Hello Ladies, I hope you are all having a lovely weekend! So 39 weeks today… I can’t believe we are going to have a baby soon! I have had another busy week, I managed to catch up on a few things at home and a little bit of shopping. I also did the world’s biggest grocery shop and a bit cooking so I know have very full cupboards and the spare freezer is half full of frozen meals.
DH and I went out to dinner last night to celebrate our anniversary a little early. It was so nice to spend some time one on one and knowing that it will probably be our last date night for quiet a while. I even treated myself to half a glass of wine….. I figure it can’t do much at this late stage…. Just hopefully relax mummy so baby wants to come play!
Lise – good luck over the next couple of days. I hope your little man doesn’t keep you waiting too much longer. Looking fwd to hearing your news.
LondonMiss – Thanks for sharing your video… it makes me feel impatient and I cant wait till that first moment when I get to hold my little one. Also, can you please update my due date to the 3rd July.
Laridoz – Welcome and congratulations. I think all us long termers get a little more anxious about things. Try not to worry about what other people say or think, everyone’s pregnancy is different. I found that with each scan I relaxed into the pregnancy more, plus when you start to feel kicks about half way it’s always a lovely little reassurance. I hope you can enjoy your pregnancy a little more with each passing week.
Gleeny_C – sorry to read about the ladies in your belle buddies group who have had early losses. Unfortunately it will always happen but you can only try and stay positive for yourself. Good luck with your scan – no doubt everything will be fine and you will feel more reassured with every passing week.
Leabie – Good luck with your scan next week and enjoy telling the world your news. It is such an amazing time when you finally get to tell and be really excited about things.
CK77 - we had a similar experience with our first OB appointment. After waiting for an hour while he was off doing an emergency c-section we were rushed through and pushed out the door…. although we were charged $180 for the privilege - $70 sounds cheap! We ended up deciding to go public but a lot of my friends have had similar experiences and said not to worry it is actually a good thing as it means everything is on track with no dramas to worry about.
Paula – Glad to hear the GCC results came back ok. I hated that test the drink was so yuk!
Ok that’s enough personals for today – belly rubs to those who I have missed xo
It has been a long time since I've posted, so I'm not even going to attempt personals as there is just too much to catch up on. Although I will say a huge congratulations to all the new girls in here. I recognise some of your names from the LTTTC thread, but I wanted to say a special hi to Juniper. I remember following your TTC journey, and I am so happy for you that you finally have your long awaited pregnancy.
Well I will be 36 weeks on Monday, and I can't believe how quickly the time is ticking by. I finished work about 3 weeks ago (doctor's orders), as I was diagnosed with grade 3 placenta praevia, where the placenta is completely covering my cervix (there are 4 grades, with 4 being the worst, so I have one of the more severe cases). OB was concerned about the risk of bleeding so he said I had to finish work early. It also means I have to have a c-section, and at this stage, the date is booked in for 19th July.... assuming nothing happens early. As a result, I have been trying to get everything organised at home, and finish some last minute shopping.
LondonMiss - Not long to go for you either. Could you please update the list to say that I'm having a boy. Technically my due date is still 26th July, so I'm happy for that to remain the same.
Lise - I have been keeping a close eye on this thread, to keep updated on your progress. Fingers crossed that things start to happen for you soon. I am starting to get quite uncomfortable now, so I can only imagine how you must be feeling.
Mitf - how are you? Am keeping a close eye on you too. Hope you are travelling along ok. A glass (or half a glass) of wine sounds nice. I haven't been able to bring myself to drink this whole pregnancy, and I figure I'm so close to the end now, so I'll just hold out.
Hi to all the other lovely ladies in here, and I hope everyone has a great weekend.
Wishes congratulations on the birth of you baby boy. Sounds like you had a bit of a rough time. Hope you are both doing well.
Londonmiss i hope you don't mind but i updated the list (thought you may have other things on your mind!!!)
