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!

I like that frank!

I'm a bit better now i'm home...Mr df if always able to calm me down and make me laugh. I was away last night staying at dads and I miss his effect - he's the only person who's ever been able to read me like a book

How's everyone? I've sofa bound with nausea and so tired. I blame a week of 13 hours shifts... But have discovered that I still like sweet potato and have managed to eat it 3 ways since dinner last night. I'd quite like the 1st trimester to be over now...

How're you feeling now Pinkr? And Frank?

Sinks you have lots of sympathy from me. Tiredness sucks. Did you book another scan?

Pink - 2 weeks and you get to meet your Baybee!!! Aside from The Panic do you feel ready?

Frank I like your Foof / Sunroof mantra

My smugness at having the easiest 31 weeks of diffment has been brutally shattered this week. I have back ache, I've turned into a hormonal mess, crying at everything. I've been ridiculously busy at work which I think has contributed to me sleeping for most of today. Have just spent a blissful hour in the bath though which has helped.

pink it will be ok! When I reached 38 weeks I was so uncomfortable and joked that she was 'fully cooked' so she could come out when she was ready. When my waters broke I was nervous/excited. Bit like when you're on a roller coaster and you're being cranked up to the top!

jeff I reckon I spent about 25% of my pregnancy in the bath! I had one nearly every day. I can't believe you're 31 weeks already Other people's diffment goes quickly.

sink I recommend Ice lollies prior to eating to help with sickness. I went totally off tea when I got diffed, it made me sick. Even as the sickness wore off I lost my taste for it. As soon as I laid my baybee I got the taste back but have cut down to one a day because it seems to make Faithlet's reflux worse. Can't complain though, she settled at 8pm tonight so I've actually been able to be sociable, whoop!

I'm ok now! Me and mr df had a wee day out today, probably our last alone for some time. We had breakfast out, wandered round a palace and gardens, had lunch out, wandered round st Andrews, went to a botanic gardens and topped it all off with dinner at our favourite pub. A lovely day!

I'm here! Had a ridiculous amount of sleep yesterday - had a 2 hour nap after dinner last night then went to bed at 9.30! 12 hours in total, not bad going!

I haven't been sick since Thursday night, but still felt ropey yesterday. Hoping that I feel a but better again today and that this bloody cold goes away soon - I'm main king orange juice at the moment!

Sorry about the back ache/general discomfort Jeff, but wow 31 weeks

I also can't type! "Main king" = mainlining

Yes to ice lollies here too Faith. Fruit pastilles are my current favourites. I have at least one per day

Tbh the weeks have flown by for me too - the first 12 didn't but after that did. Think it's because I've been so well & lucky really. I'm going to bite the bullet & buy one of those pillows today in an attempt to help me sleep.

Pink your day out sounds lovely.

Frank lots of sleep is A Good Thing.

I loved ice lollies early on! anything fruity really. Seemed to help the nausea if I remember correctly :) its only now i'm starting to enjoy tea again...I went off warm drinks quite a lot as well.
Struggling to sleep much at the moment...although i'm really tired and keep trying to nap!
Jeff really not long now for you too...do you have everything organised? I keep remembering packing my hospital bag at 32 Weeks as the midwife was convinced I was at risk of premature labour

I keep thinking we've got everything then realise we haven't

Glad you're a bit more settled pinkr (and v jealous of a naice day out in St. Andrews. Quite difficult to do that now I live in England. Harrumph)

Jeff, I'm delighted to hear the weeks fly by after 12. I feel like I've been 8weeks for ever... I haven't booked another scan. I thought I'd wait of my booking appt on wed and see if I could get an idea of how long till my 12 week nhs one. Don't really have anyone to take either, and wouldn't want to go on my own. I have a friend who will hopefully be on mat leave by my 12 week scan, or I'll drag my mum down for that one. I'm trying to keep my scan obsession on the quite.

Faife, lollies sound amazing. But I have no freezer. This is the first house we bought. And questions like "is the kitchen big enough for the usual, standard appliances" didn't occur to us. I have started priceing up extensions while ghj is away...

