September 2016 (Thread 2) Booking in and 12 weeks scans soon!

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Onto thread two already!

I think this is everyone who was already on the list, but feel free to add yourself if I have anything wrong.

Fifi10 DC1 EDD 27/08/16 Midlands
prettyflowers111 DC2(?) EDD 28/08/16
OTheHugeManatee DC1 EDD 28/08/16
SKE2016 DC1 EDD 28/08/16
icklekid DC2 EDD 29/08/16
genome DC3 EDD 30/08/16 South Manchester
Purplypinkstar DC4 EDD 30/08/16
VeeTea DC1 EDD 30/08/16
foxessocks DC2 EDD 31/08/16 (?)
JessieMcJessie DC1 EDD 31/08/16 (ish)
TheMasterMurderedMargarita DC2 EDD 31/08/16 (ish)
fruityb DC? EDD Early September
Errrnerrr DC2 EDD Early September
sparklystars20 DC1 EDD 01/09/16
mummabear88 DC2 EDD 01/09/16
pa55methecake DC1 EDD 01/09/16 (ish)
balalalala DC1 EDD 02/09/16
LetThereBeCupcakes DC2 EDD 02/09/16
sophied1983 DC1 EDD 02/09/16
MrsS182 DC? EDD 02/09/16
peardrop2 DC2 EDD 03/09/16
wineandcheeseplease DC1 EDD 03/09/16
Kitkatmonster DC3 EDD 03/09/16 Birmingham
kimblesj DC4 EDD 04/09/16
MargaretCabbage DC2(?) EDD 04/09/16
MillieMoodle DC2 EDD 05/09/16
Newtothevillage DC1 EDD 5/09/16 - Herts
ohanami DC2 EDD 06/09/16
Nevlet DC1 (?) EDD 06/09/16
sarahanne4 DC1 EDD 06/09/16
rosetintedspectacles DC1 EDD 06/09/16
eskimoflo DC1 EDD 06/09/16
Hurr1cane DC2 EDD 07/09/16
weplusthree DC3 EDD 08/09/16
Butterflies100 DC1 EDd 08/09/16 - Staffordshire
chocolateteacup DC3 EDD 08/09/16
Sausage2229 DC1 EDD 08/09/16
Thethingidontfancy DC2 EDD 08/09/2016 - SW London
globetrotter2016 DC1 EDD 09/09/16
Hedgehog DC2 EDD 09/09/16
SewSlapdash DC2 EDD 09/09/16
Pawpatroller DC3 09/09/16
Runningbutnotscared DC2 EDD 10/09/16
nailsathome DC3 EDD 11/09/16
BubbaNo1 DC1 11/09/16
DrWhy DC1 12/09/16
Bananamonkey DC1 15/09/16 Norfolk
Oxlady DC2 16/09/16 Cheshire
SpacePOODLE DC1 17/09/16 SE London
CatFaceCrayola DC2 19/09/16 Preston
FantasticMax DC2 19/09/16
Zeeka DC3 20/09/16
mrsmumb DC2 20/09/16 Cheshire
Unreliablepat DC2, EDD 21/9/16, Berkshire
Lilliana DC2 22/09/16 Devon
Sproutingbean DC2 22/09/16
JayBeanie DC1? 23/09/16
ThatsNotEvenAWord DC2 23/09/16 Swindon
Cherryberry1 DC2 25/09/2016 Greater Manchester
Frazzle DC3 EDD 26/09/2016 SW London
Moonrisekingdom DC2 28/09/16 South Yorkshire
GuessHowMuch DC2 EDD ???
mistletoeprickles DC? EDD ???
racywhite83 DC2 EDD ???
heartshapedsunglasses DC1 EDD ???
Butterflies100 DC1 EDD ???
Mrsmumb DC2 EDD ???
ChillthefXXckout DC1 EDD???
Cl4re124 DC3 EDD 26/08/16

I'm about 45 mins away - if This one comes as quickly as DD I could well be having it in a lay by

zeeka Italy sounds lovely. My friend wants me to go to beautiful days with her but not sure I could cope with camping / lots of drunk people / looking after DD among hundreds of people at 8 months pregnant

zeeka we have booked to go camping in Tuscany in early June, but I'm a bit worried Zika virus might spread there - there's a map on the BBC website that shows that the mosquitoes that carry it are common in northern Italy. I've made sure I've already got travel insurance sorted.

I've been thinking about holidays too, would be good to take the big kids somewhere exciting before everything becomes babyfied! Was thinking America (cheap flights due to family connections) but that's a no go now of course. Didn't realise Italy may be affected too!

As it's our first baby DP is going to take his holiday after the baby is born so he gets this on top of his paternity leave, so no holiday for us this year. I have no way of knowing what might happen with the birth etc. and my DM will be working so I wouldn't have anybody that could come to my house to help out.

I'm thinking about holidays too, it would be nice to take DSC away before baby comes so they don't feel left out. Just not sure on flying or money yet.
Lili I love beautiful days but not 8 months pregnant!!

We were looking at Italy for the beginning of June last night! Sounds like it might be busy with pregnant ladies lol!

We are going to the French Alps in mid-March - it's a skiing holiday with my friends but I won't be skiing. Should have had 12 week scan by then so I might announce it to them all on the first night! (I have told the organisers already so they didn't book lessons/lift pass etc for me)

We've then been invited on a trip to Shetland with PiLs in early July, but I'm not sure about it. I'll be 31 weeks by then and although it looks like flying should be alright if doctors are happy, I'm apprehensive about going somewhere so very remote from proper medical assistance. They have a small hospital on the islands, but it only has a midwife led maternity unit, and no neonatal unit, so if anything were to happen I'd be a long way (~2 hour flight) from help.

