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Tali: LOL @ Darwin time. It seems to be coming along. The convention center part of it is due to be open in early 08. But you never know.... Mitchell st has really boomed in the last 6mths or so. Nearly every shop and cafe there has been renovated and it is starting to look quite nice. Mind you they are chopping down all the trees to make way for new buildings so it desn't have that old Darwin charm about it anymore.
Still not enough to keep me here. Can't wait to see it from the sky. I know that I will get home sick in the first few mths but hopefully having bubby I won't have too much time to ponder. Will miss my friends the most. My Dad and Brother live in Byron Bay so it's only about a 2hr drive from Brisbane and I will be with family.

Hey Ash: My due date is the 18th of March but for a couple of weeks now I have this feeling that he will be born on the 12th. The other day I was hanging out the washing and that date cam into my head....wonder if that is when it's all going to happen??

Cate: If I lived in Sydney I'd be terrified to get my licence too. Don't worry..take your time and get it when your ready. The great thing about Sydney is that you have all that public transport that you can practically go anywhere on. The public transport here is shocking!

:hug: Cat!!! I know what you mean... though my problem tends to be the top end... if only i could win tattslotto to pay for a breast reduction. im sure then id find i couldn't find something else to fit, lol!

Nina, yeah it's really weird like that isn't it? Mum thinks she's going to go on december 21, she said her 'tarot cards said so'. I figure i'll either go on feb 14th (being v-day, this year ant and i were each others 'fake' valentines, little did we realise the other one was serious too...), the 18th which was sort of a first date, but we call it our anniversary day anyway, or the 22nd which is probably the 'official' date. either that or the 29th, (just because its a leap year and little JB would be confused as all heck).
Apparently the family's have bets on the 11th, because it's FIL's birthday, and my mum says jan 28th because she went four weeks early with me and that will be DF's 21st.

garble garble garble. i should talk less crap!!! goodnight ladies :grouphug: to you all!

it's funny reading about your due dates. Nina and Ash, at 25 wks i had a normal preganancy (apart from a hiccup at 16wks when i was told i was going to miscarry). at 28 wks my normal pg turned into a nightmare, with my waters breaking. Then 2 weeks later on the 26/2 B was born :) B was due on the 5/5

so there i have fitted some of your dates into my mini story :D

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***** Sally.....nice way to freak me out man!!! Hahahaha just kidding although just goes to show, nothing is EVER planned in life is it???

Ash...now that you have said all that I bet you jellybean doesn't show on ANY of those days...hahaha keep ya all guessing..."I'll come when I'm ready thanks, I'll show all of you, you'll all be wrong!"

Talking about top heavy, At the moment I am a 12E!! OMG! Before I was pregnant I was a 10DD
...God knows what size I will be when the milk comes in! It is scary thinking about it.

You cannot plan everything... because if you do plan something will come along and stuff it up. the day before b was born i was supposed to be going out to dinner with my fiance for his 21st. the hospital was going to let me out into Subiaco (where KEMH is) just for an hr and half for dinner. LOL, i woke up on the sat morn in incredible pain and spent the entire day in the labour ward! LOL happy 21st your a daddy now. brendans bday is the day b4 his dad's. I knew i was going to be mummy before i was 21, my bday is 19/5 b due on 5/5. but we weren't expecting Nigel to be a dad before his bday!.

LOL, 12E, i feel sooo sorry for you... i was a 12B before Brendan, got to a 16D just before birth, my milk came in and BAM, lol, 16DD! I'm back into a 14C now. :hugs: you must have sooo much trouble finding comfy bras that fit, but i bet your partner loves em! lol

I had El at 20 years, 1 month and 2 days. Terry was 22. I got myself fitted for a bra as they went down, then up when I got pg then stayed up until my milk dried and went down. I'm a 36C or 14C. But I never realised they were that big. They look smaller to me, lol!

I'm currently about an 18G and i was a 12E pre-pg. i got banned from trying to shop at bras n things a long time ago, and now ever a trip to myers ends in tears!!!

Oh, wow my neck was killing me with DD, but G!! I feel soo sorry for you girls... :grouphug:

Oh Ash :hugs: how come you were banned from shopping and B&T?

