graduates of the wine-and-shagging-after-mc thread come hither!

[wilderumpus]

Seeing as practically all of us have now got pg, here is a new home for all of us to come to carry on chatting after getting the BFP after our mcs. Today we are pregnant! :)

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Hello all! Am alive, just, but buried under mound of 3ds on half term

one sorry to hear about your work issues. That's rubbish but as you say if you can hang on til you go on maternity leave then return p/t it may help to make it a bit more bearable? hope this helps!

sheldon kicks? brilliant news - aren't they just the best feeling ever. DH is convinced kicks are the only reason I wanted another baby! Just been listening to DS2 do his drum practice (quiet house, ours) and baby was belting me like mad. My entire tummy was shifting about from side to side!

wilde will be a relief to get your deadline met? Do you work better with a deadline pressure? I always find I do. Come on, you can do it!!!

boo all ok?

chuckle are you ok? Haven't heard from you in an age?

AFM, have consultant appt on Monday. My blood levels are right down, below 8. Apparently it means I could bleed badly at birth then conk out, which might not be the best thing. I have reluctantly agreed to take iron - it was either that or a transfusion, and am a bit squeamish about that sort of thing. Lactulose here I come. Fed up about the whole thing, as I feel fine, just numbers letting me down.

Have tried knitting - managed to produce a gat that looked more like a willy warmer but you have inspired me to have another go one.

Final piece of news: have had to take my rings off as fingers too fat. Instead I have bought myself the ultra glittery silver eye liner from Mac to provide the bling in my life. Sad. but looks very cool!!

I was hunched over the cardigan until about 1030 and now my back hurts! Was agony when I went to bed.
I cooked my pie for about half an hour at 200. Basically the filling should already be mostly cooked so you just need to pastry to go nice and golden.
Another nice one is squash, spinach and feta.
Sorry, I'm utterly obsessed with food!

oh bloody hell I need both those pies :)

ice that is not good - are you eating enough? get some steak asap! :) yum. sorry about having to take iron. but yay for glittery eyeliner! sounds ace :)

oh sheldon poor you. maybe have a nice bath when you can a loosen your back up.

am starving. must go and eat. I think I might need a proper meal! at 11am! am really worried though if I go downstairs I will just eat and plonk myself on the settee and not move all day! am feeling quite skivy today!

ice I love a good deadline as long as I can meet it :) all will be well, am very excited.

oh. lots of smily faces. have gone bonkers.

Hello! How did all the pies go?

Have been away at mums and forgot my phone charger. Am home now. Was a bit exhausting as I stupidly decided to let the DDs share a bunk bed - fine for DD1 (5) but DD2 (2) just made a nuisance of herself, talking to DD1, coming downstairs, going up to DD1s bunk, etc etc. As a consequence they are both very very tired. And so am I, because despite not being asleep on some nights until 11pm they still woke up at 6am! Yawn.

Sorry to hear you have hurt your back, sheldon - I thought you were going to say you had poked yourself with a needle! Hot bath might help? Actually I had a back massage while I was away at my mums gym, and it was very very nice. Can you ask DH to oblige?

Liking all the pie talk... although I am not really up to cooking. I did have some feta parcels the other day that DH bought and they were yummy and salty!

wild yes the AN thread is still rather self centred, as it were - it's weird how people comment just on themselves... I don't get it. I think I will just be a lurker! I know some people don't like that but its purely because I don't think I'll be able to keep up with making comments! I am still feeling more energetic, but kind of tired too. My scan is, dare I say it, tomorrow! I am feeling rather edgy about it. I am trying to relax but if the DDs are playing up I have noticed I am shouting rather easily! Also slipped on my mums stairs earlier and burst into tears (I am fine though). So I am definitely a bit on edge. Dreading it.

ice the eye liner sounds fab! I was wondering when I should take my rings off - it sounds like you've done well to keep them this far. My wedding ring is quite tight anyway so I was thinking I would do it soon. Also I seem to have developed eczema on my knuckles so slathering my engagement ring in hand cream every night is not a good idea!

Sorry to hear you are low in iron (is it just that?). At least there is something you can do now to avoid any probs later. Hope you manage to get it sorted. I think levels can change pretty quickly, if I remember from last time.

one Sorry you are having a tricky time at work. It is such a shame that public sector companies can be so mismanaged (I speak from experience!). But it sounds like you have the right attitude, get the mat pay and time off then part time work is a lot easier to avoid the politics, that is certainly what I have found in the past. Sadly tw not over yet. Yet being a key word.
How did the booking in go? I hope it was ok. The more I think about mine, the more rubbish I think it was. But I think I just got a power mad, bored midwife. They are not all like that.

wild can I ask you - does the moby sling get warm? I ruled it out for summer baby last time because I thought all the material might get a bit sweaty and hot, so just had a ring sling. But I like the look of them... pity they are so pricey otherwise I'd definitely get one.

