March 2016 Babies!! Our Grape-sized babies are getting Bigger!

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Thought I'd start our new thread as the old one is full up!

Q that's such a good idea :) I don't want to upload scan pictures either, I was thinking of taking a picture of mine, my partner's, my stepson's converses and buy a pair of new born ones and write all our dates of birth by the shoes and by the baby ones write 2016. what do you guys think?

Rosie I've seen that on pinterest and thought it was a really cute idea! My scan should have been yesterday but there were no spaces so next Wednesday it is :(

Beautiful seriously :( that's annoying, feels like forever doesn't it! Why can't they just offer us scan straight away :( Every time I think about my scan tomorrow I get so nervous even though my 9+6 week scan was absolutely fine, fingers crossed that's all I could say!

I won't be doind a FB announcement. I have friends that have MC/have been unable to conceive/going through adoption process and I wouldn't like to upset anyone unintentionally. Also, I haven't told work yet!

With the other two, we just posted a pic when we got home from delivery, although I might have posted something about eating pineapple/curry at 40 weeks!

I do like the Converse idea though!

Adora to be honest I might not announce anything until 30 weeks or something, It's way too early even at 12 weeks I don't feel like letting the whole world know.

Yeh it was shit. Had to rearrange childcare and stuff! 6 days, come oooon.

Ooh the plumber is coming this afternoon!!

I'm the opposite, can't stand keeping secrets and watching what I'm saying all the time! I get too excited plus i've got a lot of mummy friends who are slightly ahead of me and can't wait to share the excitement with them! To be honest my closest friends know already as I've been so sick and some of my extended family and they seem to have a sixth sense about these things and just blurted out and asked! I can't lie!

Making re think about putting a scan on and like the idea of the shoes. Might try and find DD a big sister T shirt and just upload a pic of her instead!

Beautiful I hope it goes quick hun and it doesn't drag!

So I ordered some maternity leggings and they arrived today at work I always send parcels to work as both my partner and I are at work all day. Post man comes in and I know him quiet well and handed me the parcel and it's written on it maternity and nursing wear in bold everywhere was so embarrassing, he gave me the I know look!

Hi all, can I join? 11+3 ish with my 1st. Got my 12 week scan on Tuesday (also my wedding anniversary so should be a nice anniversary present!). I seem to fluctuate between being super excited and terrified as I'm 34 and worried there's going to be a problem. Not sure whether to do a fab announcement or not, may just post a scan picture with no explanation as that'll freak people out!

Can i just ask a random question?

How would you feel if in, say, 2 months a family member announced their own pregnancy? For example a sister or sister-in-law?

I have told my SIL about our pregnancy and she is currently pregnant and due in November,

she was over the moon for us and said if we have a gorl she will have a lot of things ready for us to use.

I don't think I'd be too bothered, happy baby would have a similar aged cousin (myself and all my cousins were approx 1 year apart, currently range between the ages of 30 and 21 and there's one for each age ) and I'd have someone off work with me to do things with if they lived locally.

I would be very happy, as i've said above we have HUGE families and in the last year since my DD was born we have had 2 more babies and my cousins wife is also due 2 weeks before me! Think my Nan had to have a sit down as the number of great grandchildren is racking up but its great!

Can't give my view about it being a sibling as my brother has categorically told my mum not to expect any from him for at least 10 years and my DH is an only child! It seems there are a lot of babies at the moment!

I'd feel really happy for them and also happy my child that they'd have a similar aged cousin to play with.

beautiful I wouldn't mind at all, not my job to determine when other people get pregnant :)

welcome doc!

Beautiful My DSIL announced her pregnancy with her DD1 about a week or 2 after I announced mine with DS. They are now both 2 (less than 5 weeks between them) and they are best friends. I am delighted that they are so close in age!

See I hate to admit this bit I'm a bit Monica about things like that and get very annoyed about potential "thunder stealing"

But the fact is both SILs have 6 month old PFBs and both want to add to their families in the not too distant future and I want to feel more positive about that thought!

