Emmsys over here! Come shake yer pom poms!!!

[VJay]

Here we are, it's getting chilly, the slanketsnare out. Were all here to support, laugh and cry with each other.

oh barbie here's a hug. You poor love, I hope you can see a doctor tomorrow and get some answers. You are lucky you're still out there and can be seen straight away. Praying for good news for you.

Buddha hope everything is ok with you, I've been thinking of you and E xx

Neeko a good hair wash and he's all red again

Louey if you go to mymumsnet and you can add your hover or status where you change your nickname.

Gotta dash, need to feed the monkeys xx

Dh is home and managed to load the scan cd. It looks more and more like a fold...phew! It's big and right across the sac but lots of forums say that they sometimes disappear by 24 weeks, hence her wanting us to wait a few more weeks. I am positive that my little Ralph will get to see the world thank you for all your text and support...I lurvvvve you!

Oooh god just lurked and missed the drama of the day, poor barbie - what a worry, but hopefully from the sounds of your last post things seem more positive, saying a little prayer anyways and fingers xd you get to see fetal meds tomorrow for some reassurance ....

Neeko & Cupcake hurrah for the climbing club! Sounds like ourLOs would have a ball together! Summer was climbing before she could walk!

Just got a tx from Buddha - brave boy E is just out of surgery and eating a sandwich!

Phew bet mummy daddy and likkle soldier E are all very relieved indeed!

Fab news Buddha!!

Buddha - so relieved for you and big gold strawberry-esq star for Master E

Barbie - the worry never ends does it?.... Try and stay positive and remember that awful sonographer early doors who spoke about cancer markers and worrying cysts and it all turned out well then...

Hey to everyone else. Going to do big catch up tomorrow on lunch at work x

Buddha are you feeling the relief? Well done to E, and hope he enjoyed his sandwich

Lovely to see you blue and I look forward to your mammoth post

barbie listen to wise young blue

Can Ajay join the climbing club, he has been likened to a mountain goat before now

Off to catch up on some sleep, Ajay has been waking at around 2.30 most mornings for a while now and I'm sooooo tired.

So pleased it went ok Buddha. Hope you both got a good nights sleep.

barbie are you going to fetal medicine today? I'm glad the DVD didnt look too worrying.

Has anyone heard from QA - she's due soon isn't she??

Hello, quick update...
Phoned fetal med centre and was basically told the best thing to do is to wait a few weeks to see if it moves, disappears etc...so it seems my doctor was right. Spent most of last night reviewing the scan pic and DVD, I think I know everything there is to know about amniotic bands and folds! We are convince it's a fold, would explain the sharp kicks and the very early feelings of movement, it's due to him not having a whole lot of space! The one thing on my side would be that dolly was small, so if I carry smaller babies than the room available to him with last longer iyswim? I have to sit tight until my next scan on the 17th and then will be meeting with the doc on the Wednesday after.

It does look like I will be scanned every two weeks until I give birth!

Louey is your sis going to call him Ralph? It started out as a joke to wind up poor vjay but I have come to really like it! Dh loves it too, either that or Hugo..dolly calls it baby Gogo!

Waves to blue, you have been missed! Every time I look at the jo jo website I think of you.

Massive thank you to everyone for your kind thoughts, hugs and hair strokes, I was very impressed with the hospital (even if it's nearly 2 hours away!) they were really good with Ewan and the anaethetist (sp) was fantastic (E thought he was the bees knees as he had a Buzz Lightyear to show him) they didn't put the mask over his face just held his hand under his chin with the gas tube in it so he wouldn't be scared, no crying just went to sleep(and I actually kept it together) they did say that they removed loads of thick fluid and his eardrum has thickened so, further hearing tests will be needed to see if there is any permanent damage. All in all not as bad as I thought and he's not stopped eating since! Oh and the list of things I hoped would improve is not looking so good so far, but I will give it a few more days to see. No sleep last night, tantrums and screaming this morning

Barbie Huge hugs and hairstrokes winging their way to you my lovely, can't believe you now have this extra stress to contend with, I so hope it's just a fold, we're with you every step of the waiting game and thank goodness you have small babies!

Right off to rescue the cat from being "Ewaned"

thanks again lovlies for my support

Buddha, dolly was a bit off for a few days...takes a while for the medication to leave system. X

Barbie On re-reading my post I didn't mean for it to sound so blase as in "just a fold" which in itself has huge impacts on your pregnancy but I'm sure you knew what I meant!

Well I've had my own mini drama since I posted last night... Poor Benj has had croup since last week but his breathing was awful last night, really shallow and weak coupled with a terrible mucusey cough so we took him to A&E and they confirmed severe croup and steroids were administered. They were initially wanting to admit him but after speaking to consultant we got to take him home as his vitals were all OK. Had a wee cute moment when they were checking his pulse and he had to wear one of the pulse bulldog clip type things on his teeny tiny big toe. Also felt a bit wobbly lipped seeing his heart rate on the monitor as it reminded me of seeing his heart rate at my scans when he was in my tummy. His breathing was much better this morning and DH's Mum is at home with him. My wee boy

Buddha - so delighted the op went well. Paediatric staff are normally utterly brilliant and glad yours was too . Great to read Master E is back to his cheeky monkey self and his appetite was not diminished! Let's hope the sleep improves toute sweet too.

