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 ???,

Mornng everyone,

I hope you enjoyed your anniversary TicTac.

I gave DH my list of pros and cons for my early maternity and also a list of money saving ideas I came up with. He is now in agreement with me and has apologised for having his little outburst - wow, thanks guys - amazing how you can solve things by being civil and diplomatic!

Amanda - I can't do sunday, my bro is cooking sunday lunch so that should be interesting! Can we arrange for one night next week?

yAY!!!!

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Morning,
Hmm, posted on here a min ago but looks like it has one missing! Oh well.
We had a lovely evening thanks!
Chloe - YAY!!!!!!! I was thinking about you last night and wondering just what exactly it had to do with your SIL but I guess we don't have to go there now! I am back in work today if you want to play on email.

good news chloe, anyone watching the itv midday news....

Frizbe - in work....anything interesting on there??

hope you had a great anniversary tic tac
im feeling rough today..migraine and everyone else has a cold

ah lots of stuff about midwife shortages....bound to be a thread on it somewhere on here by now, but just logged on so haven't checked!

Have been trying to potty train dd today, so far two wee's on the floor and one poo in her pants.....ahh the joys of motherhood! lets hope tomorrow's a better day for it! she seems to be slowly getting the idea, that it should be in the potty, just not quite asking in time

Oh Frizbe us first timers have it al to come...at least it is a couple of years away I guess!

Had a lovely night thanks Space, was some how made very special by the fact we have little tic tac on the way

Has anyone been looking at nurseries yet (for babies not flowers!!)? I went to see 1 yesterday and was a little disappointed but going to see another one next week which I really like the look of! Got to get in early for these baby places although feel weird talking about a baby in school who isn't even born yet!!

I'm feeling odd.

I woke up yesterday morning feeling a bit... I don't know, just wrong. I had wriggling about 3pm, and then from about 5pm I was aching lots - back ache and base of bump. I had a warm bath last night, and it didn't help much, I just kept hurting. After a lot of scared tears last night, I finally fell asleep. This morning I still ache slightly, but more stiffness and a tender base of my bump. No movements yet.

Its probably just a growth spurt causing muscle aches, but I am scared. I just feel wrong. Going to a friend's today, so can't update you all until this evening. Hopefully Spark will move soon and put my mind at rest.

Flame - if you are even slightly concerned...phone your midwife team! They are there to help you!! I hope spark gives you a good kicking later though

Very gentle... but I HAVE KICKS!!!

Still gonna keep an eye on things, but much happier.

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oh amanda..im sure its nothing, i bled all the way through all of my pregs, it was caused by a cervical erosion, im sure everything is fine, keep us posted..{hugs}
space x

Oh dear - lots of people having stressful mornings then. Amanda - hope all turns out to be fine.

Well I've been awake since 4am and up since 6am! Just couldn't get back to sleep, so thought I'd get up and finish cleaning the bathrooms and create a music playlist for the party this afternoon. Was thinking that then I'd have time for a sleep before everyone turns up, but can't see that actually happening, so will be a tired bunny later!

Hopefully will be able to sneak on briefly during party to check for Amanda's update.

TicTac - don't need to think about nurseries, as not planning on going back to work (until I've had enough time with Chip to decide that I need to for my sanity!).

Hope everyone else is having a good weekend.

Huge huge hugs Amanda, I know how scared you must be (actually I probably don't as I only had the pain).

Thinking of you.

xxxx

tabs-up since 4, you must be shattered, and there was me moaning cos i was up at 7!

btw, has anyone heard from angedemarche lately?

Tabs - good luck for the party, hope all goes well ans you get a bit of relief from the rain!

Not heard from Angedmarche!

Amanda - XX

Typical - been lovely weather all day. Guests due in 5 mins and now it's started to rain!!!!!

Tabs good luck for tonight

Amanda1 {{{{Hugs}}}} Hope all is ok x

Flame, sure all is ok, now as you have kicks right, probably just growing pains, I had a few last night, followed by a few braxton hicks! yikes! and have been out working today, and whilst out, appear to have grown.....now struggling to fit into my spare pair of jeans....so that's me down to one pair of non maternity jeans (19 wks tomorrow!) and these were my two pairs of bigger size jeans from last time after the birth.....ot oh! think I'd better go maternity shopping tomorrow

Frizbe - get shopping!! I am 21 weeks and can't do the top 2 buttons on jeans...I am not a small girl anyway!

Lots of kicks yesterday and today so tictac must have been having a rest Wednesday/ Thursday

Tabs - it only "stopped" raining here at 3 so it must all be travelling South...hope it's going well and DH is a happy bunny!!

bitwintandem don't know what you think girls, but I'm thinking about getting one of these? whaddya reckon? anyone got one/experienced one?
Ok Tictac I'm on the case!

Hi Girls,

Amanda - I hope all is well with your little bubba, I had a bleed a few weeks back and have had all that pain, apparantly if you have a low lying placenta it can cause it which is what I have. Still getting pains on and off but really trying hard to get home and put my feet up. I hope it is just ligament pains like me - hugs to you xxxxx

Yesterday I had my scan which predicts if I will have an early labour or not. Kings College are doing them but they came to my local hospital to do it and they are going to make it a general scan in all hospitals eventually as it is quite a new thing. It was an internal scan (had loads cos of IVF anyway so used to these) and they measured my cervix. If it is below 15mm then this is not good and they would predict you would have the baby before 34 weeks so would therefore give you drugs to make baby stronger. Anyway mine was 30mm so I am at lower than 1% chance of delivering naturally early which put my mind at rest.

Midwife gave me a leaflet on Monday for a group called AceBabes which is for women who have conceived via IVF etc and it says in there about how much you worry more with this kind of conception about something going wrong. It was good to see I'm not the only one although I am starting to relax a little now.

REally fancy a Nesqick but only half a pint of milk in and DH in bed as been working all day! I've given him strict instructions to get to the shop first thing and get 4 pints as I need it now!!!!!!