Thanks Blue - I can't stop looking at them. Glad you had a good scan on Tuesday - all your pics are lovely - you have a very photogenic family. Hope your shingles clears up soon. Celtic names are quite good for beginning with vowels - I'm going for Welsh names and nearly all my girl choices being with E or A and the boy's name back-up also begins with A.
JJF - Congrats on new job. Hope you're enjoying it. Can't believe you're juggling new job, house move, phd and being pg, we'll have to start calling you superwoman. I wouldn't hold too much store by the 'come on wee man' statement, the woman who did my scan on Wednesday kept saying he even after she'd told me she thought I was having a girl - I think it's their default setting. Hope your blood pressure keeps behaving itself and this is third time lucky.
Irish - wow you really do have a busy job. Don't envy you those horrible hours. I hope you're getting enough time to look after yourself.
Bubble - So sorry AF arrived, but great that Clomid has kicked in. Fingers crossed for next month for you.
Sunny - Seems you were also right in your prediction for me. Hope SATC and biscuits did the trick. Glad you managed to have a nice time with DH in the pub. I read an article recently which said that men don't want to talk they just want to do nice things together instead. Not great for us when we feel the need to get all the unsaid stuff said, but I guess they are just programmed differently. My first AF post-mc was incredibly emotional - just the similarity of the two things brought the sad memories right back. Sending lots of hugs your way.
Girl - Hope you're coping with not being able to try this month and next month will be your month.
Wasabi - Sorry you're feeling under the weather. Hope you feel better soon. Remember that paracetamol has a lower risk than high temp, so don't be afraid to take it. Great news on the nuchal results. Hope you're damp and timber survey comes back with good news. Enjoy meeting your nephew next week.
Head - Happy Belated Birthday! Hope the first part of the move went well and you've managed to smooth things out with your sister. Try not to worry about lack of movements, woman who did my scan Wednesday said some women don't feel anything until 24 weeks! In answer to at what point do you stop worrying, well there's the anomaly scan, then 24 weeks (possible to survive), then 28 weeks (likely to survive), then 34 weeks (more likely), then 37 weeks (considered term), then birth, then cot death worries, then all the other worries for the rest of their life - the goalposts just keep shifting . It does seem to get easier with each milestone though. I remember thinking in the early weeks that I wasn't going to be able to cope as a mum because the worry was driving me crazy but am actually starting to enjoy it now.
No more shopping sprees from me. Now have 3 maternity tops, a pair of leggings, combats and jeans - though have to decide whether to keep jeans, they adjust really well (side pocket stretchy stuff with elastic with ~10 buttonholes each side) but have front button which I think may get uncomfortable. Have only worn one of tops so far as trying to hold out as long as possible. I also won £76 on the lottery the night before I bought the watch I couldn't afford (although didn't realise it at the time) so can now enjoy the watch guilt free as it was £80 after all the discounts. I say guilt free, I feel a bit guilty that the number I didn't notice I had was baby's due date - shame on me!
My scan was great yesterday. The woman is a researcher not a trained obstetric sonographer so I don't know for sure that everything's OK but she couldn't see anything that stood out to her. Baby was keeping her legs firmly crossed during the abdominal scan, making it very hard to determine gender but she moved when I went to empty my bladder (she emptied hers too - how weird is that?) before the dildocam bit and then couldn't stop flashing her bits, so pretty sure she's a girl. I'm being over cautious in saying 'they think' when telling people just in case it's a boy and also to avoid her having an entirely pink wardrobe. She was thumb-sucking, waving, hiccupping and crossing and uncrossing her legs a lot which was very cute. I still can't quite make the connection that those movements are going on inside me though, I think I need to feel them before that'll become real. I keep finding myself suddenly realising that I'm having a baby even now. One day it'll sink in. Have to wait until I can speak to a native Welsh speaker before deciding on her name though - I had a definite one for a boy. Thankfully one of the researchers is from North Wales and she will be at my next scan on 9th Sept. Unfortunately they have enough data for the research project now so I'm not getting the scans at 22, 26, 30, 34 and 37 weeks now - just the one on 9th and my anomaly scan on 3rd. Grateful to have the extra 2 so far though and at least I won't have to suffer the nerves that build up in the week before.
Hi Sif, Suzi, Wishing and Rip if you're still lurking.