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!!

Blimey YeahBut - what a surprise!! You don't have me worried though, as my little girl wasn't sexed until 28 weeks anyway! Definitely better to find out now than at the birth though - that really would have come as a HUGE surprise!

I like several of the suggestions for a new thread title, but think we want to keep it reasonably short, so how about either
Due Feb 06 - Are you a pudding or a cracker?
or
Due Feb '06 - What's in your cracker?

Should we take a vote amongst those already suggested?

Had a lovely lunch with Morgan (Pops couldn't make it in the end) - now full to bursting, but enjoyed every mouthful!
Morgan - Chris (shop owner) solved problem of how to get car seat to car - he shut the shop for a few mins and carried it there for me - now that's good customer service! Hope all went well with m/w - was great to meet you.

I really should try and post messages without getting distracted by work half way through. Didn't mean to summarise what you had already summarised Flame - your post wasn't there when I started!

Does someone already have a name similar to 'ChestnutsRoastingOnAnOpenFlame'?

Ooo flame geese are vicious creatures...ducks are cute! We used to keep lots of animals when I was growing up...we had some ducks...lovely little birds (although very noisy if I remember!)

I'll let you off

I quite like the chestnuts too... Oooh the choices. You're right about geese... a bit like the evil swans aren't they?

DH is going out for chinese tonight, he is normally a star and still sticks to my no duck eating rule even when he isn't with me (I know because he has told me on the handful of occasions that he didn't )... Shall I be festive and generous and let him eat some?

Ooh yes let him - will earn you some brownie points, and no-one should have to miss crispy duck pancakes - yum yum!

You with your duck eating!!! Tis wrong, all wrong... He has been lovely though, since we first got together, he has known that duck eating distresses me, and hasn't done it. That is 6 years now, so it must be love

I got so excited the time I met my friend (the one I had a dodgy dream about a while ago ) and people were talking about eating duck - he got all worked up saying how you can't eat ducks because they are too cute... it was like finding a soul mate . Never found anyone else who got upset by it, and especially not a man!!!

Hi all,

Also still stuffed from big lunch with Tabs - was great to meet up!

Yeahbut - oh my goood!! hope you can come to terms with the change and stop buying pink.

Ironing sleepsuits - i don't think so although i never iron enything if i can get away with it.

I think the new thread should be "are you a pudding or a cracker" one.

3k Good for you leave at Xmas girl! your boss doesn't deserve you anyway!, sorry to hear about your bp going up again....fingers x'd it doesn't get any worse.

Yeahbut! OMG at least you know correctly now! well if you want to sell your pink things your definately on the right thread!

Hi to all, not stopping, as waiting for babysitter to pop over, dh is taking me out

PS: Voting for whats in your cracker!

I'm a whats in your cracker girlie too

God. It is getting close, isn't it??!!
Had a wobbly at dh last night because I cant do any more sorting out until the spare room is a bit clear, which wont happen till he's finished renovating the bathroom (so we can put the cabinet up and all the stuff in it)!

But, we've solved the 'what to do with ds' dilemma I'd decided to go down the doula route, freeing dh up to stay with ds. I mentioned this to my friend today, and she volunteered to be my birthing partner!! I hadn't asked because I never dreamt that she'd want to do it. But she's perfect; its easy for her to get a babysitter for her ds, and she's really assertive, so if I end up with a crap midwife again, I know she'll def fight my corner for me!!! In fact, the only down side is that she'll see how much celllulite I've got . Its a huge weight off my mind now that I've got an action plan!

ds had his first big excursion with no buggy today (6hrs in central London... the Eye and Tussauds). He did really well for a boy with no nap, but I'm knackered!! Good job we met Daddy at work to carry him home on the tube!!

Pushchair arrived today (won it on ebay for £120 less than shop price) and while I was anticipating it not being brand new as advertised etc I am very happy. All brand new!! I think that was the last of the large purchases...

The whole 5 of us that voted for thread titles... Due Feb 06 - What's in your cracker? seems to be the winner (3 - 2).

DH chose FlameRobin for me in the end.

Long night here, and off out today, will talk later.

Lookin longingly to Tabs to start new thread

I wanted the pudding v cracker one, which would even it up, but have selflessly gone for the otherwise majority! .

Here it is ladies.