Morning ladies, hope you're all enjoying this lovely sunny long weekend Monday

MissAma - welcome on board!! Wishing you a very happy and healthy pregnancy! You've certainly come to the right place if you're looking for a bunch of fellow worrywarts

Maggie - sorry to hear about your MS. If you look back through this thread we've probably gone through all the MS relief options we know - hopefully some of them are of some benefit to you

Renee - glad to hear you've bought the cot, very exciting, and half price too, even better!!

Chrissy - glad your manicure and pedi were good - i'm going for a pedi this week too, looking forward to it. I hope Tassie isn't too cold for you and that the trip goes well. I imagine it could be an uncomfortable experience training people to take over your job...

LondonMiss and Juniper - glad to see you getting into the politics of the financial side of having a baby!! DH and I, as I assume everyone here has, have spent loads of money this financial year on IVF and other expenses so for the first time ever I might have to enlist the help of an accountant to do my tax for me to get the maximum return. Mind you, it doesn't take much for me to be confused about our tax, i'm still not sure how the whole negative gearing things works on our rental property so I leave it all to DH and I just fill in the blanks...

MissK - what total rubbish about your friend taking your name - I hope you say something!! We haven't told ANYONE what our names are so at least I know if someone takes them they didn't too it deliberately. Nasty friend!!

Brunette - I think the thing with antenatal classes is it depends on where you take them. Mine were just through the hospital so didn't cost anything, but I know the external classes (like Calmbirth etc) cost quite a bit so might be worth checking before enrolling in anything.

Paula - glad your antenatal class was good, and a good size class too! Ours had about 25 couples in it so very hard to talk to others. As for the birth video, DH confessed later that during the 'gory bit's' (his words, not mine!) he trained his eyes at the top of the TV screen so not to look to obvious that he wasn't watching, hehehe!

Leabie - hope all is going well

AFM - well after the two nights of cramps and a constant sore back i've pretty much had nothing. Mind you, on the first night my sister gave me a back massage, and on the second night i'd been googling and found some acupressure points to stimulate contractions so they could have had something to do with that...!! I see my acupuncturist again tomorrow and will pretty much be pleading with her to do something though I already know what she's going to say (insert big sigh here).