MARTIANS 2014 - Thread 7: Are you due next March? Do you have wrecking balls for breasts? Getting moist over iCandys? Then come and talk shyte with us..

[PramQueen1971]

Thread 6

Oh Raspberry that's so tough. But all will be well tomorrow. I'm one to talk though, I've had 8 and 10 week scans and in still worried

Very gently done Magpie

Ugh, just thinking about the number of holidays (or lack there of) I've got left with work. I've had 4 of my 20 days off this year (holiday year runs Apr-Mar). But my boss, thinking he was doing me a favour, took 5 more days off me when I was off sick but has paid me full pay over that time. So I've still go 11, but I had my heart set on taking off Christmas with DH and the family this year. DH's work shuts for a fortnight over Christmas, so I would need 7 days to match that.

I also had my heart set on a holiday in the sun during this fabled second trimester of energy. Not had a holiday in years and seriously could do with a holiday! Not likely to have one after baby born.

Also need to visit the rellies who I haven't seem in months and months and who are scattered across the country & thus too far to see in just a weekend. My sister has an attic full of baby stuff for me, but I can't exactly drive to Kent from Cumbria on a Saturday and come back on the Sunday.

Anyway, I know I'm whinging and this is not a real problem, but there you go. I know I've been lucky to get full pay the whole time I was off sick, but to be honest I think the time off would have been more valuable than the money at this point.

I think I'm just tired and grumpy.

Maybe Ooh, my favourite, how did you know?? Actually, I'm so going to have a (S&V) crisp sandwich for lunch now.

We called ours Emmy the embryo, then Felix the foetus, and now I'm just calling it all the unusual names I love but DP hates in the hope he'll come round to one of them. He calls it whatever fruit it currently is according to his iPhone app (currently Peach). Hmm, I actually really like the name Peach.

Oh bugger, cross posted with people with serious worries. Sorry!

Raspberry easier said than done I know because I'm a natural born worrier too, but try to be positive. Your 8 week scan was good! Will be thinking of you. Good luck.

Hope your scan goes well tomorrow raspberry and the others who are being scanned.

16 weeks is 3 weeks away for me too magpie but as mw gets booked up I thought I was leaving plenty of time to get an appointment, clearly 3 weeks in advance is not far enough!

Sorry guys, just realised how pathetic I'm being. Think pregnancy hormones and tiredness finally catching up with me.

Maybe, my friend has a son called Ernie. Can't say I like it but all four of their DC have "old people" names so I guess that's their thing.

Fox, no reason you can't go abroad after the baby is born. DS2 went abroad for the first time when he was eight weeks old. DS1 when he was six months old. Babies are very portable.

Yeah, but it's got to be difficult? All the stuff they need? How do you go out for dinner? What do you do about car seats? There must be a billion other things I can't think of right now, what with not being familiar with babies.

I was packing away my summer clothes last night, none of which I've worn but I was thinking 'hey, at least I can still wear them on holiday!'. I know it was supposed to be a nice summer, but I can't remember it already! I'm not sure how it passed me by. I guess I was at work.

Oh dear, boss just asked if I'm ok and if I need to go home. He thinks I'm sick but really I've been having a little cry. I blame the preggo hormones completely.

Magpie do you have any ID?

Great news about healthy scans.

Jolls, kick her in the clunge.

I am disproportionately irked by some spotty twenty one-year old who I've just spoken to about viewing a rented property tomorrow. He asked whether th'usband earned over £15k. I said that's none of his business. He said they need to know if we can afford the property. I said the shithole at £475 is easily affordable and does he want to let this fucking property or not? Twat.

I've had my written Downs risk: 1 in 88,000.

Edamame, I really don't think an impatient husband has any right to insist on knowing the baby's sex if it is important to the woman to have the surprise. Because that's all it is, isn't it? Impatience.

I feel your pain Pram When we were trying to rent I was new to the area and no one was keen to let to us because I didn't have a job, but I couldn't get a job because I had no-where to live. Catch 22.

I'm going to join in - i am disproportionately irked by the fact BMW want £50 'investigation fee' to just look at the car before they do work on it (in this case it means plugging it into the machine that tells you exactly what's wrong, also the light that's on is fairly specific).

I asked if this would then be taken off the work like a deposit as I understood they might not want to tell you what was wrong with it then you scurry off somewhere else and get it done cheaper as their garage prices are daylight robbery and they said no, it was just to tell you what was wrong with it... amazing.

Great result Pram. Estate agents are knobs. Fact.

Grey I hate BMW. They are robbing bastards. Fact. You don't have to take it to BMW for the diagnostics, a local garage shoud be able to.

Pram - unfortunately hun I doubt you'll get anywhere legit unless you're willing to disclose th'usband's earnings.
The only time I haven't had to do this (and I've rented A LOT) was with an ex who rented off an elderly family friend. Said family friend saw no issue with letting himself into the house whenever he bloody well liked...EVEN AFTER HE ONCE WALKED IN ON US HAVING SOME QUITE KINKY SEX!

Glad you got such a low risk, Pram. Mine is much much higher but still classed as low risk so I'm not worrying.

Fox, car seats you can rent with your hire car and if you're bf you won't have to lug tons of feeding equipment around. Just some nappies and clothes. Most hotels will let you hire a cot.

maybe me too, never again, our warranty has just run out so i'm in shock at the actual costs, we were looking at the x3's but i am so glad we didn't get one, you don't realise how much it costs to just get the basics done with the expensive parts etc.

we usually would in this situation, but we actually don't really know the local area and are moving within the next few weeks so are just biting the bullet to know if we put it in one day it'll be done and mot'd and ready to go so we can get rid of the bloody thing and limit stress levels! i am just appalled at their prices though but just cant handle researching/messing around with local garages we don't know etc!

mummy I have the same issue - I tried to book the appointment in advance and was told they don't do anything more than a month in advance, and now I get told she has no appointments until mid October - argh...

My current issue is we're due to move soon, and into an area that's not traditionally covered by the hospital of my choice, I don't want to use the local hospital due to the number of issues (including deaths of newborns) at that hospital - can they force me to change hospitals? If they do - is it wrong to stay registered with my current GP even though I would have moved out of their catchment?

And as for going out for dinner, if they're very small they will probably sleep while you eat. XP and I ate out all the time when DS1 was tiny. He would sleep in his pram, and once in a car seat placed under the table so no-one even knew he was there

Jolls, not one other estate agent has asked specificlly what he earns, only that he has a job. He does earn above £15k but I wasn't happy with some random cut-off threshold which doesn't take into account we are viewing a shithole and neither of us drinks and therefore we have loads of money to spend

I am in an astonishingly bad mood today.

mtb i would just go with the plan you have, don't tell them any different and stay with your gp if it's possible x

Theyre cheeky ods Grey. Luckily MrM is an engineer so he could do most things himself and just order the parts, but on our last BMW the ABS unit went. BMW quoted more ths double what the local place cost

MTB they can't frce you to change hospital. My local hospital I now inundated with ladies from other hospitals transferring there care from dodgy hospitals.