The rat smacketeers are brooking no argument!! All for one BFP and one BFP for all!

[Imps7]

Smacket on, ladies...

At the risk of outing myself I'll join in with names from my family "Free" and "Levi". Free wants to change his name to Jason, and Levi (is lucky, because his name can be shortened to Lee) wants to change his name to Leviticus. Free was almost called "Random", but his mum refused (thankfully)

Wait - I've decided - I'm going to call any future DD Natasha, but instead of the "tash", I'm going to do a nice drawing of a handlebar moustache. A classy name with an unusual spelling PLUS it has the added advantage of being impossible to type (I think...)

oh, i quite like those stasi, but then I wanted to call DS1 Lex and DS3 Beamish or Lux (having not got away with Lex). DS2, as previously discussed, is actually called Cosmo (but my husband wanted to call him Clovis)

I'm sloping off in a tick, having just sent a slightly inflammatory email, I plan to go and hide at school pick up, and then check emails again when the hoo ha dies down.

Cheerio

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Not completely impossible to type then (although I accept that it's not the most realistic depiction of a handlebar moustache I've ever seen)

x-post. Yours is a droopy handlebar Whims!

xpost Imps!

We went through a phase at school (I blame pop ravers Altern-8) for pictoral representations of names. Mine was easy - K8. And poor Sarah, who got an A written in a very square way. Cos she was like square-a.

:o :o :o Imps I actually laughed out loud at that!

Leviticus is awesome :o

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My surname - lucky ol' me - rhymes with Queery. My brothers preferred to call me Widgie. Nice.

My friends seem to have gone all economical with their children's names and miss off letters - eg, Albi instead of Albie...

Though I was quite disappointed when someone recently announced the birth of their son Andrew... Surely a little more poetic licence is allowed in the 21st century?

I quite like the name Myrtle. It's such a shame it rhymes with turtle. Booo.

bean I am not sure if Widgie has the same meaning down South as it does up here in the North? little boys bits??

DH family has this weird thing going on with everyone having their names starting with the same letter. All the older Aunties, Uncles, their kids and now their kids. It is so confusing as an outsider as they are a massive Irish Catholic family. I have told DH we will NOT be continuing the tradition if there were any names left starting in the correct letter but I think he was relieved.

One of my friends added a random "h" to her DD name and then complains that everyone spells it wrong in cards etc, and she can not buy things with the correct spelling!

Yes Sweetie it does. (I'm actually from the North West, but ended up in London for my sins.) Typical brothers, eh?

just a quick pop in, will catch up with recent posts another time as in a rush, but we had our scan this afternoon, DP pleased as just one baby in there! heartbeat fine, and legs were kicking like crazy, but as i suspected, i ovulated late so they now think my due date is the 11th Sept rather than 3rd-5th which is what various medical people told me it would be!! Happy with that as even if it's as early as DS was, it should still be born in September for the new school year Bean was too small for them to get a decent measurement for the nuchal test, so got to go back next Tuesday for another scan.

off out tonight as a belated Valentines (we thought it would be nicer to go out tonight after having the scan today, rather than go out late on Valentines as DP had to work late....but as i didn't want to miss out on pancakes, we had those last night for tea, so we've ripped up the rule book twice in a week lol!)

at daft friend who now must be regretting her randomness.

[SIL is not the most discreet btw]

(scarlet, can you not happen to have a couple of tampons in your bag, and carelessly let one drop out as you go to the loo, or "indiscreetly" make sure she sees you take one out of your bag and slip one up your sleeve...should do the trick of her knowing you are not updiffed and are not drinking because you really don't feel like drinking??)

Hi Everyone
I seemed to have missed so much over last few days.
Had scan today my 7wk blueberry has a little flickering heartbeat so all is well :o Thank you to everyone who remembered.
We've told the close family and they are all really happy for us. Have also told my work bosses, so that my job role can be slightly altered.

Scarlett you could just be honest and say your not feeling 100% and don't want a drink. Its up to them if they want to make assumptions.

Popcorn I think scan is reassuring but on other hand calm positive thinking is good too.

Sorry to anyone i've missed brain not working well enough.

Cakes yessssss! I knew your brooking bean would be ok, hooray!

scarlett I would just say I am not up the duff by the way but then I am a bit like that

just poking my head in to say YAY for Cakes awesome scan news! That is super wicked news

Hooray Cakes!!! Top stuff - well done you and bean!

Congrats to loopy and cakes

Hi everyone

Great scan news from cakes & loopy. Pop, were you wondering about getting a private scan done a few days ago? FWIW, I will definitely do this if when I get pregnant again.

loopy's tip with the tampon sounds good Scarlet

Loving all the crazy name talk.

I finally think af has arrived, but I'm not 100% sure. I've had spotting for a few days, which seemed to have increased a bit this morning, so I started today as day 1 on the CBFM. But now it's calmed off again. I was expecting first af after the mc to be heavy, so I wonder if this is really it. In which case, I've started the CBFM too soon. I'm going to carry on with it, but if I start bleeding properly at any point and realise this was definitely a false alarm, I guess I'll have to reset it.

Anyway, I'm definitely going to be getting on with the Rat Smacketing soon, which is a good thing.

Big congratulations to Cakes and Loopy for fab scan news.

Not much to report here. Am 6 DPO and wondering when I'll be able to hold out to for POAS. DP have discussed not trying next month as he will be crazy busy in a new job about November time. Which makes sense, but makes me want it to work this month even more. It feels like waiting for an exam result! I start off thinking I've done OK, then start to doubt myself as times goes by. Grr.

Scarlett I would say you're on a health kick and cutting down as you had loads last night so have had too much this week already. Try that?

duke, don't think I said hi the other day. I remember you from months ago, sorry to hear you're back here again.

God those names are priceless! DD has a v unusual name, but I won't reveal it for fear of outing myself. Both me and DH having very common names, we wanted something a bit less common. DH is snorting at La-a!

Loopy and Cakes - so happy re scan news! Well done both of you.

Little my AF a couple of weeks ago was a bit like that - about 7 days of spotting rather than proper flow. I don't think I ov'd between mc and AF, so maybe that's why it was a bit weird. I hope you can get back to rat smacketing soon and get some luck this time.

Dukes fingers crossed you get lucky this month then.

I'm having my last bit of chocolate and glass of wine before I give up during Lent - eek! Hoping to lose some weight, lose this stinking cold and get updiffed - hurrah!