Today's the FIRST and we still have each other :)

[MummyMcKT]

A thread for all of us who were due in 2010 and who've bonded through the last few weeks.

It doesn't matter where your head/heart's at on this journey at the moment just as long as you want some company....

Hope all goes well tmrw YRMOTB - have just (finally) sponsored you!!

Hello Velvet :)

Hope you're still managing to stay calm Loopy (although have no idea how you're managing to) Sticky thoughts x

Hope you're getting to spend time with your nan Fordy. I remember that time with mine and I'm sure she knew I was there long after she could respond. Am TOY and sending you lots of strength.

Any houses caught your eye Pink or are you waiting till DP has to move out? How are you feeling?

Hello again Cadmum. I don't envy your concerns - you've had such a tough time. If you're really worried re after effects of your c section could you get checked out when you're home?

Thinking of you all. Have finished my antibiotics - fingers crossed life is on the up!

I don't have any good news today, we lost my nan in the early hours of thursday morning. I was there with my grandad,dad and aunt. It was all very peaceful and she had lots of drugs to take any pain away, although she was still responding to us when she could. I am so very very sad, I miss her so much.

Thinking of you all, i am sorry I can't quite get my head around writing a long post.

x x x I'll be back soon xxx

Am so sorry to hear your Nan has passed Fordy. Thinking of you and your family xxx

Thinking of you fordy. I am truly sorry.

Sorry to hear that Fordy. TOY and big hugs xxxx

Oh fordy, am so sorry to hear that. Love and best wishes to you and your family.

Thank you for your sponsorship, ladies, I am assumin that its mckt and velvet the 2 names I don't recognize? Thank you all. I did it in just over 2 hours, was aiming for under 2, but I finished it, so, meh! Gonna spend the day lounging and pampering, I've lost half a big toe nail, oww.

Well Done YRMOTB :) Yes! I did sponsor you - the beginning of my surname might help you match up the names!

Have had a lovely long weekend :) enjoying rest of this avo then back to the grindstone!

Hope you're all well x

Oh I am so sorry, fordy. Thinking of you & your family at this sad time. x

Well done, YRMOTB! Another one who would have walked it here!!

Loopy - I am keeping everything crossed for you!

I am doing ok atm thanks. It is like a rollercoaster though, isn't it. You start climbing & then can suddenly dip again. Due date is fast approaching, so not sure how I will feel when October arrives. So glad I hid the October thread when I did, as reading the birth annoucements would be unbearable.
We still haven't found a house, so DP plans to move into mine for a while, help me do it up a little for selling & we will bide our time until the right place comes along. At least we should hopefully soon be all under one roof!

I have been worrying about the huge change, loopy, but thinking about it, it is obviously weekends when boys are around most, and we always spend all weekend together anyway. In the week, boys will be at school & I will be at work, then DP works nights Mon to Fri, so hoping it won't be too much of a shock to the system for him!
He has heard from agents today & survey is being done on Wednesday, so fingers crossed!

There isn't a set pattern as to when they see their dad. This weekend he picked them up at 7pm on his way home from work, then they came back midday yesterday.
DP normally stays both Saturday & Sunday night & we often all go to his parents for dinner on a Sunday. He is very good with the boys & has certainly seen the best & the worse of them!
I am obviously feeling a little tense, but after 3 years together it seems the right move & it will be great to have him here more.

My boys love him staying, so don't seem worried at all. DS2 is just a little worried about moving away from the girl opposite who he has developed a little crush on!!

Congrats Pink, things are at last moving forward for you :)

Well done YRMOTB! I am indeed a sponsorer of the large tree variety

I am trying out OPKs this month just to make sure that something is actually going on down there but still negative as yet (as predicted by my period tracker app) so it seems to be accurate. I'm definately not stressing about it though.

I have started trying to find a hall for mine and DHs 30th birthday party but have left it late with the whole MMC business so I'm having trouble finding one.

Where in the country are you, velvet? when is the birthday? I had my 30th this Feb just gone, am quite in tune with being 30, i think. Is your job any better?

loopy hows it going? All uneventful and stress free, I hope. Hope the kids are alright, you must be settled back into the school routine by now?

pink Hope the survey went well today, that'll be a weight off once it's completed, eh. How are you feeling today? I got a bit flustered yesterday cos a very pg lady turned up to my pilates class, and I really wasn't expecting her..

fordy thinking of you, hope you're ok.

mcKt whatchoo doing? back to the grindstone? I am eating copious amounts of digestive caramels, whilst working. I knew I shouldn't have bought a packet, but I just couldn't resist. Not sure quite why I'm telling you this, but hey ho.

Hope everyone else is ok. cadmum, hope you're not too stressed.

Do you all know that October 15th is babyloss remembrance day? see this website which, if you click on the right side awareness day takes you to a site you can buy ribbons, and tells you when to light a candle in remembrance.

I've bought a ribbon.

(I'm posting this everywhere-feel free to C&P and do the same!)

That will be the day after my due date, YRMOTB. Will take a look at the site, thanks.

Survey seemed to go ok, so just a waiting game now. Looking forward to us all being under the same roof!

Hello loopy and pink.

Good luck with the scan tomorrow loopy. is it a post 10 week scan? I imagine this ones even more nerve wracking for you, so good luck, we'll be thinking of you.

I am making it a personal crusade to tell everyone about that day, it makes me feel like i'm doing something IYSWIM. Also I am the first of many of my friends to have kids, then I feel a bit like it's my duty to tell everyone, and if anyone else needs to talk ever in the future(god forbid), then they know i've been through it.

Bet you're looking forward to that, pink. The end is now in sight!

Waves to all, in particular thinking of you fordy.

velvet, a lady told me on the experienced TTC thread that you need to OPK twice a day, ideally. Between 11am and 3pm, and 5pm to 10pm. 2xsurges apparently, and FMU doesn't work? HTH.

sorry,that bit for velvet was in response to something i'd seen elsewhere, before I royally confuse you all.

Thinking of you, loopy - I can imagine how tense you must be feeling. Have everything crossed for you.

I haven't had a great weekend.
DP normally goes skiing with the lads in February. His parents have a house out there. Last year when he was out there, would have been around the time our baby stopped growing, and he had said he wasn't going next year, because at the time we thought we would have a new baby.
Well, Saturday he mentioned that the lads had now talked him into skiing in Feb, and I went totally mad. Completely OTT, infact I was a bit of a cow about it all, but he mentioned how things have changed now (obviously meaning there will no longer be a baby) & it was all too much for me.
I would never normally stop him doing things though. I know I overreacted. He lost a cousin (as I also did) earlier in the year & has a "life is too short" view, which I totally understand, but with my due date fast approaching, I am not the most reasonable person right now.
Last night I had chilled about it a bit, but spent the evening in floods of tears. I think men just don't think sometimes!