Blimey, turn your back for 5 mins (OK a week) and there are babies everywhere! Huge congratulations keep on your little girl. I hope you're enjoying lots of cuddles. So, not the last in your NCT group after all?
shaz your baby will be here in his/her own good time.
dildals, yaay to all the progress in fattening up Bella.
Fairy I hope all is good with you and pangolina.
onion I'm sorry to hear about your relative. I'm sure people have no expectations around what children wear to a funeral and would just want them to be comfortable, in whatever colour. Hope ringlet's cold is better?
buzzy belated yaay to your positive scan, and general positivity in spite of how crap you have been feeling. Yaay also to foody's scan news. 8+1 (9 weeks today, right?) is great. Not long to the next scan though I'm sure time is passing really slowly. And madness, belated congratulations on your 12 week scan and reaching that milestone. It is so lovely that you have been able to share good news with your family.
motor I'm glad the midwife was able to reassure you about movements. As others have said, I didn't have anything you could call a pattern until 25 weeks. That said, I had a panic at the weekend about reduced movements (little one went into hiding for 24 hours and didn't respond to the usual methods of cold drink/quiet lie down). I cracked last night and phoned the hospital who were brilliant about (a) not making me feel like a crazy IVF-pregnant neurotic and (b) getting me straight in for monitoring. The baby was happy and healthy and had just got into an awkward position where I couldn't feel him, which the midwife said is almost always the reason for reduced movements but that they would always want people to come in and get checked, as it worries them to until they've had a look and made sure all is well.
beetle hope all is well with you. I'm sure the doctor would have said if the smaller twin's measurements were cause for concern though it doesn't stop the worrying. Not so long now until your next scan.
MrsH that snowsuit is gorgeous, I saw it in the shop weeks ago and have been coveting it too though perhaps in a different colour (or is that nappropriate gender-stereotyping?)
gin it's ages since you posted about this but just to say my (very experienced and lovely) midwife measures with the tape because it's policy and it's useful to have the record for consistency if she's off sick/on holiday and someone else sees me instead, but she prefers to go by her professional experience of how the bump should be feeling at any particular stage - so she always makes her own judgment first and then measures for the records. Not sure that really applies to your (non-specialist) doc who'd only seen you once, though!
noks the only person apart from my MIL who has ignored the death stare and touched my bump without invitation has been a colleague at work and it is open season amongst colleagues for daft comments about its size. And I too have a sick colleague who should be quarantined at home on antibiotics and intravenous lemsip, not at work spreading his bugs and infection. Are we in the same team and I haven't noticed?! Why why WHY do people think they are Doing The Right Thing by going in to work when they're practically at death's door and too sick to do anything productive anyway? Never mind, you have one more week and then the work "to do" list is behind you, for better or worse, along with the sick colleague if he's still alive. I hope you do get to start your leave on your planned date.
Waving to everyone I've missed.