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Has your baby rolled over yet?

If yes, are they doing it tummy to back or back to tummy? Do you do tummy time with them and for how long?

I know it’s different for each babies but I’m trying to understand if doing more tummy time actually helps or not. Thanks!

Reduced movements UK

I am having frequent reduced movements, 32 weeks pregnant. I have extra monitoring and bi weekly CTGs. Can I request to have an earlier elective section because of this? Anyone in the UK thats had a similar experience?

Pressure

I know lots of people have been asking stuff about signs of labour.
Last night I woke up at 1am with a heavy feeling of pressure quite low down. It hasn't subsided this morning and i just constantly feel like i need a wee. Is this a sign of anything or am i clinging at straws? I'm now 40+5 and desperately don't want to be induced

Glucose tolerance test

Update: I did the test and didn’t throw up but I did pass out and have to stay for heart rate monitoring on baby everything was fine with baby tho :

So I have my glucose test today but I also have emetophobia [fear of vomit and throwing up] so I’m wondering if there is any ways to reduce that nausea so I don’t traumatise myself

Be productive and not lie down all day

Hello moms.
I'm on maternity leave already because of a high-risk pregnancy.
But I'm struggling to be productive at home and not lie down all day 😵
I'm not meant to do bed rest. I can do things at home.

But girl, sometimes I do nothing. And is not "I do nothing and feel ok." I do nothing, and I feel bad.

Any advice to have some discipline at home?

Please let me know.
Thank you!

Bleeding for 6 weeks

I had a c section and light bleeding at the beginning for about 4 weeks until it got lighter. Almost a few days later I have been bleeding bright red (not filling through pads like a period though) I spoke to GP at my 6 week review and he said it may be my period. I don’t feel like this is a period and wondered if anyone else had been bleeding for this length of time. (Not BF either)

Baby has really started movin' and groovin'

I was 31 weeks on Wednesday (last growth scan measured me 2 days ahead but I don't know if I still keep my original dates?)

Anyyyyways, I've really noticed an uptick in baby's movement - not necessarily that she's moving more but she's suddenly had a growth spurt 😂 I can press lightly on my tummy and feel her feet and she responds to me by kicking. The movement at night when I'm asleep is also becoming much more noticeable and even just watching my stomach I'm visibly seeing movement that I might not necessarily feel, kind of like she's really close to the surface 😂 it's absolutely wild!!

I'm literally in awe everytime I feel her

Post partem bleeding?

Hi all, was messaging my friend about maternity pads and asking general questions. She described (in few words) her experience of the post partem bleeding and it's really freaked me out.
Just wondering people who've had babies before could you please explain your experiences?
Trying to wrap my head around what to expect :)

Can't sleep

I have anxiety and depression and take meds for it but im going through a divorce right now and I have a 3 year old Autistic boy and im just tired all the time and burnt out I swear it feels like same shit different day im moody and want to sleep and rot in bed all day and cry

Pregnant with baby #3.

I just found out im expecting and my only sign was a missed period. I dont really have any other symptoms. Is this normal??

I don’t remember having this much pain this early with my other 2 😩

I’m only 24 weeks, but feel like I’m 35 weeks by the way my body feels lately. The round ligament pain in my vagina is the WORST. My other two are 3 and 1 years old and with those pregnancies I do notttt remember discomfort this early 🙃

Increased baby movements

38 weeks and baby was not stop moving for 2 hours from around 8-10pm and then nothing. Anterior placenta so only feel Limited. Rang triage who said they dont do anything regarding excess movements. Just worried as baby has never had a full 2 hours of wriggling like mental. Read online could be a cause of distress. Anyone else had a bout of increased movement at 38 weeks?

Get Ready!!

Ladies! This is your sign to get ready if you haven’t started yet! It’s not too early. I hit 28 weeks today and started bleeding with no apparent cause. I didn’t have sex, I didn’t workout, nothing crazy happened. I went to my OB/GYN to get checked and they told me to go to the OB triage at the hospital because my cervix is thin. I’m at the hospital now and baby and everything is okay, my cervix is not alarmingly thin. I won’t be giving birth today, thank God! But this just goes to show that anything can happen at any moment. Get ready now and relax later!

Sickness Advice

Hi! I’m currently 24 weeks and 4 days pregnant and cannot seem to stop throwing up everything I eat, it will occasionally go away for 2/3 days and come back 100 times stronger. I have an appointment with my midwife about it as the medication I was given (which she told me was the strongest one they have) has done absolutely nothing. Does anyone have any advice to get me through at least until the appointment? I have been desperate to eat a proper meal for ages now 😭

High pain threshold...

Please give me some comfort im so nervous.
Ive just got out of 4 day stint in hospital after have a very intense bloody show at 35 + 3. Im talking blood down my legs kind of intense...
Anyway, im high risk. I have gestational diabetes, cholestasis and pre eclampsia, and have a section booked in 2 weeks time at 38 weeks. Before I was released from hospital I had a cervical check and I was 3cm, but they said all my levels were okay so go home and come straight back at the first sign of either waters breaking, more blood outside of mucus, or contractions. My problem is - im so worried that im not even going to realise something is a contraction snd miss it and then not even make it to the hospital for my section before im too dialated. I had no idea i was 3cm, ive had some slight cramps today but nothing thats concerned me??

Nausea FTM

Hi, I’m only 5-6 weeks pregnant and I’m suffering from the worst nausea imaginable, I have anti sickness medication prescribed but nothing seems to be helping. I’m struggling to eat drink and get out of bed is this normal so early on ?
I’m beginning to get concerned that this could be hyperemesis but would this show so early on ? I don’t understand when this will pass, how I’m going to work in this state I’m worried for myself and the fact I’m under 12 weeks really scares me that I’m already being effected so bad.

30 weeks

Okay, 2nd pregnancy but I am STRUGGLING. I don’t remember it being like this with my first so soon

My legs are in agony from cramp two nights ago. I’m not comfortable. I can’t sit comfortably. Even sitting in the bath is uncomfortable. Like I don’t know if I can do another ten weeks 😭