Due in November 2006 Part 3

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seeing as the ;ast thread has over 1000 posts i thought it was time for a new one!

Hi all,

Did both quizes but not sure about the labour one as DP was an emergency C-section 3 weeks early! Gender prediction said 60/40 boy / girl but will perhaps do it again when I can feel kicks and remember to ask about heart rate!

Had my 16 week check and all's well - heard the baby's heartbeat for the first time - it was so lovely, I cried like the girl I am :) evrything fine, Dr really pleased. Next milestone is the 20 week scan on 5 July.

Tinasan, so sorry to hear about your friend. When I lost my last one in November, my friend was pg with twins and whilst she was really understanding, I was a bit weepy the first time I saw her. I def think asking her what she would like to do is the way forward.

How lovely NJ to be in the garden with the laptop, I have been looking at the sunshine from the office window!

Did both quizzes - I also got 47/53!! Need to tie my wedding ring to a piece of hair and hold it over my belly - circles for a boy, back and forth for a girl?? (can never remember these things) Pretty much expect this one to be another boy - a girl would be wonderful but a boy would slot in easier and inherit all his brothers hand me downs for ever more (poor wee mite) and thus save me a small fortune - hooray!

Labour quiz I could have told you myself - late baby, born in the afternoon, 8hr labour and 9lb 7oz (plus) baby.

NJ totally agree - wouldn't be without a laptop now - still sitting in the garden looking out to the firth of forth and the sea with the birds chirping away - bliss. Just too bad that large G&T will have to wait for another 6 m (might just have to have a wee one now I've mentioned it - naughty but occassionally necessary)

I'll listen extra carefully to the heartbeat tomorrow when the midwife comes and let you know

Tinasan - huge apologies - I completely overlooked your post .

How terrible for your friend - was it her first? I remember my friend telling me she had just miscarried as I turned up to her dd b'day party. I was about 16 weeks pg with ds 3 and it was all I could do not to break down in front of her. I sent her a card but I did feel gulity about my own healthy pg and my own lack of every having miscarried (to my knowledge anyway). She was really strong and philosophical - but I did feel terrible for ages afterward. Really hard to know the best thing to say or do unless you've had the same experience and even then everyone deals with things so differently.... Not much help then really

Tinasan - I also had a miscarriage last year, when my two closest friends were 6 months pregnant. The best thing is, as everyone said, to ask her - I was able to talk to both of them and v grateful of their support. I did find it very hard though when their babies were born - found it almost impossible to be interested in them, never mind pick them up, and this only really sorted itself out when I got pregnant again, so perhaps be prepared for that.

I seem to be developing my own prediction methods here; dreamt very clearly last night that it would be a girl - saw it on the scan. So we will wait and see (although we had decided that we wouldn't find out at the scan!)

And hurrah for wireless laptop. I am in bed (as so often seems to be the case) with one of the aforementioned two cats!

Tinasan, so sorry to hear about your friend. A friend of mine had a miscarriage shortly after I got pregnant. She kept telling me that she was fine and was doing well with the miscarriage - and then I told her I was pregnant and she cried. I felt so horrible and felt like a completely moo for telling her and that I wasn't supportive. I've never had a miscarriage so don't really know what it's like - but I would think just being there for her and an being a shoulder to cry on.

Did the predictor test - 67% girl and the labour test said to be ready a couple weeks early. But didn't have a clue about DH labour so couldn't answer that part. Just as long as I don't go overdue by 2.5 weeks like when I had DS2.

Ah, World Cup starts tonight and so goes my tv viewing. I officially become a football widow tonight. DH is a fanatic!

Tinasan, so sorry to hear about your friend. A friend of mine had a miscarriage shortly after I got pregnant. She kept telling me that she was fine and was doing well with the miscarriage - and then I told her I was pregnant and she cried. I felt so horrible and felt like a completely moo for telling her and that I wasn't supportive. I've never had a miscarriage so don't really know what it's like - but I would think just being there for her and an being a shoulder to cry on.

