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!

Anyone suffering with nausea and feeling faint?

I was out with my daughter, sister and nephew and had to come home early because I thought I was going to pass out. Had visions of going in the middle of soft play. Checked my bp and it’s totally normal. Baby girl is still seriously active too. Not sure if it’s the heat. Still feel a bit out of it

And it’s only going to get more cramped 😂🥲
Another description.. like when you eat and it goes down real slow.. feels like that too lol. I’m in the car on a long journey home and it’s all I can focus on!

@HRP1990 yep, I've been stressing myself with my shortness of breath over the last day or two trying to work out if it's normal or not. Glad to hear I'm not alone!

Hey, just wanted to jump on I can't find another recent thread. I'm 11dpo and I tested today, please can someone tell me if they think this is a positive or is it an evap line?? :(

@Liv6583 looks faint positive to me 🤞

@Liv6583 I see a faint line too. Congratulations 🥳

I have moments of breathlessness too, it actually scares me a little and makes me really feel for asthma and COPD sufferers. Even if I'm chatting to people, if I get carried away my breathing becomes a bit laboured. I'm assuming it's just because baby is squishing my lungs and things. Also in a morning I feel faint at times and have to sit because I'm so scared of fainting but rarely in an afternoon. BP is fine. I'm seeing consultant and MW this week so going to mention it.

I’ve definitely been getting the breathlessness too - I have to talk a lot at work and sometimes it’s a real challenge!

Like others I do struggle with breathlessness. Must say it's better now than first trimester. It seemed to trigger my asthma and it was pretty scary.
Now it only seems to be on hills/stairs or if I bend down luckily.

Gasto stuff is worse, I feel so squashed like my food is on my chest. Especially in bed at night. So trying to have a bigger lunch and smaller dinner to stop it

Yeah! The moment they put the cuff on, I feel instantly panicked and very not relaxed 🤣 glad to hear about your new midwife! Their aura makes such a difference doesn’t it?

also, a question about the tripp trapp, I’ve seen these around before but never in person. Do they fold down so you can store them away or do they stay as they are? We have a tiiinnnyyy flat so trying to source a decent high chair that can be put in a cupboard when not being used 🥲

Yeah I’ve recovered from the scare now lol. Interesting about your experience with the cuff sizes! Do you reckon it gives a higher reading if the cuff is attached really tight, too? Or am I just looking into it too much? Because I swear when mine gets fastened TIGHT, I have a higher reading

Wow, it sounds so identical to what I had on Friday night!
My first reading was 147/85, And I was like “oh crap” so waited 10 minutes to take another, and when I did it was 151/85 so like you, my mind was going all places. When I went to hospital, it was 110/75. I was like huh? The machine I used at home has now been yeeted into the bin. 😂😂

Are you taking aspirin this pregnancy then due to your previous PE? I’m also on edge about getting it again, however with my second baby I didn’t get it all so I’m hoping aspirin and walking is the magic formula 🤞🏻

My son was 8lb 2 & got decent use out of his newborn/ upto 1 month stuff as far as I can remember! It's amazing how quickly you forget though!!

@Honeyandsunshine1 theyre pretty large/ lumpy sturdy things sadly! They don’t fold down, we have a bay window I can get away with tucking it into but otherwise I’d fear tripping over the legs
we had the ikea one for grandparents houses and omg we all used to go flying over those legs they stick our so far 🫣😂

@Honeyandsunshine1 yeah I’m on 150mg since 12 weeks. Hopefully it helps things out. Time will tell! Growth scan on Tuesday so hopefully gives an indication into how she’s growing

On the breathlessness I feel I can sometimes talk myself out of breath and when performing physical activities I sometimes feel like I need to stop and rest for a second. Like now on honeymoon we have been going for walks by the sea and walking in water-sand /pebbles can be quite tiresome.

happy news is, I’ve spent several days in heat (33+ degrees) and I am not swelling so far.

@Lillers about the sitting- well…if you sit in lotus for extended periods you risk getting hip/lower back pain.
I for example find it really uncomfortable sitting on my legs (Japanese way) these days.
any rigid sitting for longer periods is asking for lower back pain.
If you intend to attend I would explore options for putting a travel pillow under your bum. (The one that normally goes over our necks).
For reference I sat on a plane for 4 hours and had middle back pain from it.

