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wantbaby#2 - Oh dear so enjoy the mellow times cause later it'll be like ouch ouch thats my ribs hehe!! I am seriously pmsl at the jumper cause I wear DH's and his tracksuit pants cause they are comfy and he is like umm what about if I'm cold LOL!!
Londonmiss - I couldn't think of anything worse than an work evac expecially at 29weeks you must have nearly died Have fun at the theatre and also have fun at the opera tomorrow
Kyrawolfe - I hope bub arrives real soon for you so you can smile again and cuddle your precious little present!! Maybe put some real crappy music on and it might evacuate asap!
Renee - Welcome hunny!! So glad to see you in here congrats congrats
Brunette - Congrats and welcome babe!!! I had a large blood clot and bleeding from 6-10 weeks its scary but its almost gone now only .97cm so not even a cm anymore yet it was taking up half the uterus! I hope it all goes away so you can have a wonderful relaxing pregnancy xxoo
lise - Yay for being a lady of leasure woot woot!!! I hope you like cleaning cause I know when I am home thats all I do LOL
Paula - Thankyou soo much I am jealous you get to go to the expo tomorrow I want it to hurry up and come to brissy!!!
Hello to everyone else
AFM -
I'm going soo well just shop shop shopping wahoooo love it 1 more day of work then I am off for the weekend YAY!
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oh that's wierd, I thought no one had responded to my lunchtime message and wondered why you were all so quiet... and here you are on a new thread! I shall stop taking it personally The one part of this whole preg thing I don't get is the cleaning element of nesting... why anyone would want to clean is beyond me. I'm with that camp English chap whose name escapes me, who said something along the lines of 'after the first six inches of dust, you stop noticing'... but then I'm a completely lazy buzzard!!!
While I was in the TWW a few weeks ago after my embryo transfer, I popped in here every now and again to get an idea of who's who in the zoo, and LondonMiss certainly made me laugh (heat pack on pubic bone!) and I was so glad that all went well with LilMiss's delivery.
So I'm about 7 weeks or so along, at my last ultrasound on Wed we heard the heartbeat so it made it all seem a bit more real, but as I've had a bit of spotting we also got the 'no sex until 12 weeks' talk.
Hopefully as you girls are experts now in what to expect, as soon as I have my next freakout (they're pretty regular these days), I'll be popping in for some advice!
Miss K, Thanks for your welcome! It is reassuring to hear that although you too had a horrible scare for a number of weeks with a blood clot it has all worked out for you. I too hope I'm in the same boat. I allowed myself to go and borrow some baby books from a local library today for the first time because I didn't want to get my hopes up to have them dashed! I had another scan today because my spotting was getting heavier but still brown (sorry if TMI) and both bubs heart beats were beating away in their separate sacs with egg yolks. I had a list of questions for my FS this time, and I asked whether he thought it was just the blood clot coming away, which he said yes, and what risk group I am in now. He said 80/20 - 80 per cent being able to take home my babies. Still another week's bed rest and another scan next Wednesday. I wish I could stop worrying; I am such a worrywort!
Hi to CK and Renee from the LTTTC thread!
Hi Londonmiss, I totally get where you're coming from with cleaning. Now that I'm UTD (plus on bed rest) all those things that used to worry me like picking up after others and putting things in their place are so totally irrelevant
Right, now warning, this might make you laugh and I don't want you rupturing something!!!
After two nights out in a row, have been feeling a bit rough so I was on the heat pack again today - same place as before... it's filled with lavender and smells lovely I assure you.. anyway, it got cold and I sent DH to put it in the microwave for 30 seconds. Watched some ads, program came back on. I shouted out, isn't it done yet. Dozy plonker had only put it on for thirty minutes intstead!!! He said, I'd leave it a minute before you put it on your 'ahem'. NO **** SHERLOCK!!! Can you imagine trying to explain third degree burns on your muff (but with a distintive lavender smell) to a doctor in A&E????
Another newbie, what's in the waters in that LTTTC thread?! Welcome CK77, so nice to see another face!!
Londonmiss - hehehe, your DH is funny. Was he quite thinking straight?! How have your nights out been? And tell me the name of the bar you were thinking of passing on - DH and I are very much missing Melbourne at the moment so living vicariously through our friends still there...!
Brunette - every day brings you closer and closer. I found the first trimester just DRAGGED but the second just flew by and now there's only 8 weeks to go so keep hanging in
Miss K - I go through stages with cleaning, from being completely retentive to being complete slob, so we'll see which side wins out!!
Went to a yummy girly family lunch yesterday, was very lovely but I ate sooo much that I didn't eat any dinner and was still full when I went to bed. Okay, I MAY have found some room for some Nestle milk melts (I'm a little addicted at the moment, just dreadful
DH has just come back with my breakfast so better get up. Hope everyone is having good weekend xx
Hello all. Last night was the Emerald Pea****, it was very cool and far too hip for someone not drinking, wearing flat shoes and looking rather like a milkcow. But rather good fun people watching and observing drunkeness. DH came home about 1am with a friend both of them shouting "shhhh" at each other, then proceeded watch war films until 3am wrapped curiously in a beach towel. It was so funny it wasn't cross making, naturally I was up for a wee anyway....
