Due March 06' - time for a new one!

[munz]

right then, here goes with the new thread,

stats so far (I think are!)

Rosieposie - aged 30 - due 28th Feb with #3

Frizbe - aged 30, DH 40 - due either 28th Feb, 2nd March or 4th March with #2

Toothyboy - aged 34, DP 36 - due 1st March with #2

Ags ? 6+5 weeks with #2

Poppyh - aged? due 3rd March with #3

anchovies - aged 25, DH 26 - due 4th March with #2

Lizzylou - due 6th March with #2

oneofeach - aged 35 - due 6th March with #3

Chamomile - aged 41 - due 7th March with #3

Starryeyed - due 7th March

BibiTwo - aged ? due 8th March with #2

Daisy20 - aged? due 9th March with #?

expressmummy - due 10th March with #3

Cadmum - aged 34, due 10th March with #4 ( 3 previous missed m/c )

Jackstini - aged 33, due 10th March with #1

Oldfool - aged 42 - due 11th March

munz - aged 23 - due 11th March with #1 (2 prev m/c incl one last cycle)

Desperatehousewife - aged 34, 5+2 weeks with #2

marne - aged ? due March ? with # 2

Mojomummy - age ? due ? with #?

catj - aged 34 due 21st March with #4

coppertop- aged ? due 22nd March with #3

madrush - aged 31 due 25th March with # 2 (1 previous mc)

Newgirl - ??

Swiperfox - aged 28 #2 due end march.

Honery Members who's beanies sadly didn't make it.
majormoo
auntynon
Mum to someone

LL- Same with me.All was great until I got pregnant.She gets really jealous and horrid since then.I wish she wouldnt.She makes snide comments under her breath so DH cant hear.Its a shame as its bound to affect my kids relationship with her.

Glad I'm not the only one Poppy! This time round she's been OK...but she is so desperate for DS to be "her baby"...she tries to exclude me all the time! She's not so bright so a lot of the time "rude" comments are just her phrasing things wrongly!
I was hysterical when 32 weeks PG with DS and I tld her that the M/W hadn't been able to find out where the head the head was (ie, was baby engaging or not) she said...."are you sure it's got a head?!" I ended up having nightmares and DH rang her to tell her what she'd said and how upset I was...she had no idea it had come out like that! Duh!

Dont think my MIL means to be rude either.
Good theory about the menopause as I know my MIL is going through change too.Maybe thats it.
She hasnt said anything about my pg this time.Hasnt even congratulated us.
I think she just finds it hard letting go of DH.
Going to eat my belgian waffk=les now!!Take care all.

I'm worried about mine - only cos if it's a girl shes always wanted a girl, and i'm worried about her pushing DH and I out if u like, DH is now v v good at seeing things from my point of view and does help - but I do worry I guess it's just cos i'm a first time mum and all but i'm thinking no this is my baby and i'm mum u're just granny iycwim - althou I don't mean that to be nasty, not sure what DH's take will be on it. she does get in the dogs faces already for licks etc so god knows with a baby, just hope it works out.

RP - got my email back from them they'll be shipped today - althou she said the prices already quoted included the discount. (ood) anyhow she's added the boosters so i've emailed quickly to see if she wants the extra cash for them as the order's been sent out by the looks of the email.

Lol at you lot winding up the in laws! mind you I don't have any to wind up....poor dd and ss have lost their GP's on dh's side.......
You've all reminded me to dig out the really cute cream snowsuit dd had, in teddy design, with a great hood with cute ears! awww
Munz had visitors the next day, had dd Saturday, went home Sat pm, BIL and SIL round next day, along with my parents (who'd also come to hospital day before) and my Gran (dd's great gran!) Oh and some friends popped over for an hour as well! but then I was lucky, no rips or tears etc, so felt normal again, just minus a lump!
Have to say this wasn't a bother for me, but its personal preferance, dh was running around being super helpful, getting dinner organised etc (the only time he's ever been that useful in a kitchen!) and I just sat there with my feet up, feeding and changing dd when required! also have to say, stuff the relatives, I boob fed infront of them, I figured if they were uncomfortable they'd go elsewhere! my house after all!

Just a quick post on here too, as someone on the Feb thread was worrying about money when on maternity leave...don't!
Remember to apply for child benifit as soon as bubba is born £16.10 per week, although think this has just gone upto £16.80??? this is 1st child only, 2nd kids are £10 summat....?
Also don't forget to apply for your tax credits! if your low income, these help out no end, you can get them paid weekly or monthly, and they're calc'd on your wage and dh's wage seperatley, so you each get monies paid for your bubba to assit, if your wage works out under national average, you'll get free dentist etc, another little helping hand....hope this helps?

