Pregnancy #65

[Married2019]

Just wondering for anyone who’s had a baby with IUGR and then got pregnant a second time, did your second baby have IUGR? Were you monitored more or made stop working early? I’m 19 weeks waiting for 21w scan and I’m just on edge my last babies IUGR wasn’t picked up until she was born any to be honest my whole care was horrific I’ve moved to a different country now and they seem to be taking it more seriously I just can’t cope with the stress of another small baby and the guilt is eating me

I had IUGR with my first baby but it was only picked up at 36 weeks. Currently 37 weeks pregnant on baby no2 and have been on aspirin for this entire pregnancy to hopefully avoid IUGR occuring again. Was more frequently monitored by both consultant and more frequent growth scans this time around and so far () it's looking like Baba is measuring on the 28th percentile so the aspirin is obviously doing it's job.

I totally understand the fear and guilt you may be feeling this time around but from what I've learnt, it's not necessarily an automatic that it will happen again, plus you will be monitored more closely this time around so if growth does slow down, they are more equipped to plan and deal with it. Try not to feel guilty, it's not your fault

 

[indeedjoy]

The hormones are strong with me today. I’ve just lost my mind at MrDragName for being slow at ordering something online and not managing to navigate any of it properly. I haven’t got the worlds greatest amount of patience at the best of times and he and I have very different skill sets and he will lose his mind over stuff that I think is really simple so
I can’t empathise at all which is bad of me but I dunno, I saw red, had a total meltdown and a big crying fit. Now I feel like a total twit. I’ve had two big meltdowns this whole pregnancy and it makes me feel completely unhinged. The overwhelm is quite big with me at the moment which is no excuse for appalling behaviour, right enough. Meh. We were taking a stupidly long time to order a basic witch thing when we have 50 bajillion things to do this weekend.

I blame the heat. Yesterday I lost it at my husband and said quite frankly I want a divorce over something that usually would never be an issue that tells you where my hormones are 🫠

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

I blame the heat. Yesterday I lost it at my husband and said quite frankly I want a divorce over something that usually would never be an issue that tells you where my hormones are 🫠

I feel so grateful to be in Scotland in a part that was not hugely hot today (and overcast but I still got sunburned?! What an idiot I am). I have a short temper at the best of times to be honest but I was completely unreasonable even for me. I feel bad for MrDragName because he has been trying so hard all the time for us and I was a complete beast. I did apologise and then behaved myself for the rest of the day. The last time I had a meltdown (only other pregnancy meltdown) I told him he wasn’t allowed to sleep in our bed and left his pjs, his book and his phone charger outside the bedroom door. It was unhinged. I fear the post partem hormone roller coaster all the more now, as even sensible normal people have warned me about it, and I am neither sensible nor normal!

 

[Tretps29]

34 weeks pregnant and I’m exhausted to the point I’m taking 2-4 hour naps in the middle of the day.
i have to psyche myself up to use the toilet because I have to get up the stairs.
I’m finding minutes on my feet too much!
I was pretty active in my pre pregnancy days but absolutely shocked at the exhaustion.
my bloods are all fine….this is normal right?

 

[indeedjoy]

I feel so grateful to be in Scotland in a part that was not hugely hot today (and overcast but I still got sunburned?! What an idiot I am). I have a short temper at the best of times to be honest but I was completely unreasonable even for me. I feel bad for MrDragName because he has been trying so hard all the time for us and I was a complete beast. I did apologise and then behaved myself for the rest of the day. The last time I had a meltdown (only other pregnancy meltdown) I told him he wasn’t allowed to sleep in our bed and left his pjs, his book and his phone charger outside the bedroom door. It was unhinged. I fear the post partem hormone roller coaster all the more now, as even sensible normal people have warned me about it, and I am neither sensible nor normal!

You always make me feel more normal on these threads lol!!

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

You always make me feel more normal on these threads lol!!

Phew! I just like to be honest. I’d make a terrible influencer

 

[lilykestrel]

One of my pregnancy meltdowns I barricaded myself in the spare room with one of the side tables in there. Apparently husband and cat were sat on the landing outside looking at each other like "what do we do now?"

I made myself feel better after that reading pregnancy meltdown threads on Reddits. My favourite comment was one by a woman who said her husband made an offhand remark that she'd eaten a lot of candy that day and she was so upset she shut herself in the bathroom with all of his cans of pop and emptied them down the toilet

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

One of my pregnancy meltdowns I barricaded myself in the spare room with one of the side tables in there. Apparently husband and cat were sat on the landing outside looking at each other like "what do we do now?"

I made myself feel better after that reading pregnancy meltdown threads on Reddits. My favourite comment was one by a woman who said her husband made an offhand remark that she'd eaten a lot of candy that day and she was so upset she shut herself in the bathroom with all of his cans of pop and emptied them down the toilet

I feel so much better, although still embarrassed about my meltdowns, just to know I am not the only preggo that’s been unhinged. The first one was so epic the baby jiggled about all night, I think he was trying to figure out how to escape this second one I went for a wee and was sat in the bathroom crying and MrDragName comes looking for me upstairs and shouts for me and I’m screaming ‘IM HAVING. bleeping PISS, LET ME PISS IN PEACE’ like a complete moron. D’oh.

As penance I have learned about a pregnant woman’s sun sensitivity. When I tell you it was fully cloudy and not even hot here yesterday but yet, despite maybe half an hour of being in the garden in a vest top assisting with some chores I am somehow BURNED like I was on the beach in Tunisia all day or something . It’s warmer here today but not heatwave hot and I am struggling. My thoughts are with anyone experiencing real weather right now.

