Feeling huge!

Is anyone else feeling like the skin on their bump is tighter and even stretchy leggings feel as though they dig in and leave marks?
First baby so unsure if this just the joys of hitting 37 weeks 😂 hope everyone is doing well and hopefully a bit of a cool down in weather

in our community

Trauma vent ahead

Honestly just need to vent..
I had my second girl almost 2 months ago via emergency c-section. Now it wasn’t life or death emergency but emergency in my situation. I chose to be induced at 39w2d, the epidural failed and I was only at 6cm. I was in immense pain, sobbing with every contraction. I honestly think she was stuck in my pelvis. I had a choice of either redoing the epidural, laboring to dilate more for 10-12 hours or have the surgery. Doctors were also worried about baby’s HR. I chose the surgery. It wasn’t ideal. All I can think of is staring at the ceiling tiles, waiting for my husband to be at my head, being extremely nauseous and feeling all the tugging and pulling. Now to today, I love watching medical dramas, but I just get and feel so triggered watching them now. It takes me back to the surgery and I can’t escape it. I hate it and idk what to do 😩😭
Ok vent over, thanks for reading if you did 🫶🏻

Would you move house 3 weeks post c section?

I’m having a c section on Thursday and my flat sale and onward purchase have dragged on and on to the point that if we don’t complete at 3 weeks post partum then our mortgage offer will expire and likely the chain will collapse.
Would you do it? It doesn’t sound fun at all. It would be a 2hr drive from where we live so we’d have to stop lots. We would use professional removers and packers so in theory I wouldn’t be doing anything myself, and could even check into a hotel with my mum to miss the whole thing.
I’m just scared from both an emotional and physical point of view that it’s a disaster waiting to happen.
Has anyone done it?!

New mumma by c section

so my beautiful baby girl was born on Tuesday through c section. Due to me not dilating quick enough.
So I have some questions on like belly , swelling

So my feet are still really swollen is this normal? What’s everyone’s experiences when did it go down?

My belly this is probably gonna sound stupid but I just want to know. So I still look like I have a baby in there 😅 and I wondered what other mommas did to help the belly back to normal. Obvs I can’t go back to the gym yet so wondered what I could do in the meantime that’s safe whilst healing ?❤️‍🩹

Has anyone had this before?
Had my 38 week midwife app yesterday, and they are sending me for a growth scan next week because I’ve had an exessive growth in 2 weeks gone from being steady all pregnancy around the 10th percentile,

To straight near the 90th percentile in just 2 weeks! Anyone else had this?

Help!

I had my baby 26/02/26 and I’m still bleeding - it hasn’t stopped at all - GP are aware - I had a planned c-section due to problems in my pregnancy - they’ve requested for me to have a scan and they’ve told me I need to have a cervical smear done - I’m just wondering if anyone has gone through this and may have an idea what it could be?
TIA

What were the cravings with boys and girls

I'm 10+5 days and I'm craving chocolate so badly. I went off sweets and chocolate a few years ago and now I can't get enough. Currently eating Nutella from a jar. What were your cravings with boy and girl.