Increased baby movements!?

Every website and everywhere it says that from around 29 weeks baby is more cramped so the movements can start to be more calm and less in general because there is less space for jumping, wiggling and karate tricks. I feel like it's exactly the opposite for me. My belly leads its own life from now on! It's a scary sight to see. It literally jumps all day from side to side, up and down, you can see whole limbs sticking out and traveling all across the belly and it's constant. I literally don't have any idea of when baby possibly sleeps because the movements are constant, intense, always fast and always forceful. Its not little pokes or kicks but actual humongous movements that feel so defined that I know what he is doing!!

Feels so scary, I am only 29+2 weeks and I can't understand how I will be able to cope with even more intensity of movements over the next weeks, it seems it's only picking up speed from here!

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Work pattern

I have to return to work I can’t afford to be a stay at home mum much as that’s what I want.

I have a physical retail job. Customer facing and stock working with targets.

Do I do 2 10 hour days, and then take a 3rd day to rest and have my LO for 4 whole days a week.

Or do I do 3 shifts, something like 8, 8 and 4 or 6, 6 and 8.

With 3 days I never really get a break. I’ll still be responsible for mornings and bedtimes on my work days and then won’t get a rest day as I’d miss having full days with LO.

But if I do 2 10 hour shifts I’m worried I’ll be exhausted. It’s a long day, and then add broken sleep as my LO is 8 months and stilll waking between every 30 mins - 2 hours, so by 1 I would expect frequent wakings even if there is massive improvement.

Just a mum, bawling her eyes out in Disneyland that her baby grew up 😭

My girl turned 4 this week and we surprised her with Disney and she met Elsa and Anna.

Immediately, I was in tears blubbing like a baby! When did she get so grown up? When did she get so tall? I watched her have little secret conversations with the princesses and I couldn’t stop the chin wobbling.

How did our babies get so big? I swear I just blinked and she went from baby to preschooler 🥹

Anyone else still super emotional these days over the kids?

My ADHD brain couldn't remember the name for snails

So I called them gastropods, which is technically correct. This happened one time now my son (3yo) only calls them astropods.
"Mama astropods come out when it rains. They live in shells. Shells are their home and their bones"

C section pain

Tips for pain management? I’m 6 days post section and having paracetamol and ibuprofen every 4 hours but I’m still sore and only really managing to walk to the toilet and back. They took the stitches out yesterday and it was checked and they’ve said it looks fine.

We were inpatients for quite 4 days as it was an emergency section and baby was in NICU being monitored and having IV antibiotics so have only been home 2 days.
Sorry to add I can’t have codeine/dihydrocodeine due to an allergy!

Anterior placenta, previous c section

I’m 15 weeks and have an anterior placenta. I’ve been told that monitoring of my placenta won’t really start until my 20 week scan. So I don’t know yet if it is close to my scar. But am already quite worried. My previous c section was also emergency, not sure if that also increases my chances of risks. Does anyone have any experience of having an anterior placenta and previous c section, and it being okay? TIA x

Is anyone else wildly shocked at how many pregnancies are being sent for growth scans/ inductions/ even sections based on an archaic measuring system 😵‍💫

The fundal measurement is massively outdated and nuanced. And scans can’t accurately predict weights either. Yet we’re sending women spiralling down anxiety ridden rabbit holes and unnecessarily inducing them or even resorting to surgery! My mind in blown!
Luckily all the midwives I’ve seen are very pragmatic.