First Time Frolickers foray into 2011

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New year, new babies and lots of new BFPS!!

Link to future grads here

ARRIVALS:

Fudgecat - In loving memory of Baby Elliot - Born asleep on Friday 17th September 2010

Fulhamgirl - EDD 30th May - DOB 9th Apr - Girl - Lily Ann - 4lb
Trying4Baby1 - EDD 25th Apr - DOB 6th May - Girl - Emily - 10lb 2.5oz
Pepperonipizza -EDD 24th May - DOB 28th May -Boy
CurlyCasper - EDD 21st July - DOB 24th June - Girl
Spirael - EDD 25th Jul - DOB 7th July - Girl - Miranda Jane - 8lb 3oz
DesperateHousewife21 - EDD 18th July - DOB 9th July - Boy - Dylan James
Sazziej - EDD 1st Sep- DOB 24th Aug - Girl - Evie - 7lb 8oz
Ozziegirly - EDD 24th Aug -DOB 25th Aug - Boy-Thomas - 7lb 1oz
NovemberAli - EDD 2nd Sep - DOB 8th Sept - Girl - Matilda - 8lb 6oz
WhiteRoses - EDD 15th September - DOB 19 September- Boy
Hobnob - EDD 26th Sep - DOB 21 September - Girl - Matilda 6lbs 6oz
Pixiestix - EDD 24th Sep - DOB 26 September - Girl - Tegan - 7lbs 7oz
Addie81 -EDD 7th Oct - DOB 19th October -Girl
Chancewouldbeafinething - EDD 10/10/10 - DOB 21st October - Boy - William James - 9lb 14.5oz
Hermya321 - EDD 24th Oct - DOB 24th October-Boy - Asher - 8lb 3oz
WorrisomeHeart - EDD 12th Oct -DOB 26th Oct Boy - Lochlan - 8lb
YorkshireTeaDrinker - EDD 6th Nov - DOB 5th Nov - Girl - Eleanor
Bunnygirl80 - - EDD 19th Nov- DOB 11th Nov -Boy-WIlliam - 7lb 2oz
Mumnerves - EDD 8th Dec - DOB 16 Dec Boy - Sean 8lb 2.5oz
Luckyseven - EDD 17th Dec - DOB 20th Dec Girl - Beth Elise 8lb 4oz
Oneof8 - BFP 18th May - EDD 17th Jan - DOB tbc - boy

CURRENT GRADUATES:

Capricorn76 - BFP 12th Apr - EDD 1st Jan 2011
Homebound - BFP 30th Apr - EDD 8th Jan
Seablue - BFP? - EDD 10th Jan
Aly323 - BFP? - EDD 31st Jan - Boy
Muser - BFP 22nd June - EDD 27 Feb
Superpenguin - BFP 1st July - EDD 4th March - Boy
Haloflo - BFP 22 July - EDD 20 March
SaorAlba - BFP 7 Aug - EDD 15th April
Kurlyvoice - BFP 1st September - EDD 16th April
MrsWajs - BFP 13 Aug - EDD 24th April - girl
stegasaurus - BFP 27 Aug - EDD 3rd May
Cherrycobbler - BFP 3rd September - EDD 11 May
Crazydays - BFP 4th September - EDD 13 May - twins - boy and girl!
crazybutterflylady - BFP 1st Sep - EDD 14 May
Bellaby -BFP 11th September - EDD 22nd May
Highheelsandequations - BFP 30th Oct - EDD 13th July
Slowshow - BFP 3rd Jan - EDD TBA
Roundtable - BFP 14 Jan - EDD TBA

[sneaks back in to give crazybutterfly a hug] I'm good thanks. Just waiting for the hospital to give me a date for my HSG scan thingy. Hope to be joining you all soon

Congratulations to Halo, also love the name. Hope you and your little girl are having a lovely time getting settled.

Jolly Yep I'm about 35 miles south of aberdeen, have you heard of the unit I'm going to??? I know it has a good rep but didn't realise it was that good!!

MrsW, yes, I've heard of it. We briefly considered going there as taking the slug road would have only meant a journey 30 mins longer than going to Aberdeen. I've also heard about people coming up from Glasgow or even further afield to go there. definitely seems to be a good choice. :)

Wow, I honestly never resalised it was such a well known place!! Pleased I'm going there now!

