Pregnancy post mc: Totally's grads part 9

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New thread!

yay congratulations PV that has got to be the shortest list topping in history hasn't it?? Oooooh Orange it's all yours now!! And when did I get so high up it? I can almost see the top although I'm very grateful to have a few of you above me still :)

miniV is being quite annoying today! she has her legs above my ribs and her bum underneath them :( this is not at all comfortable when sitting for 4 hours tutoring thick yr 6s!!

PV tonnes of congratulations. Brilliant news x

Freezing yay for being on the list

cep good luck for the gtt

bigmac love the swimming pool story. I love swimming but can't stand the getting changed in minging changing rooms at the best of times so just can't be arsed now.

Had a major crying fit yesterday when DP shouted at me for getting upset about the size of my boobs-which I know I've moaned about before I'm now 30H and my bump is still 3 inches smaller than my boobs so I just look fat not at all pregnant. I was moaning yet again and DP went mad (very unlike him I have to say so maybe I was overdoing it a bit ). It ended up in a big argument about how unsupportive he's being. He won't discuss buying anything and isn't interested in even talking about things really. He did apologise later and said it's just because it could all still go wrong so there's no point getting excited. I suppose I didn't realise he felt like that and it came as a bit of a shock cos he's usually pretty upbeat. I'm obviously just a selfish cow!

Sorry for the me me me rant! (basically what I said to DP yesterday really )

Don't know who mentioned mint aeros but had to buy one today -yum!

Congratulations pv! hope recovery goes ok. We're in another scbu so not much time to post.

oh forgot to say Irene I've been having the odd shandy or wine spritzer every now and then (maybe once a month)

Seeing as Freezing has bitten the bullet and joined the list, I thought I should too. I'm Sunchild77 (aka updiffed) and have been around for a wee while, but not a hugely prolific poster.....So hello again, and I hope you don't mind me joining in a bit...

Thursday 25th August 2011

OrangeGloss ? baby#1 38+4 weeks EDD 4th September
Wombat33 - baby#1 37+6 weeks EDD 10 September
Daisybell - baby#1 37+2 weeks EDD 13 September
PinkFondantFancy - baby#1 35+3 weeks EDD 25 September
Mamapower - Baby#1 35+2 weeks EDD 28 September
A lovely bunch of coconuts baby #2 34+5 weeks EDD 1 october
Emoo - baby#2 33+5 weeks EDD 7 October
IreneHeron - DS no 2, 31+4 weeks, EDD 23rd Oct.
Tunnocksteacake - baby#2 31+3 weeks EDD 24th October
Hotnspicyonions - baby#2 31+3 weeks EDD 24th October
Velvetcu - baby#1 31+2 wks EDD 25th October
MummyAbroad baby #2 29+6 wks EDD 4th November
CEP baby #2 29+5 wks EDD 5th Nov
Katherine2008 baby#2 29+0 EDD 10 November
Collieandpup baby #1 27+4 wks EDD 20th Nov
Wombatinwaiting - baby # 1 27+0 wks EDD 24th November
LaraMi baby #1 26+6 weeks EDD 25th November
Izzy - baby #3 26+6wks EDD 26th November
Bigmacandhappymeal - baby#1 26+2 weeks EDD 29th November
Blackkat - baby #1 25+3 wks EDD 5th December
Minnie74 -baby1 24+0 wks EDD 15th December
Harassedandherbug - baby #4 23+0 wks EDD 22 December
Dooscooby - baby #1 23+0 wks EDD 22 December
Youremindmeofthebabe Baby#2 21+1 wks EDD 5th Jan
Sunchild77 Baby #3 20+6 wks EDD 6th Jan - Elcs at 39 wks
Freezingmyarseoff baby#2 20+5 wks EDD 7th Jan

Waiting to join the list (lurkers):
Please add yourselves in if you wish!

