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StuntNun · 01/04/2013 17:48

And she only missed 10,000 posts!

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1717592-November-2012-Were-ready-for-Spring-any-time-now-please

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TheDetective · 02/04/2013 17:50

I'm with your DH sadly! Blush. Saying that, I don't suppose there is any good time! And it might give good stress relief!

O is watching the Lion King again as he just loves it. Confused He's sat in his high chair with toys, but no. Lion King is more entertaining!

How hard can it be to find a black belted mac? Am annoyed. Bought one from New Look, and DP collected it. It's that fucking shiny materiel. Dunno what it is, but it feels horrible, and will make my hair extremely static. It needs no help with that as it is...

Just ordered another 2 from very. Click and collect. Right by my house. Excellent. But they better not be shiny. And one best fit. Or i'll be going away with no fucking coat.

StuntNun · 02/04/2013 18:10

PR as well as GT, MummaPanda is preggers and I thought I was crazy for wanting a puppy!

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Sophiathesnowfairy · 02/04/2013 18:11

Please share fatima we share everything! We would feel left out if you went elsewhere.

I think the flu has left the building. Phew.

However.

O had his first real day at nursery today. When we collected him they informed me there s a chicken pox case in baby room. Hmm

MissMummy1 · 02/04/2013 18:53

Stunt I would go for it. I an desperate for another dog. Wish I'd stuck to my guns and got one when I started working from home when I was preggers. We also want a lab - red or chocolate.

Fatima share ahead!!

Would you believe what happened to me today? Some fucking wankbadger pulled out behind me when I was reversing out of my mums drive. Thank fuck it was the hire car that was crashed. 3 fucking car accidents in 5 weeks?!? Angry

ChasingDaisy · 02/04/2013 18:55

I fucking hate people taking my baby and walking off with him. If he cries give him back to me!

ValiumQueen · 02/04/2013 18:56

sophia oh fuck! Hopefully you will be spared that.

fatima I too want to hear about your plans for sperm. Would you be happier starting a chat on FB?

FatimaLovesBread · 02/04/2013 19:07

I'll write a post but it may take a while to write so I'm not ignoring you all Smile

detective that bag looks huge, I could live in it. Going to go measure the pram, see what size we need

limpit I do have the Oyster, however I was greedy and also bought a Baby Jogger City mini with the holiday as an excuse so we're taking that with us.

TheDetective · 02/04/2013 19:19

It is huge! I could did definitely fit in it!

They have a couple of others on kiddicare for less.

Lily311 · 02/04/2013 19:25

fatima i measured it, it's way too big. I have a bjcm 4 and ordered the sunshine kid one as it is a good fit according to reviews. I only need to put the jogger in it, no carseat so no need a bigger one. The reason I wanted the bag is because I fly a lot and I don't want the buggy to get dirty as it folds the seat out rather than in.

chasing good luck tonight, i hate when people take my baby away and say they could calm her down. Yes, they could but it takes twice as long as it takes me and anyway I don't want my girl to cry unnecessarily.

I wait with weaning. O might be ready but I am not Grin. She is 19 weeks today.

TheDetective · 02/04/2013 19:36

Fuck a duck. I'm sat, in bed. With O. Who is fast asleep. After draining an 8oz bottle. Shock

I Suspect the threat of the CMP free formula has something to do with this. Hmm

'Look mummy, if I behave, don't ever give me that shit again, alright?!'

Does anyone else imagine their baby's inner monologue to be something like Stewie Griffin?!

ChasingDaisy · 02/04/2013 19:39

8oz? Shock Well done O1!

ChasingDaisy · 02/04/2013 19:40

I got my BFP a year ago today Smile

TheDetective · 02/04/2013 19:50

Fuck. He woke. Dumped and run. Fingers fucking crossed. He did the LOL face at me grrrrr. Not fucking LOL at all!

TheDetective · 02/04/2013 20:06

He seems asleep. A light sleep as he stirred when I looked round the corner of the door. But sleeping. For now.

Thank fuck.

BigPigLittlePig · 02/04/2013 20:21

Oh good grief - good luck chasing

Sleep dodgers 'r' us Angry

PurplePidjin · 02/04/2013 20:21

I have a baby self-settling with a dummy Shock he's lying on my chest, but this is progress right? May not have worked but I'm hoping...

Clarella · 02/04/2013 20:26

:) :) :) pidj!

my tinker is refusing dummies now. wish I'd not been so fussy about encouraging that.

how the hell did I miss 6 pages????

would love to catch up but am getting some shut eye before the onslaught of sucking all night commenses ......

well done mini detective :)

Jims · 02/04/2013 20:27

YW are you feeling better? I meant to say earlier that I hope you do soon.

Fatima I'm intrigued too (v nosy person here), I look forward to hearing more.

Sophia have my fingers crossed your LO doesn't get chickenpox. We've had the threat several times in our area but it hasn't hit yet. DS1 has made it to nearly 3 and I'm still waiting for him to get it. I'd really like it to be not yet, I'm a bit sick of illness in this house.

On that note - if DS1 was in a foul mood last week, with a temperature and horrible cold and then had gunk coming out of one ear, does that mean he had an ear infection which perforated his ear drum? I'm guessing so but as he seemed ok afterwards, I didn't take him to the Dr. But now I don't know whether to take him swimming or not. Think I may have to take him tomorrow to get checked out before his swimming lesson on Friday.