Finally the holidays are here, wish I could just sleep for the next fortnight!

hooray (and ) for hols highheels, hope you are home and snuggling baby H, flo, happy weekends everyone else! and happy mother's day to all the postgrads - hope you get spoilt by your DPs! xx

Afternoon ladies!

Enjoy your holidays HH ours don't start until next week so OH is driving me mad looking forward to his!

MrsW and Jolly It's nice to see some other Highlanders about, I hadn't realised you were both so close, though you have both now got me googling maternity units away from the hospital I'll be sent to which everyone I work with hated...

Speaking of, my scan date came through this morning. It's April 19th, so I'll be 12+6. I'm meeting my consultant at the same time which should be fun! Absolutely terrified now but never mind lol...

Hi everyone, I've been keeping a low profile for the last few days as my sickness has been tough going. Struggling to keep food down, but fingers crossed my lunch seems to be staying put for the time being! I've also got my midwife appointment booked for the week after next and my scan for 7th May so it's all happening now.

Enjoy your hols HighHeels and rest up when you can. A few of my friends are teachers and I do get a bit at the regular breaks through the year. Am looking forward to the bank holidays coming up to enjoy some short weeks.

Hope everyone is enjoying the warm, sunny weekend. Hopefully there is more nice weather to come.

Thanks all for the congrats. 4 days in I still feel i've been hit by a train. Birth didn't really go to plan as I ended up having to be induced as I wasn't contracting fast enough after 24 hours of my waters going (they were 5 mins apart & it felt like they were strong enough to me) but I am so happy my little girl is here safely. I will post more detail soon as still find it a little overwhelming.

Hannah is amazing so far although bf is tricky. Am determined to keep going though. Am nervous about the 5 day weigh in though as she hardly had anything for the first 2 days. Am hoping she is making up for it now. I never thought I would long for a dirty nappy quite so much! DP has been amazing and I love how close we are at the moment. I do not want him to go back to work.

Sorry to anyone who reads the March Thread as its copied and pasted from there. I hate to be inpersonal but i'll never post if I had to write each one individually. Hope thats ok.

Toria Best of luck for the scan. Less than 3 weeks away now.

Truff Am so pleased you saw a hb, sorry to hear about the sickness and hope you find ways to cope.

Mrsw Not long now!

I've put a pic of her on my profile

Hi Halo, you sound like you're in a lovely cloud of new baby happiness! Long may it continue, had a little peek at your pic and she's lovely.

halo she is beautiful. The BFing will get easier over time - it really does take at least 6 weeks before you and baby get the hang of it. William didn't even latch on for the first 24 hours so he ate nothing (the hospital I was at won't give formula unless baby hasn't latched for more than a day) and he was just about ok at his weigh in. If her poos are changing then she's definitely getting milk and she'll more than likely be fine

Thank you truffkin and bunny I hope all her mecodium poos are gone but we haven't had a poo since day 3. We had 4 wees on day 4 & no poos. Hopefully day 5 will give me one. (I realise how mad I sound but aparently poo obession is normal!)

Happy mothers day girls!
Thinking of you today fudgecat
Congratulations again halo you have my number if you ever need any random reassurances, enjoy Hannah!

Thankyou xxx

Happy mothers day to all the soon to be mummies!! :)

Halo Baby Hannah is lovely!! Soo cute :) As far as I remember from the breast feeding class it can be quite normal for breast fed babies not to poo for a few days at a time but I'm sure someone more qualified than me will be able to confirm or deny that!!

37 weeks today for me :) might get started on the RLT & pineapple soon and maybe some of the, ahem, other!! Or then again maybe not.......!
Feeling very uncomfortable the last few days but not sure if it's baby working her way down or just the fact that I'm a bit constipated - hoping it's the former obviously!! Can be quite painful at times! DP is away again this week for work Mon-Fri so as long as nothing happens this week, everything will be fine!

