Feb 2020 Bus Pt 4

[Juno231]

For the small group of ladies still here from the original February bus from 2020.

Maybe 2022 is when we finally get our babies?

@MimiArm
@paintfairy
@MrsTwentyNine

@MrsTwentyNine I looooooove the name Theo - definitely gets my vote!!

Our boy name was Oscar but now it's Noah. Our girl name is Emily.

I'm counting down the days until Thursday! I'll be sure to let you know after the scan ☺️

@MrsTwentyNine I love Theo!! I'm a sucker for having a longer/more formal version so that the kid has the option to shorten if wanted.

I'm really struggling with girl names, anything that catches my fancy ends up being in the top 20. Meanwhile boy names came a lot easier to us but oh well!

Oh and we found out early via NIPT!

@paintfairy @Juno231 it's so hard to not pick from popular list! I think Theo is quite popular too but I just love it too much to not go with it. I find girl names harder too!

And I forgot to answer your earlier question sorry @Juno231 my EDD is June 15 (which my countdown tells me is only 19 weeks away....whaaaaat!)

@MimiArm yess you must let us know Thursday!! I'm excited for you! You know Noah was always my boy name before I met DH but there's a Noah in his family already so had to change it. I loveeee Noah ❤️ Now I want you to have a boy just so you can use the name haha!

Has anyone started buying anything? I've held off but got some baby grows/ sleepsuits. I've made a list so far and it seems to just make me not to want to buy anything currently as there's SO MUCH to think about. I've given myself until after 24 weeks to buy any "big" item!

Also - NCT? Are you ladies going for it? I've got mine in April/May. Feel like I'm clueless about looking after a newborn so need all the help I can get ...

Ohh @Juno231 that's amazing! I didn't even know NIPT could tell you that early. Shows you how much I know 😂

PS: baby brain but I love the name Emily too! @MimiArm
(I've started blaming a lot of things on said baby brain 😂)

@MimiArm I can't believe you have names. I literally think mine will be born and I'll still be clueless! 🤣 I have a friend with a Noah. I seem to know someone with everyone name I like. 🙄

I keep having really bad dreams. I'm beginning to dread going to bed. 🙈😭
@MrsTwentyNine We don't appear to have NCT near us at the right time. Either too early or too late. The rest are online which seems pointless. I haven't bought anything yet but we did look at prams yesterday and i finally purchased a pregnancy pillow from ebay. 🤣

@paintfairy We have our names picked out for over 2 years (since we started trying). Thought that time, anytime we've spoken about our future baby, we've referred to him or her as "when baby Noah/when baby Emily comes along" 😂😂

@MrsTwentyNine Ive not really bought anything. Well, I had a bright idea to start buying a packet of nappies with the weekly food shop since last week, so I have one packet of Pampers 😂😂😂

@MrsTwentyNine I've got my 12 week scan on Friday so will probably book myself into bump & baby classes this weekend (instead of NCT). OH gifted me a whole bunch of pre natal yoga and Pilates classes as well so hopefully I'll make some friends there too!

As for buying stuff - I've bought a pregnancy pillow, two Christmas outfits I got in the sales and a bit like @MimiArm i walked into Sainsbury's yesterday and realised there was a baby event on and somehow walked out with a pack of newborn nappies as they were a really good price 😂.

I'm lucky though in that I think I'll be gifted a lot of baby stuff by friends so I don't want to buy anything I could have gotten for free lol.

@MimiArm 🤣 What if they end up being the wrong size? 🤔
@Juno231 have they? God. Baby events everywhere! 🙈🤣

@paintfairy I've got one pack of size 0 (newborn small baby) - I'll get another at that size then work up to bigger sizes haha. I'm only getting a few packs in the really small size in case they are wasted 😂

I just have it in my head that because I'm small (5 foot), my baby will be a small one. Probably end up with a turkey!

@MimiArm 🤣 That's what I was thinking. You might have a 10lb baby. 🤭 I better bloody not do. 😫

I've caved and booked a gender scan. 🙈🤣 12th Feb.

Haha @paintfairy how exciting! Feb 12 is round the corner!!

@MimiArm good luck with gender scan!! I predict a boy 😝

And fab idea about nappies! I may start that trend too...

@MrsTwentyNine @paintfairy @Juno231

Drumroll ......

We are having a BOY! You were right @MrsTwentyNine !!

@MimiArm 🥳 Congratulations!

@MimiArm yessss!!! Baby Noah 😍 Huge congratulations!

@mimiarm WOOP WOOP!!

Well then @paintfairy you'd better have a girl to even out the teams here!

@Juno231 🤣 I was thinking that! We could end up being boy heavy! 🤭 Hopefully I will know on the 12th. I just hope the little sausage is cooperative! I'll be well annoyed if they can't see!

Also- its February again! Officially 2 years we've been here now. 🤣

This February is very different however 😍

Feeling the side effects of my whooping cough vaccine today 😞

@MrsTwentyNine oh no. I'm not looking forwards to that then. I naively thought it would be ok. 🤣

@MrsTwentyNine poo, i hadnt considered our own reaction to the whooping cough vaccine.

I had my 12 week scan on Friday and was dated as 13+1 (my notes were 12+4 per conception) so the new due date is 11/08 now. Baby girl was doing headstands and kicking lots, it was sweet to watch.

Just booked myself in for my antenatal class - starting on the 24th May ☺️

@paintfairy @Juno231 tbh it wasn't that bad! Just felt a bit weak and a sore arm ...possibly very mild fever but I got over it the same day!

@Juno231 how exciting!! We are all quite close in dates ❤️ I can't believe how it's worked out!

So let me get the dates again...
Me: June 15
@MimiArm : July 24
@paintfairy: July 25
@Juno231: Aug 11

Ahhhhh!! This is going to be one special summer 🥰🤞🏽

@MrsTwentyNine it's crazy how it's worked out for us!

My date has been brought forward to 21 July, not that those few days make much difference!

I’ve just read through this lovely thread and I wanted to say how fantastic it is that all four of you have your BFPs! Many congratulations!

@MrsTwentyNine I'm July 24th now, officially. Exciting times!
@Decaffe thank you! It certainly seems to take long enough. 🤣