Just MC and ready to try again? Pregnant after MC and seeking somewhere safe to hide? Come on down to the mosh pit for some serious metalling and cake overindulgence

Hey ladies and CONGRATULATIONS BLUE. So good to hear Maxwell arrived safely - though three days eeep!

I am coming up to 17 weeks and hae yet to feel the baby move, so am just a teensy bit paranoid (even though I am perfectly away it is normal). I have a private scan on 6 June so I suppose we will find out what is going on then. I know there was a heartbeat a week last friday but the paranoia has grown doe to some quite interesting pain when I went swimming on Friday and sneezed. I assume it was all ligaments shifting, but t'was mst uncomfortable.

Currently enjoying the blazng sunshine, though am trying to avoid getting sunburn this time round...

misscoffee I've put on about 7lbs and I'm 16 weeks. With DD I put on nothing til about 24 weeks and had only put on just over a stone by the end. I'm not too far off doing that already. I know I need to stop eating but I just can't seem to stop myself

mrspear my private scans kept me sane in the early weeks. Tired, sick and achy sounds good to me!

Boris and mumtum hope you are both doing ok.

Morning! I think i am going to talk to DH about getting a private scan as he offered.

misscoffee yes all the weight did come off although i was lazy about it (took 2 years!) but when i saw the doctor about this pregnancy she said i was 9 6 which is fine for 5ft 6"

Anyway no bleeding, i am sooo tired and feel sick and achy - good right

Congrats to blue!! excellent news!!!

Home straight? Eek. Doesn't feel like it. Still feels very precarious. Maybe I m destined to metal to the end. Although I had a small freak out the other day when I checked in here and realised I can't metal about miscarriage any more because I'm too far on if the worst happened.......what a messed up head I must have! I'm wary of feeling safe I think, both my lost ones went just when I'd started to feel when I felt safe and relaxed....after the NT scan the first time and after the 16 week heartbeat appointment the second time. So no feeling safe again! Nope! Although I am now making arrangements to drop work and arrange cover for my clients and so on to give me some mat leave. I'm looking at going part time soon, then taking about six weeks off and going back part time after that. One of my contracts ends next week and I can't take another on so I'll be a part-timer next week whatever happens, feels a bit like mat leave already! LittleMissCoffee is engaged with learning kung fu and kicking the crap out of my insides on a daily basis - she's certainly a strong and spirited, energetic little thing and I'm ignoring the fact she already likes to stay up all night....

manda it sounds horrendous, you poor poor thing and all your DCs :( I really hope you have lots and lots of help, you sound utterly fabulous and cheery though, which is amazing, but make sure you rest as well!

mrspear well I suppose, I don't know It feels like a lot as I had put 13lb on with DD by the time I was at 42 weeks. This time 25 weeks and 12lb, makes me wonder how much I have still to go! Still, it can all come off, right?
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You're doing a great job rocking those cribs martha you're a natural. The hand that rocks the cradle moshes hardest eh? Good luck with the in laws. ARe they the type to go ga-ga over baby announcements and remain resolutely CERTAIN that it'll be ok even in the face of caution (like mine who think of MC as something that happens to 'other' defective people i.e me as none of their blood as EVER had one) or the type for quiet congratulations and a sensible head?

Sorry I've been having some right run ins with the ILs recently, my SIL and MIL specifically and been a bit stressed about them (even dreamt about them last night, urgh)

blue congratulations!!! well done you for surviving this heat too, and welcome to the world little Maxwell (i LOVE that name!).

manda i am so sorry you are having to deal with a lurgy ridden house, and how that DS1 and DS2 are keeping you up at night whilst the delightful DS3 is sleeping like, well like a baby! How is DD? Is she any better?

MrsPear i can honestly say i was taken aback when the MW phoned the EPU as i really thought she would advise that it is just breakthrough, but she really was lovely and quite pushy with the EPU when she phoned can you afford a private scan? they are around £75 in our area and we were intending to get one but wont now as i am having an 8 week one.

My parents still dont know yet, in fact no family have been told, we are seeing one set of the ILs next weekend so will tell them then, and seeing my parents a couple of weeks later. I want to get some serious moshing out of the way before we tell.

waves to missc you are 25 weeks high five to you lady, you are nearly on the home straight now

yikes blooming iPhone deleted the end of my post I forgot to say, no problem about laughing. Looking back through the thread it does seen very daft of me I'm definitely waiting until I crack again Wednesday now. I've some lovely new white undies which should tempt AF out! Best of luck with the wedding, so exciting!

Manda hope the kids get better soon - well done on even managing to post.

Huge congrats to Blue on the birth of baby Maxwell - 3 days you poor lady!
Martha glad you got an early scan and all is well. DH wants us to have one as the NHS one isn't for another 4 weeks. Also i have had spotting although i am trying to bury my head about that as hospital/doctors don't want to know
jaffa congrats on the successful 16 week appointment
borris sorry that it has started; my normal mc lasted a week with a another week of panty liners
Oh mumtum i hope recovery is going as well as can be.
misscoffee i gave birth at 30 weeks and i had put on nearly THREE stone at that point - feel better?!
Hi to everyone else i forgot.

