Due March 2007 - No. 3

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New thread because the last one was giving me "Sorry, this thread is too big to accept new messages".
Onilly - sorry, yes I am sure it's due date - see here - "the Regulations apply to women expecting their babies on or after 1 April 2007.... If an employee's 'expected week of child-birth' falls before 1 April 2007 the old rules will apply."

Welcome Back Fox!

Good Luck to all those with scan this coming week... I know I was nervous about mine so I can't say relax... LOL

I think my scan woke LO one up! Since then its been kicking away! all times of day and night! unfortunaltley due to my insulation DH can't feel anything yet.

Piffle - sorry to hear you SPD isn't easing any

Kitty- I think that would freak me out being able to see movement! I had a freaky dream about something similar last week!

Eisvold, you must be nervous about the scan. Are you having dreams about it? I am about mine.

Fox, welcome back Do you feel you've had a great holiday despitew the setbakcs? Hope so? Did you strut you stuff or cover up?
DD3 is going great guns with the walking now, walks like Frankenstein though . She's started beating the next one up now. I must say dd2 had it coming. DD3 was going for dd2 so much in the supermarket trolley the other day that I had to take her out and put her in with the food. That was a mistake as she then bit into every of fruit .

Piffle, I think it's very noble of you to give in to your dp's wishes about not finding out the sex. I'm afraid I couldn't do that. I'd insist on pregnant person's rights, i.e. I was carrying it and I had to give birth and look after it have sleepless nights, lose my figure, wet myself , oh the list goes on and on . Seems fair enough to me
Awful about your spd, have you investigated "the Bowen technique'? It always worked wonders on mine.

Rosy, my spd was worse after dd2 that it was before she was born. I got it sorted though. Now my hips are lose and clunky, especially when I turn, no pain yet though.

morning ladies.

welcome back fox-glad you had a nice time.

i suddenly look very pregnant today,and have started waddling slightly.i think ive put on about 5lb overnight.
dp felt the baby move for the first time last night,he was very pleased and then decided we had to think of a name...at 1am!i told him we should really wait till after the scan tomorrow.i am worried as well seeing as i didnt have any tests.

20+5

Diva any news from HA yet??

Kitty - LOL at your DD 3 keeping nice and quiet in the trolley, munching all the fruit

Eids - good luck with your scan (fingers, toes and ovaries crossed for you )

The great thing about going on cheap package holidays is you get to sunbathe alongside lots of fat people

fox-no,im still waiting to look at the house.i rang them on friday and they said the repair people still have the keys and theyll phone me on monday.still waiting...i know its not their fault im just a very impatient person.

kitty-youre lucky to have a walking baby.dd2 still isnt doing very much and isn't sleeping properly at night now either-she just doesnt need the sleep as she doesnt use any energy.i want her to crawl!

Hello everyone, mind if I join you? I'm new to Mumsnet so please excuse the longhand! I'm due with 2nd baby early March - had scan last week and all fine. Looking for a bit of moral support really - should be feeling exciting about pregnancy but am feeling quite down. First child (DD now 2) was very hard work - although I was living overseas with no family support. Am worried about propspect of coping with two. Can't seem to cheer myself up and am hoping it's just the hormones. Have also just moved to a new area and don't know anyone which doesn't help. Sorry to mope on my first thread! Congratulations to everyone and good luck to you all having scans this week.

ello kitskat, a` very warm welcome to you. Don't worry about the moaning, we're all moany here alot of the time that's what mn is here for, support and a place to moan. Opps dd3 has just thrown up all over me, nice, bye x

Ooh I say, just put on a pair of trousers that fitted ok last week now they are very, very tight on tum, legs and bum. So, both me and baby are growing apace. I know it's normal, but I'm not happy me.
I think time of Kitty the fat maggoty grub creature is approaching. soon i'll be getting stuck on the floor

Welome back fox and hello to kitscat .

Kitskat, where have you been living abroad and where have you moved to now ? We are all quite spread out geographically i think - maybe someone lives near you ?

Hi Kitskat and welcome - we're all pretty hormonal on here a lot of the time so free to have a moan if you're feeling down in the dumps. Its nice to have you on board. Whoowhoo and I are due 3 March, are you around the same time?

Where abouts have you recently moved to?

Hi Kitskat, when my ds2 came along, dd was just under 2 and took 3 months to settle when new one arrived. But ds2 was so easy and endlessly entertained by dd. Now they are fantastic company and entertain each other. Not sure how I am going to cope in March with another little one though....I think I'm going to be found in the 'not sleeping and not coping' threads!

KitsKat welcome - I can remember feeling really down when pg with ds because dd (who was 2) had been hard work and I couldn't imagine coping with a baby on top of everything - also dh was working stupid hours and there wasn't much family support nearby.

All I can say is that it wasn't as bad as all that and when ds was born he was actually major entertainment for dd (until he began crawling and stealing her things).

Having similar feelings of foreboding with thought of no.3. However, I think this has more to do with the thought of going through baby/toddler stage again when I had really thought I'd left it far behind (dd is 9 and ds is 7). Just goes to show you should never say never again!

