Due Feb 2009- Posting Queens, See The Bump, On The Facebook Screen, oh yeahhh...

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TinkerbellesMum DC3 (3rd baby. Lily-Hope born 20 weeks 28-29/9/05, Tink born 31 weeks 17/7/06, age 27, Birmingham) Official due date 01/02/09 but expected from early December
florrieandme DC2 26/01/2009
laidback DC4 27/01/2009 (age 34, North Devon)
nkweto DC2 30/01/2009 (age 34, West London)
oooggs DC4 30/01/2009 (age 34, Cornwall)
MamaGoose DC3 30/01/2009 (age 32, Spain)
MissMitford 31/01/2009
Plethora 31/01/2009 (age 37, East London but moving soon)
Ethelredtheunready (age 40, 2nd Baby, Tilly born 19/2/06, DC2 01/02/2009- Currently Chichester, soon to be Epping)
AngelDoll DC1 01/02/2009 (age 31, Sheffield)
Supersteph DC2 01/02/2009 (age 24, Torbay)
jenandbean DC2 02/02/2009
ruthmollymummy 02/02/2009
Tummytrouble 03/02/2009
jamescagney 03/02/2009 (aged 33,Clare, Rep of Ireland)
Pregnantpopcornprincess DC3 04/02/2009 (pregnant with twins)(age 31, West Sussex)
MsLucy Boy 04/02/2009 (age 38, North London)
PinkTulips DC3 04/02/2009 (age 24, Roscommon, Ireland)
Davidsmom DC2 04/02/2009 (age 39, Cheshire)
MissDelighted DC1 05/02/2009
m2alyssa DC2 05/02/2009 (age 30, Isle of Man)
idontbelieveit DC2 06/02/2009 (age 31, Leeds)
Jelliebelly DC2 06/02/2009 (age 37)
Swampster (HasAWarmFuzzy) 06/02/08 (age 40, south London)
Guitargirl DC2 07/02/2009
Aila DC2 07/02/2009
Littlemissnorty DC2 08/02/09 (age 39, Kent)
Biscuitytrousers 08/02/2009 (age 31, Thames Ditton)
MarkStretch DC2 07/02/2009 (age 29, Norfolk)
KT1983 09/02/2009
Tinasan DC2 09/02/2009
Herbgarden 09-11/02/09 (age 38 Berkshire)
Ewemoo 07/02/2009
Singingintherain DC3 10/02/2009
KazzaL DC2 10/02/2009 approx (age 34, Ciren, Gloucs)
littleboyblue DC2 due early-mid Feb (age 27, Surrey)
Jenniferturkington DC2 11/02/2009
thehouseofmirth DC2 11/02/09 (age 38, Wimbledon)
Clarabumps DC2 12/02/2009 (age 27, Glasgow)
BumpVLump 12/02/09 (age 29, Surrey)
Louisebunny 13-15/02/09
Mapleleaf 13/02/2009 (age 38, Cambridge)
Nadssss 13/2/9 (age 29, living w. london)
Jelliebaby DC2 14/02/2009 (AGE 29, Cheshire)
Loopylula DC2 14/02/2009 (age 28, Sussex)
Francesrivis 15/02/2009 (age 38, Devon)
onwardandupward DC2 second week of Feb (age 35, south west)
Americas 16/02/2009 (age 32, London)
MrsThreads DC1 16/02/2009 (age 36, Cheshire)
shubiedoo DC3 17/02/2009 (age 37, Canada)
NervousMouse DC2 17/02/2009 (age 36, Berks)
Pluto DC2 18/02/09 (age 38, Kent)
Fruitstick DC2 19/02/2009 (age 32, London)
Imaginewittynamehere DC2 19/02/2009 (age 32, Cambs)
McDreamy DC3 19/02/2009 (age 37, Cyprus but will give birth in Bucks)
Dinkystinky 19/2/09 (age 31, London)
Rachrox DC3 20/02/2009 (age 28, Glos also!)
Calico1 DC2 21/02/2009 (age 40, West Herts)
Mentalpup DC2 21/02/09 (age 30, Glos)
Rosieposey DC4 21/02/09 (age 36, Wilts)
Winemakesmummyclever 23/0/09 (age 34, Lancs)
Neeerly3 DC3 23/02/09 (age 31, Mansfield)
LardyBump 24/02/09
Spottyshoes DC2 24/02/09 (aged 28)
Chilledmama DC2 25/02/2009 (age 31, Hampshire
Nellstar TBC
zikel DC2 TBC (23, Coventry)
Cocodrillo DC3 26/02/2009 (age 34, south london)
MrsBick DC2 26/02/2009 (Age 25, living in Surrey)
charlie7 DC2 28/02/2009 (Age 33, living in the Inner Hebrides)
dd1ofcolandgerry DC2 25/02/2009
theSuburbanDryad DC2 (age 26, living in South Bucks)
Babyignoramus DC1 27/02/2009 (age 27, Brighton)
Blinamouse
Elkiedee
Questionkid DC1 3/2/09 (age 33, living in Wallington, Surrey)

singingintherain - what's the naem generator page - do you put in the names of children and it sort of matches them?

