Pregnancy post mc: Totally's grads continued part 5...

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Our new thread to take us through the Chrisnas season. Pull up a chair, grab a mince pie and join us for support in pregnancy post miscarriage. All welcome!

BUNNY congratulations :) on the safe arrival of baby Daniel x

orange cant you get another scan this side of the weekend?!?!

Hi everyone,

Sorry it has taken me so long to report back - but glad to say I had a baby boy called James born on Christmas Day!! He was 8lbs on the dot. He had to stay in a little while but we've got him home now and he is doing really well, and starting to get the hang of feeding. I'm overwhelmed by him, he is wonderful.

Good luck to everyone,

GLB and James
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Great news Goodluckbear!! So pleased we had a Christmas baby after all :)

Awww congratulations to both GLB and bunnybaby on the fabulous arrivals of Daniel and James. What lovely lovely news. :)

orange - hope things are settling down. If you can't wait untl next week, would you consider having a private reassurance scan in the meantime?

Welcome to lucy and womabt - so lovely to see you both over here

Hi to everyone else. Feel absolutely shattered today, and have had a troublesome day at work which, for the first time, has made me count down the days until I go on maternity leave. Only 3 months and 15 days to go...

Also very at those of you who qualify for the Health in Pregnancy Grant as I've missed out by a matter of a week. Gah!

Hurray! lovely news from bunny and GLB!! and a Christmas Day baby after all!

bunny lovely to hear how positive you sounds after your labour - I felt exactly the same with DS - the end went slightly wrong, but my overall memory was now damn proud i was of how I managed the pain and labour overall.

Gi1da glad you're still feeling perky - that baby will probably be as chilled out as you!

RHG happy due date!

viv sorry work is starting to feel urgh. Can you look at your hours and do slightly shorter days / work from home occasionally? That's what helped me... although as we know PR never sleeps

orange sorry to hear your body is still playing mind games with you - is there any way you can get your scan tomorrow instead?

Congratulations bunnybaby, well done for having the labour you wanted, and aren't we just glad that c-sections exist as an option if all else fails!

Congratulations also GLB, wow a Christmas baby! Why did baby James have to stay in - was it 'just' the feeding? Glad all is well now!

big waves to everyone else :)

Goodluckbear !! what a great Christmas present!

Dh reckons I should wait until Monday as I'll worry anyway Must keep reciting positive facts :)

goodluckbear, Big congratulations on your very own special Christmas present. Hope staying in wasn't too awful.

gilda no pressure but you're next. :)

orange try and stay positive if you can, as others have said, is there any way you could get a private scan before next week? Fingers crossed for you and it's just your body settling down.

viv bugger about the grant.

louise yes agree would like to become to accustemed (sp) to the mum of celebrity lifestyle :)

And speaking of my little man, Ds got his ballet exam results today, passed with honours. I cried, I am so proud of him. :)

Thanks Lia66 I'm gonna do my best to hold out, sorry for being so miserable on such a happy thread.

Oh how lovely, it must be such a proud moment :)

Huge congratulations to bunny and goodluckbear.

And to your DS lia, clever thing.

orange never apologise on this thread for whatever you are feeling, sadly there isn't a one amongst us that doesn't understand how you feel.

We supportthe rough times with the good on here, rant away, you are perfectly safe.

