Due in September 2006... into the 2nd trimester... hopefully blooming soon!!

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Scan was amazing. Saw bladder, kidneys, heart, with 4 chambers, spine from 3 different angles, thighbones, shin bones and feet, little hands, brain. It lasted for 15 mins and the sonographer talked us through the whole thing. And, we found out

And we met baby Elizabeth

BRILLIANT

So pleased for you.
Are you going to tell me before i go for my girls?

(I won't tell anyone)

Great+++++++++

chat later you happy lady you+

TELL US!!!!!!!!!
PLEEEEEEEASE

(well ok you don't have to if you don't want to)

I have gone in to full on nesting mode today washing curtains, cleaning windows DH will think he's come home to the wrong house - either that or think i've had a nervous breakdown

yaaaaaaaaay! so happy for you....!

my cheeks hurt!

Congratulations Cal

Calnemjoe - wow how gorgeous! Am so excited for you!

Keep having thoughts now about wanting to know the sex even though I have all along said I didn't want to! It just all sounds so exciting!

wow, congratulations Calvenjoe LexyB - I forgot you were a midwife, sorry it's so busy at work and so understaffed. They've cut our midwives round here too - used to be one in every doctor's surgery but now they've sent them all back to the hospital - to how it was 10 years ago!!

Congrats Calvemoe! My 20wk scan isn't until 5 May - think I will burst with the waiting - I'm v impatient!! and I want to know the sex too cos I'm nosy and I think it will help DH accept the reality of impending fatherhood!

Off to Lille tomorrow so will catch up with your posts on Sunday. Still felt v little in the way of movement but definately needing maternity wear now - nearly lost my low rise jeans today whilst they slid down my arse!

Congratulations to Calvemjoe!! DS seems to be convinced ours is a girl too. Your post made me all the more anxious for our scan, to check everything out. Meant it's next Tuesday; Wed. we leave on vacation. I'm EXHAUSTED today. Met two Mormons at the door & explained there's no way we'd be converting, as right now I just couldn't do without caffeine.

Woodelf, we like to find out the sex because i studied developmental psychology at uni and beieve that they learn a lot when they are still inside.

Thanks for everyones lovely posts.

Marls, lol at the caffine, bless you.

Here's hoping for more energy for everyone soon x

Congratulations calvemjoe , how exciting!!

DH is adament that he does not want to know the sex so we will not be finding out the sex. Everybody is saying that the baby is probably a girl. I am not bothered as long as he/she is healthy.

Has anybody got a nickname for their bump? DH used to call DS Smedley and this one is getting called myrtle

Wow Calvemjoe! The developmental psychology sounds fascinating - do tell more! Am v into psychology myself ( am counsellor & hypnotherapist) so I'm hoping to be using self-hypnosis techniques during the labour - will be a big experiment

Hope everyone's feeling well this morning!

Calvemjoe....a girl..how wonderful!!!!!

Like you Bella, think it's all so exciting & quite tempting but I'm not going to find out! I'll just have to enjoy everyone else finding out in the meanwhile :o Am off for a coffee - after 4 months of not being able to bear the stuff I'm back to my old ways...hurrah! (just one a day mind:o)

Woodelf, I just believe from the moment they can hear they are learning. They can recognise mothers voice at birth so why shouldn't they be able to recognise other things?
We already play a lullabye machine to bump, the one that we will use when she is born so it's familiar and we try to wake her up for ds's bedtime story, so that she can be part of that routine when she is born. I also talk to her all the time, my friends without children think I'm losing it and my ds's started talking to his tummy!

Woodelf – I nearly choked on my tea reading about you nearly losing your hipster jeans – very amusing!
Yes I suddenly seemed to have grown over the last week and am desperately trying to buy some maternity clothes. I had a big spending spree on the net so am eagerly awaiting those and am going to have a mooch round the shops tonight to see what I can pick up.

Puppy – very amusing about your DH calling your bump Myrtle – very sweet.

Woodelf – might sounds a daft question but what difference does it mean knowing the sex as to what it can learn in the womb?? Very interesting stuff

Well am so wishing away today and tomorrow so that I can start the Easter bank holiday – hoorah!! Am going to pop down to Brighton for a bit of sea air and some fish & chips.

Hope you are all are having a good day so far

Morning everyone!

Well, a hormonal day today - have already managed to fight with DH on the way to work and burst into tears twice at my desk, and I've only been here 40mins

Calvemjoe - that's great news - I'm so pleased for you! We are also going to find out the sex, and DH has taken to calling the bump she. Also we nicknamed it LP from the start for little person, so it wasn't so impersonal.

I too hit domestic goddess status on monday when cleaning out my kitchen cupboards was the most important thing to be done, as was all the household filing - don't know what got into me!

have a great day everyone

Hi all
hope evryone's ok on this bright sunny morning (well it is here)
Bella v. jeaous of you popping to brighton for fish and chips over the weekend. DH amd me used to do that alot when we lived 'down south' what a great way to spend the bank holiday!
A friend has just offered us 1st refusal on a jane powertwin (Think that's what it is) before he puts it on ebay. he wants 250 - 300 quid for it - seems a bit steep for a 2nd hand buggy. will do some research. I quite fancy the instep nipper or mothercare urban detour as I have heard good reports.
I saw someone out with one of those phil and teds ones last weekend. Poor baby looked like it was stowed away in the shopping basket - not v. impressed with that.

Lysettes - oh dear poor you having tears at your desk! Did you manage to laugh afterwards at your hormonal outburst?

Mabel - don't get to jealous at the thought of me going to Brighton as the chances are it will be chucking it down and windy as hell!! Arh the joys of british days out by the sea

Have a good time at the sea mabel, we are going for a day out to skegness tomorrow.

lysettes awww hope you feeling better for the rest of the day.

Does anybody ever feel like people are ignoring you when you post on mn? or is it my paranoia? feel like leaving at times maybe its the hormones.

Well better go and get dressed , dh is giving me the look.

OOh Puppy do they have donkeys on the beach ?

Hope the weather is fine for you.

puppy - it's bella going to the sea side - not me (blame the hormones) although I quite fancy dipping my toes in some icey water - might wake me up!
Who's ignoring you hun? I have often started threads and nobodies responded and felt a bit dejected ! it's not just you!!! ( i did start one about chickens the other day - so to be fair it was pretty obscure).
Have a gret time at skeggy tommmrow - haven't been there for years!

Hi Puppy
Another one jealous of the trip to Brighton. I really miss pre-children weekends awy with dh!!
I am getting nervous about finding out the sex. Dh says he won't be disappointed if it's another ds but I think deep down he will be. Me on the other hand quite like the idea of 2 boys and being the only girl of the family!!