as i filled the last post on old thread it seemed only polite to start the new one. hope i've done it right 
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rosiedays · 01/05/2013 09:30
remember Me too (IDC Staff) also planning to blow bubbles when DD in 3 months old 
Always happy to chat diving... ( don't want to out you but did you train at Mermaids pattaya??)
Congratulations cycle, & welcome babycycle. How lovely to be able to keep your baby boy with you & enjoy the cuddles. It sounds like you coped with labour really well, I hope you're making a rapid recovery 
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Oh cycle am so delighted and relieved for you. You have been so gracious and centred (at least pretended well!) throughout all this, I'm so pleased you have a healthy baby boy (I'm discovering this delight myself 
) to snuggle skin to skin with. Do heal soon, and take each day as you have been, as it comes...before you know it he'll be taller than you and eating saucepans of pasta as a snack
blueeyes (I think) with DD I cycled to all my NCT classes, ante natal yoga and every hospital appointment except the 39week one where I had a sweep (just in case it worked!) ...I so wish I'd been able to do so again but was trailing everywhere with DD and in winter plus felt so much idler this time...but feel a lot weaker now as a result. Good on you!
Rosie I didn't train there and in fact haven't been to Pattaya so a different Sarah diver
Eagle - would love to hear any tips where are you? Any diving for you (I seem to remember you were a diver too?)
Sorry for dive themed posts for you non bubble blowers out there x
eagel oh a holiday in the sun and the beach with a yummy new baby. enjoy. I love random, unplanned, take each day as it comes road trip holidays.
remember where are you going? we're going back to Egypt so my beloved Red sea for me.
cycle how are things? any names yet? do you know when you'll get home? Please pop back often now you've graduated
animol samira is my top top choice from before we knew she was a girl. unfortunatly DH, DSL & DML all fell about laughing as aparently it's a bit like calling a baby 'Gladis' or' Gertrude'
green I didn't get any tests extra tests done (just 12+20 week scans) tbh I really dont worry about Downs ect, anything can happen any time in a childs life pre birth made no difference to me..... Just my opinion.
Hi popcorngrace you've had a rough ride, hope it's plane sailing from here. i've found MN to be such a great place for advice and support.
clara 
you've had a tough ride too! How are you feeling now? at 13 weeks i was unable to function AT ALL. didn't get out of bed except to be sick for a few weeks (felt like forever at the time) started to feel better at about 18 weeks. 29 
weeks now and in full 'bloom' most days .
badMissM glad scan was all good. can i ask why you had scan at 28 weeks?? (am i missing out on a sneeky peek?)
AFM, funeral day today. 
I'm sad i'm not there but glad i didn't go... if that makes any sence, I should have been able to go without fear of what could happen. and it's a very real fear, DD1's Father would have no issue with verbally assulting a pregnant woman (especially if that pregnant woman was ME!!) comments had already started on FB (not something i ever look at but was told about!)
It was fun seeing the faces of the friends i did see whilst home, Most of whom had not seen me since well before BFP and lots didn't even know !so seeing my ample bump caused quite a few LOUD laughs. It also felt really good to say she was 'my little hoped for suprise baby' as for DH she was and now i can't wait to meet har or imagin being without her. 
eagle and rosie we're heading back to Dahab in Egypt in Nov - a good friend runs a club there so it's a known quantity with on hand babysitters 
hoping to get a few dives in between feeds as we'll be there for 2 weeks!
Eagle your hol sounds like bliss too and it's great to know its ok with a 3mo
Is anyone heading to the BabyShow next weekend? x
Greenlizard I had the Harmony Test, as I was a bit worried being 45, it was brilliant, and put my mind at rest. If you get in touch sooner rather than later, you can get the rate of £140 for the two scans and test, but you have to go at certain points to get that... My trust don't even do Nuchal scans...
Waves to Animol and Rosiedays
Cyclecamper Colostrum harvesting...sounds interesting!
OMG am off line for a couple of days and everything happens at once....have had friends here from Belgium....
CONGRATULATIONS CYCLECAMPER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So glad to hear you and BabyCycle are doing so well, it's been a rocky journey xxx
OMG, only five hours! I was about 13 with DD and that was a natural labour! No epidural, you brave woman!
