MSE Pregnancy Club 28

littleskintdragon

Congratulations cath-ster sounds, glad youre all ok now. Two weeks must have felt like a lifetime in hospital for you!
Enjoy your baby cuddles

TopQuark

Hi Everyone,


I'm a bit late joining the thread. Am 26 weeks pregnant and also due on the 19th of January. Was away last week in the UK at my parent's house which was nice as I got to see a fair number of family and friends. The mattress in their guest room is really hard though, so I ended up waking about 10 times a night to re-arrange myself. I must say, I also found the plane journeys tiring; it doesn't help that there is no direct flight. I'm a frequent traveller, both for work and with living overseas, but this time I found the return especially knackering!


I'm also in somewhat of a bad mood too as I just had an argument with a man over a seat on the tram. When I got on it was packed and as it started to thin out a bit, I went to sit in a recently vacated seat. However a man jumped into it before I could and just looked at me with a 'hard luck, I got here first' expression on his face. I doubt he failed to miss my belly as he had been standing facing me up until that point. Fortunately, I managed to shame him into giving up the seat, but it was unpleasant. I appreciate that many people are not really paying attention to others around them and simply fail to notice, but I am honestly shocked at the number who are just rude and inconsiderate. I have always offered my seat to those in more need and hoped the common courtesy would be extended to me too if ever required. Seems not. Makes me stand by my assertion that I'd save my cat's life before that of a stranger, even more!!

devildolly5

Hi Topquark!

Some people can be really inconsiderate! Glad you shamed him into moving.

Time feels like its dragging a bit now. No scans to look forward to, just routine appointments until the big day! Looking forward to getting Christmas organised as hoping that will keep me busy and preoccupied.

Anyone else get days when they feel very very pregnant, and days when you feel 'normal'. I'm having a few normal days when my bump doesn't feel as big, tiredness has eased and generally feel back to normal. Its nice but unnerving, and I know I will regret saying anything when in a few days I feel like I have swallowed a space hopper.

How is everyone doing with preparing? Have most things now, but need to finish the nursery this weekend so we have somewhere for it all to go, then we can sort the rest of the house out as its a tip because we cant move for stuff at the moment.

Also need to start thinking about selling my little car. We have bought a new bigger more sensible one so no major rush, but I know I have to sell the other one at some point. Just cant bring myself to do it yet despite the extra car tax and insurance each month as I love it sooo much.

Hope everyone is OK.

snow_ball

I don't know if I'm being oversensitive (quite possibly!) but I think some people go out of their way to be inconsiderate. In a 'it's your choice to be pregnant' or 'you're pregnant, not ill!' kind of way? I've been offered a seat twice and graciously refused both times (but they insisted) because I really haven't been that desperate for a seat yet, but on the whole most people are just in their own worlds and don't even notice me Glad you got the seat though topquark, some people are just plain rude, whether there's a pregnancy involved or not and he sounded like a delight!

I'm almost 30 weeks now, and although I love my bump and being pregnant on the whole, I'm so sick of all the appointments. I have GD, which means extra appointments & growth scans anyway, but at the first growth scan baby was on the 10th centile so I've had even more scans to check blood flow and have another growth scan next week. I know it's reassuring to have the extra monitoring, but my hospital keep you waiting for hours and it's starting to get a bit much. I'm just lucky work are understanding because with the usual midwife appointments and jabs I've been for recently, I've pretty much been a part-timer!

The silver lining is that this week's scan was all good & healthy and we got an amazing view of our baby boy's face, we are just so excited to meet him!!

I've been a little less gung-ho in the shopping dept, although we recently changed our mind on the pram we'd ordered and so have swapped to an Armadillo Flip XT and I love it. Need to get the nursery sorted in the next couple of weeks and then I think we'll get them to deliver it so we can start practising using it! Also need to sort out my hospital bag and start ticking things off my 'to buy' list. Think we've got more than enough stuff for baby now, in terms of clothes, blankets and other bits & pieces, it's more getting the less fluffy stuff organised, like nipple cream, maternity pads and post birth clothing/underwear etc :eek:

Wow, think that's my longest ever post! Sorry for waffling :rotfl:

snow_ball

devildolly5 wrote: »

Anyone else get days when they feel very very pregnant, and days when you feel 'normal'. I'm having a few normal days when my bump doesn't feel as big, tiredness has eased and generally feel back to normal. Its nice but unnerving, and I know I will regret saying anything when in a few days I feel like I have swallowed a space hopper.

I think just these last few days I've sort of eased past the size where I could feel normal anymore. But yesterday was a particularly awkward day, I'm assuming it very much depends on what position baby is in. Yesterday he didn't move quite as much as normal, but he was right at the front if that makes sense and I found it really uncomfortable!

devildolly5

Hi

I may or may not be in the third trimester today as some places say 27 weeks (today) and some say 28 weeks.

Any ideas?

littleskintdragon

Ive always thought it was 27 weeks, so welcome to the LAST trimester

Rambosmum

I have a very wriggly bump today! It is quite lovely.

littleskintdragon

Ive had a call to say my platelets are low, does anyone know anything about it or had this?? 3rd pregnancy and Im nearly 30 weeks, never had it before!

Mrshaworth2b

Sorry I don't know anything about platelets. Hope everything is ok though.

I'm coming down with something 38 weeks today and I'm getting ill. Got a sticky throat ad feeling generally rubbish. Boo!!

How is everyone else doing?