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 ???,

Morning everyone,

I like your names Ixel but my DH would hate them. You seem to like the American names (as do I) but DH is adament that if it is not traditional english then it is not an option - poo. I also like Milly, Rose, Molly, Hope and Faith - the likelihood of me having any luck persuading DH with any of those is zilch. I am also gonna find out the flavour a week tomorrow at my 20 week scan - soooooo excited. I think I'm having a girl and DH is sure it is a boy so we will see who wins the battle of the sexes (literally!).

Womba I have a real sick phobia too, which is particularly bad since becoming pregnant - I also put my fingers in my ears and turn the tv up really loud if DH is ill. He, on the otherhand, bless him, will come in and hold my hair back and clean up after me if it is the other way round. Funnily enough I am ok if I am really drunk, I can hold mates hair back then

TicTac - mums can be very tactless sometimes, my mum told me to start exercising this weekend coz my arms were looking fat! Which, I did (not through what mum said) but I went to Yoga on sat morning and I am aching all over today.

Awww TicTac - that'll be those evil plane journeys giving you a cold. It only takes one person to have a germ, and the way they filter the air means everyone ends up with it! Hope you haven't got to work today, so that you can have a nice lie in and drink hot lemon and honey.

Nice thought about going away in UK. We are hopefully going to a wedding reception in Grimsby (of a lady I've befriended from another forum!) on 30th December, so I might see if there's anywhere up there worth staying for an extra night or two. Not sure if I want to be away for NYE or not though. I also might pop over to Dublin (on ferry) for a few days later in the year, when I'm not working, as DH is there anyway in the week. Can go and do lots of Christmas shopping in Brown Thomas (lovely big department store).

Chloe - surely you can persuade DH to go with Amelia or Millicent - both good traditional names that can be shortened to Milly. Amelia is favourite name of DH and I, but we can't use as initials and one shortened version would be v unfortunate with our surname.

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I think it's probably best they know Amanda, that way you don't have to be careful about slipping up all the time. Try Dorothy Perkins for maternity too, I bought a lovely pair of combats and a nice t-shirt from there the other week. Next do a few nice things too.

Chloe, we were going to call ds Mollie if he'd been a girl, but since then we've seen alot of them! So if this one is a girl, its going to be Mary, which was my Nans name (but she was known as Mollie). And dh wants her middle name to be after his Mum, Grace. Very traditional compared to my short list of boys names. I've gone off Ash a bit now, so Bram is still looking top. Boys are so hard to name! My Mum told me a couple of weeks ago that she's 'only just got used' to ds's name, at 22 months! Then she comes up with Pendle as a suggestion for this one!
Went to Ikea last week, and found that they've discontinued the chest of drawers I wanted for new baby . I wanted to just have the same as ds has, to make life simple, make the room look fairly cohesive. They've got similar, but I dont want to but new unless its the same! And I cant remember the name of the one we've got to do an ebay search!

Hi Amanda - you lasted a long time then!!!

Do M&S do maternity wear then, or are you just looking for normal clothes in bigger size? H&M sounds like a reasonable bet, and mothercare are ok for a few basics. Next have some mat stuff, but not sure if it's in their stores or only online.

Err, you could do what I do, because I'm such a skinflint. Try it all on in the shops, then see whats on ebay! Having said that, I like H+M so much that I cant just leave without a purchase!

I went to H&M in Meadowhall on Sat, queued for 20 mins to try on clothes (which I really liked) but then when I eventually came out the queue at the till was enormous - I ended up stropping and hanging all the clothes I was going to buy up on a rack near the till mumbling about it being rediculous how long I have been in the shop and now haven't got time to wait to pay . I think I must have been in a bad mood after my yoga, I thought it was meant to destress you!

Tabs - the name thing is an excellent idea, I bet DH would like Amelia but I'm not sure myself, however, I could just ALWAYS call her Milly

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I live in Clayton West (near Denby Dale) so yeah, seems I am not far

Afternoon girls.

Got my detail scan on Thursday and will be nearly 22 weeks - gosh.

