Ok I'll start... How do you get your LO to get their foot out of your ribs? Every night I am battling with this issue. I've tried juice, I've tried laying on the floor, I've tried rubbing the spot, I've tried yoga, NOTHING works! I know things are just going to get worse as baby gets bigger. Please help!
@littlechivette that doesn't work! I have a stubborn LO! I know that where he/she is an outside baby that he/she will totally sleep with at least one leg fully extended.
Do your nipples go back to their regular size after childbirth...I'm thinking no, but a girl can dream.
Yes and no, they do change and get smaller smaller and lighter in color afterwards but I can't say they look exactly the same as before. But they look less scary.
Ok I'll start... How do you get your LO to get their foot out of your ribs? Every night I am battling with this issue. I've tried juice, I've tried laying on the floor, I've tried rubbing the spot, I've tried yoga, NOTHING works! I know things are just going to get worse as baby gets bigger. Please help!
Have you tried getting on your hands and knees and rocking back and forth or rotating your hips. Sometimes that can give baby more space or help change position.
Ok I'll start... How do you get your LO to get their foot out of your ribs? Every night I am battling with this issue. I've tried juice, I've tried laying on the floor, I've tried rubbing the spot, I've tried yoga, NOTHING works! I know things are just going to get worse as baby gets bigger. Please help!
Try an ice pack on the area - my prenatal yoga instructor mentioned that they don't like that...
Ok I'll start... How do you get your LO to get their foot out of your ribs? Every night I am battling with this issue. I've tried juice, I've tried laying on the floor, I've tried rubbing the spot, I've tried yoga, NOTHING works! I know things are just going to get worse as baby gets bigger. Please help!
Try an ice pack on the area - my prenatal yoga instructor mentioned that they don't like that...
That's what I was going to say! Either that or a warm pack lower so baby cuddles up to it.
stinybean I've heard lying down and kicking your legs in the air can get them to move. Whether it works or not I don't know!
Haha @hazeldublin, is this a serious thing? Or are you just laughing to yourself at the image of a whole bunch of pregnant ladies lying on the floor and flailing our legs? If it's really supposed to work, I will definitely have to try it!
Do your nipples go back to their regular size after childbirth...I'm thinking no, but a girl can dream.
Yes and no, they do change and get smaller smaller and lighter in color afterwards but I can't say they look exactly the same as before. But they look less scary.
Yep, they get smaller and lighter after you stop breastfeeding. They'll probably never be the same as they were before you got pregnant, but they are a hell of a lot better than pregnancy nips.
I noticed that baby likes to stop kicking and moving around as soon as I tell DH or other people to put their hands on my belly. I'll feel strong kicks and movements for a few minutes but as soon as DH puts his hands on me baby stops. Anyone else notice this?
I noticed that baby likes to stop kicking and moving around as soon as I tell DH or other people to put their hands on my belly. I'll feel strong kicks and movements for a few minutes but as soon as DH puts his hands on me baby stops. Anyone else notice this?
Yes- my LO does this all the time. DH usually has cold hands, so I think that's the main reason LO moves away. It's annoying, though!
I can't find a consistent answer to this - when do I need to start counting kicks? She moves fairly reliably at night now but I don't always feel her during the day.
stinybean I've heard lying down and kicking your legs in the air can get them to move. Whether it works or not I don't know!
Haha @hazeldublin, is this a serious thing? Or are you just laughing to yourself at the image of a whole bunch of pregnant ladies lying on the floor and flailing our legs? If it's really supposed to work, I will definitely have to try it!<br/>
I totally thought the same thing when I read it, but then I figured who cares I'll try anything!
Eta: weird quote box & I don't know how to fix it.
I can't find a consistent answer to this - when do I need to start counting kicks? She moves fairly reliably at night now but I don't always feel her during the day.
According to the baby binder of info I've gotten from 2 different clinics, counting kicks starts week 29. The "magic number" of kicks is 10 in 2 hours, and you should generally count kicks around the same time of day for consistency. Most babies are more active between 7pm - midnight. If it isn't being very active, you can try eating, laying down, or rubbing your belly. The chart also says that the provider only needs to be contacted if movements dramatically decrease or if no movement is felt.
I've been counting kicks now for 4 days, and I decided to start in the evenings just because I've noticed baby's movements are much less during the day on weekends vs weekdays when I'm at work. I think I throw of its schedule by sleeping in. It is still active every evening regardless, and I usually get my 10 movements pretty quickly.
I can't find a consistent answer to this - when do I need to start counting kicks? She moves fairly reliably at night now but I don't always feel her during the day.
