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LankyLegs · 17/11/2011 10:31

Hello ladies! Let's hope we have lots more BFPs and healthy pregnancies as we approach Christmas and 2012!

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 3 Jan Boy - Tom
Homebound - BFP 30th Apr - EDD 8th Jan - DOB 12 Jan Boy
Aly323 - BFP? - EDD 31st Jan - DOB 25th Jan - Boy Kai
Muser - BFP 22nd June - EDD 27 Feb - DOB 15th Feb - girl
Kurlyvoice - BFP 1st September - EDD 16th April - DOB 12 March - Boy Alastair 4lb 13oz
Superpenguin - BFP 1st July - EDD 4th March - DOB 18th March - Boy Thomas 8lb 13oz
Haloflo - BFP 22 July - EDD 20 March - DOB 29th March - Girl Hannah 8lb 9oz
JollySergeantJackrum - BFP 7 Aug - DOB 21st April - Boy Harris 8lb 3oz
MrsWajs - BFP 13 Aug - DOB 25th April - Girl Robyn 7lb 2oz
Crazydays - BFP 4th Sep - DOB - 28th April - boy Thomas 7lb 3 oz and girl Isobel 6lb 14oz
Cherrycobbler - BFP 3rd Sep - 11th May - girl
crazybutterflylady - BFP 1st Sep - EDD 13th May - DOB 24th May - girl - Tabitha
Bellaby -BFP 11th Sep - EDD 22nd May - DOB 16th May - girl - 6lbs12oz
Highheelsandequations - BFP 30th Oct - EDD 13th July - DOB 6th July - Girl Rose 7lb 4oz
Roundtable - BFP 14 Jan - EDD 17th Sept - DOB 20th Sep - Boy
CrazyAlien - BFP 29th Jan - EDD 2nd Oct - DOB 27th Sep - Girl - Imogen
Toriajayne - BFP 16th Feb - EDD 26 Oct - DOB 25th Oct - Boy - Thomas 9lb
Goldmaple - BFP Feb 28th - EDD 9th November - DOB 30th Oct - Girl Emily Grace

TO BE CONFIRMED:

Capricorn76 - BFP 12th Apr - EDD 1st Jan 2011
Seablue - BFP? - EDD 10th Jan
stegasaurus - BFP 27 Aug - EDD 3rd May
Slowshow - BFP 3rd Jan - EDD 15th Sept

CURRENT GRADUATES:

Truffkin - BFP 10th March - EDD 18th November
Lankylegs - BFP 27 May - EDD 1st February
Womanly Tales - BFP 14 Aug - EDD 25th April
Empusa -
Latetothisbabymalarky - BFP 8 Oct - EDD 8th June 2012
Florin - BFP 14 Oct - EDD 22 June 2012
Flickstar -

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Flickstar · 24/01/2012 18:47

Great news late Hope it went well telling your colleagues today!

Exciting to hear about your twinges lanky- I things start to ramp up for you soon :)

pixiestix · 25/01/2012 14:48

Hooray! I'm so glad it went well Late. Enjoy telling all of your colleagues - although at 20 weeks how the hell haven't they guessed? Shock Grin Don't worry about gestational diabetes if it comes to that in a few weeks time. I had it, as did Aly and we can give you any info or advice that you need, and quell any worries. Woo hoo for BabyLate!

LateToThisBabyMalarky · 26/01/2012 17:16

So, I told everyone at work - believe it or not no-one had guessed! Told you my bump was teeny! Grin
2 days later & I have already become 'high maintainence pregnant person' and have actually stayed home from work because of a COLD! Sad. It's a really heavy head cold, it's making me look and feel absolutely awful, and having to ride it out with only paracetamol, honey & lemon is bally hard work - man alive, I miss Night Nurse!

