Thread #5 - TTC#1 grads thread - now we're cooking with charcoal!

[PotatosMum]

Welcome again to the rambling journey that is the TTC#1 (or whatever) grads thread.

Anyone's welcome to join the trip, just remember to pack your sense of humour and a strong stomach as there is no such thing as TMI!

EDD List
August
11 Mor (surprise)
13 Bunch (boy)
16 New (surprise)
27 Potato
30 Pink (girl)

September
1 Shelb
4 Nev (boy)
12 Danni
14 Soda
14 LittleBelle
17 Bubbles
28 Leonie
29 Laurenrl

October
5 Lisa
6 Irregular
8 Miley
12 Indi
13 Co5mo
14 Lillian
15 Planet
27 Lara
30 First

November
6 Bellini
8 Pyxie
11 Peaches
11 5tar
12 Rae
21 Canters
25 Stark!!!!!
25 Jam
29 Elle

December
6 Impy
9 Feef
11 Flash

Shelb - i've just got round to checking measurement - our abdominal one was 142mm. Head circumference was 168mm.

I need to get myself on instagram!!

bunch the fruit and bump pics!!! I LOVE it! Such a great idea

Thanks Lauren they were for my closest friend, she finds it hilarious my apps compare Pip to fruit and veg so I took the piss by sending her photos of me posing. Hence the mostly stupid faces I'm sure the people in my local Tesco think I'm a nutter every Saturday.

I've joined the Instagram hordes! I'm pinklily82_1

Keep going with the fruit pics bunch, they're fab! Can't wait to see the face that goes with Pip when he's the size of a watermelon!

We still haven't told lots of people yet, so my IG is likely to be baby free for another couple of weeks at least. Then I suspect things will change, hehe.

Another vote for the fruit pics bunch

Haha I've been doing the fruit pics! It I've got to keep it on the down low yet! They're brilliant though bunch

Morning ladies, how are we all today?

OMG there's a lot to catch up with

Stark which takeaway did you settle on? I would have gone for all of them
OH tries to kill us with dinner last night by putting nearly a quarter of a tub of hot chilli powder in the chilli. Potato was not impressed lol

Bunch did you enjoy your man free evening?
I'm planning to get Potato a couple of things for Christmas. She'll only have one functioning grandparent and one aunt however my sister has informed me that she intends to spoil Potato rotten (I do not approve ) and her grandad is always very generous with the kids so I don't think she will go without!
I'm not sure OH would let me dress her in something stupid for Christmas... I think having an aunt who ran a costume shop mentally scared him as a child

Loving the fruit pics on IG. Yes I have joined now although I have no idea what I'm doing. I've set my profile to private because I have one or two people in real live who stalk me follow everything I bloody do and I want to post boring photos of baby stuff without seeing their inane comments
I'm feeling a lot better today thanks

Planet I have also discovered that McDonald's is a big part of my pregnancy diet... Apparently my sister was the same. They don't put that on the adds

So, my flat is finally on Right Move!!! Woohoo! And we had a call a couple of hours after listing it to say there's a woman living round the corner who is really interested and wants to view today she's a cash buyer without a chain so if she puts in an offer she would be perfect! Fingers and toes crossed please

Morning!

Omg I'm joining IG today, I'll track you all down.

Thanks for kind words on abdo circumference, and for your measurements - pink, mine is same as yours for head, but 170 for abdo...

Uhhhh....ladies, tmi but I've have really really upset stomach for two days now. I've had to ring in sick today. Do you just suck it up (so to speak) and get on with it or phone midwife?

Waves to everyone!

X

Morning all, thanks for the fruit photo love. I'll try to keep up the stupid faces, it's usually in shock to how big something is or horrified they're likening my baby to something so hideous. I tried doing it week 18 with a sweet potato, but you could t see a bump (hence no posting on IG) my face is a picture! It was such an ugly sweet spud.

Glad you're feeling better Potato. Well one man in my life who's been doing my nut in was gone for the evening so clearly it was time for the other one to take over. My dog gets a bit protective when he's home alone with me overnight. Usually just the odd grumble growl if he here's a car door or something. Last night the radiators were making their usual noises and he took offence. 2.30am and 4.30am he was tear arsing around the house baying with all his might. He's a Beagle so he is LOUD! I swear I nearly had a heart attack!!

Shelb there's no harm giving them a call, though if it is just a stomach bug I doubt there's much they can do. Always worth putting your mind at ease though. Hope you feel better soon.

I'm not probably back yet, but I am LOVING following you all on IG.

