Lil' October Pumpkins 2013

[Sbmack]

Glad your friend is ok!

I can't tell where my LO is. I keep getting kicks all over. I guess that's better than staying transverse like she was until now. At least she's moving....and will hopefully know where to go when the time comes.

 

[ptr]

Here's my 31 weeks bump:

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[Girly922]

I only know baby is transverse when I get kicks and punches out both sides of my bump at the same time. Yesterday was the first time I've felt baby go head down and I could really feel baby's feet kicking at the top of my uterus. But we're back to transverse. There must still be a fair bit of room in there as I'm still feeling the somersaults and rolls too.

 

[PaiytonsMummy]

Not been around for soo long! I haven't had chance to catch up on everything, but hope you are all well.
Fab bump pics ptr
Is that everyone in 3rd tri now? How exciting!

 

[SisterRose]

Yay for all our october pumpkins in 3rd tri
Also been lagging behind here, promise to catch up more soon. Great bump pics ptr, your bump is so neat and tidy

I had a growth scan yesterday and baby is still head down but i feel movement in all sorts of places in there so i think she moves a lot, despite staying head down.
Baby is estimated 2lb on the dot and right at the low end of all her measurments being a week to two weeks behind in growth. She is coming in below the 10th centile so now ill be monitored every two weeks for growth and doppler to make sure nothong is wrong and hopefully rule out intrauterine growth restriction which theyre concerned could be the case especiallynif she shows little growth then may have to be delivered prematurely.
My first DD was born 38 weeks below 10th centile she was in the 4th percentile but she was healthy so i am trying not to worry as i think maybe i just make small babies!

 

[girlnboots]

Pretty sure I have a starfish in my belly today. She keeps pushing out on all sides, so ill feel her down by my hips and in my ribs at the same time. I think she's head down, but sideways toward the left.

Have any of you dealt with a major head cold during pregnancy? It's terrible. Being pregnant sucks enough and adding sickness on top is just cruel. I hate my oh for this. He refused to get antibiotics to take care of his cold, so he spread it around even worse.

Im using a mixture of Vicks vaporub, sudafed, and simply saline, but its so tempting to add Benedryl at night just so I can sleep.

 

[Girly922]

I caught a virus which left me with flu afterwards at about 16 weeks. I felt so awful, couldn't eat anything, and there's not really anything you can take. I had quite a high temperature so was taking paracetamol to bring that down but it meant I wasnt getting any pain relief and there wasn't really anything else to take.

Maybe try a hot lemon and honey before bed with a couple paracetamol just to try get a good nights sleep? Fresh lemon works best Hope you feel better soon!

 

[ptr]

Payton's mom - thank you! Congrats on 3rd trimester, happy 27 weeks!

Sister rose: if this is the same thing happening as it did with your DD then I probably wouldn't worry too much, you might just make small babies is all!

Girl boots: I have a starfish going on in there too totally normal until they get bigger to the point they are cramped up and can't really punch or kick as hard but you'd feel squirms and stretchingn aloooooot more!!

I am just recovering from a head cold and it sucked soooo bad. My nose started running mercilessly and my throat was on fire on Monday... By Tuesday night my throat wasn't on fire anymore but I had aches and body chills... I just drank 7up and took Tylenol and zantac cuZ the cold was making my reflux 10x worse and I puked up my lunch and dinner but I kept trying to keep hydrated... Now I think I got my dh sick. My little girl is the first one to get sick but she got over it fast. We are in the coughing phase now and IMO that is the worst for me cuz it really makes me short breathes especially now being pregnant and lungs squished up. Benadryl is safe to take for nights and so is Unisom... Feel free to take Unisom if you need help sleeping at night.

 

[goddess25]

31w bump. Awful at pics sorry.

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[ptr]

Adorable bump, goddess!!

 

[PaiytonsMummy]

Wow impressive bump goddess

 

[lady1985]

Wow how quiet this thread is! Hope everyone is just having a good long weekend!

Just came back from our 30 week scan and bub is measuring great! His legs are long with his femur already 6cm..nearly 2 weeks more in length! We have an estimated birth weight of 6-7 pounds and he is already 3 pounds. Cant believe how big he is already! Oh...and he is head down! Yey!

 

[goddess25]

It is super quiet around here.

Glad to hear your scan went well.

 

[angel2010]

Friday I had my glucose test and passed! I was also measuring 31 weeks in fundal height, she said was likely the way the baby was laying. I am sure she is right because I felt a foot pretty high when she was doing it.
I have my next app on the 14th. I will have an ultrasound and will be just shy of 30 weeks I believe. I will be interested to see how big the baby is. My son was estimated to be 3lbs 6oz at my 30 week check.

 

[broodymrs]

Glad your scan went well lady.

I am so fed up of being pregnant! Roll on october.

What are people thinking for pain relief for the birth. I keep changing my mind. Don't know whether to just decide on the day, depending on how i feel. But i don't like not to have a plan, even though i know it could change.

 

[angel2010]

Glad your scan went well Lady. 3lbs is great!

For pain relief, I started using a natal hypnotherapy program around 20 weeks. With that, I will try massage and movement. I am not completely against an epidural, but I would like to avoid it if I can.

 

[ptr]

I had no plan when I went in except I will try to do it medicine-free and if I got into too much pain to tolerate I would ask for an epidural. My birth went flawlessly I think having as little stress and the ability to go with the flow made a huge difference for me. Definitely doing the same for this birth: just going to go with the flow and when I can't tolerate pain anymore or something I will get an epidural.

 

[SisterRose]

Great bump pic goddess

Glad your GTT went well Angel, I had mine today!

3lbs sounds great Lady

As for pain relief, I will definitely be having gas and air as soon as possible, as last time it was just shoved in my hand last minute at the pushing stage and I think the canister was actually empty as it didn't do anything but I'd already had pethedine and was quite out of it. I wouldn't like pethedine again this time as I wasn't much for it and would like to avoid an epidural but knowing how much labour sucked for me last time, having contractions every 30secs-1min apart due to a 3 hour labour that didn't have any separation inbetween was very painful and I did actually ask for an epidural at least four times but baby was born too fast to have one anyway. I wouldnt like to say I wanted a natural birth again because im obviously too much of a wuss lol

 

[broodymrs]

Ha ha think I might be a wuss too. Being pregnant is hard enough! I had an allergic reaction to morphine a few years ago so I'm really wary of opiates and I've also got asthma and am really struggling to breathe atm so again I think opiates might be a bad idea as I know they can affect both mine and baby's breathing. So my choices are pretty much epidural or go natural. I can just imagine screaming for the drugs after half an hour!!

 

[SisterRose]

broody - You'll probably surprise yourself and be absolutely fine! I think a lot of women do an awesome job in labour with handling the pain and breathing through the contractions. I don't know what happened on my end, I was the only person on the ward screaming lmao.