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Isofix is easier to install properly and move.
If you happen to have a car without isofix the strapping works but it must be done properly, and it's just better if you leave the seat on the car always . Only me and my partner knew how to do it properly and found the seat poorly installed by other family member several times.
This. Isofix isn’t inherently safer but there’s a lot of room for human error with seat belt strapping.
I have a joie baby seat that fits onto an isofix base but can also be used with a seatbelt which has been handy for using in friends cars or taking on holiday.
Out of the baby stage, for a main car seat you’re not taking in and out I’d always pick isofix. We do however have a strap in one for occasional use - OH’s van, friends’ cars etc just so we can move it around more easily.
Yeah I'm in a weird cycle of either little to no quality sleep or vivid horrible dreams because I'm falling into such deep sleep out of pure knackeredness when my body does get comfy enough to let me actually nod if that makes sense (and boy I'm feeling the effects rn)Wtf are pregnancy dreams all about?? Mildly scared to sleep tonight after the last few nights
Omg this is me. I either can’t sleep because I can’t get comfy, or I do sleep because I’m exhausted and I have the weirdest, most realistic and violent dreams everYeah I'm in a weird cycle of either little to no quality sleep or vivid horrible dreams because I'm falling into such deep sleep out of pure knackeredness when my body does get comfy enough to let me actually nod if that makes sense (and boy I'm feeling the effects rn)
My pregnancy dreams are just incredibly odd, like I'm tripping or something. Last night I even thought in my dream 'oh here we go again' when my brain came up with some weird concoction.
I keep having constant dreams about sleeping in and then waking up in a panic. I’m absolutely exhausted today, day two of solo parenting while my husband works away and it’s getting harder as my bump gets bigger. Almost 28 weeks and conscious of how much bigger and less mobile I’ll get 
Someone on here mentioned that they’re getting TikToks on their FYP of early loss and I am too, and it’s freaking me out. I feel a bit ‘different’ today and it’s gotten me a bit anxious. I have more twingey pains including some gut/stomach cramps as well as the slightly more period type cramps I have been having the whole way through. My nausea has gone completely today as well, which I should be delighted about but I’m not, instead I’m freaked out.
it was a stressful week at work last week, to put it mildly, and so my anxiety is heightened anyway, then we went away for the weekend so all my eating has been different to normal, larger amounts of naughtier food (still allowed food though!) at different times to normal, which might explain the lack of nausea and maybe the stomach cramps. I don’t know. I still had to get up at wee like 4 times in the night so there’s one symptom still staying with me!
None of the way I feel matches the reasons to call up the early pregnancy unit or the midwife team or wherever. I’ll keep an eye out. Bloody TikTok. It’s a blessing and a curse.
it was a stressful week at work last week, to put it mildly, and so my anxiety is heightened anyway, then we went away for the weekend so all my eating has been different to normal, larger amounts of naughtier food (still allowed food though!) at different times to normal, which might explain the lack of nausea and maybe the stomach cramps. I don’t know. I still had to get up at wee like 4 times in the night so there’s one symptom still staying with me!
None of the way I feel matches the reasons to call up the early pregnancy unit or the midwife team or wherever. I’ll keep an eye out. Bloody TikTok. It’s a blessing and a curse.
Do yourself a favour and block the hashtags! I know I had to as it was scaring me senseless. Also been selecting not interested if it still comes up on the algorithm. Something I did was have two accounts - 1 I happily look at baby stuff on and 1 I purposely avoided any baby searches or videos so I still had some normal algorithm.
I’m so old and technologically incapable I’m not even sure I know how to do that
it’s given me lots of helpful videos but those ones are not helpful to me at all and are making me neurotic. I should be celebrating a day of no nausea, not worrying about it!I think I posted on here about this at the start of my pregnancy, it was horrible seeing it all the time esp as if had a loss before this baby! Now I’m in my 3rd trimester all I’m seeing is stuff about still birth
I’m useless at tech stuff as well, I just make sure not to click on it if I can help it so as not to feed the algorithm (insta, I don’t use TikTok so not sure about that
I’m feeling exactly the same!!! I went for my first midwife appointment last week and obvs my bmi is high (it was on my last pregnancy) and so I have to take extra vit D and also start aspirin daily from 12 weeks. It just made me feel anxious. I still don’t even have my scan until mid March.
