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Emmsy's weebles - enjoying comfort, support and mini eggs, onwards and upwards!

993 replies

VJay · 22/03/2010 13:12

A new home ladies! Tis the season for mini eggs , time for baby neeko to arrive, and more BFP's, oh and mls joining the bigpant bench

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BlueMoon1981 · 31/03/2010 21:22

ooh yes cheesy disco thanks vjay a bit of chesney hawkes the one and only and bryan adams summer of 69?

now wedding favours sabs i dont really have a clue about these? are they for everyone? and is it meant to be something memorable/useful/cheesy?

Sabs1981 · 31/03/2010 20:35

barbie chief cake maker

blue personal dress designer

curly seating organiser / hen weekend planner (to see barbie )

louey honeymoon planner

cupcake invitation designer

4ever table decorator and gift organiser

vjay cheesy disco organiser

sabs wedding favours organiser

Sabs1981 · 31/03/2010 20:33

barbie chief cake maker

blue personal dress designer

curly seating organiser / hen weekend planner (to see barbie )

louey honeymoon planner

cupcake invitation designer

4ever* table decorator and gift organiser

sabs wedding favours organiser

VJay · 31/03/2010 20:17

oh forgot thanks for thinking of me 4ever
gracie nice to 'chat' to you earlier, and hope you enjoy your evening to yourself

moon I'll organise a cheesy disco

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VJay · 31/03/2010 20:14

Just quickly logging in to see if we have a name yet for babyneeko, plus hope you are ok neeko

mermaid I did do some study this afternoon, I actually finished a section, so am quite pleased with myself. I think I have a trapped nerve in my pelvis as that is where the pain is, deep in my right side, more like the hip area than my back, it keeps catching and by the end of the day throbs like mad. How did you fix yours?

Right I'm off to read my book, boys are in bed and dh is at the pub, night all xxxxx

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BlueMoon1981 · 31/03/2010 20:10

barbie chief cake maker

blue personal dress designer

curly seating organiser / hen weekend planner (to see barbie )

louey honeymoon planner

cupcake invitation designer

4ever table decorator and gift organiser

thanks girls any more offers? this is fun! esp as df and i fallen out, keeping me smiling.

4everhopeful · 31/03/2010 19:53

Hey ladies!

I am at the thought of Vjay talking to herself all day and also still at the thought of you losing a stone & a half in 4 days, mummy brain is funny, Im looking forward to it!

Gracie another one with mummy brain! Bet that glass of wine will knoeck you bandy! Wah hey! Have fn & enjoy it girl, you really deserve it!

YAY! to Mermaid back & posting 2 days in a row!! YAY YAY YAY! Like Cupcake says - lovelovelove your posts! Enjoy the tappases!

Talking of lovelovelove that was our wedding theme & on our invites and everything that we also designed ourselves! Moon take note! The roles are fast dissapearing so I shall go for table decs & gifts for the wedding party! Love the sound of the dress ideas..

Cupcake glad to be of service lovely! Yea get DH to clear out the 'spare room' and make it become 'the nursery' ASAP then post pics! Oh a whole week without access?!? Torture! Ill be your information station dont worry!

Bon voyage Barbie - have a safe trip back to blighty, young Devons first breath of ancestral air! How long you back for? Will you get a chance to post?!?

Mrskate good to see you popping in when JD lets you!

MLS get on Neekos case, tell her the fabulous name suggestions thus far & get her to pick one! Oh yea & we wanna see pictures perlease?!? Hope you are still up there rejoicing in your good news.. Your v sweet keeping Monkey company, you are allowed to be happy for yourself tho hon, you have had a long enough journey to get to where you are so it is allowed, Monkey would agree.. I have been in touch with her today & we just all gotta pray for her..

Who's off to church on sunday? We are, havent been with my bump & really lookin forward to it! Will pray for us all of course.. Also really lookin forward to eating crisps again as gave them up for lent! Have been craving wotsits ever since Cupcake mentioned them! Yearn...! Mermaid was right, after retail therapy & rare quality mummy/daughter time in Debenhams, I was oohing at the cute baker baby top & cardi mum brought us & yet more vests! I so need the babys wardrobe! My lovely mum also treated me to my very last mat clothes I shall buy, a gorgeous summer dress & top which I figure will still do post natally when tryin to disguise my jelly belly! Oooh also fab spangly sparkly sandals (once again image of Vjay comes to mind! )

I am blummin pooped now tho, had battle at work this morning & decided I am appealing my appraisal decision & also had to try & sort out very complicated mat/redundancy package & tax issues & all sorts, on 3hrs sleep!! Hopefully tonight I might actually manage to sleep through the SPD & heartburn!!!

