Issys girls.....10 down, only 4 to go! :-)

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So here it is... our shiney new thread... hope you all see it soon or i will be here all on my own.

blue No signs from me yet, so we're sticking with plan A, section tomnorrow. I'm showing no signs of any movement, and the consultant said she wouldn't like to let me go beyond Monday anyway, so it would have been an induction on Monday, but I didn't feel at all comfortable with the idea of an induction. Of course, it could all change tonight, but so far so little movement!

I'm going in tomorrow at 10.30am, section will be around 1.30 assuming no emergencies have to go ahead of me. I'll try and get on to update tomorrow sometime if I can. Hopefully they'll have those computer/tv/telephone contraptions available.

congrats on arrivals girls!! its fab news to hear everyone has a happy healthy bundle!! issy, jumpig, rip and blue satinsash!! Sunnydale so pleased 20 week scan went well.....hom time is flying!!

we along with so many others have hung in ther over the last 12 months if not longer!!

i still cant belive that i actually get to type this!! sorry for delay in updating......on the 5th dec by baby girl arrived weighing 9lb!! we doing well, time has flown by since and i would do it all again!!

hope everyone had a merry xmas and happy new year to everyone, lets hope 2010 is a bumper baby year for everyone xxxxxxxx

thanks to everyone for their support!! xxxxxxxxx

Hi everyone,

Will try to post properly tomorrow but just checking in to see how Head was. BEST OF LUCK for tomorrow (and ignore your sisters comments ). I would also take an elective CS over an induction anyday having endured one the first time round. It's only the fact that they basically can't induce a VBAC that's making me attempt one.

I think champers in the ward is an excellent idea and, have you still got your posh choccie biccies to hand?

Am looking forward to your announcement!

Congratulations wishing!!! That's great news, I hope you're all doing well and all the best for you too in 2010!!

wasabi thanks for that.. my sister's just jealous. My surgeon was happy to attempt in induction despite me having a previous section, but there were so many restrictions I didn't feel there was a huge chance of success and I really wanted to avoid an emergency section (and the longer recovery as opposed to el cs) as from the 11th Jan I'm on my own as my mum and dad are away on holiday and dh has to go back` to work for at least three days a week. I can't afford to either wait any longer or have my recovery delayed in any way.

Do I sound like I'm trying to justify it? hahahaha, I don't care! Having lost two babies in 6 months I'm taking no risks.

On that defiant note I shall say goodnight, Happy New Year (if I don't get on before tomorrow evening) and I'll try and update as soon as possible.

Take care lovely ladies xx

Hey all - name changed again as i couldn't take having slice slice baby in my name. a bit considering i am with child, and a bit that someone else had to point it out to me.

Anyway. muchos activitos again!!! blue little benjamin is divine! I hope his colic passes really quickly and he gets better and quicker at burping and farting. Same for you issy little E is gorgeous and I am sure you will reach that all important 5lb landmark soon. I have no idea if mine is a biggie or a smallie. Half say WOw YOU"RE HUUUGE and half that I am very neat so who the hell knows. Time will tell!

Still a wee bit stressed that i am so underprepared given that it could come any day now (am 38 weeks) but quietly hoping it will be late but not so late i have to be induced. Can you ask for a section rather than be induced if it's your first?! unlikely i guess unless they know it's a serious whopper.
wasabi I have a weird feeling yours and mine are going to be born very very close together. If I am way over you might even 'beat' me. I won't mind! I just need to get my work done.
For some reason I had my first ever bout of horrendous heartburn in the middle of the night last night after having eaten tomato soup and toast. isn't it a bit weird to suddenly get it so late? had to have gaviscon. last time i tried to suck in a sachet of that stuff it was while i was doing burny pukes with my MS and couldn't keep it down so flet like I was being a very brave girl trying it again! i thought maybe the baby was just stkciking it's foot right up against my stomach or something

I have had a very busy time of cooking and hanging with the rels. All lovely but all very tiring. Did my yoga DVD today to try and bring it all back to ME again

ooo congrats to wishing and hi to jumping and bubble here's to a brilliant 2010 for you. only good news from now on for you I think!

Irish hope your symptoms are strong enough that you can feel them but not so strong that they are debilitating for you. These days go so slowly but each day is a day closer to the all important 12 weeker. I hope you are getting some early scans in. I would have been even more of a wreck if i hadn't crammed in as many as I did!

Hi to you Sunny! Good on you for learning to drive whilst pregnant. You're sure to pass on the big day even if you make some mistakes. I wouldn't want to be the examiner who tried to fail me whilst preggers anyway!