Yes, where is chuckle? Hope everything's alright - it's been a while.

Sheldonella's knitting injury and Ice's willy warmer!!!

Ice, great to hear from you (thanks for the biscuit!)! Sorry about your blood levels, glad you're feeling ok though. I wouldn't want a transfusion either. Hope you can keep it to just tablets.

Sheldonella, may I take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my greedy piggy heart! I am sitting here with my first helping. I am deeply impressed with myself (never made a gravy/roux type thing before) and I wouldn't have thought I could! I cheated with a mashed potato topping as I don't fancy the pastry. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Thanks for the encouragement re symptoms Wild. I had got myself to a very moody place this morning but I think that wouldn't have happened if it weren't for my appt this afternoon so I went back to bed and then made the pie and that's helped me to renegociate my mood a bit! Stupid appt, it'll all be over in 3 hours.

It would be nice to hear from Boo and Chuckle!

I took so long over that I missed Boo! Will read your post over my second helping!

Boo sending lots of warm supportive vibes to you for your scan tomorrow. It's no wonder you're on edge. I can't now recall, did you get to the scan stage before? I was just wondering if it had that added association as well. These things are hard, there's no good reason why it won't be lovely, but I also hate writing platitudes - will be looking out for your news tomorrow. Passing on the of sympathy to you!

Aww I'm glad it worked well one and the mashed potato sounds great, I might have to try that myself. When I made it at the weekend I really wanted chips with it but we didn't have any and I threw a huge strop. DH went round to the shop to get some but they only had those potato smile thingies so we had them with it. The smiley faces helped with my bad mood :)
Credit must also go to ice for the pie as she mentioned making one which made me want to make one!
ice that eyeliner sounds lovely, what is the name of the colour? Sorry to hear about your iron. Have you been feeling tired with it?
wilde I like the smiley faces :) :) :)
boo Welcome back! Your DDs sound very cute.

yay hello boo. my DS is nearly three and would go mad if he saw a bunk bed let alone was allowed to sleep in one with a cousin/friend! glad you had a nice (tho knackering) time. clock change has caused super tiredness in our house too. Scan tomorrow will surely make you edgy, but all your symptoms sound spot on and there is NO reason to think anything has gone wrong so yay and good luck :) (leftovers from my pep talk to myself this morning [hgrin])

one your cooking stamina is awesome. I can cook one proper meal a week atm, am far too shattered to be that organised The pie is my effort this week.

boo the sling is warm, in summer I would probably only take the bubs out in it in a vest and take a proper babygrow in my bag for when I take them out. AFAIK it is the best material sling to use for a newborn as others don't suppport the head though I think my mei tai will work if I customise it a bit to make it snug... did you use the ring sling with a newborn? I have one of those too, I loved it tho some people say it is tricky to use? I never found that. oh and moby's have a good resale value so it actually not a bad investment. NCT sales and ebay might be a good place to start for a bargain though?

yeah I am gradually getting more lurkery now on the AN thread boo too unless there is something specific i can comment/help/butt in on. Is well meaning but overly chirrupy pour moi [hgrin] and new people keep joining, I can't keep up! anyway, am off to nose at it now anyway!

am skiving today and feel so restored for it! I have eaten a whole bar of galaxy chocolate, crisps and a sausage sarnie and watched the hunger games filum. i loved the books, film not so good but nice for some down time. I cried a lot at nothing which means I am wonderfully hormonal today. I texted Dh to say we should have the takeaway tonight (more fatty, sugary food! am putting it down to all the walking I am doing (!) and a growth spurt!) to celebrate my good meeting with my supervisor yesterday (i had heartburn last night so couldn't face food) and he said it sounded like a good idea... and I cried at that. wtaf.

laters! epic post!

Wild I share those tears. Over the weekend I watched the last 20 minutes or so of Nanny McFee, a film I've never seen before, and was in floods of tears.

Thanks Ice for starting us all off on pies! Sorry you didn't get your chips Seldonella but it also quite sweet picturing a grumpy pg lady eating smile shapes!

