September 2014 - Into the new year!

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Shiny New Thread for a Shiny New Year.

So sorry to hear that lilone. Please feel free to come on here and talk if you need to. Sending you hugs. xxx

lilone, so sorry, that is awful. thinking of u and ur family

Sorry for your loss lilone

Oh lilone I am so sorry to hear about your Mum passing away. 54 is no age, far, far too young.

You must understandably be devastated, I hope you have lots of support around you. Feel free to talk here about your Mum as much as you need to. My dad died when I was 7 months pregnant with my first child and his first grandchild - so he never got chance to experience being a grandparent. Take solace from the precious few weeks your Mum got to cherish with your little one.

Your Mums memory will live through you as a parent to your own child.

Thank you ladies.

Fate - it must have been that much worse to lose your dad at that time in your life. The first person I want to tell when Molly does something new is my mum and even though she did get to spend some time with her she is missing out on so much, as I'm sure you felt with your dad even more so.

You can still tell your Mum lilone. Ten years on and I still tell my Dad stuff that is happening in family life that he would enjoy or have an opinion on.

At Christmas dinner this year we were remembering how my Dad used to have a pound coin in his pocket and when Mum would hide 5p coins in the Christmas pudding (tradition here), Dad would pretend he found a £1 in his serving of pud, when everyone else just had 5p in their serving. Every year he'd do this same joke. I might play that joke next year, just for the memories.

These happy memories are going to take a while to come though lilone. For now, I know the feeling of despair and emptiness that accompanies the early days. Be kind to yourself and set no expectations.

(((big hugs)))

So sorry to hear of your loss lil. It must be a dreadful shock for you.

So sorry to hear about your loss lilone; I can't even imagine how hard it would be specially at such a young age... it is definitely not off topic; we are like a little tiny online community and should be able to tell each other about our feelings...

I hope you have emotional support around you to deal with this difficult time and feel free to tell us about your feelings pls; hope you are both OK; at least your baby is so young not to understand what is going on...

Oh lilone I am so so sorry.

So sorry lilone, I can't even imagine losing my mum

Lilone, so sorry for you. I hope you are ok.

Don't ever apologise for being human. There is no such thing as off topic if its such a bit thing in your family life.

lilone I am so sorry for your loss!

It is wonderful the support system we have on here. Particularly as we are all going through the same/similar things!

On a different note, has anyone noticed the September 2015 Ante-Natal group start?

I keep seeing it popping up in Active and having a rush of nostalgia - that was us last year first finding out we were pregnant. I've even been on it for a read to remind myself. Awwww the excitement!

lilone i am so sorry. may your memories keep you strong xx

Awwwww I miss the excitement of finding out. Will have to pop in and have look

Happy New Year all!!!

We are currently cuddled up on the couch with a zonked baby Not sure we will be awake at midnight, but we have something sparkly in the fridge, just in case.

This time last year we did not yet know how much our life was about to change...

I tested negative this time last year but we both knew as I felt unusually rotten. We spent the day out on New Year's Day talking about it. DH nipped out first thing the following day to get a test and I tested positive.

Tomorrow we are going back to the same pub as it feels sort of special.

So sorry lilone.

I'm still feeling shocking, blood tests back and I have an overactive thyroid. I'm so tired, all my joints hurt and I have no appetite. On the plus side the last stone and a half of my baby weight has fallen off in the last two weeks.

I've also had a dreadful day, my best friend is on holiday and I'm responsible for her horses, I got a test from the girl doing the mucking out to say one of them wasn't well about 2pm. When I got there he clearly wasn't well so I called the vet, she was very concerned so we took him into the vets for them to monitor him, he's an old boy and I'm really worried he is gonna take a turn for the worse in the night and I'm going to get a call asking for permission to put him to sleep. My friend will be so devastated if she isn't there for him as she's had him 17 years. I'm just keeping my fingers tightly crossed he's ok.

Have a lovely new year everybody.6

Oh misog I hope that doesn't happen to your friend - I lost my old pony last year after 15 years and would have been totally heartbroken not to have been there with him at the end. It's always worse with horses I think, they're such a massive part of your life and the end is just necessarily more traumatic than for smaller pets . Fingers crossed for him.

Misog - hopefully now you know what it is you will be able to get treatment and start feeling better?

Red - going back to the same pub you were in last year is a lovely idea.

Can't believe there's a September 2015 thread. I found out on January 5th. I had dreams the whole night before about positive pregnancy test and period was 6 days late. Lo and behold! How lucky we all are to have our beautiful bouncing babies, despite anything else!

Happy new year lovely ladies xx best wishes for the year to come for all of you x

Happy New Year!

May it bring you even more joy than the last.

Red I wonder if that's possible; although they are getting sweeter every day

First feed of 2015 - not quite sure what the alcohol content of my milk was

Happy New Year everyone :)

Elijah treated me by sleeping through :)

We didn't find out we were pregnant until mid January

Happy New Year everyone.

We tried very hard to get a photograph last night of four DC outside in the snow with the two Chinese lanterns we were setting off. Too windy and children too tired though, didn't manage to get the photo.

Two years since I gave up smoking