Emmsy's Weebles -let theTTC to new arrivals support continue onwards and upwards!

Well it took me over an hour but I think I've succeeded in getting the pics up! Bump and blanket are on there (rubbish pic of the blanket cos a)I don't know how to work flash settings on camera and b) I had to cover the bits where I'd made mistakes in the knitting )

Hi moon have a lush meal out tonight!

hello ladies,

yes cupcake i am still here lurking most days just been very busy lately, and off out soon for a valentines meal with my lovely df but have a few days holiday from work next week so will catch up properly with everyone then

welcome home to gracie and curly with your beautiful los

cd19 here and seem to be having a lot of cramping

hope you've all had a good weekend

Afternoon all
Thanks for the house encouragements! We have a real hopeful next week- we saw a flat last week that was gorgeous but the fact it was 1st floor was putting us off with buggy etc...now one has come up in the same block but ground floor...we have got the first viewing on it Weds morning 9.30am and we're bringing our cheque book with us!

barbie glad you're still with us hope you enjoyed some quality time with dh. We're trying to have as many dates as possible before May; went out for a lovely curry last night

LBM have a fab time in Edinburgh!

Vjay happy christening day to Ajay hope it is just lovely.

Neeko thanks for the birthing pool reassurance! dh laughed at me when I told him I hadn't realised you didn't have to be starkers in it. I can relate to your fright/stress though- when I had my medical management the nurse sent dh out, told me to just strip off my trousers and pants and lie on the bed legs akimbo for the pessaries...no modesty-covering sheet or anything...not a nice start to a horrible day!
Hope the nursery looks fab... my HiP grant is going on NCT classes, boo!

Lion bless your ds! Me and my sister called my little bro Egghead when he was a baby as he was completely bald for ages, haha Hope you enjoy your few hours off today

MLS hooray for stretching pains. That nursery ceiling will be getting plastered in a few months' time

Moon are you stil out there? Hope you're ok x

Curly so great to hear from you! Hope the bfeeding improves and so glad you're so happy with your gorgeous girl

Well I am having a lovely Valentine's so far.. I got a giant toblerone from the baby I think I will like this child!!

I'm now going to attempt to upload bump pics... bear with me!

Hello everyone - been a bit busy this week and I've been a bit knackered. I keep reminding myself that I am a bit older this time and obviously it's going to be a bit harder. I'd had such easy pregnancies before and whilst this is certainly not hard, I am just tired and so early nights call.

Gold stars for the super chilled barbie - I'm sure something will happen this week and so when I get back from holiday, you will have news for us. As one of the girls said the other day, enjoy the spontanaiety of being just the two of you and you being your own person, it is about to change!

Neekothelovely LOve the tankini plan but this is no 2 and they are often much quicker than no 1's so you may not have time - I only had 30 minutes at the hospital before DS arrived!

Curly Great to hear from you and well done for persevering with the bfing. I tried really hard with my two and didn't manage with either of them - got to 4 weeks with DD and we were having a really bad time (very bad memories of weeks 2-4) but the bottle saved my sanity and turned her into a lovely baby. With DS we went to 10 weeks as I had a supportive hv but as he was then at the 2nd %tile, bottles were used and again, it got better but I was very disapointed. I am trying really hard not to get hung up on it this time - the important thing is that you have a healthy baby, regardless of how they feed ( and I wrote that for me as much as you!)

Lion good to hear from you - my DS was known as the amazing bald baby as he didn't get hair untill he was over 1. He has lovely hair now though!

vjay hope the cristening was lovely and that Ajay screamed at all the right times!

MLS and Monkey - more gold stars, you two sound very chilled. Great to hear the scan went well, Monkey. Think your might be whilst I'm away, MLS - hope it goes well

Cupcake and 4ever , my 20 odd week buddies, glad to hear things are going well with you both. Bring home the basket, 4ever ( good luck at work on Monday)and cupcake the right home will find you!

I know I've forgotten loads of people but really must go - I've got the morning child free to pack as we are off on the sleeper to Edinburgh tonight untill Friday. And it's now after 11 and I haven't packed anything!!
Have a great week and I'll be in touch when we are back

Hello Curly & welcome back! Yes breastfeeding is not as easy as they make it out to be (actually I was rubbish at it) & your anxieties are completely normal. Anyone on this thread who has given birth will tell you that after having an anxious 9 months in pregnancy then you will get a whole new set of anxieties. I remember the night I got home from hospital & we left dd upstairs in her moses basket & I was in floods of tears downstairs imagining someone climbing through her bedroom window to take her!!! On top of that you have worries about cot death/meningitis/abduction/choking.... the list of unfounded fears goes on but EVERY mother feels the same. It does get a little easier but I still have nights where I have to go in & check dd is breathing or I have to banish the demons that are making me picture her running into the road & getting knocked down by a car. Once you have a baby it makes you realise that you didn't ever give your own mother the credit that she deserves!

