Looking for some advice

Hi, I am 35 weeks and three days pregnant. I started having these really intense lower abdominal cramping (the cramping has been kinda coming in waves) and a constant dull back ache. I didn't go into natural labor with my first, I was induced with him at 36 weeks. I have been really moody and tired since I woke up this morning. Like little things are setting me off and my toddler has been acting out of character the last couple of days. I don't have a vehicle at the moment, my husband is at work until late afternoon.

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Has anyone had to be tested for GTT at 24 weeks?

I went for a routine 24 week appointment today and the midwife said I was measuring big. She said she's going to send me for glucose testing and a scan to check baby's growth. They have already booked me in for a scan first thing in the morning, which has got me a bit stressed out. I know nothing has been confirmed yet and she also said its very inaccurate the way they measure with a tape measure.. has anyone else been in this situation?

Blood pressure!

Hi ladies! Has anyone suffered with blood pressure issues after having their baby? Never suffered with it during pregnancy. Finally the doctor has put me on medication after it reaching 170/105 today!😳

Anyone expecting or already had a second baby?

How are you preparing? How are you feeling or doing if you had one already?

New sibling worries!…

I’m a “step” mom to a 12 yr old girl who i have been fully active and close w her since she was 4.5 yrs old. Bm is still in the picture and we have 50/50. So I have always felt like and just refereed to her as my daughter and not even stepdaughter and she has called me the same just mom and not stepmom. This was all natural from us by choice mutually between my “step” daughter and I. So now I’m 6 weeks pregnant w a sibling for her and she doesn’t know yet. We wanna wait till end of first trimester to tell her for obvious reasons…. Now the real issue is how I’m feeling abt it… my biggest fear even before getting pregnant is that when we would have more kids, that my first baby (“step” daughter) would feel like it’s different and like my other babies I love my JUST bc I birthed them and not her… she looks JUST like her dad and nothing like me at all. She is dirty blonde like her dad and I’m Latina and mixed…. Nothing wrong w that at all. but it just all adds into it. I’m worried abt how she may feel like replaced for my by her new sibling, and especially since ik her bio mom and others will put something like this in her head and feed here these lies that make her feel replaced (either intentionally or unintentionally). And my other fear is maybe it’s true tho?!…. Everyone has always told me “oh! It will be sooo different tho once you’re, you know, a REAL mom. And you have YOUR OWN kid.”… and that would pmo so much bc I do everything and I AM a real mom and she IS my own kid. Not blood but we are so close it feels like sometimes I forget I didn’t carry and birth her myself! And sometimes she forgets too tbh lol. My point is, I would do anything for my baby girl now. And I don’t want anyone making her feel, me feel, or trying to convince us otherwise. Have any other women been thru something like this?! Any advice is helpful pls… I’m having a really hard time when I should be happy and excited to have another child.