D'y ever wonder if Shabs will put Lewis down?!!!!

[TiggerLicious]

Yes!!!! Touch down!!!!

Victory dance!!! I've made it!!!!

Mars, you know i love you and would do anything for you...but I'm not having any more children, even if it does mean that I never have the pleasure of being 'doula-d' by the vice-chair Tallulah-Doula herself .

She leaves a note on the inside of the kitchen pantry (Shirley Valentine style) 'Sorry Lydle bet that made your heartbeat a little faster!!'

Will be back later tonight when hopefully I will be forgiven.....

Marsy- when you have 5 mins , I need your help please . I have just met with my consultant and she is against me going to the low risk birth unit at the local hospital. Part of the reason is my weight/BMI over 35 and the other reason is my previous c-section. Apparently the fact that I had a VBAC with dd4 means nothing. She is "advising" me that I need to go to the consultant unit and have continuous monitoring. I know it's a while off yet,but if I've got to fight for what I want I may as well start now . (Btw I think I may now have "stroppy mare" written on my notes ). I was trying to put my point across and she started going on about how I had been "invited" to her clinic .
On the plus side the fabulous independent m/w I had last time has made me an excellent offer which means I can afford to have her again this time. Maybe I should just go for a homebirth again.

Anyway,what I was trying to ask,is it right that my scar is just as much at risk of rupturing despite all being fine with my last birth? And is this standard practice in all hospitals or do they just pick and choose what protocol they want to follow?

Well i have some news... i am scanned. It is ONE baby > i am 10 weeks and due 13th January! Phew. Hugs was due that date too, he arrived 27th Jan though! I was pregnant before the Colposcopy and all the bleeding! I am amazed. I am also hugely releived, it means the baby is due before dh is due to sail so he wont sail until the baby is out and he has had 2 weeks paternity! Yay!

oh lydle - sorry, I must have got muddled up, thats what happens when you come back from Aus and have multiple (geddit?) posts to read.........

LG&T - hurrah for only one! Or are you disappointed?

snorris Go with the IM.

I swear some of the Consultants just pick and choose what they want to share with you. I had 2VBACs and my mw told me that I could have had the 2nd one at home.

AIMS

Also, email me (you know how lazy I am) at mammydoula at aol dot com and I'll email you your list of rights and choices.

Oh Tigs. I am so sorry. I hope you are ok. As the others have said, I had no idea .

Trips I am utterly disgusted at myself, I forgot to wish you and Harry luck for today. I hope the chemo went ok and was as straightforward as possible.

Just seen Meeely is preggers too. So this means snorris, LG&T, Oooggs and Meeely? Anyone else?

Meeely/Neeerly3, I have a lovely chocolate brown Isabella Oliver wrap dress. It is a size 10 I think. You can have it if you would like it. Only worn about 3 times.

Mars - please don't behave, the dancing and cake had clinched it for me!

You all seem to be living with all sorts of incredible traumas and logistical nightmares. I feel a complete fraud being on this thread. I've been in bed all afternoon shivering with some silly bug that even my DH coped with better than me. I hope it's the pregnancy that's making me so pathetic.

I'm hoping so much the initial diagnosis of a single placenta for my twins is wrong - being re-scanned on Friday. I had a homebirth with my DD and will be disappointed if it's an elective c-section. But I guess it's their health that matters. Any words of wisdom?

Off to slob in bed some more, can't wait for the blooming bit of this pg (fingers crossed I get one).

You and Mars on here has made me grin.

Like when I first went on Facebook. My eldest sons friends kept adding me as their friend Sometimes they will send me a really rude video - followed by a quick message that says 'sorry Mrs H!!!' It just appeals to my evil sense of humour.

Good evening girls!
Well the end of day 1 of stage 2! H was in the hospital for 4 hours whilst I the coward went to look for christening gifts for twins! He said it was fine, nurses were brilliant and a bonus! They told him his next one can be done in our local little hosptial, here in Deal, they have just started a clinic on Thurs and the staff hes been with today in Canterbury come over, that saves a round trip of 35 miles! Hooray, some good news! Not sure how he is going to sleep, hes got a pump on for 46 hours with the second chemo in, poor thing, I dont often feel sorry for him but I did today, dealing with picc lines, Gladyss and pumps! Just got to get on with it, thats 1 down, 5 to go! And for the record I am not pregnant and don`t hanker after anymore triplets!! Shabby??????????????????

Not me trips - its that pesky twin sister of mine - the one who comes on here drunk late at night. As if I would spread gossip about my Lewis' Honorary Grandma

....I also think my quads are all boys xx

Now calm down Shabs, calm down, I have known you giddy before, but this is different........you must be calm, you must be calm............

GBB - a single placenta doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have an elective CS. Mine shared a placenta and an amniotic sac and had I gone into labour spontaneously, my consultant was quite happy for me to deliver naturally (although I did have clear instructions to get the attending consultant to hold on tight to twin 2 after twin 1 had been born to stop her from turning ). As it was, at 37+4 I did have an elective CS because I was told that the placenta starts to deteriorate after 37 weeks for id twins. I don't know if this is the case - Mars and others on here will be able to advise you better than me - but there are certainly precedents for id twins coming spontaneously, naturally at later gestations.

Trips, hope you and H have got through today ok. Like Egg, I forgot to wish you luck earlier.

Tigs, if you're looking, we're thinking of you.

And LG&T, congratulations on the one baby . How amazing that it hung on through the colposcopy and all!

X-posted with you there Triplets. Glad to hear it all went as well as possible. Pleased for you that the treatments can be local from now on - travelling is tiring in itself and you'd have been spending a fortune on petrol as well!

Thanks TK, yes the cost is not funny now, its £1.25p here.
Spotted Tigs on the Sanctuary thread just now, she isn`t saying much, very worried about her, wish she would pop in here.

I had a cone biopsy and laser treatment on my nether regions when I was about 10 days pregnant with Tommy. I suppose some things are meant to be??

Shabs, have you heard from Tigger today? She lost her bounce and that worries me.

just sent you an email darling. Think that all will be well in the end. She is a brave girl......wish I had that courage at that age.

Thanks Shabs, have sent a reply. You are a good friend to so many