Thurday's List
Gilda - baby#1 41+5 wks EDD 25th December
AlbaDeTamble - baby#2 (1DS, 3yrs) 40+3 wks EDD 3rd January
toomuchteaching - baby#1 40+1 wks EDD 5th January
Redheadgal - baby#1 40 wks EDD 6th January
WestYorkshireGirl - baby#1 38+3 wks EDD 18th January
Dorcas111 - baby#1 36+6 wks EDD 28th January
Ba8y1 - baby#1 35+6 wks EDD 4th February
Lotta123 - baby#? 35 wks EDD 10th Feb
Clareanna - baby#2 (1DS) 34+6 wks ADD 3rd Feb
Muser - baby#1 32+4 wks EDD 27th Feb
Northerngoldilocks - baby#1 29+6 wks EDD 18 March
Magic8ballhastheanswers - babies#3&4 29+2 wks
Lia - baby#6 29+1 wks EDD 23rd March
Hopefully - baby#2 27+6 wks EDD 2nd April
stuffedmk - baby#2 27+4 wks EDD 4th April
Osch - Baby#3 26+4 wks EDD 10th April
Ivysedai - baby#2 25 wks EDD 21st April
PenguinsMummy - baby#3 25 wks EDD 21st April
VivClicquot - baby#1 23+3 wks EDD 2nd May
Loopymumsy - baby#4 23 wks EDD 5th May
Tigerbear - baby#1 21+3 wks EDD 14th May
Caribou - baby #2 (DD, 3yrs) 21+1 wks EDD 18th May
appleblossoms - baby#2 17+5 wks EDD 11th June
crochetcircle - baby#1 17+5 wks EDD 11th June
LittleMiss - baby#1 15+5 wks EDD 24th June
Wobblewatcher - baby#2 15+2 wks EDD 27th June
Inbetweener - baby#3 12+4 wks EDD 17th July

Waiting to join the list:
emmywoo
Purplehibiscus
Nickstermum

The babies are arriving! Huge congratulations to:
Totally with daughter Faith Juliet, 9lb5oz born Tuesday 16th February 2010
Amyboo with son Matthew James, 4.714kg (10lb3oz) born Tuesday 30th March 2010
Hoops with son Benjamin Scott, 7lb4oz born Friday 2nd April 2010
Memorylapse with daughter Olivia, born Friday 16th April 2010
Jacanne with daughter Lotta Eliza, 8lbs 5oz born 20th April 2010
Becky78 with son Thomas Christopher born 22nd May, 9lb 1oz
Meita with son Ianto born 23 August, 7lbs 4
Boodleboot with daughter Alice Elizabeth born 10 Sep - 8lbs 2oz
LeeWT with son Andrew Anthony born 28th Sept 7lbs 14oz
TFLS with son Charlie born on 30th September, 6lbs 8oz
SamB with daughter Ruby Mae born 19th October, 7lbs 10oz
Effilump with son Arlen born 16th October, 8lbs
Sarahlou8 with daughter Emily Isabella born 21st October, 7lb8oz
Unbuffy with son James Anthony born 3rd December, 6lb8oz
HappyGirl with daughter Ciara born 10th December, 8lb2oz
Malteser1981 with son Eli born 18 December, 8lb 6oz
Zayja with daughter Winona born 19 December, 7lbs 11oz
Sparklyrainbow with son Alex born 28th December, 9lb 7oz
GoodLuckBear with son James born 25th December, 8lb
BunnyBaby with son Daniel George born 5th January 2011, 10lb 1oz

In our thoughts and prayers:
Louise with daughter Georgie born asleep on 10th October

We share the pain and mourn the loss with:
Jollster, Cheepz, Freezing, BarrenBrook, MsJL, LadyBee, Banana87, BatteryHen, HairyTriangle and Waterplate

Find the post grads: here

Huge congrats to Goodluckbear, sorry, no more namechecking, list took me far longer than it should have, hope I haven't messed it up for anyone

Can't even spell Thursday.... I need this baby out soon before my brain completely implodes

aaah goodluck bear.... a christmas baby!! How owonderful x Hope you got some turkey too xxx

Congrats Goodluckbear Lovely name my brother's middle name is James.Enjoy XX

Hi all

Big congrats bunny and Goodluckbear!

Orange I am so sorry things are mucking you about. The blood test is a really good sign, and lots of people bleed in pregnancy with no ill effects at all. Fingers crossed for the scan. Let's hope you and I and wombat get to spend a long long time chatting on this thread.

So now I am minutely comparing pg tests, faffing with my nipples every five minutes. The symptoms seem to fluctuate during the day, which doesn't help. Now I am worried because I don't crave lemon barley water like in my last two pregnancies . What's the version of a fish slap for pregnant ladies? I definitely need one.

