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 ???,

Yeah if he/she lets us - oooooh, I'm off now - seeya!

Good luck Chloe!

Amanda - I think posting under relationships is a great idea, I am sure there are plenty of woman who have gone or are going through similar. WE are always here to offer kind words though!!
Question for exDP though, how can he be involved before the birth? Ask him if he wants to feel a kick and then kick him in the balls!

Just had a shock!!! Was investigating NCT classes and phoned my local class up thinking I had months before I would need to go! She was so lovely but the shock came when she told me classes for my due date start a week on Monday!!! BLIMEY....I think I am having a baby!!

How did it suddenly all start happening so fast?? I suddenly realised that if my kicks are getting higher, then the joys of heartburn should kick in soon.

DH says I'm blooming, and that he's enjoying seeing me enjoy a pregnancy after the misery of last time. Made me cry

Just terrified myself - went to get a glass from the cupboard, and knocked my breast on the way... it was wet!! Thought "ARGH! I'm leaking!!" - looked down and realised it was a big blob of toothpaste

PMSL flame!!! Lovely, your boob is leaking toothpaste!

My kicks range from what feels like a foot down to a punch out and the punch out is just under my belly button. The foot down feels like it goes through my bladder!!

So who is still waiting for their scan? I am not until next Thursday.

I'm not til 7th I'm right at the end of Feb though, so behind everyone.

How is it that it was the night before my 20 week scan with DD that I first felt flutterings, and now I'm only 18 weeks and they are feelable from the outside?? I assumed that you felt things earlier because you knew what to look for, but now I'm wondering if its something else...

anyone else incredibly clumsy? today i have dropped a jar of marmite - not very good to clean up and knocked a plant over and the pot broke!?

got my scan this pm.

Flame I have no idea. This is my first so it is all very new to me. All I know is everything I have read says you will feel them sooner in subsequent pregs.

Ooo, might it be because everything isn't as tight as it was before you had D1?

My colleague has a concave tummy and is due same date as me, she can now feel some of the kicks from outside. I think my baby would have to be about 2 years old before she would make her kick visable through the flab

Pop mum - can' say I am...forgetful and feel like I am loosing all sense of intelligence...but not clumsy yet!

Morning ladies - sorry, not around much this week so far. DH and I have the week off, so not glued to my laptop!

Went up to kiddicare again yesterday, and have decided that we definitely want the mountain buggy urban in stripe (chocolate and orange just to make Frizbe feel hungry again ) fabric.

Also spent ages looking at changing bags - so hard to pick one, as they all have different advantages over each other, and none was perfect in every way!

Today is DH's 40th birthday, and we had been planning to go to Bluewater, but now we have men here channeling out our living room walls for cabling for new sound system instead. Seems like they'll be here every day this week, so we won't get out much afterall .

Also trying to organise last bits for his party on Saturday - can't believe how much organisation a flippin party takes!

Anyway, will catch up with everyone's news properly later (I hope!), but a quick good luck to Chloe and popmum for your scans today.

Oh Tabs when I planned my DH 40th party I was shattered by the time the party got here. We where having the garden landscaped on top of everything else and it was to be a garden party. In the end the landscaping finished about 10 minues after the 1st guest arrived!!!

He wont get a 50th that's for sure

hi tabs - my DH is 40 next week - but sadly refused to have a party so we are having a big family meal instead.
re changing bags - we just got a ruck sack and found that was fine - the ones with one strap can be pretty fiddly to carry (and push pram at same time) so you may find you're best off with a ruck sack

We are going to get a rucksac changing bag, I have seen the trouble my friend has with her single strap bag. Oh and I hate carrying stuff!!

Has anyone done much shopping yet then? We have clothes (for next summer, got loads in the sales in Toronto), changing mat and steriliser. Other then that....nothing!

Hi all
Well spent an hour this morning at the hospital and saw midwife - consultant wasn't there so I don't have many questions answered - although I did manage to find out that they will give me a section at 39 weeks if that is what I want, and its up to me if I opt for a section or try for a vaginal birth. The dr I saw just kept telling me it was all very early to decide anything. Rebecca was very good despite dropping her snack - grapes and dried fruit all over the floor - when the midwife was trying to listen to the heart beats!
Chloe and Popmum - Hope your scans are all OK - and your babies are more co-operative than mine were!
Tabs - I am going to treat myself to a new changing bag - It is going to have to be very spacious - 2 babies and a toddler are going to create a load of stuff. My only advice would be compartments. We had a rucksack but it didn't have that many pockets/sections and I used to spend ages looking for stuff that had disappeared to the bottom of it!
Tic Tac - we started NCT classes in about October for dd and she was due end of December - I think the latest due date was the middle of January - I suppose you may be just the latest due date for your class - or your NCT group is more organised!! I still see a couple of people from the group every week - it was great for making friends who now have children the same age as dd. I don't think we are doing anything for these 2 - especially as I am leaning towards another section - so they won't have many friends locally but will have each other and your dd!!

