Sorry, I've been rubbish and am hugely behind again.
onion - milestones like Christmas and birthdays have been really hard these last few years, just because of not being pregnant (again) each time they come round. I can't imagine how difficult they have been for you after your losses. All being well this Christmas will be so different, for all of us. It is amazing and still feels slightly unreal to think of being 8 months pregnant at Christmas and having a baby by (possibly on :-) ) my birthday.
dildals your Tearful Moment of joy about bella's baby neighbour getting to go home is lovely but I was so sad to read of the other tearful moment and the loss of one of the other babies who had been on the ward with bella. But the cute nursery tearful moment sounds wonderful. I guess bella being 2 and one of the cute nursery tots herself will- very scarily - come round in the very blink of an eye.
noks the blastocyst IVF pregnancies are the ones which are statistically more likely to be boys, and among people on this thread even they mostly seem to be girls, so with you and shazz having the normal even chance of having either sort, you're bound to be growing girls in there too :-)
Though mine is a boy, in defiance of the trend on here, so sweetie's boy twin isn't completely alone.
beetle belated welcome and congratulations. I hope all was good at your scan today - crossing fingers and toes for you and your twins. Bleeding is scary even when rationally we know where it's coming from. Yaay to the disappearing hematoma, though. Mine hung around well into the second trimester (persistent little bugger) but was gone by the 20 week scan. I'm glad yours has made itself scarce and hope that there was good news on the more recent bleeding when you were scanned today, and the twins are growing away happily, oblivious to all the worry.
keep, motor, sweetie - I'm only 27 weeks and already missing my wardrobe a little, while feeling bad that I am that shallow :-) After years of raging internally at instadiffers and their complaints about nothing fitting and how huge they feel, I am not offiially admitting to any of these thoughts, you understand! But just between ourselves...
keep, good luck for your last day at work tomorrow before maternity leave, hope all goes smoothly.
shaz, I'm glad the reflexology helped. I hope you are now chilled and relaxed anough to take your own advice about resting during your mat leave.... Happy first ever "birthday whilst pregnant" for yesterday.
gin, you enjoy every moment of the moral high ground and lording it over Mr Gin about finishing the decorating without him at 7 months pregnant. I did most of our decorating last week (DH did a day's work on it and was then indisposed after his exertions... I did the second coat on our hall to the sound of him restfully snoring away the morning) and I fully intend to lord it over him about that for a very long time, and I'm only 6 months pregnant so a lightweight compared to you.
buzzy, I hope you are still experiencing the energy burst from last week. You sound so organised and on top of planning already, despite the illness and exhaustion you've been coping with, I am so impressed. I plan to use disposables like others on here have said in the early weeks, and then to look at proper nappies. My "what to buy for your baby" book that a friend kindly lent me says that all-in-twos (??) are the best bet and it rates Washables Totsbots Easyfit and The Pop-in Nappy System highest, then Motherease and Bambino Mio. These are just strange foreign language words on a page to me but I pass them on for what they're worth. Pushchair wise, DH fell hard for the Uppababy Vista when we visited Kiddicare to window shop a few weeks ago (noks, what do they put in the water in those stores to sell Uppababies to everyone?). I do want to look at the Mamas and Papas Sola which onion mentioned and also the Baby Jogger City Mini GT before we make any final decisions, as they also get good Which? ratings and are a lot cheaper, cos I am a skinflint at heart but it will probably be the Uppababy
I can't believe the insensitive NCT class conversations about second babies that people have had to cope with. (No, scratch that - after seeing SIL aka The Instadiffer this weekend, yes I bloody well can....) But I guess we wouldn't actually have it any other way as for them to understand they'd have to have walked the same path themselves for a while, and we wouldn't actually wish that on anyone - so we have to live with the insensitive remarks which are the consequence of their happy innocence.
MrsHY someone sent me a link to this site www.cafepress.co.uk/+ivf+womens-maternity
Could one of these lovely garments be the answer to your train dilemma?! Advertise via your bump how you got pregnant, so you are then free to give other passengers death stares and icily polite requests to secure a seat for said bump without feeling any guilt at inadvertently upsetting infertiles who assume you're another one of those instadiffers the world is full of :-)
fairy mini-p sounds absolutely adorable. I hope you are managing to get lots of rest in between the waking and feeding, and are enjoying lots of cuddles and just soaking up having her here.
Hi to anyone I've missed.