So, any chance of some pictures??

Hey girls. Writing this on phone while breastfeeding... Not very successfully. Every time I thinkshe has got the hang of it we go backwards!! Curlygirl is just gorgeous though. I'm so happy at the same time as being ridiculously anxious. Hopethis is normal

thanks so much all for being there. I really missed you all in the last week and have been thinking about you but I'm just not getting time to catch up properly which I feel guilty about.

Lots of love till I can xxx

Hello girls, still enjoying time with dh so wont post too much..but on jools request i will just let you know nothing is happening here so dont worry

Dh back to work tomorrow so ill post again then....

Hope you all have a truely lovely valentines day tomorrow x

Yay for stretching pains MLS. I'm also very impressed by your lack of testing, especially as you're such an addict!

Neeko of course the baby won't care about the colour of the curtains/carpet and I think blue is good for either a boy or girl. It wouldn't have worked the other way round though with pink curtains & carpets for a boy! Getting a nursery ready is so exciting, I can't wait to do ours. We have a horrible textured ceiling in our 'nursery' so sometime this year we will have to get my plasterer bil down from Scotland to sort that out.

I've been having lots of stretching pains today which has been very reassuring. Still managed to not do my last remaining cb digi, I think I'll do it in the week.

Hi Lion Nice to hear from you. I won't even be trying to rival Barbie I'm afraid as this one is getting DD's cast-offs. The walls will be neutral with her 'I love my bear' stickarounds, lightshade, mobile and cot set. The curtains are sadly too small for that room (we've moved since we had DD) so my aunt is adjusting a nice thick blue pair that was in my old living room and match the carpet. We figure regardless of the sex the baby won't care about the colour of curtains and once he/she is about 2 we can redecorate more suitably.
I'm trying to make this a budget baby as far as possible to leave more money for incidentals like the mortgage and food while I'm off!

Sabs, just had a peek at your pics, Saara is just too cute. DS is horribly jealous of her hair, he started off with quite a bit, but cradle cap has kicked in and he is turning baldy rapidly - boo. Mind you he is still doing better than DD, she is 3 next weekend and still has not ever had a haircut . I am also jealous of her sleeping, DS is a boob monster at night he starts off OK goes 7pm to about 11, but then it's every 2-3 hours after that and he doesn't like to go back in his cot either. But he does do that waking up and cooing/laughing thing in the morning which is really cute, I can get an extra 20 minutes dozing if I ignore him

Barbie you sound so very zen despite your recent scares and dilemmas. If that carries on your are going to waft through labour looking fresh and dewey, give birth with barely an yelp and look totally divine in your post-birth piccies . Have all appendages crossed for you for the coming week. Am loving the swaddled monkey BTW and good to hear DH is getting in some practice.

Yay iggy for your graduation, won't be long for you now. I can't believe just how many graduates we do have.

Neeko, nice to hear you are having some proxy-nesting - best steer clear of the paint yourself though, those fumes are not nice stuff. Can you rival Barbie in the nursery stakes though?

VJay sending you best wishes for AJay's christening. His outfit sounds lovely.

cupcake, I'm sure your perfect house is out there waiting for you, and you'll know it instantly when you see it. Just hope you don't have to wade through too many to get there.

blue remember to do those visalisations of babyben (or keep him in sight if you can) when you are pumping - it helps with the let down. I've just been using an Avent hand-pump to get the odd ounce or so. DS has been a bottle refuser, but we keep offering him little bits and it's starting to go down. We're off out for a couple of hours on valentines and Mum is having him - so if he wakes up it'll be the bottle or nothing!!

4ever I'm with the others - bring that basket home!! You're truely on the home straight now, it can't be anything except a symbol of good luck. Although I have to say I borrowed one from a friend and it was sat empty in the dining room for the last couple of weeks and the sight of it really did make those last few weeks drag by (but then I did expect to pop early rather than going the full 40 weeks)

Hope everyone has a great weekend. There's love in the air ...

Hello again.

Cupcake boo to the house problems but my gran used to say what's for you won't go past you, so it clearly wasn't the one for you.
On the subject of water births one of my most frightening moments of labour last time was when I was standing in the birthing pool room whilst they filled it. I was uncomfortable but using the tens machine so was still very lucid. I remember thinking 'Oh crap, I'm going to have to take my knickers off to get in here!' and feeling quite stressed. It was fine once I was in though and later -when I'd progressed quite a bit and agreed to an epidural- I couldn't have given two hoots as I waddled down the corridor with a towel wrapped around my waist and my dripping t-shirt, probably flashing my bum to the world! Since then though I've discovered that you can wear a whole tankini until you're quite far on so I'll be aiming for that as being stressed can slow down labour.

