MSE Pregnancy Club IX

Sami_Bee

Ladies with babes already - Have any of you used a floating bath support thingy like this? http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/detai...anch=&category
Just mulling over if it would make it easier than using the baby bath which I always hated

Nicki

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Glam you could work out roughly where top of ur uterus is using fundal height ...I think
http://www.gestation.net/fetal_growth/fhm.htm

OMG!!!

If that diagram is accurate, then I was measuring at 20 weeks when I was only 15!

Now I really am freaked out. When they said I was big for my dates, I just assumed they meant by a week or so, not more than a month. I really really want the 15th to come quickly as either there's more than one in there, or I'm giving birth to one the size of a toddler not a newborn!!!!

Nicki

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Ladies with babes already - Have any of you used a floating bath support thingy like this? http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/detai...anch=&category
Just mulling over if it would make it easier than using the baby bath which I always hated

I never used a baby bath for either of my two. I bathed both of them in the kitchen sink in (clean) washing up bowl until they were old enough to sit up by themselves. This worked really for me, as I didn't have to bend down over the bath, the washing up bowl was of a size that even if I had let go of them by accident for a second, they couldn't slip under the water level, and it was dead easy to fill and empty with nothing heavy to carry. And also as this is a money saving site, as cheap as chips.

astonsmummy

Agghhh!
Ok so i got a dropside cot given to me by my friend.
OH reckons parts are missing and he cant put it up but i think he's just saying it, anyway, just realised that there are parts missing, the 2 blooming metal rods that make it slide down!
I know I had them, but now cant find them anywhere!
Does anyone know if i would be able to get hold of some spare ones from a shop or online?

aless02

katster wrote: »

Just a quick question!? Is it possible to start showing at 7 weeks? xxxx

Your 'showing' would be pretty much just water/bloat. At 7 weeks, your baby only measures about the size of a 5p piece! So even if there were 2 in there, the odds of them making a bump are near impossible. It's probably just your body storing extra fluids to help care for the baby!

tarajayne

Off to swimming, back later. X

jacksons_mum

Helen, Ellis is our favourite name for baby if its a boy, Jackson chose it and we havent a clue where he got it from because we have never heard it before but we both love it!

searching_me

yummmmmmmmmm.. been back from work and had to have dinner straight away OH had threw some chips in the oven and i got some burgers and bun ... OMG it was good!!! ...
work was a pile of poo today but i just keep thinking ... 3 weeks and 3 days then thats it! ... you with me MM :rotfl: x

greent

HypnoNu wrote: »

And i also just realised that being at home means I can be on here more and might have the tiniest chance of keeping up with you all!!

Hah!! :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Don't count on it!! I keep falling behind......

Had clients in today for massages - only 3 more days of massaging to go - finishing next Fri - when I'll be 37 + 3!! Wish it was me on the couch instead....:rolleyes:

greent

Nicki

katster wrote: »

Just a quick question!? Is it possible to start showing at 7 weeks? xxxx

Are you positive of your dates? The most usual reason for "showing early" is because you are in fact a month further on than you thought!

That being said, I could certainly see signs of a bump by 7 weeks, and as Glamazon said my proper bump did develop very early, and is much bigger at 16 weeks than a lot of people are at 6 months+. I was in maternity clothes exclusively by 7-8 weeks this time round (but this is my 3 baby, and my 4th pregnancy so my muscles have probably had a bit of practice).

It is true to say that the baby itself is tiny at 7 weeks but the uterus itself is growing, and as it grows it needs to push some other stuff out of the way, which itself has to go somewhere. For some women this seems to be out rather than up. Also if your digestive system has slowed down (as is common), your stomach and bowel will be distended which causes a bump. Finally, as aless said, there will be more fluid accumulating which will cause some bloating.

So the bottom line IMHO is that yes it is possible to show visible signs of being pregnant at 7 weeks. What you see may not correspond to the size of the baby or your uterus, but it is a change in body shape and size which is directly attributable to the fact that you are pregnant. Some women find that their bump goes down a little when they are around 10 weeks if it has been caused by excess fluid, but this didn't happen to me.

How many kids have you had previously and what was your body shape before you got pregnant, if you don't mind the questions . Both of these factors will also influence how you look in the early stages.