Rach - where are the photos?! Glad to see you back.
Loola - great news your parents are on their way home, what a relief.
Trudy - it's all very well having a small waist, but I don't have the hips to match! Finding clothes is a nightmare... I don't know if any of you girls braved the harem pants that were supposed to be trendy this autumn (I've not seen anyone actually wearing any...) but they'd have looked like lycra leggings on me... 1950s stuff suits me though. If I could live in a prom dress, I'd be happy! I think I'm going to follow up ROM's suggestion of belly bands - I'd heard of them but didn't have a clue where you could get them. Btw, your mention of the fish in the fridge just made my stomach flip - I could imagine the smell! I noticed a recipe for fish in a newspaper the other day and that made my stomach turn too. So I think it's safe to say fish is off the menu for a bit. I'm not actually wanting to be physically sick at all, but most of the time I feel like I've just stepped off a boat - my stomach's queasy and everything's slightly disorientated. I had porridge and a banana for breakfast, same as most days - it keeps me going.
Thanks to everyone else for your comments! And I hope the colds are clearing up now.
I did realise after posting that we'd made a mistake. The haematoma's bigger than we thought - we'd misheard
We thought it was 13mm longest, but in fact it's 37x14x13
I checked the sonographer's notes. Still, that's not enormous, and it is to the side of the gest sac, nowhere near the umbilical cord. And the sonographer had put on the record that it was unlikely to affect the outcome of the pg. It's mostly black gunk that's coming out now
but I think that's good - at least it makes sense, if that's the blood clot disintegrating gradually. Better out than in, as my DH says (usually after breaking wind...).
As for a meet-up, sounds good to me. I'm in London, so that works well for me
We're about 20 mins by train/tube from central London. My parents are in the Cotswolds, so might be able to do somewhere round there, e.g. Oxford/Gloucester/Birmingham area. Are we thinking ladies-only, or are partners invited (and thus obviously children, for those who have more than one)? That might make a difference as to where. If it was London, we do have a couple of spare bedrooms, if that makes it easier for people further away. Getting from and to Swansea or Edinburgh in a day isn't to be recommended! Transport links are good too, obviously, but London isn't exactly in the middle of the country. I guess the other thing is, would people drive or come by train? train's usually faster (and better if you need to pee every 20 mins
) but car may be easier if you have a baby/small children. Cities are easier to get to by train, where finding your way is stressful and parking's a hassle, but finding a pub in the middle of nowhere 15 minutes from a motorway would work brilliantly for a car, and be crap for train ppl.