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 ???,

so does anyone know what you get from the government then??

Now I'm confused Frizbe - my NHS Pregnancy book says that to get MA you need to have been working (emp or self-emp) for at least 26 of 66 weeks before expected week of childbirth - so you meet that criteria. You then must also have gross weekly earnings of £30 a week in ANY (not all) 13 week period in this 66 week test period. So surely if you paid yourself £30 a week between now and mat leave then you would qualify?

TicTac - only know about MA I'm afraid. Not sure what other benefits may/may not be available, but have a feeling that everyone gets the £16 or whatever that Frizbe mentioned.

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Talking of feta, I'm v confused about whether we're supposed to have it or not. I know it's usually pasteurised, so from that would say it's ok, but then isn't it made from sheep and goats milk or something, which we aren't supposed to have? Anyone know more?

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No don't panic - I genuinely don't know if it's allowed or not, but know several other ladies who've eaten it too with no problem. Would only be an issue if there was something wrong with it anyway wouldn't there?

Feta is goats milk but I thought it was ok. It is the un-pasturised stuff you need to avoid. It is all to do with potential food poisoning...nothing else I don't think.

I have eaten feta but then I also had nurofen, wine, flew, had a hot bath and sunbathed before I knew and I am ok so far ;)

I've been naughty and had mayo in sandwich shop sarnies and had the odd bit of pate. I have no will power, I crave it then feel so guilty after having it I get so cross with myself and it is really laziness on my behalf because I don't get up 5mins earlier to make my own sandwichs!

Cool - it prob is ok then. I should have asked last week really. Was booking hog roast for DH's 40th b'day party, and one of the salads had goats cheese in it. Asked them to sub a different cheese instead, and feta would have gone quite well, but wasn't sure, so suggested a whole long list of other random cheese instead!!

Chloe - you'll prob find that the mayo was pasteurised anyway - I think they're supposed to tell you now if it's not.

I'm looking forward to pate in Feb!! Made my own mushroom pate and tuna pate last week, but not the same as chicken liver - mmmmmmmmm >>>

Has anyone had any cravings? I am still off stuff rather then on it?

Oh Tabs - Could you not call them and tell them to put Feta in your salad....hmm, yum...

I might make a greek salad for tea!

Fruit, fruit and more fruit.

Eating oranges, nectarines and plums (several of each) every day. Dh is complaining about the effect its having on my wind

Still sushi too, but not had any.

How did the plimsoll hunt go?

And [envy} at you with your NHS pregnancy book! They don't bother mentioning to you "Oh you'd better keep your first copy, because if you have a second child within 5 years you don't qualify for a new book" do they?? Just wait til you've kept it 18 months, thought "why and I still keeping this" and thrown it out, you fall pregnant, and they say NO BOOK!

Should I read mine then???

I feel really guilty now, everyone sounds so healthy what with their fruit cravings and greek salads (I had pie and chips last night ) and will be having another pie when I go and watch my husband's footie team lose tonight! I only go for the steak pies they do I try and eat reasonably healthy at lunch though.

Am not craving fruit, but eat loads of it anyway because of Slimming World. Think I need to eat lots of fresh figs at the mo IYKWIM!

Have been wanting flavoured milk - vanilla or banana flavour. Got myself a big box of nesquik powder to help with that.

Actually they did tell me to keep my NHS book, but I guess it's just down to the exact person you see and whether they remember to mention it at the time.

TicTac - lol! Yes - have a read of the rights and benefits bit at the back for more info on what you should be entitled to.
Daren't tell them to use feta now - have bombarded them with hundreds of questions and odd requests already!

Chloe - pie and chips sounds lovely, but I can't afford to gain weight the way you skinnies can!

Hee hee Tabs, I'm not exactly a skinny - I have (what I call) a little padding, but if I carry on like this then i won't need a coat come December due to my own insulation! I went and had a nectarine because of the thread though so you guys are keeping me more healthy than I would have been! Is Flame not allowed milk? Have I missed something?

She's allergic to it during pregnancy, but has been craving it - poor thing.

FS, can't believe they didn't give you another book!! tight arses, I got a new one?! in with bounty pack?

Tabs, your an angel, and your right! It was me reading it wrong, I may well be eligable after all! it was the 'or' bit that somehow threw me, teach me to slow down my reading a bit! mind you if I go for the £30 bit, its rather a laugh being paid 90% of that!! know what I mean?! will have a chat with acctnt, as may well be better off going for maternity grant?

Pie, yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
stew for us tonite, been in the slow cooker all day, as I thought it was going to be cold and horrible today, it looked like it at 8am up here honest!

Tictac, you can go onto the taxcredit website (I think!) its a bit of hassle filling in your details, but it will calc what your entitled to (from what I remember!)

Don't know much (in fact anything!) about maternity grant, but if you paid yourself £118 a week for the next 13 weeks then you'd get the full £106. Plus the nice payrise to £118 now of course!!!!

I caved and had a MacDonalds milkshake last week Went with the arguement of knowing macdonalds, there is probably sod all actual milk in there anyway . Had a monster headache for 2 days after, but soooooo worth it!

Cravings with DD were poppadums and microwave popcorn, I think its just luck of the draw that I got fruit this time Its great for DD though, she wants whatever I'm having so is eating loads of fruit. I got worried today when she kept telling me she wanted to eat a baby. I repeated it back to her and she still insisted yes, so I took her to show me where we kept the babies to eat... Turned out she'd remembered me telling her that plums were baby nectarines (there was only one nectarine left and it was mine [evil grin])... sooo, she did want a baby to eat!

TicTac - No, you don't have to read your book, just look at it and feel all knowing that it is there should the urge take you.

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Amanda - suggest you text back and say:

'term' starts Sept 2011 - presume you meant our child's first term at school?

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