December 2012: Dribbles, giggles and rolls!

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Thought we should get a new thread before the night shift

WL, Hope your ok it must have been scary and i'm glad your mums getting better but sorry about the brain tumour.

Spotty here heres the link, i'm hoping it works i've never posted a link before. I've read a few of the reviews the only bad one is about the size but i was thinking i might just get a bigger one.

Hales I think that one looks good as you can just change the cover to make it more suitable once she's bigger (if I read it right?). I hate this stage of them wanting to sit but not quite being able to!

Your poor mum WL glad she's on the mend. And poor you,
3 DCs and a poorly mum to look after, stressful!

I'm considering an entertainer, anyone got one? DS is bored of his play gym and wants to be stood up all the time.

Not got one but know people who have and I think they're really good

DS missed his 5pm nap so only napped at 6.30 for an hour and has been up since. I've finally got him to sleep on me. The problem at the minute being I have a cough and for some reason breastfeeding sets me off into a coughing fit after 10/15 mins and wakes him right up!

Gosh WL I hope your mum gets better soon. You must have your hands full!

Dummy refusal today so that didn't last plus he wakes up and cries everytime I put him down. Long night ahead....again....!

Fx for all tricky babies tonight - mine included!

WL - wonder where you were! Goodness you have your hands full. Hope your mum continues to improve ok.

C accepted the bottle from husband at dream feed tonight!.... but drank 50ml then fell asleep again - hence mr being up now this growth spurt has lasted forever!

wl wishing your mum a speedy recovery.

Looks like tonight not going quite as well as last night. Only just managed to settle her after what's supposed to be a dream feed. Thinking positive thoughts though and maybe she'll sleep well from now.

hales looks good as grows with them. Only thing is knew someone who had something similar but didn't change into a bean bag & for early crawlers you wouldn't get much use out of it as was too flat & can prob pick up a bean bag/ chair for less when needed. Also have a look at the babybjorn babysitter which was useful for ages for ds even though he crawled at just before 6 months.

Hello all, just caught up with the thread. WL hope your mum gets well soon. Hope everyone else has a good sleep tonight. Re beanbags etc you can also use a dreamgenie or similar feeding pillow tied into a ring, for the baby to sit up against. I'm going to dig mine out as Z is definitely nearing that stage. We can sit him upright for a few seconds before he slowly topples to one side.

I think i'm just going to buy a ordinary beanbag so it matches my couches ha. Like Seconds said she is managing a minute or so sat up by herself before toppling over but its the pulling herself up that concerns me the most i don't feel safe leaving her while i go to the toilet now .

I've been using the feeding pillow curled round as a support as seconds says, which works okay. He does need to be wedged in a bit though..

So sorry to hear about your mum wl, and wishing you and her well. We haven't got a date agreed for a meet up yet, so need to agree one!

I'm cautiously hoping our sleep regression is tailing off. Sleep tonight from 10-2 and 2.30- 5 15am. It's amazing what he has worked out during the leap though; lots of rolling to show off to his grand parents yesterday and reaching for things. the wonder weeks app has really helped my patience with the fussy periods.
Also hoping his cot turns up sometime this week and he can have a proper bed not the travel cot at last..

Well ds woke 9:20 and if took me until almost 11 to get him back to sleep then he was awake 1:20 until 2 (again he is taking ages to get back to sleep I'm having to let him suck my finger until falls deep asleep ) but he slept then until 7:10

Ooo I've got my one year ago today story! Although day wise it was yesterday but date wise today....

I'd been saying for a few days to dp that my period was late and asked him to buy me a test but he kept brushing it off. It was a Sunday and I said 'you're not going to buy me a test are you? Ill just get myself one.' He agreed he wouldn't as he didn't see the point so off I went to tesco...

Saw someone I know there so did a bit of dodging. Got to my car and spoke to my dad post marathon (he was too scared to take his trainers off as he knew he'd lost a few toenails )

Anyway I got home and said to dp that I'd go and do it. He replied 'I won't mind if you are but I'd rather you weren't'. Did test and cane downstairs saying I think I need to go to the doctors as had a faint line (which looking back was definitely not faint!).

Then spent the rest of the day researching pregnancies with a mirena and scared myself so started a thread on here with lots of helpful comments

The doctors were never that positive about the pregnancy being viable so had lots of appointments and early scans but he made it

Spotty I have my one year ago story today too! (Though mine is day wise, not date wise).

I had been feeling really weird for about a week (it felt like a hangover crossed with travel sickness) & I'd had sore, veiny boobs BUT I'd had my period so I "knew" there was no way I could be pregnant! The day before I did the test I was ridiculously emotional as I felt that my body was playing such cruel tricks on me & my hubby suggested I took a test & kept asking "Is there no way you could be pregnant? There are a lot of signs." I just got more & more upset about it as I said I couldn't do a test as it would just make me so sad when it was negative.

The next morning I wasn't feeling very well & stayed home from work. I slept in & when I got up I was so tired of feeling so emotional that I decided to do a test after all as I thought that might kickstart my body back to normal. So I did one (a Superdrug one) & then went to look on Facebook for the 2-3 mins it takes, so sure was I that it would be negative. I came back & checked it & saw the line...then had to check the instructions as I had never had a positive test before!!

After that I phoned my hubby & I was so emotional sounding that it first he thought that someone had died, then I managed to choke out that we were pregnant He was sitting at his desk so he had to try & be very calm!!