I'm currently watching Home Delivery while DH is at football. It was on ITV a while back. It's bringing back all sorts of memories about having F - in a good way so far.

PetiteRaleuse · 02/04/2013 20:30

stunt have you seen this? www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_doghouse/1722770-Name-suggestions-for-choc-lab-pup

TheDetective · 02/04/2013 20:31

Clarella O won't have one any more either!

Passmethecrisps · 02/04/2013 20:34

Fingers crossed pp!

I HATE that daisy. I REALLY FUCKING hate that. I have a wonderful friend who insists on wandering off with P when she gets upset. What is it? A desire to help? Or a fucking power trip?

Hope all goes well detective. He's a cheeky wee man your O.

Thanks kyz and VQ. Strangely I don't feel worried about the referral. I know that at the end of the day P is doing fine. She is small but never, ever sits still. She probably burns a huge number of calories. I do think she eats too little though and I am relieved that someone agrees with me. The doc was a bit strange though. Not my usual one so not the paediatric specialist for the practice. She asked about the reflux saying "so how often is she being sick" I said "she isn't ever sick with it actually". She looked like I have just blown her mind and said "well, how does reflux present without sick". So I said "like I am pouring boiling water down end throat. A lot" She mentioned the sick thing again later asking how she responds when being sick. I explained that she acted like I was feeding her acid. I think she might go and google reflux.

I am being mean because she was lovely and took my concerns seriously. She just obviously knows categorically nothing about infant reflux. It really opened my eyes to how lucky we were to see my GP when p was initially referred.

Shit, bugger, balls. Meant to get some kalms. Good idea VQ. I have some silly night time shower gel and moisturiser stuff I was given by a pal - it seems to work actually so I might slather myself in it tonight.

PurplePidjin · 02/04/2013 20:43

It's really fucking annoying is what it is, Pass and Daisies Angry

Transfer successful it's the first time he's ever taken a dummy but he was chomping my finger after calgel so i dumped one in boiling water and shoved it in his gob. Success! Will see how it goes at first waking, listen out for his screams

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TheDetective · 02/04/2013 20:45

Pass This is exactly the attitude I had the day I ended up taking O to A&E. As if she needed to google Reflux....

I found Nytol worked very well for me, when O was first born.

FatimaLovesBread · 02/04/2013 20:45

Right, sperm (and future child) decisions. Sorry the post is so long, feel free to ignore (it's probably really boring anyway) but thank you for reading it, I think it?s helped just to write it down

Quick background for those who don?t know or can?t remember seeing as there?s so many threads Smile

DH and I had problems conceiving, took about 4 years in total. M is our first child and we ended up having her through ICSI. We ended up using 3 hospitals in our quest for a baby: NHS hospital 1 where we got our diagnosis from bitch nurse that we ?can?t have children?, NHS hospital 2 that we transferred our referral to because of treatment at hospital 1 and private hospital where we had a cycle of ICSI with egg share while we waited for our NHS funded go at hospital 2. Fortunately our first cycle at the private hospital resulted in M, it also gave us one 5 day old embryo that is frozen ready for use at a later date (we?ve paid for storage until March 2015).

The reason for our infertility was Oligozoospermia (low sperm count). Nurse at hospital 1 said that there were no further tests we could have done, that DH could be suffering from testicular failure and she recommended we pay for some sperm freezing pronto in case we got to the top of the waiting list and his sperm had ?run out? Hmm
Further down the line at hospital 2, the consultant was outraged that the nurse hadn?t sent for any further tests, had some done there and it was concluded to not be testicular failiure or anything genetic but just one of those things.
Dr at private hospital recommended we had some sperm frozen as a back up for the ICSI, just incase the fresh sample on the day was a particularly low count. DHs fresh sample on the day was fine. The frozen back up is the sperm in question.

That sperm has now been stored for a year and we have to pay if we want to keep it in storage (£250 for two years). After much discussion we have decided that we?re going to not continue with the storage of the sperm. I think it is the right decision but I have a niggle so that?s why I wanted to post to see what other people thought.

Our reasoning behind this is?
? We have one frozen embryo that we are going to use at some point to TTC DC2, hopefully this will work.
? If the FET doesn?t work I?m not sure I could go through another cycle of ICSI anyway; it was hard work on us. I just got on with it at the time but afterwards said I didn?t want to do it again, although I might have felt differently if it hadn?t worked. The egg collection in particular was bad; I was in a lot of pain for 5 days, hardly moving for 3 of those. I don?t think that would be fair on a toddler.
? If we did decide to have ICSI again further down the line, there?s nothing to say we?d even need the frozen sperm. The further tests showed that it wasn?t testicular failure, so DH should carry on producing sperm, he?ll just always have a low count.
? If we did decide we wanted more ICSI and the worst did happen and DH had a zero count, there are other options (although more expensive) to still get sperm.
? It?s £250 we can?t afford at the moment especially when there?s a big chance that we?d never use it. The £250 would only store it until March 2015 which is when we?d probably be starting to think about using the frozen embryo (I?d like to go for FET Summer 2015 for a Spring 2016 baby) so we?d have to pay another £300-400 to keep it frozen for longer again.
So we?re going to get rid of it. It has served the purpose for what it was frozen for in the first place, as a back up for the successful ICSI cycle. I think that?s the right decision, there?s just that little niggle of what if in the back of my mind.