Pregnancy symptoms can change a lot in the early weeks as the placenta develops then at 10-12 weeks the placenta takes over and you can get a big shift. Try to remember your hormone levels are all over the shop and it can be really up and down but it’s totally normal x
Anyone else given birth before but still terrified of doing it again? 25 weeks and I'm scared thinking about it every day. My partners answer is you'll be ok you've done it before. It doesn't make it any easier and I didn't have a bad labour first time it was just very long. This is my 2nd baby after 9 years and I've heard mixed things that the labour will still be shorter or that having such a large gap it can be just as long and painful as the first which doesn't help my anxiety
yes! I think it’s the not knowing how it will go.. at least it was for me! And I didn’t have a bad first labour either just long.
Didn’t get much of a choice but to have a csection in the end for low lying placenta but after my firsts waters went at 36+5 I was always on edge about them going early and going into labour before my csection date. Especially since my LMP was just over a week more compared to due date given from scans lol. And as I suspected we didn’t make it to that csection date
it was due to more bleeding but I think I just make baby’s that don’t like to hang around 
i kept seeing stuff about stillborns on insta as my due date neared which scared me senseless and it didnt help that i lost my waters and didnt go into active labour… i ended up having a longer stay in hospital than i wanted because i ended up with an infection thankfully my baby was/is fine. I dont understand how algorithms work tbh and was unaware it could be blocked that sort of content… wish i had known at the timeI think I posted on here about this at the start of my pregnancy, it was horrible seeing it all the time esp as if had a loss before this baby! Now I’m in my 3rd trimester all I’m seeing is stuff about still birth
I’m useless at tech stuff as well, I just make sure not to click on it if I can help it so as not to feed the algorithm (insta, I don’t use TikTok so not sure about that
Thanks everyone. I honestly expected to feel anxious and confused about this from the very start of knowing I was pregnant. I’ve known for 4 weeks today and to have gotten all the way to today without starting to feel really worried about what I can/cant feel is a bit of an achievement for me. I have pretty long-term, enduring anxiety. I had to increase my SSRIs towards the end of last year. I had come off them completely to start TTC, then got very ill with anxiety so had to restart. I tapered onto the lowest dose which is usually just used to get someone used to it before going up another level, but it took the edge off so I stayed at that dose as a compromise between my mental health and TTC. When that stopped being enough for me last year when times were tough. I had to go back up to my old dose again. I don’t feel great about being on meds where it’s not clear what it might do for my baby, but I also know it would be really risky for me personally to try to come off.
My first midwife appt is the end of this coming week, I’ll be sure to be really open about my binfire mental health just in case there’s a particular pathway available to me.
I promise not to spend all my time here being an anxious gibbering mess!
My first midwife appt is the end of this coming week, I’ll be sure to be really open about my binfire mental health just in case there’s a particular pathway available to me.
I promise not to spend all my time here being an anxious gibbering mess!
I get this I suffer badly from anxiety as well and when I found out I was pregnant (around 4/5 weeks) I had a call with a doctor to discuss about the meds I am on, was on a few for different conditions(some I had to stop) but the main one being Sertraline for anxiety. She was great and spoke through everything with me and the potential risks are very low based on the research they have done. And it's a balance between making sure my mental health still stays stable as well, which is a rollercoaster in itself, although I did feel guilty but she was really reassuring about it all.
I also spoke through it with my midwife as well and she did a whole mental health questionnaire with me as well and the perinatal mental health team then review that as well. And there is additional support available if needed. I imagine it does vary from trust to trust.
But yeah definitely speak to your midwife about it all at your booking appointment as well.
I also found that after my 12 week scan I have started to feel a little less anxious but I know this will go up and down for me the further i get along!
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