But I must admit I played on the hangover this morning, we had our 4d scan and went with a friend and her toddler, who I encouraged in a game of 'lets make lots of noise' on the xylophone... ha ha ha that'll teach him But the scan was a bit rubbish, Little Miss was stubbornly curled up facing backwards. We tried: cold icy water, lots of chocolate, a walk round the park, jumping and wriggling and eventually ice on my belly to get her to walk up and shift which she did, and then promptly put her hands up over her face. So no pictures. I'm going back on Tuesday to try again as they don't charge you unless you get the pics. Had to have a bath to warm up when I got home! Lovely to see her though, she's so big, and kinda looks like a baby now and not an alien. Which is nice....
I've just had a baking frenzy. Made muffins with All Bran (the theory being I'll eat any muffin and it's a good way of getting chopped figs and some fibre down my neck without my brain going BORING), a rather nice new recipe for Cinnamon and Walnut Slice which is dead healthy except for the syrup mix that I'm about to put on the top. And we're having baked figs for pudding tonight. I suppose I ought to eat a vegetable at some point to balance all this sugar out te he he I am RAVENOUS all the time at the moment.
how are you all and what are you up to? No news from Kyra - do you think we can hope now?
Londonmiss - wow it must be so exciting to see the baby look so big, i hope you get some pics on tuesday.
Brunette - Congrats on twins honey. Hope everything goes well.
Miss K - i can't wait to go shopping!!!! I am holding off till i get close enough to 12 weeks, although i did cave and buy 2 gorgeous white singlets over the weekend. I couldn't help myself.
CK77 - Hi i freak out too with every ache, pain, cramp and odd feeling!!!!!I am slowly getting better.
I had a my 10 yr high school reunion over the weekend which was great, it is funny how no one has changed we are all just 10 yrs older!!! I am startinf to feel a little sick now but not till about 5 in the arvo and it seems to last through till mid morning. I am really tired and am going to the toilet ALOT!!!!! I am trying not to freak out everytime i feel an ache or pain just keep telling myself it is normal. I can't wait till 12 weeks gets here.
Welcome Chrissy! So great to see new faces moving in here from the LTTTC thread LondonMiss 30 minutes for a heat pack!! Wow... DH's can be so...silly (to put it nicely)!! Thats why most of the time its way easier to just do things yourself rather than asking a male to do it for you! Shame about the scan but thats great that you get to go back. Hopefully bub will cooperate next time. Renee i hear you on the waiting till the 12 week mark. To be honest though until you start to feel bub move frequently you always worry about every little niggle and pain. Im sure you will be fine though so enjoy the fact the YOU ARE PREGNANT!! Kyra any news??????
Spent yesterday going through ALLLLL the clothes we have bought Tiana and putting all the newborn/lil sizes in one pile and the bigger stuff in another pile so that i know what needs to be washed first. So exciting seeing all the tiny and cute things. However, i cant believe how much we have I think she will need to change every hour to wear all she has at least once!! LOL
Londonmiss, interesting that they don't charge you till you see a pic - and that you tried everything to get the little bean to turn over but to no avail Hope you see her face on Tuesday's scan!
Hi Paula, newborn clothes are so gorgeous. I am resisting the temptation to go shopping until the 12thw week at the very earliest. I'm on 2 weeks bed rest from a ruptured blood vessel and clotting, and only just borrowed some baby books this weekend gone.
Hey Renee, have you had a transvaginal scan yet? If not, when are you booked for one? I have had three so far - and I have one picture but it's very hard to make anything out. Every time I spot or cramp or get a twinge I panic. I don't think I'll stop worrying until I hold my jelly beans in my arms!
Hello Lise, I hear you when you say the first trimester is dragging. I am counting the days till 12 weeks. Only eight weeks to go. Bet you can't wait. Have you found out the gender of your bub or do you want it to be a surprise?
Hey ladies, can I ask how many of you have not had any morning sickness? I know it's only very early days for me but I've got nothing so far - and again I don't know if it's true or not but I thought if you were pregnant with twins given the higher hcg levels you would be more likely to get morning sickness? Any comments appreciated!
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Oooh LondonMiss, I really like the Emerald Pea****, but definitely not the place for a pregnant lady with all those stairs!! DH and I went to a pub yesterday and although we had a table he couldn't understand why I was ready to go after my two waters...!!
Paula - I make DH do that too, our baby has more jeans already than I do! Do your family and friends buy you lots of stuff because they know it's a girl?
Renee - I'm hearing you on the toilet!! I swear the Chicklet thinks my bladder is her own peronal trampoline and I seem to constantly need to pee only to get there and have the smallest trickle, it's driving me nuts
Brunette - we found out at our 20 week scan it was a girl, but then our OB confused us at our 28 week scan by
saying she thought it looked like a boy...! We're ignoring her and going with what the sonographer says And re the morning sickness - I had a couple of days about week 5 or 6 of feeling slightly nauseus but that was it. So don't think that because you don't have any there's something wrong, just enjoy!!