 

[LittleMissMuffet]

I feel so much better, although still embarrassed about my meltdowns, just to know I am not the only preggo that’s been unhinged. The first one was so epic the baby jiggled about all night, I think he was trying to figure out how to escape this second one I went for a wee and was sat in the bathroom crying and MrDragName comes looking for me upstairs and shouts for me and I’m screaming ‘IM HAVING. bleeping PISS, LET ME PISS IN PEACE’ like a complete moron. D’oh.

As penance I have learned about a pregnant woman’s sun sensitivity. When I tell you it was fully cloudy and not even hot here yesterday but yet, despite maybe half an hour of being in the garden in a vest top assisting with some chores I am somehow BURNED like I was on the beach in Tunisia all day or something . It’s warmer here today but not heatwave hot and I am struggling. My thoughts are with anyone experiencing real weather right now.

The last few days have been no joke in London. It’s 1000 degrees.

 

[chitchatter7]

So my wee surprise bump turned into a beautiful baby boy weighing a whopping 9lb 6oz!

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

The last few days have been no joke in London. It’s 1000 degrees.

I would die. I used to beg for repatriation when I lived down south and it was hot. I’m literally lobster coloured from barely being out on a fully overcast day. It’s a no from me!

although tell me why I am finding it hot here even though it isn’t but have decided I need to bake and cook a load of things today? What’s wrong with me?!?!

 

[LittleMissMuffet]

I would die. I used to beg for repatriation when I lived down south and it was hot. I’m literally lobster coloured from barely being out on a fully overcast day. It’s a no from me!

although tell me why I am finding it hot here even though it isn’t but have decided I need to bake and cook a load of things today? What’s wrong with me?!?!

I’m just glad this is our last baby because I have looked REPULSIVE at home just wearing cycling shorts and a crop top to keep cool. There’s no way we are ever having sex again.

 

[Thatsnotmyname123]

I’m 11 weeks but finding this heat unbearable! I’m not very good with heat anyway and prefer to sit in the shade, but even a cold shower or my feet in a bucket of cold water (lol!) only temporary helps before I’m roasting again.

 

[Shinythings]

Can't believe baby Shiny is a month old today. It feels so much longer and only like yesterday at the same time. He's a great baby so far. Very chilled out. I know this could change at any minute but I feel very lucky.

To all those feeling pregnancy rage and irritation at your other halves, I look back and laugh at some of the things that infuriated me. My top 3 in no particular order:

- the way he was standing one day
- the way he pronounced 'biscuit'
- the way he blinked

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

30 weeks on Wednesday and today’s been quite tough. The lad is absolutely on my bladder so I feel like I need a wee when I stand up and walk about but not much comes out and I think it’s just his position. And the heartburn today is a lot. But, we had a 4D scan over the weekend and I saw the face of the small boy that’s doing this to me and he looks like he will have me forever wrapped around his little finger, so, positives and negatives!

 

[Greencatfysh]

30 weeks on Wednesday and today’s been quite tough. The lad is absolutely on my bladder so I feel like I need a wee when I stand up and walk about but not much comes out and I think it’s just his position. And the heartburn today is a lot. But, we had a 4D scan over the weekend and I saw the face of the small boy that’s doing this to me and he looks like he will have me forever wrapped around his little finger, so, positives and negatives!

I’m so happy for you, I remember so many posts on the TTC chat about how hard you’ve had it, honestly thrilled for someone I’ve never met before 🩷

 

[ThisIsMyDragName]

I’m so happy for you, I remember so many posts on the TTC chat about how hard you’ve had it, honestly thrilled for someone I’ve never met before 🩷

Thank you! I shouldn’t moan about today being challenging because I would have found that so hard to deal with during the TTC times. I’ve been blessed with a relatively easy ride with my pregnancy, which I should be more grateful for. I think sometimes when it’s a slightly more challenging day I get a bit thrown but when I think of how rough so many women have it, I’ve got no right to complain!

He was hiding his face in the scan a bit, we saw his profile ok, but he loves having his hands and his legs at the side of his head/face, so we get a free rescan - meaning we get to see him all up close again which is really special. I think he looks like MrDragName, MrDragName thinks he looks like me (we’re not one of those creepy couples who look alike!) but MrDragName’s first response was ‘oh, he looks like my Mum’

 

[Greencatfysh]

Thank you! I shouldn’t moan about today being challenging because I would have found that so hard to deal with during the TTC times. I’ve been blessed with a relatively easy ride with my pregnancy, which I should be more grateful for. I think sometimes when it’s a slightly more challenging day I get a bit thrown but when I think of how rough so many women have it, I’ve got no right to complain!

He was hiding his face in the scan a bit, we saw his profile ok, but he loves having his hands and his legs at the side of his head/face, so we get a free rescan - meaning we get to see him all up close again which is really special. I think he looks like MrDragName, MrDragName thinks he looks like me (we’re not one of those creepy couples who look alike!) but MrDragName’s first response was ‘oh, he looks like my Mum’

Oh gosh, don’t worry, you have every right to complain and moan. Once baby arrives you’ll feel frustrated and sick of it too but it’s all normal. When I was TTC I could never imagine feeling anything but joy and contentment once we finally got our baby but you’re still allowed to feel the other emotions too!

Haha I get so many comments that our daughter looks like my husbands mum/granny

 

[lilykestrel]

18 weeks, think I can feel movements. It's hard to describe. Closest I've got is it feels like the sensation when you wiggle your toes and they're a bit crampy and stiff but in baby region?

 

[calabazarock]

35 weeks. Eating oatmeal with banana + haging gaviscon an hour before bed has been a game changer, acid reflux is so much better. I can sleep with so much less interruptions.