12-24 weeks pregnant (part 4)

selement

Don't worry freddie most use disposables! Most people irl I talk to aren't using cloth. I'll probably use disposable until they fit in their birth to potty nappies

afoolandhermoney

don't feel bad Freddie, you just have to do what works for you and your little one - my good intentions may well go by the wayside once the reality hits! (I have the disposables from the bounty and emma's diary packs and will probably get a few more for the first week even if we have the cloth ones from my friend). Ditto the plan on breast feeding - "fed is best" so although I will do my best a set of bottles will probably make its way into the house at some point just in case.

Hope your OH is feeling ok, and that "mr bump" becomes "mr baby" soonish

NelliePie

I'm planning on disposables - this is our first and I think its going to be hard enough as it is without adding more laundry etc on top - I'm sort of planning for the worst and assuming the hyperemesis will carry on right through so I'll be exhausted even before the baby comes and OH only gets 2 weeks paternity leave. We generally try to recycle and we use and EcoEgg so no laundry detergent so are trying to be environmentally friendly but I just don't think washables will work for us.

I'm trying to stay relaxed about the birth plan and breastfeeding too - I have an idea of what I want (I'll try to get through with minimum intervention and I want to breast feed) but I won't be too upset of things don't go to plan.

afoolandhermoney

Trying to work out my birth plan at the moment - next midwife appointment is on thursday and I think she'll probably start asking about it soon. I'm going to try and stay relaxed like you Nellie, and treat it as a list of preferences with back up plans if the preferences don't work out (or I change my mind). So I think I'll try to manage at home with a TENS machine (saving up my boots points to get one), and as our local birth centre has a pool I'd like to use that (they aren't very busy so hopefully there won't be anyone else in it when it comes time), more than happy to go through the list of more medicated pain relief as needed though

Toots14

Disposable nappies here. I'm hoping DD is potty trained by November too so I only have 1 in nappies.

My birth plan last time was go with the flow with, ideally a water birth. Was induced at 38 weeks, had an epidural and an emergency section. Midwife was asking me last week if I had decided about an elective section yet but I said I had no idea. I have until 36 weeks to decide. Just as well :rotfl:

17 weeks today :j

LavenderBee

Sorry freddie - I couldn't resist a conversation about car seats and reusable nappies! This is what my life is coming to part of our ability to use reusables is that I'm going to be a SAHM so I will have extra time.

Shall we stay here? It's funny; in the real world everyone I know is pregnant - on mse it's just you and I due around the same time...

40 week marker has been and gone here; I've had a sweep. Midwife is convinced baby will be here this weekend as I was dilating well, effaced and baby couldn't be any further down without coming out. She was surprised I've had zero pre-labour symptoms or any idea it was happening. I am still not convinced anything is happening and not expecting baby for a while though...

Afool - my midwife didn't say the birthplan word until my 36 week appointment; but these things vary hugely by area. I wrote mine using the NHS form at 35+6 I'm going to a birth centre too hopefully; long as baby doesn't hang round too long!

Bosscout

Good luck LavenderBee! Let us know when Baby makes an appearance if you get the chance!

I've had an anaesthetist appointment at 20wks, and she was like 'why have they sent you to me now? It's far too early! You're probably only just believing there's a baby in there, let alone thinking about how it's going to come out! Which was pretty accurate. Anyway, she was very helpful and answered my questions on epidural, and told me just to get the MW to book another appointment with her later on if there was anything else I wanted to ask when i had a clearer idea of anything I might want doing.

I really want to use cloth nappies because I'll be home full time, there's just me and the OH, we've got good laundry drying facilities (a laundry room and space for airers on the balcony/in the flat) and I figure it'll be 'easier' learning as I go along - I don't know the first thing about disposables either, so may as learn the cloth route! Although I'm sure we'll use disposables at times. And if it all goes pear shaped I'm a 5 min walk from a massive Sainsbury's,

selement

I don't want to think about birthplace yet!I'm 19 weeks so it still seems ages away... and thank goodness because I feel woefully unprepared!
Planning not to get anything else baby related until after 20 week scan (which I'm not having until I'm 22 weeks). Then I think it's time to see if we can make the spare room a bit more baby friendly (currently the cats food and litter and cat tree all live there nice and out of the way of the rest of the house....)

NWOIHTS

Hi all

Me and partner are expecting first bub, she reckons she is about 8-10 weeks in. The other day she was getting very achy stomach, no bleeding but from look on her face didn't look very nice. At one point she said she thought she was going to have to get me to come pick her up. She had to lie down and put hot water bottle on it, she said it is good bit better now but still achy. It was really sore when she moved and pain was going right up her back. I'd read that n period type cramping, and stretching pains is normal but is pain like that normal, as i said she never had bleeding and is first so im not sure as it''s all new to us. I did say we should contact midwife number but she said it felt better.

Gettting panicky as it's our first and obviously what people describe as normal cramping and then painful to move didn't add up to mer.

afoolandhermoney

NWOIHTS - I would say always give the midwife a call about anything that seems unusual. Hopefully its just the normal growing pains as her womb stretches but as she's so early (and from the sounds of it hasn't had her scan yet) better to get it checked out if the pain comes back.