Can anyone recommend a nice face cream & a nice shower oil/ moisturising cream please? My face is soooo dry and I feel like a chameleon after a shower 
I’m nearly 21 weeks and never remember this happening when I was pregnant with my son! Thanks 
Thank you for this.It won’t help you now but if your clinical need becomes higher they will get you in, they won’t leave you with a failing placenta. Are you having regular scans? PALS can’t jump you if the medical need isn’t there but can they get you more scans? Can you have them explain why the need was there initially and no it’s not?
I was on the wait list for a sooner date and got it when someone went naturally. Then I went naturally the day before so it was an ECS meaning someone will have got both my slots previously booked. My point is, a lot can change. Ensure the c-section coordinator is aware of everything, I’d try for a face to face discussion, so you’re at the forefront and not being blocked further back down the line.
Lethargy, nausea, and just sheer exhaustion. I had no idea the early stage was so tiring?! Please someone tell me when I will turn a corner![]()
Can’t you ask to be admitted to the ward at some point from 38 weeks for monitoring, and so you are there and ready if a spot comes up earlier?Thank you for this.I did log with PALS and copied in the clinical director for maternity with all my risk factors (6 in total
). Anyway, she has replied and wants to meet face-to-face next week to try and resolve.
I’m just so stressed. I have to go to Fetal Medicine today to check baby’s kidneys - feels like everything is a battle at the minute.
All this whilst working FT and parenting a toddler - and I can’t even have a glass of wine!
Are you packing snacks? All I can think about is food right now. 37 weeks and my sickness is almost under control (my new anti sickness meds work 70%) or the time so I'm enjoying eating. I'm not sure what snacks to take with me.Packed baby’s bag this morning 🥹 just need to get the last bits for mine and then we will be ready!
I feel like everyone I ask this question to has been influenced by tik tok because everyone gives the same answersAre you packing snacks? All I can think about is food right now. 37 weeks and my sickness is almost under control (my new anti sickness meds work 70%) or the time so I'm enjoying eating. I'm not sure what snacks to take with me.
with my first I had no idea what snacks to pack but my husband packed a ton of flapjacks in all variety’s and they ended up being very useful after birth as I was left on the ward with myself + baby quite a bit and between the hospital meals I was so hungry and stuff like chocolate and crisps don’t fill you up so I ate so many flapjacksI feel like everyone I ask this question to has been influenced by tik tok because everyone gives the same answerslucozade sport, breakfast bars (normally bland belvita) and haribo. Where’s the crisps?? Where’s the chocolate?? I’m not pushing a baby out to be greeted with a dry honey oat belvita
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Id have loved any of those after but nothing like that near my hospital !!Yes Ive seen the tik toks with all the dried fruit and granola bars and while that’s all well and good I’ll definitely be packing sweets and crispsI have a terrible tendency to vomit when I’m in any sort of pain (even mild) it’s just a trigger and always has been. I’m hoping to put in my birth plan to ask for nausea meds/IV so I’m thinking I probably won’t be eating.
after the birth around my chosen hospital are a Burger King, KFC, McDonalds, chicken shop and chippy (like all in the next street) so I’ll be sending partner off somewhere there for me![]()
I was about 20-22 weeks, and even then it was only at the end of the day after I had eaten etc that I think it would have been noticeable to anyone that didn’t know, I started wearing maternity clothes about 24 weeks onwardsJust wondering when everyone started to show with their first baby if just having one?