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Due May 07 - Thread for w/c 30/10/06

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twelveyeargap · 30/10/2006 09:53

Morning!

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jellybeans · 02/11/2006 20:51

Hi will add my stats....

WaspElly - live in Southampton, ds (15 months)EDD 1st May - 7 sheets to date
Skytvaddict-Live in Lincolnshire-DD1 (10), DD2 (6), mc April 06 - EDD 2 May - still 9 and a bit sheets - chinese gender prediction - girl
Jessinwa - live in seattle, wa, usa - ds 1 year - edd 2nd may
Aprilmeadow - live Hampshire, DS 18mths. EDD 3rd May - 7.5 pieces of bog roll to date
largeginandtonic-live in Portsmouth, dts 8, dd 6, ds 4, ds 19mts EDD 3rd May
Tyakit - Live in essex, DD 3yrs 10mths, 3 previous MCs. EDD 6th May
Katybump- Live in Manchester, ds1 10, ds2 6, edd May 13th
Megglevache -Live in KENT ds 2 5 yrs mc last April- EDD 15th May -9 pieces of bog roll to date
ShowOfHands -Live in Norfolk- first baby- m/c in July 06 - EDD 17th May
Mummymelling - Live in Bath, 4 x DS's, EDD 17th May
Redbull- lives in birmingham with dp and ds who is 5 and ASD, EDD 21st may
12yeargap - Irish, live in N London, 2nd baby, DD 11, EDD 19th May, Scan 1st
Moomimin _ Originally from Bournemouth UK, now Live in SW France, ds 3+10mths dd 14mths EDD May 21st.
Pebblemum - Portsmouth, ds1(9), ds2(3), EDD 23rd May 9 sheets to date
Gingerbear - South Yorks DD (4yrs) EDD 23 May
Scootermum- Hertfordshire, dd (9.5 mnths) EDD 24th May
JonahB ? lives in Manchester, DD (16 months). EDD 25th May
MKG - EDD May 26, with 14 mo. ds, lives in USA
Creena - live in South Staffs, DD (15yrs) and DS (10yrs). EDD 27th May
Cacaboo - UK, EDD 28 May, DS 2.8yr
Juicylucy - London, EDD 29May. no kiddies yet.
Charleymouse - Live in N Notts work in S Yorks, DD 23m EDD 31 May (10 sheets @ 8+2 weeks)
Charlyp - live in sunbury, this will be the first, EDD 31st may
Glitterkitty
PuppyDavies
Incy - live in Southampton - EDD 23rd May - DS 2 years - 7 sheets of toilet paper
Jellybeans- UK. DD 10, DD 7, DT's 4 years. EDD 26/05/07

largewhizzingrocketandtonic · 02/11/2006 21:10

Oh moomin you are always so nice, have munched the revels and i love the coffee ones! Glad to see the stats are filling up, jellybeans your twins must just be getting to the entertaining age. I started to find them hysterical at 4 whereas i was just hysterical before that. Are yours identical?

Am sooo tired off to bed for an early night, see you all tomorrow

pebblemum · 02/11/2006 21:48

Evening!!

Ive only been away from the computer for a couple of hours but its taken me ages to catch up. I cant believe there are more newbies, im sure we must be heading for the MN record of posters on an anti-natal thread.

LG&T (sorry couldnt remember all your initials and am too lazy to scroll back up the top) I love revels too, not so sure about the coffee ones normally but now i can no longer have my morning cup without feeling sick i have now developed a taste for them. Im being good tonight though. I bought myself a double pack of galaxy earlier but it is still in the cupboard, ive just stuffed a big bowl of fruit salad instead (arent i good )

I have done those chinese prediction tests before, they have all said im having a boy (sob) but then again according to one of them ds2 was going to be a girl. Im hoping they are wrong i will find out in 9wks any way. Ive decided i need to know but as dh isnt so keen then he can go outside when they tell me. My instincts tell me that this is a girl (hopefully only one!!)I cant seem to look at boys things and whenever i dream about the baby its a girl so im hoping against hope that this one is a pink one. Dont get me wrong i love my boys but there are too many males in my family, i need to even it up a bit. My poor neice is normally the only girl at family parties.

