June 2012 - all aboard the Jubilee Line, next stop babies

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Thinking of you here too greengoose and merryn xx

So sorry to hear the news Greengoose. A pink candle has been lit here in memory of Merryn.

Goodness. That's so desperately sad. We will definitely hold greengoose and her lovely baby in our thoughts here.

greengoose so very very sorry for your loss.

Greengoose, DH and I are so, so sorry for your loss. Thinking of you :(

I am so saddened by this news, greengoose we will all be thinking of you and baby Merryn at this sad time.

Greengoose how absolutely heartbreaking! We are thinking of you and your beautiful little Merryn. So sorry for your loss!

this is so sad, my thoughts are with you greengoose.

greengoose I'm so very sorry for your loss. I hope you are getting the support you need. My thoughts are with you xx

Morning all

Hope your bank holiday weekends were good (despite the horrendous weather yesterday!). Everything I was going to post about now seems irrelevant after Greengoose's news. My thoughts are still very much with her.

I am so tired today....just getting into work is a mammoth task now. It seems to take me much longer to get showered and dressed so I am always running late..and the traffic makes me so irritable ggrrr. 2 weeks on Friday until I finish but have a feeling it will drag.

I dropped the dog off at doggie daycare today and the girl who runs it gave me a beautiful playmat that she has hand stitched for the baby. I had let slip that we were having a boy weeks ago and she has been making the baby blue patchwork quilt/ playmat since. I am so touched by it and it's gorgeous. Need to start thinking of thank you cards now too.

I feel a bit bad that I'm being so stropy with DH at the minute. He woke me up coming to bed last night by giving me a cuddle and I shouted at him!! I'm just scared of not getting to sleep again and really didn't want to be woken.....poor guy doesn't know what he can and can't do these days :)

Hope everyone has a good day

Good morning all, Woke up this morning and my thoughts instantly turned to Greeengoose.

Warlin that is a lovely gift from the girl at doggy day care, how thoughtful of her . Give DH an extra hug tonight when he comes home from work, I'm sure he understands about our hormones.

I'm overheating at the moment, my LO is really heating me up, I am normally a cold person, but as of last night, I'm a hot radiator . Not complaining, just not sure why.

Hope everyone is well, take care xx

Thinking of you again today Greengoose

TDW I slept with my fan on last night. I was boiling but then woke up freezing thanks to the fan.

I think I might wash some baby clothes. It appears sunny at the minute so will try and get some done before the weather turns again.

Morning, hope everyone is feeling refreshed after the long weekend. I slept terribly last night what with loo visits, heartburn and general fretting about my viva today. Been distracting myself this morning with silly things like deciding what to wear, the smart pencil dress that I had planned on makes my bum look massive (which may be because my bum has become massive ) so probably going to throw on a baggy maternity cardi to cover it.

warlin I've been getting terribly snappy at my DH too, feel terrible about it but at the time it seems perfectly justified, he doesn't seem to mind when I give him a hug and apologise for being mean.

tdw I've found the LO is producing a lot of heat too, normally I've got the covers snuggled right up to my neck but I keep throwing them off and still feeling too hot.

Greengoose so very sorry for your loss. You and Merryn are in our thoughts.

oh god, didn't realise viva was today ceeej - GOOD LUCK!!!!! enjoy it as much as you can, and remember when it's over, you never need to do it again! and unlike childbirth, you won't have anyone tearing your flesh during the viva :o (no pain relief either, but it won't be needed!)

will be sending positive and knowledgable vibes your way today :o

Good luck for the viva ceej!!

I'm still with the overheaters! Feel so cold when I go to bed but am roasting by the time I get up in the night to express. I make a lovely sweaty leaky mess

BabyTea has started on the breastfeeding chart today, and at 3 feeds yesterday and this morning's feed, has had no top up! Eeeek! Very scared he is not getting enough milk, but the doctors and nurses seem really happy. Looks like I could be rooming in at the end of the week - terrifying! Not least because the house is still in total disarray after the decorators were here the week he was born, and I can't find ANYTHING. Argh.

Greengoose's story has brought it home to me just how lucky BabyTea and I have been but there is a feeling of not-coping beginning to creep in around the edges... Paranoia that things have been going too well and something will go wrong...