Talking pushchairs - I've got a Jane Powertrack with a Matrix lie flat car seat for dd - is fab - but I am having to buy a double (probably will be getting the Phil and Ted E3) as dd will be too young to use a buggy board.

Talking maternity clothes - M&S, Debenhams and BHS don't do maternity clothes - how crap - but do childrens clothes - where do they think children come from then! I've found Next and Mothercare good. Last time got loads of stuff from Jojo Maman Bebe and Blooming Marvellous catalogues.

How about this for crapness - when to Dorothy Perkins in the Victoria Centre in Nottingham on Saturday - maternity section is downstairs. I asked if they had a lift (as I had dd in her pushcahir with me) said they didn't have one! What no goods lift I enquired? How do you deal with disabled access provision then etc - they just shrugged and looked embarrassed - won't be going to DP then!

Hope you are well - will cath up in the week.

Hotmama how utterly useless of them! I remember getting a few bits from there when preggers with dd! but if no lift, shan't bother this time!!
Chloe, I quite like Millie! (Millicent? (SP)) far to many Amelias about at the mo!

I've never actually heard of Millicent, sounds like an insect imo soz if offended anyone! I have an awful surname too which no doubt my kids will be picked on for so I guess I have to keep the first name relatively normal.

Like I say not sure of the sp! will let you know if I manage to come up with any normal names tho!

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Or you could call her Milupa and start a riot on mumsnet when you announce that 'Milupa is here'

my late grandmother was called millicent.
strangely she was always called betty!

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i was referring to the talk of the name millicent, or have i missed the moment?

youve confused me now...and im easily confused.

there goes a tumbleweed..........................

Meant about how you get Betty from Millicent!!

Hi Girls,

I've had a very busy weekend, went to Wales from Kent and back again yesterday to visit my friend who had the 10.5lbs baby. We had a lovely day but was in a lot of pain when we walked down to feed the ducks in the afternoon. I had my appointment at the hospital today with the consultant and he is sure it is still ligament pains and just said to take paracetamol 4 times a day when I need to. They tried to get the baby's heartbeat, managed to get it for 2 secs then he moved and they tried for 5 mins but he was always wriggling away!! I know he is ok though as have been literally booted for the past two days, it has all of a sudden become very obvious kicks which is great.

Had a phone call from the hospital when I got back and they are doing some other scans which is an internal one and they can see how long your cervix is etc. They can then predict whether you will have a preterm baby or not from this scan. If it is a short cervix chance is you'll go into labour early but if it is long you should go full term. I'm booked in next Friday 30th and have normal scan this Friday so a busy week with appointments.

My friend had the Phil & Ted's double buggy where the baby lies underneath and it was not very practical at all. Her little boy Morgan, who is just 2, undid the straps and run across the road to his dad!!!! Luckily there was no car coming. My friend said he wriggled completely around in it the other week and the stitching has come undone and you feel like you are going to knee or kick the baby in the head when you push it as he lies quite low down. Also it tips when going up and down kerbs so I really dont recommend anyone gets that one!!!

Morning,

Amanda - M&S stopped doing mat clothes a couple of years ago. I don't think the Next in trafford Centre (I am about 20 mins away) has Mat clothes but the huge store opposite Ikea in Warrington has a great range.

Just got back from Ante natal check up - all is well, mentioned about my concerns re the GTT testing and she said I don't have to have it and perhaps I should chat to my consultant when I see him in October. I mentioned that I wasn't chuffed about having a scan date of over 23 weeks but she said there is nothing they can do about it.

I think emotions have hit me big time, just sat on the couch crying my eyes out because I am frustrated with my dads partner, feel like crap and have to go back to work tomorrow and really don't feel up to it!

If you're still feel shitty tomorrow TicTac then I'd take a sick day, no point making yourself feel worse just for works sake. Saying that, feel pants myself - had a dodgy pizza from pizza hut and I have now got the runs - which I NEVER get! Also keep going a bit dizzy but the other girl I work with is on hols for a fortnight and I work in a small firm so the chance of me going home is minimal.

Why is your dad's partner upsetting you?

I never knew they could predict so much info from the length of your cervix 3k!