I was already 7 weeks pregnant when I found out

I just looked back at the calendar and mine was 10th apr. I'd gone to the docs to be referred to the fertitly clinic as we'd just had DHs sample results back as ok so we were about to start testing. They did a test 'just in case' as I was due on the day before. And it was positive

Wow! Great stories all round

Loving these stories! Mine was a couple of weeks ago but here goes: I'd been testing every month after a miscarriage the October before, and every month was negative including, I thought, month 5, as I used a test which was supposed to tell you up to 6 days before your period the day before I was due and nada. My husband was in Sri Lanka for work so I'd emailed him disconsolately about how I wasn't pregnant, but then my period didn't appear so I kept checking each day with Internet cheapies more out of hope than expectation, till a few evenings later I thought I saw a faint second line. Texted the picture to a friend who said it was worth getting an expensive test at that stage. So next day I tried a Clearblue digital and the magic word came up very quickly! It was a shame my husband wasn't around not least because we had houseguests who were his friends not mine so I felt I couldn't talk about it properly, and of course I was terrified of another miscarriage so had 3 early scans before the dating scan but we made it.

I do miss randomly testing during the pregnancy just for the fun of seeing that second pink line :)

This means there must be a December 2013 antenatal thread

WL - sorry to hear about your mum. Hope she has a speedy recovery.

Love the bfp stories. I had a similar experience to Weejo with DS1 - got some spotting which I thought was the start of my period, but it didn't really progress. I just did the test to put any thought I could be pg out of my mind and got a line . With N, no sign of period on the day I was due so decided to test. Unfortunately, only had a cheapie which I managed to mess up as there was no line in the test confirmation area. There was however what appeared to be a faint line in the actual testing bit. We decided we wanted to know for sure before going to work so DH made a frantic dash to ASDA while I drank loads of water. Did the test properly and got a bfp. Still think seeinng that line is one of the best feelings ever

Aww I'm a bit of planned babies. Both the lines I've seen have been met with panic!

Re sleep, Z was still sleeping at 6.30! From going down in the cot at about 10-ish. Unfortunately this was a morning I had to get up before 6.30. On the mornings I can lie in, he shows no such compulsion to sleep.

spotty this is going to sound weird but even when I used to test when younger to make sure that I wasn't pregnant, there was always a teensy weensy little bit of me that hoped for a second line. I really have no idea why that was.

Aww lovely stories, mine was also a few weeks ago. I had only been dating DP for a few weeks (i promise i'm not a slag), when we decided to go away for the weekend, i told him i was due on, on the saturday though. However saturday came and went and it never came on the sunday DP casually mentioned it, and i told him sometimes i've been known to be a few days late and not to worry till the wednesday. Went to work as normal and promptly forgot all about being due on. On wednesday night i received a txt off DP asking if i had come on realised i hadn't told him not to worry about it. Although we both knew for positive my LMP had been on the 19th of February because it came on the 1st night we were planning on having sex (so we had to wait a week).

Anyway the next morning i woke up and went the toilet still no period so went to the chemist brought a pack of two tests. Came home and did one genuinely thinking this would actually force my period to come i weed on the stick and it was positive as soon as i stopped weeing. I mean while i was weeing i literally watched the positive line come up. Promptly burst into tears. DP asked that night if i'd come on again told him not to worry

On the friday night we went the cinemas and we drove past asda and he casually suggested we dropped in and brought a pregnancy test i told him i had one in my bag and i'd do it when i got home. Got home offered him the chance to leave me before he knew the outcome as he was dead against having another child, he told me he wasn't like that. So i told him i'd done the test the day before and knew i was pregnant buy brought the 2nd test so he knew i wasn't one of the kooky women who fake pregnancy. He sat there in shock and i offered him the chance to leave me again told him i'd be fine doing it alone. So anyway went and did the test (again positive before i'd finished weeing) and gave him the stick. Watched the colour drain from his face again.

So then he tells me he can't do it and would i get rid so i explained that after previously losing one in my last relationship that wasn't an option for me, but also told him i doubted this pregnancy would stay. Anyway he decided he wanted to leave me i drove him home in white knuckled anger. Neither of us spoke, pulled up outside his house and he said i've made a mistake i want us to stay together i hissed at him to get out of my car. Two days later he text and we met up he told me he wanted to try the relationship as he really liked me for me. We decided not to tell anyone till the 12 week point to see how we managed getting on with each other in those 12 weeks.

The week later i started bleeding went to hospital where they examined me and told me theres was a heartbeat but my chances of losing her had hugely increased due to bleeding. At that point had to tell my parents and work what was happening and begged them not to tell anyone as i knew i'd lose the pregnancy.

Also bled again at 11 weeks but also due to having hyperemesis was hospitalised and put on drips. I remember the nurse asking how bad my morning sickness was and me saying it wasn't too bad. She came back 2 hours later and said you've been sick 5 times in the last 2 hours trust me when i tell you its not normal. (My sister had been far worse thats why i thought it was normal).

40 weeks later my little ewok was pulled into the world me and DP have made it so far although one of our favourite sayings is one day at a time haha.

(Sorry that turned out a longer post than i expected)

I did a test about a week after the period was due. My husband and I had just started trying, and I didn't have any symptoms except for tingling nipples which I thought I had imagined! Did it early on a Sat morning, crept back into bed and told him it was all systems go! I don't think he believed me.

Three days later my parents came from Aus to stay with us for 2 months!