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!

Now ladies, after sitting at the airport for 2 hours today followed by further sitting on the plane for 4 hours and then sitting in a car for another 3 hours on the way home from the airport-it’s official, my ankles have swollen!

@MudandMoet welcome to my neck of the woods. I hope you enjoy the stay!
Some tips-Burton on Water is an ovverrated Broadway, the best of Cotswolds is actually found outside of towns, so if you’re feeling like going for a drive through some random villages-it’s probably a good idea.

@rupertbear91 I’m happy to learn you’ve been looked after well and relieved the scan had a positive outcome🥰

@Decaffe we also bought a snuzpod, but snuzpod 4! For us it was also the dimensions as well as the adjustable height that made us choose it. Well, me…mainly. The MR was more inclined to purchase a bigger wooden cot. It’s arriving next week actually, we bought a bundle at the baby show with the mattress and sheets.

Father’s Day stuff-I want to order some cheeky Father’s Day costume and we are going for a 4D scan on Saturday, so maybe I’ll tie that with a surprise somehow.

I am just about to embark on a 3.5 hour coach journey to the airport and then a flight at 7am!!

Wish me and my ankles luck! Just taken some magnesium as I get the worst cramps!

@TripleESept24 Remember your flight socks! They are impossible to get on 😂🫠 but my legs/ankles were fine both flights

The flight is only 50 minutes so think I'll be ok!! 🤣🤣

Ah😂 I think it took me about 50mins to get them on so I think you’ll be okay too haha

@Honeyandsunshine1 Hi! Thanks for your reply :D I’m feeling generally really well & have been loving feeling baby move and seeing my bump grow, but the anxiety I hoped would ease later in the pregnancy definitely hasn’t. I don’t think I’ll relax until she’s here. How have you been? Is this your first baby? I’m sorry, it’s been so long I can’t remember everyone’s situations.

I only had the GD diagnoses last Thursday so it’s still very early days at the minute. We’re trying to control it with diet & exercise, and I’m testing my bloods at least 4 times a day to track things, but after a specialist hospital visit yesterday it’s looking potentially likely that I will have to go on metformin or insulin by the end of the week. I’ve done well at getting my head around how to maintain good levels during the day, but the first test in the morning (after overnight fasting) has been consistently high. I’ve been really careful with what I’ve eaten for my evening meal & have tried not to eat too late, and have been on 30 minute post-dinner walks, but even with good sugars before going to bed, they spike again in the morning. It’s incredibly disheartening when I’m trying so hard & if I go on medication I believe that will more than likely wipe out the potential for a water birth, which has been my hope and goal the whole way through. Thankfully at our scan yesterday, baby was measuring on the 19th percentile will all measurements not far off bang on where they should be, so at least I know she’s coping well in there so far, even if my body is a bit all over the place.

We’re having a little girl and yes we’ve had her name picked out since around 18 weeks! How about you? Xx

@californiacooper huge congratulations to you! So lovely to see your name come back into the group. Keeping everything crossed for you ❤️

@SpicyMoth Hello due date twin! Happy 28 weeks today 🥰 how are you feeling? I cannot believe we’re down to ‘84 days’ left, give or take of course! Do you have a gut feeling on when your little one will arrive? Do you know what you’re having?

Hope all goes well for you regarding the GD. Honestly, I had no symptoms at all and was told that all the usual diabetes symptoms don’t apply to gestational diabetes, so hopefully your extra thirst etc is just normal for you right now and for your pregnancy. Finger crossed. Keep us posted!

Is there anyone else on here who HAS had a positive test for GD/GTT?

I’m weirdly sort of excited for the birth & gearing myself up for the challenge, but, I must admit the closer we get the more reality is starting to set in and the nerves are building. We’re doing the Bump & Baby Chapter hypnobirthing course online - not very far through it yet but I’m determined to try and make sure my mind is in the best possible place for whatever happens when it comes to it. I have difficult hospital memories/medical trauma too and find particular hospital sounds really triggering. It’s only been in the last few weeks that I’ve started to worry about the effect that could have on me in labour, especially if I end up needing surgery. How are you dealing with your anxieties around it all?

