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12 to 24 week pregnancy thread

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  • vic3
    vic3 Posts: 804 Forumite
    Happy new house kerri :) I hope you're really happy living there. X
    DS born November 2013 :smileyhea
  • Faerie
    Faerie Posts: 206 Forumite
    Also I think it's a great opportunity to boost your maternity income by doing the extra weekends and nights - you have a test period for your SMP so get those earnings ramped up for when you're getting the initial 90%!! :T The NHS do a fab maternity package :DHowever do check when your test period is - it's usually 8 weeks ENDING the payday prior to the 15th week before your baby is due, ie 25 weeks, so it would start around 17 weeks for 8 weeks. Check with HR. Don't go doing nights in your 3rd trimester unneccessarily! I hope this makes sense!

    Thank you for this. I have just checked my maternity policy and you are right:
    "Your maternity pay is calculated on your earnings using the 8 week period immediately prior
    to the Qualifying week. The qualifying week is the15
    th
    week prior to your EWC." I think that will start in October, I'll speak to my ward manager. She was going to put me on all nights and weekends in December!
  • Faerie
    Faerie Posts: 206 Forumite
    I'm so jealous of the bump photos. I just have a bloated belly that gets worse as the day goes on.

    Good luck with the house move Kerri, don't over do it!
  • kerri_dfw
    kerri_dfw Posts: 4,556 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    I over-did it yesterday, had intense pains across my stomach right underneath my ribs above bump. I think it was from all the bending down and standing up. I was in tears :( I think I forgot that our stomach muscles are stretching & splitting. At first I thought it was my IBS but I wasn't bloated and my abdomen was soft. OH wanted to take me up the l'opital, but I refused and just slowed down. It stopped when I finally got into bed. Just a few boxes in the bedroom left today, the MIL is coming to help and I'm going to start the cleaning.

    18w today :D OH was lying in bed watching tv with me last night with his hand on bump and she was wriggling away for him, felt like she turned over at one point and he went "woah! you're going to *love* that when she's a bit bigger" (sarcastic tone lol) :D

    Hope you're all ok, I'm working from home today as cold still raging on grrr. xx
    Diary: Getting back on track for 2013 and beyond
    DEBT FREE 13-10-13 :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:
    Beautiful daughter born 11.1.14
    Mortgage: [STRIKE]£399,435.91[/STRIKE] £377218.83
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  • Birdie85
    Birdie85 Posts: 9,330 Forumite
    Happy new house Kerri! Make sure you take it easy today, it's so easy to over-do it but try to just organise things from the sofa with a cuppa! :)

    KScarlet, I love that you can feel it when your baby has hiccups! I can't wait to start to feel mine moving about! :)
    Overcome the notion that you must be ordinary. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary!
    Goal Weight 140lb Starting Weight: 160lb Current Weight 145lb
  • Rummer
    Rummer Posts: 6,550 Forumite
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    :hello: I have been lurking on the TTC thread and the less than 12 weeks thread but I am ready to say hello here. I had my dating scan the other day and I am now 13 weeks.

    My bump is huge and I have felt a few baby flutters :D
    Taking responsibility one penny at a time!
  • TeamLowe
    TeamLowe Posts: 2,406 Forumite
    Welcome to Rummer, are you exactly 13 weeks? I'm 13 weeks 4 days so we're close!

    Happy new house Kerri! It's so much fun thinking of how to decorate, not too sure it's as much fun actually decorating lol

    I've got quite a bit of roast beef in the fridge waiting for me at lunch, must be slightly anemic as I've had the biggest craving for it! can't wait to devour it lol
    I'm feeling tingles every so often but could be gas but i reckon i'm not harming anyone thinking it's my baby moving so i'll carry on thinking it as it comforts me that he's still growing x
    Little Lowe born January 2014 at 36+6

    Completed on house September 2013

    Got Married April 2011
  • vic3
    vic3 Posts: 804 Forumite
    Hi rummer. Congratulations- lovely to see you here. What's your due date...I'll add you to the list if you like x
    DS born November 2013 :smileyhea
  • kerri_dfw
    kerri_dfw Posts: 4,556 Forumite
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    Welcome Rummer :)

    TL - I wouldn't care what others think, if you think you can feel baby move then you maybe can :) I was feeling flutters around 13w, and OH felt baby move last week a few days after MIL said it was too early for even me to feel her. Some people are more in touch with their bodies.
    Diary: Getting back on track for 2013 and beyond
    DEBT FREE 13-10-13 :dance::dance::dance::dance::dance:
    Beautiful daughter born 11.1.14
    Mortgage: [STRIKE]£399,435.91[/STRIKE] £377218.83
    Deposit loan from Dad: £9000[STRIKE]£10000[/STRIKE]
  • Birdie85
    Birdie85 Posts: 9,330 Forumite
    The second person at work has asked me if my baby was planned! Seriously, what is wrong with people?! I said to him 'Why do people ask me that? I'm married, I'm in my late 20's, it's not like I had a one night stand and the condom broke!' :p At what stage of life is it expected that someone would have a planned pregnancy?!
    Overcome the notion that you must be ordinary. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary!
    Goal Weight 140lb Starting Weight: 160lb Current Weight 145lb
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