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VJay · 22/03/2010 13:12

A new home ladies! Tis the season for mini eggs , time for baby neeko to arrive, and more BFP's, oh and mls joining the bigpant bench

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QuestionsAnswered · 12/04/2010 07:59

Ah curly thought syllable bleeding was a technical term!

Neeko · 12/04/2010 10:04

Morning all

Typing one-handed here so apologies for any errors. Curly my caring about spelling was a lifetime ago

4ever sorry to hear you're having even more stress. It's really not fair after all you've been through. Hopefully it'll turn out to be nothing. As for all the other aches and pains, all completely normal and just makes the relief of finally getting them out even better. Big hug.

Vjay and Mermaid loving the escapee baby stories.

Moon Yay for practice! |I'm crossing everything for you.

QA sorry you're still having suh trouble. Hope it's all over soon and you can think about moving forwards.

Curly the infacol has almost eliminated H's cluster feeding. So much so that she slept all evening last night which meant she was up bright and breezy at 4.30 am and only went back to sleep when DD1 got up. To be fair to her she is still struggling with a cold and is so cute that I can't be annoyed.

Hope everyone else is well and big hugs to Monkey and MlS

4everhopeful · 12/04/2010 10:12

Thank you curly & qa... Im holding out for bloods & that it was a random sample.. We have ante natal class today so might pop into day assessment afterwards to see if they are in, maybe do another wee test & put a few concerns to them..? Im just worryin about everything at the mo.. I agree about work qa, the sleep issue is crazy, & my tummy really hurts from what i guess is just her strong kicks, sometimes both sides at same time, (hopin after wks of head down shes not gone transverse?) i keep tellin myself its normal but still a worry, im really huge (hence extra concern re diabetes) & just cant get comfy, but i do finish work on fri! Its mixed emotions tho as am also takin redundancy after 14yrs & i did love my job so much! BTW they upheld my appraisal score but as a gesture said they would reimburse the extra 3days hol i used to my pay & i could take this wk off paid if i want, so am just gonna pop in tomorrow, for my lunch on thurs (kno ill cry lots! ) & on fri to do final goodbyes! Its gonna be v emotional! Despite score which is a forced distribution they have been bloody brilliantly supportive to me & know my worth.. Its gonna be really wierd cos will be so sad on fri but also relieved, yet scared that im relying on this baby bein ok cos then everything will be perfect but almost too scared that its almost too good to be true iyswim?!

4everhopeful · 12/04/2010 10:29

Ah x post, thanks lovely neeko, its nice to see u back on here! Sorry to everyone else for lack of personals & my ramblings! Will just say tho, always thinkin of monkey, hand holds to mls for tomorrow, qa really hope things improve soon, same for you louey, then u can at least move on a little... Moon babydust comin at ya, wedding planning to resume asap! Mermaid me & curly are in the barbiemobile, u kno what to do.. ..Barbie hope u thawed out now, miss ya! Vjay glad back improving.. GG love the poo stories, told dh, keep em comin! Will never look at baby tights the same again! ...everyone else, big hugs & know i love u! High fives to preg buddies cupcake & lbm (steaming ahead again where did 3wks come from?! Or was that mat leave?!) normal posting service will resume when im unemployed a lady of leisure! X x x x x

Neeko · 12/04/2010 10:45

I have posted my birth story on the April ante-natal thread if anyone wants to read. Sorry I can't do links

Hi 4ever

cupcakefairy · 12/04/2010 11:39

Good morning lovelies
Only 4 more sleeps til the lovely men from Virgin come to connect me to the outside world at home so still catching up at the office

Neeko congrats on getting online! Glad H's wind seems to be easing and I love what you said about her being so cute you don't care

MLS thinking of you lots, hope you're not weebling too much.

monkey just huge huge hugs to you honey. Your post made me so but like others have said, you are sounding very strong. So sorry it was a horrible experience but so glad you got to spend time with your little one. Was your dh ok to know the sex in the end then? Got some mini eggs here just for you.

4ever sweet girl- sure these worries will come to nothing. There are loads of girls on the May AN thread with GD so I can ask their advice if anything untoward comes up but I'm sure you'll be just fine lovely. As for all the aches and pains can only sympathise you poor thing! I get that numbness as if I've been bruised inside too it isn't pleasant is it. I also get 'kicked' from both sides at the same time but don't think that means transverse as my little Titch is head down now- I assume it's feet and hands at same time just stretching out.

