Graduated Elderberry Pavlovas - Thread 7

[Cavort]

Newly diffed right through to new Mums. A thread for the over 30's expecting their first baby.

Good work Mr Purple! Phew for him...

I was thinking about that yesterday - my pregnancy was all dated from a LMP of 2nd October. Blimey how things have changed...

Ah janey remember emailing at the beginning of the year with me stressing about being infertile? And when the clomid wasn't working and then worked late that first month in March, and then bingo? Uh oh, hormonal tears in my eyes! DH still laughs when we go into john lewis baby section because that seems to get me welling up each time without fail for some weird reason!

Glad for Mr Purple, not so glad for the dog who would have got his meal

I was actually thinking about that too, taking you to the hospital - and you'll soon be having a baby there!

Miles just did two massive farts in his sleep. Massive. Wonder when it will stop making DP and I laugh when he does that...,

I keep telling Lucy that her giant farts aren't lady like but she doesn't seem to care. She gets it from Daddy

Annoyingly I had all of my dates saved in my calendar in my iPhone and they all seem to have disappeared so I don't know when my BFP was

purple did you text anyone that day? That's how I work mine out as can't remember my BFP date! I phoned my mum, told DH and text a pic of the test to a couple of good friends.

We can probably find the dates on some old berry threads. But I remember mine was around my birthday (7th). It's rally hard to believe it was just a year ago..

Ah ha, mumsnet remembers, it was 27th October. I was too shocked to text anyone. Remember waiting all day for OH to come home and then telling him in the most stupid way even though I'd had all day to think about it because I was in such a daze about it all. Can't believe it was nearly a year ago.

I remember getting that text Alex. I cried

I'm even worse now - properly cry when I hear a friend is preggers!

I had all these great ideas about how special I'd make telling DH - but in reality it was blurring eyed at 6.30am on a Sunday morning with me waking him up and saying "is that a line or not?". Was so faint. Then I had to wait until boots opened at half ten as I'd used all my tests, was agony waiting, then I had a negative boots test. Thought I'd try clear blue to be on the safe side and it came up with a the word positive! The first test with the faint line was actually a spare test janey gave me, I reckon she gave me good luck

Your BFP was 26th Janey if you're interested - I saw because it was right near mine

I then did about 30 tests over the next three weeks to "make sure", no exaggeration! DH would hear me creeping to the loo at the crack of dawn and knew what I was up to!

I found out on the 25th Feb, so like to think we concieved on valentines day!

I remember when you guys all got your bfps, there was quite an influx Must be the time of year as it seems to have happened again to the new ladies

Hazle you definitely got your BFP before me because I still remember the envy.

Is quod around (been reading the pram thread) or does anyone else know if John Lewis will price match online retailers for a pram?

Oh and DH got in drunkie at half two and I'm now trying to wake him for work! Made me wonder when he should start making sure he doesn't have too many as he'd be useless in hospital if I was in labour now Maybe from 38 weeks? Think it's only a small percentage that come before then?

Alex I had the same quandary. I think I decided it was ok for DH to have a few drinks and be over the drink drive limit as hospital is only 10 minutes away so we could get a lift or a taxi, but I didn't want him being so drunk that he'd be useless in labour after about 37 weeks. However the night our bath leaked through the ceiling (I think I was 38/39 weeks) he was staying in Bristol with work and had a few too many drinks so he couldn't have driven home. Needless to say he is a fucking moron sometimes I wasn't very impressed... I think he'd still be in the doghouse now if I'd have gone into labour that night. When their partner is heavily pregnant and has gone without alcohol for 40 weeks, I don't think asking Daddy to stay sober for a few weeks is too much to ask.

Much better last night, Elodie slept 20.45 - 06.20 with a dream feed at 23.30 and a 15 minute feed at 02.00.

This is the first time I've had to get up for the day while it's still dark. I have a feeling this Winter is going to be loooong.

And apparently the new Homeland is on at the same sodding time as Downton.

Luckily DH doesn't travel away for work (two guys in my NCT group travel all over the country and I felt sorry for them as they're of course a bit worried about making it back in time). I can easily get a lift or cab to hospital, so it really is more that I think he would annoy me if he was drunkie or hungover while I was going through the wars. Hard to go to things like the awards do he was at last night and stay sober so think in reality it will be just toning it down, a few drinks and that's it!

Just mentioned it to DH and he says he is gladly going to not drink, November is all about staying sober, he doesn't want to touch a drop etc. Bet it's the hangover talking

Thinking about the BFPs, as I have been telling people recently (don't worry, reasonably cheerfully) I have now been pregnant or recovering from pregnancy for nearly a year, and still have over 2 months to go! I feel like an elephant. It's a long time not to drink.

Alex I think JL only match high street retailers, but the online ones will undercut quite heavily. We got the BJCM GT for £260 online rather than £330 in JL (and could have got cheaper if DP hadn't insisted on a black one). And so far the customer service has been fine.

Cavort, thanks for the Which notes - but I think they are all washers rather than washer-dryers. Is there a separate category for washer dryers? If you are getting sick of us all rinsing your subscription I can go and ask my next door neighbour instead!!

Re the late travel, over here it's the reverse: I am going to a conference at 37 weeks (only recently realised 37 is 'term' ) and DP is worried and wants to come too. It's only in Birmingham so just over an hour on the train if I start feeling funny.

I am clearly not which but in person experience I have never had a washer drier that was capable of drying anything. I've had 3 and all they have ever done is make wet clothes hot! My criteria for new house was to have space for a proper tumble drier

Well stupidly we have beer festival tickets for next Friday when I am 36 weeks.....that'll be a fun night for me huh At least my brothers band is playing so I have something to look forward too apart from being surrounded by drunk people.

My OH works anywhere within a 2 hour drive so bearing in mind the hospital is 40 mins away it could be tight if everything happens quickly. I'm sure it will be fine though. My main worry is that a)he is shit at answering his phone b)he often works places with rubbish signal not ideal.

I am hoping that I can get him to stay sober enough to drive from about 38 weeks. He is working this weekend, we are at beer fest next weekend, then he is working the weekend after that, so its pretty hectic until I'm 38 weeks. Guess I'd better hold baby in until then At some point we need to do a test drive to the hospital too

To be honest for most labours I don't think it would matter as they would have plenty of warning/time to sober up as they take so long to get going. When I phoned to say my waters had broken, OH said 'oh right' and stayed at work late then while I had contractions all night said 'well there's no point both of us being knackered' and went to sleep. We didn't end up going to the hospital until lunch time the next day and they still had to induce me and the baby didn't arrive until nearly 1am. My point being that even if he had been legless when my waters went he would have fad plenty of time to sober up. Although you'd think they could manage to stay sober for a few weeks just in case!

Well the good thing is that first babies usually come late and labours aren't usually really quick. Hmm, never thought I'd say that was a good thing but silver linings and all that!

Cross post but there we go for an example purple! I think I'd almost prefer DH tipsy rather than really hungover though, given the choice, so that's another reason why he and I both want him to not get too drunkie in November! Can you imagine if he even mentioned a hangover/headache/being tired when I'm giving birth!