I would say Broadway too but heavily bias as that’s where I am! I need a weekend away but my fave UK places are 4-5 hrs and for two nights I don’t know if I have it in me 😫 I’m so tired this week!

I have put on 4kg now ekkk that jumped up quickly. I think normal for 3rd trimester now but as my BMI was borderline I’m trying to not go over a 10kg gain overall (probably unrealistic)

I never heard back from my GD test - but I’m surprised as midwife convinced I was misdiagnosed with my first. Wonder if they’d repeat it for me further down the line.
either way, I haven’t been eating properly - I have been moving constantly / gardening / decorating / but food wise I need to be a bit healthier 😅

Ahh no way @longingtobe23 I am just down the road, over the Gloucestershire border.

Was it you also you struggling to find decent second hand stuff and a Tripp Trapp?! It’s the rural life 😂

Incidentally, I’ve found a Tripp trapp with newborn pod for £229 and free delivery online. I might just go for that. The only trip trapp base that has come up anywhere near me was up for £160. And you can buy the base for £169.99 on its own through a nursery shop in NI, who ship to the UK.

@RosiePH yess!!
I have scored well for the newborn attachment had to get that on an out of area FB marketplace group. But yes where we live … nothing comes up 😂

Oh please let me know the website if you don’t mind! That’s a price I can get behind and it does last a fair few years. In laws have said they’d like to get us something so I can forward that 😂🙈

@longingtobe23

here it is with the newborn attachment, but they sell the chair with the baby set for £169.99 too - https://eclipsenurserystore.co.uk/tripp-trappr-newborn-bundle.html?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw65-zBhBkEiwAjrqRMIn7Aj_tXuIoN9n_WVkabc9tm4fkcR1O0XkpjCuXAOqmGgGhzEllGBoCyFAQAvD_BwE

Free delivery to the UK mainland from NI.

Gahh, I was just last night breaking it down into days rather than weeks and was SO shocked to see it was 85 (now 84)!
SO exciting but nerve wracking all at once!!

I have a sneaky suspicion I'm going to end up overdue, though to be honest I'm just hoping and praying it's not going to end up early and in August - My dad's birthday is August and let's just say we don't get on!

And I do indeed know what we're having, a wee baby boy!! How about you? Do you know? :') <3
We were so so so sure he'd be a girl, but now that we know it's a boy we're just as excited! Gosh, I really do hope it's true what they say about boys being super loving with their mums!

Anxiety wise I'm still a bit of a mess on and off, but I think that's part and parcel of being a first timer and also having a whole ass anxiety disorder to contend with😅
Last night I found a free hypnobirthing session for either this Thursday or next Thursday, I can't quite remember - So I'm hoping the positive framing of it etc will really help me calm down with any luck.
I'm also TOTALLY with you on hospital sounds being triggering, I think the thing I'm most worried about on the "not extreme" end is hearing other women also labouring to be honest?
I know that probably sounds weird, but I imagine that'll just scare me in the moment x.x
In terms of management, I'm honestly just trying to not think about it at all and only focus on the "right now" and getting through the current pain I'm in >.<;

My top fear is having to have a C-Section though, which I know is definitely silly.
My mum had to have one when she had me and ended up with an intense gangrene infection and nearly died.
Afaik the only reason she survived was because she was obese at the time so the infection ate at the fat rather than anything important - I'm sure it's a one in million chance of happening, and to be fair it was a very, VERY old hospital even for it's time, but it's still a fear I definitely have with all I've heard about it over the years! >.<

How are you feeling in yourself at the moment?? I'm definitely starting to feel extra tired and in pain - especially around either side of bump, have no idea how I'm going to cope with a little under 3 more months of growing, I'm exhausted already!!

