Good luck to everyone having a scan today!
Happy Birthday to you, Vivee! Hope you have fun things planned .. and cake! Cake is very important!
Glad you're happier about your dates sundae and hurray for your waving bean! It's a difficult one whether to tell people before 12 weeks. If you're worried about MC, the private clinic I went to for 8 week scan said my chances of MCing dropped from 20% to 2% after 8 weeks (and you can halve that if you're under 35). So, on that basis I'd say you're in a pretty good place. But you might just want to keep it to yourselves for a wee while, anyway. I know DH and I enjoyed it being a secret for a while then sharing it with all and sundry (apart from my boss who is the only person in the world who doesn't know! ? waiting for him to come back from hols and then for a face-to-face meeting, eek).
Funny I'm seeing consultant obstetrician for first time next week, but for different medical reasons. Not sure how often I'll have to go back but I think I will remain high risk throughout pregnancy, regardless of any of the medical conditions, because it's twins and first birth.
Kirsty I think they need to combine the blood tests I had with MW were for my health - and they phoned the next day with two problems (low potassium + borderline u/active thyroid) - but at the hospital for 12wk scan on Sat they took new bloods and did nuchal test and now I'm waiting for the combined results of those (tho they didn't feel anything was wrong from the visual measurements they took).
Pip oh dear, I feel your crossness! How bloody annoying. Hope somehow it can be sorted out so he can be there. My DH hasn't got a diary. He is clueless. He didn't even know that it was a bank holiday on Mon till I told him (and pre-me had a history of turning up to work on Saturdays or BH Mondays!!) But, thankfully his job requires him just to commune with a computer and rarely to do anything else, so I can be in charge of the diary and I just shepherd him about as and when...
Backward well done on the final TMA! And good luck for revision! In addition to my main job, I also serve as an associate lecturer on one of the OU's humanities courses in the south region and it's by far and away the most rewarding univ teaching I've done. Yay for OU students!
What a nice boss Three!
Bless your OH for that morning cup of tea, JoJo! What a star! And how great just to crack on with the work on the house. What an oddly precise figure, but how reassuring that it's a very good stat! Last night's butternut squash dinner was lovely. Had it with the last batch of peas and some of our endless supply of French beans from the lottie. And I roasted all the squash so we'll have it again tonight with cous cous! And since you ask (you may regret it!!) ?. I've not done so well on the book this week but I have done a lot of administrative stuff - sent off two abstracts for Calls for Papers, sorted out mat. leave with the OU, done a big publicity drive for a conference I'm organising, cancelled talks etc I was scheduled to do Feb/Mar, dealt with first round of queries from copy-editor for a book that's in press, and - most importantly - got my editor to agree to a couple of extra weeks for the book that's supposed to be in on Friday, woop! Really pleased about that tho the timing is pants as I need to get it in and move on because boss has been very good in letting me have the summer off to write it and I'm about to put major spanner in works re mat. leave. Sorry for essay! So, I have a bit of breathing space re book but can't afford to slack off any more as it's business as usual with my job from next week, yikes!