With angel babies in the sky, some of us expecting rainbow babies, others still ttc and definitely swi!!

Razz, hope you get good news from the genetics team - FX!

Mel, hope the Sands memorial day goes well, and that you have good weather for it! It is incredibly windy and wet here, and you're only just across the Forth, aren't you? Goat's cheese and steak sounds delicious. I went out for lunch yesterday and couldn't eat half the things on the menu - yummy cheeses (stilton, goat's cheese, feta, gorgonzola) featured heavily, as did cured meats like chorizo. It was an unusually pregnancy-unfriendly menu - they aren't often that bad.

I forgot to call the community MW and tell her that I got my bloods done by the consultant! She's coming back tomorrow morning to do them, and I forgot to tell work that I would be late. And the only reason for her to come is to give me my notes and discuss the referral to the physio...I feel very badly behaved - I don't know whether to just let her turn up or whether I should text her and say not to bother.

just watched the 'great sperm race' on 4od, interresting viewing if not at times depressing that the number of sperm that gets to the egg is so little and the trails sperm have to go through to get there, no wonder its so hard to get a BFP, but also awe inspiring that a sperm manages to do it at all, and how ovulation really does help. Mother nature really is amazing.

CD26 today, been feeling really hot, even DH mentioned. So hoping fx'd.
Maybe I might test next sunday if AF hasnt arrived, I knew I would start to falter as it got nearer.

mel mmmm.. goats cheese and steak sounds like heaven!

Morning girls, was out with DH for his birthday weekend last night. Had the goats cheese and a steak ( medium) just cause I'm hoping not to be able to eat those things some time soon! How tragic is that?
Lovely night at Orocco Pier and hope that this birthday year is going to be much better for us.
We're going to a Sands memorial service today. It's a non-religious one so we'll see what that's like. Hope you all have a good day and hope that all that sickness and queasiness isn't causing all you lovely pregnant ladies too many problems x

Hi everyone, thanks for the reassurance. I am 10+5 today and the scan on Wednesday is my 12 week scan even though it will be a little early at 11+2. I just keep worrying about everything and want to tell people but at the same time I like it just being me and dh that knows.
I really hope that all of you who are ttc get your bfp's as soon as possible, we all more than deserve our happy endings x

mel best way to be. My bbf says that she conceived on the day she felt the horniest and this has always been the day after a pos ov. She only tested one month found that out and then every time she feels horny she jumps right on him she has three kids now. She is very regular though not like me.
TMI I always have loads of c-mucus! (nice) day before. So maybe look out for those types of signs aswell, saves on the ov tests.

I know the feeling of not knowing when to have swi as I haven't got a clue when I'm due to ovulate cause of the procedure BUT we're having a hell of a lot of fun in the meantime . Who knows, if I get a visit from af then I know when to start counting from and if I don't then I guess we'll have struck gold! Trying to be really positive about this and enjoy what we're doing (IYKWIM)

fx razz that its good news.
I think I will be testing the second weekend of september, that will be forty days, but I might test before. My DH doesnt want me to test before but maybe I will and if its a strong line then its got to be a good sign right? And I shall always test two days in a row.

Morning everyone,
green I am so jealous that you can just pop to the beach for a fish supper.....it sounds soooo nice. My fingers are really crossed for you this month. Have you decided when you will poas yet?? I have had 4 chemical pregnancies but decided this time that if it was another then I needed to no as it would have to be investigated. However, I do understand how difficult it is to have the excitement and hope to quickly loose it again. We have to all choose what we feel more prepared to cope with.
ciwi is next weeks scan the nt?? Im sorry I keep loosing track with it being a new thread . Im sure people wont forget all you have been through, im sure they will be thrilled and anxious for you at the same time.