My doc gave me a sheet about it at my last appointment but said I don't have to start yet, closer to the 32 week mark. Info sheet says 10 movements in 2 hours. My baby is the same, I don't feel him much during the day (though if you stop and focus for a little while, you probably would - you're just busy, and baby is still small enough that it is easy to miss the movements) but always do at night.
@poppyc8 I'll use ours again for sure. It is not necessary but babies can startle a little with a cold wipe so it was nice, particularly in the middle of the night. I know a lot of people are anti-wipe warmers and while I certainly wouldn't consider it a "must have" for baby, I think DS1 liked it. Why not, you know?
I can't find a consistent answer to this - when do I need to start counting kicks? She moves fairly reliably at night now but I don't always feel her during the day.
I asked my doctor at my last appointment and he told me not until 32 weeks. So I'm going with that and as long as I'm feeling Baby every day until then throughout the day I'm not going to worry too much. I just wonder at this stage, where I'm definitely feeling Baby moving and grooving, how much me having an anterior placenta impacts stuff like that.
I can't find a consistent answer to this - when do I need to start counting kicks? She moves fairly reliably at night now but I don't always feel her during the day.
My doc gave me a sheet to keep track of kick counts with DS, couldn't tell you when exactly that was. I never kept track and they never even asked me about it after that. I just feel like as long as I'm periodically feeling movement, then I'm not going to worry.
Post by carolyngrace on Mar 22, 2015 23:21:02 GMT -5
I finally got a nice smartphone! So... How do I "subscribe" to our birth month so when I open TCF on tapatalk it goes straight here? Any other tapatalk tips? Sorry I know this has been discussed but I always breezed past it!
@pbunblegum YESS! my SO has felt baby move but he will be kicking up a storm and his hands come along and it comes to a screeching halt, how does he know! Lol. And one time DH put his cold hands on me it sent me into the worst case of BH, ugh.
@poppyc8 I loved mine! It being summer we may not need it for a bit but it's very handy imo
I can't find a consistent answer to this - when do I need to start counting kicks? She moves fairly reliably at night now but I don't always feel her during the day.
Probably doctor dependent, but mine starts them at 29 weeks. And you still don't necessarily feel the baby all day all the time then, you're going to do kick counts whenever you "usually" feel movement, so for you that would be at night anyway.
Not sure if this qualifies as SS Saturday, or Stupid Question Sunday, but since this thread is more recent, I chose this one.
Anyone else nervous to take off tags and wash new baby clothes, in fear that the sex is wrong? I didn't find out with #1, this time we did and we are having a boy. I have bought a decent amount, and I'm getting anxious about getting things ready, so I want to wash the clothes, but I'm so paranoid that they got the wrong sex and then I'll be stuck with all these boy clothes! I've kept all my receipts thus far, so I keep thinking I could return them if I had to, but I really want to get them hung up and put away. It doesn't help that I only had/will have one ultrasound my entire pregnancy (anatomy scan at 18+ weeks), so there is no future double checking.
So am I the only one too nervous to wash the clothes? I just need to bite the bullet and do it, but its driving me crazy!
Do your nipples go back to their regular size after childbirth...I'm thinking no, but a girl can dream.
Yes. And they can/do even before you're done breastfeeding, albeit more, um, prominent most of the time? Mine were back to their regular size and color within the first year postpartum. The milk faucets, though, are pretty much always out. And, now, in my 2nd, to-term (fingers crossed) pregnancy, are super-out there
Not sure if this qualifies as SS Saturday, or Stupid Question Sunday, but since this thread is more recent, I chose this one.
Anyone else nervous to take off tags and wash new baby clothes, in fear that the sex is wrong? I didn't find out with #1, this time we did and we are having a boy. I have bought a decent amount, and I'm getting anxious about getting things ready, so I want to wash the clothes, but I'm so paranoid that they got the wrong sex and then I'll be stuck with all these boy clothes! I've kept all my receipts thus far, so I keep thinking I could return them if I had to, but I really want to get them hung up and put away. It doesn't help that I only had/will have one ultrasound my entire pregnancy (anatomy scan at 18+ weeks), so there is no future double checking.
So am I the only one too nervous to wash the clothes? I just need to bite the bullet and do it, but its driving me crazy!
I just washed a couple swaddle blankets because they were handy, but otherwise I'm waiting until at least after May 1st to do any more washing. It's not that I'm nervous, per se, but that I prefer to wait until closer to EDD to get that stuff washed. With DD, I did them after our showers which was less than one month before she arrived
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