The WIMBEWAI(N)F Club - Only a few more to find!

[BuckyAndCocktails]

New thread girlies....running out of credit on the stupid hotel internet connection...so can't say anything..duh..

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picknmix - How are you feeling now, petal? Are you sure it isn't swine flu, you've got?! I have found very few jobs. Depressing really, but unless I want to work in Abu Dhabi (which I don't and DH won't move from London) there are very few jobs for City lawyers, nevermind exciting opportunities! And I thought you were Mrs eBay Expert - didn't you have a great run of seeling things last year such as dog tunnels

Bucky - I could start flogging my stuff on eBay (well, DH's stuff really Mine is far too nice to sell). My sister has done well in the past as a seller and has great feedback, so I might see if she'll do it for me for a cut of the profits?

I now have to go and buy my best friend a baby present. She had a little boy at the weekend and I am dreading going into baby Gap or wherever . I could end up like one of those crazy women who sob into prams and kidnap newborns from maternity units. I might see if DH will do it for me in his lunch hour, if I give him some pointers; like don't buy a dress!

Bucky - judges get to wear the long wigs. Not sure about them though...

caitni - I'm still bleeding, but lot less than before thank goodness. I have spent all morning googling early miscarriage and chemical pregnancies, but I am pretty convinced it is over although Monday's blood test will confirm.

Hello to everyone else.

I'm pretty sure its not pig flu, although its not nice whatever it is. Can't really go to the Dr's about it though as they hurry you out if you so much as sniff in there at the moment! I still have a temperature (bout 100) which have now had for 3 days - feeling bit better today though so hopefully its on its way out.

Get DH to do the gift shopping - definitely the last thing you want to be doing I imagine. Or aren't you meeting Bucky tomorrow? Maybe you could both go together, after you've had a bit of a liquid lunch, numb the pain a bit?

Why do you have to wait until Monday for another blood test? I seem to remember this is what they did last time - your bloods should be tested every 48 hours to note a significant change, you shouldn't have to wait practically a week to get an answer

That's a bit crap about the job ops. Maybe this is the time to look into a whole new career . Not sure I'd fancy Abu Dhabi either - my dad now lives in Kuwait and asked if I wanted to visit him.... I haven't decided if I do want to yet!

Oh, and good memory about the dog tunnels - I sell quite a lot on ebay (also buy far too much tat as well). Much has gone to freecycle as well, just clear a bit of space!

Get well soon whatever it is. 100 sounds like quite a high temp. Make sure your DH fetches you everything you need when he gets in

He, he, he at Bucky and me baby clothes shopping without babies . I wonder if baby shops have to keep an eye out for crazy phantom pregnancy women like me rifling through their stock and snivveling into their babygros!? DH said he'd do it, thank goodness, so I'm expecting a call from him any minute as he descibes baby clothes down the phone to me to make sure he has chosen the correct thing.

They said Monday for the blood test to make sure the HCG has plummetted. The last time I went for a Tuesday blood test and they wanted me to wait until the following Monday for the follow up test, but I insisted on Friday because I was going away for the weekend and couldn't bear not knowing. This time, I'm too resigned to it being over to push for Friday. I don't feel the same sense of anticipation or worry - just utter dejection and a wish that the bleeding would hurry up and go away so I can get on with my life.

p.s. you don't buy tat on eBay! You bought that goegous spotty dress for a wedding that I've been coveting ever since you posted the link!

hi ladies
just a quickie...
GG oh sweetheart im so sorry what a shite thing to be happening again i hope monday brings good news but if not we are here as you know xx {{{{{higs}}}}}
PnM sorry AF got you
i am CD 26 today so nearly ready for test/af time not looking forward to it as i cant be bothered with the disappointment again but hey ho...
love to all xx
xx ei xx

Hi all
I hope everyone is well (or in Picknmix's case, recovering)

GG go easy on yourself. The redundancy thing was not personal (or at least that is what you must tell yourself) and what you're going through now is just unbelieveably shit. I know it is hard... on one of my more self-pitying days I did moan to someone "I've lost 3 babies and a job in a year" moan moan. Now I was just feeling sorry for myself but you are right in the middle of all that nasty hormonal business, so give yourself a break, wallow if you need to and drink a lot of alcohol if you think that will help! It will get better, it will, it will. Oh, and if you are at a loose end did you see on RollonFriday an article about unemployed lawyers doing pro bono work? A load of firms are guaranteeing interviews to people who sign up when they start hiring again. Might be worth a look...

I have an odd tomorrow coming - DD and DH are off to visit the PILs, and I am not going to join them until Friday. It's a bit strange all round - the first "night off" from being a parent I have had in an age. Not sure what I'll do with myself... (pathetic, non?)

