Wellington Baby’s due March - May 2008

Hi, just thought I'd get a forum going for wellingtonian mothers to be! I know no one in Wellington that's due to have a bub so would really love to get to know other mums locally and also swap tricks and tips.

I'm 32, coming up to 9 weeks in, roughly due 17th April 2009. First baby so we are excited but freaking out too!

Finding it hard to eat anything at the moment. The only foods that I feel like are white! Potatoes, pasta, rice & bread. Weird aye! Maybe it's the carbs and starch thing. Totally gone off meat except a dry quarter pounder - no cheese and no sauce. I'm meeting a friend in petone today for lunch so I'm sure it will be hot chips for lunch only! ha ha

Kelly

im first of may so only 7 weeks and im in welly too. food hasnt been too bad yet. i just find a lot of the time i cant be bothered eating

where abouts in wgtn are you guys? hutt, city, tawa ways? we in petone but DH works in the city so we spend heaps of thime out there

Gosh, there are a lot of us April mums-to-be that live in Welly! I live in the Hutt.

The midwife shortage does suck. I've heard a lot of midwives are only taking returned mums - which doesn't really help first time mums who really need the support of a mw

Hi! I'm 14 weeks and due March 13th 09 I'm 25 and live in Welly! I'm from the Hutt, but live in Newlands at the mo. Although our lease finishes in November so we'll be moving to somewhere else, as yet undecided!
Oh and I have an obstetrician. I rang a few midwives but couldn't get anyone (before I was even 4 weeks preg!) so just decided to go with an Ob who is a friend of a friend so I could get in there

Hope everyone feels well!

where does everyone get this cool pictures tracking how far they are along?

i you have a look at any of the tickers you like you can just click on it and it will take you to the site where you can add your own details into it. then in the top right corner of you OhBaby page that you are on it will have 'profile' go into their and add it in to the section near the bottom below avatar (cant remember what its called)

on the thing about wanting to show so its real im sure im showing a little. i even got DH to take photos to make sure im not losing it but im pretty sure my bely didnt look like that before

We decided to go with a OB as well. We live up the coast in Paraparaumu and they have MW up there who I will use after bubs is born.
No more MS for me. Just getting bigger and bigger.

I'm in and from the Hutt but will be moving out Tawa way soon.  I didn't have any trouble getting a mw out that way although I haven't met mine yet so watch this space lol. There seemed to be lots though?

I think my ms might have just started today. I was hoping to not get any this time around but am taking it as a great sign of a sticky bubba!

Hiya,

I am in Welly too and having my first baby late May. Just found out (officially) the other day, so yippee.

Bummer about the MW shortage. We don't know where to start to find someone. Niether of us are from Welly, so we don't even have any recommendations.

Does anyone have advice on where to start, or should we just start working down the list and take the first person who's free!

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