The berries in the chopper (thread 5). All together now... clench

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For pregnant berries at any stage. Scary thought but this is the one where some babies will appear!

tally hope all goes smoothly later. What an exciting day!

Tally have a simply amazing day, I'm so excited for you

Thank you everyone. I'm an emotional wreck already.

Tally embrace the tears, you'll be blubbing a lot over the next few days! The waiting must be v hard but not long now.

Tally thinking of you today and soooo excited everything will go great, and by bedtime you'll have a baby to snuggle!! Can't wait to hear about it once you're settled xxx

Good luck tally :)

I'm in the SPD boat too foody, nice walk in the park resulted in tears on Saturday :(

Oo thinking of you today tally!

Sorry, have been very quiet, eking out the mat leave jobs.

Tally - good luck with everything today - sending and excited to hear about the little one!

merk good point on breastfeeding location. I have a sofa in the nursery, which I was thinking would be the main location, but realise that there is no room for a table, power sockets, etc nearby, so may need to rethink...

I don't have a chair for breastfeeding in our nursery… maybe I should get on it? Would a normal chair do or should it have arms? While she's in our room I guess I will be feeding her on the sofa, and then in bed at night? Is feeding in bed a bad thing? I do have a special cushion...

Thinking of you Tally, so excited to hear news of MiniTally when I come out of chiro

Brod I think everyone is different but I'm REALLY struggling feeding in bed. I am doing it (multiple times a night ) but my arms hurt and my back hurts during and after, regardless of what we do with the pillows

Still waiting.... Might not go in until 4 now!

brod feeding in bed is fine, once you work out how to feed laying down, feeding in bed is fab

Yep you'll need arms on the feeding chair as their head gets really heavy to hold. I am just using one of our semi comfy garden chairs with a cushion on it at the moment as he has dropped around 85% of his night feeds.....finally.

I feed in bed and am finding it fine. Once she's latched on I lean back against pillows and get weight is on my body. I don't have any pillows/special cushions at the moment. So it's a case of finding what works for you.

Must be so strange waiting tally

yes, very strange. I'm getting impatient now. I've been bumped down the list because the lady after me is having tightenings. now it's looking more like 5. It's almost as uncertain as a normal birth!

Just on our way back from the private nuchal scan/part 2 of the harmony test from 2 weeks ago. All is fine, low risk for everything. Baby was really jumpy and the sonographer kept chastising me for only being able to get a fuzzy picture...blamed it on me being too tense and said she'd have to do it vaginally asked if me emptying my bladder might help, and then she told me off for coming in with a full one when it wasn't necessary. Really thought she was an epic C for that and also for continually referring to our 'naughty baby' - even said to bear in mind that 'Baby is a naughty one' omg!! DH said he thought it was her attempt at humour but im standing by my Epic C diagnosis.

A bit shell shocked though as apparently we're Team Blue, and I really felt it was a girl. I don't know anything about boys, except how to date them, and I must confess I'm already really upset that the boy section in Baby Gap is about 1/10th the size of the girl section, sigh. I know the main thing is that he's healthy (and extremely energetic) but I'm still in shock that I'm growing a boy!!!

Berries please wang me...or is this a normal reaction? I'm happy, but just kind of stumped over how the hell I'm going to fare as the mother of a son!!

Sid, it's normal to feel a bit weirded out if you thought it would be a girl. give it time. I thought ours was a boy and was completely spun around when they said girl. Honestly you have been trying for so long you are going to have stuff in your head about how you want it.

sid I'd agree with epic c, I dont like people saying H is naughty now as he is only a baby and has no idea what right or wrong is so saying it about a baby at a scan is stupid.

I also was sure I was having a girl, even told the sonographer that he was a girl, the sonographer then took the piss at mothers intuition as I was wrong. I was also really in love with the pink clothes but you can also get some cute boy bits, some of the tshirts, jeans and bits I buy from the girls range as they have colours like mint green and burnt orange and not just heaps of blues, greys and browns I had no idea re babies at all but having H is amazing, yes their wee is a bit less predicatable but I wouldnt change him for the world.

Hope you're in/she's out by now tally! Xxx

Hey sid fab news on your results! & don't worry about how you feel about the sex. I am currently keeping the best kept secret in the world which is ace but have mixed emotions about it at times.
I also remember when we were trying thinking "oh god, hope I have a boy" as I have spent alot of time with my nephew when he was small (one day a week for about 8 months) so I thought, "right I know what to do with a boy, what the hell would I do with a girl!?!" however my sister has in the meantime had a girl too, and whilst she is very different its not really anything to do with her being a girl but with thier little personalities.

Oh and my sister is much more of a girly girl than I am & she took to being mum of a boy very well!

And yes your sonographer does sound like a bit of a C - misplaced humour is awful when people can't pick up on when its not being recieved as such.

tally hope all is going well and you not having to wait any longer, must have seemed like the longest day in the world!

bunny I have only just started buying stuff this weekend! so far just the crib. Was petrified about having all the stuff in the house before we are ready for it and very anxious in the earlier months about things going wrong. Bit if a shame 'cause i've not enjoyed all of this as much as I could have. I have however done lots and lots and lots endless hours of internet/window shopping to suss out what I like and don't like, so ordering and buting stuff now is quite strait forward. Getting alot of stuff from other peeps too and my folks are getting us the pram.

Sid great news on the results. I was hopIng for a boy and shell shocked when I found out we were pink. I then proceeded to feel epically guilty (and still do, on a daily basis). I think it was because I was a tom boy and wasn't sure I would have the same bond with a girl. I got used to it over a few weeks and obviously would not change her for the world. I think it is just an adjustment period from what's been in your head to reality, so don't worry. Also on baby gap, I've been moaning the exact opposite, Kingston seems to be 90% boys stuff. MIL seems to get lots of stuff for E from Walton so maybe that one is more girly but they're not all like that

Any news any news any news?!?!?

sid glad your scan news was good! despite the very naughty baby

WANG! I can imagine it would be unsettling finding out one sex if you expected another. That's one of the reasons I don't want to find out, want the surprise but also don't want to be disappointed if it's not what I hope for even though I just want a healthy baby, does that make sense?!?

foody think I will hold of buying stuff for a bit. Hoping to be given/lent stuff from friends and SIL, my best friend runs a family magazine and is sent free samples so I might get some nice goodies

Luckily my baby watch sofa is comfortable so I'm happily settled in to wait as long as needed

Uff total refresh fail, sorry Sid I totally missed your news earlier! Fantastic to hear that your results were all low risk. The sonographer sounds like a nobber. I think you're bound to have a reaction to finding out the gender, whether you have a genuine preference or not - it does change your outlook for the future after all! If it makes you feel better, I'm slightly nervous about finding out what the twins are when they're born. I don't really hope for one or the other but I suppose I can envisage how thing will be different depending on gender. Also, early on I was absolutely convinced we were having one of each; I'm now convinced it's two girls (based on nothing I hasten to add) so I'm sure if I end up with two boys I'll be just as shell-shocked as you are!

Tally's very quiet now

boom gold star for managing the cot! I'd have just let a man do it

sid fab scan news. Sure the sonographer was only kidding as pretty sure mine said the same thing. Don't feel bad about not immediately being pleased about the sex. It won't be long before you've forgotten all about wanting a girl and looking forward to seeing your little man. He'll be 'mummy's boy' whereas I know full well mine will be 'daddy's girl'!

tally has been very quiet these last few hours. She must have gone in by now..