Ding Ding! We're halfway there on The February Baby Bus 2012.

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good morning my lovelies, as requested, a shiny new thread old thread is here

Good luck with scans today, phlossie are you off for yours?

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Hi all,
Wow new thread and loads of pages to catch up on since I was last on. Am getting very excited for the 20wk scan now... but still another couple of weeks to go. Can't wait to find out the gender, I'm tormenting DH with the 'names' conversation - he's vetoed nearly all my girls names just to annoy me I think!! We are more or less decided on a boy's name.. Peter Edward after both our dads who passed away a long time ago, Patrick was my dad's first name so that's another contender.
pambeesly come and join us in the Feb club on eumom.ie, they are also a lovely bunch and all based in Ireland (except me!) From what I've read on both forums and from friends in both counttires the ante-natal public care seems to be a lot better in Ireland, with hardly anyone even bothering to go private any more as the care is more or less the same. I had a mad notion for a while to fly home for end of pregnancy once I'm on mat leave and have baby in CUMH but it would have been too messy for DH getting time off and then us getting back to London etc so I saw sense in the end!!! And in all honesty I've no complaints about the care I've had here so far on the NHS - it's been great :)

I'm a sucker for X-factor and heard on the radio that the American version is starting tonight... won't be able to resist the temptation to watch, it's my guilty pleasure :o

17+3

Hi goosey welcome and I will have a look at eumom. I got a voucher for a free pack from eumom at my first ante natal appointment but haven't collected it yet. X-Factor USA is on ITV2 and 8p.m (well at least in Ireland thats the time and channel)

Good grief - if we keep up at this rate, we'll need another thread in about 10 days!

the wicket keeper - I am loving your cardiac advice - thankyou. My heart is doing a lot of flipping snd skipping and generally being a wee bit worrying but your words are very reassuring

innocent - poor you - the drop in centre sounds great and ideal to alleviate your anxiety

i am on number 7 baby but am with you on the anxiety ...i am only 17.1 and have no discernable bump and an anterior placenta. I have NO movement but word has started to get about so I am finding it cropping up in conversation which IS lovely BUT i feel a total fraud....like i'm not really .....its awful actually and hard to explain...

I really recommend my doppler but have even started to say to dp - 'did you hear that?' and turning the volume up full for like a five minute listen. I almost have to pinch myself to believe it's real..... I think it is just anxiety .....aaargh.

I have even read Amanda Holden saying she always felt funny about her liitle boy who sadly died....then I think that's me... Sorry to put a downer on this...feeling weepy now so better stop

Sorry not to name check everyone but LOVING all the scan news/names !!

Evening all....just had to let you know about the bargains for sale in Mothercare! They have got a mid season sale....I bought today 12 white vests, 3 newborn sleep suits, a gorgeous shawl & a full price outfit, all for £35.50, then remembered I had a £5 off voucher, so got a big bag full for £30.50!..I practically skipped out!....there are loads of sleep suits/vests for both sexes reduced to half price!

www.mothercare.com/Mothercare-Boys-Helicopter-Sleepsuits-3pk/dp/B004IL1H4U?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_27&nodeId=1330956031&sr=1-27&qid=1316721824

I got these today!..They will be ds first sleepsuits after he is born!....

Sorry for all those feeling anxious, have to say, I felt exactly the same with ds1, I just couldnt see me having a baby....but I did!..& he was perfect :)

PS 22+1.....always forget to add that bit!....

PS the shawl was reduced from £18 to £5, you can get a boy/girl version!....

evening all. i am paranoid now over my hardly there bump - nearly 19 weeks and hardly showing at all - just my normal belly hanging out. does feel tight when i have trousers on so have started wearing leggings to work as its an office job. baby moving though!

will have a look in mothercare when i take DD 1 into town on sunday. really dont want to start buying stuff till after my 20 week scan but hey ho.

dont think it gets any easier anxiety wise with subsequent babes. i am worse with this one than i was ever with the other two! doesnt help when people comment on how small you are.

have weighed myself tonight as well and have lost 1/2 stone since i got pregnant :(

deardear, im still not back to my pre pregnant weight, I lost nearly a stone & a half in the first 17 weeks....

Phew - thats alot but does make me feel slightly better. Consultant doesnt help by saying i need extra sxans as i measured small last preg and small baby. Didnt feel small!!

My friend had no bump whatsoever until around 7 months!..She had a healthy 8lb+ baby! Im sure everything is just fine. I had hyperemesis which was awful, but has luckily calmed right down now. Ooh just think of the extra opportunities to see your lovely baby!...btw my sister-in-law was having fortnightly scans due to a low lying placenta, & they told her 4 weeks before delivering the baby weighed 8lb already!..She panicked & took all her new born clothes back as she was expecting a 10lb er!..He weighed just 7lb!..hence a crazy shopping dash for newborn clothes!

innocent , i don't feel bonded with this bump either, i can't remember when or if i did with DD. I was really disappointed when she was born too as I wanted a boy. However, the love really does come with time, probably different amounts of time for each person. You've got another 5 months with baby inside and a whole lifetime to get to know and love it when it is born. And most of us don't have to battle with the things you're battling with (being young and not knowing other mums, work being awful, money being tight). Do you know if there is a Sure start centre near you? I'm fairly sure they don't do antenatal stuff, but it might be worth getting in touch to see if they can put you in touch with other mums to be - and your teen group will be brilliant for that too. The minute you do have babyyou'll meet LOADS of people - look for church toddler groups, community centre toddler groups, sure start stuff. I hardly knew anyone before I had DD, now I know masses of people!!

