Due Dec 08: The Third Thread!!!!

[kayzisexpecting]

We completely filled the last thread so I have started a new one!!

I'll have to go get the list.

Hi everyone, can I join in the fun. Am due Dec 9th. I have 1 DS who turns 1 next week. Been a bit slow joining the thread as I had a missed mc in Feb so didnt want to add my name to Dec until I had my 12wk scan. All good one little smudge. Will read back and try get to know some of you.

Welcome Jam, and congratulations!!

Sorry about your mc but I'm happy your scan went well.

Hello Jam Many congratulations

Yay for all the scans and dime bars.

Rosmerta you are lovely and I am now Free! I am now educated (or something)

Toasties are wonderful, am just getting back into carbs. Cheese and sweet chilli in this house

Yay Indith! Will it be summer when you get the results?

chutneymary good luck for tomorrow

hi jam welcome to the thread!

I'm in for a long day tomorrow. Off to Manchester for a study day, have to be at the tube by 5.45am & won't be home until about 9.30pm.

good luck for tomorrow everyone!

Welcome Jam!

God I would LOVE an Ikea meetup. I am addicted to their meatballs in a slightly shameful way. It's very odd - last pregnancy I craved sweet things, this time it's salty. Well, the bump wants what it wants...

Morning!!

Good luck to everyone else having scans today.

1:20pm seems so far away!! I can't wait to have the scan, I'm really looking forward to it.

Hope everyone is ok. I should get my Dime Bars today.

Good luck today kayzisexpecting, and to everyone else having scans today. All very exciting!

Mine is not till next Friday.

Hope all goes really well and tell us your news later please!

Good luck for today Kayz and Artichokes . My scan isn't until the 17th - boo.

I seem to have the feeling sick unless I eat something type of MS which means I am snacking ALL the time and the weight is finally going on. Will have to try to stick to fruit rather than crisps . I'm craving salty things too, last time I was munching my way through bags of those Swizzle sweets.

My scan is at the Homerton and they were great last time - no waiting around at all.

Good luck Kayz and Artichokes!

Hi Jam, congratulations!

majormoo we didn't tell dd until after the 20 week scan (she was 5), I'd had a loss at 16 weeks in the prgnancy before & she was heart broken so I wanted to wait as long as possible.

Homerton's not too bad is it Effie, I've worked their quite a lot.

My sickness has got significantly worse, have a little hard bump as well, I think I've got another anterior placenta - I can hear loads of placental noise with the doppler but no hb yet. Children were up at the crack of dawn today, I'm so tired, need to do some baking with dd as well urgh.

Effie - another Homerton girl! Had my booking appointment/scan/bloods there yesterday. They said in the letter to allow 2 hours for the appointment but it was 4 in the end. I think they just forgot about us for the first part then that had a knock-on effect for the other bits ... not fun when you've got a hungry, bored, tired 14-month-old in tow!

The good news is that they now do combined nuchal scan & blood tests for chromosomal disorders instead of just the scan. Apparently they introduced the blood test bit in October.

Plus I got 5 photos for some reason, instead of the 2 I got with previous scans.

at 4 hours

I have my booking-in with the mw later though, so may be less time? . Luckily DS is at the CM that day so DH and I can go on our own.

the blood test thing confused me, esp as it means the nuchal bit of the scan is optional (i.e. you do both or neither). Have finally decided to go for both.

I was v impressed by the blood people last time. I have tricky veins (narrow and deep) and they got it out first time

Just a quickie. Had my scan. Little baby was very active and kept diving away from the screen. At one point the sonographer pleaded "keep still baby" and it turned straight to the screen, waved and dived off. Lol. All looks good.

Hope your scans look good to Kayz and Chutney.

They were very clear about having an empty bladder and even made me go to the loo to make sure it was empty. Very strange how different health authorities have different rules.

Great news artichokes!

Sorry not been on for a while! Had my booking in appointment on Tuesday which all went fine until the midwife decided to feel my tummy and decided that because I was measuring big that there was a 50/50 chance I was expecting twins again!

Much as I adore my girls, this wasn't quite something that filled me with joy - twin toddlers and twin babies so have spent the last few days in sheer panic!

Luckily I got an early scan to finally put me out of my misery and it's.....just the one!!!

All looks fine, little billie (as our toddlers have christened him/her) was happily snoozing and then woke up and gave a wiggle and did some thumb sucking. It was soooo lovely.

They've put me back two days so still a week and a half until I get to the magic 12 weeks - but isn't there some stat about if you see a healthy heartbeat at 10 weeks the risk of miscarriage drops?

Well done to everyone having their scans and good luck to those still waiting

I am still starving hungry all the time and have awful indigestion - still as knackered as a knackered thing - really looking forward to this trimester being over now please!

Great news Hatty . I'd be panicked at the thought of TWO sets of twins - at least you got an extra scan out of it . Actually am panicked at the thought of one set... let's hope this is another single

Am still at the eating loads - feeling ill - eating more stage. I could prob do with more and smaller meals, only I don't want to cause comment at work by bringing in numerous pots of snacks!

yippee for successful scans artichokes and Hatty - phew that there is only 1 ! My 12 week scan ended up being 10+6 hatty and they were not concerned that it was too early so I'm sure you can relax now

How early can you feel fluttering ? I definitely felt something earlier - maybe wind...?

