12-24 weeks pregnant (part 3)

mr_knight

That's a relief for you. I am just sat watching my bump move all over the place, it's a really active baba

Timeflies

Glad all turned out to be ok freshstart11!

Congratualtions on your baby boy news happy_2008 and tia86 :beer:

Mr_knight, my OH is worried he will inadvertently find out at the scan whether it's a boy or a girl, so says he will try not to look much! He doesn't want to get the pictures either, in case he can tell from them. I said I'm sure if you say you want a surprise the sonographer won't make it obvious.

Not sure of I can't sleep because of the scan today, or because I've been having a busy/stressful time at work and not looking forward to that today.

How did everyone decide when to start maternity leave, if you have it? I'm thinking of maybe 1 December for my 26 December due date, but my colleague sounded surprised I'd want to go "early" when I mentioned it as a possible date. I have no idea how I'll feel by then, or how I'll be getting on with the house move/renovations. I figured baby could easily appear early, but then first ones tend to be late :cool:

Good luck with your scan today RockPaperScissors!

tia86

Good luck with your scan Time flies, hope its not at the end of the day. I have decided 30th November to start maternity (apparently my work said the date must be a Sunday) and my due date is 19th, I keep thinking should I go another week but decided I will be feeling tired at that point and I have a bit of a trek to get to work which I don't fancy doing at that stage of pregnancy. From seeing other people struggle I think it is better to go early than try to soldier on, and who knows if baby comes early.

Good luck for your scan too RPS

Glad everything was OK freshstart

Mr knight how exciting and strange to see and feel, I think I am beginning to freak out about the whole pregnancy experience

Bye Freebie, see you in a few weeks!

Estateprincess

Hello Everyone :wave:

Please can I join you all? We had our scan yesterday and measured 12+4 weeks

Everything seems more real after seeing our bean move around so much, we had a jump and a wave and lots of what looks like thumb sucking. We also had a really good face view and good look at the spine.

We haven't told many people yet as we have had some sad family news so are going to wait for that to pass before we tell everyone.

Our EDD is 15/02/15 and our 20 weeks scan will be towards the end of September.
x

mr_knight

Timeflies wrote: »

Mr_knight, my OH is worried he will inadvertently find out at the scan whether it's a boy or a girl, so says he will try not to look much! He doesn't want to get the pictures either, in case he can tell from them. I said I'm sure if you say you want a surprise the sonographer won't make it obvious.

How did everyone decide when to start maternity leave, if you have it? I'm thinking of maybe 1 December for my 26 December due date, but my colleague sounded surprised I'd want to go "early" when I mentioned it as a possible date. I have no idea how I'll feel by then, or how I'll be getting on with the house move/renovations. I figured baby could easily appear early, but then first ones tend to be late :cool:

Good luck with your scan today RockPaperScissors!

We were asked if we wanted to know the gender and when those parts were being scanned she told us to "stare into each others eyes" lol. Hubby just couldn't resist a peak though.

As for maternity leave I am planning to go about first week in November. Just to have some chill time and to cook and stock the freezer up. My friend went the week before and another girl I worked with went about 9 or 10 weeks before! I think it depends on how you feel.

freshstart11

Officially I am on mat from 29/12/14 and due on 4/1/15 however I am on leave from 4/12/14 so I get 4 month full pay off and 6 months SMP which isn't terrible xx

lilmissreading

*delurking*

I thought I would stay at work up until week 39 to save more time for afterwards. I can only say how deluded that was. Since the late 20s I have found work more and more tricky to cope with (heat hasn't helped) but also getting more tired.

I normally love my job but I am on count down. Weeks 32-34 are 4 days weeks, 35-36 are 3 days weeks and am off properly from 37. Lots of people on the big thread have struggled to get that far and lots have needed to be signed off at various points. I am lucky and only had one day off sick.

Don't worry too much about not having time afterwards. Time before is really important too.

30+4

*relurking*

tia86

Welcome estate princess

Thanks lilmissreading for sharing your experience.

We are painting the nursery today when OH gets up, feels quite real now as we went and bought the cot yesterday along with other kiddicare bargains. Feeling quite scared that by Christmas I will be responsible for a little person.
Realised I have no clue on simple things such as bedding, hope this gets explained at antenatal classes

Legendmum

Morning all! Can I join here now too? Had 3rd scan Thursday but baby once again in awkward position so estimate of 11+5 and according to previous scan should have been 11+6 so around about the same mark! Going back for rescan at 16 weeks so 11th September! Consultant hoping baby will have moved by then so she can do proper measurements!

EDD 20/21 February 2015

Loveactually

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Tinkwings - 25th November - 20 week scan 7th July
freebiequenie - 27th November - 20 week scan 9th July
Teaandcakeaddict-3rd December- 20 week scan 10th July
Star02 - 8th December - Scan 22nd July
Mr(s) knight - 9th December 20 week scan 6th aug
Loveactually - 14 December 2014 - 20 week scan - 22 July
tia86 - 19th December - 20 week scan 6th August
RockPaperScissors - 22nd December - 20 week scan - 8th August
Toooldforthis - Christmas Day - Scan 15th August
Timeflies - Boxing Day:xmastree: - Scan 8th August
Alice31 - 29th December - 20 week scan 15th August
Freshstart11 - 4th January - 20 week scan 15th August
Lotti1982 - 21st January - 20 week scan 3rd September

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Hi all,

Hope that everyone is doing well. I had my repeat 20 week scan yesterday and the baby is healthy and fine and got confirmation that's it's a girl :j
I see many of you are already started shopping I m currently 21 weeks and just bought a pair of booties
I will be doing my shopping on 2nd week of November when I start my maternity leave I think.