Does anyone know anything about Goole? Just seen an interesting looking job advertised there for DH.

21 weeks roughly. ANd totally exhausted today, overdid it physically and DD hasn'tnappedand isnow struggling to sleep. Lady in Morrissons tonight told me i looked exhausted. SO itmust be true. SO, i should be asleep...

Hi ladies, I've not bonded with my -flabby- bump... And still feel like a massive lying fraud!

I've put on some pounds, but not loads, and not up to my top weight of a few years back... So just feeling fat, not pregnant!! I forget a LOT that I'm pg!!

Got some movements today again, but its a couple of pokes, then nothing for a few days. So not feeling it there either.

Hoping that changes over the next few weeks, brain is definitely not absorbing this as fact!!

Anyway, hope we all have a sleep filled comfy night, and a perky lovely day tomorrow x

I'm struggling to keep up with this thread!
Loads to say but instead i'm sharing the story of this little miracle baby
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-437236/Born-just-22-weeks--Amilla-allowed-home.html

If you google her there are pics of her now on the web. Amazing. Thats how big our babies are!

Yes, I still feel fat rather than pg, and yesterday a work colleague told me she hadn't realised (I'm 20 weeks!) so must still just look like I ate all the pies!

Not felt any movement yet either, but had a scan yesterday and definitely a wriggler in there!

Wow do we need a new thread yet? . Can't remember everything that has been said so sorry if I miss you but here goes.

crazybit I have bump envy. I have a work function next week and really want to look pregnant rather than fat.

kayano I am in Durham so not too far. bill there is an aqua natal class on a wednesday pm at freemans quay I think. Not sure about yoga but I saw an advert in sainsburys for parent and baby yoga and wondered if you could go to that while pregnant. Is on a Friday though I think when I am at work so didn't take any details. And there is an nct nearly new sale at new college durham in October.

phlossie we must have similar taste as I love all your names especially Persephone and Tabitha but DH has said no to both and Rufus! We just can't agree although he said he didn't mind Juno for a girl so I am hoping to convince him as I love it.

innocent and anyone else feeling anxious, keeping a pregnancy journal might help. I have just dug mine out from last time and started writing in it. It really helped to write things down and reading back has been good too as I had forgotten a lot of how I felt and it is similar to how I feel now so has reassured me. Have scared myself a bit reading the early days with DD though .

Got to go to work now .

Sorry forgot to say congrats on all the scans and

18+3

It's really upsetting me that every single anti natal swimming session I come across is between 9 and 5 on a weekday

It's so rubbish!!! I need to go to work!

Hi all, congrats on scans, and on reaching the halfway mark!

I have bump envy for all the teeny bumps, woman in Tesco asked when I was due yesterday, cos I was tired looking, she thought I was due next week! I am massive, lol. Was same for dd2.

Had second 20 week scan yesterday, baby was still hiding his face, so I had to go away, walk about, jiggle a bit and drink a bottle of lucozade for the sugar. It did work, but I felt like a complete plonker, jiggling my massive tummy in the middle of the car park!

We have names sorted, although fighting about which way round they'll be, either Thomas Alexander or Alexander Thomas! Dh wants it one way, I want the other.

Hello fellow Scots too! Am over towards the west, wee village in renfrewshire.

I'm in north wales just outside Chester so it would appear i'm miles away from anyone!
Whether I look fat or pregnant depends very much on what I wear... must try and make an effort!
I've put on my 1st stone. I usually gain about 3. I am sure most of that is my boobs they are huge!
19+2

Hey QueenFee you're possibly the closest to me. I seem to be in a black hole!! I'm just over the water and up the coast in Merseyside.

There's already been chuckles with me and some colleagues that I look like I have been on a pie binge Fortunately it is only on the tum, my face has remained the same, therefore it's all for the pregnancy and not because of the scoffs!!

oh and 16+6/17+6

I had my GP check up today, I heard the heartbeat on the doppler and everything seems fine.
For those who can't make it to antenatal yoga, there are some excellent videos on youtube just to get you started, I've started doing breathing and relaxation and some gentle yoga via my PC

18 weeks :)

PDog - I totally love Juno, but it has been vetoed by DH! I'd quite like it if bump was a girl because I prefer my girl names, and DD is more bothered than DH. Plus I'm close to my sister, and would like DD to have that too. On the other hand, after my scan I had a real 'I want a baby boy' pang.

For those who are feeling anxious - it doesn't lessen with each baby, it gets worse. And as woowa very wisely says, you don't always bond with your bump or even have love at first sight with your baby - I didn't with DS straight away - I think I was too bowled over by the process of giving birth. And he was a bit freaky-looking. But I can't express how much I adore him now. As for that Amanda Holden thing - she may have always felt something was wrong, but lots of women feel that and have healthy babies, it was just extremely sad that she was one of the few that didn't. Remember that people who lose babies and have sad or shocking stories (even if they turn out happily) get more media time than those who have straight forward pregnancies and healthy, full-term babies. Besides, I think that these feelings of anxiousness are to make us super-alert to what's going on inside us so we don't miss anything important. And that carries on into parenthood. I once rushed my dd to A&E because I thought she was having trouble breathing. By the time we got there she was fine, but I was a blubbering wreck and when I apologised for being insane, the lovely triage nurse said that mothers had to be over-alert in order to look out for their babies' health. I've never forgotten that.

Phew. Essay over. I'm very today. It's my birthday today and I'm wearing a fantastic pair of dungarees that I got on ebay! DH got me an amazing camera, and he's getting a take-away cooking me a meal tonight, then we're going to have a bath together and he's promised me a massage!

19+5 (and 32 today!)