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So good to hear everything is ok colinsmommy!!!

Hello to Racheljada!!

I havent had a scan date come through yet but we did have a letter saying that one of the postmen in our area was stealing post and has been since October so I think I better ring the hospital to check!

I have the same problem as you Eulalia I also have one of each and all the cuboards in our house are full with their clothes, it will be good going through them when we know, but knowing me I will want to keep everything!!

As maternity clothes go I have got quite a lot from last year so I dont think hubby will let me buy anymore although he did buy me a lovely maternity top and a very interesting pair of trousers (not maternity) for my birthday last week.

Dh is cooking lunch tomorrow which will be nice my mum and nan will be here to, Ds has made me a surprise in pre-school which has been top secret all week so im very excited!

Glad to hear that are OK colinsmommy and I hope everything is better soon.

I'm being completely spoiled tomorrow. Nice lie-in, breakfast in bed, lunch and dinner cooked for me and ....... no nappy changes!!!! Oooh, just realised maybe I shouldn't milk it too much as on Father's Day I'll be 8 months pregnant. Wonder if DH will insist I repay equally.

The best thing was a beautiful card that DS made at nursery, I nearly cries. I lov it when he brings things home

Thanks all. I'm feeling soooo much better today. I got the best sleep last night that I've had in weeks. The excitement keeps coming around here. Went to get take out last night, and coming home I noticed the trees on the foothills several miles from my house were on fire. Its really remote up there, with no roads, and they're really more like mountains being several thousand feet tall. I was kind of worried, but realized if the fire spread that it would have to go through all the half-million dollar homes at the base of the foothill first, so I figured the fire department would do something about it before it got to our house. It looked like the fire was burning itself out last night, but it is so foggy this morning, I can't see what is happening past the end of our street. Its a good thing it didn't happen this summer, because the whole hillside would have gone up in flames, it gets so dry around here.

I'm glad you're feeling better Colinsmommy and that the fires didn't come to much.

Not sure what Mother's Day I'll have tomorrow. I'm at work at the moment, having worked 60 hours last week plus last Saturday - poor DS will barely remember my name. DH had to work today as well as he had to leave work early all last week to look after DS, so I made an emergency phonecall to my parents, who have come up to stay and look after DS. When I got home last night (early at 10.15pm!) DS had still not gone to sleep, but had apparently been spending hours in his room drawing pictures for me. He gave me a lovely card which he had made at school, and couldn't wait until Sunday to give me. Anyway tomorrow is meant to be a big gathering at my sister's place - 11 of us, including my brother - for a Mother's Day lunch, which should be really nice. I'm praying I won't have to work.

Dh has said since we're in france, we'll be celebrating the french mothers day (sometime in may) rather than the UK one!!!!

Blossom2- Insist on celibrating BOTH!!

Sorry to read about your scare Colinsmummy, glad all was ok and I hope it heals soon.

my scan is booked for 24th march. can't belive how quick the time is going. 18wks already!

Happy Mothers Day to you all! I hope you all had great ones. (It sounds so odd to write that, as it isn't Mothers Day till May here)

DH is sulking hid the car keys yesterday when I told him I needed to go and buy maternity clothes (whinged about having been at work all week and being too tired to watch DS1 and 2) . So I took the bus and didn't get home until 8pm!

Welcome Racheljada hope you're better soon. Sorry I know zilch about anti biotics but I'm sure like the others have said your GP would have taken being preg into account.

Colinsmummy - What a scary week you've had thank goodness that the bleeding was nothing to do with your baby. And glad the house is still standing

Have had to move my scan to 21st March (was 17th) because of redundancy meeting at work. Decided not to persue tribunal but try and get a reasonable settlement from them amicably. Decided that whole thing would be too stressful with pg and 2 kids (one with Aspergers) to take care of on top of everything.

Happy Mother's day everyone.