Good afternoon everyone.

Had my detailed scan last Thursday and luckily everything is O.K. Changed my due date to 29th Jan from 1st Feb - but I'm staying with you girls - as I know from last time due dates mean nothing!

Decided on my colour of my Phil & Ted E3 - going for the red. Also decided on nursery furniture as dd1 will still be using existing cotbed etc.

I had a rucksack for changing but was too big and unwieldy, changed to a 'skiphop' changing bag (can get them in the Blooming Marvellous catelogue) and is brill - can attach to the handle of the pushchaor too.

My dd is one next week, so I am doing my first family birthday party this weekend - yikes.

Hope everyone is O.K.

Jua - Did you do the NCT in Chorley? That's where we are going. I think the class has stretched to Feb because Christmas is in the way of them having an interim class and the Jan class is too late as I should have had DD by then! Ooo I had not even considered that I was going to have a baby with playmates...how exciting, and your only 15 mins up the road too!

Come on girls...get some scan news on here!! Can't wait to hear from you!

Tic-Tac - they didn't have any clases in Chorley 2 years ago but luckily 2 other couples in the Preston class live within 5 minutes of us. The most importnat thing to start with is not babies playmates but Mummys mates to drink tea and eat cake with! In fact even now the children don't exactly play together but we get to have a nice chat and they get to do something different!

Oh well I am all for a bit of that!

Back again for a post-lunch catch up!

Well the party stuff seems to be coming together now. Marquee has arrived (bought it rather than hired as actually doesn't cost much more, and figured we can use it for Christening and other parties too), flooring for it is arranged, as are tables and chairs and patio heaters. Garden jenga to entertain the kids has also come, and wine and beer has been moved to outside fridge. Remaining task for the day is to move the cross trainer from the conservatory to the shed to clear more indoor room, but DH needs to organise shed a bit first.

Popmum - he didn't want a party originally, and only agreed to it due to peer pressure and on the condition that he didn't have to do any organising himself!

JuA - think you should skip buying a changing bag and go straight for a small suitcase!!

This is one of the changing bags that we saw yesterday and are considering. Also comes in beige which will co-ordinate nicely with our pram. Agree that either rucksack style or one which attaches to handle of pram is pretty much essential, as I couldn't even manage to carry my handbag and wheel pram at the same time yesterday! Thing I don't like about this one is that 'mummy's stuff' has to go in external pocket at back, and baby would lie on top of it all when being changed! Really liked the fact that the whole thing can go in the washing machine though.

TicTac - will post later about ante-natal classes - this post is more than long enough already!

Hi everyone,

We need to add a little boy to the stats! My DH was over the moon, he leapt out of his seat! I have a piccie but don't know how to post it - any ideas?

Congrats on a little boy Chloe - and welcome to the little boy club I thought we were going to be overrun by girls on here!!!

Not sure about posting pics though, someone else will have to tell you about that!

Lol @ you Tabs with your bag co-ordinating nicely with your pram. I really need to make myself more girly.. it would never occur to me to get one that went well with the pram!!!

Chloe - have a look here for instructions on how to do picture.

Congrats on a little boy - obviously he is less bashful than my little Chip .

Chloe - you go to the thread "Member profiles" then create a thread (name it whatever suits) and then once you have your thread there is a link at the top of the thread sayng click here to add a picture to your profile. Once you have done that...come back on to this thread and create a link to your member thread!

Tabs - Sounds like a great party...can we all come too?!?!?

TicTac - I didn't mention the best bit - we're having a hog roast!!! Think I will look like a hog myself by the end of the weekend!

Can I ask what people's thoughts about baby baths are? I know that many people say that they aren't necessary, and to just bath baby in your own bath, but we have a japanese soaking tub which is far too deep for me to bend over to little baby in the bottom, and a double ended airbath which is just huge, so seems like a real waste of water and will take ages to fill. Was considering getting something like this , but can't find many that look nice - this one seems to be the best so far, but the bath in it looked quite small, and we are already getting a dresser with changer for bedroom, though I guess we could just keep this in bathroom most of the time so that we have flexibility on where we change. Anyone got any suggestions or better ideas, or seen any really nice ones of this sort of style?

Yeah I've done it under member profiles - thanks guys!