How are folk coping with having bigger emotions than usual? I've honestly not felt too up or down the whole pregnancy till now but I got some disappointing work news yesterday and have been so disproportionately upset and tearful. After a whole evening of wallowing I thought I was back to an even keel but have just ended up in tears again. Feels like a teenage break up level of big feelings 😫 Another evening of pjs and chocolate ahead 🥲

Any fellow small babies? 😩 I’m 28 weeks and developed hyperthyroidism at the beginning of the pregnancy out of the blue (under control for now) so was listed for growth scans. Had my first today and baby is on the 6th centile for gestational age so not even on the chart which they said begins from the 10th. Now have to go back in 2 weeks for rescanning.

I was expecting small as I have virtually no bump (still in my old clothes and people are amazed when they find out I’m in my third trimester), but wasn’t expecting small enough to be off the chart 😩 feeling quite lonely with it as my husband is a bury head in the sand type of person. Have read lots online about NHS pathways for this sort of thing but feel quite in limbo.

@PoppingUp Here with the big emotions! But they’re not all the time so when they do hit it massively takes me by surprise. This afternoon a cover teacher in my department had a nightmare class, and she got upset so I took over from her while she went to take a breather. At the end of the lesson when I checked in on her, because she was crying I started to cry too, even though I’m senior and waaaay past the point of classes having tears off me! It was literally just seeing her upset set me off 🥴

@Caroline2023 @RosiePH I got my code for Artipoppe discount finally 🎉 I will happily DM it to you if you’d like?

mine came and I even love the box! Haha

Yes please @longingtobe23!

@MrsMoggy my best friend had a small baby. He was born at 39 weeks but very small. He was still in newborn clothes at 4 -5 months, and 0-3 at 5/6 months. He was totally fine. Both mum and dad are super slim so in a way, they were never gonna have a big chubby baby. By 7-8 months he caught up more, and always reached milestones etc. The dr was not concerned as long as baby gained even just a bit of weight regularly. Perfectly healthy toddler now (still not a chubby chubby kid!).

@MrsMoggy my friends little girl was born on the 9th centile. She was so small compared to my chunky boy but now they are both 5 and she's the taller one. She never had any issues other than a little jaundice at birth which was easily sorted and she got to go home same day as giving birth as no complications.

@PoppingUp I'm with you on the big emotions. I feel so inside my own head at the minute it all bottles up and explodes. Everything my partner suggests/does is annoying me right now and it's desperately fighting the urge to pick an argument!

@SpicyMoth I'm a fellow anxious first time mum... anxious since birth 😂 I've been having CBT with a perinatal therapist and feel so different after a month. It's pretty wild. I used to cry daily about birth and fears but not any more. Maybe worth looking into??

I'm opting for a c section for my anxiety! As I'm terrified of vaginal birth. Also don't want an induction or emergency section. Funny how our anxieties manifest.

@Lillers @rupertbear91 @Xur it's reassuring to know it's not just me and that I can legitimately blame the pregnancy hormones! DP hasn't caught the brunt of any of it yet, though we had a set of flatpack fitted wardrobes delivered last week and he's meant to be corralling the joiner in to get them sorted and every time I see them still sat there I can feel my blood pressure rising so he's probably on borrowed time 😂

I've had a really lucky easy and low symptom first six months and now that third trimester is fast approaching it's coming as a bit of a shock to the system that the aches and pains and slowing down are starting, along with the bigger feelings, and that there's still three months to go!

I've had my diabetes test today together with a growth scan. I'll find the results of the diabetes test tomorrow morning. The juice wasn't even that bad at all I didn't think. Just like an extra strong orange capri sun. Of course I headed straight to Macs for a breakfast on the way home 😂

Little missy is already head down the sonographer said and smack bang on middle line of the centile chart.

I've put exactly 7kg on so far which they said is perfectly normal for 29 weeks. Eeek 10 weeks to go! Health visitor is coming out for a chat next week. It all seems so real all of a sudden. MW tomorrow, no idea why as I've seen my consultant today.

Thanks for the Cotswolds recommendations ladies, we've been before so are familiar with the areas. I actually do like Bourton on the Water as my favourite pottery collection started there so it's a must I go and add to the collection!