Iggy congrats on your new big pants status. They feel a little strange at first but are actually very comfy.

Barbie enjoy some quality time with your DH. Hope it's your last for a while and your lo decides to arrive before scan time on Monday. P.S. We'll be your fedng counsellors and we're free!

Blue Well done on the pumping. Mine's a Medula too although it's the manual one. On a good day I could get 7oz so I never tried the electric one. Hope I'm that lucky again this time. Not started any name threads yet - cos we don't really have any!!!

Buddha mat leave starts on Fri (Yay)Does your sister have any kids or did E's nappy put her off?

Vjay Can't wait to see those pics.

Have someone coming to paint the baby's room tomorrow and Sunday (using the remainder of my Health in Pregnancy grant ) Can't wait til it's done so I can get all the baby things out the loft and nest to my heart's content.

Hope you all have a good weekend.

yeah well done iggy welcome to the big pants xxx

.....I'm back , forgot to say, good to see you on the bigpant bench iggy

Quick one form me, I'm busy packing and getting ready to go. We've ran out of time for Ajays virtual christening, maybe we should to a job lot when the time comes . blue he's not wearing a gown, wish he was, my mum's got the one my grandpa was christened in but Ajay is too big, so he can wear ds1's little suit with bow tie . Will post pics when I get back. Have good weekends everyone xxxx
P.s well done on having a fab scan monkey, so pleased all is well .
4ever big congrats to your dh
Right I'm off........

Iggy So pleased all went well with the scan and graduating - well done!!!
Sabs about S's hair? Poor little love, don't let her dad lose on her again she won't forgive him when she's older
Monkey Fabulous news about your scan too, is it starting to sink in yet?
4ever As far as I'm aware it's only the pram that is bad luck, if you feel comfortable with it home then do it, if you don't store it at someone elses house, no one will judge you on it hun
MLS Hope ballet goes well today
Neeko When do you go on maternity leave?
Barbie Make the most of the time you have left just the two of you. The main thing I miss is not being able to just nip to the shops to buy something simple, now it's a military mission, baby has to come out the car etc etc that's when I realised my independence has gone, but in happy way of course
Cupcake Sorry to hear about the flat, but just think it wasn't meant to be as there is something much better out there for you instead
Blue I have such a lovely image of you sat at the computer with your (.)(.) being pumped Its funny how we all differ, I preferred the hand one as the electric one made me rather sore. Glad to hear you are getting on better with it though
Mermaid How's the greenhouse?

I'm taking advantage of my sister visiting and spending time with E, he's just given her a lovely present of a sh*tty nappy, bless I told her it was because he loves her
Have a good weekend all x

YAAAAY, congratulations iggy so very lovely to see you on that list

monkey I grinned at your news too- fantastic! So glad things are going well but sorry about sickness

MLS glad you weren't weebling alone, just tired...which is v good sign! Awww hope the ballet was lovely

Neeko amazing, you can wear stuff in the birthing pool?? I feel quite that I never realised that my pregnancy book has a v unattractive pic of a woman naked and sprawled in one which put me off slightly but if I can wear a tankini I'm THERE! (I will still be such a prude during labour I'm sure of it...dh is staying head end!!)

Barbie glad you feel calmer re dates that's fab oh maybe my dh should get some swaddling practice.. although he's convinced he will be fine since seeing Jason Manford's stand-up about his baby when he said 'just do it like you wrap a fajita'

4ever deffo bring the basket home!! I don't believe in 'bad luck' anyway but I think you are definitely ready for that. Amazing that baby is officially viable, you're going to be a Mummy!

We were meant to have a lunchtime second viewing of the flat we were gonna go for today but they called 2 hours ago to say it's been let we're gutted... back to more frantic weekend viewings!

It is time - I think... Plus at least i am leaving two of you on the medium bench together for company

Commando/smallpants

Mermaid
hoping
jools
bakingqueen
Bluemoon
gingermumi

Medium pants

MLS BFP 29th Jan
monkey BFP 23rd Jan

Bigpants

Barbie due 20/02/10, you are next
Neeko due 23/03/10
MrsKate due 05/04/10 - BLUE
cupcake due 19/05/10
littlebellsmum due 25/05/10 - PINK
4everhopeful due 04/06/10 - PINK
iggypiggy due 20/07/10

Saggypants

VJay 01/09/09 BOY! ALEXANDER JAMES 8lb 6oz
ScamperT 19/09/09 GIRL! GENEVIEVE
Lionstar 27/09/09 BOY! ARLO BRYN 9lb 5oz
Sabs 30/09/09 GIRL! SAARA 9lb
Buddhabelly 25/11/09 BOY! EWAN JAMES
Annie 25/11/09 BOY! ELLIS CHARLES 8lb 11oz
Bluesatinsash 23/12/09 BOY! BENJAMIN CHARLES 8lb 3oz
MM 30/12/09 GIRL! NIEVE ELLEN 8lb 6oz
Curly 05/02/10 GIRL! GRACE ELIZABETH 8lb 4oz
Graciegirl 05/02/10 GIRL! ISABELLE CLARE 7lb 1oz

Im here!