Did the predictor test - 67% girl and the labour test said to be ready a couple weeks early. But didn't have a clue about DH labour so couldn't answer that part. Just as long as I don't go overdue by 2.5 weeks like when I had DS2.

Ah, World Cup starts tonight and so goes my tv viewing. I officially become a football widow tonight. DH is a fanatic!

hi everyone, still way too much to catch up on hope all are ok. feel like i have a bit more energy recently, even tho i still have some sickness, this hot weather is doing me no favours at all tho!!
have started doing things again, like sorting my wedding out, cant believe its less than 3 months away now!!!!!

Tinasan - I am so sorry to hear about your friend - I have had similar experiences to others on here - when I was pg last time there were 4 of us all pg at the same time and one had a m/c at 10 weeks, it was heartbreaking so I cannot imagine what it must have been like for her. She is now the proud Mum of a 9 month old so things turned out well in the end!

I have just done the labour prediction quiz, taking it with a pinch of salt!

I had some acupuncture the other day to help with my nausea, the following morning I felt better but today am back to normal retching. Am now 16 weeks - it must go away soon surely!!!!

just did that test and got 67% chance of a girl! lol, guessed the stuff about sides of kicking and high and low kicking, oh and the heartrate.

i dramt it is a girl, my mums dreamt its a girl, i look exactly the same as i did with dd, i think its a girl! lol would be great, but thing is dp would really like a boy at some point, and i told him b4 having dd that id like 3, that means il have to go through this again!!!!!!! arrrggh!

the labour quiz says il be 1-2 weeks early and have a 10hr labour and the baby will weigh 7lb, exactly what i told it about dds labour/birth then! lol, oh well its all good fun. i know i wont go overdue anyway, my family dont do that!

LOL Stacey, we decided we would like 2 before we had DS, get the feeling this won't be my last though!!

Tina, just like grief, your friend could handle this in a number of ways. I think the tree idea is good, but she will have to come to terms with things in her own way. That doesn't mean you can't be there while she finds her way.

Apparently I have an 80% chance of having a girl and my labour (considering my mam was induced with me, and DH was a prem twin) is 1-2 wks early (late with DD1, early with DD2, EDD for DD3) in the morning (evening, morning, afternoon), 7.7lb (7.6, 7.9, 8.4!) and labour lasts 6h (11h, 6.5h, 3.5h). So personally I think (well OK hope) that it will be a shorter labour, and think it will be heavier esp as at last mw apt she said I was measuring big.

tinasan im going though a similar thing right now, so i know how you feel. one of my closest friends was due in september, but last week went into labour without realising, and delivered a son at the hospital. the hospital said it was too early so they couldnt do anything, so she held him until he stopped breathing. i have no idea what to say to her now. its all so sad :(

Tina, my best friend lost her first as i became pg, so i felt really bad when i told her at 12 weeks, she could'nt even look at me very difficult, my mum, sister and friend had all been in similar positions before and advised me to give her space and send her the odd text to let her know i'm thinking off her and if she wants me she'll come to me. So far i just get polite reply's but don't want her to feel strange around me. I would say the same as the others let her take the lead.

I got 48/52 in the gender test so none the wiser there lol.

Hi everyone,
Thanks so much for all your kind messages and advice. I'm really sorry for everyone who said they had miscarriages too - I guess I just naively didn't understand how common it is. Sighkotika - how absolutely terrible for your friend - it's everybody's nightmare come true isn't it. Anyway, I've texted and phoned and left a message anyway for her so hopefully she'll at least know that I'm there for her if she wants to talk. It was the first baby for both of us - we both got married last year too, and were so excited to be doing it together.

For the gender thing - at my nuchal scan they told me it was 80% likely to be a girl but on the quizzes I seem to be 50/50 - we've got our 20 week scan next Friday so I'm really hoping to find out then!