Do any of you who have popped miss the wriggles? I have got so used to it now i think i will be sad when my tummy is doesn't contain a funny little squirmy alien creature in it any more.

Also - for those of you who have popped again - how are the hormones? I feel like i have been protected somehow from my true self whilst pregnant (not withstanding some incredible moments of rage and pathetic blubbing). I'm a bit worried I'm going to go mental once the baby's born. Hopefully i will be so in love with it that the euphoria will balance out the anxiety, fear and resentment towards my DDDDDDDP for spreading marmite on his toast with a carving knife or whatever his crime du jour may be.
I am getting really excited about it but am just worried about those first 6-8 weeks. Guess you just have to Keep Calm and Carry On and remember that This Too Shall Pass when those bad hormones sweep over...

Any HOO
HEAD All the best for tomorrow. It's so exciting to think that you will go in as one person but come out as TWO . Can't wait for the update. Don't keep us hanging!
Lots of love to you all xx
SifVanillaBella

(ps new nickname courtesy of DP who calls me bella and says I look like a balloon!!!!)

Wishing I am so so thrilled for you! Huge congrats and thanks for letting us know.

Bellaballoon, loving the name and all the best for the final push (as it were).

Head, will be thinking of you tomorrow and wishing you very best of luck

Gotta go as am gonna burst. Am in Yorkshire and all they do here is eat pastry. Literally croissant for breakfast, pork pie AND sausage pie for lunch, plum crumble AND mince pie (the sweet version) for dinner. Oh god. I am going to give birth to a pastie. And did I mention the custard, brandy butter and two types of cream? This is not an envious face - it's one that's green around the gills from over-eating

Much love to all xxx

sunny you are evil, I'm on nil by mouth now and I'm drooling!!!

bella cheers m'dear, I promise to update as soon as dh has paid for my computer/tv\phone thingy to be plugged in

Oh Head good luck for today - even though you probably won't see this until afterward.

Bella nice name I like it. Hope you get things under control soon - sure I think most people are under prepared for babies - you wouldn't be the first. I do still have the sore boobs, and the nausea and (TMI) the discharge so not too worried about it this time. Also, have found my ability to do anything remotely like exercise is gone - jogged to the shop in the rain last night - 200 metres there and back to the car - and got a stitch, felt like I was going to be sick and was really out of breath. I know I was never the fittest person in the world but that takes the

Blue and Issy hope the colic has abated for your two LOs. Hope Eira break the 5lb barrier soon Issy Wishing many congratulations to you on your new lO.

I just found out off the doctor that there is a baby boom in Ireland - and even though I am registered with the hospital now (doc did it for me) might not get my first scan until 20 weeks. Am booking a private scan for the end of January (as have no money until then) I am refusing to wait. I might get preferential treatment though due to MC but we wil have to wait for letter from hospital. Bloody third world health system we have here. One is not impressed (rant over)

I also have a cold and not sure what I can take for it so I think that's contributing to my bad mood.

anywho, better go clean my house - the washing machine repair man is coming (god look at that litany of complaints from me - next post will be more cheerful)

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you. Thanks so much for all the support in 2009 and here's to a brilliant new year with lots of laughs about babies, pregnancy and maybe a BFP or two.

irish so pleased all sounds good. i have to say apart from a mid oreg summer energy boost i have done so little exercise despite fantasies that i would be doing all sorts. fast walks to and from the train station and a spot of very chilled yoga has been about the extent of it. in awe of these people who keep running ad gymming. in fact i found that i have been lazy all round - it's the cotton wool for brains phenomenon which is actually very nice provided you don't have to do anything, which obviously, we all do!

i also found that my first trimester mood was pretty grumpy and poor me but then my second trimeseer mood was almost nauseatingly positive and upbeat. i loved everyone and everything. makes you realise how we are in fact just walking hormones. well i am anyway!

nuff dithering from me too.
can't wait to hear from head!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR girls !!!!

Didn't get on yesterday and dying to hear about Head - but no news yet!! hope it all went well and you're currently sitting up in bed cuddling your DD .

Congratulations wishing - thanks for updating us on the birth of your DD. I remember all those months ago when you didn't realise you were pg and you were about 10 weeks .

Bella - my excercise routine bit the dust on both my pgs but fret not, you do get your mojo back at some point. I was back doing my spinning classes et al after Ds's birth although did take me @ a year to have full energy back. I've lost 2 of the 3 stones Iput on in this pg, really think breasst feeding helps but the last stone is the tricky one - grrr. hormonally I'm a bit up and down, teary one minute, exctatic the next, all normal, just your body readjusting. I just have to look at Benjamin and all's well with the world .

