Getting Ready For Baby Challenge - Part 9

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Through the ups and downs of this amazing journey - we are all here together. I'm grateful for you all ❤️❤️

Omg Wilde I have just seen it too... how sad 😭😭😭... It makes me so angry! (and scared of going to Wembley this Friday to see Brian Cox) 💔

I'm glader you got signed off Springer

Is it just Nausea Mummy or are you being sick? I have a friend who is 24 weeks atm and she has the biggest bump I have ever seen... literally if you did not know her you would think she was due now! Lol

Lovely stories of meeting DHs... i'll tell you mine (please don't judge 🙈) so I met DH because my dad got made redundant and I had to come back to London to help them clear out the family home to sell up, at the time i was with Abusive Ex-DP and things had just started to go massively downhill in our relationship. Anyways my mum offered me £10 to go and play poker whilst she was playing darts at the pub and in I walked to my DH and his cousin gawking from the bar when my mum asked if I could buy in I basically fell head over heels in love with him and knew I was going to marry him there and then... then for about 2 months there was lots of secret meet ups and trips to Thorpe Park etc whilst we got to know each other as friends although no cheating ever occured! Until one night I fell asleep in his bed and woke up snuggled so I went straight back home cried to my parents about just how badly AExDP had been treating me and how i didn't realise until I formed this friendship and they told me I needed to leave him due to his ways and not to hook up with DH as i was obviously fragile... We got married in Vegas 6 months later and really married 18 months later and now we are coming up to 2 years of being together and Baby Noah is coming!

I cried writing that! Damn pregnancy hormones!

Oh and I won the poker £140 😏

Just woke up to the news. Hope everyone is ok, dunno if we have any Manchester folk. Stay safe today everyone. ❤️

Omg so sad..

Love all the stories.. DH and I used to work in a pub together when we were 17/18. He was the new hunky bar man and I had to fight a few fellow waitresses off so in could have him 😂 our eyes met across the bar as I was collecting glasses and that was it! Been together 10 years, married for 2!!

Go confused I'm never allowed to play the poker as I'm rubbish! But quite happy to watch and be the waitress (just realised dh has me well trained......)

Dancing I love the hat. Jupiter, please send me the pattern I want a go!! Although not sure I'll be able to manage that yet! X

I'm another match.com success! He was my first old and he had pretty much decided to give up and thought sod if I'll do 3 more months and I was the first person he saw after that. We had our first date 2 years yesterday. I'd come out of a horrible relationship and just thought I wanted a bit of fun.

The Manchester news is heartbreaking there are no words to describe what a tragedy it is. Hoping all our online friends and family are safe.

Well for me I have just had 2 days of peak opk today is slightly lighter so we have extended our dtd ed sessions to cover that as well! We're exhausted lol. I wish I could just see what was going on in my body.... I'm kind of hoping it was 2 eggs released I think. Gives me double the chance! So cb digital was peak fri and sat tested on Sunday with opk cos felt weird and the was peak Sunday and Monday. Who knows.

Mrs and biker the scan pics are beautiful. It made me feel very emotional!

I just really hope this month works for us. I so desperately want to be pregnant again.

Manchester news so sad this morning 🙁

So the vomiting kicked in this morning 😖 On my way to work and the journey isn't helping

Jupiter please can you send me the pattern to!! Also does anyone crochet??

Oh mummy. Hugs to you. Did you say you suffered with ds too? I hope it eases for you. It's very grim, isn't it?!

Please can someone virtually slap me. 6po is too early for symptoms!!! My head is making them up.

Me Tigger!! Can't wait for half term. I'm gonna be crafting and cleaning and going the tip and gardening all week!! Xx

Morning all. Lovely little bumps and scan pics - you're all looking wonderful.

We landed yesterday morning and I've been like a zombie since then. Got a bit of sleep yesterday but my boss stupidly thought I was back in office on Sunday and had promised loads of work out so I had a mad rush getting that done yesterday!

Was lovely getting to snuggle my little puppy again. Back in office today and loaded with a head cold. Only three days til weekend.

So sad about Manchester. We lived there for 8 years before moving to Dubai - our flat was about 5 mins from the arena. Such an awful world we live in at times.

Hope you are all well ❤️

Tigger I crochet. Made this blanket for my SIL (her rainbow baby is due next week) and am working on a few other projects atm.

MIL tried to get me into knitting but I prefer the hook!

Hb I meant to say. Your baby has the cutest little head! And belly! All snuggled in tight! Well done lovely xx

parsnips what type of puppy do you have?! Glad you got back safe but sorry you are having to work so hard xx

And WOW!! That's amazing! It's huge! And beautiful! X

stop mumsnetting and go to work seven

She's a puggle seven (pug/beagle cross). She is my little love. I say puppy - she's almost 2 but she's not going to get any bigger so she'll always be a puppy to me.

Thanks - I got a bit carried away with the blanket size wise but it was my first project. Making a few smaller bits now and working on some cushion covers too which are lovely. I find it quite relaxing.

So sad about Manchester - thinking of those poor people and their families

Sorry been quiet. Last night was terrible I cried all evening and just totally exhausted myself. I've stopped bleeding, amazingly, not sure if that's what's made me realise my little bean is really gone now. Had a relatively good day at work yesterday just as I was walking home from the tube I started to cry and couldn't stop.

