Community Posts, Tips & Support on Pregnancy Symptoms

How is everyone coping on hardly any sleep? Am 32 weeks and I'm laying here awake at gone midnight as usual dreading my 5.45am alarm! Struggling to get through my shifts at work and still have another 6/7 weeks of work until I go on maternity leave 😱 I'm soooo tired! Have tried everything!

As of latley I have been getting extreme upper middle stomach pain. To the point where I can’t do anything but be in pain for roughly 20-30 mins. No position helps. Sometimes water does. But what makes it stop is if I force myself to throw up everything in my body. Then it completely goes away in an instant. Last we...

I’m 16 weeks pregnant and I feel Pressure when I lift my leg up to my chest where the abdomen is? Kinda the groin or baby area?

Ahh the crazy feelings of feeling my little blessing kick! How do yall help encourage your baby to kick when baby daddy is there? Cause ik it’s so common that they just stop whenever baby daddy goes to touch the belly 😅

Hello! Pretty much since the start of the pregnancy I’ve dealing with thrush which is so annoying. I’ve taken a pessary once a few weeks ago and now I’m on 3 course of pessaries plus external cream. Does anyone else have a similar experience? How did you manage it?

Hy ladies I am 34+4 weeks and having period like cramps.A lot of pressure down below and shortness of breath,acidity.Got a labour test (Fibronectin swab ) came positive two days earlier.this is my 3rd baby and had baby before 37 weeks first one and second one 36 weeks. Was admitted to the hospital but got discharged...

I feel like I’m on a rollercoaster. I was so excited to have an appetite and no nausea. I ate some plant based foods for breakfast no problem. As soon as I ate dairy as a snack, craving cheese and crackers, instant nausea. Does anyone else experienced this? Food aversions from the very food once craved?

I’m 20 weeks pregnant with my second and started with pelvic girdle pain! I have a pregnancy pillow but that isn’t helping at the moment. I had this really bad with my 1st baby towards the end of my pregnancy and I had it bad to the point I couldn’t walk, struggled to do anything at all even shower or sit down on th...

How much are your October babies moving? I'm driving myself mad thinking she's got infantile spasms. When she's lying down she's moving her arms and legs quite a lot but also looks like she's tensing her arms and legs straight every so often and this is what's concerning me. My husband says she's just learning what ...

Random and a silly question but how would I know if my waters are breaking, I'm so worried I won't realise and then baby gets an infection

Has anyone ever had heart burn before and can try and explain what it feels like. I've never had it before bur been having pains in the middle of my chest on and off. I'm absolutely scared ☹️ I have a midwife app tmo so I will let her know but just thought someone would be able to explain so I can get out my head...

Is anyone else just so desperate to feel baby move now??? Feeling so down about how I look and my body changing that I just know feeling them move around will just give me that little push to remind me why I’m doing what I’m doing 🥹❤️ second baby so hoping I feel them sooner maybe? Has anyone started to feel…

Still not rolling? Sitting really well.. pushes her self off the floor when on her back and moves. When I put her leg in the position to roll she will do it but won’t roll otherwise? When should I start to worry?

Is anyone else suffering with insomnia? i’m 18 weeks and the last 4/5 days it’s been so bad… went to sleep a few nights ago woke up at 12 and then went back to sleep at 4am!😬😩 Is there anything i can do to help beat it?😂

Any tips for winding a baby that is impossible to wind? I have tried everything, ‘wonky winding’ over shoulder’ over knee holding chin, bicycle legs etc. I’m now giving infacol too. I hate how uncomfortable she seems so any more advice much appreciated. Please share you tips and tricks

Had to go into get checked today due to severe cramps / contraction like pains, Tightening of abdomen, back pain & a lot of pressure in vagina & bum He is sitting very low (in my pubic bone) Been told to take it easy with painkillers as he could be early! Feel like I can’t sit on my bum without it hurting, also...

Anyone else had complete head fuzz ever since having their LO? Feel like I’m so forgetful nowadays. Forgetting important things and feeling constantly drained. (My LG has been sleeping so well recently. 7pm - 7am) but I feel more tired than ever

Looking for anyones tried and tested remedies for pelvic girdle/pelvic pain. Had a whole host of googled and hospital provided tips but nothing seems to shift the pain and still got few weeks to go! Haven't got a bath unfortunately just a shower but done heat, paracetamol, cushions, exercise, exercise ball, massage...

anyone else’s baby like to look upside down? the last two days my son has wanted to lay on his back and bend his neck to look upside down when i’m holding him. anyone going thru this? lol

I'm not entirely sure how far along I am - somewhere between 8 & 9 weeks. This is my second pregnancy, so I thought I knew what to expect. Last time I was hospitalised with HG. This time, I'm nauseous 24/7, it's relentless, even with anti sickness meds. I'm never sick though. But I'm also shaking a lot, feel com...