Irish that you might not get scanned til 20-weeks! If it was a choice I would prefer the 20 to the 12 week scan as it highlights all organs are growing fine etc. but that is one hell of a long time to wait. Are you going to go privately?

We managed to stay up to bring in 2010 as Ben was due a feed @ 1230am . I'm knackered but happily so. That's when I realise I'm 38 not 28

Here's to a fantastic 2010 for all us 'Issy's' girls. More BFPs and babies please!!

Love to All xx

Happy new year everyone, sorry for the delay in updating you, the hospital didn't have those bedside computers (tsk, these provincial hospitals!) and my phone just couldnt cope with the size of this thread!

Well Francesca was born at 4.52pm on new years eve weighing 6lbs15. she's very sweet and pretty, and looks alot like her brother. I'll update again when I've got a bit more time (ha! like that'll ever happen!)

CONGRATULATIONS Head and MrHead and welcme to the world Francesca what a beautiful name for I'm sure is a beautiful girl . Piccies soon please!

Enjoy every minute xx

Congratulations Head - so delighted for you and Francesca is such a lovely name. Hope you are enjoying your time with her

I am sitting on the couch at home feeling like rubbish at the mo - nothing seems to e settling my stomach but I'll take it as a good sig

Blue yes we'll be getting private scans in about 2 weeks time.

have to go but will post more soon

Thank you ladies for all your good wishes!! Headfairy im so pleased for you, thats a gorgeous name and so glad all went well! Little Francesca shares her birthday with me!!!

What a fab way to end 2009!! \bring on loads more babies in 2010!!

love and best weishes to everyone happy new year xxxxxxxxxx

Congratulations, Headfairy, on the safe arrival of baby Francesca - have been checking every day for news and so-o-o delighted to hear from you. Gorgeous name, gorgeous baba - can't wait to see pics. Can't believe your delivery suite didn't have wi-fi .

Irish sorry you're feeling rubbish but yes, take it as a good sign. Sorry also that you can't get a scan until 20w - how bloomin ridiculous is that? . Seems unfair to have to fork out your own money even for a 12w scan but whatever - just think of that lovely baba growing inside you and it will hopefully make the bad things feel small. Or at least smaller.

Wishing, happy belated birthday to you - hope you had a good one with your lovely girl.

Blue, your wee bundle is gonna have the pick of the ladies when he's older - you seem to be the only one of us who has had a boy . Your MN moniker is a prescient one - I wonder if you'd been called Pinksatinsash, would you have spawned girls?!

Bubble, how are you my bell?

Well, the curry is a-cookin' (plenty of vegetables, on account of my aforementioned fear of giving birth to a pasty come April) so I'd better waddle off. HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of you and what a lovely, lovely bit of Christmas it has been to read of all your good news. It gives me hope for my own happy ending, and I hope it gives hope to all of us, wherever we may be on the TTC spectrum.

Yay Head And Mr Head from me tooooooo!
Hope you're all settled back at home and getting to know each other. I am getting real waves of nerves and excitement. I just cannot get my head round the fact that I am so close now. I suppose I was focussed on just getting through christmas to a certain extent.

Am still deciding on a cot. Please help me. Does it matter if it is really would or not? My parents have very sweetly offered to buy it but just don't know whether or not to go for the £99 or the £250 one. Especially since it is very likely that this will be our one and only...

This is a very happy thread at the moment!

First dibs on Benjamin if mine is a girl too!

ps have no idea for names if it's a girl. Many pretty names out there but so few that go with DPs crazy surname...

Happy New Year everyone and a hooooooge congratulations to the Head Fairy family! Welcome to the world Francesca. I hope you are at home soon finding your new family vibe.

Wishing Congratulations to you too on the birth of your DD. It?s lovely to see so many arrivals.

Blue How?s it going up there with the new team? Thanks for the VBAC good wishes. It?s all very scary. It?s a difficult one to prepare for because on one hand you want to think positive and all the rest of it yet at the same time I don?t want to feel disappointed if it doesn?t go to plan. I am prepping for the possibility of a c section regardless by making sure certain areas are hair free ( the midwife with a Bic razor that I endured the regrowth from last time round is not a scenario I wish to repeat ) and also by stocking up on the peppermint tea! You sound really positive and let?s face it, we all know that the most important thing is the safe delivery of our babies.

Irish I sympathise with the sickness but like the others have said am sort of glad as well as it is a good sign! Your local authority scan policy sucks ? again like the others I heartily agree that private scans are worth it. It?s crap that you have to pay but they are a nicer experience generally than NHS scans and you might even get a DVD! I watched mine constantly!