I had an appointment yesterday with the genetics team, supposedly to find out the reaccurence risk for another baby having the same condition as Thomas. The results are still not back and it feels like it has been forever. At the minute they are giving me a 7% risk as it it somewhere in the middle but are hoping that it will be lower. I went ahead and got pregnant knowing there was always going to be some risk but opted to take the chance. This time I will be scanned at oxford at 14 weeks to determine if the baby has the condition. The genetics consultant has organised me to have a scan next tuesday at EPU to get my dates correct incase I require a cvs, I have already ruled it out but a scan will be nice

Really hope you all have a fab weekend

Green good you re feeling better. I don t think the worries you have now will matter when you re pregnant again. In my experience you ll have loads of other stuff to concentrate/ worry about !!!
Hi all xx

thanks guys. I do feel better, we went out for a fish and chip dinner down on the beach, which was nice and much needed.
too I hope I am, I had a splitting headache yesterday aswell, which is a big symptom for me.

ciwi know exactly what you mean, I dont want to tell anyone for a while, I dont want them think the same thing. But also I dont want their pressure telling me it must be hard being pg again, and all the sympathic smiles and looks all the time. How many weeks are you now?

Green, you poor thing! I think you're doing very well with all the inherent stresses of having to live with your parents again. I would find it very hard. You've just got so many things overwhelming you just now - dealing with going back to work, living with your parents, about to move house in the next couple of weeks, ttc and still dealing with your grief. Don't be too hard on yourself - you still need to cry just to let some of it out every now and then. I hope you felt a bit better afterwards, and that you and DH can get some time to yourselves this weekend. It can't be very long until you move now, and then you can use the washing machine to your heart's content! And maybe it is a sign! I have to say, your symptoms are racking up. Waiting with baited breath for you to reach the end of the 2/3ww!

Ciwi, I think perhaps some people find it very easy to go 'oh well, new pregnancy, so she must be feeling better'. Not everyone, and I think people find it much easier to talk about a positive than a negative, so they may talk about the new pregnancy and not so much about the old one, but that doesn't mean they've forgotten. It's hard - I find that people are very enthusiastic about the whole new hospital/new consultant thing, because it's something they can relate to. I don't really know what I'm trying to say here - I'm swithering! Today a colleague told me about the illness of another colleague and said 'he's had a real annus horribilus', with no indication that this might not have been such a great year for me either and I felt a bit miffed, but she's not someone I'm especially close to so perhaps I was overreacting. Maybe someone else will be along soon to talk sense.

Ciwi I haven t found that anyone has forgotten what we went through with Georgie since we told them about this pregnancy. I ve only had lovely positive vibes and everyone still talks about Georgie. X

green sorry you are having a hard day. Could it be a symptom?
I have been thinking a bit too, we plan on telling people on Wednesday if the scan is ok. On one hand I am looking forward to telling people but on the other I am a bit worried that people will think I am all better now I am pregnant again and not understand when I get upset and things. Does anyone else feel like that?
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend x

Had a hard day today, been crying abit, just very emotional and over nothing. It was over me not getting the washing machine and my mum hoggin it all day. Seriously I need to get out more.

It is really really lovely to have the first graduate! It gives me so much hope to hear of baby Freya's safe arrival. Hope the feeding is going better now and that all is well with you both. Sorry for the abrupt post this morning - DH was outside in the car revving up to make me hurry!

Angel, thanks for the advice re aspirin. I am ashamed to say that I still have a bottle of wee in my coat pocket because I forgot to take it out and dispose of it, and I can't do it in communal work toilets! Someone would be bound to walk in just as I was washing out the bottle.

split that's really wonderful news! We'd considered the name Freya before, I really like it :) Beautiful :) xx

Brilliant news spilt 1st rainbow to be born on the thread! Million, zillion congratulations. Enjoy every minute x

What wonderful news split many congratulations to you and your family, enjoy every moment

split congratulations, what a beautiful name. Its all worth it now.

Spilt that is such wonderful news. Lots of love to you and beautiful Freya and Congratulations to the Spilt family xxx

Spilt, that's wonderful! I'm so pleased for you! I'm also glad I checked before I got to work because I've gone all teary. Freya Alexandra is such a pretty name - Freya is on our shortlist.

spilt Fantastic news! I am so happy for you, Freya is a beautiful name. Love to you both x

Huge congrats Spilt wonderful news.