Feisty Fabulous Forty somethings - part 3

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As you were ladies

Rafa is ok but very young, maybe Isaboo will be interested in him

I hope you don't get bullied too much this afternoon and its not just a foregone conclusion. Are you feeling the baby move now ? I loved that, makes it so real.

Hey, don't give away my Rafa to isa, he's all I've got left!!! And as for you Hippy I think you secretly want a bit of Simon too
Thanks for good wishes for this afternoon. I am the sort of person who will argue to the death in my head, but after I've got a bit of my perspective out, tends to give in (if I'm feeling intimidated) As you say Hippy, as long as me and 'Freddie' are safe, that really is the main thing.
Oh and yes panashe I have been feeling movements on and off, but not everyday. I do have an anterior placenta though which I know can muffle things a little!

OMG diege now I have an image of your lovely little bean looking like Freddie !!! Not a good look for any foetus - I'll bet he/she is much cuter

The only Simon I will consider is Simon Baker [yummy salivating face]

hippy I concur simon baker is exceptionally cute

Any news from Louise's scan?

Hi all scan good. Saw GBOS wriggling around , flipping over all measurements on track for 16 weeks.Songrapher wouldn t tell us the gender as not our trusts policy to 20 weeks so that's fine. All ok xxxx then loads of office politics at work !!! Hence, why only got chance to postnow!!! Hope everyone's ok??? Oh got my 20 week scan on 16 th June then see my consultant.

Who's next for the helicopter? Xc

Love to all xxxxx

Yay, brilliant news.

Excellent news Lou! Shame about them not revealing the sex, but great that everything's looking so good My 20 wk scan is 4 days ahead of yours. It was actually the 16th too but I moved it to the Monday so I could go on a work trip (luxurious hotel, little actual work).
My appointment was fine. Consultant actually declared 'No reason not to have a vbac then?' before I'd even opened my mouth, saying that banls rings didn't usually reoccur. Also, ds was not macrosomic ('not even near') so have decided mw must be a bit of a nutter drama queen.
He had a quick scan in his office too - bean asleep, but say heart beating away. Oddly he says placenta def posterior, NOT anterior, so presume 10 week scan sonographer must have got it wrong??? So a pretty good result birth-wise!!

Fantastic news diege and Lou. That's so reassuring and lovely. I was getting worried that there was no news from you Lou, but that's me a worrier.

Hope my scan is ok tomorrow. A quick turn around for the helicopter, can someone do all the safety checks, sick buckets in and re-fuel please?

Ooh Shandy, I hadn;t realised your scan was tomorrow! I'm sure all will be fine. How many weeks are you now?

Good luck shandy xx

diege placenta can move alot in the early weeks so possibly didn't get it wrong at 10 wks.

Am so pleased cons is in favour of vbac, you'll be fab. If you want some online doulaing I'm mpore tghan happy to chat to you whenever you want/need.

My email is l c t w a l t e r s at sky dot com (no spaces)

lou so pleased evertything is going well for you, nearly half way there. :)

Lou great to read scan all good today. Georgie's still watching over her little sibling then xx

Diege I'd take up Lia's offer if I were you, she's a fantastic doula

Evening all! Thanks for having me back, and hi to all those I haven't met yet. Lots to catch up on here! In the meantime, am I allowed to admit to 'cheating'? Resorted to IVF, and had EC today. Waiting to hear how many embies develop overnight which is quite exciting.

Toasting you all with a little glass of Cava (well it's been a while), but don't tell my consultant!!
xx

Good grief, I thought there was nothing left to learn. Placentas can move? Seriously? How? I'm imagining millipede-style legs. Very happy that all our babies are ok. Diege your mw does sound a bit bats to be honest. Talk about scaremongering. Glad little bean was snoozing happily. Very cute. Good luck for tomorrow, Shandy. I've hoovered the 'copter and put out more peanuts. Ditto Fireflies. How bloomin' exciting! I'd want one of those permanent cameras trained on them, like the nests on Springwatch!

