Yay Shell!! :happy4u: It's good that the number of girlies in this thread is growing.

Gab, loved your TTC story, there really is nothing nicer than reading about how someone has beaten the odds. Now that we are all on the 'other side' reading such stories is uplifting, with no wistful feelings that you get while you're still batlling with TTC, IYKWIM. I will write mine, I think it's a lovely idea. Perhaps we need to post them in a separate thread in this forum, just so that they all stay together. I feel brave enough now to write my FULL story, it was very painful for me, not just from a TTC perspective, but also from a relationship perspective.

Yes, I can understand your emotions, Gab, about feeling the loss of the bub from your tummy, with the possibility that it might be the only time you experience it. DH and me talk about the same thing, we'd love another child, but of course cannot depend on having another one. We don't want to be greedy, we are so incredibly thankful that we will be parents at all. It is so nice just having the bub completely to myself, sharing private kicking moments, sharing all the hormones etc.

It's funny you mention about packing your DH's swimmers - I'd never had known to bring them except for having seen 'the birth video' in antenatal class on Tuesday night, when the midwife told us that speedos are banned in the birth suite

Tiff, I promise to take a belly shot and post it up, especially as you've taken one of your bump, plus Jo, Tam, Gab, Hay, Sush have also taken shots. I had no idea just how dangerous things were for you in your pregnancy, now I'm going to be worrying even more for you than before. You're in such a difficult position, but if you feel you need to, go into hosp earlier, just for peace of mind, for you and your family. Yucko on the insulin shots, hope your BSLs get under control asap. I am so relieved I haven't got GD, I don't think I could be told what to/what not to eat, I would just snap and binge on whatever I felt like. Must be very very hard.