The 30-something preggos have stopped drinking & smoking but are still foul-mouthed. Come and join us!

[Fishandjam]

A grads thread for the 30-something TTCers. All stages of gestation welcome. Come on in, pull up a birthing ball and have a Becks Blue.

Oh Wow Frog ! Congratulations to you all ! Yipee x

Well done, frog, ace news! Congrats to you all x

Yay!! Well done frog and family!

Hey Mazie, any news?

Hi all!!

Oh, gawd I have been crappola again and missed the bloody babies!!!!!!!

So so many congratulations to the lovely fish and frog delighted your babies are safe and well and things are going well

fish am so glad you are feeling well and that you are positive about your birth this time round despite all the shite you've been through in the last stages of pregnancy.

jars glad rosalind is doing well and hope your nips are fairing ok

maizie hope all is ok with you

improbable/phoebe I am so so delighted for you, made me well up too Reading your news - I often think of you and in fact quoted you today at my nct class (knowledge is power - I say it often!) you must be so baffled but unbelievably happy

Sorry for long absence, had lots of stuff going on I shan't bore you with and the days have run away with me.

Nothing to report really here, am now on mat leave which is awesome - got another growth scan on Thursday to assess baby's size and whether they want to induce me early but I seem to be keeping the GD readings low so am hopeful they'll leave me be for a while.

Well, I owe you guys some serious goodies so please see my trolley for cheese cake, pastries, cheese, chocolate truffles and champagne to toast the babies with!

Quick question, anyone got any experience or opinion about bedside cribs? Am too scared to co-sleep but fancy the idea of baby being just next to me for feeding etc without having to move much and a straw basket being in the way of my view of baby and vice versa.

Work kindly gave me 150 of John Lewis vouchers so a troll bedside crib would only cost me 40 by the time I've bought a mattress??

Can't decide - already got a second hand Moses basket that only cost me 20

Muchos love and cheers to the babies!

A feeling sheepish wino x

cant u get a stand for ur moses basket? ---and spend the vouchers on a new tv.... :-D by the time i go on ml il of been at my work for five yrs so i get some john lewis vouchers too... probably enough to by a plate in that shop (rip off)

Im also very aware how long its taking ppl to come back with their birth stories... its making me concerned that it might be too hectic and busy having a baby after all...

Hey wino, mwah! Glad to hear you and Impendingwino are both well (see what I did there?). The nips are fine now, ta!

Moses basket stand, deffo. You can't carry a crib round the house and babies don't get woken up by drafts in a basket. DD has been out in the yard in her basket today, to catch a bit of fresh air, and is now snoozing in it on the living room floor.

Plus, you can use it without the bedding as a huge laundry basket because of all the washing when your baby grows our of it and goes into a cot.

A crib can only really be used as a crib or a novelty rocking plant stand.

I have done a rather weird thing, in the light of how I ended up on this thread. I am using contraception. I got my coil taken out two years ago, having been shockingly broody for a tear, then tried for DD for over a year, then was pg with her, so it feels quite odd deliberately trying not to get pg again! Lovely though my baby girl is, though, the sight of my post-natal stomach & the thought of doing all that again... Oh dear me, no.

For a year, six.

PS where are my manners? Large tray of mojitos on its way.

Oh fgs.

Hello

Sorry I did a bit of a post and run, but I feel a bit of a fraud hanging out here at only 6+4 when you've all got bumps and even actual babies - congratulations on the new arrivals.

wino and jewels thank you. It's so lovely to hear that you both remember me and even better that you both have happy outcomes. If anything I said while we were all going through the dreadful trying bit made a difference I'm really glad. And jewels I do remember you arriving as I was leaving and please don't cringe, I never felt anything but sympathy for you - I thought then and still think now that the six to twelve month part was one of the hardest, when it starts to dawn on you that there might actually be a problem.

Anyway, onwards and upwards, I have booked a private scan for next week just to settle my nagging anxieties.

12 week scan tomoz... just read about a girl who had a blighted ovum now im crapping it. someone slap me.

Morning all!

I have a stand for the basket - it came with it (result) I just wondered whether getting a bedside crib might be a good idea...

Forgot to tell you, we did our NCT class at the weekend and during the bathing the babies exercise I dropped my doll head first into the bath!

I also seem to be unable to stop eating hobnobs - have been so restrained the whole way through (pretty much) but their oaty yumminess keeps sucking me in!

phoebe don't feel like a fraud, tis lovely to hear from you and we can help with the mentalling up to your 12 week scan.

Private scan a good idea - I had a big bleed at around 7 weeks which turned out to be a big implantation they think so I had a private scan at 8+4 which made me feel a whole heap better.

How are you feeling in general?

Talking of scans, lora how did it go yesterday?

jars sex already? Wow, this is good news - we have definitely entered the realms of comedy sex now and can't wait to get back on the horse so to speak!

