth plan either. My one last time was laughable when I think back.

@TripleESept24 im defo still having quieter days. I can still feel him regularly so not concerned but overall less kicks or less strong kicks some days. Then like the other day he was non stop all day!

@TripleESept24 yes. I noticed that the “pattern” might not be over a 24 hour period, but maybe even 48 and 72 hour period. I have noticed tendencies that occur every two days and some every 3 days. I still have movements every day, they can just be lighter or more intensive at various times of day. But I had my midwife appt on Tuesday and I did mention about the pattern, I said I am starting to think if there is a pattern for him then its over 24 hour period. He also moves less when in loud spaces and there’s lots of noise and strangers voices around. When I’m in silence he tends to move more.

My midwife said that yes, pattern doesn’t have to be 24 hours, behaviour pattern can be cycling over more than 24 hours. So here we go.

@TripleESept24 I’m also 25 weeks on Friday and it’s the same - some days really boisterous and others much quieter (but still moving). I definitely notice him moving more first and last thing when I’m in bed, but daytime is a bit hit and miss - I mentioned this to my midwife yesterday though and she didn’t seem concerned by this, sounds like it’s quite normal hopefully.

I only had 4 hours sleep last night and I am not sure how I’m going to make it through work today as my eyes are burning in my head. So tempted to tell them I’m sick and sleep but feel like I can’t as only have 10 working weeks (excl holidays) left.

Thanks everyone seems we all.still have quieter movement days!!

I am off to a family funeral today, going to see lots of family I haven't seen for a year and some even longer! Think they'll be surprised at the size of me 😭🤣

@MrsM89 i had hoped for some lovely borastepeter nature-themed wallpaper I’d seen on Instagram, but DH thought it looked old-fashioned. Which did surprise me as he picked William Morris wallpaper with the panelling in our bedroom! So we’ve settled on no wallpaper, and a slightly off-white for the walls with Parma Gray (which is a chalky blue) for the panelling by F&B.