Pray that this little one hangs on!!

[melbournemum]

After 10 years of fertility treatments, countless failed IVF cyclces and four heartbreaking miscarriages (all at around five weeks), my brother phoned me tonight to tell me that he was sitting on his sofa looking at a scan picture of a little tiny being with a strong heartbeat at seven weeks! Its early days but all the signs are good and this is the furthest they have ever come. I am just sending a heartfelt plea for all of you, whatever your beliefs, to send a little prayer or positive thought that this little baby makes it. I really really believe it makes a difference. We've been praying hard ever since the IVF cycle and I dreamt they had a little girl! They will be wonderful parents. So please send a thought of strength and life and hope and love and whatever else to help this most precious little person make it safely into the world.
thanks with the biggest lump in my throat xx

hi sweetheart, hope your having a very happy lively day with mummy? and hope your eating well and getting bigger and stronger?!..love to you all.Aunty Strawberry.xxx

hello little one!! xx

evening button..just off for a very unhealthy kebab, but dp left puter on so i could check in with you..shall i get mummy a kebab for you too???[wink(ill get shot down in flames for that!)..love to you.xxxxx

hi Sweety..hope youre having a nice day with mummy and daddy(he's the guy attatched to the big hand that keep patting you inside mummies tummy..its been a beautiful day here today, almost spring like, even new baby shoots coming out on some of the trees..thought about you when looking at a newly sprouted blossom tree with dd and mindees today..you can be my little flower bud from now on as spring is all about new beginnings.
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naughty naughty auntie Strawb!!

...vblb you can learn all about kebabs in about 20 years

hope you're eating up and getting nice and big and strong.

lots of love
Tickle and gang
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..it was lovely too..but scales didnt appreciate it..but anyway, hi VBLB, very frosty here this morning, not as nice as yesterday, but when you arrive (in march if IIR?) it will be beautiful, just like i know you will be.have a fun day sweety.xxxxx

Very Big Little Bean
How can it be that time
Has ticked by so fast
We'll see you at last
And all fears will have passed

Strawberry and Tickle
Your Mumsnetty friends
Such caring each day
As you tumble and play
In your sweet special way

We wait and we hope
Us virtual aunties
With anticipation
And exhilaration
For your birth declaration

Reflecting back when
You were just little Bean
'Pray this little one hangs on'
You're life's unique song
We're so proud you were strong

Clemsterdarcy - what a lovely poem, you've just made me cry and covered me with goose bumps. I have tears streaming down my face. I am 4+3 and hoping and praying that my little bean can feel all the love we have for it and that it holds on tight.

have faith, be hopeful x

Good evening VBLB,

I hope you are well and growing big and strong little one!

I'm sending you my thoughts and prayers, and looking forward to your arrival into the sun!

wow goosebumps..
hiya sweetie, i thought i had spoken to you yesterday?, but it seems i didnt, so extra xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's today
hope your check ups have been going very well and hope youre still giving mummy significant jabs everynow and again..keep getting stronger sweetheart. love Aunty Strawberry.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Another lovely poem Clemsterdarcy - it's right how time has flown (probably not quite so fast for vblb's mum & dad!)

Thinking of you little bean, and all the other little beans getting bigger out there
Love and luck,
T xx

Are we allowed to get clucky and start pondering over names yet ...?

I think Robert/Roberta

because .... BOBBY-BEAN works so well!

Just not Haricot or Baked.

ha
or green
or xxx-Sprout

ha
given that nouns like APPLE are in-vogue (hmm does 1 person count as in-vogue???)

praps VBLB can just stay as

BEAN

(Courtney Love called her daughter Frances Bean right?)

Hi Honey..hope today has been nice and swishy and warm for you and mummy?, off to bath dd now.night sweety.xxxx

My sis has a daughter called Chilli in Melbourne...

now Chilli Bean works quite well

Whatever you are called, vblb, you'll always be a very much loved little bean

t xx

ooh wonder what names mummy and daddy are looking at for you?..hope you are stillhappy and warm with mummy and all your visits are going well?growing stronger ready for the next couple of months..hang on just looked..its only a few more weeks now..oooh am all excited now..i just know i will be in tears(of happiness) when i hear you are born
i can beleive we have been here with you since july last year!, we had just moved into our new house and it was one of the first threads i came onto after having broadband put back on..funny how you can care so much about someone without even meeting them, or even someone who's not actually 'here' yet.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Good afternoon VBLB!

Another week closer to the day we welcome you into the sunshine!

I hope you are well and getting stronger for your mum and dad! Keep eating all the lovely things your mum sends you and don't forget to keep exercising; it helps to grow your muscles and makes your mum and dad feel happy!

My thoughts and prayers are with you!

Hi Bean. Just came across this thread and hoping for more good news soon. When are you due to meet the world? XXX

hi button, i had a bad day yesterday and was busy trying to get it sorted, but hope you are nice and comfy, growing and getting stronger and bigger each day

aunty melbourne..get back here so we can have an update!

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hi button.how are you today?growing?, getting stronger?..hope so.
hope you're kicking and fidgeting so mum knows your ok?
love to you and mum and dad.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

evening sweetie, how have you been today???? hope you and mummy are spending lots of time chilling out and eating lots of yummy food...get mummy to tell Aunty Melbourne to hurry up back so we can find out how well you have been doing???.xxxxxxxxxxxx

hi beanie!!

hope you're feeling good today

We miss Aunty Melb and her updates!!

Family Tickle is off to England on Saturday for 6 whole weeks... but we will only have intermittent access to the internet

So, Strawberry (or other beanie aunties)... would you text me if anything happens on the beanie front??? I can't bear to think I'll miss his or her arrival

I can CAT you with my number

T xx

helloooooo lovely mumsnetters!

We're back after an amazing 2 1/2 weeks in Nepal and what a treat to log on and see all these gorgeous messages! Clemsterdarcy your last poem was too beautiful for words...

Happy update from SIL .........

'Just a quick one to let you know that the bean will not be making an early entry into the world (poor Tone has spent 24/7 painting and fixing the room just in case). We had a growth scan on Thursday and its growth has picked up from under the 20th percentile to the 30th percentile and the bean doctor was happy with that. Cheeky bean had the hide to smile at us through the scan after worrying us crazy for two weeks!'

I was so over the moon to get that email from them on holiday...

Due date March 10th!! so just one more month of prayes until we meet this much loved VERY Big Little Bean.

so much love from us and thank you all so much for keeping this going in my absence!

xxxxx