Sorry not to name check but have only been lurking the last few days and feel like I would need to do a mammoth catch up. Will try harder this week :) x

halo you will never cease to be amazed at how quickly you descend from normal sane person to someone with an unhealthy poo obsession I think it happens at the moment the placenta is delivered

I think we had similar at the start - meconium poos, then nothing for a day (but still wet nappies) and then one enormous poo and a look of shock on Will's face that I wish I'd got a photo of

mrswajs 37 weeks that went quick. I can still remember you joining the TTC thread. Sounds like baby might be engaging - I felt like my pelvis was about to break in two from 37 weeks until a couple of days before I went into labour, when he was so low I could feel my cervix being stretched every time he moved. I have a feeling you'll pop before your due date

Bunny I'm hoping it is baby engaging, have been getting this feeling on and off for about a week but it seems to have been more frequent the last few days although at my MW appt last week there was no mention of engagement so I don't really know! My mum is thinking along the same lines, according to her there probably isn't much room for a babies head and a full bowel down there just now!!

Original due date was 10th April so fingers crossed I go a little bit earlier than the 24th!!

Congratulations Halo and welcome Hannah! Hope the breastfeeding starts getting easier soon.

Hopefully this is the start of baby engaging, MrsWajs

Scan dates for Toria and Truff! How exciting! Sorry the sickness has kicked in Truff, although perversely it is quite reassuring, isn't it?

For the last couple of weeks I've had lower back and hip pain. Well, now it's progressed into textbook SPD symptoms - at 16 bloody weeks! I'm feeling a bit hard done by. Anything that involves me moving one leg independently of the other (i.e. most things) gives me fanjo pain I was so determined to start walking loads and everything!

Luckily, I had my 16 week MW appointment on Friday and I mentioned it. She agreed that it's quite early to be having symptoms, but mentioned that relaxin levels peak around now, so with any luck it will settle down. In the meantime, I have to walk slowly (and I am a speedwalker usually so this is difficult), shorten my stride, not stand with my weight on one leg, blah blah blah. I spent much of the weekend on the sofa with my feet up, worrying about how fat I'm going to get if I can't walk for exercise.

Boo.

On the plus side, I can occasionally feel the baby kicking now

I've my scan today (paid for privately as I'm Miss paranoid) I'm 7 weeks today. It's at a clinic in Harley Street no less. Get me!

Are you going to the FMC Missy? I was tempted to have a paranoia scan once I got to around 8 weeks, but everything changed and I started feeling really positive so I decided against it!

It's a company called baby premier that do it. www.babypremier.co.uk/datingscans.asp

halo, hannah is so gorgeous! Hope weigh in went well and b/feeding getting better and you had a lovely first mother's day :)

good luck w your scan today missy! and yay for scan dates through for truff and toria. Sorry about the nausea hitting, truff, it really is horrid! As well as a good stock of Reversy Percy sweets from M&S (oddly better than percy pigs when I felt really rough) you may need to think of ways to respond to lovely and well meaning people who ask you, after your fourth vom of the day, whether you've tried ginger biscuits without whacking them or throwing up on their shoes.

mrsw 37 weeks, eeek really could be anytime from now!!! Is DP away for more than this week, or is this a one off week working away? And how far away is away?!

hope you all had lovely weekends. I got some flowers from the bump which was very lovely and unexpected :) Had good yoga session which is helping with the back pain and very much looking fwd to finishing work in two weeks' time!

Cherry DP is just away for this week until Friday but has the option to go away again next week if he wants to although I have mixed feelings on that! The money is really good and as he's self employed would be a great help for him taking time of once babyWajs arrives but I just can't help thinking it's cutting things a little bit fine! He's not very keen himself and has all but said no, so I guess it kind of falls to me to decide whether he goes or not
It would take him 3 and a half hours to get home if anything were to happen and even then that would only be if he had the facilities to jump in a car and drive himself, which he doesn't as there are 4 of them there and it would leave the rest stranded so basically he would have to rely on public transport or someone picking him up!! Not really an ideal situation at all!!

Had a little panic already today, started feeling a bit fuzzy headed/sick and had a headache after lunch time today and started having visions of it being pre-eclampsia (as you do!) and having to get him to come home already incase I needed to go to hospital etc etc!! [paranoid over reaction emoticon] So don't think that him being away next week is the best idea! I know sods law will dictate that I go 10 days overdue but better to be on the safe side I reckon!

Feeling a bit better now but still slightly fuzzy headed so just trying to rest a bit. Not easy when I have my old room at my mum & dads house to clear out before baby arrives!! I really don't know where to start, there is a whole other life crammed away in there! They did both offer to help me this afternoon which just prompted a tear fest cus I was feeling so crap! So, so far I have managed to go to their house and drink about 3 cups of tea!!