P.S. Can I join the low-lying placenta gang please fox?
22+2 (boy)

Hiya Kitskat... and welcome home Fox!! Holiday sounds fab... I'm sure there was more to it than those arguments / ailments

Got your iron yet Rosy??? I'm a great procrastinator too .

Kitskat... hope that things improve for you! I'm concerned about living abroad / no familiy around too since I'm a million zillion miles away from home. It's only now that we're on our own with number 2 on the way that I am beginning to appreciate everything our families did for us. I've got a big age gap like you Muppet and feel afraid about going through it all again. Dd is 10 now, but I'm determined / hopeful that I won't be giving birth to another only child .

We'll all meet again in those threads in a few months Rosy!!!!

welcome kitscat

the age gap i found the hardest was between dd1 and ds2-dd1 was 4.5 and just started school full time,ds1 was 5.5 and had been at school a year.i had been looking forward to getting some time to myself again then i had to start from scratch with a new baby.
having dd2 when ds2 was 2.5 was easier,apart from trying to stop him attacking her every 5 minutes as he was too young to understand she was a delicate baby.shes getting her own babck now though

IME baby no.1 is the most difficult though!i found once i had two things got alot easier.

im getting very nervous about scan now.

Hi everyone!

Welcome to the wonderful world of Mumsnet kitskat! You'll find loads of support on here - hope we can make you feel better. Just for the record: I'm pregnant with my first, and I'm miserable about 60% of the time. (Largely due to vomiting, which is also why I wasn't around this weekend).

Good luck with your scans everyone! Eidsvold: I hope you get good news. Bet you will! That's a 49/50 chance of no heart defect too.

Even though I'm due really early in March mine's not until Tuesday week.

Welcome back Foxy! Sorry to hear about the blips, but hope you had good time anyway.

piffle: glad to hear your SPD's not so excrutiating, but about the crutches. You'll have to be like me and think how long we longed for that BFP.

Mine's kicking really hard now. In fact, he kicked so hard just after dinner last night that he made me throw up. Nice.

EDD 3/3
22+1

Diva, your scan's tomorrow isn't it? You will let us know as soon as you can won't you, it's all sooo exciting

Also just thought after tomoorow the spooky names should go. Shall we get some bonfire ones and then some Christmas ones? I like changing names

Also just thought after tomorrow the spooky names should go. Shall we get some bonfire ones and then some Christmas ones? I like changing names

Also just thought after tomorrow the spooky names should go. Shall we get some bonfire ones and then some Christmas ones? I like changing names

Sorry about that our internet is playing up

hi everyone hope it's ok if i join you? i'm due 30/3/07 with baby 2; dd is 4 in january. could do with some moral support and would be fun to follow thru the pregnancy with some different people.. (i'm a total misery atm tho so not sure how much fun i'll be ).

are there any single mums on this thread? i split with dd's dad when she was just under 2 and got together with dp soon afterwards. however he isn't around now (won't go into that on my first thread tho, you'll thank me ) not sure if that situation is temporary or permanent, but i'm currently dealing with dd, work and the pregnancy alone, intermittently depressed and lonely, and a bit getting sick of happy fluffy pregnant women with beautifully manicured toe-nails and gorgeously selected maternity wear (bitter, me? )

good luck to every1 having scans, mine is on fri; i had a nuchal fold scan at 13 weeks and can't wait to see the baby again tho am nervous about the medical side of it..

anyway many congrats on all your pregnancies

Thanks for the words of welcome everyone - am already feeling better - despite having just returned from my first pregnancy exercise class and can hardly move! I've just moved to Bournemouth after 5 years in the States. Busy trying to meet a few friendly faces - anyone from East Dorset out there?!

cath28 - I am due that day too.

with dd1 - when we first found out they actually said she a different heart defect ( local hospital) very serious but not so good prognosis - lots of open heart surgeries in the first year and a transplant in teen years - if they survive that long.

Shipped off to harris birthright trust at Kings for fetal cardiac scan - told she had what is called - complete atrial ventricular septal defect - still very serious especially without surgery. But very good prognosis with surgery. We were actually so relieved that the fetal cardiologist was so surprised we were so calm until he read my notes and saw what the initial diagnosis was.

At 8 weeks old dd1 had two open heart surgeries - basically involved putting two patches in her tiny heart and some stitches in her AV valve. three story post op weeks later and she was home and has never looked back. I think I could cope with something like that - long term care with two other children now - not so sure. However if it is the one dh has - he just has meds and survived up to 43 without it being diagnosed so no biggie really.

no dreams about scan and whilst I am mindful of what 20 weeks can bring - really calm. Haven't asked dh if we will ask about the gender. Probably will but as I think I said earlier baby will probably foil us like dd2 did.

Just a hectic day - drop dd1 at sn kindy, supposed to go to a toy party - but have to cancel that as I need to go and get some bits and pieces for the girls and pay bills - so much easier with one.

then grab dd1 early from kindy and race off to hospital for scan.

Then bring two grumpy tired children home ( scan is at noon - their lunch and nap time! ) don't really have anyone to leave them with and thought they might like to come.

good luck with it all eidsvold, hope it goes ok for you and nice to meet you