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 ???,

Hee hee I'm a bit like you actually, I have bought bits and bats but have held off on the pram/cot front for what seems like an eternity but I have agreed to start on the nursery in a fortnight with a couple of friends - very excited about that!

Tic tac your at least 20 wks aren't you so stuff it and buy it in the sale!
My scans not til the 12th Oct, so can you wait for me! think I'm about the last!

Awww we are looking forward to doing the nursery too. Again, we have promised ourselves it'll be the first job post scan!

I am 21 weeks Frizbe. I think you are about our latest scan so yeah....course we will hold off until you are done!

I have got the mother of all headaches and we are due at some friends house in an hour....

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Hello its the new one again. Work during the day so wont be on much till the evenings. Dont think i could get away with it at work somehow. Glad to see another one due so close to me Amanada 1.

I dont have my second scan until 21st October so youre not the last one. Antenatal care varies so much i still dont fully know the sequence of events to follow!!! I recieved a letter today to attend the hospital for an antenatal interview?? I attend antenatal appointments at the local clinic so if anyone could enlighten me what that appointment is for would appreciate it

mum22soon - not heard of an antenatal interview but you will find that up and down the country events differ greatly! For example, Chloe and I both had earlier scnas because of bleeds. Chloes hospital then cancelled her 12 week scan and she had to wait until 20 weeks however, I was able to attend my 12 and will still be having a 20 week scan (although at almost 23 weeks!)

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She wasn't on yesterday

Tis bloody rude.

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Morning everyone,

Sorry but I am going to rant! DH and I were discussing finances last night and after he had a long conversation with his sister he came to the conclusion that I am finishing work for maternity too early and that we can't afford for me to do that. I am bloody furious.

I planned to finish at xmas (so officially the 2nd Jan) giving me 6 weeks before baby is due. My reasons for this are:

1. I work fulltime and do not want to go straight from fulltime work in a job I despise to caring for my child and being tired.

2. I have no intentions on coming back to work here (work don't know that) so will be looking for work in veterinary nursing (what I am officially qualified in) after my maternity pay dwindles.

3. I will not be coming back to fulltime employment regardless so we will have to get used to a pay drop anyway.

4. I am on a shit wage anyway, I hate what I do so can't see that a few weeks is going to kill us on the cash front.

5. What if the baby comes early?

His sis worked right up until she dropped but she worked as a health visitor for the NHS, loves her job, good maternity package and intended to return there she also has her mother for childcare whilst she is working so I can see why she chose this route.

My DH is on a half decent wage and we will be saving in some respects as I won't be using much petrol and we are cutting back on certain luxuries we currently have so I think we will be ok but he is being so OTT about everything. Am I being out of order by finishing 6 weeks before hand?

Gonna post this under a topic as realised I am using up so much antenatal topic space - soz!

Hi Ladies, I just can't keep up with this busy thread. Mind you, I have been away for four weeks!

I have my 20 week scan today. I have just done my last wee.

Chloe, it's your body, your baby. If you feel that 6 weeks prior to your due date is as much as you can handle, then do that. Tell your dh and sil that when they are juggling a pregnancy and a stressful crappy job, then they can give you advice!

BTW, bear in mind that most first babies are late. I planned to give up work 4 weeks befor dd1 arrived. She was 2 weeks late and so I ended up with 6 weeks off prior to the birth. Having said that, a friend of mine stopped work at 37.5 weeks only to give birth 2 days later!! You have to do what feels right for you and no-one else.

Chloe, There is another alternative that your DH can not influence! Go off sick! if you have no intentions of returning there anyway and you would still get paid. Just check out when the company will force you to start mat leave!

I am finishing 4 weeks before due date on MAt leave but way before that in reality to use annual leave. Part of my reason...and I guess it might be the same for where you are..is that the weather up here can get pretty rough in the winter and I seriously don't fancy having the stress of trying to get into the office on dodgy roads for the sake of a couple of weeks!

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Am about to draw up a pros/cons list and that is an excellent one to add re the weather TicTac! I have spent many a morning sliding down my road in the snow praying I miss the parked cars on the way down - very frightening!

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Chloe, I think that taking time off sick is a good idea too. I am starting maternity leave on 16th Jan but having the week off before as holiday so that leaes me just over 2 weeks before baby is due. I did want to leave on Christmas Eve but my so called boss (I am self employed but work for my old boss) is really funny about it and I thought I would take some time off after the baby comes rather than before. mind you we still havent had "that talk" about maternity leave dates etc and I feel he is putting it off. He is back from india next week and I'm going to try and get him to commit to a conversation so I know what I'm bloody doing!!

My hormomes are all over the place again, very teary and tired all the time. I am getting home around 5pm - sleeping till 7pm then going to bed around 10pm. Shouted at DH at least 4 times this week and last night shouted at the dog as he tripped me up and I have been in enough pain already. Dog sulked, DH gave me a cuddle and I admitted I was fed up being pregnant! Is that bad??? I think with the bleed I had, low lying placenta worries, ligament pains killing me and leg cramps I am just fed up!! Anyone relate to how I feel? Then I feel guilty for thinking this way as I do want this baby so much.

ooppss! sorry everyone, i got called away by the dc;s and forgot to come back on.....honestly!
ok, its a

GIRL!

btw, im not evil or sadistic..just downright forgetful

3K dont be feeling guilty about your genuine feelings...like you this is our first baby but I think you and DH have had to go through so much to get pregnant (you are IVF aren't you?) that I guess it is a bit disappointing when you dont feel so great. I know that is how I have felt...almost like pregnancy is not the most wonderful thing in the world that I thought it would be because I feel so crap some days...

But then a couple of days later I can't help but feel so very lucky to be pregnant and can't stop smiling about it!

Keep your chin up hon...

Thanks TicTac, I do feel proud of my bump and when he moves it makes me smile but it's just all the other bits that come with it and I'm soooooooo tired all the time. Still on Nesquick though which is great!!!

Spacecadet - ABOUT TIME!!!!! At least you are just having a normal pregnancy I suppose being forgetful! congrats on the little girl!!!! Little boys are slacking on here I think!!!

Yeah 3k I'm a bit like TicTac in the sense that some days I feel so crappy and moan about being pregnant but I know exactly what you mean about feeling guilty because we are all blessed with this wonderful thing and don't feel we have the 'right' to moan but it is only human nature! I have a bitch and then go oh but I am so grateful blah blah in case people think I am being a whinger. (Obviously I am grateful) Look I'm doing it again

About bloody time SC - massive congrats to you.

At last Space...the sweat was dripping off some of these ladies in anticipation...

Speaking of movement...I have not felt much for the last couple of days...should I be worried?