Hello ladies, I hope everyone is well....Im still so happy for 4ever and her news....my hand is here to hold should you ever need it in the next 8 months or so....
Love your updates about alex vjay, keep them coming in, as well as even more photo's please! Couldnt stop laughing at barnie either btw!
iggy i like the idea of a commando/pantless section
lionstar i had really strong braxton hicks last night, but i told lo to hold on for a day at least as DH has an interview today, he just went a little while ago. He's been off work for nearly a month now and this is only his second interview and he said he wouldnt have gone to the interview if I went into labour. I've also been quite constipated which doesnt help me in determining whats twinge and pain is real or whats not, I get so confused but I'm sure I'll know its the real thing when the real pain hits me!
Eid was also somewhat ruined by our car being towed away when DH went to buy flowers for my mum and MIL and having to pay £250 to get it released! Eid is like christmas in that you buy lots of pressies for the kids etc so quite an expensive time. I did get a couple of lovely texts from my mum this morning who said to keep faith and that a baby brings so much blessing into our homes and then when my sister was born, my mum had me and my other sister, my mum wasnt working and my dad was out of work. But after my sister was born, my dad found a job in Royal Mail and has been there ever since. My mum also found work soon after
neeko stay in that chicken suit for as long as you like
gracie missing you on here, but hope you're OK and great news about your scan
moon take all the time you need...hopefully you will still carry on lurking and maybe one day you can update us with your news
cupcake will try my best to have lo before the wedding as requested! However DH reckons lo will arrive on the actual due date which is this saturday as it will probably be like me and like everything to be on time and be extra efficient - one of his nicknames for me is monica
barbie hope your having fun with your mum and that ms has stayed away today....I STILL havent bought a pushchair yet is that bad? DH and I cant just come to an agreement. We have a wedding to go to at the end of October so will definately need to buy it by then!
mm i also never tire of hearing lo's heartbeat at every midwife appointment. Have my next one tomorrow
sabs waves to buddha annie mrskate LBM blue
Update from me - I bought raspberry leaf tea last week and have had it a couple of times. I dont normally like herbal or fruit teas but it doesnt taste that bad. I dont think curries will help me as i have been eating that 3 or 4 times a week for my whole life! I also dont know if pineapple will help as I share a whole pineapple with DH once a week. But the indian remedies I'm being made to eat include indian style chicken soup made of not much else apart from chicken, ghee and a few indian spices. The other Indian dish is just as yucky sounding which is made especially for pregnant women and women after they give birth and consists of a mix of dates, ginger, almonds and even more ghee. I know, doesnt sound that great, but I do make myself eat it. There is also an indian tradition where a woman, when she is pregnant, especially with her first, has to go to live back at her parents 2 months before the baby is born and stay there until the baby is 3 months! All these older relatives keep on ringing my mum demanding to know why I havent gone to stay over, lol! I will be staying at my mums after the baby is born but only for a few weeks, which is so helpful and will help with all the visitors. It is also to watch what I can and cannot eat because, again, according to tradition, all I'll be allowed to eat and drink is even more of that chicken soup and this special milk to help the breastmilk flow, but more about that when the time comes!
Apologies for the long post, but I hope you dont mind me sharing something very important to me. Today is exactly a year to the day when I started miscarrying. I was just over 11 weeks pregnant and I can honestly say that it was the worst thing to have ever happened to me personally. From ringing the hospital and being told very unhelpfully by the hospital staff that if I was miscarrying there was nothing anyone could do about it and to come to the hospital in the morning, to crying to NHS Direct, to going to A&E in the middle of the night, to being sent back home after being told that my cervix was closed, to waking up again at 6am to so much bleeding, to rushing back to A&E and having a scan to being told that there was no 11-week old lo there, to starting my medical management, to going to my mums and bleeding so heavily, to going back to hospital 2 days later to finish the treatment, to being told that i had to wait 3 months before ttc again. Those 3-4 months were such a low point for me, and I can honestly say that I would never had gotten through it without the help of all you lovely ladies. And after those dark times, the first month of being allowed to try again coincided with our trip to India and amazingly, we got pregnant again on our first attempt in DH's ancestral home. And now here we are, with just 3 days to go till my EDD. All I really want to say is never give up hope and there is light at the end of the tunnel
Apologies for the rambling