Due April 2009? Am I really the first?

[LittleMyDancingForJoy]

Anyone else out there? Just got faint, but definitely there, BFP.

Due 1st April, according to those dodgy due date calculators.

Of course there may be other hospitals that do the same thing.

Thanks for support all much appreciated. Will try and get my mum to come but could be more trouble than its worth

conkertree - I don't think you should be worried but I know how you feel! Although some of us have to be due towards the end of the month, it is a bit like playing catch-up when the early April ladies are talking about booking in dates and scan dates! We'll get our turn soon

I liked being at the end of the month with DD. I heard what everyone else was going through before it happened to me so nothing was a surprise!

when i had DS I was due on 30th March so was one of the last in my antenatal group (RL not MN). It was awful waiting around when everyone else was having their babies.

then DS decided to be overdue and ended up being born 17 days late

the earliest one in the group was born in Feb so there's quite a gap between them....

17 days!!! That must have been a very, very long wait.

DD was 10 days after due date. Due 23 March and finally turned up on 2 April. Was just very relieved that she managed to hold out until after April Fool's day.

Picture the scene, every single year: "Your birthday? Today? Really? We forgot. We haven't got you any presents".

lol Lulu exactly what I'm worried about!!!

Twins galore!

Even though I'm due on 6th, my booking in isn't until 18th Sept. and goodness knows when my "12" week scan will be probably early Otober.

Its soo hard all this waiting especially as I'm nowhere near as sick this time around. I remember my boss last time (who used to be Head of Midwifery at local hospital) saying that being so sick is a great sign everything is well but what if you don't feel sick, does that mean all isn't well? Trying to heed the Dcotor's reassurance that not feeling sick doesn't make me 'any less pregnant'.

On a lighter note, didn't get wellies but did get lovely joggies from The White Company as a wee treat to myself.

I forgot for a moment that we are all expecting April babies.

Ooooh wellies. I saw a gorgeous pair in TK Maxx the other day and nearly bought them but managed not to. Already have a pair and DD would really think I was loopy if I came home with another pair.

Meant to ask this before but does anyone else like the name April? I actually really like it but I'm not sure whether I'd use it as a first name or not - not sure whether dh likes it.

I do quite like it, but it wouldnt be high up my list of first choices for this lo. I knew an April at school and she was perfectly nice.

I do think it is pretty but we have a good friend with the name so it wouldn't appear on our lists.

Have found myself wondering about Easter related names if I happen to give birth on Easter Sunday, but I can't really bring myself to love Pascal or Pascale and I can't think of any other Easter names ('Bunny' - should I run that one on the naming forums - he he he?!)

yes, 17 days was a bit too long. my birthday is on the 10th April, and I thought by my birthday I'd definitely either be in labour or have had the baby.

as it was, I sat there having tea and cake with some of my friends in the worst mood ever:

'are you having a nice birthday LittleMy?'

'No. I'm a whale.'

'What would you like for your birthday?'

'A baby. '

My friend's DS was born on the 1st

I like the name April - not thinking of it for this one, but it's a lovely name.

LuLuBai - what about Egg? Or Chocolate?

Both lovely names

Chortle, chortle!

Egg for a boy, Chocolate for a girl? Lovely.

Think we've got the name for the tiwns!

perfect.

DS was born on Easter Sunday 2006. we didn't go easter theme, but we did go biblical with his name.

Hi all,

For the first time in my life I'm no longer indecisive. I know things I HATE and the things I LOVE and everything else I couldn't give a toss about.

I can't believe all the iced bun talk! I have been totally off sweet stuff but nearly throttled the lady on the bakery counter at Sainsburys today when I discovered they don't do their big iced loaves with almonds on anymore. BAST*RDS!!!

And all the other drivers on the road today were absolute knobs. Overtaking me in a 30 cos I was doing... doh... 30. WAN**RS!!

I feel v.decisive about that.

Here endeth my rant.
I'm sure about that, too

Jumbs - are you going Alping in Switzerland? Couldn't believe how much unpasturised cheese they sell in the supermarkets. We found it a pain having to remember to check - it was the hard ones too, that you expect to be fine, not just the rind cheeses. The unpast. and past. have different coloured labels, one a green bit on the label and one has a red bit, but I can't remember which way round it is, so not much help there then. But thought I'd mention it anyway.

Three cheers for all the twins BTW

Wow, congratulations on the twins BinkyB and Pruners. DD1's teacher had triplets recently (completely unplanned)and they also have a 2 and 4 year old. She has a triple buggy with two babies and the 2 year old in the buggy and the other baby in a sling!

I don't feel any bigger yet, but probably because I haven't got back into the clothes I wore before the last pregnancy! I remember 3 months after I had given birth a friend of my family saw me and said "surely that baby must be due any day now..."

PRUNIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so very happy and excited for you!!

SnoozyVic - thanks for the cheese advice. We will be in France, but lots of lovely unpasturised cheese there too! I love goats cheese, just not fair! We have to be careful because of DS anyway but will just refresh my mind tonight on what the french for pasturised and unpasturised are.

littlemy - I live near Bristol & work in Bristol (block on recruitment at my place at the mo). What hospital are you going to? I had DS in St Michaels and not sure I want to go back. I too only had 20 wk scan last time and see they do 12wk one now but believe it is just a dating scan as m/wife gave me the OSCAR leaflet and mentioned having to book direct. I agree with others though, you should get extra care. A colleague had a child that died at 4mths due to heart defect, was born at Southmead, for their subsequent 2 (thankfully healthy) children they had extra consultant care and scans throught pg and for a few months after birth, including heart scans. Hope you get some decent treatment.

Anyway all, off at 6am tomorrow for the 2 day car trek to the Alps. Making sure I'm loaded up with the polos and salty crackers for the journey! I'm dreading the thought of how many posts there will be when I'm back!

Oh, and WOW to all the twins/possibility of twins. Don't worry about being too big, someone in my village had triplets. She wasn't any bigger than me and her 3 babies weighed less althogether than my 1 at birth! And they were better behaved at clinic!

hi Everyone

am new here can i join in

i am due on the 29th april this will be my first after 6 years of trying and it is a clomid baby i concieved on my second month

am feeling really sick and tired and getting pains in my lower abdominal does any one no if this is normal i am 5 weeks gone already

thanks xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi and congratulations Lauralou1! The things you are describing sound entirely normal for 5 wks to me, so try not to worry.

I'm 9 wks today and the pains have mainly stopped now, unfortunately the feeling sick hasn't. The tiredness is still there but fading. At one point I was falling asleep on sofa at 7.30, getting up at 9pm to just crawl into bed.