Hi Curly good to hear the colic is a little better; long walks in the evening sounds lovely. You've just reminded me I really need to watch my Close sling dvd so we can learn how to take baby out in it! We spent yesterday exploring around our new area and there are some lovely walks and nature reserves so quite excited about taking lo around those.

mermaid loved the nuts and bolts story

pfj my brother didn't talk til he was 3. He is now 23 and an absolute genius (in fact he has just filmed University Challenge ) so it's not always necessarily a worry.

sabs hope you had a lovely birthday!

moon woooop for getting lots of practise in

iggy thinking of you today on sad anniversary hope you get lots of lovely kicks today.

Sorry I haven't mentioned everyone...

Well I have now added to the hospital bag - 2 nighties, some breast pads and a packet of mini eggs. The essentials!
Feeling grim today; been v tired and nauseous in the mornings the last couple of weeks - think it's the yukky iron tablets but I am very ready to finish work on Thurs.

loueytbg · 12/04/2010 13:54

Hello I'm eating lunch and trying to do personals whilst pretending to be at work. Who said I couldn't multitask

Cupcake glad you got the essential mini eggs in the hospital bag. I'm sorry you are feeling rotten but come Friday you can enjoy daytime naps and resting on the sofa with mini eggs and rubbish tv.

4ever I'm not surprised you are weebling. Poor you, hopefully it will just be a false alarm and the bloods will come back fine. Some people are huge because of lots of fluid, it doesn't necessarily mean GD. Well done for kicking up a stink at work and getting them to give you some kind of compensation. It must be a weird feeling to leave when you've been in a job that long but its a whole new exciting chapter of your life You can join cupcake in daytime naps which will help you feel a little better I hope.

Neeko posting 2 days in a row you're putting us me to shame. I'm glad the infacol is helping H. Its really rotten when they are so unsettled and you don't know why.

Curly glad the evening walks are helping. Colic can be so awful for everyone involved. I have a friend whos DS2 had awful colic and cried all day and all night for about a year. They tried everything. The one thing that really helped him was a swing seat. If you are getting desperate, it might be worth a shot?

QA I'm sorry you had yet another encounter with dildocam, and yes the Drs can be so insensitive at times. Yay for negative HPT though. Hopefully that is the end of the bleeding and your cycles will get back to normal quickly.

Mermaid the golfer sounds useless. I hope you get the help you need soon. I don't know much about fibroids but I know they are not nice. Thank you for your advice re TTC - although I should have read it before I spoke to DH at the weekend. I'm failing miserably with trying to be nonchalant at the moment.

Moon practice makes perfect enjoy!

MLS good luck for tomorrow - we're all here holding your hands tightly x

littlebells hope you get some more space to breathe soon. Maybe babybell is on a growth spurt and your tummy needs time to expand, I remember having periods where everything was really tight and then it would ease a bit as my tummy caught up. I'm very jealous of your mum coming to garden for a week

barbie hope you are nice and toasty now you are back home

Gracie yuck! You do wonder how such a small person can produce such large amounts of poo. Just wait until potty training (and I've only done 1 so far). Your in-laws sound wonderful

Vjay its tough when they start to move and you aren't expecting it. You get so used to putting them down and coming back to find they haven't moved that its a shock when they are actually in a different room.

Hugs to Monkey and anyone else that needs them at the moment.

At my end, well the bleeding has almost stopped so I'm a bit more optimistic about not needing another ERPC although I'm not sure I've bled enough to account for the clot. Will find out next Monday. Otherwise, I'm not doing too well at the moment .

Have spent much of the weekend talking to DH, most of which has involved me being in tears. He doesn't want to TTC again and he doesn't know if he ever will. He knows I do and it has been the only thing keeping me going. So we're at an impasse. He has listed a whole number of reasons (only one of which is my health/possible mc again). Most of these haven't changed since we started TTC in November, but he says he went into it with his eyes shut and now they are open. All his reasons are perfectly sensible and logical so I can't get mad at him and he is feeling wretched about making me so upset but its how he feels. I don't know what to do. I am not going back on the pill so in theory I could still get pg again but he says he is going to use condoms and in any case, I don't want to trick him. Time is not on our side - I'm 37 in a couple of weeks and although I got PG quickly this time, it took 2 years and clomid to get PG with DTs.

