caro103 - We are very proud of her (even when she's letting us know how well her lungs are working).
The ultrasound tech at 20 weeks said she thought it was probably a boy - though in fairness to her, she also said to keep the receipts if we bought any blue babygrows. I know they'll never say for certain, but at the time this one seemed more unsure than one would expect if they were merely playing it safe, though everyone kept telling us that if the tech said it was probably a boy, it was more likely a boy than not, as when the techs get it wrong they tend to mistake boys for girls rather than the other way around.
I really wanted a daughter, so was a bit sulky about the gender scan - neither of us are getting any younger and we didn't know if we would want to try again or would be able to have another child later on. And as the due date approached, I must confess I was more than a little jealous when two of our friends who delivered before us both had girls, though I did my best to hide the fact from them.
Now as you can imagine, I am over the moon, as not only do I have my little princess, but she already has girl playmates who are mere days older than her - and who I suspect she was impatient to meet!
Defying expectations seems to be the order of the day for Eleanor. She made history at Bristol's new low-risk maternity unit by being their first undiagnosed breech. (Which observation marked the abrupt end of our visit to the LMU.) Our midwife was mortified when she heard the news; but we don't think it's anyone's fault. These things happen sometimes; and at the 36-week check-up the midwife thought she was still in cephalic presentation, but she also noted that she seemed to be lying a bit strangely - nothing alarming at the time, but could perhaps have been the start of her doing a flip onto her bum, in retrospect. And obviously no-one expected her to show up so soon!
sue_88 - sorry to hear about your difficulties with Mr. Charm.
One option might be to put the cheque in a drawer and set yourself a reminder to dig it out in December, just before it expires so you can make a decision about it some time between now and then when things aren't so fraught.
Breadsticks - one of the good things about being early is that we mercifully escaped the barrage of "any news yet?"-style phone calls/texts/e-mails - though we did get one from by dad, I suspect he couldn't remember when Eleanor was due, but that was it.
oneandtwo - congratulations on your
! looking forward to reading the story and seeing pics
junemomma09 - fingers crossed for you hon, keep us posted!
kaths101 - there's nothing like a sugar rush to get the little one jiggling about, it seems! It sounds like it's all fairly imminent - looking forward to hearing more news.
your ex OH sounds like a right idiot, glad you've got rid of him when you did! i'd personally cash the cheque...never know when it might be useful! are you not going to get child support out of him?
, though not really any signs yet, the odd period type cramp, which i'm hoping means we're going in the right direction as didn't feel anything with alex and went 8days over with him! xx
