Freak out room for those newly updiffed after MC to hold hands and support each other...

[YourFriendBrian]

Hello!

Newly updiffed and freaking out about spotting, cramping, the wait until your first scan and each little twinge? Settle in for lots of hand holding and supprt until you're ready to move to grads.

Lots of love
Brian x

I love you brian xxx

Hopefully phone will charge at home and I can catch up with you all later!

knitter this one but because I am at high altitude I have to use less yeast and a bit more flour because its humid here. Learned that from my bread machine (best purchase ever! no more rubbish Costa Rican Air Bread for me)

If it didnt rise it might be because it wasnt in a warm enough place? Sometimes it just takes longer to do it if its not warm enough, either that or there wasnt enough suger/fat for the yeast to feed off.

Now, can anyone tell me how to make hot cross buns (even better if I can mix the batter in my bread machine)

oh and Easter Eggs too (cant buy them here either )

Phew! Good news for Emoobean today - still there, heart still beating, and has grown as expected. Bleeding was due to a subchorionic haematoma and is likely to continue. They won't see me again, I just have to wait it out until the ~12 week scan. Very pleased. And blubbed like a baby in the scan room, prompting choruses of "bless you" from the scan ladies. Thanks everyone for the hand holding, tin hats, limb and digit crossing, etc.

Pink - sorry, I don't know of a way to prevent the wobbles - but if you find one out, do please share! Being asked to "wee under pressure" sounds kind of dangerous - I have visions of it squirting out like a jetwash. I'd take your own pot - but only if they're just planning to dip it, not culture it (you would need a sterile pot for this).

Orange - good luck for tomorrow's scan, and Daisy too for Saturday's. And I hope you get somewhere with the physio.

Wombat - it was me that asked about the 50/50 . Sounds encouraging if it's something they would be able to see on a scan if it's wrong, and as for the other bits of gene expression - well, you're okay, hey?

Mamap - hope you survived your meeting. And I have to take issue with Brian on the 5-a-day issue. Surely if there are 5 different colours, just one packet of tooty fruities makes up your entire 5-a-day quota? Ditto skittles/opal fruits/insert fruity sweet of choice.

Robin - oh your poor DD - how old is she? I hope she doesn't get it too badly. And I definitely hope DH doesn't get it, as I'm sure man-chickenpox is far worse than normal adult-chickenpox...

Onions, Owl - I agree, crumpets always a good bet. Muffins too. Fruitcake. Tooty frooties. Jelly babies... You are not alone in the weight-gaining stakes! Knitter - I had no idea one could actually MAKE crumpets... I can just about open a packet and press the button on the toaster..

MummyA - hooraaahhh for coloured knickers. I think after this morning I should go out and buy a 3 week supply of reddish brown ones, but it doesn't sound attractive.

Wondering how teacake is today?

And Dachs?

OMG just logged on and now think I need to make an emergency dash to buy crumpets. Back soon!

Great news Emoo... does it help you relax at all?

Fab news Emoo!

Who else was having a scan today?

wombat :)
Muffins are also good.... love 'em for breakfast with poached eggs... mmmmm

Think Dachs is our other scan lady today...

Really pleased for you Emoo

I NEED some crumpets now too!

Yeah for emoobean - special bean sized tinhat for you! I want to get hardhats (and hi viz jackets with their names on them!) for our DDs for when they visit site - dh thinks I am mad but what a momento of the build (jinx pixies cover your ears) I want to make a hiviz onesy and cloth hardhat for the bean as well!

Think I had a hint ms today ... and have already checked out muffin rings on Lakeland.

How is the audit going?

PS EMOO there is a lot of scary stuff on google about subchronic hemotomas, this is one of the less scary pages:

miscarriage.about.com/od/amimiscarrying/p/subchorionic.htm

This is something that i have been told to watch out for as an AS suffer - cant say I know much about it though.

