Due Feb 06 - what flavour baby??

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Well ladies - I certainly want to know Amanda's result, so figured I'd kick off a new thread straight away. Hope you like the title - seemed appropriate as several of us are hoping to find out over the next few weeks.

Quick stats update as it's always useful to have at the beginning:

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH39), Lives N Herts, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, IUGR in previous pregnancies
BarefootMama, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Marite, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 30, Lives ???,
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, 2 previous m/cs
Kyliefan, Due 20th Feb, Baby # ???, Age ???, Lives ???,
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives In Dubai from Jan, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 23rd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
Amanda1, Due 23rd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 34, Lives Leeds, Recently single. Breast cancer treatment last year. Heparin injections.
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire,
RosiePosie, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Isle of Wight,
angedemarche, Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???,

Glad your scans went well!
My two also decided we were not going to see what flavour they are!! Although we are going to get alot more chances! They are both measuring very close in size - only 1 measurement was more than 1mm different and that was 6mm different so that is the most important thing. We have the next scan booked for October 21st and then it is every 2 weeks.

Good stuff JuA, glad they're both ok! looks like we have a few shy bubas on her today!

Lol -DH had been told very loudly in Tesco (where I sent him shopping) which outfits were approved for both sexes

These babies are all being most inconsiderate today!

Fabulous news about all your scans... i'm 20 weeks today so am a bit miffed at having to wait until the 5th October for mine.

Thanks for all your get well wishes. I'm feeling better today although i've completely lost my voice (i know...i know...lucky dh!!)and my nose is constantly streaming. I'm actually sitting here with a piece of tissue paper stuck up each nostril... i may not look at all glamourous but it's doing the trick!!

Anyway, my dh has made me a huge mug of tea and is telling me to go back to bed so... night night all and can't wait to talk buggies, baby flavours and belly buttons with you all very soon x

Great news Tabs and Jua!

Tabs - At your 4D they will spend ages with you and get you to do all sorts to move beanie around so I am almost certain you will know by tthe end of it. TiTac was quite shy to start with too. She also loved the headstand position!

Womba - I am 20 weeks now and am having to wait until 6th October so I guess we are in the same boat. I called to ask to be moved and they said I had no chance as they are fully booked up until 16th December!!!! I raised my concerns that if there is something wrong I wont get much time to think and make my mind up...she then told me it is policy to only give mums 24 hours anyway so that shouldn't make it any harder!!!

I have had some pretty good kicks today...how is everyone else getting on with movement etc?

Very excited as just got back from Trafford Centre and they have opened a new Molton Brown shop...I love Molton Brown stuff so of course had to stock up on a new bath soak!

JuA - how bashful of the twins! But how lovely to have so many more opportunities to see them .

Womba and TicTac - the good thing about waiting for your scans is that the later you have them the bigger they are and the more you can see! I was 21+1 yesterday, so you only really have an extra week over me to wait!

BTW, does anyone know what bi-parietal diameter is? It's one of the measurements they take at the scan, but I can't work out what it actually measures!!

Tabs - Gestational age can be established by measurement of bi-parietal diameter, head circumference and femur length.

But what is it?!

oops sorry Tabs - I think it is a measurement between 2 bones...I could be very wrong but I think it is the 2 most distant bones of the cranium...

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Womba1 hope you're feeling better soon, hi to everyone else, had a lovely afternoon in the park with dd today...ahhhh....lovely warm autum weather....bump kicking a fair bit today

Oh sorry Amanda1, I wrote a message, went to answer the phone, then came back and posted without looking at who'd posted in the meantime...{{{{Hugs}}}} Hon, but you were very good IMO, you remained strong by the sound of it, what went on during the two hours? well done for removing dd from the situation by the way.

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Amanda, I know it's late but thought I would drop a note on here anyway. I am no expert but my guess is he needed to see you in order to convince himself that you are pregnant and that you are keeping the baby. And I would be surprised if the other woman really is out of the picture! I would go as far to say she has put him up to the visit. Lets face it, blokes usually can't be arsed with the confruntation unless they are being egged on!!

Whatever his reasoning he didn't share that with you, since you have no interest in any relationship with him (obviously different story with new bubs) so I guess you can afford to keep the contact very formal and on your terms. So no more unannounced visits!

Good luck hun!

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Oh Amanda, you're having such a rough time of it... I just wish I had smoething to say to help!!! I think TicTac has said it all . One thing I would say to those who aren't sure why the girlfriend would want to leave him if you were pregnant... If he had given her the normal spiel that he was having the affair due to unhappy relationship, partner refusing him sex etc, and then the said partner is pregnant - then she knows that he was lying to her as well as you.

Is there any news on how Popadopolis is getting on with the sickness now?

Not a lot of news from me. Sleeping lots, and rapidly growing (although DH says that the rest of me looks like I've lost weight - without me threatening to hit him or anything ).

sorry havent posted for a few days, have been rushed off my feet, decorating! had my scan on friday, then had to sit in clinic afterwards..grrr, so was shattered when i got home so didnt get time to post. everything is fine...huge sigh of relief,im in my mothercare maternity trousers and everyone at my dh's work keeps asking when im due!
amanda i suspect that your ex-dp needed confirmation for his ex/current partner that you are still pregnant and it must have been a shock to see that you really are...ha bloody ha to him i say, i went through all this with ds1 father, he too had a new partner and i got all the lines about how he didnt choose to have a baby, he was going to have his life ruined, its all emotional blackmail.
dont have any more contact with him, seriously, get on and try and enjoy your pregnancy, change your phone number etc, if he decides he wants contact when your baby is born, let a solicitor sort it out, let the csa(although a bit useless) sort the maintenance.
if he contacts you again, threaten to call the police, tell him, if he didnt want a child, he should have put a condom on, then tell him to go and s&^(w himself!
seriously, your ex is a pathetic excuse for a human being and you deserve so much better, pity the woman hes shacked up with now, he will probably do the same to her..you are the winner in this game....he is a LOSER!

aww, its a shame to hear that you're so unsure of your views on the subject SC

well said flamebat and Tictac, I think you've covered it well there, {{{big Hugs}}} and hope your feeling a bit better about things this am, Amanda.

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Welcome back spacecadet - had been getting worried about you!

Amanda - nothing to add to what the others have said, but {{{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}}}} to you.

amanda, sorry if that came across a bit strong by the way

hi amanda1 sorry to hear about the babies dad but i think your doing the right thing in keeping the baby with or without him as im sure you will be ok
just try and forget him hes not worry your trouble and worries

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{{{{BIG HUGS}}}} Amanda, keep talking to us girl we'll keep you sane! Sure dd won't take it personally, she knows you have a lot on your plate at the mo x
Think I've just felt an arm move this am!
Hello to all, hope your having nice starts to the week, I on the other hand need to knuckle down to the vat return.....pah......