MIA
Tigerbear - baby#1 EDD 14th May
Wobblewatcher - baby#2 EDD 27th June
Inbetweener - baby#3 43+3 wks EDD 17th July
emmywoo
Purplehibiscus
Lucysnowe

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
AlbaDeTamble - with son born 10th Jan 2011, 8lbs 10oz
Gilda - with son Ren born 10th Jan 2011, 8lb 4oz
WestYorkshireGirl - with daughter Hester Rose born 14th Jan 2011, 6lb 4oz
Redheadgal - with daughter Cecily Anne born 13th Jan 2011, 8lbs 13oz
Toomuchteaching - with daughter Jemima born 17th Jan 2011, 8lb1/4oz
Dorcas111 - with daughter born 4th February 2011 8lbs 5oz
Clareanna - with son Tobias born 10th February 7lbs 10oz
Muser - with daughter born 15th February 6lbs 12oz
Ba8y1 ? with son born Tuesday 15th February, 8lbs 11oz
Lotta123 - with baby born Monday 21st February
Magic8ballhastheanswers - Identical twin girls, born 27th February 6lb8 & 5lb15
Northerngoldilocks - with son born Wednesday 16th March, 9lb 6oz
Stuffedmk - with son Thomas, born Wednesday 23rd March
Hopefully - with son, born 29th March 7lb 12oz
Lia - with daughter, born 1st April 8lb 11oz
PenguinsMummy - with daughter Clodagh
VivClicquot - with daughter, Phoebe, born Thursday 28 April, 7lb 5oz
Ivysedai - with son, born Tuesday May 2nd 3.83KG
Loopymumsy - with daughter, born Thursday 12th May, 7lb 15oz
Caribou - with son, Caleb, born Saturday 28 May, 9lb 1oz
LittleMiss - with son- born Wednesday 1st June 7lb 1oz
appleblossoms - with son Malachi, born Wednesday 15th June, 9lb 4oz
crochetcircle - with daughter born Sunday 26th June, 8lb 4oz.
urbanlolly - with daughter born Tuesday 19th July, 8lb 3oz.
Nickster - with son Corey born Tuesday 2nd August
Tiggersreturn - with sons born Saturday 13th August, 5lb 2oz and 3lb 13oz
Owlbooty - With son Robin born 18th August 8lb 13oz
PrettyVacant - baby girl born Tuesday 23rd August

In our thoughts and prayers:
Louise with daughter Georgie born asleep on 10th October
Dachs with her babies Alexander and Felicia who left the world asleep on 21st May
Magic8ballhastheanswers who leaves behind her beautiful little girl, spiderbabies and DH. Blessed are those of us that had the privilege of knowing you.

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

irene another Becks blue fan here!

• I remember you from another thread, maybe the TTC thread? Really nice to see new peeps joining the list!

Yup was on the TTC thread :) Nice to be remembered! LOL
I have 20 week scan tmw, and Im mentalling quite a bit tonight... Scared in case there is something wrong. ah!

Really want to try the Becks Blue as having a curry isnt the same with a pint of ribena LOL

Prettttttttty huge congrat's missus xxxxxxxx

Waves at Sunchild I remember you from the TTC thread, although I was probably just lurking by then. Glad I persuaded someone else to join too!
I've got myself a bit confused because I'm pretty sure I had the same dates as you on the freak out thread (updiffed right?) but I've now gained a day . That's me taking the "try to not to think about this pregnancy" a bit too far I think. Anyway like you I'll also be having an ELCS, so I guess our delivery dates will mostly be based on whether the consultants can be arsed to come in to work between Christmas and New Year

morning ladies,

minnie my dh doesn't like talking about anything either, that's why i'm grateful i can come on here and whinge when i need to. (even if just about him. )

i'm feeling sorry for myself this morning, i'm hungry already.

Minnie you're not selfish-if he's not talking about how he feels, how are you supposed to read his mind??? FWIW I was terrified about buying stuff too but have eventually got around it by thinking that whether or not I buy anything actually has no impact on the chances of whether it goes wrong, and frankly if it does, having to return some stuff will prob be the least of my worries.

CEP how much longer to wait? You poor thing, it sounds horrible.

Pregnancy yoga today, yay!

