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 ???,

Oh it's a long story Chloe but in a nutshell, she wants to have a baby with my dad (has 3 kids and is 43 herself) and did fall pre last year. She miss-carried in Aug '04. Despite the fact we where trying for a bub too and dad was sort of "tricked" by her I was very supportive and said and did all the right things. Well since I told her we where preg she has ignored me! Dad is right in the middle and I find myself having a go at him which isn't at all fare. I know he has spoken to her himself...there is loads more to it but that is the simplest form!

Oh dear that all sounds a bit complicated, I couldn't imagine my mother wanting to start up a family again with her partner but I guess each to their own. I hope it all works out ok for you all in the end.

Each to their own. Sorry I am not a bundle of joy at the minute am I! I must sort myself out I think...

Understandably so TicTac. Give yourself a nice bubble bath with some soothing music and a face mask then go to bed with a great big cup of Horlicks. Sprinkle your pillow with Karvol (always reminds me of being a kid) and get a good nights kip - you are probably still feeling a bit crappy form the time difference too. I always feel really miserable for days when I get back from a longhaul flight.

Sorry I'm not too chatty.

Nipples itchy and gunky. I keep feeling them tingling like with let down and breastfeeding, so I won't be surprised if I get proper leaking before long.

Keep finding out that online friends have lost their babies, so feeling quite low - worried about them, and about it happening to me (sounds selfish when I type it, but I feel sure you all know what I mean).

xxxx

Thanks Chloe, I think I will have that bath just before bed so I might get off easily!

Oh when I had my ante natal she checked my dates again and scared the pants off me when she said...oh your 24+5 now....blimey..I pointed out that I think she had got it wrong and she giggled and said oh no...19+5..sorry, Of course, 02 is Feb isn't it!

Flame it is bound to play on your mind when you hear of friends loosing babies...are they as far along as you?

I have had no nipple tingle, gunk or leak yet...should I feel lucky?

One was due now, but I hadn't had any contact for months, found out she lost him at 20 weeks. The other was full term, and she died 2 days after being born.

Oh flamesparrow - how truly awful, particularly to lose just after birth, just when you think everything is fine. Do they know what caused it?

I don't know the details, just her post to the website where I know her from

I ache for them so much, but at the same time feel I should keep my distance as my pregnancy isn't what they need to hear of right now.

I'm sure they'd appreciate just knowing that they are in your thoughts.

Guess it puts all our little niggles and whinges into perspective. I pray that none of us have to go through such a horrible experience.

Hugs to you and your friends. xx

Flame, I am sure your friends will just be relieved that your preg is ok and that they are in your thoughts. To loose a baby at any stage must be awful but to give birth and then loose...I can't begin to imagine. I hope this doesn't dampen your own preg spirit.

In so many ways I feel like I am going through the motions but it can't be real. Tabs is right, sticks our niggles into perspective doesn't it!

I hope this is a lucky thread and we don't see anything like that on here....we have already had sad news on here from some earlier members. And if you are still looking in here but can't post then I hope you are doing ok! XX

I'll echo that tictac, fingers x'd we're all lucky on here.
Chole I think I'll take your suggestion of a bath etc, you've made it sound so appealing! maybe we all should do that and have a nice early night after all its cold and horrible outside now....just resisting turning the heating on, why I don't know, probably the admission that summer is over....

My internal central heating is working over time at the minute. DH keeps telling me to shut the windows

I have just taken a hot (well, as near as we are allowed to these days) with plenty of Johnsons Baby Bathtime with lavender and camomile....relaxed!!

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Plimsoles are the little black canvas type shoes, with rubbery soles. They normally have elastic across the top to slide them on.

I've got another cold. Tired and grumpy so there

Will be back when I'm in a better mood

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these are them

Adams, Asda, Tesco etc will be cheaper than Next

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Morning everyone,

Hope those of you feeling rough are now feeling a little better. I'm peed off because the only other girl in the office with me has just rung in sick so I now actually have to do some work . Oh well, I'm always moaning I have nothing to do! Had a bit of an argument with DH this am aswell because he is panicking that we won't have any cash when I leave work on maternity. He has worked out, what with all our debt, that we will have £20 a week to live on. This may be so but I am trying to look on the bright side, somehow we always fall onto money when we most need it, either that or we remortgage the house!! I just don't want to discuss being skint all the time because it puts such a downer of things but he thinks I have got my head up in the clouds.

Chloe - I'm with you on it will all work out. Somehow for us, there is always something that comes along. I get myself worried sick that we won't be able to pay the bills and eat, and then something happens and we have enough to scrape by... It does work in reverse too though - just as we think we're picking up and things are going to be brighter, the car gets squashed/washing machine breaks/huge gas bill comes and we're back to square one.

We did similar adding up with Maternity leave last time, and came up with similar figures. Is your £20 for food, or have you included food? If you can start squirrelling away a little bit each month now, then you can get a back up amount too, but don't touch it unless you really need to. We had my bonus from work - it was less than I expected due to Barclays being evil employers and ripping me off, but it was there... we never needed it.

I know what you mean about it happening in reverse too, I guess it's swings and roundabouts. This it just it - DH is bound to get a xmas bonus (he works for Halifax) so that might pay off a small credit card. We do live beyond our means a lot of the time so it will just be a case of cutting back, oh and the £20 is for food too . Like I say though, no point stressing, there's nothing we can do about it so I am not going to cry over it - he's the accountant, I'll let him worry!

I mentioned that we are lucky because we are getting pram and cot paid for by the family and people always buy babies clothes for you and a family member is buying most of the nursery stuff like the bedding and curtains so we will just need to fork out on nappies/cleaning stuff etc. for the first few months. He started going on about yeah but how will we feed it - erm, the big titties on the front of my chest might help in that department

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I know Amanda, what a horrible topic for a tuesday morning, lets change it erm.......anyone any suggestions?