Pregnancy After Miscarriage Part VIII - Knicker Checkers and Pad Patrollers welcome

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Is that ok?

Yay Hobnob coingrats on your scan lovely news

I have also been chuckling all day at the broken biscuits thing.....

Now, skydiving - what have I started? Was thinking we could combine the idea of the maternity catsuit and the skydiving and go for this

All round to mine for scones/flapjacks/doughnuts after?

Am v on your behalf Gentle at the insensitive things your family have been coming out with. Don't blame you for keeping them in the dark about scans etc.

Had a lovely mw appointment today (15+3 weeks), always so anxious in the 5 hours 5 seconds she takes to find the heartbeat, but soooooo elated after I've heard it. Lola do you have a nice mw who could give you a bit of coaching before your trip if you decide to hire a doppler? Mine said that's what she does.

Also saw a notice for an NCT sale in my village hall next month - now poleaxed as to whether it'd be tempting fate or not to go....

I'm running together a batsuit as we speak....

Could you use it for work do you reckon Tattifer?

sydneysuze dammit, i should have made it in hi viz! Pah, I'll have to start again.

Don't know where my recruit went... I wasn't imagining her honest.

I am so rubbish at keeping up with this thread at the moment! It?s great to see so many sticky beans. I wish I could say its cos I?ve been really busy but to tell you the truth I?ve been doing pretty much bugger all (apart from sleeping) since started mat leave on Tues (labour still not brought on by all the jumping up and down ). However the MW phoned this morning to say my iron levels are low so that?s my excuse and hope the concoction of drugs I got today will give me a new lease of life ? maybe not!

grinningbee hope you have those runny eggs and soldiers soon. Now skydiving at your stage may be a bit extreme ? imagine your waters breaking mid air! You?re so brave with the trimming too ? I think mine may need doing again shortly but have to say poor old DH may have to do the honours.

crunch that?s great news things are better with your DH. I really, really hope he?s come to his senses and knows what he?d be losing by not trying to work things out. I think you?re definitely doing the right thing if you feel it?s worth it. So I take it you don?t need me as birth partner?

hobnob that?s fantastic news re the scan . Don?t read too much into symptoms, the most pg I have ever felt in 5 pg?s ended up being a mmc so sickness/bloating etc doesn?t always = healthy bean sadly. A correct for dates with hb reduces the risk loads so fingers crossed for you.

gentle nice to see you ? don?t cha just love families

tattifer you?re making me so jealous talking about donuts etc. My DH is a complete health freak and now he?s home permanently (ex forces ? not prison!) I?m not getting away with eating as much cake as I would like. He did bring me tunnocks snowballs last night from the supermarket which I devoured despite the disapproving look!

Sydney top tip for Doppler hire is to order extra jelly ? sometimes starting at the lower middle of your abdomen and chasing it round uses up the free stuff in a week ? WARNING ? listening to hb can be highly addictive to knicker checkers

scarlotti I wish I had some clever psychological analysis to offer but I?m too knackered so would end up spouting rubbish. Definitely mention to your MW how you?re feeling. Life is funny sometimes how we end up with our partners, I hope you can work through it.

daisy hurrah for someone who can even beat me for being in pjs. I?ve become so attached to my £6 primark ones I even went out and bought another pair! How much pineapple are you thinking of consuming by the way?

scotlass colleagues not so impressed with donut eating antics - covered the keyboard with sugar

Maybe she's lurking and thinking ' no, this can't be the right thread....looks more like compulsive over-eaters extreme sports/gimp suit maniacs? '

That's right isn't it?

Oh my god! I'm on the wrong thread!!!!

~Hi all - I have a very unhappy crying baby in the next room - am considering eBay. She has been lovely all day and now is devil child - won't eat tho seems hungry, sucks at me for 5 or ten mins then makes faces like I am trying to poison her. Sigh.