I can not remember how I got there, apart from that I put in baby names in a search engine and it came up with it on one of those sites. It asks you to put in boy, girl or unisex. Then you put in your surname and how many middle names you want. After that is generates a name that you can keep generating until you come up with one that you like. The one I chose was because it just threw itself at me when I saw it and I knew that was it. I was worried about looking for a girls name, but I have finished looking I think. I let my mum know and she loves it too. I am going to keep it a secret until the day, if I can. But just to say that it has a biblical reference, but not a name of a person.

Wow, you guys have been extremely busy over the last few days.

Nothing new to report - still waiting for ANC appt next Monday and will hopefully have a 20w scan date soon. Am so of those of you who have seen you lo again and have found out what flavour they are. The suspense is killing me!

Last night Dh asked if he could go skiing for a week in mid Jan with his mates . I very politely and calmly informed him that he should decline the invitation. Well, ok, there might have been a small number of profanities questioning the parentage of the pillock mate that invited him, and possibly a couple of threats about what I would do to him (dh)involving two housebricks if he chose to go

Am Rh -ve too. Don't know if the protocol here is to give injections as routine or not. Didn't have anything like that with ds, but these things change so often don't they?

Off to find FB link and request membership (my initials are JW), then must bake cupcakes with ds and do some housework and sort out some admin stuff for uni (yikes - am back in school in a couple of weeks! How will I find time to MN?!?)

Yes it is great to know what you are having when you want to know. I did not want to know in the first scan and he just told me without asking. I was excited as I could now say he with confidence. I was then double shocked when the other Doctor told me that it was a girl and he thought I already knew that. It has been fun.

Just going tp spend today cleaning, ironing and a little nesting.

singintherain - i think i know! there is a name that we almost chose for a girl that works for those clues - i don't want to spoil the secretism though, so i wont guess...

winemakesmummyclever - especially for a second child, you need the anti-d. if hubby is negative also, you're fine (as baby will be negative). if hubby is positive, and there's a chance your ds and bump baby are positive then you will have antibodies in your system which may 'attack' the baby. you should have one injection, plus another if you bump tummy or are in a crash etc, as blood can cross over the placenta... do you know ds's blood group? because that might hold a clue.

Hi all
ntohing much to report here....

WMMC - my dh is not v.happy about a non-ski-ing winter either. Since having DS we've gone with our old ski-ing friends who also have a toddler dd on our own without dc's for a long weekend usually end of Feb/begin March - there's just no chance to fit it in this year besides which I obviously wouldn't be ski-ing. He seemed a bit put out when I told him that I wasn't happy about him disappearing off before baby was born - what if it all happened whilst he was away??

They just don't get it sometimes unless we point it out do they !

Have had manic morning running round doing stuff for move and feel v.tired. DS about to p'raps nod off next to me on the sofa...think I might be joining him !

Bye for now.

Hmmm...ds was my 2nd pregnancy and I had anti-D after losing the first and when I had another mc last year, but nothing following ds's birth. Mw last year said I should have had anti-D after ds, so am going to be much more on the ball about it this time round.

Yeah, herby, men can be pretty clueless at times. Am amazed dh had the balls to even ask after the grumpiness I have been displaying all week .

Btw, have abandoned my quest for a P&T in favour of as bugaboo bee. The P&T will be too big for my wee car and I really don't want to swap cars with ds, so we have pretty much agreed on the bee. Going to wait until after 20w scan to order it though. Just hope that the shop is still doing the offer of a free nest by then.

hello all, no news here either, toddler group day so i'm shattered now as we also had all the shopping to do this morning.

think i'll be getting dp to sort dinner as i feel a bit woozy all of a sudden.

baby is getting more and more active, keeps surprising me by kicking at odd times lol

singing, glad you happy it's another little girl for you. just goes to show they really shouldn't try and tell so early on doesn't it as there's such a huge margin for error.

mamagoose, go on... spill to us, we're not 'real' people after all

Hello all Have just got back from Thorntons and am replete with diabetic chocolate and toffee - yum! Now i dont feel in the least bit deprived

Singing im sure i remember you saying that a doctor said you were having a boy at about 13 weeks lol just goes to show that the earlier it is the less likely you are of having a reliable result. I was a bit worried about ours the other day as im only 16 and a half weeks but i made her go back three times and look and it was definately no cord dangling there! Aww thats lovely that your having a girl - congrats!