I put my last bump photo on Instagram... it's been therapeutic for me to publicly acknowledge this pregnancy. I thought DH would be annoyed (he is v private) but he says he wants people to know because if more people had shared their experiences (loads of our friends are reaching out with their own MC stories now) then we wouldn't have been so utterly shocked that it happened. I also feel cheated out of our happy pregnancy announcement.

I set up the CBFM last night by resetting it and lying to it that yesterday was CD4. First test day is tomorrow, "CD6". At least it makes me feel like I'm doing something and I should know if I ovulate before first AF.

Such cute stories of meeting OHs. My now DH broke my heart at 13, 14 and 15 lol... we then lost touch for ten years but met up via mutual friends in London in 2010 when DD was 5. Been together 7 years this summer, married since last November. He's my person ♥️

oh and confused no judging here.. at the time I was meant to be in a LDR with a guy who had moved to Canada (but he called me once by accident and I heard him chatting up a girl by a swimming pool! I could hear the water! I had to hang up the phone.. 🙈 so after 1 dinner date with DH I ditched him!)

Dancing and tigger I so hope this is your month xx

Mummy sorry about the sickness! Poor you. Hope it eases up as the day goes on.

Buzz yes to prosecco at my house! It's actually in Sardinia - even better! Gives up on not outing self. We are going this August for over two weeks - I absolutely cannot wait.

Springer I'm glad the doc was nice and you got signed off work. Take care of yourself lovely. Have you got anything to keep yourself busy while you are at home?

Manchester 💔 What a world we now live in.

parsnips aww your dog is so cute. I still call mine puppydog and he is 8, haha!

Loving everyone's dating stories.

Sorry the sickness has got you so soon mummy.

So so heartbreaking about Manchester. No where is fully safe😢 hope no one is affected, very sad.

Loving all the meeting stories!! Love things like that!! Well buzz you say about tinder nightmares but I actually met my DH on tinder🙈 my friend put me on there as a bit of a joke but I met DH coming up 4 years ago now! I always joked that I would marry a Welsh man.. I'm from Gloucester, we met on tinder when he was in uni and now I find myself married for 7 months and living in Wales 😂 wouldn't change a thing.. so nice to meet your prince after a string of dickheads!! My best friend too❤️

Hope the sickness eases off for you mummy

Hope everyone has a good day today! Back to rain here! Fx meant to be hot for the rest of the week! Xx

parsnips i soooooooo want a cuddle with your Pup... what an absolute CUTIE! & the blanket is stunning! Clever gals on this group!

Rubbish that you're vomming mummy really hope it is a short phase in your pregnancy.

I think it's great to tackle MC out in the open grumpy hopefully help people feel less alone especially if they haven't discovered MN a friend of mine instagrammed a pic from her hospital bed with a lovely passage about her two girls but also the 3 losses she'd had to raise awareness. Very brave.

Aw thanks seven it does look cute... a different story when it looked at us face on & was like a halloween skeleton 😂 Glad she didn't screen shot that one!!

Manchester 😢

Such dreadful news about Manchester to wake up to. Heartbreaking.

Love all the DH/OH stories though - makes me feel all warm inside. So much love around. No judgement at all confused, just happy that you’re happy!

Anyone that would like the knitting pattern feel free to PM me with your email addresses (if you don’t mind) and I’ll forward it on along with the one for baby booties which is nice and simple too. So lovely that lots of people want to try it. parnsips your crochet is beautiful and your puppy is adorable

Forgot to ask.. for the preggos, how are you all sleeping? I was sleeping like a log in the first trimester but for the last week I've been waking up weeing constantly again, feeling very hot (have fan on constantly at night at the moment) and generally restless. Horrible really. I assume this is normal? Ugh.

Awh love all your love stories! So ruddy cute!

jupiter in the same! Weeing so much and hot! Except 2 nights ago I went to bed late and slept through without weeing!! Had the longest wee ever in the morning! Couldn't sleep at all last night either after hearing about Manchester:( so sad

Lovely hearing all your ❤️ stories Much needed this morning as the news has really gotten to me. Nieces and nephews in the north who could so easily have been there and DD at an age where she is interested in pop music and concerts. The hormones are making me extra emotional and it's really hitting me.

Sorry to hear about the sickness mummy. How many weeks are you? I was fortunate at first as had no ms and then mild from 7w. It had hit me very hard this past week, 11-12w and am struggling with getting to work/functioning in general. Nothing helps! But grateful as I know, though not always, it's a good sign. And worth it when I feel his fluttering away in there.

It's so awful isn't it Wilde, it's really got to me too. I can't imagine our little babies growing up, going out to a concert and never coming home. Too much. Want to keep babyjupes safely inside me forever.

buzz it's dreadful isn't it. I went through a phase last month where the weeing calmed down but I think now our babies are growing more rapidly maybe it's making it worse again. It's really warm in Norwich anyway and my little furry hot water bottle (the cat) won't leave me alone and tries to sleep on my tummy in the night and overheats me even more. The summer is going to be unbearable at this rate isn't it.

@HeyJupiter Same - MANY nighttime wees and too hot. Not getting more than 4-5 hours (6 if lucky) broken sleep a night (I'm usually a 7-8 hour person so am suffering) and I swear it's affecting my usually logical brain as well!

@TheGrumpySquirrel Raising awareness is an amazing thing. I haven't told many people the whole story, but I haven't shied away from mentioning the miscarriage. Before December, I had no idea how common it was. And many people I know have come out of the woodwork since, which helps a little - doesn't ease the pain but does help feeling less alone.