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What’s your birth support plan?

Hi ladies 🤍

I’m curious what everyone is planning in terms of partner involvement during labor and delivery.

Are you having your husband/SO in the delivery room the whole time? Or just for certain parts?

If your partner has seemed a bit unsure or inexperienced about how to support you or advocate for your needs, how are you planning to handle that? Are you going to prepare them ahead of time, or leaning more on a doula/medical team?

I’ve been thinking a lot about this myself. I do want my husband there to take me to the hospital and be there to meet our baby after delivery, but I’m considering having a doula support me through labor since they’re more experienced in advocating and guiding the process. This is also our first pregnancy so we don’t know everything there is to know.

Would love to hear what everyone else is planning 💛

Csection - Burton on Trent

Those who have had a planned csection at burton , what gestation did they book it?

information

is there any one on here that had or has pregnancy diabetes.

so my results were all fine accept the one after the drink that was 10.0 and now im having to watch what I eat and prick my self 4 times a day.
I'm just wondering if there was any one around that same mark as I am that ended up coming off it all and went back to there normal self or is this going to be me right until the end im 28 weeks on tuesday ive cut out my fizzy juice my chocolate and yes ive started having a lunch but im bloody starving all the time and now im scared that because baby is growing alot more now that im starving him as feels like it i loved having wee snacks during the day to keep hunger away before dinner time but now I have this worry that if I have a snack 2 hours before my dinner that is my dinner ruined not because I wont eat it all but because the bloods will go up high and then thats another meal I cant have. I live with a chef so there is alot less sugar in my dinners which is a bonus but portion size I feel like a child again having to cut it down. Honestly this is the worst thing that can happen threw pregnancy take me back to the time you can eat what you want when you want and everything wasn't timed. Can't even go out for a nice meal or a lunch as scared that it will bring my levels right up this worrying isnt doing me any favours sooner my little healthy boy is in my arms the sooner I can start enjoying food again as im certainly not enjoying this

Faint line

Does this look ok for 10dpo?

Midwife check

Can someone remind me when the midwife visits you at home? Is it the day after you’re discharged? And is that the same on the weekend or do they not visit then? Thanks!

Pregnancy emotions

Do any of you ever get emotional in a good way when you see babies especially on shows when they’ve given delivery and feel a certain way? 🥺🥺😭😭 maybe it’s the nurturing part in me activating

8dpo

Can’t tell if I’m imagining it or not 😭

For those over 40 weeks…

What does your midwife care look like now? I’m 40+4 and had my 40 week appointment today and I thought they’d be really pushy on induction and sweeps, but other than a quick offer, which I declined, that was it! They just booked me in again for next Friday! Just wondered if anyone else is having more frequent appointments/monitoring?

Line?

9dpo, am I seeing things?

Am I crazy

I feel like I see a second line but also maybe indentation we shall see 8dpo

Advice🌸

Hi everyone, I’m hoping to get a bit of advice or hear from other mums who may have been through something similar 🤍

My daughter is currently under a hospital specialist for being underweight, and today we saw a new (first-year) doctor. He didn’t seem very confident, which already made me feel a bit uneasy.

During the appointment, he said she has gained some weight, which is great — but I brought up a concern I’ve had for a while about possible diabetes, as she has quite a few symptoms and we have a strong family history of it.

They did a blood sugar test, and her level came back at 7.3 after not eating for around 3 hours. The diabetic nurse’s reaction made me feel like that was high, so I asked if it was normal. The doctor said yes, it was normal — but the nurse then said no, it was high. The doctor then repeated that it was normal and said we were there about her weight, not that.

I’ve come away feeling really unsettled and honestly a bit dismissed. Now I feel like I’ve got a new worry on my mind, and I’m not sure what to think or do next (I have already contacted our GP for a follow-up).

Has anyone experienced anything similar with their child? Or had slightly raised blood sugars and what happened next? I’d really appreciate any advice or reassurance ❤️

34 weeks pregnant.

