The MSE Pregnancy Club

daisykate124

Good luck to you all

My hubby and I are trying for our 2nd so keep your fingers crossed for us!

sallypurple

Over the moon for you, now you can relax and enjoy the rest of your pregnancy. You've had a really stressful few days so pamper yourself this weekend - thats an order!:T

caleo

:T :T :T So pleased for you!!!! Now you just relax and enjoy the rest of your pregnancy!!

I know what a relief that phone call is!! Bet you are grinning from ear to ear!!

Have a great weekend!!

CaleoX:j :j :j :j

hampshirebabe

Slightly misleading thread title, I'm not trying to get rid of my baby, but wonder how much the gov will pay, and what I can claim for.
I'm self employed so haven't got a boss to pay me, I know I can get Maternity Allowance £108.85 a week, but I was wondering what else there is available, do you think I might get a maternity grant? I was reading the thread on tax credits, where can I find info on them, there seem to be so many different types! It's all so comlpicated. Now I'm not just a blonde, I'm a blonde with baby brain, who want to fall asleep everytime I sit down.
Any help apreciated, and if anymore info helps, let me know.
Mary

JULIE

your midwife should've given you various info sheets and a book about pregnancy when you went to your first appt....all the information you need is in there at the back including what you can claim for, how to claim and who is elidgible.

crispeater

you should be able to apply for the sure start maternity grant providing you dont earn too much, i think its over 50K combined (your & partner). if you google sure start maternity grant you shoud be able to get more info.
goodluck with the pregnancy x

JULIE

by the way i'm 20 weeks along with 4th pregnancy, got 3 boys already, aged 12,11,and 15 months, we're due dec 20th. had spd in last pregnancy and had very painful symptoms of it again so have given up my aerobics and step class (very begrudgingly), i'm now just fed up with all these palpitations..never had em this bad before...

angelatgraceland

:T :T :T I'm so pleased for you! When you have worries like you had it is so easy to feel alone. Now you know that you are never alone and you can put it all behind you!
Now if you fancy reading a hilarious silly trashy novel I can recommend "The thin pink line" by Lauren Baratz-Logsted. Im halfway through it-got it from the library. Its about a girl who fakes a pregnancy for 9 months cos she likes the idea of being pregnant! Put your feet up and take it easy and keep that big smile on your face.:T :T :T :j :j :j :j :j :j
angelx
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oueyouey

hampshirebabe wrote:

Slightly misleading thread title, I'm not trying to get rid of my baby, but wonder how much the gov will pay, and what I can claim for.
I'm self employed so haven't got a boss to pay me, I know I can get Maternity Allowance £108.85 a week, but I was wondering what else there is available, do you think I might get a maternity grant? I was reading the thread on tax credits, where can I find info on them, there seem to be so many different types! It's all so comlpicated. Now I'm not just a blonde, I'm a blonde with baby brain, who want to fall asleep everytime I sit down.
Any help apreciated, and if anymore info helps, let me know.
Mary

Have you been given the NHS Pregnancy Book by your midwife? There is information in the back on what you could be entitled to. I've still got 8 weeks to go but have completed the forms for the Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit/Working Tax Credit so all i have to do when baby arrives is fill in his/hers name, date of birth and put it in the post

Janepig

Ohh, I'm too late for this club - DS is 7 months old - but I just wanted to say to anyone due in the new year to take it easy when Christmas comes (I know it's ages away but it'll be here before we turn around). My DS was due on 29 January and I was like a lunatic during last Christmas with it being my DD's last Christmas before the baby etc.. making sure everying was just right. Then my waters broke at 2.30am on Christmas morning :eek: and I had to go straight into hospital and missed it all!!! DS was born early hours of boxing day, five weeks early. Anyway, after I came out on New Years Eve one of the community midwives told me that they always have a glut of premature babies on a Christmas because everyone's overdoing it - I wish someone had told me that beforehand - my abiding memory of last Christmas is sitting in a hospital bed taking medication to stop my contractions while the salvation army band played "away in a manger" outside the room, and bawling my eyes out because I was missing DD's first "proper" christmas!!!