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

good luck highheels!!!! xx

Good luck HH pppuuuuuuuuuuuusssssssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh

Delighted to be able to report that our little girl arrived safely at 7am yesterday morning, weighing 7lb 4oz after arriving at the hospital about 2 1/2 hours earlier! Not named yet, have barely slept for 2 nights and I am worrying about her constantly yet I am over the moon! She's perfect :)

Will give full story soon but right now too busy alternating watching her and worrying about her!

Nice to see people popping back in here, Daiso and slowshow glad things are going well.

Cavemum nice to see you and hope everything is going well for you (although I do keep an eye on the conception thread to see how you're all getting on)

Raspberry lovely to see you how're the wedding preparations going (hope I haven't missed the wedding)

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Huge congratulations HH
Glad to hear off the safe arrival - name please, as soon as it is decided!

I'm not too bad: operation on Monday, then it's (hopefully) all systems go!

Huge congrats HH! So glad she came promptly for you Looking forward to her name :)

Cavey Can't believe your op is here as well, everything crossed for you lovely.

Raspberry I was about to ask about the wedding plans!

Huge congrats HH glad Pip arrived safe and sound :0)

All ok here, 27 + 4 now and it's dragging!!!I finish work on Tuesday(teahing-covering maternity leave !) so got lot of spare time to make time drag even more! I have so much to do in the house but can't do it mysel-painting, buying new furniture etc( am banned from painting after making a disastrous attempt lol)
I have my 28wk scan next Friday so that will be cool- hopefully all is well with little one!

Hope you are all keeping well :0)

hh congratulations. She picked a particularly great day to be born on cos she shares a birthday with me

highheels Congratulations on your baby girl! I can't believe I missed the exciting build up! I hope all went well with the birth.

crazy It found it sped up after 30 weeks as I realised I had to give birth, then slowed down at 37 weeks when I was huge! Enjoy your time before he/she arrives. I hope all is well with your scan.

bunny Happy birthday for Wednesday!

cave Best of luck with the op - will think of you Monday. x

Congratulations Highheels, don't let the worrying about her stop you from enjoying all those wonderful newborn snuggles. Come over to the postgrads board when you have a minute... Looking forward to hearing what she is called.
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Congrats HH what wonderful news! I hope you are all doing well and enjoying bonding as a new family!

Waves to everyone else!

(also good luck Cave on Monday - keeping everything crossed that it all goes well)

Oh, well done HH

Looking forward to pics, details and the name! Take care xx

Birth story here, hope it makes sense, brain a little confuddled....

After posting on here we went for a walk then I decided I should try and get some sleep as although I wanted to keep active to speed things up I didn't want to end up too tired to push so went to bed. I got out of bed at 1.30 am as I decided it hurt too much to try and get any more rest. Went and woke DP at 2.30 am as was throwing up and in pain. Phoned the hospital about 3 am and told them I'd try to stay home a little longer as was terrified of being told I was only 1 cm or something. About half an hour later I was losing lots of show along with my waters, throwing up and ending up crawling on the floor with the contractions so told DP to phone back and say I was coming in. We left the house at 4, DP was convinced they'd send us straight home when we got there. Spent about 45 mins on the monitors when we arrived, getting more and more uncomfortable, midwives thought contractions weren't long enough. After coming off the monitors got my first examination and was very shocked (but relieved) to be told I was 8cm. The midwives went to start filling the pool, I had another very sore 10 mins then went along to the birth pool room. Got in the pool whilst it was still filling (this was about 6am) and immediately felt some relief. Midwives checked baby's heart and got me set up and then went off for a few minutes. The minute they left I felt the need to push and sent DP to get them quick. Midwives arrived back and told me to just go with what my body felt like doing. 28 minutes of pushing later our baby girl arrived. It then took just over an hour to deliver the placenta, most frustrating bit after everything else went so smoothly!

So we are now home, but having some problems establishing feeding. Baby is sleepy all the time so having to fight with her to wake up to try and get her to feed. MW came out this morning and coming back later and we have strict instructions to do nothing today except try to get her feeding sorted.

and cave hoping all goes well with your op and things start moving quickly for you now.

Lovely birth story HH, barring the throwing up in pain obviously!

Thanks for all the messages of support, you've all made me a bit teary!