MrsKate · 31/03/2010 18:17

hi all xxxx

big big hug and love to monkey

yeah to mls on scan xxxxxxx

what a mix of emotions we have on this thread xxx

GracieGirl · 31/03/2010 18:00

Gracie is escaping!!! I'm off to the pub!! My first minute off duty in 7.5 weeks!! And my first glass of wine in over a year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DH has 4 feeds of expressed breast milk in the fridge for Isabelle and I'll only be out for 2 hours to the pub down the road!

mermaidspurse · 31/03/2010 17:42

louey I see you and say Noreen.

vjay get back to those books, hope your back is ok, reckon it can actually be worse than childbirth. I trapped a nerve in my pelvis about 6 months after ds it was the worse pain I had ever experienced.

cupcake glad it's feeling like home - sshhhh if you are reading this in the libary

gracie atm you are in the long tunnel of taking 3 hours to get a pair of nickers on and clean your teeth by midday, it gets better and respect for getting a pair of tights on a wiggly baby

monkey hugest gold star winging across the channel to you for getting through another day. Thinking of you.x

mls have you heard from neeko? hope they are all ok.

barbie travel safely lovely and enjoy passing little d around. Hope you have packed your thermals but the daffs are out

louey I hope your neck is a bit better today and the sun seems a little brighter.

4ever is no doubt at home ohhing and ahhing at little pink purchases. Hope you had a good day.x

right I'm off owt for tappases hmm don't think thats right but you get the gist. boys get yesterdays diner hastily heated up, so know how to be a domestic godess

cupcakefairy · 31/03/2010 16:49

Hi girls! V quick hello... 4ever's been keeping me updated on you all while I've been disconnected...I won't be able to get back on for about a week now so will have to venture to library!!

MLS yeaaaah
monkey so so sorry hun like 4ever I'm just praying everything works out ok, this is all just so unfair.
mermaid I just lovelovelove your posts. You are a star and so glad you're back. So sorry about the cat It is just horrible when family pets die.
Moon can I design your invites?? DH and I did ours and my brother's; we love it

Oooh and huge congrats to Neeko but we need a naaaame!
Dh didn't end up putting up the cot in the end as we decided it was abit silly to take up all that space in the spare room while it's full of junk still from the move! more incentive to get unpacking!

Big hellos to everyone...have to go!

GracieGirl · 31/03/2010 16:02

Vjay I finally got Isabelle to let go of my right nipple so i could reach the computer and now you've gone!

VJay · 31/03/2010 15:08

Wow it looks like I've talked to myself on here all day

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VJay · 31/03/2010 15:07

How's the weather where you are, we've had snow up here ALL day, it's not sticking though so that's something.

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VJay · 31/03/2010 12:44

Forgot to say I've got a physio appt for next Wednesday and in the meantime I've been put on stronger painkillers, yay

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VJay · 31/03/2010 12:41

gracie I have sent an email with updated details for me xxx

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VJay · 31/03/2010 12:35

monkey i am so for you, especially as you can't talk to your mum. I won't pretend that I know what you are going through, I can only guess that it's incredibly hard. I think it would be good for you to talk to 4ever if you feel up to it as she has been there in more ways than one, bless you 4ever xxx

mls I didn't see that you are staying in the medium pants with monkey, that's lovely, I was just too excited by your wonderful news

blue how is B getting on now? Still the same? Ajay has now missed the last 2 1am feeds, and actually slept through til 6:30am this morning, so I like to look at the positives and this is one for formula feeding

pfj how are you?

mermaid hope you are ok too, and your lovely ds xx

Names for babyneeko, how about neekola, neekole or neekolette, see what I did there

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GracieGirl · 31/03/2010 12:14

Once upon a time Gracie used to be really organised and sometimes quite clever - hence the emmsys email and the list of emails and mobile numbers for those that wanted to share them. Well now she's had Isabelle, and left her brain in the labour suite (I think it was a good swap! ) and she forgets to check the emmsys email quite so often (She doesn't get time off for toilet breaks that often either! ). I'm sorry Mermaid!! The reason no one had texted Mermaid with any news in the last 2 weeks was that we all had her old mobile number cos Gracie didn't read the email from Mermaid to say she's lost her old phone. Oops!

So now you all know I'm a bit rubbish , if you send anything to the emmsys email ([email protected]) can you post a big loud "Check the email Gracie" on this thread to remind me.
Thanks all!

