I had exactly the same chat with the GP. I’ve had a bit of a run in with an anti-SSRI GP in the surgery who made me feel really awful about being on them whilst trying to conceive (and awful about lots of things! I thought picking a female GP would be good but nope!) but I found a kind GP when I needed to go back up a dose and I was actually due to talk to him about NHS tests ahead of private IVF, but I became pregnant and so was able to make the conversation about my meds instead. He was super balanced about it and made me not feel like a complete failure.
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Oh gosh I'm so sorry that you had that experience with the female GP and I'm glad you did then get a kinder more understanding GP when you went back! And you absolutely are not a failure!
Echoing PP’s - there has been support there from GP and MH midwifery team but you do have to ask. I’ve gone back on to anti depressants after having been off them for years, but it’s definitely helped cut out the noise of anxiety. They’ve also sorted me some CBT which I recently started.
The insomnia during the first trimester also made things a lot worse, and that calming down in second trimester has helped. I also recently started taking Magnesium Glyciate which has really helped with my sleep now that I can’t take sleeping tablets.
I am concerned it will get worse as the pregnancy progresses and once Baby Winter is here, but fingers crossed the action I’m taking now will help!
The insomnia during the first trimester also made things a lot worse, and that calming down in second trimester has helped. I also recently started taking Magnesium Glyciate which has really helped with my sleep now that I can’t take sleeping tablets.
I am concerned it will get worse as the pregnancy progresses and once Baby Winter is here, but fingers crossed the action I’m taking now will help!
Has anyone’s morning/afternoon/evening sickness got worse at 12 weeks?
I’m nearly 13 weeks and I feel more sick than ever and the exhaustion is worse than it has been earlier in my pregnancy.
I thought by now it would ease?
I’m nearly 13 weeks and I feel more sick than ever and the exhaustion is worse than it has been earlier in my pregnancy.
I thought by now it would ease?
If it's bad go to the GP. I felt like I should have persisted getting help because I was constantly sick until week 18 and it returned at week 22. Some midwives told me it was "normal" but I finally got anti sickness meds at week 32 right through until I have birth and they helped so much.
I’m almost 28 weeks and feel like I overdid it yesterday between running around after our toddler and doing a full house clean. I noticed less movements last night, but every time I thought I’ll give it a minute and ring triage if I don’t feel anything, he’d give me a little movement. It then got late so I tried to get some sleep, woken up this morning and felt a couple of kicks but probably not as much as I usually would. It’s hard because movements haven’t completely stopped, but they do feel a bit reduced. With my first pregnancy, every time it happened he’d have a dance party the second we got on the monitor and I was mortified and felt like I’d wasted time, so I don’t want that to happen if I go in today, especially as I’d have to call in sick to work!
Can you stomach something sugary or fizzy? Whenever I’ve felt like this I always have some chocolate or Irn Bru Xtra (baby girl loves it, I’m more a cherry Pepsi Max gal myself
) and usually baby girl has a good wiggle/dance within half an hour. You’re absolutely not wasting time if you ring them though, they’d rather you ring than wait!39 weeks today and my last official day at work. Can’t believe it’s here already but boy howdy am I ready. My last day was supposed to be this Thursday but obviously baby girl has other ideas and wants to stay breech.
It’s never a waste of time, if you need to call and go in to check then do it x
Being pregnant while looking after a toddler is hard ! I know I had a lot of days where I’d get in bed at the end of the day and question if I’d felt enough movements that day because of being so busy and not sitting long enough to notice
If I've had a very active day, I notice reduced movements for a while after, especially if I've worked out. Don't know if baby has just been rocked to sleep or baby is just tired too. I asked my midwife about it and she didn't seem too concerned but she said once I get past 32 weeks or do it would be more of a concern.
For anyone on 2nd pregnancies - when did you start to get a bump? I’m usually a size 12. Thanks x
Since finding out I was pregnant, I am always freezing at night in bed, I’m also quite cold in the evenings but bedtimes are a nightmare for me. I think I’m fairly ‘normal’ during the day time though. Sometimes I wake up sweaty but I cannot get enough layers on me to go to bed and I have my winter duvet and a bedspread folded down the bottom of the bed. I’ve had to get up tonight and do a hot water bottle for my feet because I was shivering. Anyone else find this? The internet is divided between ‘abnormal, you are an alien/there is something seriously wrong with you’ and ‘yeah this is possible in pregnancy’.
I don’t live in a warm place but it’s been way colder here and I’ve been fine!
I don’t live in a warm place but it’s been way colder here and I’ve been fine!
Currently 20 weeks often get more cold than usual at night - I find fluffy socks and a heated blanket helps a lot! I don’t think it’s abnormal
I naturally run hot but during my first pregnancy in the first tri I got really cold.
I’m already in the “bloated” feeling and not able to “hold in” my tummy phase and I’m only 8 weeks. I’m a size 16 though so just look like a do when I’m due on
When did/are people planning to tell work about their pregnancy? I haven't yet and am 15 weeks, I work from home so i never see my manager in person. Thought I'd wait till we have a 121 but we've not had one in weeks. I'm not sure whether just to tell them over a teams message I just don't know how to approach it!
I just don't know how to approach it!Always around the same time for me, I didn’t show until 25 ish weeks with all of mine (4) but wasn’t a proper bump until later, bf said it looks like a beer belly until recently
no no, tell your manager first. Ask for a 1-1. I told mine at 12 weeks, said I had some personal life news that will affect work, broke the news, then followed with estimated dates I should be out for pre and post natal (My manager and I are in different countries, so kinda had to inform what law mandates here). Be proactive in how you envision work would go. Like.... not take right now a year long project, if that's the case, see how would you hand it over, blabla.When did/are people planning to tell work about their pregnancy? I haven't yet and am 15 weeks, I work from home so i never see my manager in person. Thought I'd wait till we have a 121 but we've not had one in weeks. I'm not sure whether just to tell them over a teams message
I really like my manager so I told her (helps she has 3 children) and then people around me from about 18 weeks although some a lot later (until I couldn’t hide it). I took 9 months maternity leave and went from full time to part time when I returned so I let her know about a month before my maternity leave started my return date and my new hours. I can’t remember when I got the MatB1 form but when I got this I did scan her a copy straight away.When did/are people planning to tell work about their pregnancy? I haven't yet and am 15 weeks, I work from home so i never see my manager in person. Thought I'd wait till we have a 121 but we've not had one in weeks. I'm not sure whether just to tell them over a teams message
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