🎇 Due November 26 🎆

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Welcoming all those who have received their BFPs for a November bubba - congratulations to all!
I felt terrified as not really TTC #2 but thanks to support from the kind ladies of MN I’ve decided to embrace and be excited.

34, baby #2, probably keeping it a surprise(?!) mum to a 7yo DS, hoping only 1 in there as only 3 weeks today and heft symptoms already

I’m 23 weeks and have only recently started feeling lots of kicks/movements. Though I do have an anterior placenta. I also wouldn’t say it’s consistent yet, happens randomly with no pattern that I’ve noticed X

No consistency of movement here either. I'm 19+5. Felt some movements from 14 weeks. At 16 I seemed to have about a week of flutters after eating lunch. But that went away for a week and movements started again last weekend. But in previous pregnancy there was no convincing movement at all until gone 20 weeks.

No clear movements at the same phase, my scan shown anterior placenta, which explains it.

Hi Everyone, how we all doing? 😊
I’m 25 weeks today and definitely starting to feel it 😂 Last night baby kept pushing herself against one side of my belly. You could feel a definite lump there, so guessing it must of been her head or bottom lol.

I’m 23 weeks and can feel a good bit of movement (even with an anterior low lying placenta) it’s a boy this time and feel all my symptoms are more intense and I’m also huge already but I’m feeling a lot better than first trimester! Hope everyone else is feeling ok x

I'm 25 weeks now and only in the last week or so have movements become consistent. Before that I'd get feelings, but I couldn't have told you if they'd slowed or stopped. Now I get a couple of kicks every few hours and I'm more confident I'd be able to tell if things changed. Felt the quickening at 18 weeks so took a while for consistency.

24 weeks and a half and I’d say more consistency over the last 2 weeks and a pattern has formed but I have just had 2 weeks off from work also, so had time to really notice it. Also have an anterior placenta, but a very active baby we’ve been told and so we’ve seen on scans!!

Started feeling at 18 weeks but no consistent pattern back then!

Anyone else starting to get really uncomfortable!? I'm 29 weeks now, and I feel like my bump is always solid as a rock!! My lungs have ran out of space also!! So looking forward to another 11 weeks plus of this

So uncomfortable. I get that as well as cramp and loads of lower back / round ligament pain. I have just got a support belt to sèe if that helps.

Are others having wardrobe issues? I dont want to buy loads more summer stuff but am growing out of tops.

I'm 28 weeks with twins. Days are up and down some days I feel more tired, bloated and uncomfortable, other days are fine. I'm finding swimming is helpful. I am about the size of 40 weeks with a single now, not sure what I'm going to wear in 6-8 weeks time!

31 weeks and constantly wearing the same unflattering clothes
Every time I go online and add Mat clothes to my basket or browse Marketplace, I change my mind and decide it's just not worth the money now for the sake of a few weeks. I'm convinced she's coming sometime between mid-end of October anyway so I'd rather just remain semi comfortable until then! Feel so unorganised I can't bring myself to settle on anything we need. Travel systems bamboozle me so much - after going so wrong with the Pioneer for our first, was so big and clunky for our little boot. This time convinced ourselves the main thing is light and compact - we have a Tesla Model 3 and the boot is not loving any that we try, not enough to leave room for anything other than the buggy! Do we just make do as carry cot not needed for long, or do we spend more money than we want to get less for our money so it's more compact? End up "pinning" every decision like this at the moment. Is anyone else like this? Tell me you're not all super organised (Except inside your head maybe.. like me at 2am when I think i've had a brainwave...)

28 weeks.

For the summer I just got a few normal dresses 2-3 sizes up (in selected cuts to have no defined waist) and I just lived in them. So much that one is starting to get holes in it!

I visited a maternity shop last week to equip for colder days - got some really soft leggings and two combined maternity&nursing dresses. I understood that my body won't get back to size immediatelly, so I expect I will keep them for a while after as well, and they are cut in a way which should manage any breast size I can end up with.

I woudn't be able to shop online at all though - I found I'm extremely sensitive in a few unusual places (lower chest, no tolerance over the belly for any standard elastics or drawstrings), so the trip to specialised store was worth it.

It's very frustrating the regular high street shops no longer stock mat clothes on shop floors anymore. We don't have any niche "maternity" shops within a reasonable distance to us, so like you say - some baggy maxi dresses and baggy trousers in sizes up has been the only thing i've bothered with. Hoping the balmy autum sticks around, and will make do with pre-existing light jumpers!

Actually, my summer clothes ended quite fine, not really unflattering. I suppose I'm lucky with well defined breast (uncomfortably large, but proportionate to my current body), so once I found shops stocking bigger normal sizes, it worked fine.

Niche maternity shops - I live in a city with 1 million people, and there is just one well stocked here. I met a couple from a city 50 minutes away there.

Might be worth checking whether you can't combine visiting one with some trip you need to take anyway. If yes, just try to have some time to rest before/after, trying clothes on can be a hard work.

Ah, that was me in my first pregancy. Didn't realise how lucky I was that I barely grew - I stayed in size 10 and 12 clothes right to the end. Walked out the hospital with size 8 jeggings on feeling no different! Boy though, sure that helped 🤣This time with little miss on board, my boobs are HUGE and my bump is huge. Everything else has settled after initial bloating, so really struggling to find a happy medium that isn't too bag everywhere but bust and bump 😂 We literally have supermarkets and charity shops unless we drive an hour and half to London which is such a ballache atm with the amount of appts / interviews i'm doing for staff we already needed let alone for any mat cover / general life with a 7 y/o 🙄So easy not to put yourself first and then end up here. Tbh I can make do, I always do - i'd rather start being able to choose bits for bubba but pure decision fatigue atm roll on shopping trips!

Where did you find maternity shops people? I am west of London but have not seen a single one.

I feel like I am the size of a house at 29 weeks. Usually size 14 and size 20 t shirts are riding up over the bump so not going to the top of trousers. Seriously 😪.

I don't want to spend loads but would like one or two things I am not ashamed to be seen in. Especially for work.

The struggle is real! I'm 31 weeks today and I suddenly popped at maybe 28 weeks? Before that I literally didn't look pregnant and now I feel enormous. I find maternity jeans really uncomfortable because the fake band of the jeans part starts to dig in to the underside of my bump by the end of the day, so I'm literally living in a couple of pairs of stretchy polyester maternity trousers I got from Shein. They are not attractive but they're comfy, so...

I have one pair of M&S maternity leggings which fit and are comfy and is basically all I'm wearing. But I need to wash them sometimes....