Due March 2008 - we'd give in to our cravings, but we're probably asleep

[merryberry]

Welcome!

from what i';ve seen travel systems are good if you really do hop in and out of the car loads, but we only get a car about 6 times a year, so no real use to us. to carry on the paen of praise to maclarens, they do a new travel system one that seems very sensible for london - the XLR.

ah, now slings, i do love slings! i used a very old baby bjorn last time, soft as butter, old design so no stiff bits, as i always sat to nurse, didn't need a wraparond. i've since tried the newer baby bjorns and found them a bit stiff and tricky. this time i hope to be fit enough to nurse on the move, so will be looking into the wilkinet etc.

timmyinatizzy we got amazingly lucky re: 3 bed house and bought an ex council townhouse in tufnell park, with a garden, for about 100k less than the victorian conversions of the same size around here. its a lovely secluded spot, just 20 properties with 16 of them bought up back in the early 90s by their tenants. they were built to a very high spec in 1974. it was just the 3rd property we viewed, on the first night's viewing! See what I mean about lucky?!? all i have to do is swallow my ex-socialist principles every now and then, which I choke down with lashings of anti-conservative-right-to-buy bile.

Can anyone tell me why it is that I have to go to a big horrid hospital for my booking, and some of you get midwives? I hate hospitals, and I will be trying to do the home birth thing(is this mad for a first time?)

hiya all,

got mum up today so not about really, have started bleeding today thou so v v scared and worried. been tot he dr's and off to the epu tomorrow at 9 really hoping everything's going to be ok - but am prepared to hear the worst still testing pos thou.

how did everyone else go with scans? hope they're ok.

pip...keeping fingers crossed for you. Good luck!

So ... big thumbs up for Maclaren, I see. Interesting! DP and I are hysterically clueless about all of this - my mum keeps ringing up to say "Oh, you'lll need this and you'll need that ... " and I agree, get off the phone, and frantically start searching on the internet ..

derah - fudge! Very jealous. I like to eat it with a glass of milk for ultimate decadence. No fudge here, but I did successfully make a Splendid Lasagne yesterday. My lunch guests were full of praise for its splendidness, and it was my first lasagne (kitchen is DP's dept) so I was delighted!

I was happily pottering along thinking all was fine, found myself looking at other threads and frightened myself on how easily it can all go wrong. I feel very fortunate to have a scan on thursday but suddenly I'm very nervous about it as defintely not prepared to hear anything other than good news. I've had no symptons of a problem but from what i've read that is normal too...anyway - just have a wobble on line. I hope no one minds...silly really and I'm sure being positive is much better. It's just now that i'm at week 9 its becomming more real and yet you remember it is all so fragile.
happy thoughts to all and good luck with the ms and scans etc.

Turtle - I guess it depends where you live as to whether you get a hospital or a community midwife team. Is there not a mw attached to your GP clinic? Our community mw's are all from the local hospital but each local clinic gets one. Maybe it's just hospitals in the big city. I live out in the country, but have 2 hospitals within 20 mins drive so very close. But all the ante-natal care is through the mw attched my my GP's clinic.

Pipsqueeke - hope everything is OK. (((((((((((((((((((((HUGS!))))))))))))))))

Timmy - I hear you on needing a bigger house! we really need a 3 bed too, we live in a 2-bed shoe box with only a tiny lounge and kitchen downstairs. But we figure the new baby won't need much room for the first year or so, and hopefully by them we'll be able to afford to move. Probably wishful thinking though and the DC's will sharing a box room until they're 18! Problem is that properties are very expensive where we are (Surrey commuter belt). We live in a wonderful development built in the 80's with a wide variety of houses from flats, to tiny shoeboxes like ours to 5-bed executive homes, all with lovely quiet cul-de-sac street and the kids all ride bikes around and play together on the green. We did look at bigger houses in other ares but frankly some of the neighbourhoods were scary!! I think we'd rather live in a safe, friendly area in a tiny house than have a big house and worry about safety all the time. Maybe we'll win the lottery! You did well finding your Merryberry

My fudge hasn't set yet, but I feel a bit sick from eating all the left-over chocolate so maybe it's no bad thing!

I meant 'finding yours Merryberry', meaning your house!

'ommmmm'

that's the sound of me finding my inner merryberry, derah

hi just logged on again to say as of tonight I will be losing internet access have an engineer type person around to look at this useless pc good luck to him it's ancient and theres so many things wrong with it. It's so temperamental, won't switch on from the the bottom on the front only at the back and then only about 1 in 3 attempts. Hoping that they won't be able to fix it and give me a lovely new one.

I will so so miss you all hopefully I won't be internet-less for too long it will drive me mad.

I won't be able to tell you all about teh scan on Wednesday now so keep everything crossed I will still be a member of the thread.

pipsqueeke - aww honey so sorry to hear this still it ain't over till it's over good you are remaining positive

turtle - forgot to say hello and congratulations

timmy - we have a 3 bed house DDs will eventually share the big room, DB3 will have the box room. Will either build an extension on this one or move to a 4 bed but this will have to wait on getting some finances together so this will be a while. It annoys me when everyone asks "so when you moving?" I think they forget that siblings can share rooms.

derah - remember to share the fudge out will you I have been so hungry today and feeling sick at the same time weird!

big hellos to everyone else will be thinking of you all hopefully will be able to catch up soon

take care SK xxx

oh sweetkitty, hope wednesday sets your mind at rest. I know you won't read this for a bit, but thanks for your assurances re: shagging, was a small bit worried. DH reckoned it would be fine. But then he would say that I guess.

pipsqueeke, sending you best wishes.

derah - enjoy your fudge. i made a chocolate cake yesterday which I'll probably finish off today (with some help from DH, but still). I'm barely doing any cooking at the mo, and when I get around to it I make a cake. What a weirdo.