Great news Hatty! Love the 'Little Billie' title!

Hi everyone and welcome to Jam.
Good news on everyones scans...all lovely news.
Still chucking up at an alarming rate. Just had to read DS bedtime story and kept getting told off for pausing to take deep breaths! He didn't help the situation by belching at me a few times and then wanting a massive slimey goodnight kiss...you gotta love 'em! Still...I managed to complete Harry and his bloomin' long bucket full of dinosaurs before launching him into his cot and running to the loo! He doesn't seem to have settled too well so hope I'm not in for a disturbed night :-(.

Well done artichokes and hatty! Great news! I am happy to report that I too got on well, odds of problems are the lowest in all three pgs, even though I am 4 years older than my first nuchal scan! I will finally decide over the weekend but it looks like the CVS will not be necessary now

Only slight query for me is over the due date. As I have only had the one period since DD2 15 months ago (and that was very light, nothing to write home about), my first scan redated me from 4th Dec to 10th Dec. However, the obstetrician today said that the baby was huge and he thought my original dates might be right! As I'll be doing a CS on about 3rd Dec, it doesn't really matter but it would be nice to know for sure. He told me to leave the date where it is though, which is as well as I@d have a November baby and be booted off this thread.

Chichi I think the bladder thing varies depending on the equipment that is used. For DD2 and this one, I have had empty bladders, but for DD1 (2004) I had to have a full one. Interesting in the early preg unit at Kings there was a sign saying that they don't do TV scans on children and so they would need a full bladder for an abdominal one. There was a poor kid sitting behind me who was being given glass after glass of water to get her ready. She can't have been more than about 13 and was in her school uniform.

Hope everyone is doing well. DH is off tomorrow for a week so I'll be flying solo. I predict lots of ice cream for the children and lots of pizza for me

Well done artichokes and hatty! Great news! I am happy to report that I too got on well, odds of problems are the lowest in all three pgs, even though I am 4 years older than my first nuchal scan! I will finally decide over the weekend but it looks like the CVS will not be necessary now

Only slight query for me is over the due date. As I have only had the one period since DD2 15 months ago (and that was very light, nothing to write home about), my first scan redated me from 4th Dec to 10th Dec. However, the obstetrician today said that the baby was huge and he thought my original dates might be right! As I'll be doing a CS on about 3rd Dec, it doesn't really matter but it would be nice to know for sure. He told me to leave the date where it is though, which is as well as I@d have a November baby and be booted off this thread.

Chichi I think the bladder thing varies depending on the equipment that is used. For DD2 and this one, I have had empty bladders, but for DD1 (2004) I had to have a full one. Interesting in the early preg unit at Kings there was a sign saying that they don't do TV scans on children and so they would need a full bladder for an abdominal one. There was a poor kid sitting behind me who was being given glass after glass of water to get her ready. She can't have been more than about 13 and was in her school uniform.

Hope everyone is doing well. DH is off tomorrow for a week so I'll be flying solo. I predict lots of ice cream for the children and lots of pizza for me

Great news Artichokes and Hatty.

My scan went really well. The baby wouldn't stay still at all and kept waving at us. They have put my date forward by 2 days. So I am exactly 12 weeks today.

MrsMattie due 28/11 DC#2
badkitty due 01/12 DC#1
twinkle183 due 01/12 DC#3
pwcbird due 01/12/ DC#2
rosmerta due 02/12 DC#2
mibbes due 02/12 DC#1
RawChocolate due 02/12 DC#3
Flumpybumpy due 02/12 DC#3
theyoungvisiter due 03/12 DC#2
Modernlove due 03/12 DC#1
snowwombat due 03/12/07 DC#1
cc21 due 03/12/07 DC#2
goneundergroundtillfamilyknow due 04/12 DC#3
Verso due 04/12 DC#2
bcsnowpea due 05/12 DC#2
BrightShinySun due 05/12 DC#2
phee96 due date 05/12 DC#1
pixsix due date 07/12 DC#1
majormoo due 07/12 DC#3
poisondwarf due 08/12 DC#2
Nolda due 08/12 DC#2
toratora due 08/12 DC#3
Mina30 due 08/12 DC#2
lal07 due 08/12 DC#2
ChutneyMary due 10/12 DC#3
hiccymapops due 11/12 DC#2
tasha22 due 11/12 DC#4
jenduck due 11/12 DC#1
Bisou due 12/12 DC#1
fishnchips due 12/12 DC#3
Jackstini due 12/12 DC#2
kayzisexpecting due 12/12 DC#2
Artichokes due 13/12 DC#2
Alliebongo due 13/12 DC#3
KutilPutil due 13/12 DC#2
cococat due 14/12 DC#1
snorris due 14/12 DC#5
pootleflump due 14/12 DC#2
Katie3677 due 14/12/08 DC#2
LittlePeanut due 15/12 DC#2
chinchi due 17/12 DC#2
fruitbowl due 17/12 DC#2
IceCube due 18/12 DC#1
moaningminnie2020 due 18/12 DC#2
okaythen due 19/12 DC#3
hattyyellow due 20/12 DC#3
hotmama due 21/12/08 DC#3
MaeWest due 21/12/08 DC#2
abbymeg due 21/12 DC#2
georgiepig due 22/12 DC#2
NineUnlikelyTales due 22/12 DC#2
monkeydops due 22/12/08 DC#2
Indith due 24/12 DC#2
southernbelle77 due 24/12 DC#2
Missmama due 25/12 DC#3
Disenchanted due 25/12 DC#3
simmo14 due 25/12 DC#2
kitkat9 due 25/12 DC#3
Anna dgtue 25/12 DC#1
Turniphead1 due 25/12 DC#3
Jollybear due 26/12 DC#1
tm2 due 26/12 DC#1
olipop due 27/12 DC#2
feb due 28/12 DC#2
minster due 28/12/08 DC#3
babblington due 29/12/08 DC#3
EffiePerine due 31/12/08 DC2
march29 due 31/12/08 DC#2

