Hi everyone. Having trouble keeping up, sorry. Thanks for hte new thread Persnickety & welcome to all the newbies.
DF - sorry you're having this worry, I agree with GGG that the fact that they're saying the scan looked good & htat you're combined results actually lower your risk must be a good thing. Did they/are they able to tell you what your risk would have been with just bloods & scan, i.e. not factoring in your age?
Jodie & OWO - hats off to you both. You're both a heck of a lot stronger and braver than me. I've wanted to put restrictions on contact with xp but just too damn scared of him to push anything. SS wouldn't stand by me, courts don't see a drug addict/dealer as a risk to children, and he just manages to manipulate people so well I'm far too scared to take it any further than that, but the counselling is going well so hopefully sometime in the not too distant future I can actually stop living in fear of him.
Lavita - ooh I'm interested in what chain you work for. I've worked for a few big chain restaurants so possibly the same chain as you. Well if not I've certainly worked for Mitchells & Butlers (even back when it was Bass) and Whitbread.
Well, this is --quite- very embarrassing. I called the mw as I was still a bit about my consultant appointment so wanted to check what I had been told by the hospital was right and what I could do about it etc. Anyway it turns out that I do have to see a consultant a few times because of an infection I got a few years ago. Even though I haven't had any 'outbreaks' of it for about a year or so, I still have to be monitored throughout the latter stages of the pregnancy as if I do have any live outbreaks when I go into labour it can pose a very serious risk to the baby & therefore I would need a section. BUT, hopefully I won't get any outbreaks and as long as I don't there is nothing at all stopping me from having a home birth.
I really feel for those of you who missed out on promotion recently. My manager had just put me forward for the fast-track management thing at Woolies. I'd done a few courses with them, had a few bits under my belt & was reading up on all the STL bits & pretty much doing an STL's job when we went into admin. Now I'm 30, with no genuine experience as a team leader (none that I can put on a cv anyway even though most of my jobs I've done that job as the actual supervisors were crap). A couple of things I'd like to do. I want to go back to college, as does dp. We thought that us both being out of work was a perfect opportunity to do so, but all of our benefits would have stopped. Great, so we'd be going to college to give ourselves better prospects, but in the meantime we can't live. Also, both of us want to start up our own business. I've had plans for years, but never had any support, now dp wants to do the same thing as me, unfortunately obviosuly with no capital it's not possible and thanks to xp I'm bankrupt so I can't have a business in my name for another 5 years.
Ooh, I've just remembered, can't remember who said about it on the other thread, but I saw on i-am-pregnant.com someone mentioning intelligender so I'm afraid you'd be too late to patent a gender prediction wee-stick!
Well I'm exhausted, feel bad as I don't have the energy to play with ds2 but at least I have dp who says he hates it, but secretly loves playing with the boys. A bit of a sit down, then off to counselling, then a meeting with our MP to have a good old whinge.