@Honeyandsunshine1 i think them using the smaller cuff size and attaching too tight is the issue. midwife last week has now scribbled "LARGE CUFF" on practically every page of my notes now and highlighted it. It's usually the maternity care assistants that test urine and do BP before the actual midwife appt where I am, so I assume they just forget that some ladies need the larger cuff when doing it on repeat.

@Lillers thanks for the IKEA discount intel. We managed to get online yesterday to order 2 tall/thin chest of drawers for our bedroom as we've had to have a full rearrange to fit in the next to me cot (we've moved since having DS). Once they arrive tomorrow, I can finally get started on unpacking all the baby boxes in the loft and re-washing everything!

It looks like DS has come down with chicken pox. Luckily I've already had it, so shouldn't be any implications for me and baby. Just means a week of juggling childcare with work, and being stuck inside all week. I guess better to get it now than when we have a newborn in the house!

100 day countdown over here for September 18th - if I get my way with the section that mean I’ve got less until she’s here 🥳

anyone else excited we are so much closer! Still seems far in my head 😅

@rupertbear91 how did the scan go this morning? I hope all is well.

@longingtobe23 I am on double figures today, 99 days until the section! I have a countdown app, and 99 days ago today we went to the clinic for a scan and a private NIPT. That honestly feels like forever ago, so I don’t feel as though time is rushing quickly at all.

Good news here I have finally found a beside crib that will fit the very narrow space we have available - it’s called the SnuzPod Studio if anyone is in a similar position. Unfortunately it was only recently launched so it’s too new for any to be cheap on FBMP!

Is anyone doing anything for Father’s Day? DH, quite unexpectedly, got me some gorgeous gifts and a card from the bump on Mother’s Day. I’ve got him a card from ‘the bun in the oven,’ (which is how I told him the news, put a hot cross bun in the oven when he got home from work and waited for the penny to drop!), a ‘manual for dads,’ a novel I know he’ll like, and then I found a tiny 0-3mo sports top on Vinted, which matches one he has already. 😊

25w4d today, I am feeling baby more regularly now, just wish DH was able to feel him too!

@Decaffe thanks for asking I'm not long back from the hospital. I have to say after my 12 hour day in on Saturday of waiting and not getting anywhere they were fantastic today. I had 2 consultants and an advanced practitioner with me for 4 hours of scan and tests to evaluate my case. Although the waiting room was very full after I left because of it!

The ultrasound of my legs were clear and my ecg was back to normal they ran a load of other tests too and decided that either the heparin is clearing the clot or I had a temporary blockage and the risk of the full CT scan to the baby is higher than the risk of not doing it now so it's just close monitoring from the consultant every few days for the next week now In case anything changes. So hopefully things will settle down now.

They did say it's likely the fainting and passing out isn't clot related anyway and a separate issue thanks to pregnancy and just to be careful going places on my own as if I feel myself go I need to lie down on my left side till I recover 🤦🏽‍♀️

Glad to hear it @rupertbear91! I hope things settle down for you now 🫶🏼

Has anyone bought a nice cot mobile they can share? I was looking on Etsy now we’re starting to decorate.. and I can appreciate a handmade item, but wow - some are £160 plus 🥵 I could buy alot of nappies for that!!

@Decaffe I’ve got DH a card which says thank you to Dad for taking care of Mum, from the Bump. I want to get him a present, but I think I might take him for a steak instead because that’s something he’s missed out on while I’ve been pregnant because we haven’t bothered while I can’t have them the way I like them!

@Decaffe we went for the studio for space! (Note it still has sticky out wheels!) haha but it does fit in. I love the mama and papas Lua one but it was NOT going to fit,
I also got a Snuzbaskit for downstairs!

The studio I managed 15% off one bank holiday from naturally baby, pretty sure it was £129 or something but yes best I could find it! But hope it will sell nicely as it’s a newer product 🥳
Attached a snap- I we had it up to check it fit in as we also went for a new bed! But now it’s there I won’t take it done haha … the Undone jeans 😫😂

We got our carpet fitted in the nursery today whilst I was in the hospital and my mum and partner finished the decorating tonight.... much more exciting way to finish the day than it started 💙

@rupertbear91 pleased the ultrasound was clear. Hopefully you can settle a bit now xx

We're at the Cotwolds from Friday for a long weekend but I've got some large toblerone and little bits for DH for Father's Day on Sunday. It's his birthday next week so not gone mad.