Evening ladies

Just thought I'd poke my head round the door to see how you're all doing.

My snot got worse but have now jumped on the Tamiflu band wagon and feel a lot better.

How are you doing GG? Hope DH has been around this weekend?

How was your day/night without DD or DH MrsH?? Did you find lots to keep you amused? Bet you kept CBeebies on in the background to keep you company didn't you?!

Hope everyone else is doing ok?

I'm off to bed now

xx

Morning ladies

GG am thinking of you today - hope you get on OK at the hospital xx

MrsH hope you're having a nice time at the in-laws

PnM sorry to hear that you were struck down by the swine flu but glad the tamiflu's kicked in and you feel a bit better. Hope you're still taking it easy though, as it takes time and rest to recover!

MOB hope your two boys are thriving

Waves to Bucky and JB and everyone.

Not much going on with me except for being totally bloody knackered today...had a bit of a late night last night as out with friends (I even had a G&T and it tasted delish!). Nearly 9 weeks...so the weeks are (slowly) passing. Have been getting waves of nausea in the evening but nothing that carby snacks can't fix.

hi ladies

just a quickie to wish GG luck at the hospital today fingers crossed for you
well AF is due today for me... no sign yet but i had a dream last nite that i did a test and it was +ve so well see i am really shattered and feel like crying an awful lot recently (i SOBBED my little heart out reading harry potter book number 7!! i feel really emotional about the book and well up every time i think about it how sad am i?!!)
ahh well time will tell wont it!!

love to you all

xx ei xx

Ei I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that your AF is a no show this month (very promising about both the dream and the hormonal crying!) xxx

GG Just wanted to say i'm thinking about you and your hospital appt today. XX

EI I SO hope this is the month for you!

PnM Sorry to hear you have the dreaded swine flu. Hope you're feeling better now.

Lots of love to the rest of you - sorry it's a fleeting message - will have a proper chat and catch up when i have time Oh, and i promise to sort some photos soon.

Can't catch up properly as a have a jollycub on my knee who is very keen to type...

GG I felt so very emotional reading your posts, big lump in my throat. I hope the hospital appointment wasn't too awful.

Will do a proper catch up later....

Sorry not to post before now. I have been waiting until I had somehting to say. I didn't want to waste your time writing about me gnawing my fingers to the bone and getting teary, before I had something concrete to post.

Well, it looks like I will be joining Caitni on the "Due in March 2010" thread.

I am in total, utter, complete, shock I don't think I'm even feeling happy yet. I am too stunned! I feel, sort of, astonished. It's not real. No symptoms to speak of unless you count crying at the sad adverts for sponsoring children in Africa, but they get me most weeks.

Apparently, I have an HCG of...erm...663 .

MrsH - I think that's quite a good HCG? I was looking back through some of your old posts when you had a chemical and ectopic to check how quickly levels go down and you are the guru on HCG . They gave me an official Ectopic Warning, just in case. He said they are not overly concerned, but it was a consideration and they want me to go to them immediately (or to A&E, if out of hours) if anything begins to hurt or bleed again. They want me for a scan next week to check everything

Soooo, it looks like I have an official BFP (and I'll be seeking membership of Knicker Checkers Anonymous to get me through the rollercoaster of the next few months). The doctor said "We were quite shocked at your results after what you told us". Not as shocked as me, mate! I had two glasses of wine on Friday night and a slab of rocqfort

picknmix - I hope you are feeling better now and the tamiflu has worked its magic? Are you still off work? Thanks for keeping me sane last week. The builders are still here, but this time I had good news didn't have to chuck them out in tot he street so I could have another good snivvel!

MOB - don't worry about the short post - we know you have your hands full with your two little ones. How are they both doing? Are they feeding well and sleeping lots? I absolutely can't wait to see the photos of them! Have you been getting any sleep at all and do your DCs and DH help out lots?

Big wave to jolly bucky and all you other lovely ladies.

Sorry, I've been very me me me recently, but I honestly don't think i could have got through all this without you. Nearer Christmas I feel like throwing a big WIMBEWAIF party for everyone to say thank you

posted too soon.

I meant to add

mrsH - how is the courgette and are you feeling ok?

caitni - are you getting any more symptoms? They told me that put me as due on 30th March, so i sort of scrape in, all being well, to your gang

God, i am too excitable today (someone slap me!) How could I forget to ask about you, ei ?!!?? Madness! Thank you so much for being a fab supprt too. How are you m'dear? Any sign of AF? I thought you were super-psychic, so maybe the dream is telling you something? I hope so!

Oh my God, this is amazing. We seem to have sped up our BFP rate at last!