Mamagoose im with pinktulips on this - go on tell us lol we promise not to tell You have two DS's right? Lol well id be betting on a girl anyway! (dont take any notice of me im always getting it wrong )

I'm so rubbish at this secret thing!!!! But yes we have two boys (and this is absolutely my last baby) so I of course have bag fulls of blue boys clothes! So a girl would be expensive but a whole new world, but then again I'd know what to do with a boy and their funny weeing up their back tricks. Anyway, don't hospitals often get it wrong? Anyone know if they tend to get it wrong a certain way round. Maybe hidden willies so thinking a boy is a girl?

Really happy now as DD2 is back from school trip to the farm. They told her last night after her disco, just before she went to bed that everything was well. They did not tell her it was a girl. They waited for me to do that. I really did surprise her by telling her as I thought she knew, it made her cry tears of happiness.

Can not wait until tomorrow as we are going to look for baby things to put away.

Just took a look at my new catalogue and wish I had not picked it up. DH thinks he has to work 24/7 to pay for it all. There is some loveley things that did not even exist with 2dd's what is brilliant is that they post overseas.

It was strange that I was told so early that I was having a boy, but I did know the statistics of getting it wrong, so I was still a little open minded until the day. I am so not bothered, just very pleased to have made it this far since my mc's. I feel so lucky and grateful knowing all is well.

Mamagoose girls are quite distinctive i remember being shown with DD2 ( i already knew she was a girl because of the amnio but i asked them to point out her girl bits ) so when i had the scan with DD3 i knew straight away she was a girl when they went down that way - if you have had the scan near 20 weeks ish then its pretty unlikely they will get it wrong. Ohhh do boys wee up their backs? Bloody hell nobody told me that! Im going to have to invest in a wetsuit to change him i think!

Hello everyone.

I am 17 weeks tomorrow... CAnt wait for the 20 weeks scan but havent even got it through yet so dont know when it will be....

Hope you are all well.. DD had me up most of the night last night but she has been great all day so I am going to let her off...

I'm 19 weeks today!

Babycentre tells me "You'll start growing even more rapidly in the weeks to come, so don't be surprised if you find yourself slowing down."

If I slow down any further than I already have I'll be comatose and if I grow any faster I'll probably pop.

MamaGoose, after two boys if this one is a girl she will be quite blue.

I had my "20 week" scan today (I'm actually 18+6)

No Abnormalities Detected all the way down the chart

And I asked the lady not to tell me what teh sex was and she said "ok, no problem, I won't even look".

Oh, and now I know why I've not been feeling all that much movement - anterior placenta, so baby is kicking that not my stomach. I'd rather that than a low-flying placenta like I had last time (it had moved up out of the way by 32 weeks, but was still a bore wondering whether it would).

So that's me today

lol, onward, i have both, anterior and low lying

MamaGoose - I was told ds2 was a girl but no...he was a boy complete wit very swollen balls !

With Ds3 DH didn't want to know the sex of the baby but I did, so I found out and kept it secret the whole way through the pregnancy. I was successful,but DH now thinks I am very good at keeping secrets and must have loads of sleletons in the closet !

I am royally pissed off today.

What's up MS?

It may be a bit of a rant but...

I am pissed off and BORED. DH has worked so many weekend shifts recently. He has worked all week and he has taken on two extra shifts this weekend. He is also out tonight on a works do and is probably going to play football on Sunday between shifts.

I work from home, look after dd and do pretty much nothing, I feel like I never leave the house! It's hit me quite hard because before I got pg we would go out and do stuff and I had a pretty active social life. All my friends do family things at the weekends. Don't get me wrong I love spending time with dd but sometimes I want to do grown up things too.

I am fed up being on my own all weekend.

I have told him how I feel but it doesn't help. He thinks I am being ungrateful.

God sorry to rant, I am just fuming tonight.

MS does your DH have to do these shifts financially or does he just want to ?

I know where you are coming from and I can understand why you feel so

If I ever bring anything like this up DH will often answer with something like well you don't complain when you go out and spend the money - which clearly really helps

Have you got any family or friends nearby that you can arrange to meet up with? It's important that you get grown up time - keeps you sane!

At the moment his work are doing overtime incentives which means if you work extra weekend shifts and don't go sick you get an extra £300 a month. It's a really good deal and we need the money but it really eats into family time.

I know I am probably being selfish and ungrateful but he doesn't seem to understand how being pg changes your life so much and he carries on just like he did before and I feel like I'm left at home.

He does football, nights out, goes to the gym with his mate. I have nothing like that and I can't even relax with a bloody glass of wine!

MS it's about getting the balance right though isn't it ? DH and I (in a v.boring but essential way) sit down at the beginning of the month/week and plan out what he is doing, what I'm doing and when we are doing stuff together and as a family - it sounds rigid, but it's not - it just highlights when someone's needs are getting more met than the others.