MSE Pregnancy Club 18

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pigpen wrote: »

Fuzz.. they finish on the 21st.. but I have noone to look after them then so it will have to be 16-18th when they are at their dads!

Hope bubs has a calendar in there then:D:D:D

sweett - can't see it, you need to put your profile onto public I think! Although I have just seen your profile pic on there and she is gorgeous:D Very smiley:D

2nd linky works...Thanks Grandad lol

smartie12

Apparently I'm on "Maturity leave":eek::rotfl:

Good job I noticed DH had put that on website... it is now changed to maternity leave!!

Maturity leave???:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I'll blame it on his PG brain;)

Congrats Sweet:) You sound sooo happy!:j

dreambirdie

re antenatal classes, my hosptial do them for free, i think its 6 classes and each are 2 hours long i think. i thought every hospital did this for free? i dont thinks its very fair that some do and others dont and leave people having to go private for them!!

pigpen

**confuzzled** wrote: »

Hope bubs has a calendar in there then:D:D:D

no chance..it'll be waiting until I have a REALLY busy day.. or I'll be at school for sports day or at parents afternoon or something when we decide to make an appearance.. to create as much inconvenience as possible!!

smartie12

dreambirdie wrote: »

re antenatal classes, my hosptial do them for free, i think its 6 classes and each are 2 hours long i think. i thought every hospital did this for free? i dont thinks its very fair that some do and others dont and leave people having to go private for them!!

My hospital does zilch:mad:

Not even visits:mad: Oh but they do do a you tube video!! *raises eyebrow*

Our surestart centre was supposed to be sending me a letter about antenatal... but nothing yet.

sweettirana

The_Next_Verse wrote: »

Has anyone else started doing one of those 'Baby Record Book' scrapbook type things?

I made sure that i bought all of the newspapers the day she was born (and the following days as well as technically that was what happened the day she was born!)

Actually, I rang Grandad from my hospital bed and made him go and get them!

kitkat5566

Morning all (oh god just noticed its afternoon technically!)

Well I'm having a lovely day off today I lay in until 10am, had a cuppa and some biscuits, and thats been my day so far! Going to see Shrek later, looking forward to it, just hope I dont have to keep going out to the loo!

My OH is panicking about what we are guna do moneywise while I am off as he still cant find work, I just keep reassuring him saying at least we're both here for the baby. Does anyone have any idea how much tax credits we would get with me just getting basic maternity allowance and him JSA? I have tried an online calculator but I keep getting diff answers

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kitkat5566 wrote: »

Well I'm having a lovely day off today I lay in until 10am, had a cuppa and some biscuits, and thats been my day so far! Going to see Shrek later, looking forward to it, just hope I dont have to keep going out to the loo!

My OH is panicking about what we are guna do moneywise while I am off as he still cant find work, I just keep reassuring him saying at least we're both here for the baby. Does anyone have any idea how much tax credits we would get with me just getting basic maternity allowance and him JSA? I have tried an online calculator but I keep getting diff answers

Your day so far sounds lovely:D

I've just put your details(well my DOB and inaccurately guessed the rest) in the HMRC website with you working a 35 hour week(you're still classed as working even though on ML) and OH on JSA with no childcare for a 1 week old baby and I got it as £5986.89 from 7/7/10 til 5/4/2011 so not quite a full tax year:) LINKY here if it works so you can see the results:)

Red_Rose

Antenatal situation is silly! I think everyone should be given the option and it shouldn't be dependent on where you live.

Tirana Thanks, thats made me feel better. I think I'm just getting into the stage of thinking about birthing options and I thought this might help a lot.

Anyways, enough of my ranting! I've got to go out at lunch and treat myself to a black skirt from Mothercare. I feel such a scruff turning up to work in literally 1 skirt and 2 pairs of trousers. I resent paying over the odds for something I'm only gonna wear for another two months, but there is nothing going in that description on eBay.

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RR have you tried bump bands??? I'm a recent convert, wish I'd got them earlier tbh:) Managed to get into my fave jeans last night wearig a bump band to hold them up:) was brill, not been able to wear them since 16weeks!