Due April 2009 - Saucy dreams, squirting boobs and spacehoppers. Whatever will the April mums get up to next?"

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BB- i'm sure you will be getting into the crimbo groove when your decorations go up

I am sure I will as soon as I get the boxes out the loft!!! Yay!

I've got my 20 week scan in an hour - will let you know, boy, girl or something else... Have to leave work now.

i'm the same babycrimbolat - not quite there yet but we are going out this afternoon to try and finish our chirstmas shopping and get our tree so will be nice to get that up and some decorations. ds absolutely loves lights so think he will love the tree.

better go - he's practising circus skills on the back of his tractor - think this may end in tears

My Christmas efforts so far:

I have hung a sparkly, dark red wreath on our front door.

Impressed?

XX Baublerella

I am very impressed Baublerella.
Is that one smiley for each of the triplets I see before me on your thread?

BTW I am glad you told us how they got there, because I was wondering whether it was IVF but was too shy to ask. I think you are very brave having three at once, but I suppose there is an economy of scale, pregnancy-wise!!

News from today - I am spending the morning doing some very serious ass kicking of the hospital to sort out my physio appointment. They claim to have never heard of me, despite me having had three referrals to them from different people (m/w, GP and ANC), and also having gone up there in person to chase it.

I am supposed to have had an appointment within a week, and I have been waiting four weeks now. I am very very very very cross with them indeed.

I may get violent with these mismatched crutches I have been begrudgingly lent.

Update ... in case you haven't seen my SPD thread ... I have now had an apology from the physio team, and I have got an appointment for Monday morning!!

I may be starring in the Nutcracker this Xmas as Prima Ballerina after all!! (Or perhaps not ...)

WHOO and hooray well done boffin, so pleased for you

Yay for VBM - is annoying that you had to get grumpy with them for them to do anything about it tho!! but fabulous news!!!

Hey Swaliswan -

Re BH contractions - what did your doctor say about them? Are they worried? These things all scare the bejeeesus out of me! Sorry to ask when you are worried but what do they feel like? Am sure you will be absolutely fine tho and it is just the LO's way of keeping you on your toes!!!

I get BHs all the time - it's like a power surge and not entriely unpleasant.

I'm back - and having another boy. I'm so pleased. He's healthy too, as far as they can tell for a scan. The sonographer told me I was having a mild type of BH as she scanned me - I couldn't feel a thing but it looked really odd on the screen. Apparently my cervix was spasming and pulling the uterus about. Don't remember having BH with first sprocket, maybe I will with this one. Baby was active throughout and made it quite hard to see all the necessary bits and bobs.

As for Christmas, most of my presents are wrapped but DH won't let me get a tree until a week before. Haven't bought anything for DS yet - MIL was planning on getting him the enormous rocking horse from ELC, but sadly they're out of stock .

B52s -congrats on your healthy lil boy

i cant wait till mine now on tuesday dh managed to get a half day (which was a miracle in itself) and so did dd, v exciting

Yay B52s and exciting Nutty - do you have any preferences?

feeling awful today girls. stayed in bed all day sleeping and crying. felt ok yesterday, was relieved after all the stress of the last weeks. but then started feeling a bit sad and lonely in the afternoon and missing my ex, who is now not contacting me atall. i made myself go out to pregnancy yoga, and all the peole there were lovely and i ended up crying lots . very embaressing. came home about 10pm exhausted and ready for bed and got ambushed in the kitchen by one of my flatmates who was really not happy with me and angry about the fact that i hadn't told them all. She said she was upset because she was finding it stressful enough having new people coming into her her home, but now didn't feel good about it all atall. She was really stressed and unhappy. Apologised and reassured her and then went to bed and couldn't stop crying. don't feel ok here anymore, don't feel like i can relax. feel as if I've done a bad thing by coming here and want to leave. nearly started packing today, don't know where to go though. Feel like going home, but it's too far away and I couldn't afford not to be working. My mum is ill anyway and it wouldn't be possible. just want to go somewhere safe where I'm bothering noone and noone is bothering me. I'm so tired,so stressed and i can't stop crying. I just wanted to feel safe and relaxed for a while. feel like i can't go on just now. been fantasising weird things today like being in the bottom of the ocean where it's dark and cold, or under a mountain. and i feel so sick and tired , no energy and thrush is really getting me down. I'm so sore I'm bleeding and i don't know what to do. Just want it all to stop

it's so cold and rainy and dark. i do't know what to do to make myself feel better. I'm just feeling so lost and alone

frekkles - please try and stay on the positive side, all the other girls in your house have been really upbeat about you pg, its just this one lady, and she is just miffed that she didn't know at the same time i'm sure, she will come round and hopefully feel bad for what she has said and apologise.

your x not contacting you is a good thing in some ways and will help you make a break, i know its really sad but he probably needs some space too you both have a lot to deal with and sometimes a clean break is the only way when you have feelings as deep as you both had for each other

we're here for you please dont feel alone xxxx ((hugs))

what part of the country are you in frekkles if you dont mind me asking?

maybe one of us can come visit you, go out for coffee? would that help? is there a friend you really trust who can be with you and sort of shadow you and help you when you feel low?

things will get better sweety there is always sunshine after the darkness its hard to find sometimes but it is there xxx

bb - i dont mind really as long as the baby is doing ok

i really wanted a gir when i was pg with dd and not overly fussed this time (i just need to know lol)

if a girl it would be nice as she could eventually go into dd's room bunk beds and so on and do lots of girly things and probably be another daddys girl, 2 lil fairy's would be really fun :-)

if it was a boy it would be cool cos then i would feel that i have one of each, and would quite like to provide dh & fil (fil is lovely shame he comes with mil really) with someone to carry on their name (fil has lost his mum,brother and dad within the space of 2 years so i think a boy would make him happy) goodness i sound really old fashioned

Hello frekkles and big hugs.

I don't think your housemate picked a good moment, do you? I think she's far too worried about being told at a particular time, and not sufficiently understanding about what it's like to have a baby, or she wouldn't have had a go. You did nothing wrong in taking a bit of time to work up the courage to tell them all. Your problem is a lot bigger than hers, and she would do well to remember that in future.

Do you know, she might even be jealous in her heart of hearts. People are funny like that.

Nutty is right about the sunshine thing and it will all be OK, really.

If you're not getting the support you need from your housemates, a Housing Association might be able to do something for you, but perhaps once the dust has settled things will improve.

We are all here for you xx

Hi - have been told it's a GIRL today!

At 11 week scan was told a boy!

Already have 2 boys so am slightly in shock and slightly disbelieving in the sonographer!

We had planned to go and buy the baby a present once we found out but I ended up being admitted with high BP but bloods and urinalysis were fine so midwife just coming out to me tomorrow.

also, now she's said girl I don't feel confident enough to go and buy pink whereas if she'd said boy I would definitely be out buying blue!

wow i didnt even know they could tell at 11 weeks?!

congrats on your lil girl :-)

dh just gone out to his crimbo do looking v sexy

Blimey, I hope they were right about mine ... I have got all the blue stuff out of the loft now. And I won't be able to get back up there until about June now after the various health developments!

Meant to tell you all about my first baby dream ... I had DS3, but I wasn't allowed to bf him until he was nearly one, and had two teeth on the top gum and two on the bottom. Every time he tried to latch on he said "Ready, Steady, GO!" very enthusiastically, and then proceeded to suck away. It was all very odd. Looked strangely like Baby P actually - quite disconcerting.