FEBRUARY HEARTS Due in February 2015 , open group all welcome!

[EMYJC]

This was me with ds at 34+1, 5 days before he arrived!

 

[Mommy2missR]

This was me with ds at 34+1, 5 days before he arrived!

omg you were so tiny!!!!! I feel like I am almost that big NOW!

 

[EMYJC]

Lol. I felt enormous and had actually put on 4 stone!!! X

 

[MiniBump]

I don't normally share photos but I found my bump pics from DD today. I only took some at about 34 weeks because I couldn't believe how big I was (she was born at 37+5 at almost 8lb!) but only at the front, from the back you wouldn't have known!!

 

[RaspberryK]

That's a fab bump! Although I put on 5 stone with DS and I was huge I wasn't that big in the bum or hips, already I feel like the lovehandles on my hips are huge.
xx

 

[kittykat7210]

I don't normally share photos but I found my bump pics from DD today. I only took some at about 34 weeks because I couldn't believe how big I was (she was born at 37+5 at almost 8lb!) but only at the front, from the back you wouldn't have known!!

thats such a perfect bump its lovely!! i hope mine turns out like that, although i'm hoping for a smaller baby (if you can hope for that) just because i'm so tiny haha!!

 

[2nd time]

My scan is inmless than 12 hours feeling worried I know alot of us yave scans tomorrow if you thank / like this post we will be able to count up howmamy 31st scans we have

 

[StefNJunk]

My scan is inmless than 12 hours feeling worried I know alot of us yave scans tomorrow if you thank / like this post we will be able to count up howmamy 31st scans we have

Scan tomorrow here, too!

 

[MiniBump]

thats such a perfect bump its lovely!! i hope mine turns out like that, although i'm hoping for a smaller baby (if you can hope for that) just because i'm so tiny haha!!

Well, I'm 5' 9" but very slim with narrow hips so I was hoping for a small one too (my 2 sisters and I were all around 6lb). Unfortunately, my hubby is 6' 4" and was a 9 pounder so she must've taken after him! Whatever, I couldn't push her out and ended up with a section, lol! Hoping this one takes after me!!

 

[2nd time]

My scan is inmless than 12 hours feeling worried I know alot of us yave scans tomorrow if you thank / like this post we will be able to count up howmamy 31st scans we have

Scan tomorrow here, too!

Is it your first scan I camtbbelifeni have waited this long for my 1st gl hope everything is fine

 

[kittykat7210]

thats such a perfect bump its lovely!! i hope mine turns out like that, although i'm hoping for a smaller baby (if you can hope for that) just because i'm so tiny haha!!

Well, I'm 5' 9" but very slim with narrow hips so I was hoping for a small one too (my 2 sisters and I were all around 6lb). Unfortunately, my hubby is 6' 4" and was a 9 pounder so she must've taken after him! Whatever, I couldn't push her out and ended up with a section, lol! Hoping this one takes after me!!

i hope my little one doesnt take after my hubby, hes just over 6 ft, but with me just under 5ft and pretty tiny all over i dont think i could walk with a big baby in my tummy!! i'll be falling over forwards by 30 weeks haha!! i might choose a c section if i'm honest /: i know most women prefer a natural birth but if bubbas big i just don't think i'll be able to

 

[MiniBump]

i hope my little one doesnt take after my hubby, hes just over 6 ft, but with me just under 5ft and pretty tiny all over i dont think i could walk with a big baby in my tummy!! i'll be falling over forwards by 30 weeks haha!! i might choose a c section if i'm honest /: i know most women prefer a natural birth but if bubbas big i just don't think i'll be able to

If it's your first and does seem to be quite big (and remember scans are not always accurate indicators of birth weight), I would definitely say still give a vaginal birth a try, many small women have birthed big babies with no problems! Obviously, if the doctors advise you otherwise then listen to them but I just wish I'd learnt more about the different positions you can use, i.e. squatting, to open up the pelvis and it might all have been different (although exhaustion played a major part in my labour too)! I'm going for a VBAC this time so it hasn't put me off!