Hope to be joining you all soon

Aww well done HH Keep going with the feeding - sounds like you are doing really well. We were advised to strip Hannah down to her nappy, blow gently on her face & tickle her toes to keep her awake during a feed. Has your milk come in yet? Hannah wasn't that bothered in the first 3/4 days until my milk came in. (Remember I had a huge panic at the time about her 5 day weight loss?)

And I need not have worried in the slightest - she was and is fine.

halo thanks for the advice, been blowing on pip to try and keep her awake but she just likes her sleep too much. She's only had 2 good feeds in the last 24 hours. Glad to hear someone else had similar issues and all turned out well. Midwife has been round twice today and is phoning later so feel supported but a little helpless/useless.

Oh and forgot to mention in birth story but have to boast a little that I'm very proud I managed the whole thing on 2 paracetamol and didn't shout at DP once :)

Its hard but I guess you have to trust the midwives to look after her. I was told to do skin to skin & keep offering her a feed. We were told to wake her every 2 hours in the day, 4 hours overnight but offer whenever she was awake. I only left hospital on the afternoon of day 3 & buzzed the midwifes endless times to watch me feed, ask why she wasn't feeding so you are doing really well at home.

This is my post on day 4 of Hannah's life which is the day my milk came in:

"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! "

Remember you can ring delivery suite 24 hours a day for the first 28 days of your babies life. So if you are worried tonight don't hestitate.

Well done on the paracetamol!

aww, congrats HH! and well done at not shouting and 2 paracetamol - that is impressive!!!!

Hey toria!! Wedding plans are going well girls - 7 weeks today and I shall be Mrs Tipple :)

HH if we're going for competitive lack of pain relief I didn't even have paracetomol

Will was a very sleepy feeder at the start - we did like halo suggested and stripped him down, washed his face with a cold cloth, and changed his nappy mid feed. Nappy change usually woke him up - if it didn't then he probably just wasn't hungry. They really don't need much food at all for the first few days - the hospital I was in who are almost militant in their love of BFing only expected babies to feed every 6 hrs in the first 2 days and then 4hrly after that. As long as she's producing wet nappies she's probably getting enough

Well, here we go! Just back from being 'booked in' at the hospital, got a date for the first scan (4 Aug), and now it's all feeling a whole lot more real! I really don't feel very different so it's been a bit easy to forget it's actually happening! There's so much to take in, I'm sure I've forgotten most of it already... (the midwife suggested Omega 3 supplements for baby-brain!)

Was thinking it might be time to change my name, but don't want to jinx it

Well I am delighted to be able to report that our baby girl now has a name Rose Mairi. Unfortunately we had to go back into hospital on Saturday as she had lost too much weight and was refusing to feed. She had to have a tube feed to get some emergency calories into her and we had to watch lots of blood tests and her having a thing put in her hand and everything. Thankfully she has come round and is now feeding well and we came home this morning. It is so lovely to have her at home, although I am panicking every time it is more than 4 hours between feeds. Fingers crossed she'll keep going with her feeding and we won't have any more panics.

Sorry I'm not catching up on anybody else's news just now, I need to get back to staring at my adorable daughter.

Highheels what a beautiful name!! Sorry to hear she had to have a visit to hospital again but pleased that she is on the mend and you totally enjoy snuffling your lovely little girl!

Hello to all the other frolickers.... I have a favour to ask... Can I join the thread? I know I have not been on the conception boards in months but it was all just freaking me out with the whole not getting pregnant thing after 20 months of trying and we were seriously considering IVF in the new year. However we got a BFP On May 27th and am now 10+2 and feeling royally awful (but pleased for it of course!). Due February 6th and on the Feb Bus but can not keep up and there seem to be a gazillion people on there.

It is very quiet in there though.... keeping fingers crossed we get loads of BFPs soon.

Just popping in to say what a lovely name HH. Hope your little girl contimues to thrive now.

Lanky congrats on the wonderful news!

I am determined to be back to bother you all as soon as possible!

Oh HH so sorry to hear you had to go back to hospital. That sounds awful. So glad she is home and the feeding is going better. Beautiful name too. Any chance of a picture?!

lanky Congratulations - thats brillant news!

cavemum Hope all went well with the op the other day.