And frank. Are you 10+ now? So jealous of those 2 weeks! I also have a cold. I'm blaming dampened immune system and hoping I all gets better once that pesky placenta is done implanting.

I'm 10+5 today Still waiting for my 12 week scan date though . I shall be chasing up the midwives tomorrow.

I did some baby shopping today! Little suits, mittens & hats. And a fleecy zip up thing. Also practical dull stuff for me like nipple cream & big pants

It's all getting a bit real now.

I bet it is Jeff.

HWHNN is dying to get shopping (for Blokey, gadgety stuff like prams, baby monitors, etc) and I'm having to hold him back until after the scan! I refuse to buy any clothes until after the 20 week scan, apart from the little "I heart New York" sleep suit I bought while on holiday in May

We were the same Frank. I refused to buy anything until after the 20wk scan. SSG did all the 'research' for the buggy & then out of the blue exchanged his car.

I made a million lists & I've been slowly ticking things off. Almost done now. I still can't believe that the IVF worked. That we've been that lucky. It blows my mind.

Ah the shopping is great fun! Just wait till you wash them and put them all on the line...nothing cuter then little sleep suits flapping in the breeze. Mr df enjoys picking wee outfits etc now and he def came into his own researching monitors, swings etc.

Euch, I feel rough this evening! No actual vomming, but feel pretty close to it

Sympathies Frank. I was rough as yesterday. Bit better today, but getting a bit ropey again this evening. Did you get a scan date sorted?

It's my booking appt tomorrow- not half as exciting as a scan though!

Nope! Have left two messages on the midwives answer phone now so hoping they get back to me soon!

Hope the appointment goes well!

Thanks! Not really expecting much excitement though (holding out for that slim chance she'll whip an ultrasound machine out her back pocket...)

Your lot are leaving it late eh? Although I'm aware you had your booking appt at a similar time to me... Maybe I'll be in the same situation in 2 weeks . What more can you do? I HATE answer phones. I never seem to get rung back!

How did the appointment go Sinks?

My midwife called back. Bloody hospital lost my paperwork so I wasn't in the system . They've managed to fit me in to a cancellation slot next Tuesday (I'll be 12 weeks exactly) so I'm just waiting to find out the time.

It was fine. Midwife was a bit dishevelled (!) but seemed nice. She kept going on about not patronising me, no matter how often I said just treat me like any other patient (knew I should have written down an alternative career...). She was a barren too as well, had GIFT to have her baby. Which is naice.

Glad they've got you a scan sorted (finally!). I got my date yesterday - 9th sep, so it'll be my 12th week too. They can't book my 16week appointment yet though, so have to remember to ring in a months time...

I've not felt properly sick today, and am still awake at 6, so things looking up. Boobs still achy as ever, so not allowing myself to sink in to the "loss of symptom" menkulling.

How are you? Out the other side of voming etc? Please say yes....

Did much happen at you booking appt? I had already been sent the green booklet through the post, so had filled it in. My 30 week preggers friend locally told me I'd get 2 other booklets, but didn't, and didn't think to ask. No idea what they are though. Only that they're different colours!

Didn't get asked about birth plans etc (good really, not sure a blunt "hospital" would be liked..). Was told about parentcraft sessions, but not when or how I get on them.

I'm a bit useless in appointments it seems...

Not really. It was a case of pee in this, give me an armful of blood etc. My forms are pink and I profiled all my basic details but there were still other things to go through.

I've got to call to make my 16 week appointment once the scan has confirmed the all clear.

I haven't actually vommed for a week, but my gag telex has been kicking in when brushing my teeth. I feel a lot better but still utterly exhausted by about 8pm!

Glad it's not just me- brushing my teeth is so difficult - I have to keep spitting - too much froth and I just can't help vomit.

Well my morning sickness seems to have returned this morning...took some tablets and promptly lost them again
Just on my way to clinic to have a look see whether there's any point in a sweep. Strange that the thought of an internal is worrying me so much considering the size of that which must come out at some point this week!
The sickness should stop soon though sinks and frank and then you'll get the glow!