Tinasan

Isn't it scary all of the things can can go wrong? :( It always seems so unfair as well.

Sorry to change the subject, but did somebody on here say they had bought a Bebe Confort Loola buggy a while ago? Or am I going stir crazy?

Hi NJ, it was me (or rather I wanted one and my FIL found a nearly new one on the boot fair for £50!) Although I have had a play with the one in Mothercare, I haven't actually seen mine yet!

Hi to everyone else!

Firstly thank you for all the kind messages - I did have some delayed shock - I've been really weepy - but I'm started to feel frequent flutters which must be the baby (also a very strange 'washing machine sensation' - usually when I'm just getting ready to sleep)- it's quite reassuring. Will see madwife next week (the one I was supposed to see originally before she broke her arm)and will find out more. Another piece of good news, my MS is fading quite a lot. Bad news is - car needs a lot of work - which bites into our deposit for our home move next month. Still "c'est la vie".

LadyAnne, I am glad you are feeling better now, and must be a relief to feel the baby moving after such a shock :)

Jen, I knew someone had said something about buying one, I looked all the way through our old threads and couldn't find it!! We are off to Mothercare tomorrow to have a play before finally deciding, but just wondered if you have already had already seen it, if it is the sort of buggy you would take on a bus to town with a new born and a 5 year old?

Lady Anne - glad to hear you are feeling better and you can feel the baby move - that must be so reassuring. Shame about the car but at least it can be fixed.

NJ - The Loola seems really easy to use and does seem as though it would go on a bus well. Think it is even one handed collapse so you could manage with your DS as well! You may want to see what other MN'ers have to say though as this is my first baby so I have no experience of a 5 year old on a bus (although I will in 5 years!)

I am now the proud owner of 2 Wilkinet slings which I will be using for bus journeys and such for the first few months. Think I am going to find this easier than a pram because I am partially sighted and a very bad judge of distance so am a bit lethal with a buggy!

Suppose everyone is watching the WC atm. Dh is, I have 'let' him!

Hello everyone :)

Thanks Jen, I asked on the 'products' thread and most said it was quite heavy and wide, which hasn't really put me off because we do have nice buses (well as nice as they get I suppose!!) with a low step to get on, so I should be OK, I never once had to fold DS's buggy down to use the bus so not really sure why I was so bothered!!

Have been doing some bargain hunting today, and have bought a baby swing (you know one of the battery operated ones?), a rocking/bouncing chair, a playpen, a bumbo seat, and a mat thing that goes on the floor that is full of water for the baby to pat about on (don't quite know what the technical name is for it!!!) all brand new and delivered for under £150 :o I am quite proud of myself, and DH is kicking himself for watching the football and leaving me to my own devices for the afternoon, I don't think it has ever cost him that much to watch a game before!! LOL Can't wait for it all to get here now, I have bought the odd things up to now, like blankets and the odd little outfit, but this is the first big shop!!

Hope everyone enjoys the rest of the weekend! :o

Hiya all,

Hope you're enjoying the sun!

To follow NatalieJane's 'shopping' theme, does anyone know where I can get a new sofa within a reasonable delivery time. I've just moved out of rented accomodation into my first home and am trying to buy a sofa to lounge about on as I get bigger (so far only got dining chairs and the floor), but most of the shops I've investigated quote delivery times that mean the sofa will arrive after the baby is born!

Appreciate any advice!

Hi Bethbe - have you tried DFS? Think their lead times are quite good... other than that, on line might be an idea (means you can avoid all the ohter shoppers as well. Ikea (please don't laugh) is also an option, we have got a great sofa bed from there?

Hope that helps.

Far too hot here, we are stuck in a 2nd floor flat with no garden and I have just had to bake a cake for my Mum's DP as it is his birthday this week and I am the only one who can bake his fave carrot cake! I'm afraid I am not enjoying this weather...