Right I have 5 post-it notes of scribbling in front of me in an attempt to catch up with over a week of frolicking, but could never live up to whiteroses epic catch up!
chalky so sorry you are going through such a worrying time and I hope everything works out for you on Friday and the HCG levels continue to increase. My best friend bled a lot early on in her pregnancy as she has a heart shaped uterus; she rested loads, had a line off work from the doctors and in the end had a lovely baby boy. The fact that the blood is brown rather than red is encouraging and I really hope everything works out for you. I am sure time has stood still but in the meantime if you can rest and take it easy it should help.
fudgecat I have been having internet problems too and have felt so out of touch as mumsnet is banned in work, however this is probably a good thing as I have one less distraction! Great to hear you are starting to show - as you are in the early 20s maybe you can give me advice on what to wear to a wedding when I will be about the same stage as you, would a more forgiving dress still fit you if you had a wedding this week or would you have to but something new? I realise everyone is different but I keep stressing about what I will wear. Oh and I always notice the stoke prams as looking very sleek.
pipsicles welcome to the grads! it is amazing that after months of obsessing the ?forget about it and it will happen? worked for me too. I was busy in work and had resigned myself to the fact that it was more realistic that it would take a year + and we just got our lucky month. I hope the time between now and your scans goes quickly , I had my first scan last week at 12 weeks and it seemed like an eternity coming around.
bellaby welcome to the grads as well ? how strange that you are enjoying mini cheddars, when I was at your stage a saw a man eating them and just had to have them! Shame they are so fattening but not as fattening as the orange fantas I was putting away on holiday whilst dh had some lovely Sicilian wine. Diet coke from now on!
Yorkshire great to hear from you, we never met but I joined the frolickers just as you had got your bfp and everyone was very fond of you. Nightmare to get a scare at 15 weeks and I am so glad to hear you are ok.
chance hope your pamper session makes you feel like a hot mama to be and that you get the perfect maxi dress. I hope to go maxi dress shopping at the weekend but am not sure if I can carry one off, I def have the height (5?9??) but it really depends on the ever increasing boob situation. If it is of interest Warehouse have 20% off online until tomorrow. www.warehouse.co.uk/feature_03/content/fcp-content
Bunny oh what a nasty man your boss is, how underhand to even say such a thing. It is no reflection on you, just his small mind! Shame about your lo being camera shy in your scan. Last week we saw our baby for the first time really clearly at times on the scan and then the midwife got really excited that she could see three fingers and captured a blob, an arm and three fingers as our 1 scan picture rather than the baby-like blob that was floating around and would have made a better picture! She was lovely though and getting to see the little critter on screen was one of the most emotional moments I have ever experienced.
oneof8 you really are a one woman HR machine and your knowledge is great to have, I read up on our maternity scheme and it is not great but could be worse and called HR to ask them to send me the form so I can submit it when I get a better idea of the due date at the 20 week scan as I really hope they bring it forward from Christmas Eve. Of course she has yet to e mail, how hard can it be to send an attachment ? she could have even done it while I was on the phone grrrr
I see that your lo is known as ?blob? dh isn?t really into giving the baby a nick name but I did call it a ?blob? when showing the scan to my MIL and she told me off! Like I was saying to bunny the picture they took was a blob, an arm and three fingers rather than the better views we had seen before that.
pixiestix I can completely understand why you got offside so quickly when the small child was coming at you head first. I am not yet showing (13 weeks tomorrow) but I am so much more aware of avoiding situations where there is potential calamity! I was at the Snow Patrol homecoming concert on Saturday night and was queuing for the bar with my non pg friend and had to leave the queue because I was getting jostled so much. A really drunk culchie (Northern Irish for country boy) was completely invading my personal space and then announces to everyone round him ?This girl here has got a wild big arse!? mortified!
aly I will be thinking about you on Friday and really hope you have a double celebration that everything is ok and that it is twins too. I think twins would be tough but for me it would be an instant family, just a shame you don?t get twice the maternity.
ozziegirl Yikes about the Sydney job situation, hope all goes well for your dh on Friday and that everything works out for the best. A really friend is coming back from Australia for 5 weeks this weekend and I can?t wait to meet her 4 month old daughter ? from reading your and bunny?s posts I really feel I know more about life on the other side of the world.
spirael hope you settle in well into maternity leave and you take time to laze around and read magazines etc rather than go into a cleaning nesting frenzy. Your bump getting in the way of doors etc has made me realise that in a couple of months time I won?t be able to turn the tv on in our front room as you have to lie over the top of it to reach the plug ? the joys of an ever protruding belly!
whiteroses I sympathise with you on the visitors dilemma, one advantage of people coming to the hospital is that you will get more head peace when you get the little one home. Another option (and I am seriously considering this for dh?s family) is to (if practical) have an open house at your in laws where people can call in to see the baby once you have had time to adjust to being parents.
hermya Congratulations on a boy ? and you were right. I thought about you today when I was in TK Maxx earlier and saw lovely it?s a boy announcement cards reduced to only 30p. As any new mum would spot those in TK Maxx after the birth but a perfect bargain for anyone who found out the sex. My hospital refuse to tell you whilst the one across the city has no problem telling you. Everyone is convinced we will have a boy, I have no inkling but heard my dad tell my uncle the other day that he expects us to have ?a wee ginger boy?! Hilarious, dh is a red head and I am blonde so time will tell.
Good luck with the nappy advisor tonight (not that I actually know what a nappy advisor is or does but I was horrified to learn that the average newborn needs 12 nappy changes a day ? wow!
Talking of my TK Maxx visit today I ended up hiding in the bra section from a journalist. I work in PR and the journo has an idea a negative story is going to surface soon and has been ringing constantly to see what is happening so she can break it and I spotted her coming my direction so crouched down and hid in the bottom row of bras, whilst I was there I thought of all the chat about bras big enough to fit on your head and sure enough I had taken refuge in the 40G section!
Ok this has been quite epic so will sign off, got a letter from the docs to say they should have seen me before now so hope it is not related to my scan last week and just routine and I slipped through the net somehow.