I was 19 when i gave birth to ds1 and i also found people seem to talk down at you, as if you dont know what you are doing. It was worse when i had a M/C when i was 17, everyone seemed to think that as i was young and it wasnt a planned pregnancy that it didnt matter, that once i had had the D&C that i would forget about it and move on. The only people that seemed to really care were my mum and sister who had both been through it before and DS1's dad. It hardly ever gets mentioned now but i will never forget my baby, I still have the teddy we had bought her. Sorry went a bit sad then, i get a bit teary whenever im pg and think of her. Will cheer back up now

moomimin · 02/11/2006 21:58

Pebblemum it's nice that you kept something to remember your dd. It's also Ok to sad occasionally.

Opps sorry lg&t there I go again being nice. can't help it though it's in my nature. (yukkk sounds crap doesn't it)

Right thats it no more moomimin niceties. Going to bed now fed up with all this chit chat. Might speak to you tommorow if I can be bothered!!!!

hehehe that was quite scary for me can't do it though, sleep well all, sweet dreams.

moomimin · 02/11/2006 22:00

Oh except jess and mkg. Have a good afternoon and evening. Then sleep well.

redkennedy · 02/11/2006 22:39

WaspElly - live in Southampton, ds (15 months)EDD 1st May - 7 sheets to date
Skytvaddict-Live in Lincolnshire-DD1 (10), DD2 (6), mc April 06 - EDD 2 May - still 9 and a bit sheets - chinese gender prediction - girl
Jessinwa - live in seattle, wa, usa - ds 1 year - edd 2nd may
Aprilmeadow - live Hampshire, DS 18mths. EDD 3rd May - 7.5 pieces of bog roll to date
largeginandtonic-live in Portsmouth, dts 8, dd 6, ds 4, ds 19mts EDD 3rd May
Tyakit - Live in essex, DD 3yrs 10mths, 3 previous MCs. EDD 6th May
Katybump- Live in Manchester, ds1 10, ds2 6, edd May 13th
Megglevache -Live in KENT ds 2 5 yrs mc last April- EDD 15th May -9 pieces of bog roll to date
ShowOfHands -Live in Norfolk- first baby- m/c in July 06 - EDD 17th May
Mummymelling - Live in Bath, 4 x DS's, EDD 17th May
Redbull- lives in birmingham with dp and ds who is 5 and ASD, EDD 21st may
12yeargap - Irish, live in N London, 2nd baby, DD 11, EDD 19th May, Scan 1st
Moomimin _ Originally from Bournemouth UK, now Live in SW France, ds 3+10mths dd 14mths EDD May 21st.
Pebblemum - Portsmouth, ds1(9), ds2(3), EDD 23rd May 9 sheets to date
Gingerbear - South Yorks DD (4yrs) EDD 23 May
Scootermum- Hertfordshire, dd (9.5 mnths) EDD 24th May
JonahB ? lives in Manchester, DD (16 months). EDD 25th May
MKG - EDD May 26, with 14 mo. ds, lives in USA
Creena - live in South Staffs, DD (15yrs) and DS (10yrs). EDD 27th May
Cacaboo - UK, EDD 28 May, DS 2.8yr
Juicylucy - London, EDD 29May. no kiddies yet.
Charleymouse - Live in N Notts work in S Yorks, DD 23m EDD 31 May (10 sheets @ 8+2 weeks)
Charlyp - live in sunbury, this will be the first, EDD 31st may
Glitterkitty
PuppyDavies
Incy - live in Southampton - EDD 23rd May - DS 2 years - 7 sheets of toilet paper
Jellybeans- UK. DD 10, DD 7, DT's 4 years. EDD 26/05/07
Redkennedy - Live in W.London. m/c Nov 05. EDD 17 May 07 with first child. 12 week scan Nov 9th. 7 sheets @ 11 weeks.

redkennedy · 02/11/2006 22:44

good night ladies, skived work and been dozing most of the day and only just peeped in. wish i hadnt slept quite so much as i fear i will be tossing and turning all night now. reading todays thread i think im going to go and lay down and concentrate on my belly and see if i can feel the little bean. g'night xx

redbullandbump · 02/11/2006 22:57

well at the moment it feels like you know when you go over a bridge in a car and your stomach does that flip it feels like that to me, also at the same time when dp puts his hand on my belly he says he can feel something moving under the skin,

its the same feeling as i had when ds started moving in my belly

twelveyeargap · 03/11/2006 08:21

Hello. LG&T, if you do some Googling, I've come across websites that hire out maternity evening wear. It can be quite expensive to buy, but I think you can hire something for about £25. They post it out to you and you post it back. Might be an option for you. I think I'm going to do that for my work Christmas party. Going to get something stunning I hope and wow everyone with my pregnancy wonderfulness...

Welcome to the Jellybeans and Wavedancer.

