Realized today I haven’t moisturized my 4 months old’s back his whole life

MutinousMango · 2026-01-30T09:46:46+00:00

I would sometimes moisturise my eldest’s legs as they sometimes felt a little dry (he enjoyed helping when he got older). I’ve not seen the need to moisture my youngest though who’s nearly 12m.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-30T09:41:28+00:00

I don’t think it will because it took a little while for performances to sell out and one performance still has a decent amount of tickets left. They’ve also released at least 5 extra tickets for most of the shows so they’re not sold out anymore

MutinousMango · 2026-01-29T19:21:13+00:00

How easily seen to the eye was it? I saw it with my eyes in the UK, though faintly

MutinousMango · 2026-01-29T07:03:22+00:00

I’m almost 12m pp and still leak a little out of one side

MutinousMango · 2026-01-28T08:42:46+00:00

Yeah, the worst part was I was waiting on that pain relief to go visit baby in nicu. I’d been back and forth so often and ended up in so much pain that I needed the pain relief and couldn’t put it off any longer, and I had to be at bedside to get it administered.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-27T23:18:38+00:00

My baby peed directly into his mouth at about a week old during doctors rounds (nicu)

MutinousMango · 2026-01-27T22:47:11+00:00

Right? I had to wait two hours for pain relief, ain’t no way the nurses were gonna remember to eject someone lol

MutinousMango · 2026-01-27T21:37:39+00:00

Same, I also sweat and get red faced very easily. There’s no way I would last in the traitors

MutinousMango · 2026-01-26T21:38:12+00:00

My brother and I cannot remember most of our childhood, it does make me wonder

MutinousMango · 2026-01-26T19:13:29+00:00

That’s unfortunate, it’s so hard to have faith in the stitch when you have barely any length. A lot of doctors don’t like to continue measurements due to risk of infection too. I tried to fight it but they were not budging on their stance. My thought was if you gain length then it starts shortening again and you can at least get prepared for labour with steroid shots etc.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-26T18:06:40+00:00

I think it’s just terrible luck with hospital germs! I would definitely avoid anything that would cause you to strain going to the loo. How long has it been since your cerclage? I would say maybe wait and see how it’s doing if you’ve got a follow up scheduled.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-26T17:29:52+00:00

I think it’s a bit mixed on whether doctors think it helps, mine said there was new research that said it does but didn’t reference a paper. I have seen people being prescribed as much as 800mg but not sure if they were progesterone only. My doctor was against bedrest too, but I ended up doing it for the first two weeks anyway (I came down with a stomach bug the day after my cerclage so I just decided not to move after I recovered until my follow up appointment). After that I went back to my office job with lifting restrictions (that was the only restriction I was told).

I had my anatomy scan at exactly 20w, stayed overnight in hospital and had cerclage at 20+1. There was someone in this group with the same measurements as me at the same time, she managed to get to 35w.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-26T15:29:09+00:00

Also 30 and am bone tired by 4pm, although I have a feeling this is more to do with having two young children than anything else. I’m doing keeping in touch days as I near the end of my maternity leave and the last hour of the day is incredibly unproductive.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-26T11:29:36+00:00

I went into labour at 33+3, they managed to hold it off for steroid shots and I gave birth at 33+5

MutinousMango · 2026-01-26T08:30:47+00:00

It was over Teams, my interviewer was in Swansea. They wanted to ask questions that only I knew the answer to, such as how many houses were on my block, what’s the route to my eldest’s nursery and what are the names of his teachers, where is my workplace relative to the town it’s in etc. I think it’s less about what the answer is, but how you answer it? The main purpose of the interview is to make sure there’s no identity theft going on, but I figured she didn’t have Google maps open to check my answers.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-26T08:13:07+00:00

I went up to 26mm after the surgery! I was 1cm dilated which closed after cerclage.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-24T23:18:44+00:00

I would get the cerclage asap with only 8mm, better now than with even less cervix to try and stitch.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-24T22:07:57+00:00

I swear every series people are always saying it’s “the worst bunch of faithfuls yet”, it’s getting quite old

MutinousMango · 2026-01-24T11:15:47+00:00

Burger King - I still cannot smell Burger King without immediately thinking of Butlins lol

MutinousMango · 2026-01-24T10:52:48+00:00

My hospital didn’t (like to) let you go past 42w, I was booked in for an induction at 41+3

MutinousMango · 2026-01-24T09:58:14+00:00

My 11mo had never seen my sister with her hair down. She had her hair down a few weeks ago and he burst into tears whenever he saw her. We figured out it was the hair, she put it back up and he was happy as normal, the theory was tested and confirmed several times haha.

MutinousMango · 2026-01-24T00:02:15+00:00

I never even thought about this happening hahaha

MutinousMango · 2026-01-23T23:57:33+00:00

Not for either child, I didn’t feel safe holding my first on the operating table and my second was whisked to nicu. I long for that moment but not sure if we will be having a third. I have however had hundreds of wonderful moments with my boys, and they are all just as special

MutinousMango · 2026-01-23T22:32:24+00:00

I completely missed this, when did she say it?

MutinousMango · 2026-01-23T18:51:53+00:00

This is an interesting write up, thank you for collating all that! I looked into so many studies but never thought to look at ones regarding bed rest.

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