12-24 weeks pregnant (part2)

cllola

RobotsinDisguse wrote: »

I've been swimming a few times and it's been lovely. I also walk the dog daily. But to be honest it's only in the last week or so that changing the bed didn't feel like hiking a mountain!

Sadly my regular exercise of roller skating/roller derby, river swimming & coppicing/wood chopping aren't really suitable in pregnancy!!

I just had a good chat with my midwife. I thought I should talk to her before the test on Wednesday. She'd been expecting me to call, and has offered to make time to visit me when/if I need her afterwards.

I also had a session with my therapist this morning. Haven't seen her in a month... Needless to say my anxiety is officially through the roof! (Double the score of a month ago). Thank goodness I started this before all this kerfuffle! I'm not sure who else was waiting to start CBT but I definitely recommend it.

Wow there are some pretty diverse methods of exercising there! sounds like fun!

It's great to see that your midwife is being so supportive and making the time for you.

Will be thinking of you on Wednesday. *hugs*

Lara44

I'm not surprised your anxiety was up Robots, uncertainty is really difficult to manage. I'm so glad you're getting support from your therapist and midwife.

I haven't done any exercise since the summer time [hangs head in shame]. And I haven't ever done any of the activities you like to do, Robots - they all sound ace, especially roller derby!

I should have been starting a 3 month paid internship today but unfortunately it fell through the week before Christmas (bah, humbug) so I am at a bit of a loss what to do now. We can get by without me working but it's tight. Maybe some temp work would be good - although I am not really sure about my chances as a pg lady out of the job market for 3 years of study.

Still, I signed up for a pilates class today, a cheap one run by the council and joined the swimming pool for free swim Friday. Off to do all that cleaning and ironing that's been piling up over Christmas.

Have a nice day all.

Mrs_T_M

becsxxx wrote: »

I'm really aching today after doing my "lean and toned" (Lol) pregnancy workout DVD for the first time yesterday! I am soooooooooo unfit!!!! What is everyone else doing about exercise?

Is it ok for me to say nothing?

I'm trying to walk at least 20 minutes per day, but lately it's been causing my hips to seize up and feel like there are knives in my hip joints.

I had issues with my hips before I lost a bit of weight (haven't gained anything during pregnancy yet) with them feeling the same way, but I could just take an ibuprofen and be done with it, now, I can't! Means laying on my back to sleep, and that's becoming uncomfy with a bump, but I cannot lay on either side longer than 1/2 hour due to the sides of my hips going numb and burning. I've lost some size in my hips (too bad it wasn't lost on my rear!), so my bones are sticking into the mattress when I lay on my side.

neverdespairgirl

Have you tried propping your bump up a bit with pillows? Or tried a mattress topper?

mysecretalias

Hello everyone hope you are all doing well, I am at work so not really supposed to be on here but couldn't hold it in, I wanted to share with you all that, sat here at my desk just now, I just felt baby move for the first time ever :):):)

becsxxx

mysecretalias - YEAY!!!! it's so exciting isn't it!!!!! it's also really reassuring when the gap between 12 and 20 week scan seems so huge. if you are anything like me, you will now spend ooodles of time making OH put his hand on your bump, despite the fact it's nowhere near strong enough for him to feel yet!

Mrs TM - walking 20 mins a day is more than i do most of the time! complete pain about your hips though. I'd second neverdespairgirl that I have a really comfy mattress topper that makes the bed a lot softer. Or could you lie on another quilt maybe?

lara44 - sorry to hear the internship fell through. if you are applying for temping jobs, once the agency has taken you on there is usually no interview so no reason for the company they are sending you to to "know" that you are pregnant before you get there and start work - and you don't need me to tell you that then trying to get rid of you because of your pregnancy is illegal! if you've been studying, you probably have better computer/keyboard skills than you realise - I used to temp successfully in offices in uni holidays because my typing was actually quite good. you should go and see an agency maybe?

RobotsinDisguse

cllola wrote: »

Wow there are some pretty diverse methods of exercising there! sounds like fun!

It's great to see that your midwife is being so supportive and making the time for you.

Will be thinking of you on Wednesday. *hugs*

Thanks hunny x

Lara44 wrote: »

I'm not surprised your anxiety was up Robots, uncertainty is really difficult to manage. I'm so glad you're getting support from your therapist and midwife.

I haven't done any exercise since the summer time [hangs head in shame]. And I haven't ever done any of the activities you like to do, Robots - they all sound ace, especially roller derby!

I should have been starting a 3 month paid internship today but unfortunately it fell through the week before Christmas (bah, humbug) so I am at a bit of a loss what to do now. We can get by without me working but it's tight. Maybe some temp work would be good - although I am not really sure about my chances as a pg lady out of the job market for 3 years of study.

Still, I signed up for a pilates class today, a cheap one run by the council and joined the swimming pool for free swim Friday. Off to do all that cleaning and ironing that's been piling up over Christmas.

Have a nice day all.

Sorry your internship fell through. I'm sorry I don't have any more advice, but temping sounds like a good idea.
Let us know how the Pilates is for you.

I took up roller skating & roller derby nearly 2 years ago and it's fab. A lot of our ladies are mums so I hope to go back when I can.
The woodland work is needed to keep my home heated enough, and it's how I met my husband too.
I love swimming but don't like chlorine, and have always loved sea swimming... So this year looked up wild swimming and just dived into the local rivers & lakes (with others, health & safety matters!)

mysecretalias wrote: »

Hello everyone hope you are all doing well, I am at work so not really supposed to be on here but couldn't hold it in, I wanted to share with you all that, sat here at my desk just now, I just felt baby move for the first time ever :):):)

:j I'm so happy for you!:D

Mrs_T_M

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Have you tried propping your bump up a bit with pillows? Or tried a mattress topper?

I do prop up the bump on either side with a pillow, and we can't yet afford a mattress topper. I have one picked out though! 4 inch memory foam like the one on my bed in the States.

As for laying on another quilt, that would involve making another quilt, which I haven't learned to do yet. We have a quite hard blanket on the spare bed, but I'm using the duvet and hubby is using the only quilt we have. Might take a wonder around the charity shops in town tomorrow after my appointment at the hospital and see if I can find anything decent that doesn't smell funky.

Speaking of the appointment at the hospital, I still don't know what it's for, and I probably should look at the paper and see what time it is, considering it's tomorrow.

I've decided to not fight or argue with anyone about wanting a home birth, I'm just going to stand my ground and they can deal with their own insecurities another way.

jen_1985_04

mysecretalias wrote: »

Hello everyone hope you are all doing well, I am at work so not really supposed to be on here but couldn't hold it in, I wanted to share with you all that, sat here at my desk just now, I just felt baby move for the first time ever :):):)

Yeeeeaaahhh :T:j:T

claire16c

Mrs_T_M wrote: »

As for laying on another quilt, that would involve making another quilt, which I haven't learned to do yet. We have a quite hard blanket on the spare bed, but I'm using the duvet and hubby is using the only quilt we have. Might take a wonder around the charity shops in town tomorrow after my appointment at the hospital and see if I can find anything decent that doesn't smell funky.

I think becs probably meant a duvet when she said quilt? Sometimes us crazy English people call duvets, quilts

I was thinking 'make a duvet?! Are you insane? I don't think anyone would know how to make that!' Then realised you meant a lovely American patchwork type thing lol!

I think I'm going to try lying on a spare duvet because my hips are killing me too I wake up in the night with the pain.