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 ???,

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It's quite hard when there's so much choice! At the moment I think we're down to a choice of 2 - the Mutsy and the Mountain Buggy Urban. The Mountain Buggy might be good for your walks (there are LOADS of threads on this), but you'd need to get the carrycot with it too for lying flat, and they are on the expensive side, so might depend on your budget too. A lot of people have recommended the Jane Powertrack, and that also has a car seat which lies flat, so you might want to have a test run of that.

MORGAN - don't forget yoga tonight. Thought you might like a little reminder as you forgot last week

tabs, no im at hinchingbrooke, i work(supposedly!) at addenbrookes, i had my 3 eldest at thr rosie(addenbrookes) and didnt have a very nice experience with ds2, so had dd2 at hinchingbrooke, couldnt fault the care.

i reclaimed my fingers from the mad axe man btw

Ah - just wondered as one of my best friends is due to have hers at Addenbrookes in Feb, but she wasn't up there for her 1st, so thought you might know what it was like. Perhaps I won't mention it to her then if they weren't great!

Glad to hear that the axeman was also armed with superglue

Hi all
As always I never seem to have time to post - I don't know how you lot do it

Tabs and Spacecadet, I had dd2 at Addenbrookes (the Rosie) and didn't like them at all, Tabs can't you tell your friend about Hinchingbrooke? I had ds there and it was so much better, if I end up having to have a hospital birth I will be making the long trek up the A14! The only way I would go to The Rosie again is in an ambulance!! SC I might see you at Hinchingbooke as I am bound to be late, who is your consultant? Mine is Mr Forbes.

I have my next scan next week so am hoping all is ok.

love

Lu

Hi all,

Chloe - I liked the bebe loola with confortis car seat...I think you have just got to go and play with them all ;-)

RR - I would recommed the 3D scan if you have a chance to go. I went really early (long story!) but at 19 weeks I still had a great experience. I am home tomorrow so will be posting a picture or 2 on here so feel free to have a look. TicTac was quite shy and spent most of her time with her hands over her head or with her head muscled into the placenta so we didn't get much facial stuff....They gave us the DVD for free (don't think they meant to) and that is fantastic! Very spooky though!

Hi. I'm still here, just been too busy to come on mumsnet the last few days! Alot of emotional stuff going on, prob fuelled by preg hormones! A friend of mine says I'm hormonal enough to be having a girl! But we wont find out; hospital policy. We cant really afford a private scan, and I dont think I'd want to know the sex now anyway as I wouldn't believe it 100% even if it was blindingly obvious.
Felt a movement for the first time last night though, which was lovely. A little bit earlier than last time, but so much later than a lot of you on this thread that I was starting to worry!
I've finally given in to my waist, and got some maternity clothes coming off ebay! Getting my Dad to collect to save postage, so if they look crap I haven't lost that much money. 7.00 for a top , a pr of trousers, and a pr of jeans.
Went to the docs the other day, about something else, and got him to check the heartbeat. He looked worried and said he wasn't very good at it, and it took him forever, and which point I started to get nervous, but he got it after about 10 mins. Poor guy!

tabs-im inbetween hospitals distance wise, so i could choose either, unfortunately they only have 2 wards functioning, if that apart from epu and are dreadfully short staffed, but i was left in agony with a 3rd degree tear and was told to shut up by the midwife on lady mary ward. also when i came down from delivery, my epidural hadnt completely worn off so my legs were still wobbly, asked a midwife if she could help me to the loo as they had taken my catheter out and she said, no, you can walk!
lulu- im under the care of mr lim, do you live near huntingdon[nosey emoticon]

tic-tac, cant wait to see your scan pic!

Spacecadet - that's awful!

Friend lives in Gamlingay, so was offered either Addenbrookes or somewhere much further south - may have even been Lister in Stevenage, where I'm having mine. I don't really know your area well - is Hinchingbrooke anywhere near her??

Ixel - yay to feeling movement .

Lulu - I work at home on PC all day, which I guess is how I find it easy to be on here .

TicTac - have good journey back.

she might have been offered bedford, gamlingay is a fair way from me, hinchingbrooke is in huntingdon, i live near ely, so am inbetween cambridge and huntingdon.

Have just sent her a text to ask, as it'll bug me otherwise! She's not always v quick to respond though!

Poor you Spacecadet, I didn't go through anything like that, just that they weren't at all supportive of what we wanted and ended up with a section where it could have been easily avoided! (I live in Cambridge!) we are using Rosie of scans but that's it, I'm not seeing a consultant at the moment and if I have to then I will transfer to Hinchingbrooke.

Tabs: that explains it, although I am also so tired at the moment it is all I can do to get through the day looking after my 3, fortunately dd1 starts school next week so should be easier.........

We can't decide wether or not to find out about flavour yet, did with no 3, it would be easier so I could finally sell all of the 'other sex' clothes - this is definately the last one, I admire you Spacecadet I haven't got the energy to have any more.

On prams/buggies are going to go for the 'Marco' skywalker is it - the very small tandem one, I've had enough of my maclaren double!

Children are all in bed now so am gradually relaxing - bliss

Lu

Ooops Tabs forgot to say I have no idea where Gamlingay is as I don't have access to a car so walk or cycle everwhere - certainly keeping me fit (one on the bike and two in the trailer!) and it's not somewhere I have seen.

Lu

Gamlingay is shown here .

She responded, and it was Lister that she was offered as an alternative.

Lulu - def think you should find out - we're all far too curious on this thread!!

Tabs: Gamlingay looks closer to Huntingdon than Cambridge is and my GP was fine about me going there instead. Still not sure about flavour - we will probably make up our minds when we are there!

Lu

ooh a marco sky buggy, not heard of one of those, off to check it out!

Exhausted here.

Kids bouncing off walls - Just had a text to say DD wrecked my friends girl's bedroom on a care bear hunt .

I'm 16 weeks pregnant and worn out.

Comnig off here in a minute and going to bed!!!

Ohhh kinda like that buggy, shame its from 3mths, as unsure how we'd get about for 1st 3 with dd on a buggy board, don't think she'll go for it......

Flame - can you not use a sling to begin with? Just a thought cos it's a lot cheaper, although I'm sure I have seen one in the range from birth - or maybe it's just wishful thinking

Lu

not Flame but Frizbe for my last message sorry

Lu

mmmmm maybe could, just found last time it really hurt my back after a while....(crap lower back!) am ummming n rrrrr ing over this one! its either that or an E3, which I really can't afford, but they look soooo goood!

I was wondernig what I'd been talking about!