GG 600-ish sounds pretty good. You had 70-odd on Wednesday, so it sounds like your HCG has about doubled every 48 hours which is totally and utterly NORMAL. Whoop!! . My rates when I had the ectopics were often at the lower end of normal (so they didn't do the odd things that most people's do) but statistically speaking your pregnancy is almost certainly in the right place. And if in doubt, get yourself along to the UCH EPAU where they manage to spot my pregnancies (either in the right place or not) when noone else would come off the fecking fence!

Ei I really hope that dream comes true for you. Sobbing is definitely a symptom.

PnM I hope you are feeling better now.

MOB I'm looking forward to seeing some pictures (but only when you have time, of course... the thought of one new baby in this madhouse is enough, coping with two would be tres daunting for me!)

Caitni is it 9 weeks already? That's brilliant - soon you'll be able to tell everyone your fab news (or have you done that already?)

Waves to Bucky and Jollybear and anyone I've forgotten.

I've just had the (travel) weekend from hell. I went to see the in-laws on Friday, but there were thunderstorms so our plane took off 3 hours late (including 1.5 hours sat on the runway... nice).Every meal bar one consisted of bread, unpasturised or mould-ripened cheese and cured meat. Food I normally love but cannot touch right now, so all I ate was bread and now I feel utterly bloated. Like a weeble. And on the way back DH locked his keys in the boot of the car and I ended up schlepping an inappropriately dressed (cold) DD back home on the Heathrow Express (our bags were in the boot...) while he faffed around with the AA man. So that was Sunday wasted. Oh well, am back to work now which at least means I don't have to travel much!

Courgette is being very wriggly. I have a scan on Saturday so hopefully she will be completely normal-sized by now! I really cannot wait to meet her.

GG OMG Congratulations!!! I'm so happy for you . I danced around my living room when I read your post! That HCG sounds pretty fantastic to me.

I cannot tell you how happy I am to have you as a March 09 buddy...with me due on the 2nd and you on the 30th tis a great month for babies

MrsH sorry to hear about the travel delays - what a palaver! - and also sorry that you didn't get to enjoy any proper German food (what do pregnant women do there I wonder? The few times I've been to Germany all I've had is cured meat, cheese, bread...and beer ). Can't wait to hear how the scan goes on Saturday - is this an NHS one or a private one you've booked? I'm trying to hang on until my NHS scan but it's 4 long weeks away and not sure I'll manage it...I imagine that when I'm at your stage I'll be wanting scans all the time

JB hope jollycub is doing well (and am waiting for a message for you along the lines of x8ycieohv and then we'll know Jollycub is flexing her typing fingers

Ei am hoping some of GG's amazing luck rubs off on you lady - fingers firmly crossed chez caitni

MOB will be glad to see photos when you've got the time (though I imagine MN is the last thing on your mind!)

Waves to everyone else

I am still grinning from ear to ear about GG's news

Hello everyone

GG I am soooooooooooo happy for you . That's incredible news - its just fantastic, you must still be in shock! It sounds like things are progressing in the right direction YAY!

Ei I had the same dream the other day!! I got a really dark bfp in my dream and was totally shocked by it - had that awful few seconds where I woke up and thought it was true and then came round properly and realised it was a dream! Will be keeping my fingers crossed for you - let us know if you decide to test tomorrow!!

Sounds a bit of a nightmare weekend for you MrsH, pleased that courgette is still wriggling around despite the carb overload . Poor old DD having to schlep across town at the end of a long journey - hope you're all recovered now.

How did you get to 9wks already Caitni?? I'm sure its not the case for you, but that last 4 weeks seems to have raced by!! Do you think you'll cave and book a private scan or keep holding on for the NHS one?

How was the holiday JB? Did you and the cub have a fab time? Hope the weather was good for you wherever you were

Hey Bucky - come keep me warm on the bench over here, its getting kinda lonely now . I promise not to sneeze on you!

No need to apologise for a short post MOB, I'm sure your hands are just a little tied up at the moment! Be great to see some pics when you get a spare minute ()

Hi to anyone I've missed!

No news from me, Tamiflu kicked in now so feeling much better.

xx

OH MY BABY CHICKEN!!! GG excellent news i am so very made up for you!! i am willing to bet you and your DH are super over the moon!!!
i am stil grinning at the news
xx ei xx

Morning all!

picknmix - if you don't mind, can I join you and Bucky on the bench? I can't quite believe what happened yesterday and I don't want to leave the thread (actually I will never leave the thread, if you'll have me ). Are you using Clomid this month and are you having any side effects? When are you off to your house in France? It sounds amazing!

