The PESH are getting busy and looking out for a cluster diff!!

[pinkr]

blonderthanred, boy, born 26th October 2012.
FriendofDorothy, boy, born 14th December 2012.
QueenRollo, boy, born 21st January 2013.

Need dates:

Rollerbaby, No pink here, expecting boy due March 20th 2012
IveBeenExpectingYou (CockDodger), A very active baby girl, due March 28th 2012
Silver, hoping for an easier sneeze, due mid-July 2012
Starryeyedmole, regretting recently investing in scales
cakeandcava approaching walrus proportions, DC1 EDD 21/10/12

LazyMachine (38) DC1 EDD 9/2/13
CamelKnees (34) fat and fatigued DC2 EDD 22/04/2013
HaveALittleFaith (31), Faithlet arrived 14.04.13
fertilityFTW (34) date needed.
pinkr, (33), any day now!!, DC1 due 22/08/2013
Jethro (36) head in the sand Edd 071013
Frankel (32) nauseous and knackered Edd 4/3/14
Noks - info needed
Sinky - info needed

Done my best - apologies for any misinformation or omissions!

Good luck, draf! How far are you? Am at a meeting all day, so might have to check how things went on the loo!

It is shit scary, ready to hold hands and pelt with shrimp, if necessary!

Big waves from knackered-land! I struggle to combine telly with crochet and work w being awake

Good luck for tomorrow Draf.

Not to want to burden the newly diffed, but the worry doesn't appear to go away - I think I shall be spending the rest of my life next 18 years worried

Awesome fish choice draf. Good luck for tomorrow.

I am at work but not working. I am so very very tired!

Wow, all go in here.

gin, sorry to hear you're still bleeding, what a nightmare. Glad to hear bean is hanging in there.

draf understandable to be bricking it. Will be around tomorrow.

wink it's good that you've got a scan on the sooner side. I hope you settle in to the new role quickly.

Kat glad you're still here, hoping and praying that baybee is clinging on

:)

X-posts (took me a while to type)- Frank I've found the worry changes over time. But never goes away I'm afraid. Tis ok though, the little munchkins start beaming at you it eases somewhat

Thanks all :) Driz, I'm seven weeks today (that still sounds like lies), so it's a pretty early scan!

The permanent worry does seem to be a thing. I remember cracking my head on a shelf aged about twenty-five (me, not the shelf) and my mum came leaping up the stairs with a look of panic on her face. On a similar(?) note, my well-meaning-but-unhelpful friend has been putting her foot in it again. She says, whilst cuddling her adorable eight-month-old, that it only gets harder from here. Now, I'm willing to believe that it gets differently difficult, but I suspect she is grossly underestimating just how hard the last three and a half years have been...

It's different draf. Hard to explain. The strain of infertility can never be explained to someone who hasn't experienced it. But you go from worrying you'll never conceive to worrying the BFP is a lie to worrying it won't stick, to worrying baybee isn't healthy....I was terrified Faithlet would be ill because I took codeine whilst pregnant. To be fair, the resus team were on alert when I came in! It took weeks to accept that (aside from being low birth weight) she was actually ok. Now I worry we'll do something that will damage her or that I'm a crap Mum....I've had to work on relaxing. Sleep has always been an issue with us. I swear that lid has a radar: if I think You need to sleep, go to sleep! she won't. The second I think Ah well doesn't matter if she doesn't sleep she conks out! :)

Will be keeping everything crossed for you today Draf

I'm having a bit of a panic at the moment as I've just realised I've only got 4 months to finish all my degree work. I'm not due to finish till August but I don't think I'll get much done once Turnip is here I've got a 2,000 word assignment on Research Methods, a Research Methods exam, an evidence portfolio which is a right pain in the arse, a 5,000 "work related project", aka a mini-dissertation, as well as a 5-day course I have to attend in January. Really not sure how I'm going to get all that done!

Frank, I'm doing an MD at the mo - 2 years "full time", but I'm still working half time..

I'm taking mat leave from uni as well as work. Could you not do something similar? It means I'm quite (too?) relaxed about the work as ghj is happy to reassure me that I can get "loads done while the baby sleeps"

And how long are you taking? A year? I'd said 6 months, but am veering to 9 now. And once I've done that, who's to say it won't be a year....

Eek. My lovely boss may start becoming less relaxed....

Fingers crossed for scannage Draf And ignore people - well meaning or otherwise - who say things like that. As if you thought parenthood was going to be a breeze, any more than any other part of your life. It is hard work, but is also overwhelmingly brilliant, and well worth the effort. I had to listen to loads of this bollocks when diffed with foxcub. No wonder differs get snappy and stroppy having to listen to that every day.

Frank Research Methods makes my brain shutdown (and research is what I do for a living, ahem!). It's so much easier to learn this stuff in the context of actual research IYSWIM. But def right to do as much as you can now, cos you won't want to be arsed when you're cuddling Turnip.

Good luck draf will be lurking for news!

All well :) No OMGIVFTWINZ though, there is just the one. Looks fine though, we saw the heartbeat which had HOTB floored

Brilliant news, delighted for you!

Hooray! oh that's wonderful news. Here's to a complication free pregnancy from here on in :)

So thrilled for you Draf

Hooray!!

I read faify's post as wishing you a CONSTIPATION free pregnancy. ..

Well it's the sort of thing you should wish the newly diffed Winks

Thanks for comments re my degree work, I really just need to give myself a kick up the arse and get on with it.

Hurrah! Massive congrats, draf! Brilliant news! :)

Well yes, that too!

So pleased for you Draf. It's amazing to see that little bean for the first time.

Thanks all :) Still can't believe it!

There's a baybee in your tum tum draf! I'll never forget that feeling. I was terrified of MMC and blubbed when we saw a wriggly Pickle! That was just over a year ago :) now she is desparately trying to crawl!

Just wait until the 12 week scan, or till baybee starts kicked bits out of your insides, or the 20 week scan!

It's a lot of fun!

Hooray for seeing your baybee Draf. Does it feel any more real? It took ages for it to sink in for me.

I've got so much admiration for you lot doing more studying. And working!! As for studying whilst the baby is asleep Sinks ..... Good luck

MiniJeff slept from 1-5 last night. Amazing. SSG has taken the CrazyDog out. I am sat on the sofa cuddling MiniJeff who is sleeping in his gro bag looking incredibly cute. I'm starting to feel a little more like I'm his mum at last.