@miniplumtree Yes, she's 17 months now so should be about 18.5 months when baby arrives. It is scary but I think it'll be a nice age gap as they grow up together. I hope so, anyway!
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Is anyone else getting a bit overwhelmed with the amount of appointments they have coming up. The ones I have booked in are 34-week mw appointment next week, a consultant midwife appointment on 1 October and then a consultant appointment later the same day, flu jab on 8 October and then a ELCS info session at the hospital, also on 8 October. And I still have 36 and 38-week mw appointments and a pre-op to add to that list. Not to mention the ELCS itself!
Also, have any of the people applying for Maternity Allowance had decisions through yet? I'd not had a letter so rang today and a nice man advised me that they haven't processed my claim yet, but because the system wasn't showing my Class 2 NI payments for 2017/18 yet, I would be down for the lower rate until I'd paid them.
Problem is I have paid, it's just the stupid HMRC system won't remove the money from my Self Assessment account until 31 January next year. Guy at DWP advised to ring HMRC and see if they could pull my payment through early so that it would be present when DWP process my claim in a week or two. Called HMRC and lady said this isn't the way they normally do it, but since the money was sat in my account she'd see what they can do. Fingers crossed they can sort it as I've heard horror stories about people waiting for ages for DWP to contact HMRC before HMRC can bill them and let them pay the contributions early, and then waiting for DWP to re-process the claim. 