Warlin That's a beautiful gift, how lovely! You'll keep that for years to come :)
I'll post a pic on FB for you to see of something my class had done for me when I was PG with DS1, each of the children had sewn a square together and my colleague's mum had stitched it all to make a little quilt/blanket. It was one of the few things that I brought back with me last month from where we were living overseas. So much effort is put into something like that, you must be chuffed :o I'm glad you mentioned Thank you cards! I sent them all round the ward last time because I was just so grateful for all the lovely mw's who were there with me, not to mention of course, the pressie thanks and so on. I think I might ask DSs if they'd like to create some of the cards this year -- might make for a good arts & crafts session.
Another one here who has 'grumpy' moments with DH, I really do think they expect it at times and a a hug usually does the trick as TDW said. We can't help it!
TDW That'll be good where the bills are concerned. My gas bill was horrendous (I actually thought it was a mistake) wouldn't mind providing us all with extra heat energy -- hope you're keeping cool.
McKayz Hope you get your washing done, the cloud/sun is intermittent here, how is DS with the chicken pox -- you all coping well?
Ceej thinking of you today :)
Miniangel -- Good to see you post. How are you doing?
Kveta How are you doing today? I'm used to a more 'meaty' post from you now!

I'm finally getting through all the 'things' that needed to be done at home while listening to latest audiobook or watching the odd thing on iplayer. It's such a luxury as I cannot do this when the DC are at home. I've taken some super strong co-codamol so am blissfully numb and just waiting the grocery order and hopefully lunch and nap. Two more days of bliss, it's amazing!
Good luck to all with appts this week, have mine tomorrow.

Feeling very sleepy now!

Cross posts teanhobs -- it's lovely to hear from you and LO's progress, really is wonderful :) I think you've done wonderfully, to have gone through what you have and to hear all these wonderful updates really makes me feel in awe at what mothers are capable of achieving when the need arises. I'm no expert but you're bound to feel like that at times, I think we all do, everything will be just fine I'm sure, I guess you have to keep ensuring that you're getting plenty of rest/sleep and knowing that its because of your sheer strength and dedication that LO is the way he is right now :o Hope that makes sense!
Always looking forward to your updates Tea x

morning all.

Firstly, my deepest sympathies and thoughts to greengoose. I was so sorry to hear your story. I hope each day gets a little better. I can't even imagine what you're going through, but I hope you're getting lots of love and support x

I'm joining the overheating club. Just had a hot sweat at work.

I also stood on the scales yesterday.... BIG mistake! Won't be doing that again, but now I'm traumatised........ . Can't decide if I would rather it was a 12lb baby, or just my fat

Special I did that with DS2. I lost over a stone within half an hour of him being born. He was 10lb 5oz, then there was the placenta and fluid. unfortunately the other 2 stone stayed on!!

Small DS1 is ok thanks. Very spotty but he isn't feeling ill, just fed up I think. He wants to be at school with his friends.

Tea you're doing a super job. I bet it'll be lovely to have BabyTea at home.

I am dreading MW appointment on Thursday. Baby now feels transverse again and it feels like she is stretching. My bump feels like its trying to move in opposite directions.

Tea - I'm sure you will be fine, its normal to be nervous when you are taking your baby home but I bet you will do great. I have friends who had to stay in hosp for a while with their little ones and they generally came out a lot more confident as they had been shown how to do everything by midwives who were v supportive!

McKayz - wondering what my midwife will say on Thursday too - baby was def breech yesterday but hiccups felt lower down last night, think it must just have enough room to get around in there still as it did something very uncomfortable to wake me up last night.

Warlin - that sounds like a fab blanket - so nice to have something unique like that.

I too felt very upset by the news from Greengoose, I can't imagine how to begin coping with that kind of loss. I still find it sad that my gran lost my aunt when she was a toddler and kept no mementoes to remember her by - she got rid of everything but everyone has different ways of getting over things and I hope GG finds lots of support on here to help her through the worst.

Good luck today, ceej! Am working on draft 2 of my thesis at the moment, so am imagining how you must be feeling...

Just popping in to say thinking of you today Ceej

Hi all, thinking of you Greengoose xxx
My next door neighbour had her baby on the weekend, can't wait to bump into them as they don't really mix, i only know she'd given birth because her bedroom is very obviously backing onto mine, everytime the baby cries i wake up,hence not much sleep in last 2 days, once my DD2 here they'll probably be waking each other up
That's enogh complaining, the rain has stopped and the sn is out, happy days, if this keeps up i'll start washing the babys clothes this week too

hi all,
nothing new to report here, but have growth scan in a few hours, and consultant review appt.

absolutely exhausted today, despite actually sleeping last night! I was woken at 6.30 by DS going 'Where are you daddy? where are you?' and working out that DH was in the shower, and DS had gone downstairs looking for him! took a lot of cuddles to calm him down, poor mite was shaking - no idea why he went downstairs, or how long he'd been down there.

I'm another who is overheating, my office is like a sauna today for some reason. shame it can't do that in the winter

Should we make a new stats list for those of us actually onboard this Jubilee line? and order it just by due dates?

right, an hour left at work today, then need to pick up boy and navigate Cambridge [worried]