Chrissy, that will be fantastic if you can get 14 weeks maternity leave on top of your redundancy. FX for you. Thanks in advance for typing up some notes on the dog/newborn class. My ****er spaniel thanks you for it, too Let us know how you go at your 32-week scan today. Are you having this to see if your placenta has moved up?

Glenny, FX that your placenta has moved up before you have your 32-week scan.

Maggie, I've heard from quite a number of women now how it's so much easier if you're going to put your baby on a bottle at some time to do it early on so there's less resistance. I've also read it in quite a number of books, too. Nazi ABA women! I think I told you guys about what happened with me, didn't I? Placenta brain strikes again. If I haven't I went to an ABA store to find out about expressing pumps for hire and was basically told to read the literature as it's not a good idea to BF and bottle feed as it leads to confusion for the baby! I could have strangled the woman. I wanted to express my own breast milk so DH could do a night feed and give me a break, and also in case I don't have enough supply for the twins. I don't know where some of these women get off, but I told her I had read the literature and quite a few experts contradicted what she just said. Ha, ha. Felt better after that. Congrats on having a baby boy cooking away! Joseph Alan has a great ring to it. I imagine it would be completely different to have one PG where you didn't find out the sex and to have another where you know the sex. Definite advantage is you start bonding with a son or daughter in your mind I think, and if you're clever enough to have already decided on a name then you can talk to them and call the by name. That's what I would do if I could decide on names!
WW, gee you made me laugh with you nearly whipping off your jeans for the scan. It's so true, though, isn't it? I mean how many times did we have to have the internal ultrasound wand thingy-me-jig?! It's nice to leave your clothes on and sometimes even your shoes

Juniper, this might give you a laugh. At my 31-week scan the sonographer didn't think she was going to get a clear shot of my low-lying placenta due to T1 being in the way. She said she'd probably have to do an internal. I was thinking she meant with her hand! Ha, ha, ha. It was obviously one of the ultrasound internal wands! Ha, ha, ha. What my OB told me about a general v spinal is that with spinal there's more of a chance if you go into shock you will bleed more because of the type of anesthetic used in a spinal. A general uses a different type of aneasthetic with less chance of haemhorraging. You know what, on my shortlist is Amber Rose. No word of a lie. Freaky. But then again, I currently have 15 names on my shortlist for girls One of my faves has become too popular and I'm really torn about letting it go or still choosing it. Maybe `Amber' is on its way to the favourite list if two of your work colleagues have chosen it for their daughters?

Grub, I am in name hell ATM. Bought a couple of baby books but I feel like I take one step forward and two back. It's so hard, and we've got two bubs to find names for. Aaagh! If you do find out the gender, are you sharing it or keeping it a secret?

Kelly, if you get two 6lb babies you will be doing really well. My cousin had identical twin boys and they were both low 6lbs so it can be done. Still it's an awful lot of baby weight, hey? Have you got two placentas and sacs, too? My last scan estimated both twins to be about 1.5 ks, so about 3lb 5oz each. My OB will deliver the babies at either 37 weeks (if I've got PP) or 38 weeks if not. Seems so long to wait but also not long at all, if that makes sense? I had an US at a specialised clinic for women at 12 weeks, 19 weeks, 27 weeks, 31 weeks and the next one will be at 34 weeks. You mentioned you would be scanned every four weeks. Is this at your OB's clinic or at a specialised US clinic? Just curious to see if they do things differently in different states with scans for mums carrying multiples.

Mitf, sorry can't help with your query as I don't know.

Jaki, Wyatt James is a beautiful name. Must be such a relief to have a name picked out. I'm so envious.