Hi all!

LondonMiss - it is absolutely normal to worry and those weird early pregnancy cramps can be worrying. Everything is shifting and moving about down there making room so you are bound to feel tons of weird cramps and muscle pulling etc. I never had it when sneezing but (ready for TMI????) I used to get a terrible pain in my lower abdomen and what felt like my uterus after an orgasm in the first few months of pregnancy. I was terrified I was doing damage but it was obviously just part of the whole moving, stretching thing going on. Then it will move to your back and bottom and pubic bone! Just think of your body as a sort of renovation, construction site....someone has moved in and they are making all the renos necessary to grow comfortably in there!!! LOL!

Bella - hopefully something happens for you before Friday!

Grub - you sound busy! There is something really relaxing and therapeutic about painting. At my bellybuddies group we do 'Birth Art' sometimes around a theme of birth and our feelings etc. Very therapeutic and gets us really talking around the table!!! A great way for you to pass the time. Not long now!!!!

Airline- Good luck with the scan!!

Saph - hope you managed to finish those reports! Do you use a report writer or do you have to make up all the comments? I found out from an old colleague that they are now being told they cannot write any behaviour comments at all!!! They have to stick to work progress only! Not that the behaviour comments really told the truth anyway...it was always so vague! 'So and So is easily distracted and often distracts others' which really meant 'I am close to strangling So and So because they do nothing they are told and never listen and flagrantly disobey me...in fact last week they swore and threw a chair at me!!!' LOL!!!

Smithy - I hope you are feeling better.....damn those pregnancy hormones and I guess feeling sick for so long cannot be helping in your case. You may also be getting to that stage where it seems so near to the end but also so far away! I totally understand!! Cry away! It often makes you feel alot better! And get DH to give you tons of hugs!

AFM- Scan was sort of good. We had a trainee learning how to scan so we were in there for ages while she practised different bits but Bubs is soo big now we couldn't see much at all!!! So we spent ages looking at weird blurry images! No more scans now as they are happy with growth. He is bang on right size for everything. Even my fundal height measurement is finally right on the mark. I was too big at the start. I blame IVF. I think it bloats us up! It was good to get out the measuring tape and see how big his head is and everything is. DH and I were smiling at how cute and small he is but then DH reminded me that I need to push at least that head measurement out of me and I stopped smiling!!!! LOL!
Baby is really kicking now. DH said some of the movements feel like a bird flapping its wings when they get trapped somewhere. So true! So we joke now that he is our big bird! Heartburn is starting to be a problem...I knew I had got away without getting that for too long!
Anyway that is it for me I think!
Belly rubs everyone!!!