Sorry if i worried you sabs....

Spent so long on the internet yesterday that i had to force myself to switch it off and give myself 12 hours rest bite from it!

monkey i woke this morning thinking of you and your scan, dh let me break the internet ban to check on you, very very happy for you

mls thanks for that advice re bfp on day 22...after madly working and re working out the dates to good thing is that the most i can be is a week over and the least i can be is 3 days behind...
Anyways im going to see what the scan produces and take it from there....they check how healthy and old the placenta looks so that gives an even better reading than just looking at the baby. So fingers crossed for monday. Oh and ive come to turns with the family being here if it works out like that...what will be will be!

As for the heart thing, well.....ive been really good and havent googled or anything, remaining calm til next appt.

4ever bring the moses home..... I have mine at the end of the bed, with a toy monkey that dh has swaddled (he was practicing!) looks really funny, especially when dh comes from the bath room and pretends to talk to the monkey/baby....congrats to your dh too

Ok im off, this was just a short visit, its the weekend and i intend to spead as much time with dh as poss, you never know it might be our last one

Lots of love to you all xxx

Hi 4ever BRING IT HOME!!! and good luck at back to work on Monday. Congrats to your clever DH too.

Hi all. Sorry I've been AWOL for acouple of days. Trying to tie things up at work which is prving impossible and been very tired at night.

Barbie so sorry you're surrounded by so much stress. Thinking of you and hope you'll have your lo in your arms very soon. (Just had a Barbie moment when i looked at the list and realised I'm second - eek!)

Iggy I know we texted but fab news o your scan. I hope you're going to treat yourself the lo to some baby stuff soon.

Monkey Had a bit of a well-up when you said lo has a heartbeat,. So happy for you and hope the sickness isn't getting you down.

Cupcake Loved your 95 year old woman story. i have a maternity tankini from Mothercare as I'm hoping for a waterbirth and my tshirt was heavy and cold last time. The Mothercare ones are very roomy. I got my close baby carrier on Wednesday and I'm practising with DD's teddies and dolls

Sabs It sounds like you're making the most of your mat leave. Enjoy the spa - you deserve it.

Buddha mat leave really goes quickly and I remember the dreaded heavy feeling in the pit of your tummy. I feel really blessed this time as our entitlement has improved so mmuch since I had DD. It's like a lottery win!

MLS Hope things are going well with you. Pleased that time is ticking on. 13 days to go.

LBM can't believe you're just in mat clothes. I'm the size of a houseI

Blue and Annie Hope you're both getting a bit more sleep. I remember the stubborness to use formula well. Will probably be the exact same this time if I can manage to breast feed again.

VJay what happened to the virtual christening? Hope the real thing is simply lovely on Sunday.

Gracie Glad you're home and that you came full circle in a year. Give Isabelle a kiss from me.

Curly Hope all is well with you. Big hug to you and Grace too.

4ever well Mrsviablebaby? It feels great doesn't it?

Mermaid How are you? You know we've put something behind your back tire to avoid you backpedalling don't you?

Jools Hope you're ok, lovely and somehow coming to terms with your awful news.

BQ Lovely to see you. Don't be a stranger.
HI to Moon Hoping and Ginger if you're lurking too and to all our Mum's who are too bogged down in nappies and milk to get on here.

Morning Mls & Sabs! No not heard from Barbie, im gonna send u all out my new email when back at work on mon, in about 8 to 10 wks my work email will be no not more, ever again! I kno iv hardly been there as nurturing bubba bump, but i will miss it so much, i have loved workin there, it was my dream music industry job & iv met/spoke to so many people & had some great experiences.. ......Anyway i totally digress, was just poppin on quickly to say how very very very pleased i am for you Monkey! Just thrilled all is lookin well, is that first time u have ever seen the heartbeat? Im optimistic the treatment has worked, im also sure your mum is smiling down on you sending her blessings... .....Just spoke to Dh, (he passed his driving theory yest btw! ) we are picking up the moses today, he said maybe we could bring it home? What do you all think? I know the pram is bad luck, the cot or moses isnt tho is it? We have been loving seeing the clothes & toys in there this last week, he thinks it would be nice, so do i, tho bit scary, but also shows faith... X x x x x