To top it all, I discovered on Friday that DS1 (who has global developmental delay) appears to have an undiagnosed tongue tie which may account for some of his speech problems. So I'm trying to deal with sorting that out too which will probably involve an operation. We are also going through the statementing process to try and get him some help when he starts school and have a (useless) educational psychologist coming on Thursday to assess him. You probably think I'm mad for even thinking about TTC again

Got to go, don't want to start crying at work and I've got a meeting in 10 mins

mermaidspurse · 12/04/2010 14:34

aaaaagaaggggggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I thought it was just the easter eggs. aggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I may have to be institutionalised.

aggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

and I had booked a holiday to Greece on the 25th May.

agggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

and I just sent all my cyclogest to someone else in the post.

agggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

mI am so bloody bloody scared.

Joolsiam · 12/04/2010 14:41

Oooh Mermaid !!!!!!!

Deep, calming breaths, eat more chocolate, pass me the rose and PHONE THAT GOLFER

Am slowly getting head straight (have been trying to come to terms with stopping TTC and remaining childless)

Hello to everyone, esp our new joiners. I'm fine, just need a bit of space and am super amazingly busy at work, which helps actually. On hols in 11 days and counting ...

mermaidspurse · 12/04/2010 14:45

louey my ds had a tongue tie done when he was just 4. It was fine, just a small opperation which he recovered really quickly from.

Re your dh - a hard one he must really mean it if he is threatening to use a condom. Makes my dh look very apathetic whenever he has said we are too old'
I think it is relatively early days for you both. scuse me

aggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh stupid stupid mermaid

sorry where was I? oh yes, give it a little bit of time, not easy when the clock is ticking I know, I am 42 wtfwasIthinking? and have had 5mc bangs head repeatedly on the table.

The only option that I can see is to get him very very drunk and go to the posh underware shop.

mermaidspurse · 12/04/2010 14:47

jools come back I so have missed you.

iggypiggy · 12/04/2010 15:01

hello all - sorry for being AWOL for a while!

Is going to take me ages to catch up - so please bear with me - will do it in bits!

monkey so lovely to hear from you - you sound so strong - we are all so thinking of you at the moment. x

cupcake thanks for thinking of me today - ooddly Easter Sunday somehow seemed more significant than today but I am feeling kicks and feeling happy today. Also huge thanks to you for texting me on Easter Sun too - was v. lovely of you. xx

mermaid SQUEAL!!!!!! We are all here to hold you hand - am bit excited for you.... is that allowed?!

Jools so lovely to see you again! good abotu work busyness - but sorry you having to come to terms with possibly stopping ttc. xxx

MummyLovesSadie · 12/04/2010 15:10

Jss Chist Mmaid!!!!! I'm just about to tak my laptop to th shop to gt fixd, as you can s not all of th kys a woking but I couldn't go without posting.

I'v bn ading th thad fo th last fw days but fo obvious asons hav not bn abl to post! I'v wantd to say so much to so many of you though. Will s if I can bg o stal dh's laptop tonight.

Onc again woooohoooo Mmaid! Now plas call you golf!

iggypiggy · 12/04/2010 15:22

louey poor you - it doers sound like you need to talk some more with your [DH] especially about how all of this affects you... I really don't think men quite get the physically/ emotional and bioogical pull we are under... rationality doesn't come into it... hormones rule.

pfj how are you at the mo? Have your stitches got any better or are they being taken out? Hope you had lots of chocolate over easter...

QA really hope your bleeding stopped and that you feeling a little better? I did find that anytiem i was bleeding was worse than when it stopped - emotionally I mean. x

4ever lovely weeble - poor you xx you are having a tough time aren't you. Is not long to go now - I really hope time flies by and that the worry eases a little. x

neeko going to go and read your birth story and then post to you again!

cupcakefairy · 12/04/2010 15:24

Haha, MLS I love the garbled message; it's like code or pig latin or something quite an appropriate response to mermaid's aaaaaaaaaaaagh aswell.

mermaid massive handhold for you! You are not stupid and of course you will be scared but we're all in the greenhouse with you

waves to iggy

Hi louey sounds like you have a lot on your plate right now sorry about dh but as mermaid says, it is early days.. you will both start to come to terms with things more. It's really good that you're talking!

cupcakefairy · 12/04/2010 15:26

Ooh and hello jools! We have missed you. Yay for holidays!!

