June Bundles of Joy - 2016

[Squig34]

Love all the pics of bumps, scans & clothing! My 'bump' is still clearly uterus & tummy (spare tyre), not the lovely round smooth bumps you all have...

Joo I have been suffering from insomnia this whole pregnancy & now I'm also waking about 3x a night to pee.

Yesterday I decided to try some coffee (I usually love it but this pregnancy the smell has turned me). I still don't much like the smell, but the taste is fine & the caffeine gave me such a boost as I haven't had much for months! Busy day today so am starting with a mug of coffee

& kept my most exciting news til last - I'm pretty sure that last night I finally felt movement for the first time it was like little pokes on the left. I tried poking back to see if I could get more, but no. They were pretty strong (relatively you know), I definitely felt them, not flutters that I wasn't sure if it was something. So I guess I'll know over the next couple of weeks of that really was movement

 

[Lil_Pixie]

Squig that's so exciting!! I've been feeling really unsure about it being baby too but really we were feeling things last week or last month that we thought were baby I'm sure it must be.

 

[vaniilla]

Squig that's great news, those first proper kicks are so exciting!

Plenty of night waking here too, I wake up needing to pee and then hip pain doesn't let me go to sleep for ages, I've started to have naps again in the day as a result.

ahhhhhh how am I not 20 weeks yet?!? how can time be going so slowly

 

[Dory85]

Lovely scan Geralyn - glad it went well.
How many ladies have their anatomy scans this week? Ours is in Friday - getting nervous now.

Our anomaly scan is Monday morning. Been thinking about it loads and crossing my fingers everything is OK.

I had a dream last night that I was admitted to my own ward to wait for induction. Ant and Dec were there too - that was weird...

 

[Starlight32]

I wake up during the night too. Usually the hip I'm sleeping on aches or my nose is really stuffy. My nose gets so stuffy during the nighttime!

Yay for feeling movements! My favorite part of the day is feeling baby girl move.

I had my anatomy scan two weeks ago but going back on Monday so they can get the pictures they didn't get. I'm so nervous about it i hope the tech listens when I ask her not to push so hard.

Karlilay, is your tummy still feeling sore?

 

[MiraclesHappn]

Don't mind the fact that I'm in my swimsuit but it's much harder to be able to tell what my bump looks like covered in clothes. But this is 21 weeks. Some days I feel just huge and other times I'm happy with where I am, think it depends on how much I've eaten that day

Yay squig!! How exciting! It only gets better as they get bigger! Baby girl over here was moving up a storm last night! Big obvious movements I could feel from the outside which was nice. Think her and her sister were both excited daddy is back!

Glad everything looked good at your scan geralyn!

As for the waking in the night I usually only wake to pee. I've finally been having the crazy pregnancy dreams regularly now. Although last night I slept totally awful, hope it's not a preview of what the nights to come will be like

 

[Boo44]

Some gorgeous bumps here!

Secondnote - how lovely of your dad that is soooo nice!

Geralyn - glad the scan went well and im still so impressed that your sister could tell the gender so early on so accurately! I know she's a tech but still! Just shows really they could tell everyone earlier but they always say they can't

Squig - I too am back onto coffee and I'm so happy about it! I'm such a coffee addict normally and it really didn't sit well with me for weeks on end which was a trial. I started being able to tolerate tea, and now have moved back into coffee. Happy days!!

Joo - I wake every time I turn over too, and have been peeing every night. Gone are the relaxing sleeps!

Well I'm sick of my anterior placenta now. It's been a weird one, I felt movement SO early but it hasn't progressed at all which I now know must be my placenta. So I do feel baby daily but very light and I have to concentrate on it. Would love some big kicks x

 

[mommyxofxone]

geralyn - so glad your scan went well!! and that she's still a girl

Squig- thats awesome news congrats!! i love kicks!!!

vanilla- i know what you mean, i'm only just 19 weeks. i can't believe it! feels like we're almost done by now lol. haven't we been pregnant for ages?

