October 2012 - The pips are sprouting shoots and roots! Lots less puking lots more blooming. 2nd trimester here we come!!

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Hope this will do ladies

That's lovely news, Bubble the first little girly on the thread! Is anyone else having a gender scan? I considered booking a private one but seen as our 20 week one is 3 weeks away today, might as well save the money and wait. If for any reason they can't see, I will be booking a private one, however. I'm way too impatient to wait another 20 weeks to find out :o

Is anyone else an emotional wreck? I actually burst into tears over absolutely nothing this morning. It was actually the most random thing ever, one minute I was fine, the next minute my eyes just started leaking eveywhere, I wasn't even doing anything except washing up and although I hate washing up with a passion, it's never reduced me to tears before ;)

Can't remember who it was that suggested just typing 'baby' into Ebay and selecting 'nearest first' but thank you! I just found a gorgeous swinging crib less than 5 miles from me, and a loooovely bouncy chair that swings and vibrates and everything, both with no bids on. Fingers crossed I win :o

It also comes up with lots of collection only baby clothing bundles as well. A lot of the time collection only stuff doesn't attract many bidders, so could be some really good bargains to be found :o

Thunder I'm glad to see you spent more than me!!

Hetty This is dangerous...I've just done the same with eBay and now "watching" a few cribs ranging from 99p to £5. With ds we carried the Moses basket upstairs and downstairs each day but a £5 crib would be much better than doing that again! I've promised myself I wouldn't pay more than £5 £10. Otherwise it's not a bargain.

Ds loved it at his new nursery today. He is starting properly next week

X post with Thunder

please will you lend me some money because you're costing me a bloody fortune!!

It is dangerous, I seem to have got rather carried away and planned an entire nursery out in my head :o But I'm justifying it to myself by saying the more things I find cheaper now, the more money we save in the long run. It makes sense to me, at least...

Evening everyone,

It's nice to hear about all your shopping antics! Lol they have made me chuckle!

Well I'm really hoping to have our results back tomorrow, I've pinned my hopes that tomorrow is when we should get them and it is 2 weeks since the tests. Last week I was ok but I've really felt it this week, I NEED RESULTS!

Hope everyone else is good. I'm 18 weeks tmrw!

Will be thinking of you Winnie. Really hoping for a positive result for you

Congrats, Bubble!

Just checking back in - nothing to report here. 18 weeks today, apart from a slight tummy can barely tell I'm preggers. All v dull, really. Bring on the 20 weeks scan and (hopefully) a little willy

Good luck winnie will be thinking of you. Lets us know how you get on

I agree mickey these are the non-weeks that just drag til the next scan! Roll on 20 weeks for us all

Congrats Winnie - I'm joining you on 18 weeks tomorrow! Hope your test results come through.

Woohoo bubble for a little girl!

Off to check out Izzy oliver now, not as good sale price today but still good!

Evening. Seems like every one is shopping apart from me. I had a rather boring day at work today - meetings back to back from 9.30 til 4.30. We decided to tell DD that "there is a baby growing in mummy's tummy" this evening. She was so excited and is insisting on taking a scan photo to nursery tomorrow.

Winnie, I hope you get the result you need tomorrow.

Had my 18-20 week scan this morning (I'm 18+5ish) and the baby looks like it has all the right bones and organs. It wasn't being totally cooperative at facing the right way, but the sonographer said she was reasonably sure that it was a girl. I totally thought it was going to be a boy! But that's another point for the heartbeat guessing game. I think we're just going to tell people after all, and hope we don't get given too many pink things...

Two girls now! How exciting! Congratulations, pinpan, that's lovely news :) If they're not pretty much 100% sure what they can see I think they usually refuse to tell you the sex in case you sue them or something - they certainly do here, anyway.

Woohoo Pinpan! Congratulations! Two little girls in the thread, how lovely

Heartbeat test has been 100% correct so far!

Just popping on to say good luck to winnie for today...hope your results come through!

Another girl....I see a tend emerging here!

I'm still all snoozetired. DH just wrote a poem about seeing the inside of his daughter before he even sees her face. It made me cry! Going to have to hide it away until her 18th birthday, or some other suitably embarrassing situation.

Thunder, one of my friends wanted to know the sex but her DH didn't, and she had to agree not to find out - I think it's too hard to keep it from your other half, so you end up having to compromise one way or the other. We weren't going to tell anyone else, but that went out the window pretty quick. We're still all, "it's probably a girl," though - I think I need to keep a little bit of scepticism just in case. (CaptainHetty, I think if anyone suggested suing for getting it wrong in NZ, they'd just laugh and say "toughen up!" )

Good luck Winnie!

Ok so deep breath and count to 10, I just rang the hospital as I couldn't 'just wait' and leave it for them to ring me. No results yet, they can take quite a while so they said if they haven't come back by Tuesday next week then to ring them back and they will chase! Oh my goodness I can't bear waiting any longer this is seriously doing my head in

Oh that's crap Winnie. I can't believe that there aren't proper processes in place for this kind of stuff. Boooooo!!

Winnie I'm sorry that things are taking so long. I really hope that you hear back soon.

Had my midwife appointment today. Booked in to see the consultant again at 21 weeks hopefully they will schedule my csection.

Hope everyone is well

I just need to share something...hope nobody minds. I can't really chat to dp about it at the moment....

DP just rang his mum for a general chat. She was being a bit weird, and also he could hear his niece and nephew in the background. When he asked why they were there on a school night (not odd really, they are there a lot but he was just asking in general) his mum was really cagey. It turns out his sister has gone to the hospital. It took a good few minutes to find out why she had gone to hospital. I could hear DP asking "but you must know why, she wouldn't just go to the hospital for no reason" I knew inside what was going on. She's pregnant, we had suspected, no idea how far along as she hadn't told us but now she's at the hospital and we don't know why... I just feel so sick. My miscarriage is still quite raw, and I feel quite selfish to be thinking about me when I've absolutely no idea what is going on with her. Everything could be fine, but you don't just leave your kids (I mean, go to the trouble of arranging childcare etc on a school night) for no reason God I hope everything is ok

Sorry for the thread downer.....