Waves to RememberingmyPFEs and somewherebecomingrain
Hello eagleray Holiday with LO sounds fantastic! We're planning to take LO on a trip round Europe just after he's born! Greece sounds lovely here is torrential rain!
Waves to blueeyes1970 sparkly lotsofcheese bbd
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Rosiedays That's the problem picking names from a different culture, you don't know when you're calling a baby Doris or Mavis . Having a 24, 28, 32, 26 week scan because I have Gestational Diabetes so they have to keep an eye on the baby's size. Probably a wise move to avoid stress of funeral x
Cyclecamper Glad to hear going well with stepson 1, good luck with Stepson 2 xxx
Been a bit mad round here with my Belgian friends visiting for a few days, and before that MIL having a boyfriend crisis (she's 79, he's 87...worse than teenagers....). Ran around Manchester too mcuh with Blegian friends, am knackered now.... this week nothing but medical appointments all damn week.... DD has toe op on Thursday too, so have to spend all day at hospital....
Hmmm, who's next then?
I'm 29+6 today.....but DD turned up at 31 weeks....
Hi everyone, been quiet on here this weekend. how is everyone?
6 of us with July baby's.... it's gona get intresting soon!!
badmiss i'm 30 weeks today and also had 2 early babies. (dd1 at 33 weeks and dd2 at 35 weeks) which kind of makes me feel..... 'any day now' but gona make the next 10 weeks bloody long if i go to term!
thinking about writting a birth plan but it's all so random there doesn't seem much point, In an ideal world i'd like a no interventions water birth! wouldn't we all! reality is i'll do what ever is best at the time...
Those planing overseas trips, are you waiting till baby has had all jabs before you go? I want to go ASAP after birth as it's DMIL first grandchild and she is SOOO excited, we get on really well and i feel awful that she can do so little as she is so far away. DH doesn't see the need to wait as his thoughts are baby is 1/2 Egyptian and could have been born there so whats the difference. (typical Egyptian mentality) i also lived there for 7 years so will have passed on some immunity i guess. My UK head says wait though. It will also be Ramadam and bloody HOT! a lot will depend on how well baby is BF. We will be staying with her in the family home (with air con) to start with then taking her with us to the beach. DH will have 4 weeks AL to take so will be a long trip.
cycle are you home yet?
bad miss sorry about the GD!
Hi soup welcome. that makes 7 july babies
I didn't join this thread till about 26 weeks, didn't want to Jinx things!
I'm glad i'm not working but do get board at home all day. gaviscon is your friend.
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Hello! Thank you everyone. We are home! Discharged on Saturday and my sister brought us home, via boots an mothercare to get some bits from the list that was never finished. Still no matress!
Stepson 2 and my husband read the whole of the boys section of the baby names book that my sister brought out loud. We settled on Thomas Nye and we'll use Nye. If he wants to use Thomas or something else, he can choose later.
He's still feeding well and sleeping really well on my chest. Less well when I put him down . He is awfully cute - like a small furry dolly!
The 17 year old has calmed down a lot and been unusually helpful and less awkward than normal! H e even spotted that there was laundry out when he came home and it had just started drizzling and fetched it in! [swoon]!
The more I think about it, the more excellent I think my midwives were! I think they took on board what I was scared of (an epidural) and made sure that they pushed me on fast so that I didn't have one. Totally excellent.
Sorry for another me me me post . Am totally vague on hormones
Wave to everyone again!
hello! I hope it's OK to post randomly on this thread - I posted a few times about a year ago then mc'd and was too superstitious to go public when I got pg again (no idea why, but hey)
just wanted to chalk another one up for the fab 40s - DD2 was born this morning and is just fab. all was fine, induced at 38.5 due to my high bp (+ old age [) but once I'd had the prostawotsit it happened gradually like a 'normal' birth (so it seemed to me anyway) with no other interventions. chuffed to bits, she has fed and pulled funny faces, currently snuffling into my ear and about to meet big sis.
I'm 43 btw and had DD1 at 41 in same circs. not doing it again mind
thanks for listening while I ramble, wishing you all happy pregnancies and lovely babies.
Oh wow heidipi I remember you from the very very first thread!! So pleased for you - many congratulations!! and so chuffed that things worked out so well this time
Btw I have just had DD1 at 41 too and teetering on the cliff of possibility of contemplating trying again...
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