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!

@Lillers haha well I have some classes that would love it and some full of teenage lads lads 🙈 so I just can’t fathom they’ll care much!
I’ll perhaps tell the nicer groups. Love that though they want to be involved.

Im ordering some bias maxi skirts and t shirts to get me through the hot spell. I have some but a size up with elastic waist is gonna have to do.

I simply hate maternity clothes 😅 and I have a wedding, baptism and a whole summer to go …. Ekk

@longingtobe23 I was worried about my Y11s - there are lots of “lad lads” in there (one of whom once threatened to bring in a gun and shoot me) and they often make inappropriate sexual comments (obviously always reported, sanctioned etc) but I was concerned that they’d ask me how I got pregnant or something. But when they found out, gun boy got really excited and told me the names he’s already chosen for his future children! Now when they see me around school they make the other kids get out of the way to let me through. It’s like having my own personal set of incredibly tall bodyguards 😂

@PoppingUp 24 weeks is quite the milestone, the “viability age” where from now on, if (touch wood, god forbid, and all other sayings) baby is born early they will do their best to save them. And that’s also when they become a “person” in that they’d get a birth certificate etc.

Then 28 weeks for 3rd trimester, 30 weeks so the “9+ weeks” countdowns are in single figures, work stop date, 37 weeks for full term, then due date. Interspaced with some midwife appts, I found the second half much easier mentally the first time round as there are more mini milestones to check off!

@longingtobe23 tell me about it, I got a baptism event and my own wedding in a few weeks. Not sure if the dress is still gonna fit 🥲😅

Sorry you’re going through it too @rupertbear91 ❤️‍🩹 I too thought that we’d seen the back of winter cold/bugs/flu. It’s too hot to be coughing my lungs up 🫠🫠

How do you feel about the movements etc? I’m always the worst for going into MAU, I’ve only ever done it once in the 2.5 pregnancy’s, I just always do the cliche “ah I’ll get there and they’ll think I’m silly” talk myself out of it 🥲

@Honeyandsunshine1 the midwife at my scan last week said she wouldn't worry about monitoring movement until 24 weeks so much as they can be really inconsistent. I have a midwife appointment at 23 weeks so going to bring it up then if it's still so few movements I'm feeling. I hadn't really considered going to get checked but it's hard to know at this stage what to do. He was all good and wriggling around last week in his scan!

@Xur oh my goodness how exciting!!! Try the dress on every two weeks and have seamstress on standby! I used to work in bridal they all have some element of give in the seams 💕 can’t wait to see the pics!

@Lillers actually this sounds like a perfect solution to stop them popping off at me haha … I’ll be telling them next week and see if they cut me some slack 😂

I feel like I’m counting down to 24 weeks, only 3 days away now which is crazy.

Isn’t third trimester 27 weeks? I always get so confused. Some places say 27 weeks some say 28 weeks. But still to think next month I’ll be in the final trimester is mad. If someone told me I’d be in the third trimester on my 34th birthday I’d have laughed right in their face haha

Tysm for letting me know @Xur ! I really though Braxton Hicks were a more later on kind of thing, so it's a bit reassuring that it could be that!

I'd say it's more like tightening than stabbing pains, but being completely honest I wouldn't say it's really very much like either - more like a band of sudden ache either side of my tummy that stretches around to my back?
I'm unsure if you've ever had a kidney infection but it's almost like the same kind of pain and area as that, just on the less severe/painful side of things and more on the period crampy/achey side of things if that makes any sense?

It's very weird feeling as it's different to both of those things to be honest, it's just the closest comparison I really have. I used to have absolutely brutal period cramps as a teen and it's nowhere near that level of stabby pain, but it's also not nothing either.

Have been on to Midwife and she said to do the 30min lie on side w/ sugary drink thing and see if I feel anything, have just been swimming and currently eating a Greggs with a sugary J20 and a YumYum and getting the odd tummy flick - Am still feeling baby move for now, so I'm hoping everything's just fine and I'm being overly worried for nothing.

It's just such a weird and different sort of sensation of ache/pain that I've not had before ever really, and baby's movements are less vigorous than they were 3-4 days ago - I think that's why I'm worrying.
But then I suppose he could've just moved around positions!
Gah, I wish I could actually see him to check he's doing okay >.< !

@SpicyMoth you know it could also be stretchy pains, maybe your little one has a bigger pool now to swim in and that’s why it feels mild 🤿
mine for example, some days I think he kicks and moves more, some less. I think it’s part of the drill at the moment.