I had an embarrasing moment today. Burst into tears at mums and toddlers. Feeling a bit hormonal and various things going on at the moment. Mothers day wasn't very relaxing for me. Had lunch with mum and my sisters and had to take the kids with me who ran around the restaurant. Tutting from my mother....

jellybrain you'll know how it is my ds is 5 1/2 and is physically the size of a 6 year old but copies dd all the time (she is 3 next month). She is going through a naughty phase and whilst I feel this is just about tolerable in her it certinaly isn't in him. Fortunately the restaurant was practically empty. Have you done the Earlybird course? I've just started it last week and am hoping it will give me lots of answers....

I've been bursting into tears at all sorts of inappropriate moments Eulalia, and I'm not normally a touchy-feely sort of person, so I know how you feel. Jellybrain, I hope you get what you want / deserve from your settlement - I agree it would be even more stressful otherwise. I finally left the office at 11.20pm Saturday night - at least it meant I didn't have to work Sunday. Back to normal hours this week, leaving at 5pm. Felt too tired and tense yesterday to enjoy Mother's Day as much as I would have liked, unfortunately. I think I'll be going to bed at 9pm today, especially as DH is away.

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I love the way you say 'two boys seems fine to me' - like you have a choice now!!!!!!

Congratulations - we don't have our 20 wk scan until April 15th, and we are going to ask them to confirm it is a girl - it had better be, as since they told me the last time, I have completely focussed on it as a girl....... it will confuse me if they were wrong.....

Still in my jeans and normal clothes at 15 weeks - only can think I must have lost a lot of weight trying to conceive so now I'm just growing back into my normal clothes......

Still, I am busting the seams of my work trousers - still haven't told them - can't bring myself too.....I'll wait till after Easter (when I'm 20 weeks)Bit naughty, but whatever...

Colinsmummy, so glad there was no baby problem there. Hope everyone's sickness goes away soon.

Has anyone done a hospital tour yet? or are you all having where you have had before?

Oops glad your scan was fine. As far as they could tell at my 12 week scan it looks like we're expecting a second boy too. Strange, in my naive pre-children days I used to feel sad for people who had two children of the same sex - now I know that completely misses the point that children are so unique. I'm happy whatever the sex of #2 is. Anyway, if we were going to have a girl she would be wearing an awful lot of blue!

Regarding hospital tours, I probably won't bother until I am 30+ weeks, which is what I did last time. I'ld rather have the information fresh to mind. I'm going to be in a different hospital from last time as I moved house. Are there any benefits to having an earlier tour given that I'm not going to change my mind about location?

Hi all, had a lovely Mother's Day, breakfast in bed and a lovely dinner.

We've been out looking at prams today as DH had the day off. It was a treat after having to have another blood test this morning as there wasn't enough blood the last timwe I went and amazingly the woman hit a vein first time!!!! I could have kissed her after what happened last time, but now my arm is very stiff and bruised. I think I'm a freak.

I'm having a hospital tour 28+ weeks as the maternity unit has moved. I may still have a home birth, but don't know if I could then face cleaning up the mess!!! Any one else thinking of a home birth or had one?

The 2nd lot of scans are coming round quick. I see the midwife this week for my 16 week appt and should get a date for my 21 week scan - am looking forward to finding out the sex. Managed to black out for about 20 seconds in Tesco at the weekend - it happened alot with ds but I was on my own and had some old guy asking if I had eaten breakfast that morning! I don't stop eating! Someone please tell me that the blooming stage is just around the corner!!

Hi, just off to bed shortly but thought I'd post this link for the person who was trying to find maternity swimwear that's not black/blue: swim stuff - sorry too tired to scroll down to see who it was.

Hi Twiga, it was me, thank you for thinking of me! In the end I got a lovely swimsuit from Mothercare, which has a navy blue bottom half and a turquoise top half - I feel quite attractive in it! I've been swimming quite a lot and am really enjoying it.

sorry bit of a moan. I am really fed up. (I feel a long post coming on! sorry)

Had a bad mothers day. started ok with a bit of a lie in and DH brought me breakfast in bed. Although it was as if he had forgotten, just a bit of toast and a cup of coffee! (I had gone out the day before and got him coissants and pain-au-choclate for his birthday on friday!)
The kids then gave me the cards they had made at school, really lovely.