Hope all are well. Things are OK here. Still quite tired. Started a new job today, which I was quite worried about but these things are never as bad as you think. i'm dreading telling them.

I don't even really remember I'm pg some of the time, kind of odd when I think of it. Just cannot imagine having an actual baby. The idea of buggies or extra bedrooms seem so remote. I'm super impressed with people who have worked out the financial implications. I guess we will be very haphazard parents.

Fudge very tasty! First successful fudge I have ever made so am also very proud. I highly recommend you all make some!

I made a cherry cake yesterday and I never make cakes! Weird.

Pipsqueeke good luck tomorrow morning. Hope it goes ok.

Spugs how are you feeling? Could the cramps be the baby stretching the womb. It so hard not to worry though isnt it? Have you got an early scan booked?

Hi fellow bakers, I been doing the cake thing and also finding myself cooking excessively large amounts of food as if I am cooking for a whole family when it's actually just me!, (will have a freezer fulll of dinners at this rate!).
P.S have managed finally to get my first GP appt on weds. Am sure that will be as useful as a whole in the head as normally when you go in there they just get the prescription pad out ask you what medication you want! ( well not quite but pretty accurate.)!. Am also totally un clued up about prams etc and am hoping to have a last minute miracle for that as well as for all the other things I need such as housing etc! Yikes. But am quite excited and getting more excited as the list of our baby booom grows bigger by the day!

Oh, just to ask , has anyone with Rhesus neg had any alternative treatment for it or is the old conventional meds the only way to tackle it? Is it really necessary to have a load of injections? (I am really not into Doctors, medicine etc, but if I have to I will...would prefer a lovely alternative remedy tho but maybe am just being ridiculous)

Evening all

studentmum1 - glad the scan went well

spugs, hope you are ok and cramps have eased off.

Hello turtle and congratulations!!

Pipsqueeke, sorry to hear that, fingers crossed for your scan tomorrow xx

Sweetkitty - good luck for Wednesday!

imjin100 - I'm also having a bit of a 'wobble', still no sign of any pg symptoms (except tender boobs), I'm not feeling sick, peeing more than usual or feeling any extra tired and it's now really worrying me that at 7 weeks I should have noticed something different...Even my Mum tonight was asking me if I was definitely pg which had me checking the two +ve tests I kept (sad I know) to make sure they definitely were crosses. I've not had any spotting or bleeding so am assuming I must still be pg.

I've got my midwife appt tomorrow so hoping she will test my hormone levels or something which can reassure me that I've not imagined the whole thing!

As for the whole pram debate it sounds completely and utterly scary!! Luckily my SIL is due in November so am hoping she will do all the pram research and then I can ask her to order two of whatever she's getting...

monthlymayhem - I'm 6 weeks and I too am not really having many symptoms yet. I'm very tired but this is always a really hectic period of the year for my job so it could just be that. I occasionally feel a bit sick but I think that is me trying to make myself feel sick so I feel pregnant! The only symptom I have had fairly regularly is tummy aches and pains - nothing too painful but lots of discomfort. Like you, I'm assuming I'm pregnant because of the two positive tests (which, yep, i've kept and keep checking!) and because i haven't had any spotting or bleeding... I keep telling myself that in a few weeks time I'll be wishing that I had never moaned about having no symptoms

Pipsqueeke - i hope everything is going okay. Fingers crossed

Hope everyone had a good weekend, and welcome to turtle!

I spent the weekend at my parents and told them they were going to be grandparents, which, unsurprisingly, they were very excited about it and have already specified that they want to be known as nan and grandad! Mum has already started planning her knitting schedule and I have fears that the baby is going to have to wear sweltering winter cardies all through summer just to please her. I did manage to persuade her that she shouldn't start making anything until i've had the 12 week scan at least...

Hi piekin, I'm O neg and I found with DD1 you only need to worry if you have a bleed during preg, then you need the anti-D injection, if no bleed no problem. At birth they will test the baby and if they are not neg you will need the anity-D then. I was lucky as DD is O neg too so no worries. I haven't heard of any alternatives to anti-D but would be interested if you do find anything. Will ask my sis too as she is a mw.

Thanks Holidayqueen, good to know someone else is the same. I never thought I'd be envious of people who are throwing up!!

Look forward to those knitted cardies!

Hope everyone has a good day

i'm afraid I'm out of the running now bad news from me i'm afraid, baby was 9mm big but unfortunatly dies about a week ago now have to decideed if to go naturally or have an op

Pipsqueek, really sad to hear your news. I do hope you are ok and being well looked after. Good luck with everything and take great care of yourself....

Pipsqueeke, so sorry to hear that. Sending you lots of hugs, take care of yourself xxx

Pipsqueeke - so sorry to hear your news. take care of yourself. big hug. xxxx

Pipsqueeke, so sorry to hear your news. Thinking of you and take care.