Anyone else expecting a November sparkler? *Updated with due dates!*

[southernbound]

I haven't been told where my placenta is so I haven't a clue if I will feel baby when it moves or not. Do they randomly tell you if you have an anterior placenta, or do you have to ask?

Unless it's going to block the cervix most doctors won't tell you because it's not of any health concern but I'm a nut for medical stuff so I asked and she pointed it out right away.

 

[miss_kseniya]

Bubs I change fruits on a Friday and so does Dazed. I look forward to Fridays more than ever now just so I can see what it changes to!

 

[littletobyj]

Bubs I change fruits on a Friday and so does Dazed. I look forward to Fridays more than ever now just so I can see what it changes to!

I love the fruit thing, keep seeing it on the tickers. Although I did just semi freak out when I realised that giving birth to a lemon would be tricky never mind the bigger size

 

[BubsMom17]

Bubs I change fruits on a Friday and so does Dazed. I look forward to Fridays more than ever now just so I can see what it changes to!

I love the fruit thing, keep seeing it on the tickers. Although I did just semi freak out when I realised that giving birth to a lemon would be tricky never mind the bigger size

LOL... yeah, it is a little perplexing... like when they go from round fruits, then all of a sudden they are bananas...

With my first pregnancy I was so freaked out by that... like, Oh my god... this little/huge person actually has to come out of there! Eeek!

I often wonder about what it is like for them in there, too. I imagine it's like, sitting in a tub, then watching the water drain out... knowing that the only way out is through that little tiny opening! Aaaah!

 

[littletobyj]

Oh god I have never thought of it like that, they must wonder where the hell they are going! I remember that feeling too-getting bigger and bigger and thinking to myself that there is only one way for them to come out!! Trying not to think about it this time around!

 

[brinib]

Jammers, my boobs aren't sore as such, but my nipples keep going super erect for no reason, it actually hurts sometimes too!

Also, is anyone else getting dry nipples? Can't say it's a problem I've ever had before but they now seem really dry & flaky. Should I moisturise them??

And another question!!!
Does anyone know, if I can use a travel cot for daytime sleeps? Moses baskets are so bloody expensive let alone x2, and won't last long, and I thought maybe a travel cot, but with a thicker mattress ( I've read the ones they come with are really thin & hard) would be a better solution I can keep it in the living room? We're putting a cot in our room for night sleeps & occasional day time naps, but I'm at a loss for daytime. Plus, I would really like the twins to sleep together for the first few months that they can.

Thanks!!!

I'm sure you can, newborns will sleep anywhere (just not when you want them to! ) DS slept in a swing or a baby bouncy chair almost exclusively for the first couple months-- he liked constant motion.

 

[jammers77]

southernbound, glad to know you got to see your little baby. Stinks about the anterior placenta. A friend of mine has a tilted uterus and she wasn't able to feel it move till about 19 weeks, but she bought a doppler so that she could still hear the baby's HB even if she couldn't feel it.

Bubs, that tub analogy is great!!

 

[rachael872211]

Good evening.

Does anyone feel really dizzy? I did feel dizzy with my last two pregnancies but this is feeling a lot worse. I can just be sitting down doing nothing and I just feel drunk. Its horrible. Last night in bed I kept rolling over and my head was spinning! Thankfully today I have been ok.

Welcome to all the new mommies!! Soany of you- how exciting!
I'm looking for Halloween outfits for this little girly because theres no way I'll go until nov 1, they have some really cute ideas!

I know I will come late but I might get a halloween outfit for the coming home outfit. My OH might not agree. lol.