Many many congrats PV that's lovely news! Enjoy all those snuggles and cuddles

Minnie I'm so sorry to hear about your row with DH - they don't realise, do they, that they need to tell us how they're feeling, they can't just expect us to know. And you are NOT a selfish cow!

good luck for your scan today.

Cep hang on in there, but you have my every sympathy. Doing the fasting glucose was bad enough for me! Can you drink anything? I was allowed clear liquids ie black tea which took the edge off for me. What time is your appointment?

Hello to everyone else, hope you're all fine and dandy! Am over to a friend's today for more nappy changing/winding practise. Only difference this time is that OH has instructed me to take my labour bag - gulp.

Oh good luck for your scan today sunchild, will be keeping everything crossed for you

Delurks briefly

Congrats mrs pv have fun with your little girl.

Good luck with scan sunchild

Good luck for your scan sunchild

Oh daisy I'm impressed you are practising nappy changes & winding.

Cep I'm always hungry

Sorry on my phone so can't scroll back but waves to all

Hello All

Wowsas - awesome news PV - so happy for you! Wishing your family lots of love and happiness together. Huge congrats (news like that always brings a tear to my eye!)

Sunchild - good luck with the scan! Mentalling is normal and allowed pre-scan... Everyone said to me to "enjoy it" which made me want to throttle them but I have to say it was one of the fabbest experiences ever.

Cep - have you had the GTT yet? St Georges is very considerate and schedules all the tests early to stop pregnant women getting too hungry!

Daisy - hope the practise goes well? I have a concern re. little boys and willy wiping... I am sorry to sound gross but do you have to pull back the foreskin to clean behind it??? Am hoping DH will be my willy-wiping teacher.

Tigger - how are the babies?

Cep - my DH is a moody sod all the time. I think it's due to lack of bedroom action (the mere suggestion of which starts a blazing row). He also seems to be indulging in frigging annoying blokey conversation at work about what a nightmare his pregnant wife is... He doesn't realise how bloody lucky he is - I have cried a grand total of twice, stormed out of the room once (crying at the same time so one of those crying incidents don't count) and I am still behaving totally normally 95% of the time.

Did I tell you that M&Ps have delayed our furniture order by a whole month? Bloody annoying... Well, I have managed to negotiate them to build it for us as part of a sorry-for-poor-customer-service-offering. DH is quite pleased that one of his weekends will now be salvaged.

On the subject of customer service (and nothing to do with pregnancy), this AM I treated myself to a muffin from a well known coffee outlet. It was rubbish. Minus all fruit and choc and so just bland cake. I sent them an email to complain and they wrote back within 30 mins to say sorry and that they'd send me vouchers. Score! (I clearly don't have enough work to do today)

Thanks for well wishes to dog. I think medicine must've come a long way since my dogs were spayed when I was a child... She must be on some super strong painkillers because she's fine. In fact, she's happier than she is normally (wagging her tail for everything) so perhaps they're happy pills. Only annoying thing is that the dogs and bean seem to have synchronised their night-time routine. I have been waking up every morning at 3pm and 5pm exactly and both times the dogs are pacing the hallway like weirdos and bean is kicking my stomach. Perhaps it's some sort of strange dog-baby synchronisation.

Baby had hiccups in my meeting this morning. Most distracting.

A delayed reply but the communal changing rooms at my gym drive me insane... Especially as all the svelte gym bodies like to prance around naked. I have a super sized bath sheet to hide my whale-like modesty.

Oooohhh - confirmed when I'll be starting my mat leave. I have three weeks of hol and plan to officially start mat leave at 38 weeks so I'll be off from 35 weeks. Very exciting

I fancy jerk chicken.....

I love jerk chicken... so good. MrB makes an amazing sauce but I'm having to get him to go easy on the scotch bonnets due to heartburn

sunchild hello! Yep, pre-scan mentalling is completely fine. hope all goes well and look forward to hearing all about it

How are you doing cep?

minnie you are not alone. MrB refuses to engage in any discussions about how I look at all, even when I want reassurance. Silly arse.

Got myself in a tither this morning when I was convinced i had period cramping. Was about to call the hospital when I put 2+2 together and realised that I needed to go to the loo . Such an idiot and this is 26+ weeks down the line.