Oooo ok! Let me know. This is my third rodeo but still don’t remember what’s normal/what isn’t 😣 This baby has always been fairly “tame” on scans and not whizzing around the place like everyone else has described. The only wild thing she did was stay upside down during the 12 week scan 😂 but other than that she’s been fairly cooperative at the 20 week and private scans. Maybe she’s just a chill bean 👀

Thank you for the solidarity 🩵🩵🩵 hope your cold shifts soon!!

For anyone still stuck on prams (like I was for MONTHS) we’ve just bought a second hand mountain buggy duet and I highly recommend for anyone with toddlers. It pushes soooo smoothly and is quite narrow. We live in London and have a small narrow doorway as we live in a converted Victorian, and I’m so surprised that it fits.

We’ve got it set up for 2 toddlers at the moments as It’s currently carting around my 4 and 2 year old (with such ease) but you can change one of the seats to a baby seat when needed. My eldest will need to hop back onto his feet when his sister arrives, but until then… chefs kiss 🤌🏻🤌🏻

We didn’t have the budget for a brand new one so I joined a “mountain buggy buy swap sell” facebook group and one popped up near us for £250! Which included a baby carry cot and rain covers. Really happy with it

Tysm @Xur your reassurance is genuinely helping so so much <3 🤗❤

@Lillers your description of your tall bodyguards and ‘gun boy’ made me chuckle this morning 😁

All went well at my obstetrician check today and I got a bonus Doppler as there was a student there who did it for the first time, so that was good. We also discussed potential c-section dates, Friday 13th being one of them! 🍀

All went well at the scan! And I am joining 💕Team Girl💕

She was SO wriggly - I expected as much because she’d been kicking so much this morning, and even when I was sitting in the waiting room I could feel her (normally I only really feel her in the morning and evening).

Took ages to get all the measurements because she wouldn’t stop moving, and then when she did decide to curl up and go to sleep she did so in a position where the sonographer couldn’t see anything, so I had to do lots of jumps/wiggles/hip thrusts 😂

Great news @Lillers!

Also just had my scan and he’s doing well in there! We knew he was a boy from our NIPT, but great to get that confirmed today. He is most definitely a boy shall we say 😂

Such a relief to have had it now though! I’d started to get so nervous.

I have felt a few kicks but actually my placenta is anterior but right at the top. A few times I’ve thought I can actually feel the placenta beating when I’ve rested my hand on my tummy. The sonographer said that she’s finds most ladies are anterior these days, but it used to be that posterior was more common. Quite interesting to know!

@Lillers @RosiePH great news for both of you!

@Decaffe my due date is Friday 13th, which is also my birthday - and I was born on a Friday 13th too! I think I've turned out alright so can't be too unlucky 😂🍀

@Lillers @RosiePH

Such great news for you both!

Welcome to team girl @Lillers 💕

Just catching up! Loving the bump photos 🥰 I feel like mine is suddenly there! Here it is a few weeks back, me and my little boy took a photo in the pink tulips to tell family we are having a little girl 🥰

Also has anyone got varicose veins I have an awful on on my right leg and the top of it looks like a massive bruise! (Not so pretty pic lol)

Welcome to Team Girl! @Lillers 🩷

@hol92 That’s a lovely photo 🥰 I’ve not got varicose veins but I am bruising like a peach at the moment! They don’t hurt but look awful, great just in time for the nicer weather when I want to wear shorts/dresses 😂

What an amazing photo!! 🥰

I forgot to mark a spot on this thread until now 🤦‍♀️ My pgp is causing me a lot of discomfort in the evenings but the pain is different to last time it’s more in my tailbone so I’m trying to do lots of deep squats and pigeon stretches.

I had my daughters health visitor review today and it was funny thinking about the woman coming out to the house to visit again in October both how much older DD will be but having another baby there too. The early HV visits are definitely much easier today DD had a meltdown as I wouldn’t let her wear her shoes on her hands when we were about to leave 🤷‍♀️

@Lillers welcome to team girl 💕 was that what was predicted by your sister (?)

@hol92 lovely photo 🌷💕 it's most likely nothing at all to worry about but maybe mention the varicose vein at your next midwife appointment as mine asked me last time if I had any come and they also asked me at the hospital too.

@Lillers aww thanks fantastic news. Another for team girl 💖💖
So glad your scan also went well @RosiePH

@hol92 ive been getting varicose veins as well. I noticed them a few weeks back and they haven’t increased but they definitely weren’t there before. Currently just on my knee bend on both legs. So hoping they don’t get much worse. But I am particularly veiny this time round

Lovely to hear the good news @Lillers @RosiePH ❣️❣️❣️😍