LateToThisBabyMalarky · 27/01/2012 19:12

Just sticking my head round he door to see if there's any news from Lanky....

highheelsandequations · 29/01/2012 20:12

Ooooh, Lanky still MIA hope that means babyLanky is imminent or you're snuggled up with your newborn already :)

Late I remember having a horrible cold when pg and being told by the pharmacist that all I could have was steam, was not fun. Hope you're feeling better.

LankyLegs · 30/01/2012 08:55

Hello all....

Wow Late I can't believe your work folk didn't guess that you were pregnant - I bet you are pleased it's all out in the open now. Hope your cold has gotten better - it does suck not being able to use drugs to help the process along. Hopefully you are through the worse of it.

Thanks for checking in on progress HH and late.... aggggh nothing apart from lots and lots of twinges and strange feelings. But who knows when it will arrive! Am getting a very bored and frustrated now... come on baby. On the plus side - seeing the midwife tomorrow and also have been booked in for a sweep this Sunday (but hoping it wont come to that).

How is everyone else? Flick and Florin hope you guys are well. Any exciting news to entertain a very bored woman???!!!

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pixiestix · 30/01/2012 10:50

Hang on in there Lanky. Baby will be with you soon enough and all the twinges sound very positive. You know that you aren't allowed to get properly bored and frustrated until you are at least ten days overdue, right? Wink Are you sorted on the names front?

LankyLegs · 30/01/2012 12:23

pixie i know - nowhere near even 10 days overdue- whats wrong with me?! I think It's just so uncomfy now - no position is comfy and also not much to do at home (well at least stuff I can do with a massive bump!) Am trying to make the most of lazy days though! Names all sorted too! Hope you are keeping well!

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goldmaple · 31/01/2012 19:31

Just lanky-stalking! Enjoy all the sleep you can now!! You'll miss it!

Glad to hear things are going so well with late, pixie, flick and anyone else I missed!!

Truffkin · 02/02/2012 09:28

Checking in for Lanky cervix-watch Grin and continuing to send subliminal messages to the baby that it's birthday time!

Late I hope your cold is on its way out. Such a pain when you can't take the hard stuff! I found that menthol chewing gum helped unblock my nose and there are certain cough syrups you can take after the first trimester.

Flickstar · 02/02/2012 10:20

hello hello!

Checking in for lanky watch too! Happy due date for yesterday lady!

Hope you're feeling better late I can't believe that no one guessed at your work! They must have been super shocked when you said you were 20 weeks! Were they like this Shock?!

So i have a little bit of news- It is a bit epic so please bear with me and it does have a nice ending!

I worked myself up into a big, old huge panic on Sunday night and Monday morning as I had a funny low down pain that felt like period pain and it wouldn?t go away. I had a bath which made it worse and took paracetamol which did nothing so I got in a right state. I did the worst think possible (googled!) and convinced myself that I had an imcompetent cervix and was going into premature labour. It sound so ridiculous now I write it down but I honestly was so worried.

Anyway, I barely slept Sunday night and on Monday morning was in a terrible state. Decided to take the day off work and call mi midwife and see what she said. She said it all sounded normal but as I sounded so worried she would recommend that I went to the EPAU and get a scan. So I trundled off to the hospital and waited for 2 hours in the EPAU. Finally got to see the doctor and she said ?oh, sorry. I can?t see you as you are over 16 weeks? so palmed me off to the maternity assessment unit on the next floor. I was so cross with the midwife for sending me there! I waited for 4 hours in the MAU before I could see a doctor and during this time time they were constantly monitoring my blood pressure which was, of course, going through the ceiling!

When I finally got to see the doctor she listened for the heartbeat, checked my cervix and all was absolutely fine. The pain turned out to be inflammation of my bladder Blush due to the UTI that I am being treated for so that was all fine. However... as my blood pressure had been so constantly high all day they were really worried and referred me to the hypertension specialist. In preparation for the appointment which was yesterday I had to collect all of my wee over a 24hour period so Tuesday was spent weeing into a jug and then transferring into a canister- not my finest hours I have to say!

