Warning, mammoth post alert.....
cupcake am feeling soooo frustrated for you - you've had such a long wait. But, babycupcake will be here soon, and hopefully today. 2nd June is a nice birth date Midwife doesn't know everything, you could just as easily have text book birth. And blue is absolutely right, it all won't matter once babycupcake is born.
4ever - huge congrats to you and Mr4ever on baby Summer . Can't wait to hear the birth story, it sounds epic . Re the feeding, I remember it well, it is very hard in the early days. Keep going but if it isn't working, don't beat yourself up about it. The most important thing is that Summer is happy and you are happy and if it means you switch to bottles then that's the right thing to do xxxxxx.
PFJ - am bursting with excitement about your (hopefully) BFP. I am a bit like MLS in that I also line up my tests (although not on the windowsill) and try and see if they are getting darker. Hope your FRER turns up soon. I have also found these the best early tests to use. I suffer from hayfever (although it hasn't yet been too bad this summer) and weirdly a cup of coffee first thing in the morning cuts out a lot of the worst symptoms. Depends on whether you are happy to drink coffee during PG (or even if you like it!). I assume its the caffeine in it that helps. I'm sure Jack will love the Thomas engine.
Barbie - awww look at her in that towel. So cute. Can't imagine having to deal with that heat with a little one - yes you can give cooled bottled water. Mind you, my two didn't like it all and DS2 still won't drink water.
MrsKate - sounds like you've had quite a time with poorly Jack. I hope he's on the mend now. NHS direct can be very hit and miss, I think your instincts mean that you know when they are talking bollocks and that you need to bypass and go straight to walk-in/hospital.
MLS - bronchitis - poor you, you have been in the wars recently. I guess your lungs are still a bit upset from the pneumonia. I don't think I've been on since your 20wk scan, I'm so pleased and relieved that everything is ok. Just need to get you well now.
VJay - Ajay standing up already - wow. You will have a little walker soon! Am envious of all you baking queens, although I did make a white chocolate cheesecake over the weekend. I'm sorry about your little dog, hope the scan goes ok.
Moon - I'm sorry about CD1 . Bleurgh.
Jools - you too. CD1 sucks . Especially when you are TTC. Glad you've had a few settled days at home and seduction weekend sounds like a wonderful idea .
Neeko - hope you are starting to win the battle with H and the bottle. Its really difficult when they won't take it.
Monkey - hope you get your AF soon, 8 weeks is a long time to wait. Difficult decision to make re IVF - I have a friend who had 5 mc's due to blood clotting issues and prob immune issues too. In the end had IVF and has a lovely healthy DD as a result. She didn't find it easy though and was on steroids too which made her feel quite ill. She had her 2nd DD naturally without any problems.
LBM - not sure I've said but Joanna is a lovely name. Mind you, I'm biased, its also my sister's name Well done on coping with all 3 on your own. So lovely that DD1 can help out.
Sabs - how was soft play?? Yay to Saara standing and holding on. She will be cruising before you know it.
Curly - how are you and curlygirl doing??
Gracie - I'm lost - has the christening happened already? If not, then I like the idea of putting Isabelle into the old gown first and then changing her later on.
Iggy - how are you doing, now you're nearly the next to give birth. Eek!
QA - how long are you going to hold out before we drive you to you test? Have fx crossed.
Buddha - Cheese scones - yay. Michael Buble - boo. I don't understand the fascination with him at all .
Blue - I'm glad you had a fab girlies night and DH let you lounge. Sounds blissful (very jealous as no lounging going on in our house....) I'm sure your mojo will be back in no time .
Annie hope you had a fab 40th. 40 is the new 30 don't ya know. That's what I will be trying to convince myself saying in a few years time
Waves a big welcoming hello to justshaggy and anyone else I might have missed.
AFM - well I'm sorry I've been awol. First doing DS1's request for statutory assessment (Vjay - did you do this for your DS1?), then laptop died so no access to internet at home apart from via phone which is a nightmare to post from. So I've been reading but haven't been able to do a proper post until back in the office. In amongst all that, we switched the DTs into beds from cots and we've all had very little sleep. The joys of twins - chasing each other around upstairs, and discovering them in the shower, wardrobe, and drawing on the bedroom door. I have been so ready to kill them on several occasions this weekend. They now have a gate across their bedroom (we have sooo many stair gates in our house) and I've put some old, thicker curtains up in their room to try and send them off to sleep earlier (they were running riot until it went dark). Last night was better - managed to get them both asleep by 8.10 although DS1 had switched beds and was fast asleep with DS2 in his bed. Very cute. We have also just switched to a childminders as of yesterday so its been a lot of changes to deal with.
Oh and it looks as though TTC#3 is back on again Not sure what has changed really but no protection being used and DH has made vague comments in relation to changing cars "depending on what happens". This is his code for "if we have another one". So currently I'm in 2ww but not holding my breath this month as timing wasn't good and I'm not 100% sure about the +OPK (it was borderline). Next cycle though I'm going to turn into Miss Temptress
Phew! Told you it would be long didn't I.
I will send my details to the emmsy's email address because I would love to see pics of Baby Summer. And I'm on FB - how do I find you all on there?