I find it hard enough finding bras in my size....but holy crap Ash!! G???? I had a cry in the change room when I was trying on maternity bras....I can't wear the pretty ones anymore. (I LOVE the Kayser Brazillian range) I have to wear these beige coloured MASSIVE cupped things now that stick out the top of some of my tops....very unnatractive! Now I can't wear some things... So I was having an identity crisis, with the bras and now the clothes going up 2 sizes.... farout man All I can say is that I had better go back to a size 8 after I have bubby. Can't handle this much longer.

I'll stop complaining now.....

PMSL, Cat, it's because Anthony got sick of me bursting into tears when we left the store each time nothing fit!!! I tend to be quite entertaining in the crying over nothing way when it comes to bra shopping.

I haven't bought something pretty looking in i don't know how long!!! Ahh to be fourteen with a softcup 10A again!! =( Who knows where they came from too, none of the women in my family have boobs... i mean, seriously, i know size tends to depend on where the fat deposits in your chest region are so maybe my 'biological sperm' had man-boobs??!?!?!?!! :P
The most frustrating thing for me has always been that they're too painful for a lot of exercise or aerobic-type workouts as well, so the bigger they get the more weight i put on. Pregnancy has been the best thing for the associated upper back pain because now im all balanced out... unfortunately pregnancy can also account for the lower back pain... Argh, the joys~! :P

Nina, i'm hoping i make it back to a size 12. I'm not really weighty anywhere else so to speak, i still take the same size pants as before, just that a properly fitted bra ends up being an 18... go figure =S So i understand what you mean...

Goodness me, can i talk or what. It's all i seem to do these days. I barely know what i'm saying when i speak verbally, but i can type and type and type for hours. Where is this creative genius in me, if it were around i swear i could write a damn novel!

Ash, you'll have no worries goingback to a 12 after bub!!

What have you all got planned for the weekend?

Joel and I have a BBQ at a friends place. Kinda don't want to go though cause they will all be drinking, I won't be and it gets boring after a while.
I sometimes wish that I could go back to the way things were before (Drinking, partying, going to bed late and not worrying) but then I remember that in 3mths time I will have everything that I have ALWAYS wanted and I wouldn't give that up for all the partying and drinking in the world.

Yeah i'm off to a 21st... apparently it's a quiet non-drinking crowd so it shouldn't be too bad.
But it's also the ex-'love' of DP so the green eyed monsters sort of on edge... lol

Had my work Xmas party tonight. Was great. Lots were slowly getting drunker. I had 5 drinks, only 3 with alcohol. I'm not much of drinker. It was so much fun to hang out with people and relax. But I only knew people from my work, and I've only worked there 2 weeks. Its childcare and the owner has 3 centres.

Good to see you girls getting out and about having fun :D Well my relationship status with Nigel had moved from "ex fiance, stupid bastard" to "just friends". LOL

He took me out last night to "talk", we ended up going tenpin bowling with our bro's then after a bit of driving around Perth, he decided it'd be nice to go for a walk along the beach. So there we were walking along the beach watching the sun set :) It was lovely, I haven't been to the beach for years! He's really making an effort to be nice and to be friends. It's nice to be able to be friends for Brendan's sake... cos it's no good me dropping Brendan off for his visits and then for him to see his parents argue and fight.... Anyway, so thats my little outing!! I feel so much happier now.

Take Care girls... I'm off to my cousins first birthday :D

I'm really glad things are getting better for you Sally! Big hugs!

I'm prolly gonna stack on a lot of weight in the next couple of months, can't stop thinking about food!
Was a 10C before being pregnant and i'm a 12D now so that's not too bad i guess, DH seems to love it lol. Poor guy can't get near em without me whining at him though.

Not really looking forward to Christmas this year, its just such a stressful time of year, and we always miss out on spending real quality time or buying presents with just me, DH and the kids, everything's gone by the time we're done buying for the rest of the family. Bah humbug... :p

Hey sally how'd the birthday celebration go?
I guess everything is ok this way, ive had two days off work in a row, im feeling fair terrible and now exhaustion seems to have kicked its merry way back in. So so so so tired :(
I made a suggestion to mods if we can have a general chatter thread in the young couples/etc forum as opposed to continuing using this random thread. Guess we'll see what happens.