Bunch - your fruit and veg pics are amazing!

Also, this is definitely going to be all of us (particularly you, Starky!)....

Morning guys, I am a bit gutted but I do know that OH and potato are right. I don't think I'm going to be 100% in 7 weeks. The tablets I have aren't working and they can't give me anything stronger. I'm going to the lake district in May for OHs birthday at least.

Ooooo Instagram! I'm molliie_e (no prizes for guessing my name!) Mine used to be a lot of photos of my fitness progress and now I just use it for my dog mainly. I don't have any nursery stuff or baby stuff as I've only just come out to the world. But I'm excited to start!

Hope you feel better shelb. Make sure you're drinking even more than usual to stop the evil dehydration.

Bunch your dog sounds hilarious. 'I will protect you from the radiators of doooom!!' Sorry you didn't get much sleep though.

Woohoo Potato! Everything crossed that Mrs Round The Corner offers after viewing. I shall try not to explode with jealousy if that does happen. Still not a sausage on our place. Argh!

I am in a right grump today. DH has been getting bitten at night for the last few weeks, and I've been fretting that it's the dreaded bedbugs. He's been telling me not to be silly and that he's sure it's just an errant mozzie. Last few nights I've had bites too and thought sod it I'm calling someone.

Pest control guy came last night. Yup. Bedbugs . He reckons they came in from public transport. I now can't go in several rooms of the house as the insecticide is dangerous for Pancake, and am having to sleep on the sofa. All my clothes are in bin bags in the loft for the next few days ( while we continue to have flat viewings and need everything to be tidy).

I know they're not disease ridden and they're not a sign of a dirty house but I feel so gross. .

lol lisa* that made me actually lol! So true!

I'm loving having IG pals! and "meeting" you all for the first time!

potato we had Chinese in the end but they git the order wrong so I just ended up with satay skewers and egg fried rice! This was probably a good thing as I'd have made myself sick if I ate any more!

I'm determined to have macdonalds today! Realistically I could walk there/back, but it'd take about 45 minutes to do a round trip on foot, and that's definitely not happening! I want a double sausage egg muffin so badly my entire mouth just started watering! I haven't eaten macdonalds for well over a year!

Oh my God, Miley, your lab! 😍 swoon

I feel your pain with the bedbugs. Dh and I had them at a rented house a few years ago and it was a bloody awful experience. It absolutely doesn't reflect on your house at all, but I know exactly how horrible it is.

I ended up moving to my Mum's for a few days because I couldn't deal with sleeping there (they'd been there when we'd moved in and it took months for us to work out the issue). I was bitten to absolute shit.

We still don't talk about it!

soda I'm a excited about your long cervix!!! Yay you!

potato hopefully everything falls perfectly into place!

I'm so weirded out by moving to the next stage of revealing my identity haha! In a good way though, I know there aren't any psychopaths amongst us like in a murdery way, we're all a bit nuts really also dogs!! Cute dogs and cats!

irregular he's my baby! I'm a proud doggy mama. Which IG are you? Some I can work out, some I can't.

Haven't been on here in ages!!

I am all over Instagram, definitely going to start following some of you. I was planning to post lots of cute baby stuff on there in time too.

I thought it was just me with the McDonald's!! I normally hate it but have been having such cravings for things from there...yesterday I had to go and get myself a mcflurry!

OH and his dad disappeared upstairs yesterday for a few hours and surprised me by starting our nursery. What do you think?

Miley your lab is gorgeous and I'm in awe and of your fitness pics. I miss training

I think it's very sweet, like that advert but at the same time I'm a huge control freak and only I could do our nursery. DH has strict instructions as to what to do but had no input really. How do you feel about them doing it?

Canters have you hair started following me? 86 in the name?

Miley, that's beautiful! We have the same shade of yellow on our nursery walls! Is the furniture Mothercare?

I've just then offered a seat for the first time on the train. I had a "holy shit, that means I'm officially pregnant" moment! A bit like that cartoon below!

21 weeks today and this is bump (excuse the mess in the background, we are decorating so everything has been dumped in that room!)

There a photo? I can't see it, I thought you were asking of what we thought of them sneaking off to do it Sorry xx

Aw bunch it's ok! I wonder why you can't see the pictures. I'm fine with them doing it because I chose everything and when it's finished, will be dictating where everything goes! Control freak over here, too.

pink the yellow has really brightened it up, I love it. We need a blind for the window but other than that, we have just about everything. The furniture set is from mothercare it's the Stratton set