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!!

Morning girls,

Oh my God, I can't believe all these early baby stories, thankfully they seem to be doing well though which is reassuring. Heartburn is kicking my ass too at the moment Flame but DH is actually finding secret pleasure in it because he suffers from acid indigestion ALL the time and sups Gaviscon like water so he is revelling in me moaning about it and forcing the putrid stuff down my neck!

Sooooooooooooooo looking forward to next week, I have my 3d/4d scan on sat woohoo! And a couple of good friends are organising a party for me on the sat night with my friends and family (all girls) so we can watch the dvd and I have a surprise apparantly.

Morning ladies. It was quiet on here over the weekend wasn't it! Does anyone else find that the weekends are flying by since we changed the clocks? I think the dark afternoons combined with me wanting to sleep in due to tiredness mean that they seem to be over before they've started!!

Hope everyone is feeling healthy and cheery this morning?

Flame - glad you enjoyed Harry Potter. Think I'm one of only a handful of people in the country who has never read a HP book or seen a HP film, and has no desire to!

Crossed posts Chloe - sounds like a fun weekend ahead! No doubt you will be showered with pressie's for your son!

Tabs I'm with you on the just not getting the infatuation with HP and yes I can't believe I finish for maternity leave in just over 4 weeks - eeek! I read my pregnancy update info for 28 weeks and it said that this time in 12 weeks I am likely to be holding my baby instead of holding my tummy which was a bit of a reality check, can't believe how time is flying these last few weeks, xmas, new year then babies!!!

Argh - I'm not ready for a baby!!!! I don't actually have anything to do, but I'm just NOT READY!

I decided to read HP a few years ago (I think it was when book 3 came out, before the films had started) - I was reading all about kids camping out in bookshops for this thing, and I was intrigued to see just what had gotten children that excited about reading... was hooked after that . I do tend to read anything in sight though . The films I don't enjoy as much, but it has turned into tradition for all of us to go on opening night now

Heartburn not too bad here today - I'm on the 12 hour gavilast pills, which seem to be helping (checked with midwife before taking them).

Wow flame - interesting that your m/w said that gavilast were ok, as my doc looked them up and said no to them!! Wish we got consistent info from the NHS!!

I didn't think you were allowed Gavilast either, doc has given me some stuff which isn't actually Gaviscon but is similar only stronger apparantly - still not convinced it works to be honest and just makes me want to gag - yuck!

I can't swallow the liquid ones or chew the chalky since last pg (makes me sick), and she said that they were fine... now all confused!!!

If she said they were fine Flame they must be, I shouldn't worry about it. I'm def gonna ask the midwife because I'd much rather take it in tablet form.

It could be that they only want them used as a last resort?

Or maybe they're just not advised for first trimester (I asked last year as got indigestion from 5 weeks!), but are ok this late?

God knows - I'm at the stage that I take them once every few days, only when I really need to take em, and I'm not sure I'd stop now anyway

My doctor told me (last preg) that a lot of these things aren't so much bad for pregnant women, but that they can't ethically test them on pregnant women, so don't have any hard and fast yes or no answers

Yeah that makes sense I guess. I have been really bad recently, I have eatedn a fair amount of pate on toast lately and I never pay any attention to the pasteurised egg rule anymore I was good in the first couple of trimesters but just seemed to have lapsed big time. Oh well, mum said she ate anything when she was pg with me so if they could do it 25 years ago then why not now?

Join me in my little pate club!!!

No stop it - I LOVE pate, but I won't eat it, I won't eat it!!!!

I am having pate at Christmas...I don't care!!
I wouldn't worry about the tablets...that 12 year old doctor I saw the other week said paracetamol where not advised...whatever. When he got the grown up doctor to confirm he then said the same as your doc flame...it is not that this stuff is not safe...they just can't stamp it to say it is because they can't test it!

at your 12 year old doc.

Gaviscon liquid is fine and so is paracetamol. When I was in Australia, they were far more relaxed about meds in pregnancy - I was given a sleeping tablet the night before my induction and panadeine forte (max strength paracetamol and coedeine) for some other niggle by my obstetrician during the pregnancy. Dd2 shows no sign of any ill effects! Am getting all nostalgic for my Aussie birth (bar the c-section) now that we are getting closer to b-day. I knew I wasn't in the NHS anymore when I was given my leather bound menu and wine list and shown the mini-bar in my hospital room. They even had a wonderful service where they made a lovely romantic 3-course meal for new parents a couple of days after the birth while the baby would be taken to the nursery to be looked after by the midwives so that you could relax and eat in peace. I can pretty much guarantee that this won't happen in Holland!

Ahhh that sounds wonderful YeahBut. I must admit I have become accustomed to Bupa (private medical) service for the few times I have had to stay in hospital as I get it paid for through work. I am not really looking forward to 'slumming it' (I am of course only joking when ref to slumming it before I offend anyone ) Your service in Oz sounds like 5* treatment!

I'm gonna tell DH that he has to cook me a 3 course meal after baby is born!

That sounds great YeahBut, we're all jelous now. I still intend to be out of hospital within a few hours this time, so my DP can do the cooking, too

Hello all. Just checking in again, but there's so much to read! Stop talking while i'm not on here!
I'm totally knackered after ds's birthday weekend. Spent Friday evening looking for my Mum, who was missing after trying to get across North London on her own by bus. Turns out she got the right buses, but there were big delays and she doesn't know how to use her mobile, and cant understand why the answerphone doesn't converse with her when she gets through to it Poor ds was freezing, wandering around bus stops in the dark!!! Then we were preparing food till about 11pm, and carried on the next morning.... and hardly anyone ate anything, so we had tons of leftovers!
Apart from that, it was a great party, and ds is happy with his million new toys.

Me and new baby are suffering now though... no daytime nap for 3 days, have an unexplained bruise under my belly button where I must have walked into something, and a huge scratch where I stabbed myself with my only long fingernail!!!

And is it possible to gain a couple of inches overnight, or has my bra shrunk in the wash?! I know I've had a lot of choc this weekend...

hullo all - not been about for a few days as have had yucky sickness and diarrhea but back at work today (wahey! not...)

I don't mind taking the gaviscon liquid which I get prescribed but I found another (albeit interim) solution...refresher sweeties (the fizzy ones). I was dubious at first but I carry them in my bag and they definitely fend off heartburn for long enought for me to get to my jumbo bottle of gaviscon! You need 2-3 though...

Thanks for the tip teuch, my heartburn is just starting to kick in!
Ixel glad your ds had a good birthday, even with a 'lost' granny!
Yeahbut, wow what a service! remind me to emigrate!
Tic tac argh re your mates, but girls, fuyyfj, FS,tic tac again and Jasnem, glad I'm not the only one who woke up and had a panic today! and I'm about the last one of us due!!
I got my Boots vouchers through this am, and went out and got my nappies (complete with free wipes and box) Free change bag, which is whoopppppeee bigger than the last one, so glad they've made them bigger! nice to see the free shampoo as well, last time we had free rattles, but they recalled them due to a fault
got the Avent free stuff too! then thought stuff it and brought 1 x disposable knickers, 1 x maternity pads, 1 x Always Ultra Pads, not that I need them all yet, but having just read Tic tac's post, argh! Guess I'm starting to nest....