June 2016 #6, Blue? Pink? Yellow? Where did the first 20 weeks go?

[nehagarg]

Loving the latest scan news! Happy new thread everyone.

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Good luck loulou. What time is your scan?

Eastend, been thinking about names but we are stuck on the first one we came up with. Anything else that we have liked doesnt seem to match up in comparison. Lol. We'll probably spend the next 4 months going through more names only to end up with the first one we picked within a couple of days of my 20 week scan.

Christ, I left something behind this morning and had to walk home from the bus stop and back to get it, 15 mins each way. I am now so knackered I am barely functional. I'm shocked!! I think I need to do some excercise and go to bed earlier!!!
biking you have my mega respect, pulling through the exhaustion!!
lou good luck today!! Is that the last of the 20 week scans?? tatted have you had yours?? Feels like a thread milestone!!

Good luck Loulou.

Eastend we've not bought anything yet but I guess we need to start thinking about it. I think the next 4 months are going to fly. We can't agree on names either, we like the same style of names. There's one boys name I love and i can't find anything I like as much but DH doesn't approve and there's a girls name he suggested which I like but can't get past the song!

Good luck for today lou

DH and I can't agree on names either. He's stuck on the very traditional but I think we used the ones of those I liked on DS1. We just can't agree so no name picked here at the moment. God knows how we're going to come up with something. Naming boys is hard!

Had clinic appointment this morning. All fine and booked in for a growth scan at 27 wks

Thanks guys not long home from scan baby was absolutely perfect and it's team blue for us. His legs are so long lol few measurements were 20+5 x my wee girl was crying happy tears cause she thought it was so nice to see the baby

Glad to see everyone is getting on well with their scans! I've got a repeat on Thursday as LO wasn't playing ball at 20 weeks. Nearly 23 now and dh can't come to the repeat scan so hope all is well. My other two are desperate for some pictures too!
Currently at home feeling sorry for myself with the most awful sickness bug. Joys of being a nursery school teacher! Functioning marginally better today than yesterday at least though still can't eat... Worst thing: I've still got "morning sickness" so didn't initially know whether it was a bug or that!

Congrats Loulou, great news! Pamplem0usse sorry you are feeling rough. My immune system has taken a battering too Try and sleep as much as possible and stay hydrated!

I was exposed to potential chicken pox yesterday and my parents can't remember if I have had it! Fab!!

jelly, just give the midwife a call, they will want to know and can do a blood test easily enough.

Jelly baby what a nightmare xx

Had a blood test in hospital this afternoon and should find out tomorrow...v speedy!!

Congratulations Lou

Love it clarish!

We're struggling with names too, we have loads of girls names we could pick but we can't agree on a single boys name. We do both like similar styles of names though, so hopefully we'll get some inspiration from somewhere!

Pamplem0usse sorry you're feeling rough. I'm feeling dreadful too, and hoping it's not the sickness bug- I work with kids so loads of bugs flying round at the moment. I threw up several times today and feeling generally rubbish, but not sure if it's morning sickness or a bug. Aargh!

That is quick JellyBaby hope it comes back with immunity. If not the chances of you catching it are probably very slim anyway. I had a play date with a heavily pregnant friend of mine and her DD the day before DS came out in spots. I knew her DD hadn't had it and wasn't sure about her. I felt awful but luckily neither of them caught it and here's no way I could have known.

jelly that happened to me with DS one! But my midwife wasn't at all worried as apparently it is only really a problem in the first trimester, or if you have it when you actually give birth. Yay for speedy tests and fingers crossed you are immune!

Morning all, I've been a bit quiet recently as had lots of family birthdays and busy with work. Great to hear all scans have gone well, nehagarg you must be feeling very relieved! How much was baby's head measuring small? At mine it was 8 days smaller but they said it's nothing to worry about... easier said than done!

I'm having a nightmare with midwife care, have had 3 appointments with 3 different midwives and the last one was horrible. She went on this rant about people having big babies then measured me and it was 4cm bigger, so she just kept re measuring until she got it within the range and then used that. Then she got the date wrong on my matb1 form (by 2 weeks!) And I didn't notice until I took it to my meeting with my line manager to discuss mat leave. Sigh!

Side note, has anyone's innie become an outie? Mine is on the verge!

I saw a different midwife every time last time - I didn't really necessarily see the benefit in seeing the same midwife when it's a completely different set of midwives in the community than at the hospital anyway? And it actually made it better when I got the home visits after the birth because I'd met them all before then. Depends what your local set-up is though I suppose?

Thanks Spock. Massively relieved. His head was measuring about a week behind too. Sonographer did say that its nothing to worry about but then booked me in for a growth scan. In my head, if it was nothing to worry about, I wouldn't need another scan. So that obviously set me off. Thankfully it was all for nothing.

My innie is about to become an outie any day now too.

Sounds annoying with the midwife. Hopefully you won't have her again

Good luck with your results today Jelly. Fingers crossed you are immune.

Spock ... Did they not book you in for a growth scan too?

Spock that sounds like an absolute nightmare xx

Glad everything seems to have worked out for both of you Spock and Nehagarg! I am booked in for a growth scan at 26 weeks but as everything was present and correct at 20 weeks I'm not too worried.

Also, 20% of at mothercare on nursery furniture and bedding at the moment. We have made an about turn on the Chicco as we saw it up in JL yesterday, and DH pointed out that with a co-sleeper, our cats are quite likely to cuddle in there too. Also he wants us all to sleep in the same room but as he'll be working, will want me to BF in the night in one of our other bedrooms. So there won't be much point in a co-sleeper and we should just go for a cotbed, perhaps with a sleepyhead in it for a bit. The issue then is the cot beds are so much bigger, we'll need to rearrange lots of furniture and decide where a chest of drawers for bubs will go, so my brain is busily slotting bits of furniture together like a rubics cube!!

I know the feeling EastEnd ... I am doing the same. There just isnt enough room!

"will want me to BF in the night in one of our other bedrooms. " - crikey, that sounds like a faff eastend

I see that lasting for one night eastend!

Haha yup me too! Plan B is he moves into our second bedroom and I stay in ours with the LO. We'll move his chest of drawers etc in there anyway so we can play it by ear. Our third bedroom (smallest and currently a dumping ground) will be the baby's room after the first few months. I don't think we can plan too ridgidly, obviously we have a small person taking up residence who hasn't been consulted yet!

Yesterday DH described a whole scenario where LO needs feeding, the light goes on, I get up to feed, we go into another room while he goes back to sleep, for feeding changing and settling the LO, we come back into our room, everyone sleeps. Complicated eh? I thought I'd just grab LO from the cot, feed in the dark, then everyone sleeps. Although I admit I hadn't really thought about the changing/ settling/ cats suffocate baby aspect. Sigh!!!

Another one for team blue here, which means i have nothing to buy as we kept everything from last time! Am having growth scans regularly too and will likely be early as it looks like PE might be raising its horrid little head again

Eastend is your DH a light sleeper? We co slept last time and it was less disturbing to settle in our room rather than going in and out of the room!
Also if your cats are like ours they are more likely to be totally disgusted by the baby