Yaaaaaay, blue and hurrah for your little blue bundle maxwell house Hehe, actually, the first Maxwell that came to mind was the r'n'b singer of the 90s(?) - inspiration for the name? I actually put Max on the table for this bub but it was vito'd by DF. Hope you got through it all as intervention free as poss - would like to hear some details when you're up to it (or a link to elsewhere if you have posted it somewhere else!). Much love to you all, La Familia Blue

marff glad you got one of the good 'uns in your midwife, and yay for extra scans that are reassuring!

Not really got time for posting - House of Measles continues here in SW London, with alarming developments of temp of 40.3 for ds2 (had to use suppositories in the end to bring the temp down) and literally zero sleep last night as ds1 cried and called out all night from the intense itchiness of the rash (of which his is horrendous). Scaring myself with stories of encephalitis and other serious complications. Dr back out to us this morning with a prescription for a sedating antihitimine so DS1 sleeps right now. DS2 also itchy and slept maybe 2 hours last night. Ironically, the newborn still sleeping like a champ. O_o At some point soon we'll be through this my babymoon ruined and I can finally rest and get to know my beautiful stranger!

ps midge your incredible autocorrected post was tres amusing. weird sense of humour

Congratulations blue, welcome to the world baby Maxwell.

Wonderful news blue welcome little baby Maxwell. You guys can definitely start the Graduates thread now surely with three six of you

Cor fancy the metallers having a grads thread. Feel all proud inside and maybe I get to join it in a few months huzzah

Sorry to hear it's starting Boris but agree soonest mended. Keep us up with how you're feeling. I'm sorry I don't know how long early ones take as I'm prone to the later ones.

Glad it's over mumtum and you're recovering.

it's not too much to ask leedy it's one thing after another I know, the metalling never stops. Hang in there. FFS to the journo. I hope you emailed back and they had the decency to be

Glad to hear about the early scan martha yay for being pregnant today and a tiny beany in the right place!

I know what you mean kirrin I feel like a bloody whale with fat bits where fat bits should not be. I have put on just short of a STONE and I'm only 25 weeks I don't even know how it's possible except for all the sandwiches

confused fingers crossed for 15DPO!

Good news jaffa

Congrats blueon the safe arrival of your wee boy maxwell !! Whoop I hope you are able to get some rest now
Xxx

Great that you got an early scan martha and all looks to be as it should x

Wow your wedding yikes how exciting
Cant wait to hear all about it

Sorry for lacks of personals but on new iPad and have got sausage fingers in this heat !! Xx

Boris, I wrote a message for you last night, and have realised it has not posted. I hope everything is going ok for you, and that you are not having a lot of pain. I had 1-2 days of heavy bleeding, a few more of AF style bleeding, and then about a week of light bleeding. Then I had pink CM. I am thinking about you.

Blue and maxwell. You bloody clever things you. Makes my heart skip with blue baby joy. Congratulations and welcome little man. X

Huge congratulations blue and a welcome to baby Maxwell, I love that name :)

Xxx

Congratulations blue!!!!!!!!!! - and welcome & happy birthday to little Maxwell (cuuute name!!) :o When you get a mo we'd love to hear the gory details if that's the done thing on here?

Confused - you did make me chuckle (-is that bad?) with your two posts, the one saying about the white PJ's, the next saying you'd cracked and tested super-early. Sorry to hear you haven't got your BFP yet, but it sounds like you've got a plan of action to get you through the next few days/weeks.

I did an HCG test and a LH test this morning. The HCG was +, the LH -. So I guess the preggo hormones are still not out of my system (?) although I feel totally back to normal and the bleeding stopped a while ago. My temp is consistently 36.12 which I think is a pre-ovulation temp, but not 100% sure as have never done all this charting stuff before. So no idea whether ovulation/AF is around the corner or whether I have weeks to wait. Ah well, the temp charting is a distraction and stalking reading everyone else's posts on here is fun too.

This time next week I'll be just about to walk down the aisle - yippee. Only 4 more days at work til 12 days off. Now that's something to look forward to :o

Congratulations blue - what fanastic news . Hope you are all doing well. Take care xxx

Congratulations, and well done you, especially in this heat! May Maxwell always have such sunny birthdays all his life! xxx

kirrin, congrats on your scan.

Martha, I'm glad you got your scan, glad it showed all is going well.

Have to go, DD is needing me, but waves to everyone. X

Haven't had a chance to read back up the thread so apologies for lack of personal responses but just wanted to pop on and let you know that mini blue, now known as Maxwell finally arrived at 6.20 am this morning!! I am utterly exhausted after losing 3 nights sleep but it's all very much been worth it!

Haven't had a chance to read back up the thread so apologies for lack of personal responses but just wanted to pop on and let you know that mini blue, now known as Maxwell finally arrived at 6.20 am this morning!! I am utterly exhausted after losing 3 nights sleep but it's all very much been worth it!

Oops crossed posts with midgetum

Thanks Boris. I hope you are doing ok today.

On the plus side all hormones have left my body, so either it is too early to test or AF is around the corner and I'll begin to know what my body is up to. Win win I say.