I'm back from mw appt. She was fine, if a bit melodramatic, when I said I wanted my blood taken from the nurse I know at my surgery. My position was strengthened early on in the appt when she actually knocked the whole "blood taking things" tray on to the floor and I thought this woman is nice but a bit too dippy for me in this context! She then miscalculated my bmi and told me I was overweight. I worried about it all the way home but remembered that she also miscalcualted my dates. So I used her numbers to recheck and I'm fine, only just but still! [hangry] I walked there and back so I'm going to get a chocolate bar too. hmph!

Skiving Wild, lovely!

one at my booking in they got my BMI wildly wrong but finally realised it! so glad because they had me on paper as obese which is fine but would mean I would probably be called in to see about extra care and stuff!

so glad your appt was ok tho and good for you for sticking to your guns re: blood tests. def get a choccy bar :)

yeah I cried at a comedy earlier too just because the FIl was so kind to the sil. and cried at the film because the siblings really really loved each other. Anything sibling'y sets me off! loving those hormones :)

am paying for eating all that choccy earlier, blood sugar levels all over the shop and feel really rough! hiding from childcare while DH is home early (to help with trick or treaters of which we have had none! whole tin of roses for me then!)

I got an ice cream in the end and am likewise paying for it. I have ruined my appetite, ruined. What would my mother say! Hope you all have a nice evening!

Hi girls just quickly posting on phone to say thanks for luck! Feeling a bit cross as just got text from sis in law saying congrats... Turns out DH has told his lot!? We had agreed to wait until scan so what he was thinking of I've no idea. It's made me more anxious!

Anyway, can relate to the sugar binges... I made butterscotch sauce to have with ice cream tonight & ate the lot! Feel sick now. I know it was partly to take my mind off things... Why do I do that?

Glad your appt went ok, one well done for sticking to your plan & avoiding clutzy midwife!!! Glad you sliced wild - we all need time out now & then (now more than then...).

Anyway, off to bed - will let u know how we go tomorrow. (sigh)

Massive good luck today boo!

gooooooooooooooood luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck boo! x

am really pg today! I had a dream and I was showing so everyone knew I was pg and this morning put on an old snowboarding jacket and I quite clearly look pg in it (is a bit snug now eek) so have relegated it to the cupboard shelf with my old clothes in it. Is great and unnerving at the same time - I just hope there is an ok baby in there! also v v v tired today.

lots of work to do! is mad but my brain can concentrate on my PhD wonderfully, but when it comes to feeding and clothing me and my son I am quite at a loss and spend all morning trudging up and down stairs forgetting things

laters!

Good luck today boo!

Boo, hope your OH apologised for letting it slip! I'm being terrible with telling people, I keep seeing the odd person and telling them and then saying "but we're not telling anyone yet so keep it to yourself"

Agh, OH just came home enexpectedly early, we are going to watch an episode of Buffy, then I shall return for news and updates.

Hello! All fine today at scan. Saw baby and all looked normal (textbook, according to sonographer who was very nice). My nuchal result is a higher risk than I'd like, due to blood tests rather than the Nuchal translucency measurement, but it's still 1:170 which seems pretty decent odds, so we won't be having any further tests (also don't think I would act on any tests anyway so no point). She dated me as 6 days further along than I thought I was which was a surprise and never happened before to me. So that means I'm 13 weeks tomorrow, new due date 10 May.

Wept at seeing the baby. DDs were there and excited, well DD1 was, DD2 was pretty oblivious. Am very very relieved that - a) YES I am pregnant, and b) it's one baby (though 2 would have been fine as long as healthy, once I'd got used to idea!) and c) all measurements and limbs etc looked fine. So far so good!!

Anyway, thanks for all support everyone. I feel very happy but know that really I'm not out of the woods (as it were) until baby is born. Next scan is 27 Dec!

How is everyone else?

wild I did use the ring sling with newborn, but DD2 was 10 days late and holding her head up from birth so she didn't seem quite so fragile as DD1 had seemed (didn't have it with DD1). I might treat myself to a moby given that really we are not going to be buying anything in the way of equipment this time. That's mad that you can concentrate on PhD but not other stuff - I know what you mean - I find I can focus at work but definitely am flummoxed by food or clothing decisions!!

one yes DH did apologise. In fact I think it was his mum that told his sis. I was slightly worried that I would find premature congratulatory messages on facebook as a result (his mum is not on it, but her family who live near her are prolific users). I am not going to announce anything on facebook, so I certainly didn't want an early announcement!

Excellent news boo :) I got put quite a bit further on too, weird isn't it. Did they let your DDs in then? That's lovely.

Thanks sheldon yes they did - I checked first, but they were fine with it. It's half term so they said they had had a lot of kids in this week.

WooHooBoo!!!!! How wonderful, and textbook is fab. here