Panashe the nipple tassles were definitely not an Ebay purchase. According to google, you can get some very jazzy numbers. And there was me using the car jump leads for years when I could have had Hand-made Sworovoski crystal open nipple pasties with a choice of many colours...As I said. I thought there was nothing left to learn...

A little too many wines but very happy for Lou

And lol these younger men keep us

on our toes !!!

X

Oh Lol, you are funny - your nickname is perfect for you!

Lou and Deige, lovely news about your babies. So glad you can have the VBAC Deige. It will certainly make recovery easier.

Shandy - thinking of you for your scan today. Can't wait to hear your update.

10000 - I'm so excited for you. When is transfer? Are you doing 3 or 5 day transfer? How many will they transfer? Can't wait to hear how it goes. I'd hardly call it cheating. I think it is just doing whatever you can to bring a baby home.

Today is usually the day RTD would turn up, and I had a nice high temp this morning. I had some back-ache and cramping last night and started to think it might be all over. Then I thought, there's nothing I can do about it, so will just carry on and be positive that our little one will show up healthy and fine at the end of January.

I was on ebay last night, looking at a maternity shirt and was sprung by my DH. He said"what are you looking at" and I quickly scrolled down the page - he said -"show me" and I closed the page. He said,"why are you looking at a maternity shirt?You are not pregnant are you Gum?" I just froze and couldn't say anything. He asked again, I said nothing, and then our 2 year old was demanding something and nothing else was said.

I suppose I should have used the opportunity to tell him, but the timing was all wrong. I suppose my silence means he'll have an inkling. He had just finished telling me earlier how stressful work is right now. How he can't even think about his father's illness 9he's 76 and has been quite ill for a while now, it seems to be getting worse) at the moment because he is snowed under with work. And this week his year 11's and 12's are doing exams, so there will be a tonne more marking. It makes him stressed and unhappy, and I just can't drop this on him now. If he asks again, of course I will tell him, but for now, I'm leaving it.

I feel a bit , but when I took my temperature this morning and it was nice and high I immediately smiled. Like Alba said , it will be fine in the end. It's just this bit that is a bit stressful.

Hippy - how are you feeling? Any boob action going on? How many DPO are you?

Louise I call shot gum for the copter for your scan!

Jolls where did you hear the truckers thing! I thought I started that on the assisted conception thread, well the name Dave and the location Slough at least! I am sure others have been talking about truckers for ages!

Lol any news on your son, your dp? And all?

10000fireflies great name, where does it come from, welcome back.

Gum, Tina, Mitzimaybe, BB, Diege, Hippy and all ? hugs

Well car is a right off and so we must get a new one. Feel quite sad about that. Lady at work thought I was pregnant! Told her about irritable bowel and she ended up praying for my irritable bowel and for a baby for me! At work, in a corridor! (I do work for a Christian charity so it is not quite as weird as it sounds!).

Hugs to all.

Morning! Gum, I think the answer, if dh asks again, could be 'I think I might be...' hence the e-baying. You must be feeing quite stressed about it all at the moment, but as others have said this is just something you need to get through then things will settle down x
Lia many thaks for your support and for the e-mail contact. I will definitely take you up on the offer please!
Fireflies that's briliant news about the ivf. Let us know how things go on x
Lol 'nipple pasties'??? . Is that an early bistro order you're putting in there?
Hi Italian, sorry about the car!
Shandy, best of luck for today at the scan. What time is your appointment?
Big hello to everyone else. I tried to stay awake for Psychoville last night Hippy but fell asleep during Misbehaving Mums