Phew, I'm stuffed! I made 3 trips to the buffet, but a lot of it was salad, so I don't feel too guilty! The bra shop was a success too, I got 3 very unsexy bits of scaffolding. They seem to go up to a G cup, and I haven't quite reached that yet - so no need to panic just yet.

I actually like my MIL, it's my mother I have issues with.

Munz, I love getting nappy parcels through the post, it's very exciting! Welcome to the fluffy world of cloth nappies.

RP- am so jealous!Am craving a deep pan country feast now!Oooh and some potato wedges.Yum!

I'm off to M&S to stock up on bras on saturday...mine seem to be the size of two small planets!

ooh, pizza, I just want toasted cheese on everything at the moment! Having Thai green chicken curry tonight for tea, can you have cheese on that????

at pizza hut RP - no fair! lol.

just got back from the m/w apt, we heard the heartbeat, and then little monkey didn't like it so kicked up and scooted off. thankfully she found it again thou, BP fine, blood work fine as well - big relief can start enjoying things now!

thanks for the info friz - not sure about TC's thou as DH gets two pay rises a year, and I don't want to be overpaid in them. althou they would come in handy.

Fab news Munz

You also get extra tax credit in the first year of baby's life - although it's easy to forget this is just for the first year, and when it goes down again after that, it can come as a shock! We got stung with over payments. We phoned them mid year to tell them they were paying us too much, but they wouldn't do anything about it then. You just need to be really careful and put the overpayments aside. We didn't have to pay them back as such, but we just got MUCH less money the year after - something like £180 a month less!

bloody hell - I went on the internet and we're only entitlied to £150 odd pound a month with DH earnings only (£20K) it's better than nothing thou.

Yep, ours is only £41 a month now - was £224 before with the overpayments and in the baby's first year. Dh's wage is about £24,000 I think. Hopefully will go up a bit when new baby arrives! Don't forget you'll get just over £60 a month child benifit too.

He, he, can't wait to see what they give us back this year, as they messed up for me last year, counted me as still working, even tho I'd told them I'd left and gone self employeed! sure they owe us lots!! (and good cause we bloody need it!)

Tax credits were great until the IR messed up completely. They told me at one stage that I owed them £1,800 due to them overpaying me small amounts over two years . Thankfully, they just stopped my working tax credit for 18 months (but carried on paying child tax credits) and then when I got married and asked them to stop paying me anything they then wrote off the rest of it. As a single parent at that stage the prospect of paying back £1,800 was frightening.

The frustrating part was that I'd told them about every single change in my wage - they didn't change the amount they were giving me though and what I didn't realise was that I was also supposed to tell them whenever I did overtime.

Will never ever apply for tax credits again after that fiasco!

Oh huge bummer chellebelle, I seem to remember a thread on here somewhere, about you don't have to pay them back (its somewhere in the small print apparently??) may not be what you want to hear now tho, right?....

Am lucky to have met, fallen in love with and married a software engineer who earns a decent wack (circa £33k)so luckily enough - as long as he keeps his job and the company doesn't go under - we wouldn't qualify for anything but the basic (£500 a year I think). So after my last experience we're staying well away and just sticking with child benefit.

Yay!!! have a day off work today - am going shopping, seeing friends watching birthing programmes and generally lazing about inbetween . Just got home form dropping off DS at school and am now wondering in what order to do everything.

Lucky you, Chellebelle !
Sounds fab!

CB - oooooooh u lucky thing u, i'm saving my holidays to use b4 I have maternity leave. roll on 9th feb when I can go off! he he he.

Feeling really sicky today - is anyone else still having mega sickness is the mornings? not being sick but feelin it?

had a good nights sleep last night - 9.30pm was in bed by ! lol.

I had an awful night
Got an awful headache, feel v hot and have body aches....paracetomol is just pants isn't it????
Never mind, my Mom is coming tonight so she can look after me!

One of the bonuses of being on a flex system is that I don't hae to use any holiday for having today off

Any idea what caused your bad night lizzylou? I've not been sleeping well but thankfully have only been tired and had headaches as a result. Mums have their uses don't they

Am thankfully not suffering from feeling sick any more - well as long as I eat regularly anyway - speaking of which biscuit time me thinks.

I think I have a fluey type thing to be honest, Dh has been ill and we're both knackered and a bit under the weather...I am sitting here sporting a Kool n Soothe on my forehead looking fab! Will prob spend this pm in bed!