The Good Husband of TTC Drive (No1 Babies Detective Agency pt5)

hi, very excited today. Had my 16 week anomaly scan with consultant (family history of spina bifida) and everything was fine. I was really nervous but am on a real high now.

We also got to find out the sex, we asked the consultant if he would mind looking and once he did it was fairly obviously we were having a boy! Even I could see his family jewels!

Any good ideas for names? Sorry to go on, and if I'm upsetting anyone coming back onto this thread and telling you all my news please please tell me, but this was my first mumsnet thread and you were all my first friends so it would be odd not to share with you. If you think I shouldn't however, please say.

Happy New Year everyone

I hope everyone had a good New Year, and slightly less interesting than ours - at least in terms of New Years eve of which I spent a large part in Casualty with anaphalactic shock due to a pain killer for toothache... Horrendous rash and nasty swelling of hands and face, but no problems with breathing luckily - so only kept in to make sure that there was no deterioration following the steroids wearing off, but not my ideal New Years eve.

Luckily we had friends with us - who offered to leave at about 7.30/8am - I said no, but went down hill and we left them looking after ds while I went to the Doctors as an emergency - she was giving us the option of going home (after having given me some steriods) or to casualty - but at that time I felt so faint I had to lie down on the floor so she decided that casualty was probably the best option!

Luckily, Christmas was a bit quieter - in terms of happens at least, although ds made up for it in terms of general noise levels...

I second that.

This year is the bumpy year!

You Will Get Your Bumps

Hi Scorpio!

Happy new year everyone!

Bella - wow 35 weeks!! hope you are well.

Nomore is the knitting queen, but you knew that
Crikey o'riley - I remember talking about you to someone (who shall remain nameless ) and saying how close you were to your due date. Hold out for the 10th baby Bella

2008 is our year, we will get our bumps. We will!!

Well, i never joined the Due in Feb one, and it seems a bit late now (35 weeks) so think i will give it a miss. I am haunting various knitting threads as well though.

What's the news here?

Aw Bella - Your fave thread We all want to join you soon. Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to my favourite thread! (in that, obviously I wish you weren't all here but you know what I mean)

Me and nomore have been communicating! I have inducted her into the most addictive website ever after this one! (Evil laugh)

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!

Happy new year everyone!

here's hoping for a blooming one for all of us.

Back online! yay!

Loving the scratch mitts nomore

How is everyone doing? I know Gilly is cavorting in India

Happy New Year everyone!!!

Hi all, hope you have had a very Merry Christmas . Just saying goodbye as we are off to India tomorrow and not back until the 14th Jan. I want to see lots of BFPs when I get back! New Year, new hope and all that!

p.s. MT thanks for the offer I may take you up on that when I get back

Gilly - can you put down the pattern here - if I know what the pattern is I might be able to solve the problem for you - from what you say it sounds as though you're starting with the wrong side first, but if you can't solve that, you should be able to change the pattern a bit to get it coming out right.

Still got lots to do, hampered by foot. Its a really good thing that I'm not pregnant as on fairly strong pain killers and antiinflamatories, but foot still throbing. Saw nice man on Friday (squeezed me in as last patient of the year) and said that he thought that the Docs diagnosis was very understandable, but hopefully wrong and that it should be soluble without operation - he's squeezed me into a session on the 4th to start sorting out I hope.

Sent dh out to get a tree on Sat am - he came back with 2 (?!) as he couldn't decide which to get (). Needless to say, neither of them up yet. Also got a bit ratty with him on Sat when I'd been doing stuff after lunch to find him playing games on the computer...

I think he's forgiven me!

Happy Christmas everyone

In laws doing the catering as we are staying at theirs (Dorset) for Christmas and we go off on holiday on the 29th Dec so everything pretty chilled at the daffodil household. We have only catered for Christmas dinner twice in our 10 yr marriage and were too exhausted both times to eat it so now we just try to latch on to a relative or go away on holiday

Hi Gilly, men! bloody useless at remembering important imformation or asking the right questions. When DH takes dc to the doctors I send him with a list of q's to ask otherwise you get nothing. Its good that he has lots of little chaps, and now you are getting the appointment that's the next step closer, so you should be excited!

I am 14 weeks, I'll be 15 on sunday. The all day sickness is finally getting better and hopefully won't be too much of a problem over xmas. Not that I actually have any food in yet, and I really late or are you all sans-turkey and trimmings too?

DH has just called with his results from the doc (she called him at home). The good news is that there is lots of it - he said 9 million but then didn't know if it was 9ml but motility is at 30% when the normal average should be 50%. He didn't get any other figures despite me asking him to! Anyway she said that she is referring us today and we should have an appointment within 8-9 weeks at UCH. Why am I ridiculously excited?

Sybil, how far along are you now? Glad you can at least enjoy some edibles this Christmas.

MT, you busy lady! I wish I was nearer and could lend a hand!

Disaster with my knitting last night I am doing this blanket which is made up of squares each done in one of three stitches. I have done two squares by now but the third one took 5-6 gos last night and I am either reading the pattern wrong or you need a PhD to do it!! It?s really hard, it is supposed to be little raised sticks but for some reason they are always on the wrong side of the blanket and not on the side where the other two patterns are. The wool is looking a bit straggly from me undoing it so much so I have decided to make it into a moss stitch square instead. I hope it goes with the others

How is everyone? Where is everyone?

Hi all, blimey it's quiet on here, everyone else must be shopping!

Finally at the stage where I can eat the odd mince pie - yippee! Hope you lot are going to consume my share of the alcohol limit this xmas!

Love the t-shirts!

There's a really nice toyshop in a district centre not far from home - its just a question of time to get there. Exacerbated by the problem that my foot has now decided to play up - Doctor has suggested diagnosis, but said that I wouldn't be able to get NHS consultation until one month or so - so am seeing podiatrist on Friday afternoon (£65 - ouch!): hopefully he will be able to suggest something so that I can walk slightly more comfortably over Christmas...

Its a real case of juggling from now on. Tonight - choir - need to make mince pies before I go as overcooked the ones I made last night and they are now crunchy - but ds still likes them. Thurs - need to pick ds at 12, take to godparents, come back for Christmas meal at work, pick ds up... Fri - NCT coffee morning decending (potentially, although last time I did it no one turned up as a little out of the normal patch) - playing for Ds's nativity thing (again, as per today) at 2pm, meet mil to drop ds at home, go to foot appointment, panic...

etc!

Hope its a lot calmer in your household!

(PS, tree not up yet, not purchased, might have to do with the one that's survived in the garden at this rate...)