Due Feb 06 - Our coats won't do up!

[Bewitched]

Here it is then ladies - our shiny new thread, named without reference to jumpers, sweaters or cardis!!

Stats to begin - hope they're all up to date!

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), Surprise flavour, mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham, Girl flavour,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, Boy flavour, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH40), Lives N Herts, Couldn't see flavour, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, Girl flavour, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???, ?? flavour,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, Girl flavour, IUGR in previous pregnancies
Mimi5, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, Boy flavour, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, Girl flavour, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Both Girl flavour, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, ?? flavour, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Girl flavour, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs, Girl flavour,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London, Hospital won't tell flavour,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, Girl flavour, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32 (DH 40), Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border, Secret flavour,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Surprise flavour, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, Boy flavour, 2 previous m/cs
Jasnem, Due 18th Feb, Baby # 3, Age , Lives , Surprise flavour, 5 and 6 yo girls already
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury, Boy flavour,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives Hitchin, Dubai from Jan, Surprise flavour, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Surprise flavour, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
mum22soon, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 26, Lives Eltham, South London, ?? flavour,
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Girl flavour,
Thell, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26, Lives London, Girl flavour,
angedemarche (Jangus), Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI, ?? flavour,
poppyh, Due 3rd March (c-sec earlier), Baby # 3, Age ??, Lives South East London, Girl flavour,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???, ?? flavour,

(The preview of this message is looking very odd and spaced, but hoping it looks ok when posted!!

Gosh we are quiet on here for a friday afternoon!

I'm still bored by the way!

Hi,
Great news on your GTT and Iron results Tabs.
Chloe - LOL at DH...he is a cheeky bugger!

I have not long been back from my GTT at the hospital. I have some great news though...I was really good with the needles and a wonderful woman from pathology came up especially to do my bloods on both occasions because of my vein issues and she was in and out without any problems!!! Restored my faith...for now anyway!
I was even offered tea and toast!

I read about the prem baby, that woman is amazing to get online and post all the info, I think I would be too wrapped up in what was going on!

Fantastic TicTac, I know from previous posts how worked up you get when the words 'taking blood' are mentioned. Soz Tabs, forgot to say pleased your results came back fine.

So, still got three boys in the house but is quiet
sent them out to run around then gave them hot choccy and they are watching thunderbirds, it's lovely!
I trying not to sit on a comfy chair or will fall asleep, it's this time of day that gets me the most, feeling very sleepy.

Chloe - you would think I was about 6 years old not 29 but I was very proud of myself! you know how petrified I am at needles!!

Phew...might even get interested in the idea of giving birth now...well, not "now" but you know what I mean!

While I was at the hospital there was a woman in to have a trace monitoring, she had it done and the results where good but there was a slight problem. The nurse was very matter of fact in telling the woman that she might wantt o get used to the idea of giving birth today as they will prob induce her this afternoon...well I pooped my pants on this womans behalf! Turns out she is due next week anyway so wouldn't be a problem. I just couldn't imagine popping in for some tests and then being told...your having your baby today!!!

Excellent news TicTac - hope you said yes to tea and toast!! Did they say when you'd get your results back?

Finally done the work I had to do today, just in time for the in-laws who are due round in about 15 mins - it's all go round here!!

So tictac do you have reluctant blood too? mine doesn't like coming out of me, mw took one look at my arm and decided to send me to the hospital to have it done....so I went there and scared an NVQ student

Tabs - no longer than 1 week!

Helen - I have invisible veins and a fear of needles...the 2 kind of don't go so well together

Booking in bloods took several attempts from different people. The last 2 attempts where in pathology (consultant had failed previously too!)

I can see that woulnd't work so well.

My veins tend to hide then colapse when they get the needle in but I'd rather have blood taken than an injection, hate those, can't even watch on tv when people have them wimp that I am. You have my sympathy

I thnk TicTac just had hicups!

Is everyone having a GTT? Is it a routine thing? I'm due for more blood tests next week, but not that one,it's never been mentioned.

Tic tac - I'm glad yours went well. Iwas a nurse prior to having kids, so got past any fear of needles a long time ago, but I know it can be pretty scary. Hopefully ou can give birth without any need to see another one.