Barbie - you sound more reassured today. I'd never heard of membrane folds and bands before reading your post, jeez... Stay positive and ghopefully scan on 17th will be all good.

On a brighter note, you can't go saying you're going to call your DS Hugo - we'll never get strawb back if she knew that . Her opinion if I remember correctly was... "rugger bugger type -hurrumph" What about Henry? Alfred? Benedict? Nathanial? James Junior

re: Aberdeen. Its a beautiful city, very wealthy as lots of oil workers live and work there. My FIL has a flat in city centre as he works there Mon-Thurs.. I know people who live outwith as its so expensive property wise.. Great shops and restaurants and I'm sure enough Baby and toddler groups than you can shake a stick at . Now the accent is something else, Aberdonians are always described as "furry boots". As in where we would say "whereabouts" in Aberdeen it comes out as "furry boots" - no really

Vjay - hope Ajay's hair has recovered from your painting. Hope you weren't trying to cover up his gorgeous red Scottish hair .

4ever - loved reading about your hols and chilled out post-holiday outlook . Holidays are great for clearing your head and seeing things clearer. Age differences are such a personal things but I have 3.5 years between mine (although should have been 2.10) and felt DS2 had proper quality baby time with me as his big brother was at pre-school nusery every day.. I also made sure I spent qt time with DS1 but he understood his brother needed alot of Mummies time and was out of nappies etc. by then which made things easier. There were still some days that it all went tits up but that happens irrespective of age gaps! Enjoy your DD, she sounds so full of life and love and will make a terrific big sister one day

QA - not heard from you since you were meeting the midwife, is everyhting OK?... Less than a month to go - eep!

cupcake - at your (.) (.) Mine are a sorry version of their former selves... Have you done the baking soda test?!?!

Gracie congrats on becoming an auntie

Louey - how is the separate rooms working out? Hats off to you flying solo with a baby, two energetic and spirited 4 years old and two different schools.. your beach day sounded lovely

neeko - Can't wait to meet Miss H . I'm sure she'll be bossing B around in no time!

curly - are we at pom pom time yet? Tell me to shut up but have you thought of OPK's yet? Loved your post from last week too

MLS - hope the positive thinking is continuing, you'll have DD2's birthday to help keep you busy. BTW do they do maternity slankets? Or, lets face it, do they need to as they are so massive to begin with

Sabs - glad you had a lovely weekend celebrating our first pink graduate . She's such a proper little girl now

LBM - wow! Dubai in Feb . Retro hats off for coping with DD and DS and 17 months between them

Thanks for all your supportive comments on my recent fug. Saw my counsellor last week and got some good practical advice (as well as balsam tissues and water on demand ). Don't want to go into it here as its something I need to work on on my own but your kind comments certainly helped my rather bruised heart so

Right, back to work x

Hi blue I hope bennyboy is feeling much better today, the poor wee lamb.
I would never cover up ajays lovely Scottish red hair, I love it! It comes from my nans side of the family and there is scots blood there too, so I really am home
No need to discuss your worries on here, I will send you hugs anyway, and if you lived closer I'd have you round for a brew and cake xx

quick message for barbie really sorry to hear your latest stress - it's just not fair isn't it. Pregnancy is stressful enough when you have had a problem before, without seeing odd things on the scan. Fingers most firmly crossed for your next scan - typical boy. Causing his mum stress before he's even born.

Quick lurk love to you all and barbie praying that the fold turns out to be nothing xxxx

Barbie what an awful time you are having - stuff you could just do without. I can imagine you were in bits after your scan. Thank God you have been able to study the scan & think that it's a fold. I have everything crossed for you. Hugo....Hugo? Not with your surname surely!!

Blue another one in need of {{{hugs}}}. Firstly let me say that you are a stalwart of this thread & I hate to see you going through emotional troubles. Secondly you poor ds2 , I'm glad he's over the worst of it & hope he's fully recovered soon.

Buddha how is little E bearing up? Really glad it went well, I'm sure it was worse for you than for him.

GG is it Monday your scan?

Cupcake how are your symptoms? Thanks for asking about dd2's neck, her appt for an ultrasound has now been canceled 3 times & she is now due to have it next Friday afternoon - the same day as my scan!

My dd's are having a joint birthday party this weekend as it was dd1's 4th birthday on Tues & of course it'll be dd2's birthday next Tues. So... I'm currently waking at odd hours in the night & obsessing about making the cupcakes & the cake which I'm going to tackle tomorrow! I had to take dd2 to the gp this morning as she's had a nasty dribble-rash on her neck for about three weeks. Turns out the poor little mite has impetigo so is now on antibiotics.

Right got to dash & wake the little one up to give her her medicine & then go & collect the big one from pre-school.