On a more positive note nice to see how busy this thread still is, and as scotlass says () it's nice to see so many sticky beans...hang in there and hopefully you too will have a crying abay in the next room soon. Just wish I had time to follow it properly - but will keep popping my head round the door!

suze pmsl at the suit! Do you think they do a maternity version?! Glad you had a lovely mw appointment and all is going well. I'd say go to the NCT sale - you might even cross another hurdle

gentle grr at your family. If it's any consolation mine are much the same, my Mum kept telling me after the m/c that maybe we didn't need another and not to spend my life raising children. Grr. Now it feels like any questions of concern are forced. sigh.

scotlass at you on mat leave, wish I was there already but alas I have about 30 weeks to go!! Thanks for the words of support, am sure we'll work through it one way or another. Ruddy hormones don't help

dan glad all is going so well with your little one. pmsl at the devil child, until I then realised that will be me in 7 months [nervous emoticon]

Hope everyone has a lovely day. We're off to see my nephew who's now 9 days old. Let's hope this makes the happy hormones win today!!

suze - I'm a bit worried about the suit. How on earth do you go to the loo? I wish I'd counted how many times I peed yesterday (just to entertain myself in between watching episodes of Cold Feet on DVD - I worry myself at how easily I lapse into daring feats of extreme laziness - could it be added to the list of sports we're intending to practise?)

scotlass - hello and welcome to the wonderful world of maternity leave. When I you due? I've lost track.

dan - Lovely to 'see' you. Hope devil child has returned to angelic state today.

gentle - . But at the same time lol - I know it's not funny when you have to put up with it, though - I hope putting it down in writing helps. Glad for you that all is progressing well.

daisy, how odd, I've just started rewatching Cold Feet on DVD too. Am wrinkling my nose a bit at Jen's grand childbirth scene where they're rushing all over creation trying to get her bloke to the hospital in time - the average first labour lasts 12-15 hours EXCEPT on TV, apparently. Mine was 22 hours, I think my husband could've walked the half an hour's drive to the hospital, played a round of golf and still got there in time!

sydney, elbows and knees out if you do go to the NCT sale, they can be a bit manic. Went to one two weekends ago, but refrained from buying anything for a wee one - feel as if I jinxed the last pregnancy by buying a gorgeous blue maternity dress two days before I lost it...

scarlotti, no clever advice re. marriage, but wanted to say that I'm a bit of a weepy basketcase at the moment, and I don't know if it's hormones or if it's just the constant anxiety that I'm now two weeks past the point where the last embryo died, and in another two weeks, I started spotting. I don't know whether there's a tiny creature busy flapping limbs and growing eyes in there or a tiny stunted dead thing, and well, I defy anyone to walk around being all happy and sunny and well-adjusted with that on their mind.

Anyway - see how you're feeling once out of the first trimester, and if you're still v. down, I'd def bring it up with the midwife...

suze I have that suit in pea-green

gentle at your mother, I've got the same problem of "only MC in the family" but luckily they're a little more sensitive.

scotlass will keep you as an emergency back up anyway. Hope your iron levels leap up.

tattifer I am outraged at the suggestion that I would lower the tone for your imaginary friend! How dare you! I hope your keyboard gets as sticky as mine is since I spilt ribena on it last week

What happened to the days of only spilling wine?

dan good to see you

daisyj I'm hoping my Tim Minchin DVD counts as extreme sports. I'm sure laughing burns a lot of calories.

Tamlin I'm impressed by anyone who braves an NCT sale

Hi Herbaceous It was the hut
Thanks - I'm 15+3.

Nice to know Duchesse is pg as well

Hi ladies

Help! at some point yesterday evening a new presumably morning sickness/pregnancy thing kicked in. I was hoping it would go, but it's still here - a dry mouth. Sounds innocent doesn't it but no amount of water, tea, boiled sweet sucking, chewit chewing makes a difference. The moment the water is swallowed, the sweet sucked etc etc its back. I was thought i was learning to live with constant queasiness now this to aggravate the gag reflex.

[straw on camel's back emoticon]

tat have you tried drinking something that lines your mouth, like milk?

Chewing gum? Something like that?

(That's an ill green, not an envious green) Tat look what I found on ebay to solve your little problem yum

Im into rice milk at the moment - hoping that will work. I did some googling and many of them seem to agree that water initially makes no difference but keep going, keep fluid levels up and the problem should cease.

Shame the fluid levels can't include wine, or guiness

crunch when they say synthetic...? Do people sell their saliva like they organs (illegally obviously)

I had a half of Guiness last week with the rugby, never has anything tasted sooooo good

You never know. Isn't ebay great? For all you know it's old-man drool, bottled while he snoozes on the sofa.

....Tattifer runs off to become reacquainted with the great white telephone...

Oops, sorry.