Then it was business as usual, by the time I had a shower it was 9.30 and I realised my poor 18mth DD still had her night time nappy on!! She had been up at 7.00! I had to get her changed and dressed. I then walked her (slowly and in pain with SPD!) to the local shop to get some rolls for lunch, which he did cut and put a slice of chedder in! I stripped the beds, did 3 loads of washing and got DD down for her nap then sat and watched the grand prix and refused to move! He did make chicken casserole in the slow cooker for him and the kids, but as I don't eat meat I was given a microwave mushroom stroganoff! yum!
He then had the ordasity to complain about the pile of ironing! It had been there since thurs but it was his birthday on fri and I ran around like a blue ar*e fly to make his day special, then saturday I took the 3 kids to swimming lessons and out for afternoon then to a party so he could get on with some painting and didn't get round to the ironing!

Am I out of order being a bit p*ed off?? No flowers or chocotates? Just because his mum has never really been bothered about mothers day, so her boys have never done anything for her, does it mean I have to miss out too??

Just to add to my misery, I now have a very painful vein in my leg going from my groin to my knee, the SPD is getting worse, the doc today said my tummy bug has now caused an irratible bowl and my asthma has started to get worse so now have 2 inhalers to take.

Moan over! sorry guys. feel better for getting that off my chest.

Hello all, congrats on your bumps!

I'm new to this but as due in August too (18 weeks now) I thought it would be great to talk to other online mums.

Am single mum and have had so many negative comments about going ahead with pregnancy you wouldn't believe it but I am excited, I guess in a way that only another expectant mother would understand.

Am sorry to hear about your bad day yesterday KMS.

Has anyone started looking at prams and if so what are you thinking of getting?

BunInTum x

Hello BuninTum (ace name! You'll have to be BunOut when the baby is born!!), welcome to mumsnet. I'm glad you're so excited about being a mum - this will be my third and it never stops being exciting!

KMS - so sorry you had such a crappy day - men can be so thoughtless, can't they? . Hope you had a better day yesterday.

Sorry you feel so down KMS. The SPD on top of everything must make it really hard.

I've never had a Mother's Day so really can't comment. It was just a normal day for me and in fact more work as I mentioned in my post below as I had to try and control the kids in a restaurant. Our mum seems to think we (me and my sistes) should all do things for her and forgets we are mothers ourselves. Next year dh says we are going out for a meal just ourselves.

No more tears from me today - feel much better. I am lucky too in that I have easy pregnancies so hoping to get some things done around the house today.

Welcome BunInTum.

oops - great news on your boy

Bunintum - congratulations on your pregnancy and welcome to the thread. DS's pushchair is on its last legs (wheels?) so we'll have to get something else before the baby arrives, but I can't begin to think of such practicalities right now. I admire all you more organised people.

KMS, sorry your day wasn't what you wished, especially when you had made such an effort for DH's birthday. Your SPD sounds so awful, along with everything else you're suffering. It's a shame you can't go to bed and get out again in 5 month's time.

Oh, KMS, what a horrible day - hope you are feeling a bit happier. What is SPD? I've seen it on a lot of threads and yet, even after two children, I have never heard of it. Will it go away, or is it with you for the whole 9 mths?

bunintum - like you, I have sussing out prams when people walk by.....we have a huge old pushchair that I bought off ebay for my 3 year old, but I'm not putting my brand spanking new baby in that . I haven't decided which one - it is all quite daunting....I'm hoping some friends who have finshed with theirs might donate...

Feeling much more chipper today - quite motivated actually for some strange reason - had a huge rant to my boss last night above crap office politics - being pregnant gives you an inner strength to say things you wouldn't normally broach, I guess......

Wow, there's a Due in November thread - I feel like such an old-timer now.