Bucky - we have spoken, but how is you new car? Are you roaring around the countryside? You have to come and update us about the monet raising schemes so you can go on holiday. Tell your DP, you'll eBay one of his bikes if he doesn't lend you the money

ei - you are so funny! LOL at being called a chicken Any sign of your AF and have you tested yet? I remember you saying before you are quite psychic, so I want to know all about the Mystic Ei predictions. I have fingers and everything crossed for you. Do you have any symptoms?

MOB - big wave to you. Don't wave back or you'll drop one of the DTs I am dying to hear all about them and see the photos, but totally appreciate you have your hands full. How are you coping with balancing two of them to feed?

MrsH - nightmare journey back from seeing your in laws! I was wondering how you would cope with German food in pregnancy. When DH was living out there, I was either drunk and farting (sorry TMI ) due to the dark Alt beer they served everywhere in Dusseldorf or looking like to Pilsbury Dough Boy I was so bloated. Is that your last trip to see the IL's before the Courgette is born and are they going to be galloping over the day after the birth? Sorry, but I have forgotten your due date! Also thank you for the tip about UCH EPAU. It's very handy for us, although St Mary's Paddington is at the end of the road, so I would probably have gone there if you hadn't said.

jolly - how is jollycub? Did you and cubsie enjoy your holiday? Are you working again or going back to work?

caitni - is your DH back at work after his swine flu episode? Hope he is right as rain now. I am in shock that I am eligable to join the March thread, although may lurk for a while. I haven't come to terms with this yet Do you have any more symptoms?

hello to Digital if you are looking in and to readyfor2and3

Ha, now I have a confirmed positive test I am beginning to notice vague symptoms. It's funny, because I think that as soon as your mind accepts/knows about a BFP, you body does too. I can confirm about the metallic taste being a symptom, because I woke up with it this morning. It's like I've been sucking on rusty screws all night!

DH is stunned that it's a BFP too, although to be fair, he's a natural optimist and more positive than me. We still can't believe anything survived that bleeding - it was worse than any period I've had, the only difference being that it stopped quite suddenly rather than tailing off with brown blood (sorry, more TMI). The force is strong in this one!

Now I need to find a job - and quickly!

Wasn't joking about a meet up in a few months, if we can fine a date that suits and people are up for it?

Thank you again for keeping me (almost) sane through the last few weeks. You are all stars!

GGx

GG just wanted to say a massive cogratulations on your wonderful news!!! so so pleased for you...

i have been checking up on you and dear Bucky and everyone else ever since i left this lovely thread in Dec 07!!!

My little girl Tess is 1 next month!!!

Anyway, just to say thinking of you and hope it goes so so well xxxx

GG am still just so happy for you and your DH . You must be five weeks today (I'm exactly 4 weeks ahead of you!). Glad the symptoms are starting...though my first few weeks were pretty symptom free bar bone-crushing tiredness and constipation (TMI ). I spent ages wishing for MS - which is mad I know but I just needed something to make it feel "real". But once I saw the little bean at the 7 week scan I was happy to have avoided MS (I get waves of nausea in the evening now, started around 7.5 weeks, but nothing that carbs can't fix!).

Ei am hoping for good news from you too today chica

Bucky new car - vroom vroom! Cool! And hope the sale of the century went well.

Waves to everyone else

GG I can't believe it!!!! That's wonderful, wonderful news!!!!! Lots of love to you & DH. XXXXX

GG OMG that is amazing news I saw that you were bleeding last week but didnt know what to say I am so pleased for that everything has turned out fine x When do you have your first scan?

Caitni Cant believe how quickly things are going already not long till you see that lovely bean again x

EI Have you tested yet? From what I remember when you dream a bfp for someone its usually right so Im hoping this is your month

MOB How are those 2 little boys? Cant wait to see the pics but agree that there is no rush as you must have your hands full Talking of which have you got any tips for me as its getting scarily close for me now lol

PnM Hope the piggy flu is gone and you are feeling better x

MrsHappy What a nightmare journey Hope you are feeling better now that you can eat more than just bread (wink)

Bucky How is the holiday fund coming along? I make DP sell all my stuff because listing on ebay seems too much like hard work to me lol

Waves to DG and JB and anyone else that I have missed x

Well I am 35+5 today and seeing the consultant on thursday, she is going to give me an internal and see how things are doing and may give me a date for induction at 37 weeks if things are looking favourable
I had to spend 2 nights in hospital last week as I started to bleed- nothing too major but they wanted to monitor me, everything seems fine and nothing since. The twins gave the midwives a hard time and refused to stay still everytime they put me on the ctg (probably a sign of things to come lol)
The only problem that I have is that my Mum is having an op on her knee on the 3rd aug and will be laid up for at least 6 weeks which means I have no reliable childcare for when I am in labour Hopefully we can work something out or 3 yr old ds may get an early lesson on childbirth lol