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@Danizaur: I'm a bit jeally you are getting to go on leave, but I shouldn't complain, I only have five and a half more weeks until the end of the school year and then that is me done too!

I got advised today that they've hired my maternity leave replacement (school teacher so hiring is done well in advance of the school year start) - it's beginning to feel a little more real! Cannot wait for my midwife appointment tomorrow - seems like ages since I have heard this little muffin.

@Danizaur: @SweetMamaM: I'm jealous that both of you guys have an end in sight! I'm planning on working right up to my due date. Feb can't come soon enough.... Wait it can

@lavender: @MrsKoala: @Mrs Music: If it makes you feel any better my whole leave is unpaid. laaaame.

@Mrs Music: Id take the 18 weeks minimum wage right now!

Is that for EVERYONE or only certain employers? It's appalling that America has no standardized parental leave.

@MrsKoala: I always get so envious of good mat leave policies. I am very grateful for my six weeks of full pay, and I know I will be better off if I go right back due to the nature of my work, but I am really considering seeing if we can swing a few extra days (maybe a week or two) extra. Arg.

@Mrs Music: Aww, feel better soon! That's very uncomfortable. Do you have a yoga ball?

@Mrs Music: You're working right now? I love mine at home, and one is being delivered to my office tomorrow. them. I hope you can go get some relief soon! When do you get off work? I hear chiros can be wonderful during pregnancy.

And while it's not my tail bone, I know how it feels to be so uncomfy. My round ligament pain is centralized in my groin. So that's awkward at work. LOL.

@Danizaur: New Zealand is 14 weeks at minimum wage too, plus as a teacher, we're eligible for a maternity grant which is a lump sum equivalent of six weeks' full pay. That will be going straight into our emergency fund but we're very grateful to be getting it.

@Mrs Music: I was having a total sore butt day too! Now at home and reclining in a chair and that seems to have helped. Have an appointment with the Chiro tomorrow so hoping to have it sorted.

@lavender: @indi: don't be too jealous - Southern Hemisphere here so I will be massively pregnant over the hottest part of summer!

It made me laugh today, after a lazy day yesterday the bebe showed us yet again that it doesn't like the Doppler. It's getting too big to hide behind the placenta so today at the midwife appointment it gave the the Doppler a massive kick! We get it, little one! Bloods all booked in for three weeks time, and the midwife says I can do the low-risk test.

@ElbieKay: Aww, precious! I want to play! And yes, lately this week I've been paranoid about not feeling her enough, when really, she's been moving just as much and in the same timing patterns as usual. Ahh, parenthood. Add to that the marital/relationship changes and budgeting woes and I just want to nap, nap, nap and avoid thinking sometimes.

@MrsKoala: Glad to hear that your daycare is close to you, though! And that you can stretch it out a bit. We got lucky, too, and DH's aunt who retired from 30+ years of daycare moved out our way a few years ago. She'll watch LO from April (6 weeks) into the summer when DH has off to hang out with LO, and then again for a month or two in the fall until "real" daycare starts in September. I about cried when she told me she'd come in to our house some days of the week so I can hang out with babe between clients and not have to pump at work. Saint!

To jump in on the job situation. I was fired for being pregnant back in August and since I'm pregnant and it is MI nobody will hire me. I can't prove that it was the pregnancy but I know it was. As soon as I told them that I was pregnant they dropped my hours to basically nothing. Then they took my granted vacation time (requested this time off back in March) and used those days as call ins so when I actually did call in they fired me. It really bites. Had to take money out of my apartment funds to by Scarlett a stage 2 car seat so LO can have the infant one when he is born. On the plus side DH went back and got his diploma. He is now working in roofing with a bad knee but this job is only temporary until he finds another that is easier on his body. Weird thing is it is the end of the roofing season and they just hired him. I'm wondering why they would hire when its scheduled to snow already and it has snowed already. I don't think I will ever understand business logic.

@MrsKoala: Yes. Totally with you on the pain. My hip sometimes makes me walk funny and I am now in constant pain in my tailbone, lower back, butt area... (to make matters worse I got a cramp in my calf yesterday and am still feeling the effects of that).

@littleblessings: That is AWFUL.

I am planning to take 9 months leave of which part will be paid and part unpaid.

@lavender: @MrsKoala: @Mrs Music: I was miserable there anyways. I worked in an all male kitchen so I was always harassed. As soon as I got a different job I was prolly going to put in my 2 weeks notice but its the principal of the thing.

I don't plan on getting a job until after I am done EBF. With my first LO I only got to breastfeed for 4 months. Hoping to last longer this time.

@ElbieKay: aw sorry you're feeling stressed but that's a cute kitten hope it helps make you feel better. I want a puppy so bad ( yorkie) but DH says no because I'll be too busy with the baby when he comes ugh.

@littleblessings: aw that sucks but when you're ready I'm sure you'll find something you like.

As for me I'm unemployed also but after loosing my job last October and looking and going on countless interviews for about 3 or 4 months so DH just told me to stop wasting my time and just go back to school for nursing like I had been talking about for every and he'll take care of everything so I started school in August and will be done with my first semester dec 12 and the next one starts jan 13 and I was lucky enough to be able to take this semester online and both class are only 8 weeks so they'll end march 9th and I don't plan on taking classes for the summer and don't plan on going back until aug for fall classes so I'll be home with him until then and he'll be going to the daycare on campus so he'll be close by plus once I get him settled in daycare and I'm settled in class I want to find a part time job during the day while he's in daycare

@fairbans: welcome Fairbans! So judging from the fact that your heading into winter now, you are a northern hemisphere bee? So pleased to have you with us Have you found out what you are having or are you having a gender surprise at birth?

Wow I just had to sit through our senior prizegiving yesterday (is that a thing in the states?) and boy was it rough! Over two hours in plastic seating in full academic regalia (all staff have to wear cape and degree hood (thank goodness no cap) and I was sitting next to one of the PE teachers who is built like a linebacker! Overheating much?
It was quite cute though, baby went absolutely crazy when the jazz band played and when the Maori group did a Haka (traditional chant) for the best Maori orator at the school award. I'm clearly going to have a very cultural child

Ok, So I have some questions. What do DH, DS, etc stand for? Does team green indicate that you are waiting to find out the sex of the baby? Thanks in advance!

@fairbans: welcome and congrats.

my friend is due the 3rd with a girl also but her LO only has one functioning kidney. she finds out in 11 days if she will be shipped to U of M hospital for an emergency c section. The poor baby will have an operation just minutes after birth. most likely she will have the baby sometime next month.