Angels and Rainbows - remembering our angels and praying for rainbows

Critter that sounds like great news, good luck for Monday!

Critter that's great, I really hope the number is a good sign too and I'll have my fingers and toes crossed for Monday x

Critter hope all goes well tomorrow x

Hello lovelies, sorry, all fine with me. I had my official blood test on Friday and the level of hcg in my blood was 259 - which was exactly the same number as it was with James. Hoping that is an encouraging sign. The spotting seems to have stopped and I go back in on Monday to check the level is rising as it should. Thank you guys for checking in on me. I am so touched. I want safe rainbow pregnancies for all of us who are TTC so badly. I know it won't fix our losses but I hope it will at least being back some joy into our lives. Sending love to everyone, and can't wait for an update from Missalex on her precious little boy.

Great minds Mad... I was just coming on to see how Critter is doing!

Critter any news? Thinking of you xx

Congratulations missa!just what we all needed to hear. I am picturing you, hopefully gazing dreamily at your tiny little baby boy. I can't imagine what that must feel like for you, but I'm welling up just imagining it! Many congratulations

What lovely news congratulations to your whole family missA

Yay! Many congratulations to you missa so pleased for you

Ah Critter, yes he is a boy!

Yay so thrilled for MissA and mini A (master A?). Lovely news. Thanks for updating us earth.

Thank for that earth and of course wonderful news for missa xx

Has everyone else been checking all day too!

Such fabulous news, well done missa and dp. I will await more details, but this, the most important information really has made my day.

Fantastic, am so pleased for you missa been thinking of you all day xxx

So good to hear!

I kept just refreshing the thread to check!

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Hi ladies, MissA has been in touch with me off thread and has asked me to let you know that baby has arrived safely and they are both well. I don't know anything else, but she will update us when she can. Hooray!!!!!!! Such wonderful wonderful news to end the day xxx

Also checking for an update hope everything has gone well missa x

Just checking in to see if there's an update from MissA

I hope all you ladies are ok xx

Thanks for all the kind comments.

madem I don't have experience of counselling, but I think it's important to try out different ones till you find one you feel comfortable with. Hope the space to talk helps.

Whole owl family is thinking of you today missa.

Thinking of you missa x

Thinking of you today MissA, wishing you good luck and strength-you can do it! x

Oh missa - tomorrow!! What turmoil in your life at the moment. I will be with you in spirit all day tomorrow and cannot wait to hear the happy news of the safe arrival of your little boy. SO much love x

lake well done for going back to work. You are so brave and are doing incredibly well. One thing I will say, as I am sure others have experienced, is not to beat yourself up if in a few days/weeks/months it starts to become difficult. I was grateful for returning to work at first yet I am finding it quite challenging right now. I guess the 'novelty' has worn off? Of course you might just go on to be absolutely fine, I am not trying to scare you or be a bah humbug, merely saying that if you ended up not enjoying it so much anymore in a while, not to be hard on yourself about it. As for the fb comment... silly cow. Some people are just absolutely useless at dealing with grief. I'd be annoyed too - if that's any comfort?

critter how are you doing? I have been thinking about you so much x

AFM - thank you for the advice re: work post counsellor. I felt like I had been hit by a tonne of bricks. Exhausted doesn't cover it. But I am not sure she is that helpful? I might follow some friends' advice and find someone through the SANDS route.

Big waves to everyone, blue , earth , kayleigh , ducky , tulip , ruby , owl , betty - thinking of you all

Lake sorry you've had that awkward experience with facebook. You don't sound paranoid in any way- i'd have reacted in exactly the same way as you. Personally i'd ask the person if there was a reason they hadn't "liked" my comment, but as critter said, taking the high road has it's advantages.

tulip i'm inclined to agree with you that men are funny buggers. I'd accidentally knocked one of DH's watches off the kitchen side while cleaning earlier and the glass on the face smashed, and when i told him he honestly thought i'd done it on purpose- and then proceeded to say that he'd have understood if that was the case !

MissA lots and lots of luck for tomorrow, i hope you manage to get some rest tonight (you probably won't but hey)

Oh lake I bloody hate that 'mother's instinct' line. Someone said that to me about a month after J died, telling me how their husband 'was almost a SIDS baby' but his mother 'sensed something was wrong'. It implies we could have saved our babies which is immensely painful and also not true. I don't know why people want to tell us those stories. It really upset me at the time. Now I would say something like you did, 'not everyone is so lucky' but at the time I just sat their like a lemon and then got really upset afterwards. With the comment on FB, I would just take the high road and ignore her - but maybe also click to hide her posts from now so you don't have to see them, that's what I tend to do.

littletulip I have been thinking of you and how brave and patient you've been through this nightmare. I so hope that your IVF appointment comes through soon. You've waited so long and it's so incredibly unfair. I am sending you love.

owl your little one sounds adorable.

missalex good luck!

MissA good luck for tomorrow will be thinking of you.

Critter I had a very similar experience at my hair dressers, for some reason she felt I needed to know that her baby had stopped moving and they rushed to hospital blah blah. She ended by saying something like " it's a mothers instinct you know?!" Take your bloody mothers instinct and shove it. I think I told her that not everyone is as lucky as that especially if it happens fast. I don't know if she realised why she's annoyed me but she barely spoke after that!!

Had a nice day at work, had to tell one of our cleaners but she'd kind of figured out something bad had happened. I guess not many people would be back at work right now if they had a healthy 10 week old at home!!

A colleague has made me really paranoid on Facebook, I really hate Facebook these days. She's announce her pregnancy on Facebook along with a 20 week scan picture. I wrote congratulations xx along with about 60 other people (both before and after me) and weirdly she has liked every single comment except mine!! I'm tempted to delete it as she obviously feels weird about it. I'm sure I am reading way too much into it but I find thing like that really odd like people are drawing more attention to the fact that I can be happy for others. Just because things didn't work out for us doesn't mean that I can't be happy for other people. Uh sometimes I hate the real world and people, hibernation Is the way forward