August Babies ...... part 3

[Katherine]

Thought it was about time we had a thread which didn't take hours to load though....

Well caught up with Wills on the other thread and feel so very bad for her. Sending you all my love Wills.

I guess everyone is feeling quite low judging by the lack of postings here but we can't let the thread sink. So just thought I'd tell everyone that DD2 has just got her first pair of wellies. They are a size 4 and her shoes are size 1 so she has to waddle and I put lots of socks on her. but she absolutely loves them. So this morning we are going to go and find some puddles (not that difficult round here at the mo but they have to be shallow enough

I'm not trying to be frivolous but I think we all need a bit of a smile. Hugs all round

FANTASTIC...... how are you feeling? Really really glad for you!

Scared. As you all know given all that's happened to me in the last year I can't believe that anything simple and good is going to happen. Still very much in "duck" mode. Thanks though

Congratulations on conceiving again Wills! That is lovely, lovely news! Wishing you all the best

Wills, thats the best thing I've heard in ages. COngratulations. Deep breath then One day at a time

hi all!!
Wills -- congratulations!! how are you feeling??

Just reviving this thread - I'm very proud of us that it's the longest running post natal thread on the board! How is everyone? Wills - how are you feeling? Hope you're not too sick. Champs and KMS, how are the babes? Hope they're being gorgeous and letting you both get some sleep. Hello everyone else - Marina, Katherine!

I had a 12 week scan yesterday, so saw little bean - it was very active, kept doing little 'jumps', and sucking its thumb. But the consultant was lovely and did a free nuchal measurement (stupid area doesn't do routine 12 wk scans, so was private 'dating' scan for my own peace of mind!), and my risk of Downs was reduced from 1:667 for my age to 1:3633, and the risk of Edwards/Patau's syndrome down to 1:11531, so whilst it's never a guarantee, it does reassure me a bit! And it was so lovely to see it jumping around. I've been really sick the last couple of weeks - actually being sick in the evenings which I never had with ds and dd. They are both very excited about the baby - ds keeps talking to it - telling it all about school 'HELLO BABY, I'VE GOT A FRIEND AT SCHOOL CALLED JOE, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT WE DO?' etc. Dd keeps saying 'Mummy sick, baby in tummy, me sick, Po in my tummy' so she is under the illusion that she is about to give birth to a teletubby! We've checked she doesn't mean poo, which might make more sense, but she really does mean Po!

Anyway, love to you all, xxx

hi tortoiseshell!! lololol, i actually read that as pooh first

your ds sounds abs lovely, talking to baba.
sorry you've been so sick, it's horrid isn't it.

it's fantastic that we are going for so long.

kms -- how's little un doing?? baby here is growing very well, 11lb already

wills-- how's things with you?

katherine, how are you doing??

marina -- how is everything?

Hi guys. Have been avoiding mumsnet a little recently as I'm feeling very much like a rabbit stuck in the headlights glare iyswim. I bled last Tuesday so went for a scan on Thursday. Beautiful little baby that was 8 wks, 5 days. They decided that the blood was probably coming from one of the two enormous cycsts on my ovaries. These are also accounting for the some of the pain I'm often feeling. I had these with the babies I lost but also with Lotte and Anna's pregnancies so I'm reasonably confident that they wont hurt little one. Also my uterus is painful and is contracting so they've given me some progesterone pessaries to use until I'm 12 weeks as a pre-caution. The lady from the EPU is adament that at my age I can't afford many more miscarriages and is treating me as high risk (whether the pregnancy deems it or not). Roll on the stage where bump kicks, don't think I'll really relax at all until I get to that point. When you can prod your tummy and it prods back is a good stage. . Haven't told the kids yet, daren't. It was too hard to Anna when I had my first mc.

Anyway - still trying to sell the house (house selling + kids is pure hell!). Have been offered a new job at work (stunned!) and have finally got to the top of the allotment waiting list and now have an allotment patch. (I'll lay money on the fact that we'll sell the moment we've cultivated and manured it ready for spring ).

Tortoishell - Our area doesn't do nuchal scan either so am planning to book it for 11 weeks cos they do do a 12 week dating scan (just not the nuchal bit.)

Glad your little one was ok Wills - hope everything settles down - it sounds like they're keeping a close eye on you which is reassuring! xxx

Had to tell you this one. DD2 is potty training (her desire not mine) and she's doing stunning well - only one accident today. But she has spent most of the day without any bottoms. Anyway put half a load of washing on, went upstairs to get the rest and got distracted. Heard a shreik of pain. Rushed downstairs to find dd2 crying and hoping with pain and ... Oxiclean stainremoval powder in her fanny. Rushed her into the shower then phoned the doctors who recommended zinc and caster oil cream for the burns. She's now fine ( a little red and definitely winces when going to the loo but fine). Eventually pieced it together. She'd decided to help mummy by pushing a chair to the cupboard, pulling out the powder and (cos its in a large tub) putting the powder into the washing machine with her hands. Touching her fanny started the pain and then she tried to make it better which only rubbed more in. Poor little thing.

But still funny. By the way may have sold both houses.

Wills, the poor little mite! Glad she is feeling better already. A scorched fanny, ouch!
Fantastic news about your houses, so pleased for you. It's been a long game for you guys. Any news on a purchase yet?
Hope all us grandes dames of the post-natal clubs are enjoying half term!
We went to see Nanny McPhee, which we both enjoyed (a children's film starring Colin Firth has got to be good news, dh gets to do the plasticine shift ) and ds proved himself a capable spender of wardrobe update cash at Bluewater. Am now fretting he might grow up to be like Tyler Brule or even Nathan Barley...
Dd is also adept at being "helpful" Wills but her prowess with the potty mainly consists in hopping off it after a series of drama queen grunts and wiggles, and then widdling copiously on her brother's bedroom carpet

Marina. Am thinking of taking my 5 year old daughter to see nanny McPhae - do you think it will be ok for her?

