March 2013 babies - we all have our beautiful babies :)

[skeet9924]

rose- recently i;ve been starting to have bathroom issues... it either goes one way or the other...usually most of the time i'm constipated.

 

[MissPiggy]

I find during the day I'm bunged..have a bath and i lay down and play with bump and lightly massage and it loosens...cant be doing that all day though *sigh* xxx

 

[rose.]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one! Before I got pregnant I was usually the other way - now i feel constantly bunged up though hopefully the smoothies will do the trick!

 

[skeet9924]

I find a lot of fruit and veggies does the trick almost every time...

 

[MrsChezek]

yay skeet! Such exciting news - no vein clot AND got to know the gender! Congrats and yay for another boy! We are heavy around here…

rose - cannot wait to see your nursery!!! Sorry about the painful bathroom experience - that is definitely top of the 'not fun part of pregnancy' list in my book! I've started taking metamucil every afternoon and eating high fiber cereal for breakfast and it seems to be helping a bit.


Here is my Week 24 Belly shot. I also posted my belly progression from week 7 until now on my journal if anyone wants to check it out. It's amazing how much my body has changed! Especially in the last 3 weeks - if that is indicative of my growth moving forward, I should be toppled forward in my last few pics!

 

[rose.]

Wow mrs chezek, you have fab abs! People keep telling me I look really pregnant - I must have popped this week, because two days in a row I had clients ask me when I was leaving!

 

[sharnw]

rose I get this too, I find it hard, that I'm in the bathroom for nearly 15-20minutes

MrsChezek I had a look at your journal and your bump is so cute!


AFM- I was laying in bed this morning, with my hand on my bump, LO was moving around and I seen her move up and my tummy went higher and I could see my tummy moving up and down and lumpy shapes it looked weird and "gross" lol

 

[MissPiggy]

Happy V-day to me

 

[Cherrybump]

Hi Cherrybump.

Not sure if the rules are different in Scotland but you'll get the form from your midwife at about week 24. Your midwife doesn't need to talk you through it or anything you just hand it in at work.

Here statutory is 90% of salary for 6 weeks (although that depends on your weekly pay) then SMP for 30 something weeks and that is £135 a week at the moment. Your employers might have their own maternity benefit scheme in place.

Do you have an HR department at work? Or are policies somewhere for you to read?

I'm hoping to leave work 2 weeks before my due date if I can.

Hey hun, we have a HR in our store. i shall ask them about it and hopefully get some answers lol. Ill ask them when i get the forms next week. i see my midwife on the 27th ill only be 21weeks and 2 days then but she did say i'd get the paper then from her lol which is handy xx

 

[AmyB1978]

Happy Vday MissPiggy!

 

[AthenaPlusOne]

Y'all with maternity pay make me jealous! Here the are required to give a minimum of 6 weeks for maternity leave but aren't required to pay you for it. And they don't. I'm taking 9 weeks but they are all unpaid, and since I'm a teacher that brings me right up to summer break so I won't work again until the baby is 5 months old, if I even go back!

 

[rose.]

That's so unfair Athena!! I do moan about the amount ill be getting for maternity, but I do feel grateful, as without it there is no way I'd be able to have 9 months off unpaid. We should be able to just about get by, and are trying hard to budget now so we are used to spending the amount we will have when LO is born.

 

[skeet9924]

That's really unfair Athena!! In Canada we get a year mat leave paid at 60 % of your pay.. Some work tops up to 100% .. Mine just does it for 6 weeks.. But I still get paid for a year

 

[iprettii]

Athena I don't get paid maternity leave as well.. But I do have short term disability so I will get paid weekly.

 

[Lou1234]

Morning all.

I had my flu jab this morning before work and the nurse spoke to me about the whooping cough jab as well.

I didn't realise that I have to book an appointment with the nurse for my jab and not the midwife! I'm going to hopefully book it for the week before Christmas when I'll be 29 weeks (give my arm a break as the week before that I'll be having blood tests done at my 28 week appointment!).

 

[Amy_T]

Hi all... Hope everyone's ok.

I'm having a panic as think my daughter has slapped cheek syndrome, have a consultant appointment on Thursday so hoping he'll help. X

 

[baby_maybe]

From what I've read about it most adults seem to already have immunity to it even if you don't remember ever having it. I'm sure your consultant can put your mind at rest about it

 

[Amy_T]

Yes hopefully, my youngest daughter had hydrops (slapped cheek can cause this potentially fatal condition) and we went through hell so I am petrified of it happening again.

 

[baby_maybe]

Sorry hun that must have been really scary for you. Fingers crossed you'll get the all clear on Thursday

 

[Amy_T]

It was horrible, just dont want to go through anything like that again! I'm going to speak to midwife before I think as just spoken to my sister in law and my niece has it too so even if my daughter hasn't, I have been exposed to it. She's got to have a blood test so I would rather get the ball rolling sooner rather than later.