We have our second baby due soon. A boy!
My names list is listed and my family have a lot of views on all of them but I love them all lol. What would you choose? I want a name that isn’t heard of often. Any name ideas too please
Klouse
Forest
Kadence
Lennox
Arthur
Reuben
Saxon (partners choice)
Avalon
For reference our daughter is Athea
Hi everyone, Due with my second 29th of September 2026
I started back at work after my first 6th of October 2025. I worked consistently doing full time childcare educator work till March 2026, completing 400+ hrs and obviously with payslips etc. mid March, I decided the work was straining my body (I have pregnancy issues/kidney stones) So I set up an ABN and have been doing 1-2 jobs including gardening, delivery etc on Air tasker. I also have been doing cleaning, gardening, waste removal for family and friends initiated either by phone calls or messages.
For this self employment private work, I have word doc invoices, screenshots of payments made, an excel spreadsheet of hours, dates, jobs etc I can also provide bank statements.
Even thought the months and hours will be met before birth, I’m worried the few jobs a month since March might get me stuck and not approved. It’s enough money to cover some bills like rego etc so it’s been helpful.
I will report the self employed income for March to 1st July tax time but I’m worried for July- September.
Any advice would be appreciated. Sincerely a stressed mum. I’ve had PPL before with no problem but I’ve worked in childcare all my life so no problem.
Hi everyone so basically I had my first antenatal appointment at 17 weeks with a midwife at the health Centre that’s like adjacent to the hospital. They were discussing whether I needed midwife care obstetric lead care or both due to me having cervix shortening my last pregnancy renal stones recurring medication that I’m on that makes me high risk like lamotrigine and a few other factors. When they were deciding the team leader came in and said “great news we’ve decided you’re going to have MGP care which is like you have your own midwife” and I thought that was great. she you meet the criteria and then she said “you’re indigenous hey” and I said oh no I’m not indigenous and then the whole room went silent and really awkward. The midwife I was with went really pale and glassy eyed and she said oh really, and I said oh did you get the wrong person and she said oh no no, no, definitely not and since then I haven’t been given an appointment for any midwife appointment obviously I have my morphology scan coming up and the OB spoke to me and said because I’m high risk I will have to have an appointment at 20 weeks. I also just had a pharmacist consultant conference call yesterday due to the medication I’m on and she did discuss with me I have a whole team working with me. Yeah I’m just not quite sure to do. They said to me I was going to get a call back at the end of the week to see if I’ve been accepted into MGP care but it just kind of feels like they’re doing it so it doesn’t seem to be discrimination if that makes sense. I don’t know. Maybe I’m overthinking it. I did say I’m
Happy to just have normal appointments like I did with my daughter.
The MGP website says “Midwifery Group Practice (MGP) care
You'll have most of your care with the same midwife during your pregnancy, birth and the first few weeks after your baby is born.
With MGP care your:
appointments will be at home, a community health centre or at hospital
your baby will be born in hospital.
They have midwives who provide cultural support and care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and women who speak languages other than English.
If you have any complications during your pregnancy, your midwife will arrange for you to see one of our obstetricians.
MGP care has limited spots, so ask your GP for a referral as early as possible.”
Thanks for reading!
UPDATE🌼🌼🌼
Thanks everyone for your experiences and insights. I didn’t mean to sound ungrateful in any regard, just confused and felt awkward. You guys are the best!