Sorry Mermaid! See we do all still love you.

loueytbg · 31/03/2010 09:27

Forgot to say - any Neeko news. Can I add Ethel to the list of names

loueytbg · 31/03/2010 09:27

Morning!

Monkey hope you managed to get some sleep. Have been thinking of you x

Moon I will volunteer for honeymoon planning. I love planning a holiday

Barbie like Blue I also found bits of GF useful, particularly the bits which gave you an idea of how much they should be sleeping in the day because I had no idea. I iignored the drink a glass of water blah blah blah bits. However I was desperate for a routine with DTs and would have gone insane without one. I had bit of help because DS2 was in special care for a while aafter he was born and they are very strict about feeding times. We just took those and carried on when we got out of hospital.

4ever You have had such a rough ride. I have a friend who had 5 mc's until they discovered her immune issue (she also had clotting problems). She now has 2 DDs. I can't imagine going through that many mc's, 1 was bad enough.

How is everyone else this morning?

My headache is now in my neck (which is an improvement I think). We've got a new leisure centre that opened last week which is supposed to have a fab pool so I'm going to venture there this morning for a nosey and a float. I am supposed to be on sick leave this week but I'm counting it as part of my therapy

4everhopeful · 31/03/2010 07:33

Woke up thinkin of monkey (only had 3hrs sleep! ) if u need to tx or mail then gracies list has my details.. I just remember so vividly havin nowhere to turn so im here if u need me... Our lovely sonographer saw 6mm fold at weekly scans of our 3rd angel baby at 10wks but didnt tell us til following 11wk, just remember dh & i sobbing our hearts out in her office as was furthest we'd ever got she got us an apt with the director of fetal meds 2hrs later as she was epu so hadnt dealt with it before, we spent that longest ever 2hrs in hosp chapel & gardens prayin harder than we ever had.. The director was lovely & said he had known it correct itself so still have hope my lovely, he said about edwards & pattaus too so did the karyotyping/chromosomal test on both of us (first time we got referred to as mum & dad..) Have they done that with u to confirm if genetic? It took 10 days for the results under them but 6wks under recurrent mc clinic.. We had to go back 2wks later & was one of worst 2wks of our lives.. Our 1st wedding anniversary was in middle of it & we went & renewed our vows just us & the vicar.. When we went back at 13wks sadly our baby had died & god made the decision for us, tho think we'd of let nature take its course whatever & prayed for a miracle that some people have terrible odds & markers but babys are fine, we heard lots of those stories & clung onto them.. That might of been the case for our 3rd angel baby too as we now know we had the immune issue where my bodys leukocytes (immune system) was attacking dh cells in our babys hence the 4mmc's.. Anyway just wanted to share cos understand the need talk to people that have been through it, it was through my googling i discovered mn... Anytime u need me im there & ill be sayin a massive prayer for u & again so when i venture to church on sun.. Massive hugs hon x x x x x

CurlyBigPants · 31/03/2010 06:01

Aw man... I'm losing the plot! Forgot to post lots of happy faces to MLS on her good scan

CurlyBigPants · 31/03/2010 05:59

And I've just skipped three pages and seen news of baby Neeko. I am so excited. Must hold off texting her till more human hour I guess

moon can I decide who gets to sit where? I loved that bit ;) and what about the hen weekend? Shall we all go to Dubai

the gorgeous little wriggler is back asleep again so so should I!! Lots of smiles and tears catching up on posts today so will be back with personals later. Big hugs in the meantime to anyone who needs them xxx

CurlyBigPants · 31/03/2010 05:41

monkey just wanted to offer my hand to hold too. I'll be praying for good news on Friday xxx

4everhopeful · 30/03/2010 21:35

Monkey just wanna extend a strong hand & a big hug to you... I can relate to the sheer devastation & numbness u must be feelin having gone through the same thing with the nuchal issue.. Its just so bloody unfair & must be making u ache for ur mum so badly.. I can relate to that too as wish so much my dad had been about these last 2yrs but kno it would of broke his heart to see my heart breaking.. All we can do is pray for you hon.. I remember at the time we went through this thinking well maybe the mc's before it were to test us to make us strong enough to cope with a disabled or downs child, & maybe that was our calling & to be a parent to a downs child would be better than never being a parent at all.. Of course u already have ur ds so i know any decision will not be easy for u... Like i say i shall just pray for that miracle & hope that your mum is shining a light of strength & hope on you... Lots of love x x x x x