So, I had the appointment with the blood pressure consultant yesterday and my readings were fine. He did liver function blood tests and of course took my huge barrel of urine away to be tested. They want to keep an eye on me as my mum was hospitalised for 6 weeks before having me due to high blood pressure so I have to get my BP checked every two weeks and go back and see him on the 15th March.

Moral of the story ladies is DO NOT GOOGLE and wind yourself up into a state of panic as it can lead to all sorts of problems! I know I don?t have high blood pressure but now have to have all of these appointments because I spent a day stressing myself out!

However, the upside of this saga is that the consultant did a scan at the end of the appointment and I got to see the baby wriggling around. Warning to late and all other ladies in the future who DON?T want to find out what you?re having as I didn?t.... As soon as he started scanning me I saw the baby was upside down with it?s bum in the air and I saw straight between it?s legs where there was a huge willy dangling! The consultant was so funny. He said ?Oh, do you know what your ?e having?? I said, ?No , but i think i have just seen something between it?s legs!? He said ?yes, very obvious isn?t it?!? When i told him I hadn?t wanted to find out he was so apologetic but it wasn?t his fault in the slightest! There was NO way I couldn?t have seen what it was so I?m having a BOY!!!! We are so thrilled! For all of those old wives talers out there, I was convinced I was having a girl and all of the signs pointed to a girl but we have a lovely little boy on the way! We are so excited to know now but am also glad that i didn?t make the decision to know if that makes sense?!

What an epic postBlush well done if you made it to the end!

Truffkin · 02/02/2012 13:24

Oh Flick what a palaver! But so glad all is well and a little boy! How exciting. Baby boys are great and I'm sure you'll find it even easier to shop now Wink

Truffkin · 02/02/2012 13:25

P.S I'm sure baby girls are awesome too, I just have no first hand experience of them Grin

LankyLegs · 02/02/2012 15:33

Oh flick you poor love getting yourself worked up like that! Am pleased that everything is ok and want to send you huge congratulations on having a wee boy!!! How exciting!!! As Truff said... shopping will be easier and you can think about names and get them sorted too! On another note I hope your UTI gets cleared up soon. Very common in pregnancy but hope it's not too painful. (Also am very pleased that you didn't mind finding out the gender by accident too!). I can't wait to find out now!!

Truff cervix watch is proving to be very dull.... still just tonnes of braxton hicks, tightenings and pin like feelings in the fanjo area but nothing else! No bloody show or mucus plug dropping. But then I am only 40+1. Hope little L is well!

Gold lovely to hear from you - how are you both doing? Have you settled into mummyhood? I bet you are loving it!

Today is the first day I have done very little and have not even ventured out for my normal walk - way too cold!! Instead I have been playing with the pram... and watching telly on the birth ball. Very dull!! I am now so it seems the last one in the NCT group to pop.... the one other person who hadn't given birth is going in tonight to be induced so she should hopefully have hers by the weekend. All our meet ups are now with babies so getting very jealous that they are all on the other side and I am still sat there with bump. Hey ho it will come when it comes.

Waves to everyone else!

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LateToThisBabyMalarky · 03/02/2012 19:06

Hello everyone, hello Lanky, hope you're not too uncomfortable and/or bored! And hope LittleLanky doesn't keep you waiting too much longer - are you treating yourself to a Friday night Vindaloo?! Grin

Flick, wow, what a day you had. Pleased that they are keeping an eye on your blood pressure, and VERY pleased you were not in labour! That must have been quite upsetting, Google or no Google. I had a friend who had her first baby at 29 weeks (he's fine, he's 5 now) and she was very confused about what was going on when it started. But how EXCITING that you know you're having a boy! Grin That's the way my sister found out - they didn't have to ask, her little boy was showing off the crown jewels himself Wink
I have a growth scan 3 weeks and DH has said he might not come to that one.... Man alive, the temptation to find out what sex BabyLate is, and keep it secret, is going to be HUGE!!!

