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34 week appointment

I was looking forward to the birth place discussion today but the midwife said because of my intense Braxton hicks, theres no point in having the discussion until our 36 week appointment because if she comes early it would throw the plan out the window. Although I understand where she's coming from, it's left me fe...

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40 week midwife appointment

I have my usual routine midwife appointment tomorrow and will be 40+2. Has anyone else had an appointment this late and does anything different happen? For example will I be offered a sweep there and then? Do they do any further tests to check how your placenta is? I’ve read that it stops working as well after 41 we...

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Midwife Appt

Am 4-5weeks pregnant , and i called my GPs surgery to inform them, they said i have to do to a self referal to the midwife??? am confused because with my previous two babies the Gps surgery booked the appointments etc. Is it just a bradford thing or ? also how long till they contact me, ?

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Line eyes please!!

Hey ladies, it’s me once again. I’m looking for some very good line eyes. Do you see what I see? I feel like I see a very faint line. This was taken at six or seven days. DPO. I believe I’m eight days DPO. I’m going to retest in a second. What do you guys think? My eyes are playing tricks on me? My breasts are super...

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Clear blue weeks indicator

I’m 6 weeks tomorrow and I still don’t have a 3+ on a clear blue - is that bad? Second baby and struggled to conceive my first, so I’m still in the denial stage 😂

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9dpo

Have I got line eyes or can you actually see it too? X

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Dilation

I’m 36 weeks at I’m 3cm dilated, on average how long do you stay at 3cm untill you hit active labor

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Line progression

Shouldn’t the line be darker by now?

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7dp5dt

Equivalent to 12dpo would we say this looks promising ? Keep worrying its not darkening fast enough. I see other 7dpt tests way darker.

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Readings

Hey girls. I'm 36 weeks on Thursday these last few days my readings have been over and a lot higher did this happen to any of you ?? Thought meant to get lower towards the end x currently on metformin

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Unable to see a doctor

Girls I’m not able to get a midwife appointment every nhs clinic I call, they are saying in 9-12 weeks…. This seems really late I’m worried that I still haven’t seen anyone I’m 5 weeks today, does anyone know any good private midwifes I can go to?

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Anyone dealing with gestational diabetes?

any suggestions on how to keep the blood sugar low?

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Yoga?

Does anyone in the pittsburgh area know of any prenatal yoga classes? I try to google it and cant really find anything 🤷🏻‍♀️

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White noise machine recommendation please

Looking for something small, portable and usb powered. Anybody got a good one?

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Help

Is there a faint line in the circle

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Thalassemia

Anyone have thalassemia, recently been told my bloods have come back with possible thalassemia? Just looking for some advice, thank you.

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