Sorry but this thread just moves so fast. I didn't get much sleep last night so not a hope of remembering everything I've just read. But just, hope mini just stays put a while longer, I knew someone who was told she had a short cervix, got told by her consultant odds in her favour that she would be fine. She delivered within the week at 27w 4 days, but baby was fine at the end of it all, but was in hospital for a few months obviously, but amazing what doctors can achieve when they are so small.
Counting, glad you seem to be coping with everything, there are no words.
Sun, so very sorry, I hope your holiday gives you some time away from normal life to heal.
Brummie, definitely apply, you may not get it anyhow but you will always wonder what if otherwise. Have a slight niggle at the back of my mind. Something about there being a difference in criteria between being entitled for maternity leave as opposed to maternity pay. If you start new job pregnant, at worst you get statutory maternity allowance (which is tax free so whilst not getting the 90% for the first 6 weeks, there is no tax from it) but I think you don't get the same maternity leave rights. But it could have changed so might be worth reading up on it.
I'm in a similarish boat, I haven't worked really for a couple of years, and there is a chance I might be interviewed for a part time job doing what I used to do but obv at a new firm. But if they do offer it to me, I am clearly hoping that I won't be there long before I have a baby. But given I have lost 4, it may not happen as quick as I'd like and if I don't get a job soon I will have been out of the industry for too long to get back in if I'm not careful, so I need to try, and if I do get a sticky BFP then I think I would just turn round and tell them that when I applied I did not think I would be adding to our family as we had previously tried and lost x number so had decided to go back to work and focus on that, then had a happy surprise etc....