September 2021 due date babies!!!

[Zoboe95]

Ooh I missed a lot, I work Weds, Thurs so I don't always get a chance to check in!

HEARTBURN ...I actually havent had much so far this time, but I do have a solution that works for me...Love hearts !! Trust me, I found them an absolute life saver last time, kept some in my bag all the time! This time as soon as I found out I was preggo I bought a pack of 24 packs online still got loads of them though they contain some of the same ingredients as antacids, but work so much better and taste so much nicer for me!! ...I might be mad though


@LoneWanderer could it be the Rennie's causing the rash?? I know there's not a lot in them, just a thought

Haven't started packing yet, but will do after 20 week scan...hoping to know gender first and buy some cute stuff! I think girl though and nub said girl! Can't even remember what I need to take

Took plenty of clothes for Lo, but they were all far too big, she needed preemie and tiny baby. She was in NICU so borrowed their clothes some of the time, then I sent my mum out for more! Had to stop in Tesco on the way home to stock up on tiny baby essentials!

Wish I could nap! Work 3 days a week, 7.30am till 6pm in a nursery, so never stop! I do get a 40 minute lunch break, so that's always tempting! Lo doesn't nap unless I take her out in the car, and she wakes up if I turn the engine off! I try to do that once a week so she has one nap a week, tend to go through the drive thru while she's asleep, but doesn't help me nap!

 

[Zoboe95]

I do remember that last time I packed an overnight bag for me, lo and oh, then packed an extra bag with extra stuff, which I just left in the car, so if we had to stay longer (we did) I didn't have to worry about oh bringing the right stuff!

 

[Zoboe95]

LO first outfit peeking out from below hospital blanket! The sleepsuit legs were about 10 cm longer than her legs, and the arms were a good few cm too big too! The hat was made by volunteers for the hospital and wasn't really head shaped and was almost too small!

 

[Suggerhoney]

My sickness came back yesterday also tired.
Still craving marmite lol.
Also Milk and meat and anything salty.

Can't believe my gender scan is tomorrow. Its at 9:30am but I have to get there at 9:10am to have the blood test.


I uploaded my scan photo to a group on Facebook called the nub theory specialists or something like that and I got boy results.

@MadamRose u should upload ures its totally free and they get back to u quickly.
I can get a screen shot off the group if u like and for anyone else that's curious?


I felt baby move today yay.
Felt like a fish swimming around in there and little taps. I put my hand there and it stopped.

@LoneWanderer
I never pack my bags untill 34 weeks I'm so last minute haha.
I also do not buy anything until 24 weeks. With DS we didn't start buying anything untill 28 weeks.

I'm all sorted if baby is a boy because we have everything.
But if its a girl we will have to start from scratch.
DD is now 8 so don't have any girl stuff.

 

[MadamRose]

@Suggerhoney yay for feeling movement! I posted in one and lots of people think one of my scan pics might show boy parts! So I guess that’s interesting!

 

[Suggerhoney]

@Suggerhoney yay for feeling movement! I posted in one and lots of people think one of my scan pics might show boy parts! So I guess that’s interesting!

This is the one I posted on hon

 

[Suggerhoney]

Cud be a boy. One of ure pics I did think looked boyish sorry I didn't say but I've just been so pre occupied with all this anxiety and worry.

 

[MadamRose]

Cud be a boy. One of ure pics I did think looked boyish sorry I didn't say but I've just been so pre occupied with all this anxiety and worry.

No need to apologise you have a lot on your mind I keep praying for you!
This is the picture people have been saying about

 

[Suggerhoney]

No need to apologise you have a lot on your mind I keep praying for you!
This is the picture people have been saying about

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Thanks hon.
Oh gosh it's so hard to say for sure.
This was my sons at 13+3


And this babies at 13+4 weeks.

 

[MadamRose]

Thanks hon.
Oh gosh it's so hard to say for sure.
This was my sons at 13+3
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And this babies at 13+4 weeks.
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Yes it’s hard to say a few people have said the same though. I guess I’ll find out in 20ish weeks

 

[Suggerhoney]

Yes it’s hard to say a few people have said the same though. I guess I’ll find out in 20ish weeks

Soooooo long lol. I do remember a lady in the October bumkins group I was in with DS and she didn't find out out gender so that was so exciting for us lot when we were all near the end we was all so excited to see what she wud have.
She already had 1 boy so wanted a girl but I guessed boy when she posted her scan photo and I was right haha. She has since had a another little boy he's 4 months old now.

 

[MadamRose]

Soooooo long lol. I do remember a lady in the October bumkins group I was in with DS and she didn't find out out gender so that was so exciting for us lot when we were all near the end we was all so excited to see what she wud have.
She already had 1 boy so wanted a girl but I guessed boy when she posted her scan photo and I was right haha. She has since had a another little boy he's 4 months old now.