Ermmm I was a bit more relaxed until I googled it and now less-so. Thanks MummyA for the link. You are right, there is some scary stuff out there. I particularly dislike it being a risk factor for preterm delivery, as my previous one already puts me in a higher risk group. Gulp.

A&R - love the builder outfit ideas for the kiddies! School just issued all the pupils with high-viz jackets - my DD loves hers (unfortunately has inherited her mother's lack of dress sense).

I'm sure someone on the Grads thread had one of these a while back - might be worth asking in there?

Hurrah for the Emoobean!

Fab news Emoo - really pleased for you x

Talking of crumpets, I ate 5 on Wednesday - that'll be why I've put on 11lbs in 4 weeks.......and as for home-made ones, I'm very impressed. Never had the bottle to do them myself, but maybe you'll inspire me to give it a go.

nix how exciting to feel the baby move, such lovely news.

Big wave to everyone else - am lacking in va-va-voom, so off to slob on the sofa......have a good evening ladies x

UH? Taxi driver has just delivered brown envelope containing something that I'm guessing is Anti-D. WTF am I supposed to do with that?

Thanks owl for the tip - will pop in and ask.

emoo am having a Brian moment - drugs being delivered by taxi - images of emoo being involved in drug cartel - taxi now has blacked out windows with faint wisp of cigar smoke drifting from cracked open back window ...

Ps silly thought, did your doctor say anything about the subchronic hemo thing emoo? Dr Google loves scaring the bejesus out of us!

Hello people! :)

Audit nearly over :)

Both pups still there and looking more like tiny babies than unformed blobs :). Two heartbeats

(I've been feeling really worried cos I'm 9 weeks tomorrow and I have zero symptoms. The doc told me it was because I was lucky rather than cos there was a prob with the pg...)

Glad emoochick is also ok :)

Well done dachs, good news indeed!

at a&r and the drug cartel. Mystery resolved. Next knock at door was dodgy looking character in midwife uniform who came in and proceeded to poke sharp object into my buttock.

I didn't see a doctor. Just saw the epau nurse who mumbled something about it being very common when I asked what the significance was.

Dach Yay for two heartbeats!!!

Wow v v excited about all the good scans today! Good work emoo and dacha beans!!

I've got a scan tomorrow, then, fingers crossed if it goes ok, I'll have to go a whole 2 weeks till the next one wobble wobble wobble. I switched the black pants a while ago but I think it's not entirely helpful as at least with White you'd have an instant indication of what's going on whereas I spend ages peering into my pants trying to see what's happening and then wiping anyway... I am so ridiculous I know!!' can someone send me the link to the stats about your chances of it being ok if 10w scan ok? I am going to practice being rational....

Super impressed with homemade crumpeting!!! Good for you! What did you eat them with? Did it mean you ended up eating about 27 in a row?? Freshly baked crumpets would be morethan I could resist!

mummya I think homemade Easter eggs sound cool! Can you get nice chocolate there or is it like Malaysia where even the cadburys tastes vile?

thanks for advice and tips about avoiding pressure peeing-I think I might go to the chemist and ask for a sterile pee pot and that way will avoid any probs hopefully! Jet wash isn't so far off the mark hence the problems of aiming in a little pot under time and performance pressure!!

Turns out my entire office knows about my diffed status.... Probably heard me honking in the loos today

Emoo Grrr at crap information distribution by NHS leading us straight into the arms of the alluring but ultimately shallow and slightly evil DrGoogle

Dachs double bean sized tin hats - you are super lucky to be symptom free with twins - makes me feel better as well as I am rather symptom free.

Hoorah for the DoubleDachsBeans !

Moo random taxi drugs and buttock stabbing sounds like far too much excitement for one day

I have only put on 3lb in total which is astonishing given how much cake I eat daily. I fully expect to balloon like the hindenburg or whatever it's called at some point fairly soon. That should be entertaining. Until that happens, I'm not telling anyone at work. Buahahahaha.

happy diffed day peeps

YEY for the multiple beans today scanners xxx