Fireworks, bonfires and long winters' eves will herald the Rat Smacketeers' BFPs this month and we are Brooking No Argument!

Welcome griff! We have now guaranteed your BFP as we Brook No Argument!

Oops sorry forgot to say Sweetie your hair looks lovely

Ooh and Griff you will see lots of our own acronyms, shout up if we manage to confuse you, psepp for example is a pee stick endorsed pregnant person, we have many :)

PS/Hello griff I'm the houseplant in the corner of the thread, feel free to chuck wine on me whenever you are passing...

Hi Griffomais of course you can join. May I be really nosey ask if this will be your first baby? It is so hard isn't it, we will get you there!

I do hope you are ready to share more information with strangers than you ever thought possible

Ooh and I nearly forgot ....... congratulations, Brooking for a baby, guarantees you a bfp :):)

Am back from hair dresser, well I was back ages ago but it has taken a while to read through all the pages on here.

Sparks you poor thing having a faint emergency with ambulance involved and all. Hope you are ok, might be worth keeping an emergency mars bar about your person at all times. Take it easy this evening, feet up and eat cake Drs orders.

keep my parents have just returned from Maderia where there is a bad outbreak of mozzie bite related illness. So they took loads of stuff with them and on the plane before takeoff home the sprayed everyone. The crew walked down the aisle of the plane with a fumigator thing imagines crop spraying and sprayed everyone, bet that went down well!!

barlett it is lovely to have you back and nice to see gen popping in too, how are you all doing over on the PSEPP thread?

Hi Can I join your thread please? TTC 26 months another BFN yesterday doesn't get any easier does it!

Well done Boo :)

Gen I think with all the issues that DH and I have discovered since our ivf, it really will be an ironic BFP! I'm not holding my breath :( AF is not due at the weekend but I think there's Keep who perhaps may give us out next BFP, right Keep? how's it going?

Ok Bartlet I confess the last couple of hours I nipped out and met a friend for a quick coffee and a wonder around the shops! But I was really good and didn't buy anything even though I found a really cute pair of ankle boots! But prior to that i really, really was working hard! 'onest gov!

Sparks your blood pressure looks fine too, judging by your results, so maybe you did 'just faint'. But I would eat cake anyway. As a precaution.

hi, I have just put a link to here on Sparks what not to say Fred, hopefully we will have a few new faces.

Sorry, got no real advice, but fainting is pretty common in the first trimester because of low blood pressure because of hormones, vasodilation etc:

www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/common-pregnancy-problems.aspx#Faintness

Hopefully it will get better. I spent the first 20 weeks in a permanent state of dizziness!

But Bartlett one doesn't 'just faint', does one? What should she do to stop recurrence?

Dinner was good but overly spicy despite asking for 'mild'... Phew! Am hot now...

I miss the west wing. Am considering starting it all over again.

Right, I've done my bit for filling up the thread and really need to get DS up now. See you later, Brookers!

As for names, thanks for ideas. I'm just not feeling very inspired, so maybe I need to go completely outside the box. According to this, the "Bartlet for America" episode was a Christmas episode, so I could go back to that, although that is very boring.

"Bartlet are you having a gtt in Sainsburys? And yes it is time, you must change into your Christmas costume! "

Hello, boo. Yes, our antenatal bloods are taken in Sainsbury's. A phlebotomist from the local hospital is available for a few hours in the morning and then in the afternoon, so I had a nice rest, drinking tea and drinking a magazine for an hour in the cafe. It wasn't a GTT, but every pregnant women here gets a glucose challenge. If my blood sugar is above 7mmol/L (I think, I can't remember the actual number now even though I should know it off the top of my head), then I'll have to have a proper GTT.

"but my blood sugar is a little low (low for a normal person, so extra low for a diffed person) so I was released from the ambulance with strict instructions to 'eat some cake'"

Just seen this bit. Blood sugars in the first trimester are normally lower than normal or in the rest of pregnancy, so this really, really wasn't due to your blood sugars. My guess is that you just fainted, but, hey, eat cake, enjoy it, and say it is medical advice!

Woo hoo! I can do it too!

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Are you really working, Winter???

Hello, maybe, in case you are lurking!

What did you have for your nice lunch, Sparks? I have no appetite and feel so sick all of the time (even though I've not thrown up for about a month now!), so I have to live vicariously through the rest of you.

Blood sugar of 4mmol/L is completely normal. Normal blood sugar in someone without diabetes is 3.5-6.5mmol/L. Hope that is reassuring.

Sparks sorry I have no idea if the numbers mean anything, obviously the blood sugar one is low though. I wonder if Bartlet can shed some light?

oh and maybe will be coming by soon to defend her cooking title i didnt tattle tale honest

really easy from the new app that's a few note spaces filled