It must feel very weird using contraception after such a long time! Have you also been gorging on pâté, banned cheeses and the like too?

ooh it was surreal. saw it doing its thing in there and i saw it sticking up its finger to my bf (definatly my child) Still doesnt feel real yet... probably cos i cant feel it ... I can see im goin to deny being pregnant right upto d-day.... I'll have to tell work soon although i wa just hoping ppl thought i was getting fat and lazy but the moment i tell HR the world will know

Wooooo! Had 16 week appointment today and all was good! Got to hear the heartbeat which was so amazing Recorded it for DH too, he was as amazed at me that there is a little heartbeating mini-person in there! The midwife was absolutely lovely which was great as I'd been reading horror stories about nasty MWs and I should have her the whole way through which is also fab. Apparently I should start to feel the baby move in the next few weeks. Squeeeeeee! She also gave me the results from booking in blood tests and all was good and normal - she said my iron levels were "EXCELLENT". She said I must have a really good diet which is obviously totally true if a good diet is classed as pizza, pasta and chocolate.

Hello I am new! 11 weeks and craving a gin and tonic, and toast with soft goat's cheese and runny eggs. With smoked salmon on top!

Neighbor gave us a bottle of wine last night for doing her a favor whilst she was away, gutted.

I haven't had any scans yet (July 18th) so I just have my fingers crossed as can't afford a private scan!

sparkle get yourself to the supermarket i was over joyed to find out eggs with the lion stamp have all been cured of any of the salmonela stuffwe r meant to avoid runny eggs for. I thoroughly enjoyed my poached eggs :-D

is it wrong to affectionatly refer to the baby as 'Freeloader'?

At work. Saturday morning ward round to do.

I. Will. Not. Be. Sick.

Why do the first few weeks have to be so grim?

Yo homies!

Yay frog! Congratulations! I dunno, I vanish for a few days of sleep deprivation R&R and it turns into more like a fortnight. Plus DS decided, last weekend, to get chicken pox. Cue one week of itchy and scratchy (and whinge, and wailing, and not sleeping, and infected spots and trying to force feed him horrible antibiotics). Time flies when you're having fun, so I'm told.

Imp, I feel your pain. It's not even as if being sick will make you feel better, is it? Mother Nature's evil little trick, I guess, to make us slow down and take it easy in the first tri. Easier said than done in modern lives though.

Great news lora and weejo on your scans.

Wino, we bought a co-sleeper cot for DS - one side drops down and you can attach it to your bed so that the bambino is separate from you but easily accessed for feeding etc (like this one here. But then we discovered that our bed (which is one of those reclaimed antique wrought iron with brass knobs jobs) is an odd height, and the damn cot wouldn't line up with it! So we never actually used it as a co-sleeper. It made a perfectly fine normal cot with the side up, though.

jars, I am getting myself down the clinic for the Mirena the very nanosecond my lochia have stopped. (Has stopped? I always think it sounds like a plural but I've no real idea what the grammar police would say.)

Meanwhile, about the only post-pregnancy niggle I have is... proctalgia fugax. Yeah, go Google. Hurts worse than labour pains but thank fuck it doesn't last as long. Had it post DS so at least I know not to be alarmed by it this time!

PS: should we start a foul-mouthed 30 somethings post-natal thread? Where we can compare stories of piles and colic?

Phew!

Early scan all good. Just right for dates (scan says 7+5, dates say 7+4) and a heartbeat. I sobbed, not just a glistening tear in my eye, but wet snotty bawling, all the way through.

I know it might seem indulgent to pay for an early scan, but after all that had happened I couldn't shake the fear this was not real. The sonographer was lovely and offered me a free reassurance scan in two weeks - she says she does it for anyone with 'history'.

Hope everyone's doing as well as I am tonight.

Hi all!

Ahh imp made me blub reading that

Must be amazing seeing your little blob and I'm glad it's made it feel a bit real (I guess the sickness is helping with that too)

Lora and weejo, congrats on the scans - you must be made up!!

Sparkle welcome - fear not, you can eat smoked salmon and lion marked runny eggs and I'm reliably informed that waitrose sell pasteurised goats cheese!

Fish ouch! I did google hope all is well besides that - I think a post natal thread is a jolly marvellous plan.

Um in wino news - went for my growth scan and at 36 weeks baby is around 7 pounds - should be more like 6 but they are happy I am keeping the GD under control so signed me off for using the pool (yay) however when they did the scan the bloody idiot child has turned fully breech!!!! Bah!!!

Got to go into hospital in 9th for an ECV to try and turn him which sounds thoroughly unpleasant but I have to try otherwise it's a c section for ole wino...

Right, I'm off to see my friends new baby today for cuddles :)

Morning class! Right todays symptom letter of the day is the letter M

M stands for mild bladder incontinence!!

What a treat!!! Lucky me!

So, it only gets better and more glamourous then? Brilliant!

Is there at least a good bit in the middle to look forward to, or is that a complete myth?

Good luck for the ECV...

ps do any of you old timers still hear from Folic?

Would it be weird to PM her my news after all this time?