12 to 24 week pregnancy thread

squ1rrel5

Wow those lists are never ending!!

Can I please be added onto the due list? I'm 14th March.

I've got my next midwife appt tomorrow which is supposed to be 16 weeks but I'm only 14 + 5. Hope that doesn't make too much difference! X

VICSH

Team Lowe; if I was having a girl I would be exactly the same girl clothes are so gorgeous boys not so much they are cute but not in the same way maybe that why I can control my shopping urges....

Lola888

I'm on a fb group and I asked about using the Uppabay Vista as a double as we've got the Vista already, I had people telling me to get a new one as it's not the best as a double. The system cost me over £600 as it is and I wouldn't sell it in case my sister wants it so not very MSE!! I might jus get a buggy board as DD1 will be 20 mths and doesn't go in the pram much anyway.

One lady told me she had tried a Phil & Teds, Cosatto, Mothercare to name a few, I was sitting there thinking how many prams have you had and how much money have you spent?!?!

Someone else told me about http://www.bestbuggy.co.uk/ which seems quite helpful so thought I'd post on here for you peeps to have a look

TeamLowe

squ1rrel5 wrote: »

Wow those lists are never ending!!

Can I please be added onto the due list? I'm 14th March.

I've got my next midwife appt tomorrow which is supposed to be 16 weeks but I'm only 14 + 5. Hope that doesn't make too much difference! X

Shouldn't make much of a difference really, it's just a general check up - wee in the pot, blood pressure, would you like a leaflet.
may make a difference as to whether they'll listen to the heartbeat but they don't do that in my area anyway so might not in yours

and i don't know, VICSH, have you seen the teeny tiny letterman jackets? far too cute...i reckon i can still get one for little miss for over a girly dress so no one mistakes her lol

sjlou

arggggh just popped in for a mini rant! Sorry!!

Needed some maternity tights, so I thought I'd pop out on my lunch break, there is a matalan/sainsburys/next near work.

The only place I found anything maternity (apart from M&P, which incidentally don't do the tights) was boots. So I just paid £16 for 3 pairs of tights (on 3 for 2)!!

Birdie85

Those lists are very interesting reading! We're going to be making up our lists and going shopping for it all in the next couple of months. As it is, we've already whittled the must-haves down quite a bit. We're very lucky in that we've had the pram and nursery furniture bought for us but we'll be frugal with everything else!

TL, thankfully my friends were fine on holiday! Who knows what they were saying to each other when they were alone, but they behaved in public! Won't be going on holiday with friends again for such a long time again though!

Just been to the doctor and heard baby's heartbeat again, love it! Fainted in Sainsbugs this morning, which was very embarrassing! Especially as the first aiders were so good but called the ambulance so had a first responder and 2 more paramedics turn up! :eek: All OK with me now, just a bit of low blood sugar- good excuse to eat more Kit Kats!

Just waiting in for the nursery furniture to be delivered now!

BaileyB

My Wife had her blood tests today and are very high risk of Downs 1:8 which has scared us both.

Not sure what to do next, would like to know 100% but then chance of miscarriage.

Anyone had a low number and everything been ok?

Wife is 31 and our second baby (Henry all ok 20 months old)

kerri_dfw

BaileyB, my friend was a chance of 1 in 14 and her baby was ok. But then you get women with a chance of 1 in 100,000 and their baby has downs, so you can never guarantee. I think you need to sit down with your wife and decide whether you could raise a child with downs syndrome. The likelihood is 12.5% and the likelihood of not is 77.5%. My sister decided that if her likelihood was high then she wouldn't have further tests as the baby was her baby and she didn't want to put the baby at risk. However, she also decided that she would raise that baby regardless of whether it had downs or not and she would get by somehow. On the flipside, my partner and I decided with the lives we lead we wouldn't be able to offer a child with downs the right level of care so we would have had the additional test and risked the miscarriage to know. I'm not sure of the % for miscarriage, but I think the likelihood is lower than not miscarrying.

BaileyB

The % is 0.5-1% so pretty low compared to the ratio of downs.

I don't think it has fully sunk in yet, and my wife is going on her motherly instincts and does not want anything bad to happen to her/our baby.

Henry is 20months old now and a handful at times, how will we cope with a 2 year old and a young baby with downs i don't know. Even when they are 2 and Henry 4 i expect it to be pretty hard.

We both work full time and H goes to nursery 1.5 days of the week and my mum once or twice and we worked shifts around the other days. Now bring a baby with downs that will be unable to work as nursery will (i dont think) be able to take care of her/him, plus my mum etc.

As someone said if the weatherman said there be a 12% chance of rain would you take an umbrella?

squ1rrel5

You can get maternity tights in H&M quite cheaply x