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mummymelling · 03/11/2006 09:22

MORNING LADIES, gosh there are loads of us on here,its brilliant ,cant wait till we all start popping lol. I got my risk back from the NT scan yesterday and its 1:1874, not bad for an overweight 39 yr old on her 5th!!!, it wasnt a 3/4d scan it was just bog standard one and blood test for hcg, and papp-a levels,will try to put pic on here when DH can be persuaded to part with it ,pmsl xxx

largewhizzingrocketandtonic · 03/11/2006 10:14

Morning all, hope everyone is ok.
Moomin you scared me a bit yesterday , i love you being nice

Pebble poor you with your lost baby. it must bring it all back every time you get prg. I know i get almost hysterical at 29 weeks as that is when the twins arrived, it was so awful i cant imagine having to do it again. Just wait for normally calm largeginandtonic to lose it about then.

Mummymelling glad your result was good, PMSL at your Dh mine is the same. He has the scan picure (which lets face it looks like a grey blob) stuck on his wardrobe next to his bed at work!

TYG im going to google the maternity clothes and see what i can find thanx

So today ladies for lunchtime we are craving soup and bread ok?! It will be delicious and healthy and nutritious.......

SKYTVADDICT · 03/11/2006 10:57

Congrats on those results mummymelling. I am an overweight 38 year old so there is hope for me yet. I have blood tests booked for 13 November and am trying not to make too many decisions in advance i.e. to amnio or not to amnio if its less than 1 in 250? At the moment its not - we'll just have to wait and see

pebblemum · 03/11/2006 11:22

Morning all, next time i decide to stuff myself with a giant fruit salad please stop me, i feel so bloated today and im full of wind (tmi)I suppose the fact that it was supposed to have been shared between 4 people and i ate it all myself wouldnt have helped

Im feeling really pleased with myself, i finally got my finger out and have almost finished the boys christmas presents just have to wait for them to be delivered And i did it all from the comfort of my home, no need to go out in the cold. Ive also started on dh's too. My theory is if i can get them out of the way then i can concentrate on the 22 other people i need to buy for . I cant believe it is only 52 days til xmas, where has the time gone.

We are off in a minute to take ds2 through his first car wash, normally we do it ourselves but its too bloody cold to mess about with water

LG&T hope you find a nice dress for the ball, ive got my mums 60th party just after christmas and want to look like a yummy mummy for it. All the family will be there and i dont want to look like a blob in the photos.

Mmmm soup with crusty rolls!!!

largewhizzingrocketandtonic · 03/11/2006 11:52

If i end up buying one pebble you can borrow it or maybe april would loan hers, we are the same size arent we?
Am going to eat my soup n bread now yum, have been good this morning and eaten a bannana and a sesame snap bar. Good intentions i cannot be faulted on....
Skytv hope you are not worrying too much im sure it will all be ok and you wont have to even think about an amnio

Juicylucythe2nd · 03/11/2006 12:52

Do they do nuchal, 12wk dating, nuchal and bloods at the same time. I know my GP referred me for them at my last appt.

Have only received dating scan appt and don't know whether to ring and check?

twelveyeargap · 03/11/2006 13:05

The guy doing my dating scan asked if I wanted the nuchal, so possibly the same for you too. Bloods & m/w or consultant most likely different appt though.

The guys at work offered me a Wagamama for lunch as they were going out for it, so I'm just waiting for my Chicken Kare Lomen to arrive. YUM!

52 days to Christmas eh? Can't remember the last time I did my Christmas shopping before Dec 22nd.

Oh, some er, sort of good news on our accommodation situation - if you look at it in a certain way.

There's been a DISGUSTING smell in our shared hall and esp over the threshold of our flat door downstairs, which happens to be over the ground floor flat's cellar. Turns out there is a HUGE problem iwth the waste pipes and there is basically, sewerage leaking. Pipes run through house underpinning so it all has to be taken out and replaced. Massive job. Can't see how the buyers (of the flat we're currently renting from freehold owner, which has been sold - we were almost homeless, for those that don't know); would just go ahead with all that needing to be done. We're hoping it all gets delayed to the new year. So although we'll have to clear the shelves of air freshner products, we MIGHT be able to stay in our flat after all and just move straight to our new house at end Dec, beginning of Jan.

I mean, there's no way a buyer would go ahead with a purchase if the sewage pipes under the house needed replacing, would they? I mean, not even if they were desperate to move in? Even as leaseholders, surely they'd want a survey re-done after the work was finished or something?