Katherine. Took dd2 to Whipsnade zoo on Saturday. She's now ace at using the potty so was dressed in soft trousers that were easy to pull down. But.... was covered in mud within minutes of arriving. Most places sell all-in-one waterproofs for 2 year olds but I need waterproof trousers that are preferably under 15 quid. As the resident camping expert can you help?

Hoping to exchange on one of the houses this week and have the survey on the other booked. Fingers crossed.

Have been offered a new job at work.

Forgot to say. We are planning to rent were we currently live for 6 months whilst we house hunt in Broadstairs. Really impressed by dd2's potty ability. DD1 was not interested in the potty until she was almost 3 and we were practically begging her because the nursery was kicking up a stink. Personally I find nappies a lot easier than packing 4 spare outfits whenever we want to pop to the shops but dd2 has really impressed me. We've put it off and put it off. She's been wanting her sisters' knickers since she was 18 months but I didn't think she was ready. So I'm very proud that she's pretty much done it in about 4 days - started Tuesday, stopped Wednesday cos of trip to Legoland, started Thursday, no accidents on Saturday or Sunday. But at the same time am also sad at the "passing of era" sort of thing, it feels odd to pick her up and have such a small bottom in my arms.

wills poor dd! hope she feels better.
glad baby is doing well and hosp are treating you good.

good on your clever dd on potty trainig

how's everyone else doing?

ds2 is such a button. very independant and bright.

I must remember to check Watched Threads more often
Did you do Nanny McPhee wills? Did she enjoy herself? How are you in yourself?

Hi Marina, Am crap at the moment. Have just come home from nuchal scan where they've advised an amnio. Whilst I don't want to bring a down syndrome baby into the family I equally don't want to cause the miscarriage of a perfectly healthy one. AARRRGGHHHH - am in complete agony.

Wills, on what basis precisely did they recommend amnio? What kind of risk factor, and remember it's a risk factor only, did they give you for the nuchal?
Is it too late to opt for a CVS, and have it done privately with Professor Nicolaides?
If invasive testing is a choice you want to follow up, you can substantially reduce your risk of miscarriage by where and whom you choose to go for screening.
Oh, I am sorry. Try and hold on to the fact that nuchal screening is NOT a precise test but an indicative one, and that a raised translucency does NOT necessarily mean your baby has a chromosome disorder. Oh you poor love M XXX

Have snuck back to here cos seriously don't want the thread to turn into a debate on whether to terminate a downs baby or not. Am not up to an open debate like that as I'm feeling way way too raw, insecure etc. At least you'll understand why over the last 2 years I've become extremely pessimissitic about my luck rating. Its low, blooming low. So much so that I don't trust anything good even when it does happen. So... The debate going on in my head is whether to go to term with a down syndrome baby or to miscarry (through having an amnio) a normal baby. Which one could I live with better? Do I want a downs baby - no of course I don't but that doesn't mean I could terminate it. I do feel that I would love all my children equally but I also feel that bringing a child with a serious handicap into the family would seriously impinge on the time I could spend with my other two daughters and I don't want that. But at the same time the idea of terminating a baby simply because it wasn't perfect leaves me with complete horror.

I've no idea what the hell I would do BUT its great to be able to voice these things.

I thought CVS was more risky than amnio? That's what the consultant said last night. His view was that there's a 2% risk whereas with the amnio its a 1%.

Blood tests came in last night. I was told there was a less than 1% chance of them changing the results significantly. Well I fell into the 1%! The results when from 1 in 155 to 1 in 1104 - phew.

Yay yay yay Wills fantastic news!

Just seen this Wills - really glad you've got some good news!

Hi all,

Have just accepted a new job (with existing company). Very excited as it will give me an opportunity to discover once and for all whether or not I want to give up work or carry on after hopefully fingers crossed.. little one is born in May. Have also told him about little one. He did blink, but recovered and seemed able to fit that in. Which gave me enormous relief. Didn't really want to tell anyone at work yet but in some ways glad I've done it. Not sure when I would have got round to doing it.

Double congrats then missus, really hope that at the least it gives you five good months at the office, and hopefully much more if you want it. Well done wills

Hi all, sorry to have been such a stranger recently-4 kids is a bit hectic!

BIG congrats to Wills-sorry it has already been such a roller coster ride. fingers crossed that the rest will be plain sailing and that beautiful baby you deserve comes, with no more hic-ups, in May.

Tortoiceshell-how's it going? can't remember when your due? hope your in the great bit in the middle after the sickness but before the beached whale bit

Champs-how's it going?

Katherine- lol@you with your legs crossed I will have to join you!!

well, news from the KMS house: DS3 is georgous! he is now 15wks cooing and giggling, feeding well and a dream. He does have some strange lumps on his head that I am waiting for a paeds appointment. Bit cross at how long it is taking as I saw the lumps at 4 wks old and still have no answers and they getting bigger.

DD has potty trained herself in a week! I think she would have done it while I was pg wit DS3 but as I was so inactive with the spd I ignored it. Last week she announced "No nappies" so i just had to go with it. She wears proper pants and we only had a couple of accidents. only problem is poo! she waits for her night nappy even though I know she needed to do it before.
Am really pleased with her, as I know how hard it can be and this is why I didn't want to do it right now.

Well better go as I've lefet DS1 & 2 playing the playstation and DD wants me to play wkile DS3 is asleep (and I have the shopping arriving in a few mins!)

We must keep this thread going!! love to you all.