Sorry it wasn't much of a catch-up but I'll be back later.

MLS how did dd2's birthday come round so quickly !!! Have a lovely time - for dd1's birthday , i made cupcakes with raspberry butter cream. Very lovely - top tip is to use butter rather than margarine as they taste so much better. And in your condition, you can enjoy loads of them
barbie hope the new day seems brighter than yesterday. I'm with MLS - you have way too much *t to deal with at the moment and it's really not fair.

Finally time to breathe...

mls I agree with LBM - can't believe DD2 is nearly a year old. Hope you have fun baking, cupcakes sound like a lovely idea. Hopefully the antibiotics will clear her impetigo up and she will have a lovely time at the party. Sounds like next Friday will be fun, still think its ridiculous that her ultrasound has been cancelled so many times. Has the lump gone down?

barbie in a few months time when you are holding Ralph (not Hugo please ) in your arms, this will all seem like a bad dream. At least you know that the first clinic gave you the right advice, even if waiting is a PITA. Yes my DSis is calling her DS Ralph . She tells me the middle name is a "bit out there" so I dread to think....I know my Mum is going to hate it. Ralph was on my list but vetoed by DH (then, he did veto pretty much everything). When are you off to Aberdeen??

lovelyblue I'm glad you are getting some help from the counsellor and I hope you are feeling a bit brighter. Poor Ben - hope he is on the mend, croup can be very scary Still trying to sort out the room situation. We are going to have a look at beds this weekend, hoping to get one of those midsleeper beds that you can make into a den and also store more furniture under for when he is older. Although he did tell me last night he wanted a star wars bed

LBM thanks for the disney info, think we might book to go to the same place (davy crockett) once I've convinced DH. I am hoping the first week in June is a good time to go as the French are not on holiday that week - handy having our half-terms moved back a week because of the jubilee.

vjay I had no idea ajay was a red-head. I know they get lots of stick, but I really wanted to be one when I was younger (yes, I am clearly a bit mad). DS2 came home from school last week and told me under interogation about his friend who has "really beautiful curly hair". I asked him what colour it was and he said orange, and then amended it to "tangerine orange" . I think he has his first crush

neeko hope you're ok, it can't be easy sharing an EDD with your DD1's birthday.

buddha how is E doing? Hope you are getting a bit more sleep. What a brave little boy!

4ever and cupcake they can give you heart attacks climbing like that! Isaac is absolutely fearless, and worse has no sense of balance so frequently climbs up the top of things and starts letting go. Its a miracle he hasn't had a bad accident yet. I remember his occupational therapist watching him in horror as he scaled a full scale wall gym (like we used to have in school).

QA check in please!!!

I know she hasn't said it but BQ deserves some massive congratulations for passing her degree!! Well done you. How you managed to revise for exams with a small baby I have no idea!

Window locks now on windows, hopefully will stop Isaac throwing himself out.

Was hoping to write a bit more but O has woken up earlier than planned....

Happy birthday to me, Happy birthday to me, happy birthday dear Gracie, Happy birthday to me!!!!!!!

Morning all, sorry I've not been on for a few days, saw GP on Wednesday and got MORE steroids and told me to double my use of inhalers. I think it actually might be working! Yay! It's a slight improvement but any improvement at all is very welcome after almost 6 weeks of not being able to breathe properly.

Today we're off to my parents for the day and DD will meet her baby cousin for the first time.

MLS scan? What scan?? No I'm in denial no scan for me.

(it's Monday at 8:40am- ssshhhhh don't tell Gracie).

Happy Birthday Gracie - hope you have a lovely day with lots of cake . Glad you are finally starting to feel better x

Happy birthday Gracie hope you've had a lovely day

bq'congratulations on your degree

Sorry it's short and sweet but revision and rum await xx

Ps building work is complete, dh has done a fab job, it's fab

Hello ladies sorry to have been awol...ds and I both been vomiting this week ...ds all over the car which was , so I'm not sure if mine was pregnancy related or not but feeling fine today so fingers crossed just a blip :)

barbie so sorry to hear your worries :( Praying it all turns out for the best.

blue at poor Benny! The worry they put us through hey, must have been horrible :( hope he's all back to normal now. Don't be of the (.)(.)...they're freaking me out!! Though I'll be more gutted in 18 months time when they go back to their satsuma-at-the-end-of-a-sock state

MLS at dd2's scan being cancelled so many times! Can't believe it. And wow yeah, Friday will be an intense day for you then, thinking of you loads.

buddha how is E now? Hope he's bounce right back and sleeping a little better.

Vjay yippee for the building work! :) Who's your favourite in Strictly if you're watching??

louey and you will soon have 3 fearless climbing boys to deal with they are brilliant but yes, heart attacks galore. at your ds having a crush

gracie did dd enjoy meeting her baby cousin? Hope you had lovely birthday :)

bq well done!! That is fab.

qa yes please do check in and let us know how things are.

curly how was Wales??

monkey, moon and strawb you're never far from my thoughts...come back soon!