I'm nearly 31 weeks now Ozziegirly and no stretchmarks yet. Keeping my fingers crossed that I avoid them! I have some old ones on my hips from when I bloomed suddenly in my mid/late teens and my body couldn't keep up, but my Mum said she managed to avoid getting many stretchmarks during pregnancy so I'm hoping for the same!
To be honest though, I'm not too worried... They'll settle down to silvery lines that are barely noticable after a bit, and I'm not one for showing my midriff to the world anyway. I figure they'll be nice battle scars to remind my DH what I've gone through, if I do get any.
Glad I could help maintain the calm about labour and birth, pixiestix! I don't see too much point in worrying about it. May as well put my efforts into preparation instead and trust my body to do what it has to do! I'll report back on how I get on, when the time comes.
So many girls for the First Time Frolickers! I wonder if all the scans are right? Supposedly they're more likely to be wrong when predicting a girl, but that could be urban legend. It'll be interesting to see the success ratio of scan predictions once our LO's are born!
I don't really mind either way myself, I've been carefully not making too many gender specific purchases just in case. I limited myself to two little dresses I found in the Monsoon sale, figuring they'd make good gifts for someone else later on if necessary!
We also have a lot of people in the anterior placenta club. Don't worry about not feeling any movements yet, fudgecat. If you too are part of this exclusive club, you may not feel much until around 20 weeks! You'll appreciate it later on, I think I suffer a lot less than some because the placenta cushions me from feeling as Gadget attacks my innards. I've yet to be woken up by movements, for example. (However being woken up by my bladder is a different issue entirely...)
Your triple test results are really good, chance. Mine were 1:6600 and I was thrilled it was so low, as was my MW! I only had the triple test however, my area didn't offer the nuchal fold scan before Easter, when mine was done. Doh! I think they don't really worry unless the chance is 1:150 or greater, so you have very little to be concerned over.
Only 14 more days at work - and some of those days I get to work from home. And thanks to annual leave and the bank holiday, only one more Monday after this one! I expect I'll still be waking up early after I finish, as I'll be taking DH to work. It gives me a bit of structure to my day, forcing me to get up and leave the house, so I'm not too worried. I can always come home afterwards and nap!