Hoping, hoping, hoping. I can deal with the smell of poo much easier than moving house, TWICE in two months.

Gosh, that's a big post. What do you think?

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largewhizzingrocketandtonic · 03/11/2006 13:45

Tyg i think your on to a winner Tis almost the season for burning spice n xmas potpouri looks very pretty if your hall is carpeted in it Will cease moaning about my mild doggy smell at home.....nuff said.

Whats wagamamma like then? Have seen waitrose do the occasional thing but never seen a restaurant.

MKG · 03/11/2006 13:50

My dog smells like heaven. I can't stand the smell of chicken, but the dog is wonderful.

MKG · 03/11/2006 13:51

Howdy all!! My ds is such a sweet boy. He loves to share everything with his mommy. Especially is illnesses.

Juicylucythe2nd · 03/11/2006 13:55

TYG - sounds promising. Hope the pong works for you

Have just phoned hospital to check and you're right TYG, although I assume they'll do the bloods at the mw check up a week after the scan. How long does it take for THOSE results to get back. Sounds like it could take a while before I know what my risk levels are. Bit daunting...

twelveyeargap · 03/11/2006 14:22

Not sure about how long it takes to get results for the nuchal scan. I think bloods are a few days to a few weeks, depending on whether they test for HIV and other infections for which they need to grow cultures in the lab to test. UCLH said they'd post the results out. (Not sure if that's to GP or me though.)

Would you consider yourself to be in a high risk category re: the nuchal scan? I didn't want to have it. Decided I'd rather wait til the baby came and then deal with any problems as and when I needed to.

Had some other reasonably hopeful news. The dodgy estate agent that owes me £8K has just admitted (on my recorded work phone) that they unlawfully used my money and that they currently can't afford to pay it back. He did say though, that they're currently working out when they're getting more money in, so they can tell me when I'll get it back. Also said they're very anxious that this doesn't go to a bankruptcy order or similar. Please God it will be before we have to exchange on the new house. I need a bit of devine intervention to make something go right!

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Juicylucythe2nd · 03/11/2006 15:26

Gosh that all sounds abit much. You've got it all goin on at the mo - Is pregnancy not enough stress for you!!

A friend of mine just stopped paying the rent when they got a bit of damp and ended up getting away with £9K. If they're holding your money are you still having to pay rent?

I am quite high risk. I'm 39 and this is my first pregnancy, so I thought I'd do the nuchal so I can be prepared for the worst. Don't think I'd do the amnio though. Too risky.

jellybeans · 03/11/2006 15:33

Mornin all! Thanks for warm welcome I am having horrible migraines at the mo, just got up! Awful not taking anything, but I did take some calpol as all we had in, do you think that will be OK?

LWR&T , My twins are non ID! How old are yours? They are fun and just started school. I really thought this pg was twins at first(my nan had 2 sets)

I also am worried about testing as we lost a DD 5 years ago to a genetic disorder when I was 6 months pg. With the DT's I didn't have tests as didnt want to be faced with making decisions etc and risk m/c. I won't be offered nuchal as my 10 wk scan was instead of 12 wk, no scans now till 20 wks. i could ask for one though? No point with barts test as i would come back high risk once they read my history. (Also with DD that we lost, results were 'normal' it was at te 20 week scan things were found) So 20 wk scans are terifying for me. I expect them to say, 'it's bad news,' again.

twelveyeargap · 03/11/2006 15:41

And neither amnio's nor nuchal scans are entirely conclusive so try not to worry to much. x

The money we're owed is separate to the place we're renting. We were buying a house and the agent insisted we paid a pre-contract deposit for them to take the place off the market. Then the vendors pulled out and the agent had already spent our money, anticipating they'd just have it deducted from their fee when the sale was completed. I expect they got a bloody shock when it fell through. Not as much as I did when I realised my money was gone.
He admitted on the phone it was unlawful. It's just awful having to wait for the money. It's been two months now since the sale fell through. He says as soon as they have some other sales completed then he'll pay me...

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Juicylucythe2nd · 03/11/2006 16:14

TYG - have you involved a solicitor in this? It sounds really dodgy and you don't know that you're the only one he's done this to. I'd get a solicitor to write a letter saying pay up by xx or you'll take them to court (or write one yourself - there's bound to be examples on the net with the type of legal terminology you need to include). That way he'll priortise getting your money back to you. Worth a try anyway.

Yes, don't know if I'm doing the right thing with the nuchal, probably just making a rod for my own back, but I think I would just think the worst anyway if I didn't have that test.

Fingers crossed it'll all look ok.

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