12 to 24 week pregnancy thread

ddebski_us

Hi girls

I don't really post that much on here - I graduated straight to the main thread!!

Great scan results ladies - and fab photo Apricot! 3 healthy babies - perfect!

Doglover - I'll be having 9 months off (or 39 weeks) - we've saved loads of money for my maternity leave as I'm the main earner, and our savings won't be wiped out, but we want to keep some in the pot - things will be tighter when baby is here. I'm tagging 2 weeks holiday onto the start so I finish at 38 weeks, and may tag 2 weeks onto the end as well. We'll see. I'm hoping to go back 3 days a week for the 1st 3 months too, just to ease me and baby into the routine gradually.

I'm 13+4 today - I think I felt baby move on Monday and yesterday. It was like a throbbing/flicking inside my belly. I'm 99% sure it wasn't wind. It happened when I was sitting very still. Hugely excited - want it to happen again!!

xDx

anderson8

Doglover- im having 39 weeks off, i wasnt going to finish up until the last possible moment but now im finishing up at 35 weeks. i cant believe it 14 weeks and ill be on maternity leave!!!

Angel11_2

I'm intending to start maternity leave at 38 weeks although I have 2 weeks leave before that. Then 9 months of work and some leave which will be carried over to take at the beginning so all in all about 10 months off.
Sounds blissful - no shifts for that long and I'm not working christmas !!

Sequeena

20 weeks tomorrow, was hoping all the problems would be sorted in the first half of pregnancy but no!! Started leaking again last night :mad: back to bedrest.

Sequeena

If you girls are ever worried, amniotic fluid smells like bleach/amonia. If you smell it, get checked ASAP.

supermaiden

Oh no sequeena

Im hoping to be taking the full 52 weeks maternity leave. I will not be paid at the end but hopefully we will be ok moneywise. I am having 6 weeks holidays before taking maternity leave so Im in for a long break lol.

Apricot

Sequeena wrote: »

20 weeks tomorrow, was hoping all the problems would be sorted in the first half of pregnancy but no!! Started leaking again last night :mad: back to bedrest.

Sorry to hear that Sequeena! These babies know how to give us a fright don't they? He's a little fighter and hopefully you are only having a minor leak and it will heal itself again!

twi1ight

Rest well sequeena.

Ddebski - after you and someone else mentioned feeling something, I was lying in bed this morning thinking "oh, is that it?......is that it?....that?" nope. Definitely just wind

ddebski_us

twi1ight wrote: »

Rest well sequeena.

Ddebski - after you and someone else mentioned feeling something, I was lying in bed this morning thinking "oh, is that it?......is that it?....that?" nope. Definitely just wind

LOL. Mine could have been wind - haven't felt anything today, but I felt the same thing three times in the space of 24 hours and I've never had that feeling before in my life.

Keep looking out for it.

xDx

jcr16

Breast_Cancer_Survivor wrote: »

Congratulations. :j

I was looking at baby clothes today but boys clothes don't seem as cute as the girls.

hun i know what u mean, when i was preg with my first ds and found out he was a boy , i felt really disappointed in boy stuff, but tbh once the little one is wearing the clothes any boys items looks mega cute.

i love dungarees on boy's. after buying for 2 boys i now find boys clothes very cute indeed. but have to say i'm longing to do pretty baby dresses again. but saying that i'll be happy boy or a girl, just next baby better be a girl,lol