Tic tac glad it went ok, and hurrah for you Tabs, no bother there then!

Helen, argh, what a pain, especially when you'd gotten them all dressed up!! glad they've not been too much trouble today for you tho

Jasnem, yuk, horrible day yest hon, hope today was better?

Chloe, sorry you've been so bored, nothing worse than work when you could be doing hundreds of better things, get counting those weeks!

Well not much happening here today, dd has been resisting her nap all day, and has just given up and fallen asleep on the sofa, just as I'm dishing up tea!! so will have to wake her in a sec, or I'll never get any sleep tonight! two year olds eh! Have a great weekend all.

Just a quickie for those of you who read the story about the baby born 13 weeks early. There's an update here

Awww that's good to hear Tabs, thanks for posting that!

Thanks Tabs - I do like a bit of good news.

Another early night for me tonight. Just waiting for a blackcurrent cheesecake to defrost so i can eat it first. I will try not to eat it all tonight, but I can't promise.
My healthy eating phase is apparently over, I am now craving mars bars and other sweet stuff.

Hi all,thanks for the update Tabs. My DS was five weeks early and i am completely paranoid about being early again and have flashbacks to the moment my waters broke in bed in the middle of the night. DS was ok when born - had bad jaundice and spent 10 days in scbu but you'd never know now - he is tall for his age.

DH is off to Dubai toimorrow and is coming back for Xmas when we all fly there on 27 December all being well with bump so i may be posting a lot more as i have five weeks with just me and ds!!

Jasnem - GTT is not routine. It is run if your BMI is over 32, you have diabetes in the family or you have "other" symptoms that lead them to believe you may have gestational diabetes.

Tabs - thanks for the update...really good news!!

Nice to see you here again Morgan!

I just seen Harry Potter

Made it through the whole film without peeing!!! Baby has shifted - I'm finally getting higher kicks, which my bladder is liking, but I have the heartburn instead now . I am worried about it being breach though, so will happily put up with heartburn if it means I have feet in the right place (Family history - mum, gran and aunt all had second child breech... I am much more like my dad though, so hoping I'll not have the same).

Great day today - played with my friend, and just relaxed.

xxxx

How's this for scary... I'm due in 98 days - many of you are a lot less!!!

Oh no Flame you just made me count....77 days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks tic tac - I was beginning to worry that I was missing something as so many of you seem to have had it (GTT).

Flame - I was up in the night with bad heartburn last night - yhe first so far, but i did suffer badly before, so I think I need to get some gaviscon.

91 days for me. Thanks for that. I was just accepting that I'm in my 3rd trimester (27 weeks today) and now I'll be thinking in days!!!!!!

Oh my god i'm due in 73 days.

A Sunday morning shock for you all. This is an email I have had this morning, Liz is one of the woman I know through the NCT coffee evenings we have. Liz was due just 2 days before me!

Hello there - can't remember which of you actually met her, but just passing on some rather surprising news......

Liz (the hospice nurse who has attended our last few bumps meetings) has given birth to a baby girl, Katy Rebecca (I think) on Monday 14th Nov. - her due date was 3rd Feb. so she was only 28 weeks!!!

Obviously Katy (not sure of spelling) is very small - born 2lb 8oz, currently 2lb 6oz - and is in Preston neo-natal unit. Liz is now at home, doubly expressing with an electric pump!

Liz woke up on the previous Thursday and realised her waters had broken so went into Preston for observation. Things progressed very gradually but she had a smooth labour. Katy breathed on her own from the start and cried straight away. She hasn't needed any oxygen as yet but is being fed by tube. Liz says Katy is doing very well at the moment but has been told that things can take a dip after a couple of weeks so she may need some breathing support later on.

There was no explanation for Liz' early labour - these things just happen. She seemed quite bright on the phone and said her nursing background has helped (she has nursed small babies in the past) but her husband is still in shock. She was planning to contact T-J about bras and try to get back to some sort of normality (what's that after you've had a baby??)

It's reassuring that both of the prem babies we've heard about seem to be doing so well, but can we all try very hard not to have ours just yet. It's just too scary!

Sooo many early ones about!!! I have been having a good weekend, doing not a lot . Hope you're all ok, you're all very quiet.