I was absolutely terrorised by mozzies last time; it was awful. My legs were completely swollen! I'm not sure how the Mosquitos would have carried the virus to italy, though. Surely they wouldn't get that far? I will certainly look into it! It's fab as my friend has two kids, so it's like a holiday club for them all! Italian children have 3 mths school holidays in the summer (!!) so they'll already be off school.

liliana that sounds terrible! I've been to Glastonbury and can't understand how people enjoy it with kids and babies!

fifi I think I would do exactly the same in your position, the holiday time will be so much better used, especially if it's a c-section. We are both freelance/self employed so it's all a bit different (plus we will be super broke next year so no holiday for sure!!)

arctica it's Tuscany for us too!

We went to Italy when I was about 16 weeks with dd - it was fantastic, apart from having to abstain from all the wonderful wine.

Hopefully going to Spain this summer but we're meant to be travelling with friends who are due to have a baby next month so we've got to try to negotiate a point where they'll be out of the newborn fog and it won't be too late for me to travel (dd was premature so have to be cautious!) I'm not holding out much hope but there's aways next year if it doesn't work out this year.

I'm debating when/how to tell work... I'm changing teams soon (not voluntarily ) so don't know whether to be open at the start so they can plan for mat leave in advance, or to wait until I've got settled in so that nobody uses it against me.

I have to go to Spain for a hen party when I'm 24 weeks. Dreading it and now scared witless that Zika will spread. However, tomorrow I need to get my travel insurance so that I'm good to pull out if need be medical wise! If it wasn't for the hen party then I would be staying at home. I become very nervous and a home bird when I'm pregnant!

Oh so jealous of you all with exciting holiday plans. I would love to go to Italy (favourite place in the world) or skiing sock although I would definitely be skiing! Am still trying to persuade dh that may half term we should go but given we have no idea how well/unwell I will be is hard to do.

I'm meant to be flying to Sweden in a few weeks to visit my sister and even that is looking unlikely given the sickness I'm suffering. Have been signed off work for 2 weeks and then will have too review. The HG thread is brilliant if anyone else is suffering.

Currently falling asleep at 8.3pm and then wide awake in the middle of the night!

Sorry to hear you're still suffering ickle

Wide awake here too. Have to get up for work in less than two hours. This is going to be another interesting day.

Sorry you're having such a rough time ickle. I totally get the being wiped out by early evening and then wide awake at 4am - so frustrating!

I enjoy skiing but I'm not brilliant at it, and I know I would spend the whole time super-anxious about any little slip or fall and could never forgive myself if anything happened. Plus even if I'm a safe skier, there are always idiots on the slope who will cut you up or crash into you. I figure a week in the mountains with my friends will be good for me anyway, and I'm sure I can survive spending the day in the swimming pool while they're out skiing!

We were sort of thinking italy for May - June time as we have some friends, one of whom is Italian who have just moved to Dubai so italy would be an I between place to meet. Having the same concern about Zika though. I think the risk is that travellers from an infected area return to italy and the local mosquitos bite them and this pick up the infection. I'm very prone to bites and actually rather relieved we had to make are turn from Malaysia sooner than we planned because if it's not already there (and there have been occasional cases there a long time back according to the CDC) then I suspect it soon will be. Would be sad not to have one last final holiday before the baby arrives though.

We booked 10 days in France before I got pg - I'm cutting it a bit fine with being ok to travel on the way back!

When I was pg with DS we went to Italy with my extended family but we also had 10 days doing a bit of a road trip round places in England we hadn't got round to visiting yet. It was great, but it was ROASTING that July and I was so uncomfortable, even though I was only 7 months.

We've decided to rule out Spain in the summer as planned, luckily had only just started looking at flights and not booked yet. Did a bit of research and the type of mozzies that are known to carry zika are in the region of Spain we go to, and there is an expectation for it to spread to Spain due to the links with the Americas, ie people travelling. I'm sad because it would have been nice to do a summer holiday without a baby, but I don't want to take the risk, I'm looking at cottages in Cornwall instead and thinking Spain in Oct half term instead.

KitKat - oh god...do you think that includes Barcelona? Having kittens now!

I think part of the problem with zika is that they are learning what it does as it spreads, so they predict it will reach the med but it doesn't mean it will within the time scale they think or that it will have the same impact etc.

Was doing some reading about zika this morning from what was said earlier and seemed to imply that if it does come to Europe, unlike south America, it will likely not hang around too long so I think I would still consider Europe (with travel insurance )

"Dr Gatherer said that the Aedes mosquito, which carries the disease, occurs in southern Europe from Spain to France, Italy and Greece, and outbreaks there are possible.

But these would likely be limited in the number of transmissions, and the disease almost certainly won’t spread in more temperate climes like the UK where the Aedes mosquito doesn’t live." link

ickle I had really bad sickness last time but it stopped pretty magically after the first trimester. I hope you manage your trip to Sweden and that your placenta works its magic in time! You must feel awful.

Thanks for the research links! Very useful

Just checking in quicl to say hi and hope everyone is doing well today! Hope your sickness eases asap ickle

Booking in tomorrow and meeting the OB, so excited! Also bought a couple of tiny newborn vests/sleepsuits (which I'm now kicking myself for since I'm only about 6/7 weeks and don't want to jinx anything). I forgot how tiny babies were!!! I've never been 'allowed' to be excited with my other two pregnancies, so much stress and anxiety and upset when I had my first two dc and I'm honestly feeling ridiculously excited and happy about this baby. Feel better than I have done in years and just want to talk about it constantly!

I think we're opting for centerparcs now not too far to travel! Also our school hols here are at a different time to other places so it's pretty cheap.
Feeling so sick all the time, never had it this bad before. Not throwing up though in a way I wish I would to ease it for a bit!