Sunny Like you I have a need for lots of fruit and veg! I really could have done without the Xmas meat fest. Our inlaws bought us a whole ham ? I mean really, its f**king enormous. Even with housefuls of people at Xmas and New Year plus DH eating it for virtually every meal it?s still going. We?ll be lucky to have finished it before Peanut?s born at this rate.

Bella Another year another name! Heartburn sucks totally doesn?t it? I?ve had it all the way and its getting worse. It actually makes me sick now ? am getting night vomits which I also got with DS. So gross. I think the Rennie I?m taking make it worse sometimes so have got some Activia yoghurt ? that is meant to help. I hope your prediction that our babies may be in sync proves correct ? I can?t take another 4-6 weeks of this.

BTW, as for the cot I?d probably go for a higher quality option and then if you are sure this will be your last then sell it on. We got a cotbed for DS and whilst it is now going to go back to being a cot for a while it still looks fab and we?ll certainly get our money?s worth. We?ve saved money elsewhere by doing other second hand furniture like chests of drawers and wardrobes. The kids stores charge insane money for what is essentially fairly average quality flatpack stuff whereas if you spend £75 on an old but well made chest of drawers you can rub them down, stain, paint them or whatever and they will look great for years and also ok for older childrens or adults rooms. Of course that does depend on having the time and inclination for a bit of restoration work.

Hope everyone else is doing well and had a good start to 2010. On a rather soppy note I?d like to thank all of you ladies for your continued virtual friendship and support. It?s been emotional!

dh has uploaded pix on facebook, but he's done them via our other computer... well now I've got my netbook I can't get near the the pc, and mnet won't let me upload from facebook. Or they do but I can't work it out.... I will keep trying to get a picture on. She's looking very sweet now, she was a bit crinkly when she was born. I didn't know overcoked babies had such dry skin. ds always had such beautiful butter ball skin because he was early.

Hi everyone.. i hope you had a fantastic xmas and new year..

Congratultions HF. Francesca is a lovely name

well.. its been all go here... last tuesday i had a massive heamorrage (sp). was taken to hospital and it turns out the bleed was from my cervix.. a complication from the surgery i had before. stayed in for a few days had emergency op on my cervix and blood transfusion and came home sat. It was awful. now have to wait til see someone as an outpatient and have also been told to not ttc until i have had 1 clear smear.. (next 1 due in june)

cycle is all up the spout.. never had a period after taking the progesterone tablets in dec.. i wonder if after all thats happened AF has gone AWOL again because surely after all ive had done to my cervix a bean wouldnt be in there.???

sorry for the lack of personals. when i feeling better i will try and catch up properly. im looking forward to hearing the rest of your birth announcements xxxx

Oh Bubble I'm so sorry. What a dreadful, traumatic thing to have to go through. You make sure to rest as much as you can now.

I am thinking of you and hope you can spend some time out to heal and recover from this frighening ordeal.

x

I echo what Wasabi says - truly horrendous time for you. Wishing you a really speedy recovery xxxxx

Thinking of you Bubble. How frightening for you. Sending you my best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Congratulations Head and Mr Head . Francesca is a lovely name.

Sorry not caught up with everyone else. Eira keeping me busy.

Oops, congrats to Wishing and Mr Wishing too .

Many congrats Head & family- Francesca sounds gorgeous!

Bubble really hope you are ok, you really have been through the mill you poor thing. Huge hugs to you.

Got to run I'm afraid, hardly getting a min at the mo so sending love to you all and hope to catch up more soon xxx

oh Bubble - what a time you're having . Hope you are recovering well and resting lots. We're all thinking about you xx

Hope everyone else is well . Benjamin has put on 10oz in two weeks. My (.)(.) are obviously doing the trick and he is really filling out his newborn babygrows. He is feeding pretty much every three hours but managing a longer stretch between midnight and @ 3.30am as I don't let him sleep more than 3 hours during the day. He is co-sleeping with me as was just not settling in his carrycot. Can't believe I'm doing this as was so strict with DS1 but all we crave is contended baby and sleep and he sleeps so much better beside his Mummy! what's that I see - oh yes, a rod for my own back..

Sunny - yes my name was very apt . Its actually from Sound of Music 'my favourite things' as I used to sing it to DS "...girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes, snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes..."

Head - get those photos uploaded! Hope Francesca is settling in, how is your DS with her?

Hope everyone else is well. I'm so over the snow, just wish is would, like, melt!