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From the community

Recent discussions

Back hurts

Just doing laundry and then my back hurts real bad.

My daughter is 18 months and she hasn’t slept through the night since she was like 4 months.. I’m constantly tired… I keep missing on activities cause they are all in the morning and I just can’t pull myself out of bed in the morning. I feel like I’m not a good mother to her cause of it. I’m constantly zoned out and out of it. My body feels so heavy. And I can’t help but feel so bad cause of it.

Anterior placenta

Anyone been told they have a anterior placenta? I still feel kicks just not as strong.
Wondered if it affected anyone's birth?
Or anything i need to be aware of?

Upset stomach :(

This whole pregnancy I’ve been super constipated. I’m now 39 weeks and for the past 2 weeks I’ve been going pretty regularly and not constipated and they’re kinda soft. The past few days I’ve been going 1-2 times a day! Which is wild compared to my 2-3 times a week

Today I had a really loose BM this morning and now I feel super constipated again. I really feel like I need to go and it’s giving me an upset stomach I’m literally getting hot flushes trying to have a BM.

Is this normal?

Honestly the end of pregnancy is a bit wild isn’t it, is everything a sign or is it just life lol

Also today I had this wild wave of productivity to clean and garden and cook etc and I’ve been so busy all day but now I just feel crap

Please don't judge me but I'm 39 weeks pregnant and farting up a storm 🤣🫣

What does this mean???
It's not painful, not trapped gas or anything, diet is the same pretty much, not usually someone who passes gas very much but since yesterday I have been farting SO much, like big, loud earth shaking 🤣🤣 please help! Is it baby? Is it labour?? I have a sweep tomorrow and I'm terrified in case I let a big one rip right in the midwifes face 😭😭

Sleep

Can anyone else not lie on their right side? Lying on my right side is so painful so it makes sleep so hard I end up sitting up instead😂

Very tired 😴

How many more weeks do you all have?
This is my 4th child that I am carrying and it’s a girl after 3 boys. I’m recovering from ankle surgery fractured ankle all while taking care of my 3 kids and pregnant . Today was my first day on ankle therapy.

How many weeks do you guys have left ?
This Thursday I’ll be 35 weeks pregnant so only 5 more weeks left .

??

Discomfort during sex and stomach pains after with low lying placenta - is this my sign to stop?

Anyone have cravings for SOUR stuff?

I’ve been dying for all things sour the last several weeks! What weird cravings have you had?

Contractions?

I have started having period pain cramping - that feeling when your period feels like it is starting. I have also had some sharp pains at the bottom of my bump. Are these likely to be contractions?

Movement

I’ve been feeling baby girl very regularly kicking, very active every day since I was around 18 weeks and I’m now 23 weeks, however I haven’t felt her move or kick at all the past 36-48 hours, it it worth getting checked? As I’ve been deep google search by and it’s constantly saying that movements arnt regular until I hit the 24 week mark.

Cramps

Does anyone else feel like they have period pain? Ive been having cramps and leg pain just like I did when I was having a period. Im 30 weeks now and it's only started the past few days. Also messing around with my bowles, in the same way a period would.

6 weeks 2 days and bleeding

Hi all,
Looking for some helpful advice. I’m 6 weeks 2 days and early hours of yesterday morning I went to the toilet to wipe and there was pink blood on the tissue, I initially panicked and was upset.
After this whenever I went to the toilet it was just brown discharge and not much and then completely stopped after 10 hours but full cramping. I went to the out of hours and they said I had leukocytes in my urine possibly indicating a uti. I have an appointment at the early pregnancy unit tomorrow morning but not sure if they’ll give me a scan. I feel like I’m not going into it positive because if I find out the worst then it’ll break me even more.

Has anyone else had similar experience to this and could give me advice?

Anyone else super congested?

I’m 32 weeks pregnant and I’m waking up in the morning all blocked up and all day I feel like my nose is blocked but when I blow it nothing comes out.. anyone have any tips ? I am unsure what’s safe to use in pregnancy.

Wtf am I supposed to eat?????

Y'all this nausea is constant and absolutely awful. I still have to cook for my daughter and husband but I can't stomach the thought of cooking or even eating. Wtf am I supposed to make for dinner??

Is my baby too active

I’m 20 weeks this week and I also have an anterior placenta. I was told I wouldn’t feel anything till later. But I feel like my baby is already very active. I feel multiple kicks within a minute sometimes and they don’t feel like flutters. Is something wrong with my baby. Should I be worried ?

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