Neeko I read the birth story, sounded great if that is the word! (Apart from the transition bit but I've heard for some women that can mean a total break in contractions for a while so I'll hold out for that ) Love what you said about H floating up towards you! Lush!

mermaidspurse · 12/04/2010 15:45

mls

cupcake I am stupid honey. fibroids still there golfer won't see me. Luckily epu and I are good friends unfortunatley and I can order some more cyclogest tomorrow I guess the gp will do the same as last time.

I am very swollen up, really very noticable and this is usually a bad sign for me. I have been like this for days though. the bfp was a really really dark line and that was with afternoon sample. - see I am trying to be positive.

Had to spend an hour going back through the past thread to find when my last af happened cos didn't have a clue. we have been talking about the snip well I had dh just ran obviously

iggy I am sorry that I missed that lovely. It is so life affirming to think of you with a mahosive bump

right um have to take a freind to the airport in a minute so have to calm down. have drunk coffee, wine, no pregnacare duh

BuddhaBelly · 12/04/2010 16:21

Meeerrrrrmmmmmaaaiiiidddd WooHoo!!!!! Oh my giddy aunts!!!!! I'm so but so
I came on to check on Monkey who by the way I think is incredibly strong to be posting already, so glad you got some comfort from all the support you've got, much love, hugs and hairstrokes
I really have got to do a proper catch up but E has been ill for a week with a virus, he's got diarrhea, sore throat and rash so it's like pooh central in our house! The sight of my hand covered in pooh was not one I wish to repeat, so I promise as soon as I get more than 5 minutes to myselves I am booking a date with you guys so I can get personal
x

VJay · 12/04/2010 16:23

Bloody brilliant mermaid

mls I lol at your post, fabulous

jools lovely to see you, please stick around if you can

mermaid

Right off to read neekos birth story

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VJay · 12/04/2010 16:27

Neeko that's a lovely birth story, well done you

4ever try not to worry, I had the protein with ds1, and everything was fine with the blood tests, I hope they are for you too

mermaid

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iggypiggy · 12/04/2010 16:49

Lovely birth story neeko - that's what i would like too!

vjayjay Hope you feeling bit better re: pain?

mls funny message - am glad you out of hosp and hopefully feeling better?

curly glad colic is better - you sound v. happy in your posts

barbie hope you feeling warmer now!

mermaid I'll have to put another pic up - am starting to look really quite round - but that may be easter egg related too....

loueytbg · 12/04/2010 18:23

mermaid its has just taken me a while to work out what is going on but wooooohooooo!!!! Don't know all your history but lots of handholding and mini-eggs for you.

moon think mermaid has just taken pressure off you

mls lol at the missing keys

BlueMoon1981 · 12/04/2010 19:21

omg mermaid i think curly and her cheerleading squad must have descended on you first!

mls love the gobbeldy-gook message, who ate your keys?

jools please come and tell us more, we can listen and maybe help, we miss having you around

louey i feel so for you, i want to come over there are give you a great big squishy hug. i dont know if it helps at all, but after my 2nd mc, my df said he didnt want to ttc again, but in the end we had a break for 3 months, (which killed me but in hindsight was a good idea) and then started ttc again. i'm just saying he might come round but know theres also the possibility he might not. definitely good you can talk about it though thats half the battle.

4everhopeful · 12/04/2010 19:42

WAH HEY!!!!!!! YEA to Mermaid! Got tx in homebase and literally let out a squeal!!!!! Am soooooooooooooooooooo excited, I owe you so much hand holding as you have done for me over the months, ooooh and the Vjay/Emmsys doppler - yours when you want it! Call that doc! Cyclogest and an 'up yours' to the golfer! LOVE YA HON! You soooooooooo derserve this to be your time.... HUGS x x x x x

4everhopeful · 12/04/2010 19:44

Also.... Hello Jools lovely! You been missed!

Also loving MLS message! Hand holds for tomorrow...

Louey hugs for the ttc battle... Hope it gets easier...

Right just pounced on PC as DH was about to download tunes to Ipod so better go but will be lurking... Will fill you in on my sagas tomorrow.... x x x x x

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