Due Feb 06 - what flavour baby??

[Tabs]

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 ???,

I'll give him till the weekend then I might just have to...

Oh ladies the hormones!!!

My DH has gone off the idea because he can see bump which reminds him of baby and feeling the baby move and seeing the baby on screen and he just gets all funny about it. But like I say...interested I am not!! I feel like there is enough stuffed up there without adding a big sausage! PMSL at my own comments...sorry!!!

Hee hee PMSL at them too! My colleagues must think I'm weird!

So it's big is it?

Chloe go home and bed your DH!!!!
Well ask any bloke the size I 6 inches some how gets translated into 12 inches!!

Ooh girls - you are saucy!

Bizarrely, I am having loads of sex - far more than normal IYSWIM - although dp says he doesn't want to lie on the bump - therefore positions are more varied etc.

Didn't have much sex at all when expecting dd1 - but that was probably more to do with the fact that I was the bitch from hell first time around etc.

Hello chaps!

I've just spent TWO HOURS at the hospital having scan at 21 wks !!
Baby ended up co-operating, but in own sweet time!! Each time the sonographer needed to see a different angle, I had to wander off round the corridors and return to give babs the chance to move round.

All is well though - four beautifully clear chambers of the heart pumping away, all other bits in order. Fabulous to see little ankles crossed, hands up by face and mouth opening and closing! Bursting with pride .
Strangely one of the nicest things was being able to see the movements and feel them at the same time.

Took 1h1/2 of teasing us before we could see that she is a GIRL!!
So I was completely wrong, and we'll have to think of another name. Don't think Bertie is quite right somehow,...

Ah that's fantastic Thell - another girl! I can't believe it! They say more girls are born in winter though so that must explain it! You lucky bugger having so much time with your sonographer!

Not really Chloe - I had to keep climbing back on the couch, was squirted with more gel (my trousers are now stuck to my bump), sonographer had a quick probe, then sent me off again. Spent most of the time watching This Morning in the waiting room!

At the 12 wk scan I got to spend some time watching her wiggling around, but not this time.

Oh dear - all whilst needing to wee too I bet!

How bout EthelBERT or Bertrude? Oooh, or a basic Roberta

Do they warm the gel at your scan? I was sooo pleased when I realised that they warmed it for ours

I'm actually a bit jealous of all you knowing your sexes now . As much as I want the surprise, I wanna know!!!

In terms of sex... last time we persevered with a position similar to missionary, but DH propped up so no pressure on the bump.
Think we'll have to try something else next time though, because I had quite a sore lower back afterwards.
And it did feel a it more crowded in there than it used to ...!

And NO the gel was NOT warmed up!
I was squirted quite unceremoniously.

At the SCAN that is,..

Oooh how rude!!!!! You should tell em that its much nicer if they warm the gel

Warm gel....you having a laugh, I think she took it out of the fridge!!

Thell - I too had to wonder around and hop on and off the bed...feel free to read my rant about my 20 week scan further down this thread (week or so ago)!!! And my jeans were v.damp at the end of it all!!!!

What about Albertine?

Congratulations on great scan Thell.

Well things didn't go to well with my parents. Fell out with my mum as usual (about nothing as usual), so they've left already. Were supposed to be staying until tomorrow afternoon. So she never did get round to molesting Chip.

Oh dear. That's not really what you need. Hope it wasn't a big bust up ?

My parents live in Cheshire, so I don't get to see them often, but we talk all the time. Still I'd be lost without my MIL around to supportively pat my belly from time to time.

Do you have a good network of supportive chums / rellies around you?

Sure we'll get over it in time! It's about par for the course with us - she's ridiculously sensitive and I can hardly open my mouth without apparently saying the wrong thing. She doesn't really argue back though - just goes all pathetic and cries and makes dad take her away! Would be much better if we could just row like normal people!! They live 150 miles away so I don't see them terribly often either.

Have plenty of friends around yes, and in-laws are only 1/2hr away, so not short of support. You prob won't know unless you've read all the old threads, but my DH works abroad Mon-Thurs, so I have a good social circle that keeps me busy during the week!

Struggling to feel emotional about it though, as it was such a non-row! I just feel like 'ho hum, they've gone, so I've got too much dinner to myself and they won't be accompanying me to the pub quiz later!'.

Mmmm...I have a sister just like that.
She's pregnant at the moment ( ! 5 weeks behind me, in freakish coincidence, as hers wasn't planned and it all happened before I made my announcement ! )
and due to no-good boyfriend has moved back in with my poor parents - unfortunately with said boyfriend in tow!
I haven't even had chance to speak to my Mum about my scan yet, as she's hiding from my sister and won't answer the phone!!
If she wasn't up the duff, ooooooooooooooo !!
[shakes fist angrily]

Oh dear - hope I haven't set you off too!! Better remember never to get me started on my brother either - I could rant about him for eons! Families eh?!

you all sound like you need cheering up!
I have just spent 2 1/2 hours trecking around the Trafford Centre and am now knackered!!!

On a plus note...I did have newborn tights success! TicTac wont freeze to death when we leave teh hospital now

ooooh.... just couldn't resist being the 1000th poster.

Good luck next February everyone !

@ H2D - Big meanie stealin it!!!

All the joys of family - and I thought I had had problems with my mum today. Called her for a chat, and was saying that I want DD off the dummy before Spark comes, and that we were trying cold turkey tonight... she told me that she is too young to understand, and that I didn't stop mine until I was gone 3, and that children didn't work to a timetable!!! I was just sharing about my day, wanting a bit of support, not to be picked apart . She is old enough to understand about sitting on the stairs when she is naughty, that we tidy toys, that she says please if she wants something, and thankyou if she is given something, so why is she not old enough to understand that we don't suck dummies when we get to be big girls? And as for children not working to timetables... Its getting her off a dummy, I'm not announcing that I need her getting dressed and tying her shoes by the time the baby comes!!!

Sorry... rant over.