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Should do the trick... It got frequent use a while back when those of us now at the top of the list were where you are now Lucy.
But try to remember every pregnancy is different, as I was told by the midwife just this afternoon! The concerns are never ending... I was high risk at the end with DS but it's all fine this time, hard to get my head round. Could you slap me back please?

loving the fish alba :)

Hello All

for leaving you all for quite so long! After my 3 week hols in Sep we totally immersed ourselves in the house renovation as we realised we were running out of time and well I didn't really have time for much else especially when I started getting so tired. Then I couldn't find the thread and time just ticked by! Anyway, house now finished and I have just 12 days to go. Getting lots of pelvic pain and backache and the head engages further, birth pool has arrived and all going well (apart from having a flu virus at the moment). Great to see some of the people who joined the thread at the same time as me have had their babies and new members getting support. I'm in a reflective mood today as it's a year since I lost my last baby, but also looking forward to meeting this little person. Am going to try to be more organised re MN now!

Hi Westyorkshiregirl, lovely to hear from you again- I've been wondering about you and how you were getting on. We got our BFPs within a few weeks of each other I think- and look at us now, almost at the top of the list! It's hard when you reach anniversaries of our lost little ones, even with so much to look forward to, so I hope you are taking good care of yourself.
Congratulations to GLB and bunny on the arrival of James and Daniel- wonderful news! Bunny, it is so inspiring to hear you talk positively about your labour, even if it didn't go quite the way you expected at the end. In the end all we want is for our babies to be delivered safely, that's the only thing that matters, and as someone else said, thank god we have other options if we need it.
LucyS, as someone else has done the honours with the fish I'm just sending you a hug instead. It is really tough in the beginning when all you can do is wait and hope that things will work out. As well as constant knicker checking I was always surreptitiously boob prodding as well, and getting paranoid if they didn't feel as sore as they did the day before. People on the tube must have thought I was a right nutcase, feeling myself up in public.
lia, lovely news about your son, you must be very proud. He sounds very talented!
Viv, that's rubbish about the HIP grant- very unlucky to miss out by a week. I hope that you can arrange work to be less demanding- and at least today is Friday!
orange, thinking of you, I hope that the weekend passes quickly and not too stressfully for you. The blood tests do sound very encouraging, I hope the scan gives you some peace of mind too.
Right, glida, alba, TMT and redheadgirl, one of you has to pop today!
Hello to everyone else, sorry not to namecheck you all, hope you have lovely Fridays x x

Hi westyorkshiregirl - good to hear from you and glad everything is going well. You've got an exciting couple of weeks ahead!

Bless you clareanna and dorcas - it's not so much that my hours at work are particularly demanding or anything like that. I think I'm just in a post-holiday grump, which wasn't helped by the fact that one of my closest journalist contacts totally screwed me over yesterday over what I thought was an 'off the record' tip off; the knock-on effect of which meant that we missed the boat on a different opportunity, meaning I let down one of the partners here. Sigh. Still, you're right, it's Friday and to be honest, I've only got two weeks in the office left until I go to Thailand so screw 'em, I say...

morning all. Nada happening here...

Viv anyone upsetting you at work better watch out, don't they know it's extemely dangerous to upset a pregnant woman?? Very of your upcoming hols though!

WYG good to see you! I just saw your homebirth thread -- if you get no response there, scroll back here a little bit - Malteser had a lovely homebirth. And with a little bit of luck, both Gilda and I will have homebirth stories for you imminently

Come on the baybees!!!

wyg lovely to hear from you again - im glad the house renovations are coming along well- nothing like the thought of a new baby to get things finished. Totally understand how you feel today, I don't think anything will take away that little bit of sadness- which is hard for some to understand (my mum in particular) but you're in good company here.

No news here.

Congratulations GLB and bunny on the safe arrivals of your little boys, wonderful news.

Must go get dressed so I can go for a walk.