I know I sound ungrateful to moan about this- but I want to cry tonight! I went through all 3 pregnancies with NO stretch marks on my belly. That was with gaining 80 pounds each time and loosing it and they were each 17-18 months apart. The last baby was born and I saw little time white ones on my belly button after my stomach went back but literally last summer when I was the smallest I've ever been in m life I had 8% body fat and had a 6 pack with no loose skin which I never thought would happen after being 205 pounds at my heaviest.... Well now I want to cry because I think the ones that were tiny and white are spreading and I had a feeling this would happen if I had another baby. I don't mean to sound like a whinny bi$&h but I will be so depressed of I made it through all these babies and weight gain and was 6 years out of it just to destroy my tummy now. I'm literally crying while I write this because I can see them looking red ish (because my skin is so pale now) and I can feel the indents in my skin where they are spreading. I am so sad. I know how blessed I was because my one sister got them do bad from under her boobs to her knees and they would bleed they were so huge and I always felt so bad for her and wished I could take that away for her... Now that could be me and I just don't want to loose everything by having one more baby it wouldn't ever make me want to trade this baby- dot get me wrong- but to have been so grateful to have gained sooooo much and still go back and now potentially have huge stretch marks would ruin my already really low self confidence


Sorry to vent. Please don't think ungrateful, just having a big "moment"

I got my stretchmarks on my first pregnancy, but nevertheless whenever you get them isnt very nice. One thing I remember doing was moisturising. The stretchmarks didnt dissappear and I was getting annoyed so I stopped and then as soon as I stopped it was like a gate had been opened and they spread! I wish I kept mositurising.

Does anyone else here still have insanely sore boobs? They're not so bad in the morning after a full night's sleep without my bra, but when I take my bra off at night, I have to hold them and gently let them go after a few seconds. I never experienced anything like this with my previous pregnancies, so I'm just hoping and praying that soon the pain will go away. If they're this sore after birth, I don't know how I'll BF or pump!!

My boobs are really painful this time and are massive already. They were unbearable in the beginning but they are getting better now.

That's awesome that you conceived naturally with your other factors!

We had been actively trying for about 18 months but we have been together almost 10 years and not preventing most of that time. My OH's test results said he had super sperm! Lol so whatever the problem was it was all me, but it was unexplained

I had just been to see my consultant to discuss ivf but think I was already pregnant then

I had tried lots of alternative medicine so it's nice to hear someone else's positive story!

Gosh, that all feels so long ago already!!

Does anyone else here still have insanely sore boobs? They're not so bad in the morning after a full night's sleep without my bra, but when I take my bra off at night, I have to hold them and gently let them go after a few seconds. I never experienced anything like this with my previous pregnancies, so I'm just hoping and praying that soon the pain will go away. If they're this sore after birth, I don't know how I'll BF or pump!!

My boobs aren't as sore as they were but they are hot! But they've grown and no longer fit in my bra properly I'm not sure whether to buy a maternity bra or just buy nursing bras as I'm really hoping to be able to BF. Has anyone else bought any maternity clothes yet?

I have brought maternity clothes and I feel so comfortable wearing them. I feel at that stage where I don't look pregnant and just look like I have a mega chunky belly. I hate this look. lol.

If you are going to breastfeed I would say just buy nursing bras. Thats what i done my last pregnancy. They are really comphy compared to bras I am wearing right now.

I have started wearing my maternity jeans this week and it's so much more comfortable. I was thinking today though about what to buy, I have a holiday in July and I have been trying to swim (been told it helps with birth because of stronger core muscles!) so think I am going to need a maternity swim suit! I think I might get away with a few of my tops.

I brought a maternity tankini top as soon as I found out I was pregnant. lol. I'm probably going to need it long after I have had the baby too. It was from next but really comfortable.

I haven't been told where my placenta is so I haven't a clue if I will feel baby when it moves or not. Do they randomly tell you if you have an anterior placenta, or do you have to ask?

Anterior is at the front isnt it? I had anterior with my little boy and she told me. This time when I was having my scan I wanted to know where the placenta was and because she wasnt saying I asked and she told me it was at the back. When the placenta was at the front I still felt the kicks but they were kind of softer if that makes sense? I felt them most in my pelvis.

 

[MandaAnda]

Zowiey, look at Arms Reach co-sleepers. They do them big enough for twins and in lots of varieties.

 

[Angeltk42]

Besides me and Angeltk42, anyone else have a fruit change today??? Avocado day! Yay!

