We are jolly well going to get and stay diffed this month and we are BROOKING NO ARGUMENT.

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Gah didn't realise we'd reached 1000 messages on the old thread!

I know Keep I just need to get a grip and let it wash over me. Am sure I'll get used to it eventually and it won't be as irritating soon.

Yay for bump! Bumpie please. And have you felt lots more movements?

Oooh but in other news, I'm never going to stop using body/bump oil - it's made such a difference to my skin, esp skin tone. I actually look glowing! Gorgeous stuff.

I think this is going to be the first of many opportunities to practice deep breathing and selective deafness imps - remember, opinions are like arseholes - everyone's got one Tis your baby, and you will be the one picking the clothes each day. White is nice, but you can't beat a good bit of colour.

I had an orange babygro too beedle - must have been the in thing back in the day!

I second the bumpie request please keep, how are the flutters going?

All ok so far today, but then I've not had to have a poo yet... I spent most of yesterday in bed trying to sleep the day away. I've found it's the only way of dealing with anxiety at the weekend. Last night's sleep was terrible though - a few dreams where it all went badly at the scan, and in between those my norks hurt so much when I lay on them they kept waking me up. I'm taking that as a good sign :)

Sore norks = very good.

Bad dreams = a natural reaction to anxiety. I have had many dreams (including last night) in which I've miscarried, or where at the scan the sonographer has told us that all we can do is pray that the baby will be okay because it looked so bad. It's completely natural to have those sorts of anxiety dreams - they are indicative of precisely nothing (other than confirming that you're worried, but you already know that).

Just 3 more days, lovely Geek.

Morning!
Sorry about your bfn belle isn't it still early though? Will you be testing again?

Oh yes keep lets see a bumpie! And you beedles! How is yours coming along imps

imps I agree that white is nice and she is just excited as annoying as it is. My grandma was so convinced I was having a girl she brought a pink cardi luckily only one though because N is not a girl haha.

Touch wood I had no spotting yesterday and none yet today. Seeing my gp tomorrow so I'm going to see if I can at least get some bum bullets, but defo an early scan and maybe get some bloods just to check things are heading the right direction. Oddly though I feel quite calm.

Hi purple nice to meet you.

geek vivid Dreams are definitely a preggo symptom, as are sore boobs - pasta or magicbooblady as we now call her will be round with her tape measure soon!

imps I found this as a starter for Barry-Baxter :o

Scan is indeed this week, thurs at 13:40 - terrified that they will find something wrong - but we talked yesterday (when MrB asked what it was that was happening on Thursday!) and we've agreed we'll pay for harmony-type testing if I'm high-risk rather than the small risk of mc with amnio/cvs.

I actually genuinely LOVE that Beedles

Good call re: harmony testing. You won't be high risk though cos all your bloods and the nuchal measurements will be perfect.

I like it too imps :o i Think mothercare have star wars themed babygrows, you could send your mum a link to a stormtrooper or R2-D2 and ask if that was what she meant by white clothes for babies :o

Arses the doctors has changed my appointment to a different GP!

Rushes back as soon as the webpage gets unblocked to welcome waffle - sorry, I have a lot of access issues during the working day and often forget important things like welcoming new people!

beedle that sounds very sensible about the harmony testing, but it will not be needed because the scan will come back absolutely peachy.

What does that entail trix? Will they have access to your notes and history?

More fucking spotting this end. Getting equal parts angry and upset now. Just after finding it, I also got a call from my EPU - apparently being referred to a consultant for early monitoring simply means EPU book you in for an early scan then you have a chat with a nurse. It wasn't exactly confidence-inspiring that the appointment-maker couldn't understand why I'm not 6 weeks on Thursday, given my transfer happened on 30/03. That's because my little emby was already five days old by that point! So I've made a provisional appointment for this Friday afternoon, but may cancel it depending on the outcome of Thursday's private scan. Not sure if I've ever mentioned it before, but I really hate our EPU system!

PS thank you for all the reassurances and hand holds, I read but didn't post yesterday, and really did appreciate them

Epu are often useless I find unfortunately Geek sorry you are spotting I wish it would just fuck off and leave you alone.

So it may not make a difference seeing a diff gp and all my notes will be there but I just feel like it will be harder to get her to understand and maybe book me a early scan, normally I always saw the same doc for this sort of thing. I guess the mw won't even want to hear from me yet either. I wouldn't have even known they had changed who I was seeing had I not needed to double check the time which annoys me. So anyway I've emailed Mr shehatas secretary to see if they would see me.

geek so when are you 6 weeks then? I'm confused too.. So sorry the fucking spotting is still there

I also love those babygros! Never bought much from next but should maybe change that

Ooh just had horrible pains in my stomach, not low down so not the baby, think digestive things. Also feeling a bit dizzy today. I have a blood test for anaemia on Thursday

Oh I love next for baby stuff! N has tons from next I usually buy in the sales though!

Last Saturday keep. I'll actually be 6+6 on the day she reckons I'll be 6w!

H&M seems to have some okay and cheap baby stuff too.

Oh! I meant to say - my friend who I was out with last night is going to give me her entire maternity wardrobe!! She was pregnant over the summer and is the same size as me so it should have everything I need! There are definite benefits to being the last to have children - more people are getting rid of stuff that I need

Well done trix, hopefully Mr S can sort you out even if new GP can't.

Is your GP appointment today Trix?

It's tomorrow afternoon imps
That's really handy your friend can give you all her mat clothes saves you bothering buying any!
I kept all mine and all being well this one will be due Jan same as N so I will be able to reuse all mine

Intralipid booked for Wed afternoon!

Get in!!!!!!!!! And what about Clexane? Or did you not need that?

Hmm I'm a bit miffed with Mr I - he hasn't told any of his closest friends yet. On Saturday he said he'd drop them an email and when I asked him yesterday if he had he said "Oh bollocks, I forgot. I'll email them tomorrow". So far he hasn't emailed them, even though there's been a round-robin email chain trying to arrange an event for the end of October.

I can't figure out why he's so reluctant to say anything. It can't be because he's forgotten (I mean, seriously, who forgets something like that?) - I wonder if he's just worried that it will somehow jinx it? He won't talk to me about it (I asked him yesterday if he was okay about telling people and he said that he was). I don't really know what, if anything, I need to make of it.

I've asked him if he wants me to reply to the email chain, but he hasn't got back to me. It's a bit weird.

Hmm imps surely he should be telling them that October will be out due to his lovely wife being either heavily pregnant and fed up, or working out which way up to hold a newborn.

Mrb hasn't told anyone either yet.

Great news about the intrallipid trix was that through Mr S?

So come the end of the year we'll have a whole load of brooking babies in fried egg babygrows :o

I emailed them in the end Beedles. For whatever reason there was something making him uncomfortable about telling them, so I've saved him from having to do so. Men can be so hard to understand at times - even ones you've know for so bloody long.

Ahh well done trix, that's brilliant!

imps that's really odd, maybe it's just a bloke thing, that they don't really talk about it as overtly as women do, maybe announcements just aren't the 'thing' in his circle of friends?

Yet more spotting, and mild cramping too so going to have an early night and hope it can all hang on in there for the next 2.5 days. I wish it wasn't the questionable sonographer tomorrow, I could do with knowing sooner rather than later.