We had another OB appointment today and I must say I'm feeling rather pleased with myself and the chicklet!!
My belly is exactly the right size for 32 weeks and she's still in the right position - head down, bum up! And she's even started to engage, although there's still a looooong way to go obviously, lol.
Anyhoo, time for more reading. Figured I'd better do some re labour before classes start tomorrow. Have a good night all and hopefully Ky will be popping in soon with good news
Brunette i havent had any sickness at all this whole pregnancy and have actually felt brilliantly. Even when i was pregnant with twins for the first 8 weeks i still felt perfectly fine. Most say im lucky but believe it or not i have actually heard of lots more women that havent been sick at all than women who have been sick. I totally hear you though as i used to say i wanted desperately to have ms so that i knew all was well.. silly i know.. hang in there, im sure you will be fine. lise woohoo on all being well at your appointment and on bub behaving as she should
Felt lots and lots of movement yesterday that lasted allll day long which was brilliant! I was sitting at my desk all day staring at my belly and watching it move. Today she has been on the quieter side but still letting me know she is there
Hello all. Just back from a much more successful scan... Little Miss even gave me a wave she was in a better position, and much more active. She looks just like DH and absolutely nothing at all like me, but that's cool! I can't get over how much placenta and cord there is in there, it's like the seaweed forest in the lake in Harry Potter 4. Cord does seem a design flaw to me, I mean it's just asking to get wrapped about the baby isn't it??! When I'm GrandMaster of the Human Race and doing a redesign (which will include detachable babies and breasts so you can go for a run) I'll think about a better way of doing that. It goes without saying that I'll be looking at 'birth canals' for a potential redesign!!!
I've been up all night, I just could not sleep at all. For no apparent reason either. Ho hum. I am tired now, and think might put my feet up with my bag of goodies from the scanning place. Hope you are all well and sorry for the lack of personals x
Brunette - i actually don't have a scan booked at all, i go to see my GP today and will bombard him with questions im sure. I fell naturally in the end so my IVF clinic did my inital BT's and that was all.
Londonmiss - I'm glad that bub was better today and you got a good look. Power to you if you can redesign the female body and make it more "user friendly"
I have my first docs app this morning which i am excited about. I am still feeling average, i just wish i would be sick and get it over with, rather than feel like it all day.
Renee - hi I felt like that too. It was MUCH better if I made sure my stomach was never empty, so even half a glass of skinny milk or three dry apricots would make all the difference in the world. Hope it helps!
LondonMiss, great news you got a good vision of your DD. Are the pics in 3D now?
Hope you get all your questions answered at your GPs today, Renee. I always take in a list of questions when I see my FS (probably give them the poops but that's just the type of personality type I am!)
AFM, I had another scan yesterday. Was starting to feel really positive about things. Good and bad. I was two days shy of 7 weeks. Had another transvaginal scan (losing count now). This time could easily see both twins' hearts, egg yolks, sacs etc. Approx both now same size, about 8-9mm - how tiny. Bad news is still lots of blood/clotting and still giving me 80/20 take-home rate. He has told me he wants me to do bed rest until week 12 - another 5 weeks! He has told me that means only getting up to go to the loo and that's about it. We're moving house this Saturday. Now I'm having to take most of my leave I wanted to take after the bubs were born, but more worryingly of all is now I'm going to worry about them till week 12 - and then until they're born. I am so scared and don't want to allow mysef to get anymore attached because it's going to devastate me if they don't make it. Sorry for depressing post.
Hi Everyone, just popped in on a 5min break from work.
Brunette, I don't think I have morning sickness, maybe a bit of nausea after about 5pm or so, heaps of wind pains (TMI), and still spotting (brown).....
Sorry to hear that you're now on bed rest til 12 weeks - what are you going to do on the weekend for the move?
Pregnancy after LT TTC #11
Have fun at the theatre and also have fun at the opera tomorrow
I am jealous you get to go to the expo tomorrow I want it to hurry up and come to brissy!!!
The one part of this whole preg thing I don't get is the cleaning element of nesting... why anyone would want to clean is beyond me. I'm with that camp English chap whose name escapes me, who said something along the lines of 'after the first six inches of dust, you stop noticing'... but then I'm a completely lazy buzzard!!!
But the scan was a bit rubbish, Little Miss was stubbornly curled up facing backwards. We tried: cold icy water, lots of chocolate, a walk round the park, jumping and wriggling and eventually ice on my belly to get her to walk up and shift which she did, and then promptly put her hands up over her face. So no pictures. I'm going back on Tuesday to try again as they don't charge you unless you get the pics. Had to have a bath to warm up when I got home! Lovely to see her though, she's so big, and kinda looks like a baby now and not an alien. Which is nice.... 
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