Is 5.7lbs at 34 weeks big? How much would he roughly weigh at 40 weeks?

8dpo

Is there a second line ? Feeling delusional 😂😂😂 be honest

Since baby has been born…

I’m getting non stop calls, midwife’s health visitors doctors like honestly I don’t even know what day it is can you piss off🥲

Anyone been booked a telephone appt with antenatal at the hospital? I’ll be 18 weeks

Didn’t have this last time, what is it for? Literally received no other info!

Progression?

Is this an okay progression?

Gestational diabetes

Hi!

Can people share their stories with gestational diabetes, great meals/replacements and hacks?

I’ve been diagnosed tonight. Fasting levels were too high but my levels after the sugar drink were within ranges. Got a call with the diabetes clinic tomorrow but so nervous and probably won’t sleep tonight

Midwife visits

how many PP midwife visits have you had and at what point??
I’m 3 weeks PP tomorrow, had a midwife come out on day 1 and then day 5 and got told at the day 5 visit that a midwife would come out again once baby has reached birth weight so that we could be discharged, yet she’s been back to birth weight for a week and we’ve heard nothing from midwife’s. all contact now seems to be only from a health visitor but she’s not coming back until another 3 weeks.
Should we have had another midwife visit post day 5, or have atleast heard from them during this time…? 15 days no contact at all makes me assume i won’t?

Line eyes

6dpo came up straight away but could be indent ?

pregnancy diabetes

bit of a rant sorry but some one other than my family need to hear this lol

so yeah i wasn't bothered about the glocus test heard mixed reviews but I found the drink very lovely went down so nice..Didn't feel dizzy or anything with it so I was convinced I didnt have diabetes but then started over thinking maybe my body is just so used to sugar then the results came in fasting was under the drink was over 1% and the hour after was under so I thought yeoo I dont have it until I got a phone call to explain my results and there is was sitting on the phone hearing them dreaded words you have diabetes I found it funny because it was only 1% will fast forward to a week later it isnt bloody funny what so ever.
Having to time breakfast lunch and dinners is so hard...I never ate a lunch instead I would have a 4 pack of like mars bars and a bottle of coke and I thought I was doing a good thing by changing the coke to zero sugar lol

so onto the 3rd day of having to use the glocus monitor and that thing is my worst enemy that wee needle is bloody sore im like a big child when ive to do the finger prick eye closed counting to 3 and always catch my self of guard when pricking my finger lol.
Honestly if you asked me last night after my dinner would I just go f*** this and walk away yes I would and I would walk away with my middle finger up to diabetes lol but then after my wee tantrum and an out burst of tears my partner finally calmed me down as he seen how hard it was for me and how hungry I was.
so long story short I am a very very very plain eater I dont eat veg never eat fruit and if I do its apples bananas and grapes just....planning out meals I was sticking to what I usually have and 1 meal tipped me over the edge as I cant have it as im over the line god sake so now I have to sit with my partner and plan out meals that I never usually eat but will benefit me im just so glad he is a chef and is so helpful on what I can have what I cant and portion size...
So the running joke that used to happen in my parents house once 1 person went on a diet or a healthy eating we all did which annoyed me and I look back on it now and go omg its happening in my family too lol though I think its going to benefit my self and my little family and will put into practice for when little one is here.
Every one keep me in your prayers ive only 13 weeks to go but I can do this and let's hope I loose a bit of weight instead of gaining weight lol.

also if you have got down this far what is every one doing about easter I was ragen when I found out that I cant binge eat my easter eggs and cry at night with being murdered with heart burn lol...I have an appointment with a diabetes person on Monday and I know there going to say eat the chocolate in moderation and all I want to know is can I have a wee bit every day and if so how much as I dont mind having to go out and buying scales to weigh it and put it into like wee sandwich bags or even melting it all down and making rice cakes with it and spending that out over the weeks