Beautiful I hate to admit it too I agree with you!

Omg Rosie so glad I'm not the only one! It's like a confessional in here...

Welcome doc and thebub! Rosie it's great to have a due date buddy :-) I must update the stats spreadsheet when I get a min as my due date has changed by a couple of days.

So my favourite (v cringe making) FB announcement was a friend of a friend who posted scan pic with the caption 'look at the amazing present (insert husband's name) gave me on our wedding night.' Eeeeeeewww!

We won't do a FB announcement. As someone else said several close friends have been through mc and one v difficult (unsuccessful) adoption process so don't want to risk upsetting anyone unintentionally. After my mcs esp I was just bereft and seeing FB baby announcements was really hard. I never resented people for their amazing news but I still found it v difficult to see the constant announcements.

I'll be so thrilled if my sister announces she's expecting over the coming months. Would love DD and this one to have a cousin soon :-)

to be fair beautiful, I don't really have this issue as SIL and BIL have decided they're only having one, my own sisters are way too young to have babies yet, and none of my friends are in a position to have any at the moment. So I admit I might actually be different if there was any possibility of it actually happening.

Also - I miscarried at 5 weeks in May. And my cousin (who knew this) 2 days later put up her 12 week scan pic on facebook. Massively upset me as I thought it was quite insensitive of her to do this without warning me. So maybe I won't put my scan picture on FB :S

I suppose it's different for me as I'm not really close to any family members, so it's not like we'd share the experience or our children would spend loads of time together :( I think that's why I wanted to create my own (large!) family.

Hi all can I please join. Just had my scan today dc1 due 2nd March 2016 xxx

my sister is pregnant currently, due last friday! and DP's SIL is pregnant and due in September. I have no idea if it bothers them or not that I'm also pregnant. I'm not sure how it could 'steal your thunder' but maybe that's just me. I'm really happy that this baby will have cousins close in age (though we live an hour and a half from my sister and three hours from DPs brother and SIL).

as for Facebook announcements and people struggling to conceive/who have had mc, I can understand the concern and certainly if I knew someone had had trouble TTC or mc I would tell them personally before putting anything on Facebook. Facebook has a nice 'unfollow' option now which I think people who don't want to see others babies use - its just a suspicion of mine but I think DPs SIL did it to me. she used to always 'like' pictures I put up of DD but a few months after her wedding (before she got pregnant, but we knew they were TTC straight away so a few months into ttc) she was a bit weird with me/my DD and basically ignored DD whenever we saw them (whereas before she had been very engaged with DD) and around about then she stopped interacting with me on FB so I suspect she unfollowed me. my good friend who had a mmc was quite upfront to me about struggling to see DD (which I appreciated as meant I didn't upset her unintentionally) and I didn't see her for a while after it happened (though we emailed regularly and spoke about how she was doing), but she still 'likes' photos etc about DD (and is now pregnant and due in November). so I think it is a good idea to be careful where possible when people are trying to conceive etc, but on the other hand it's perfectly possible to unfollow people if you don't want to hear about their pregnancy etc so its a difficult tightrope to walk!

Welcome gem!

I've just got home to a letter saying my baby is low risk for Down's syndrome, 1 in 100,000. Really relieved and also impressed/pleased with how quickly the letter came - I only had my scan last Friday and was told to expect a call within a few days if high risk or a letter within 2 weeks if low. We're off on holiday tomorrow so I can relax completely now!

Beautiful I think to be honest I'd be a bit annoyed too about thunder stealing! It won't happen though as my DSis definitely isn't ready for children yet though she does have a bf she's been with for a while. And my SIL's long done with her childbearing! I did think one of my friends who is pregnant with a much longed for ivf baby might feel I was thunder stealing when I announced but she is just really excited to have another pregnant person so much more gracious than me!