OMG I have stopped watching that misbehaving mums - I just get so feckin' mad with the smokers!!! Love to little freddie Diege - so glad you are hopefully gonna get the birth you wanted. And you have your own 'virtual' doula - how posh

lou as always - big hugs from me - GBOS is all fine and well and that makes this old hippy

shandy I topped up the petrol in the copter - we are good to go, mrs

italian sorry to hear your tummy is bad, especially as you are doing so well with the whole taking charge of eating thing. Is there one particular food type that causes that to happen - can you try to narrow it down?

firefly how exciting. Not cheating at all, our very own italian is almost ready to get going on the very same thing. When you said you had EC I thought you meant Elective casarean (sp?) and I was like then I realised egg collection. I agree with lol would love to see them developing like in spring watch.

lol and panashe you two are far too racy for this old girls thread, what with your younger men and now all this saucy talk - get yourselves over to the 20-someting thread

gum Wow, I would defo have caved in at that point and said yes I am, but it's early days. I agree with diege maybe you could say, I might be....... ps. Are you telling me that you have no maternity shirts??? Come on Mrs you know you have loads stashed away!!!

I am on day 28 today with no spotting which would normally be very exciting BUT I did not get a pos on an OPK until day 15 and think i ov'd on day 17 (well that's when the pains were) - so therefore I am only 11 days post ov. Too early to test really, maybe this week-end. My boobs feel quite solid and big but then we all know about my flippin' boobs (they are the great pretenders!)

On MIsbehaving Mums last night there was a girl who smoked 20 a day - waters broke at 31 weeks, unsurprisingly, though they managed to halt things for a few weeks after that. I was quite that a girl with antenatal depression was inluded in the programme though - hardly 'misbehaving'!
Hippy those symotoms are looking really promising. I know you have been there before, but if you were pregnant this is exactly how things should look, no? You are very good at holding out on the test front, when Gum got her bfp at 10 days post ov
Right, toddler group with ds and dd3 who is putting weight on her foot today!!! Dh has made her a little walking stick and she is able to hobble along on that. Thankfully a friend has taken older dds to school and is picking up too. Feel a bit as her own child is poorly today so not in school!

....to be honest i am still reeling a bit from the proposal to buy tassels from e-bay...SECOND HAND TASSELS !! surely there is some kind of health and safety regulations about that .....and now pasties ....Lou any sign of that in the Bistro tonight and I'm off ....reminds me a bit of a school jumble sale I was involved with earlier this year ...we were setting up when a nice respectable lady I know came in and handed over two carrier bags ...."fantastic !" I beamed stuck my hand inside and came out with a big handful of secondhand ....bras and knickers didn't know where to put myself .....
Lou and Deige fantastic news both of you keep up the good work ..
good luck today shandy
Italian the car thing is not good but you are in one piece and thats what matters, loved the idea of prayers in the corridor at work you must work in a lovely place
Hippy sounding good ...remember to use the nice two line test when you go for it steer clear of those the pompous old git clearblue things.......
10,000 heres to a whole herd of great embryo's ...although I like the springwatch idea too it might get a bit annoying a great pack of forty something mums netters politely but determinedly pushing and shoving for the best view ...which reminds me I must be off to shove my way to the front of the copter queue cos have just realised that where everyone else is ....

Bad news here I'm afraid. I had an internal scan, they could see the baby but no hb and small for my dates, 6 wks not 8 wks. They said either my dates were wrong or it was a mc. I have to go back in a week for a scan in case, but I know my dates so it seems a formality.

Oh no Shandy I'm gutted for you THere's nothing I can say really, but try and take one day at a time at the moment watch some rubbishy tv, lots of wrinkly baths, do whatever it takes to get you through. I have been in your situation just the once, and know what a nightmare it is. Have you got someone with you now? Big, big hugs > my love xxx

Shandy I am sat in car waiting for dp to finish work and was just catching up on thread and your post brought tear to my eyes. Sending you a very big hug, the same happened to me although I had started to bleed which was why I had scan and then theres was a tiny bit of me hoping my dates wrong when I knew they were 110% correct. Hope you have someone with you and as diege says just take one day at a time. Xxx