Congratulations!!
Are you able to ask to work from home as the sickness is too much at the moment? They need to make reasonable adjustments for you and if you’ve only managed 1 full shift it sounds like it would be in their best interests too!Hi ladies, I'm looking for a bit of advice. I'm back working in the office which is a secure building so no windows open. I am really triggered by smells and any whiff of food I don't like the smell of makes me gag and often leads to me being sick. So far after 2 weeks of being back I have only managed one entire shift without being sent home.
I've tried to get through to the doctor's but haven't had any luck, I also don't have an assigned midwife as of yet - hoping that'll happen at my 24 week appointment next Friday. I just feel a bit hopeless, I can control the sickness at home as I know what I can and can't smell without being sick but at work it's a whole different board game. Wondered if anyone else had suffered from similar and if there were any words of advice!
I'm constantly sucking on mints in the hope the smell and taste overrides the nasty smells, but honestly even before pregnancy my sense of smell was insane, and it's only heightened recently obvious. I'm having the worst time and ideally I just want to work from home again, but this hasn't been mentioned. Also there's another girl who's pregnant on my team and she is glowing, she's about 9 weeks behind me and has no symptoms what so ever, so I feel like people are looking at me thinking I'm being dramatic.
Rant over!
I did the same thing - they’re much smaller to stomach for a start and I know a few people who warned me and said they didn’t get on with Pregnacare. I tried their preconception vitamins and they upset my tummy so didn’t bother with the pregnancy ones just individual folic acid and vitamin D.I didn’t like my supplements either so I just took a separate folic acid and a separate vitamin d tablet. That’s all you really need. Maybe look into getting those? Just double check required daily amounts
I didn't get to hear the babys heartbeat until the 22 week appointmentThose of you that have had a 16 week appointment in person, did you get to hear baby's heartbeat?
I have my appointment on Tuesday and the midwife is coming to my house. So I'm really hoping she'll bring a Doppler! Some friends of mine have been able to film it which I'd love to do so my boyfriend can hear too
Oo interesting thank you! I won't hold my breath thenNope. I've had 8 in total nowalthough 2 of them they couldn't do much so they were only partial as my cervix was still to far back.
None worked though.
The chance of them working is very low.
Less than 20% of sweeps done after a due date work within 48 hours
xCongratulations!!!Hello ladies! My little Dot arrived on Monday at 23:09 weighing 8lb 5oz!
The induction was completely fine!! In the end I didn’t need the gel I was already dilated so they just broke my waters and she came 11 hours later after about 3 hours of active labour and 2 pushes
It really is! I was constantly sat in triage because of RFM it sent me wild.
I’ve bought nothing like the only thing I have are private scan pictures i just don’t want to buy stuff and have it lying around and also I want more autumn fashion before I go mad buying. I will probably just wait as long as I can then go and buy everything on one day like a nutcase apart from a pram. I think I have decided on the Stokke Explory from the reviews but I want to go and see one so I think I have to go to John Lewis so will probably go in the next 5 weeks maybe. My partner thinks a I get a delivery everyday and yes I doOnline shopping is so dangerous (and easy) whilst wfh haha. I am window shopping on the H&M website daily at the momentand yeah we have bought a pram but it’s on preorder with no lead time - bit risky! Where abouts are you going to look for yours? Have you got much other stuff bought yet?
but I just burn the cardboard boxes now so there is no evidence haha. Did you find pram shopping enjoyable or did you do it online? There is this amazing leopard outfit on h and m looks like pyjamas but I am living for it xWe have a maxi cosi pebble, and will hopefully use for no2 all being well. I rate maxi cosi as a brand. We then moved to the Joie 360 once he was big enough (and my arms couldn’t take carrying him in the infant seat!)
It’s easy to get carried away! Back when my eldest was born Bumgenius were really popular and released loads of limited edition prints. People would be paying £60+ To get one shipped over from America, and I definitely paid way too much for some of them. I would say in total I own probably around 50, but some are size ones so quickly outgrown. And last year I gave away probably about 20 I hadn’t used in years! Definitely try and stay sensible with it!This is reassuring - thanks!! I joined the cloth nappy Facebook site to try and absorb some information and some posters on there own 50-60 nappies...
Maybe a stupid question, but what happens if there isn’t a spare room..There's 20 rooms at my hospital and both this time time and last time, struggled to get a room
I’m 23 weeks on Friday I can still wear medium but they are getting tight. I have a large high waisted seamless pair which are too big so hopefully will see me through to the end. Bicester village sell lots of styles for a good discount too but I love them fantastic leggingsooooh sweaty Betty I miss the most I can’t wait to fit back into their amazing clothesthe emails they send me on a daily are just torture being the size that I am now
wish they had maternity options x
Yes I had what felt like period pain from the start until about week 7. I get the odd twinge now and again. Like others have said, my midwife said as long as it’s not accompanied by severe pain and bleeding then it’s normal
Yes!! Had them all my life. Only thing that worked for me pre pregnancy was cutting gluten out completely, I went from 4 a week to 4 a year.
Just to clarify I definitely called the people mean to you twats! Not tests
So strange im 24 weeks as well abs I have had the strangest two days yesterday with the sciatica spd constipation situation then today I have started to feel sick freezing then boiling hot thought the morning sickness was back then I’ve just eaten in this order two rowntrees ice lollies, cheese breadsticks with humous, banana and chocolate flake yoghurt and a marble
had my 12 week blood results back finally (I'm 16 weeks now!) I'd been going along the "no news is good news" thing but my thyroid levels are way out. I'm seeing a consultant on Wednesday so not long to wait, luckily. But I'm just stressing myself something silly now.
Hope everything goes okI've got my second attempt at my anomaly scan today and also my cervical length scan and I can't sleep for worrying.