Woohoo Go us!!! Avocado is looking kinda big... EEK
I try not to think about giving birth because it scares the heck of me but that was a truly funny analogy about the water draining out of the tub... The poor baby must get so confused! lol

 

[peanutmomma]

Angel- I was just at the store and we compared a navel orange and an avocado as I thought an orange would be larger and OMG! LOL the avocado is so much longer. It was a lot bigger than I thought. Every time we do in-person comparisons DH places the fruit next to my belly and I thought a lemon looked big in that area. WOW!! I wonder how something that big will come out of something so small myself even though I realize that we dilate still...

 

[natty1985]

Hope everyone is ok we had a gender scan today were on team pink ))

 

[BubsMom17]

Hope everyone is ok we had a gender scan today were on team pink ))

Ooooh congrats!

I am so excited to be hearing (or reading...) the results of everyone's gender scans! I am so excited for mine! 3 weeks to go exactly!

 

[BubsMom17]

Angel- I was just at the store and we compared a navel orange and an avocado as I thought an orange would be larger and OMG! LOL the avocado is so much longer. It was a lot bigger than I thought. Every time we do in-person comparisons DH places the fruit next to my belly and I thought a lemon looked big in that area. WOW!! I wonder how something that big will come out of something so small myself even though I realize that we dilate still...

Go to the grocery store and pick up a 7 or 8 pound watermelon...

Luckily babies are not ball shaped... lol...

 

[peanutmomma]

Hope everyone is ok we had a gender scan today were on team pink ))

congrats on the little girl

 

[peanutmomma]

okay so far we have
Tower-
Gemie-
Natty-

Lora is next I think with the gender scans, right? Am I missing anyone?

 

[Gemie]

Hope everyone is ok we had a gender scan today were on team pink ))

Congrats on team pink! How lovely after 2 blues!

 

[Gemie]

Natty1985 I just went to update you on the first page and you're not added what's your due date?

 

[Tower6]

Congrats on the girl!!!! Yay!

And peanut I was just saying how an avocado is way smaller than an orange lol
I guess I need to go look!

 

[babymonkey18]

Natty, congrats on the girl!!!

Bubsmom, glad you got to talk to the dr, I reallllly hope the magnesium works for you . My sister is a neurosurgeon, so she knows a lot about brains haha...and I told her I was taking it and she said it's very common that they give it to patients with headaches. She said it helps stabilize the blood vessels since migraines are probably caused by vessel spasms of constrictions or dilations.

To everyone who talked about the vitamin D stuff...thanks again. And I did more reading and 5000 UI daily isn't too much. I guess the normal, healthy range for Vit D3 is anywhere between 32-100 ng/mL and it's not toxic until you are around 250 ng/mL. Considering I'm at 23 and with 5000 UI they want me to be a bit above 30 in 3 months...I don't think my levels will get too high. (relieved)

Sore boobs...lol... mine were sore from ovulation until about week 6 (so only like 3 weeks!). They got fuller during that time, but haven't seemed to grow much at all yet! Anyone else have this? I know there is no real "norm" with this kind of thing so I am not concerned about mine not growing or being sore yet (since everything with baby is great!) but I have always looked like a small boy (LOL) and so it would be nice to have somewhat of a chest before I get bigger everywhere else . I hope the soreness goes away for those of you dealing with it. Even though I hardly had it, it was bad for those few weeks, uck!

No maternity clothes for me yet. Wearing my jeans, but you know how they fit a little snug the first time you wear them out of the wash? That's how of they always feel now. I have been using the whole hair-tie trick around the button so give the lower abdomen a little breathing room as it felt like it was putting pressure where the baby is and it was uncomfortable. I have been wearing my looser shirts because I feel like I'm "showing" my pudge. I don't feel confident...I think I will wear my bump proud when it's a baby underneath and not a food-filled stomach! haha.

All this fruit talk is hilarious. I think about it, too, and then I try to forget because having that come out sounds horrible, haha! I think one of the fruits (not sure if it's on the ticker, but I know I read it somewhere) is a canteloupe and I just am thankful that 1) the baby is NOT that round or 2) that HARD!