Irene I'm a becks blue gal as well. THere's another German brand with a random name that's very good as well but Brian has struck. Will see if I can remember it. Basically though I've been off the booze as the smell was repellent to me. Now it's not too bad but I'm just not bothered which is very unlike me.

pink I'm doing preggers pilates (we were opening and closing our flowers last night. Ahem.) but thinking about doing yoga too for the breathing. Wonder if this might be confusing though?

Sorry for the essay

Thanks for thinking of me ladies, i will be glad to never do that again. What a horrible morning that orange gloop is disgusting, then i was told i couldn't even have any water which i thought i could so i hadn't even had a drink before i went as had had no time. Found myself nearly passing out about 30-40 mins before the second lot of tests. ended up lying on the bathroom floor trying not to pass out, then about 10 mins later was lying on a bench outside again trying not to pass out. when i got over that one went in and spoke to the head nurse in office said i was feeling bad, and i was portered down to the maternity outpatients for blood pressure, rest of bloods taken and then tea and toast. sooo embarrassing.

Was it nice toast though cep? :) That sounds like a rubbish morning. Hope you have a nice afternoon planned.

Glad dog is OK lara

Ooo tunnocks I love the objectives, just right for a Friday (i've found it really hard to apply myself this week. Bad bigmac) All going well, I'll only be managing DC1 but I would add to your list...

• successfully feed DC2 whilst simultaneously keeping DS entertained

• cope with simultaneous meltdowns by both DCs in a calm manner

• somehow manage to get more than 3 hours' sleep a night

• successfully blowdry hair and apply basic make up without neglecting child

• manage to leave house without clothes being inside out or boobs hanging out

• to continue pelvic floor exercises long term so that I have a rejuvenated fanjo

• to DtD regularly and with great enthusiasm, unlike this year.

Obviously don't have enough to think about today at work. I've got myself in a flap about caffeine. I have no more than 4 cups of tea a day but realise from looking properly on Dr Google that this is too much. With that plus my choccie as well I think I'm overdoing it. Anyone else in the same boat?

OMG Pink - just saw your Ugg boots... how on earth did you make those you clever, clever lady?! Am v envious on several fronts: 1) that my creative skills are zero; 2) that I don't own a pair and 3) that I'm not cooking a little girl to give a pair to....

You are one talented lady - they're gorge...

Ooooon no lara I can't take any credit, it was my mum that made them!! Apparently they were 'easy' and she did it from start to finih in an afternoon!!!! daisy found the pattern on the Internet, not sure if she's made them or not yet. Not sure whether mini pink is a girl or boy but I thought they'd probably look boyish enough if I put them with some dungarees or something. Plus I have a sneaking girl suspicion anyway.....

CEP you poor thing, your morning sounds dreadful :(

teacake have a lovely week away!

Doh I can't scroll back!!! Sorry to anyone I've missed... Xx

I had a mc at 8 weeks back in mid-March and some of you ladies were very sweet to me. Just found out today, quite to my surprise, that I'm pregnant - a little over 5 weeks, I reckon. It's great to see how many of you have lovely follow-up stories. Crossing my fingers I can be just like you. And to others still waiting nervously, here's someone else thinking of you as well.

Lara re willy wiping, no you don't pull back the foreskin, it doesn't go back to begin with anyway. Just make sure you get all the mess off the wrinkly ball skin.

Jkklpu congratulations! That is lovely news.

Bigmac I'm only drinking decaf tea and coffee, I find it tastes fine. I'll have a proper cup of tea if I go to a friend's house. I do like a hot drink so this is the answer for me.

Tunnocks Where are you going in Scotland? Anywhere near me?

I bought a buggy today. We threw DS's ones out as they were worn out and a bit rubbish. Got one from Tesco Home on offer for £75, total bargain. It had fairly good reviews online and it has a car seat attachment, rain cover and is suitable from birth. I'm quite chuffed with it. I also managed to get a buggy cosy to fit it for £7 in the discount section. I love a bargain, me!