Just updated the list with my new date!!

I got a bag of dime bars from my mum today. She is saving me a bag for next week.

Cheers all - it is just the hugest relief to be only having one! Although I am huuuggee already as my uterus got stretched to 48 weeks last time (when I was only 37 weeks!) so I don't quite see how I'm going to expand for another 6 months!

Chutney that's great that your scan went well as well. Do you mind me asking how old you are?

I'm 33 now and was 29 when I got pregnant with my twins. The midwife suggested I might want to go for private screening - it's £180 though which seems a lot! It's strange to suddenly be considered as an older mother - 33 still seems fairly young to me in other ways!

Is anyone else having private screening?

Just updated list with my new due date too.

MrsMattie due 28/11 DC#2
badkitty due 01/12 DC#1
twinkle183 due 01/12 DC#3
pwcbird due 01/12/ DC#2
rosmerta due 02/12 DC#2
mibbes due 02/12 DC#1
RawChocolate due 02/12 DC#3
Flumpybumpy due 02/12 DC#3
theyoungvisiter due 03/12 DC#2
Modernlove due 03/12 DC#1
snowwombat due 03/12/07 DC#1
cc21 due 03/12/07 DC#2
goneundergroundtillfamilyknow due 04/12 DC#3
Verso due 04/12 DC#2
bcsnowpea due 05/12 DC#2
BrightShinySun due 05/12 DC#2
phee96 due date 05/12 DC#1
pixsix due date 07/12 DC#1
majormoo due 07/12 DC#3
poisondwarf due 08/12 DC#2
Nolda due 08/12 DC#2
toratora due 08/12 DC#3
Mina30 due 08/12 DC#2
lal07 due 08/12 DC#2
ChutneyMary due 10/12 DC#3
hiccymapops due 11/12 DC#2
tasha22 due 11/12 DC#4
jenduck due 11/12 DC#1
Bisou due 12/12 DC#1
fishnchips due 12/12 DC#3
Jackstini due 12/12 DC#2
kayzisexpecting due 12/12 DC#2
Artichokes due 13/12 DC#2
Alliebongo due 13/12 DC#3
KutilPutil due 13/12 DC#2
cococat due 14/12 DC#1
snorris due 14/12 DC#5
pootleflump due 14/12 DC#2
Katie3677 due 14/12/08 DC#2
LittlePeanut due 15/12 DC#2
chinchi due 17/12 DC#2
fruitbowl due 17/12 DC#2
IceCube due 18/12 DC#1
moaningminnie2020 due 18/12 DC#2
okaythen due 19/12 DC#3
hotmama due 21/12/08 DC#3
MaeWest due 21/12/08 DC#2
abbymeg due 21/12 DC#2
hattyyellow due 22/12 DC#3
georgiepig due 22/12 DC#2
NineUnlikelyTales due 22/12 DC#2
monkeydops due 22/12/08 DC#2
Indith due 24/12 DC#2
southernbelle77 due 24/12 DC#2
Missmama due 25/12 DC#3
Disenchanted due 25/12 DC#3
simmo14 due 25/12 DC#2
kitkat9 due 25/12 DC#3
Anna dgtue 25/12 DC#1
Turniphead1 due 25/12 DC#3
Jollybear due 26/12 DC#1
tm2 due 26/12 DC#1
olipop due 27/12 DC#2
feb due 28/12 DC#2
minster due 28/12/08 DC#3
babblington due 29/12/08 DC#3
EffiePerine due 31/12/08 DC2
march29 due 31/12/08 DC#2

Hiya,

I have a doppler tried half heartedly lat night to find HB but no luck, am going to try again tonight

Great news Chutney and Kayz.

Sorry about your sickness Oli you sound bery upbeat about it. I am so down when I am chucking up.

Are you still feeling sick Disenchanted? And how is the bump size now?

Hatty I am having a private nuchal at the Fetal Medicine Centre next week. I am 29. Its £150,

My new date is 10/12, will update list in a minute.