My cold has gone - it was a bad one anyway, but not being able to take anything stronger than paracetamol....that was harsh! They really can make you feel miserable can't they.

pixiestix · 03/02/2012 20:09

Ooh Flick a boy!!!!! How fantastic!! Smile Smile Truff is right - boys rock. (I am on day 8 of the D+V bug with my DD, girls officially SUCK!) Grin

I had to have a few extra scans because of my GD and DH and I would look at the ceiling until it was "safe" because of our paranoia of finding out the sex accidentally. I don't feel quite so paranoid now I've read your story!! Grin

bunnygirl80 · 03/02/2012 22:18

flick what a day you had. Glad everything turned out ok, and congrats on the boy.

lanky hope you're not kept waiting too much longer. I never had a show or much in the way of Braxton hicks so don't let the lack of things like that fool you! I did however end up trying to run home from the hairdressers in a huge rainstorm the day before I had Will, so perhaps you could try a little light jogging WinkGrin

highheelsandequations · 04/02/2012 19:33

Flick what a nightmare day, still at least you had lovely news about the boy :)

Late glad you're recovered from the cold.

Lanky I had no Braxton hicks, and my show was only 5 hours before Rose arrived! I didn't do any jogging like bunny but did do aqua aerobics the morning before my waters broke :o

pixiestix · 05/02/2012 13:02
cherrycobbler · 05/02/2012 21:56

Just popping in to see if there was any news on lanky and her cervix and read your post flick - gosh what a scare but yay yay on the boy!!! Little boys are scrummy and much as i really hate to generalise on the basis of sex, all the boys in our NCT group adore their mummies the most and the little girls already seem to reserve the winning smiles for daddy Grin

Ugh pixie we're just coming out of the baby - mummy - daddy D+V horribleness that seems to be doing the rounds so you have my sympathy. Wishing you all better soon.

Hello to everyone else!!

Flickstar · 06/02/2012 11:17

Thanks for all of your congratulations on my boy! Am still very excited.

Sorry to hear of all the poorly babies :(

lanky hope you're ok. Was thinking of you in the snow this weekend as it was very snowy round near us wasn't it?! Hope you are all ok and not too uncomfortable!

LateToThisBabyMalarky · 08/02/2012 07:23

Popping in to see if there's been any news from Lanky.....

Hope everyone's keeping warm!

LankyLegs · 08/02/2012 14:02

Hello all,

Thanks to everyone for checking in on news....i'm afraid nothing major to report which is quite disheartening :-( have had 2 sweeps - one on sunday and one today (today's one didnt go so great) but I lost my mucus plug after the first and today she couldn't do as good a job as she did last time... maybe it was my body remembering the pain from Sunday!

Anyway - am booked in for an induction on sunday night for monday so by crook the baby should be here by tues/weds next week. Although am desperate to avoid induction - so much so have another nasty sweep booked for Friday....

Am feeling rather emotional about it all - bloody hormones, just can't stop crying!

Hope everyone else is bearing up ok in the cold weather....

Sorry for lack of personals! I did write a long post this morning but bloody phone lost it. Another reason for a sob! It doesn't take much at the moment!

xxx

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cherrycobbler · 09/02/2012 08:44

Aw lanky the last days of pregnancy are pretty emotional and sweeps aren't fun, hope you are doing lots of nice things for yourself too. I was induced, was also keen not to be, but had a really positive experience and would totally be happy to be induced again. PM me if you want to chat. xx

Flickstar · 09/02/2012 10:30

Oh poor lankyloo :( Mucus plug going is a really positive sign though and you still have a good few days left until you are scheduled to go in to hospital. I think your baby either a) is hiding away until it warms up or b) wants to be a romantic and lovely Valentines baby. Hang in there and like cherry says there are lots of positive induction stories. Thinking of you xxxx

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