 

[British Mummy]

aaaand joining the list of scan tomorrow gals is me! I'm booked in for 11:30am UK time, but they could easily be running behind. I've felt sick all day. either it's nerves or my body reassuring me there's a baby in there! I have a little bump but I can suck it in. the more I think about it the more nervous I get - DH has noticed I'm a little off today so keeps saying 'scan tomorrow!' with a big smile so sweet but not helping lol x lovely first scans to everyone!

 

[MellyH]

I'm sure it will go really well, BM!

 

[British Mummy]

Here's my bump pic for 41 Weeks, I'm pouting because my due date was November 22nd And it was November 30th the day of this photo. with my due date being the 22nd I hadn't really considered the fact that she could've been born in December so I posted this on fb saying 'come on November baby!' I was induced in the end and she was born December 3rd x

 

[Feronia]

i hope my little one doesnt take after my hubby, hes just over 6 ft, but with me just under 5ft and pretty tiny all over i dont think i could walk with a big baby in my tummy!! i'll be falling over forwards by 30 weeks haha!! i might choose a c section if i'm honest /: i know most women prefer a natural birth but if bubbas big i just don't think i'll be able to

If it's your first and does seem to be quite big (and remember scans are not always accurate indicators of birth weight), I would definitely say still give a vaginal birth a try, many small women have birthed big babies with no problems! Obviously, if the doctors advise you otherwise then listen to them but I just wish I'd learnt more about the different positions you can use, i.e. squatting, to open up the pelvis and it might all have been different (although exhaustion played a major part in my labour too)! I'm going for a VBAC this time so it hasn't put me off!

Totally agree. Ultrasounds are horrible indicators of actual weight, and you can't tell by the way you're carrying either (torso length determines that). My husband is almost 6 feet and my baby only weighed 6 lbs 2 oz and was 18 1/2 inches long, so it's really hard to tell.

Yeah, squatting and being on your hands and knees opens up your pelvis up to 30% more, and there are plenty of small women who birth 10lb + babies without even tearing. There are four different types of pelvises, and ALL of them can birth babies. Unless there is a structural problem with your hips (e.g. a broken pelvis in early life that reshaped incorrectly, or something like Rickets), or a problem like gestational diabetes, your body won't make a baby that you can't birth vaginally (of course other things can rarely come up that would make a cesarean delivery a better option, but size of baby in relation to your body alone isn't one of them unless you have a problem I already mentioned).

You can totally do it!

Best of luck on your VBAC, minibump!

 

[SurpriseBub]

Doc appt (and I assume scan- will certainly ask for it!) tomorrow, too. Already getting nervous. We saw baby at 9 weeks, so am very hopeful that all is well. That moment when they call you in, I swear my heart rate goes through the roof!

Hoping for a good, healthy looking bub and a good heart rate. 3pm tomorrow cannot happen soon enough!!

Good luck to everyone else with an appointment tomorrow

 

[kittykat7210]

the thing is, pain is not a big problem for me, so thats not considered in my decision, its mainly tearing i have problems with, i'm going to put this in a spoiler box because its quite crude so i dont want people who dont want to read this through this haha

Spoiler

my hubby is rather... generously proportioned in the trouser department, and when we... you know... i feel myself pretty much go to the absolute maximum stretching wise, i literally feel like much bigger and i'll tear, and its not as big as a babies head (obviously) so my worry is major tearing and my mum tore with my older sister and she said it was the worst experience of her life and so had a c section with me and has said on many occasions that she wishes she had requested a c section with my sister, both me and my sister only weighing 7 lbs ( my mum is small like me, still a bit taller than me but only by about 2 inches) my mum is also a lot wider hipped than me

i also got hit by a car when i was 12 and dislocated my hip, and still have problems when under strain it can pop out again.

 

[babymamaagain]

I gave birth to a 6.5lb baby girl and ended up with 50 stitches. Tearing is luck of the draw and really isnt about the babies size.
Just do what you feel is right mama. You live with the consequence, no one else.

 

[emily3399]

ive also got my scan on 31/07/14 at 11.40am uk time, had a rough day of antenatal appointments today and ive been put on heparin injections twice a day and an aspirin and non stop talking about my weight. Just hoping for a normal appointment tomorrow although I have a feeling it will end up been transvaginal or rescheduled because of my weight... starting to feel fed up about the pregnancy as its never about the pregnancy its about my weight.... I am trying my best and have lost 6lbs since finding out I was pregnant but on a downer atm