Dory- i always had weird dreams with dd like that. I haven't had them yet this time, i'm having whacko ones but not like that. With dd the one i remember the most was i was giving birth in a hosp and then i passed out from pain. when i woke up no one would give me my baby or show her to me. said she was just 'gone' really freaked me out. i could pass on those this time.

Starlight- omg my hip gets so sore too and i have to turn. i think i'm comfy but apparently not. And it's like the outter part of my hip? the one that's on the bed proper. and it's so sore and hurty.


afm- i'm 19 weeks! that's about all i've got. we got a lot of snow so i'll be out there frolicking in it today with dd. as much as one can when they are part whale.

 

[GeralynB]

Boo- the techs can definitely tell gender earlier but they usually have to look harder and since the purpose of the scan is not to determine gender they don't want to spend the extra time looking.

I put my deposit down for newborn photos today. So excited!

 

[joo]

Lovely scan Geralyn - glad it went well.
How many ladies have their anatomy scans this week? Ours is in Friday - getting nervous now.

Tuesday morning for us, so excited!

 

[jalilma]

I was actually able to get a little video of a little baby kick! Omg!

 

[karlilay]

I wake up during the night too. Usually the hip I'm sleeping on aches or my nose is really stuffy. My nose gets so stuffy during the nighttime!

Yay for feeling movements! My favorite part of the day is feeling baby girl move.

I had my anatomy scan two weeks ago but going back on Monday so they can get the pictures they didn't get. I'm so nervous about it i hope the tech listens when I ask her not to push so hard.

Karlilay, is your tummy still feeling sore?

Its better now, thankyou. Was sore for a few days though. Baby is very active now, and i feel her all the time, so was reassuring that she was kicking away, it felt like a pulled or stretched muscle. On my right hand side.

I have a constant cold too. I get rid of one and get another.

Just mention that you had belly ache last time, and think the other tech pressed a bit hard, hopefully they'll get the hint.

 

[AngelofTroy]

Waiting to see if my 3 year old comes down with chicken pox

 

[tinkerbelle93]

Mine is Monday at 12 Feeling very nervous.

Can't believe I am 20 weeks on Tuesday and halfway there. It's startling to feel like I don't have a huge amount of time now and I keep feeling frightened about the birth, if I try to read or watch anything about it then it makes it so much worse so I'm thinking the best thing to do is ignore it and deal with it when it happens!

 

[vaniilla]

Tinkerbelle - good luck for your scan on Monday!

I'm feeling the same re birth - I refuse to think about anything to do with it.

 

[joo]

I haven't been thinking about it either :-/ the last time I thought about it was when they told me they picked up group b strep and I was just so down for a few days so have left it at the back of my mind. Xx

 

[ehjmorris]

Lovely scan picture geralyn, I'm pleased everything went well.

I think my placenta must have moved early on then, I went from being able to feel baby moving and rolling and seeing a bulge around my belly button (I think because of my diastasis recti) at 11 & 12 weeks to nothing except the faintest of movements in the last week or so. Baby and placenta must have settled somewhere else.

I'm going to ask the midwives at the hospital when I go for my scan about this FW8 form, I remember that from DD and definitely didn't fill anything in or take anything home with me. Luckily I am not in any need of the exemption right now.

Is anyone else waking up loads in the night? I can get back to sleep ok but just seem to wake every time I turn over so I'm not feeling very refreshed in the morning xx

Yes! At the moment im finding it hard to get comfortable and stay there, it doesn't help that I have to pee a million times haha

 

[Tinky_82]

Good luck to anyone having scans this week I hope all goes well - hopefully we'll be able to know the colours of a few more bumps as well.

 

[ehjmorris]

Good luck to anyone having scans this week I hope all goes well - hopefully we'll be able to know the colours of a few more bumps as well.

6 days for me... hurry up haha

 

[karlilay]

If i think about labour i go into all sorts of wild panic.

I really hope my midwife has some options for me, because i just dont know what to do. I want to have an epidural, but both times before ive got to the hospital 10cm and no time. I am just useless at pushing and i hate it so much, when theyre finally born, i struggle to bond with them. I dont know what to suggest though, if i try and tell her how bad my birth fear is, she just tells me to have a homebirth