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Breech baby!

I’m 34 weeks and don’t feel there any sign of baby turning, I’ve been doing breech tilt and leaning off the sofa and I’m more concerned baby is wedged bum down in my pelvis and won’t be able to get out himself or he’s stuck in the cord(stupid I know) going to try the hot cold trick tonight and see what he does

Pregnancy dreams! Ladies tell me about it

Ok so Ive been having recurring similar bad dreams. And I read that sometimes you can have aggressive dreams about your spouse doing stupid things. So here's the question I have, what kind of strange dreams did you have about your partner while you were pregnant?

Baby dropping

Hi! I’m currently 31 weeks going on 32 weeks on Friday with a mfm appt to check baby girls growth. Has anyone else’s baby dropped after 30 weeks? I’m feeling a lot of pelvic pressure and pressure in my butt include my butthole (tmi I’m sorry😭😭) it’s very uncomfortable and I’m not sure how to feel about this 😵‍💫 I attached a picture of her from when I was 27-28 weeks and she was mid yawning🥲

29 weeks!!

Its going by so fast!! Everyone ready? Anyone else also chasing around a toddler?? How's your BuMp?? ❤️ 😍

Shooting pains?

I’m 5 weeks 4 days pregnant and have started feeling some sharp, shooting pains in my vaginal and rectal area. Has anyone else experienced this in early pregnancy, and did you find out what caused it or how to ease it?

Does anyone else have an insane sense of smell

I'm 5 weeks pregnant and have nausea and a heavy feeling in my stomach for the past 2 weeks but today I can randomly smell Chinese food. It's literally not even 10 am in the morning and I'm sat working at my desk (at home) and the smell is overwhelming. There is no bloody Chinese food in the house. I'm so confused.

Nausea has come back 😢

Hey girls I’m 14 nearly 15 weeks now and that first trimester was awful with the sickness etc , however for the last I’d say 4-5 days I’ve been feeling okay no sickness and sort of got my energy back .. every one said this should happen around now so I was so happy. But today omg it is the worst I think I’ve felt the whole time?! I feel like I’m going to throw up every minute. Ahhh 😢😢

Sleep

Anyone else's LO sleep still so bad? Like multiple wakings, unsettled sleep taking ages to go back down, sometimes split nights. I'm honestly slow losing it and feel like a failure

Insomnia

For the last few weeks my sleep has been completely messed up, I had a week of night shifts (I rotate days and nights absolutely fine normally) and since then I'm just not sleeping at night! I'll go to bed exhausted, sleep for maybe an hour then wake up wide awake. Doesn't matter if I don't touch my phone, I'll be laying there until 6 or 7am then I'll eventually sleep for a few more hours. I'm on AL from work for a couple weeks so was hoping to fix my sleep pattern but so far I've had no luck whatsoever! I've already cut out caffeine and sweets etc, just have a hot malt drink before bed, and my usual sleep podcasts have stopped working too. Any ideas would be great

Rolling over

My daughter is almost 5 months in Sunday. She now is rolling over all the time. Even in her crib. How long will it last before she rolls back over on her other side. My husband is afraid of her suffocating when she rolls over on her stomach. When we’re asleep. Thank you for the help.

I feel like I've fallen into a TV trap with my toddler

We did no screens up until I fell pregnant with baby number 2 and my only way to survive the sickness and fatigue was to allow 1 show per day. It started at 30 minutes now it's an hour and twice a day.

We get up at 7am have breakfast, get outside, attend a toddler class or playgroup then when we get home I let her watch nursery rhymes for 45 minutes whilst I make lunch. Then she eats, naps for 1 hour, wakes, we then play together, head outside again then she gets 1 hour around 4pm of tv whilst I cook dinner. Then she eats at 5pm and we go to the park after dinner before coming home for bath and bedtime routine, bed at 8pm.

I feel like it went from nothing to almost 2 hours per day quite quickly. Is this really bad?

She's almost 2.

Severe morning sickness

I’m currently 9 weeks 4 days I’ve tried 4 different anti-sickness medications and now it’s got to the point I’m bringing up liquids and I’m worried now as the tablets are not working and I don’t know if it’s worth ringing early pregnancy unit to see what they say or just go up to A&E as my doctors are not being helpful at all

*** update ****
I rang epu they said they wanted me to go in to do some tests and re assess my medication and probably some fluids in the morning I sat and cried for a hour because I couldn’t keep anything down and felt I was doing something wrong my partner bless sat and held me but hopefully everything goes ok and also said they wanted to do a re-scan to make sure baby is ok

Help...

Im 6 wks 6 days pregnant... woke this morning with body aches in my upper body... no other symptoms besides morning sickness that was triggered by mucus in the back of my throat that's eased quickly. Has anyone had this upper body pain in early pregnancy 😫 I'm praying im not getting sick cause that would be REALLY bad

Cravings

What has everyone been craving? Anyone else struggling to eat healthy right now?

Pelvic girdle pain

In around 21 weeks pregnant and feel unable to work due to pelvic girdle pain nothing is making it better. Rest is but then as soon as I go back to work its worse than before. Im at the point where I dont know what to do but im unable to work with it and the work place is such a physically demanding job and they are unable to change my job any differently especially if just sitting is making it uncomfortable walking or even get down to the childrens level without coming home with pain to the point the walk from the bus stop to home is unbearable. And then unable to do the next day. Im at the point where I dont think even reduced hours will help me. Because im usually in so much pain by lunch time at work

10 Times a Day

Hi! It’s my first baby so I don’t feel him as much as the doctor says I should. I feel big kicks but other than that minor. Does anyone else actually feel the baby 10 times an hour? My husband is worried I don’t but I never have and all the ultrasounds they say are perfect.

Movement

Has anyone felt baby love yet? I’m 18+ 2 and haven’t really felt anything. I can’t remember when I did with my first pregnancy. I also haven’t really had many symptoms other than sickness at start, is this normal?

39 weeks on Friday

I've had enough.. It's my 2nd baby in 2 years and I thought I've nailed what's coming but I'm still bloody clueless. One day I had loose stools and cramps and then next day I have deep pain pressure in my back then cramps. It's been almost a week of this and I'm just left in the air. Has anyone been feeling the same?

Implantation bleeding

Had unprotected sex October 24-28 has spotting yesterday then stopped then this morning spotting again weird because my period usually heavy this is different this would be my second pregnancy anyone had spotting and turned out to be pregnant ? Could it be mistaken for a period but turns out to be pregnancy? I usually have a heavy flow and this is very different please share your insight in comments we’ve been trying for half a year and still nothing first time experiencing it so hoping it means maybe im pregnant ! I would like to add I took a test few days ago was negative but spotting on and off since yesterday so maybe was too early