How are all you working mums making all of your appointments ?

I'm fortunate to currently be a stay at home mum, I was going back into work when my 3 year old turned 4 and started primary school reception but I'm 20 weeks pregnant so that is hold once again for now.

It's made me wonder how working mums are getting to any of these appointments that get booked in on random weekday afternoons?!

I've been under a pre-term consultant until being discharged last week, also have gestational diabetes so under consultant care with this, as well as having normal scans and midwife appointments. All of these I can be sat in the hospital waiting room around 2-3 hours to be called in and seen. How is it even manageable to have this much time off and away from work to attend all of this? I'm averaging 2 appointments per week currently upto half a day spent at the hospital each time it just seems impossible to fit in around a normal job.

Today for example I have to travel to the hospital for a 2pm appointment and after waiting and travelling home I'll not be back until around 4pm and then tomorrow I have an 11:40am diabetic appointment and then a scan at 2pm so I'll be stuck in that waiting room for a good 3 hours

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C Section Date

I’m 37 weeks and I’m due on 6th April. I’m having an elective c section and haven’t been given my date yet, is anyone else in this situation? X

Phantom pain

So I had an emergency C-section and it's been already 6 months and there is days that I feel a really sharp stabbing pain reoccurring is that normal Am I just going crazy

Has your life become a living nightmare since becoming a mom?

Sometimes I become conscious of the fact that I just have to wake up tomorrow morning and do this all over again. Every day. And then I wanna bash my head into a brick wall

Overwhelmed!

I’m due in June with my first baby, we started saving money before I found out I was pregnant and have continued to save money however, as we’ve needed to buy lots of baby stuff, decorate her room etc, we’ve not been saving no where near as much so obviously our total amount of savings hasn’t been going up as much as we like.

We’ve just had our renewal for some bills like council tax (which has gone up) etc. I just feel really deflated and thinking how on earth are we going to survive when I’m on maternity pay 😕

I know everything will be okay but it’s just really got to me today.

Did anyone else feel like this? Was there any help or things you did to make it easier?

Baby boy is officially here 💖

Born yesterday at 39 weeks. A very fast labour. Woke up at 2.30am on the 16th to my waters leaking, contractions didn’t start till 4am and then I was 2cm dilated, at 10am my contractions were strong enough where I couldn’t talk but was only 3cm so had a sweep and was admitted into the birthing centre. By 3pm baby boy was born in the pool 💖 had a bad 2 degree internal tear but I’m so so happy I can stop looking at him

39 Week Induction Being Pushed On

Went to my 36 week appointment today and my OB was pushing for a 39 week induction.

I want a natural spontaneous labor but my OB kept pushing for the induction even if I’m low risk and healthy. Is anyone else experiencing this?