Aww how exciting - I was convinced DD2 was a boy i didn't find out with her so that was funny when I lifted her out of the water myself and she was a girl.

 

[LoneWanderer]

So I have tickets to a concert in mid-August, and I've been thinking it will be absolutely fine because I'm not due til Sept, seemed like a massive gap in my head. But I just did a quick calendar check and I'll actually be 38 weeks by the show, and probably booked for the section around 5/6 days after that

I'm still gonna go though I think...

 

[Suggerhoney]

Aww how exciting - I was convinced DD2 was a boy i didn't find out with her so that was funny when I lifted her out of the water myself and she was a girl.

Oh wow I've never had a water birth. They have a lovely water birth center at my hospital but I can't have it.
I'm High risk and being Induced so I'll be strapped to monitors on a bed.
The most excitement I will get will be walking around the delivery room and bouncing on a ball haha. Oh and the gas and air. That stuff is the best I just laugh hahaha.
I was so high on the gas and air when having DS that I fell off the ball lmao

The midwife was like what are u doing down there hahahaha.
She had to heave me up was so embarrassing lmao.

So I have tickets to a concert in mid-August, and I've been thinking it will be absolutely fine because I'm not due til Sept, seemed like a massive gap in my head. But I just did a quick calendar check and I'll actually be 38 weeks by the show, and probably booked for the section around 5/6 days after that

I'm still gonna go though I think...

Oh yes ure gonna rock that concert girl, big 9 month belly and all haha. The loud music mite get things going haha.
What concert is it hon?

 

[LoneWanderer]

God don't talk to me about bloody water births(!)

So, it was in my birth plan all along that I wanted a water birth. I'd basically been underwater for like four months anyway, if I wasn't in the swimming pool (3 times a week) I was in the bath constantly. Submersion was definitely my craving. But I knew from antenatal class that our hospital only had a few rooms with pools, so my biggest worry was finding a busy delivery suite and none available.

Anyway I rock up for induction on the Friday, we tell the midwives that I absolutely want the water when things get going - yep, no problem, we'll sort that for you. It's in my notes too. Even packed my own poop sieve like they ask you to

Saturday, baby still isn't shifting AT ALL, not even engaged, not a hint of a contraction. I've been there 36 hours now, the ward is entirely empty on the Saturday night, just me and other half in this big empty eight-bed room - so the midwife on shift is like 'how about a tour of the delivery suites, so you know what to expect? If it stays this quiet you can take your pick haha!'

So she shows us the four different rooms that have pools - and EVERY SINGLE ONE is out of order. I said 'hey, but I was told I could have the water' - and she says 'oh yeah, so these haven't been working for like a month now, I don't know why they told you it was fine!'

And honestly that was the exact point I decided I was done with induction, that I wasn't having the drip or waters breaking, and that I wanted the section

 

[MadamRose]

@Suggerhoney I had water births with both of mine not sure I could birth “on land” DD1 was born in water just gas and air. With DD2 she was a home water birth, I told the midwives to leave the gas and air in the car as I didn’t want it (I was 7 cm when they arrived and they didn’t beleice I was in active Labor). Going for a home water birth again this time!

@LoneWanderer I’m booked to go to london the weekend I am 37 weeks got HP studio tour booked one day and HP play the next. DD2 was born at 38+4 so I maybe pushing it closely sorry you did get you water birth.

 

[Suggerhoney]

Wow go you hon. I had the gas and air I love that stuff and also a epidural. I will be Doing the same this time I'm already booked too have a anesthetist appointment later in my pregnancy and will be definitely having a epidural when things get too much.
No way cud i do it without too painful haha.


I did ask for a c section with DS because I was so scared to give birth after a very traumatic birth experience with DD but I was declined so had too do it all natural.

I had a much more positive experience with DS so I'm actually looking forward to it this time and definitely won't be asking for section again. As long as I have the gas and air and epidural on stand by when I need it I will be fine.


Gas and air is just the best tho I love that stuff hahaha

 

[atx614]

That’s amazing the hospitals there have tubs!! I would LOVE a water birth but we have to book through a birthing center here and I would be nervous not being at a hospital in case something goes wrong. I had both mine with no epidurals but only cause I had them quickly once things got going and then it was to late. I am hoping for another quick birth! We don’t have gas and air here either which would be awesome.

 

[MadamRose]

That’s amazing the hospitals there have tubs!! I would LOVE a water birth but we have to book through a birthing center here and I would be nervous not being at a hospital in case something goes wrong. I had both mine with no epidurals but only cause I had them quickly once things got going and then it was to late. I am hoping for another quick birth! We don’t have gas and air here either which would be awesome.

Tbh more went wrong with my hospital birth than my home birth. I needed stitches with my hospital birth but not my home birth. I felt so much more relaxed at home! The idea of another home birth excites me so much!

 

[MadamRose]

@Suggerhoney ive heard a lot of people say traumatic births but then off but then they have a much better second birth.

What time is you scan today?