Revised list - do let me know of any changes lovely ladies
LondonMiss 16th July 2010 - It's a girl - Little Miss
Wantbaby2 23rd July 2010 - It's a girl - Peanut
Dusty 28th July 2010 - It's a ??? - ???
SonyaLouise ??.??.2010 - It's a ??? - ???
Seachange 2nd Aug 2010 - It's a ??? - Squishy
Paula 14th Aug 2010 - it's a girl – Tiana
Ninah 18th Aug 2010 - it's a surprise - McPeanut
Loula 19th August 2010
Nix76 24th Aug 2010 - It's a ??? - Lil Bub
Emerald Star 26th Oct 2010 - It's a ??? - ???
Miss K 5th Nov 2010 - It's a ???
CK77 Dec 19th 2010 – Munchkin
Brunette Dec 24th 2010 - Double Trouble
Renee Dec 28th 2010 – Little Bug
Glenny C Jan 5th 2011
Leabie Jan 11th – a surprise
KitKat Jan 19th
S’Rose Jan 20th – Little Monkey
Juniper76 Feb 2nd
Maggie Feb 2nd
BJ*81
MissAma – LHB
Liardoz
Our thoughts and prayers go to those beautiful mothers whose precious babies have been taken too soon.
Much loved & wanted son of Frosty'sMum, Benjamin born sleeping @ 14 weeks 4days. Our thoughts are with you.
Much loved & wanted daughter of Hippy Mum & Hippy Dad, Georgia Ariela taken too early from this earth 12-03-09 @ 22wk 6d
Much loved and wanted son of Chez67 & her DH, Ryan Patrick, born sleeping 17-03-09 @ 18wk 1d
Last edited by Renee; July 21st, 2010 at 09:31 AM.
CONGRATULATIONS WISHES on the birth of baby CASEY!! It sounds like you have hard a difficult start but am glad to hear that he is safe and at home with you.
What a tiny size he was! I was wondering where you had been....now i know..
Best of luck with everything.x0x0x
CONGRATULATIONS WISHES!! Great to hear you are both now doing really well! MaggiePie congratulations on your BFP! Wishing you all the best for the next nine or so months! Kitkat great news on your NT scan. How did you appointment with your OB go? Yogi Bear YAY on a heartbeat!! Thats fantastic news. Its amazing what joy seeing/hearing that little thump can bring. Chrissy one more sleep till your scan! wantbaby#2 well done on remaining positive. As you said, the gift of your baby overrules everything! Only two more sleeps. Do you have everything ready at home? Juniper yay on seeing your OB this Friday. I find my appointments always so exciting let alone the very first one. It made it all seem so real to me!
Had my OB appointment on Monday and all is going well. I mentioned that i have been having swelling in my hands and feet, especially my hands when i wake up in the morning, i can barely even make a fist but he said its just good old fluid retention as my BP is fine. So i guess i will just have to deal with it! I am now on weekly appointments so back to see him next Wednesday and also have a scan on Thursday. Yay, cant wait to see my lil one all nice and squashy in there and to find out her weight and positioning etc. Its a full moon on Monday so would be nice if she decided to make an appearance then but just have to wait and see
Firstly - a huge congratulations to Wishes on the (rather dramatic) arrival of Casey! Glad that everything is going well for you now.
Wantbaby#2 - best of luck for Friday, hope it all goes smoothly! Will be thinking of you
LondonMiss - if you're still at home (and hopefully you aren't - I'm quietly excited that you haven't posted since Monday...), sending labour vibes, and as for the fussing mum - just pretend you're having a sleep, and lock yourself in your room for some peace & quiet.
MaggiePie - a huge welcome and congratulations on your BFP! Hope that all the tests etc have come back with great results.
YogiBear - WOOHOO!!! A heartbeat! I totally understand the tears, I started crying when I saw our little one's heart beating, and didn't stop til I was back in the car driving home! Such a huge relief for you. Hoping the next 9 days fly by for you.
Paula - Fantastic that all is going well, boo to the fluid retention, hope its not too annoying for you. It'll be great to see your bub on the scan next week - didn't you say you felt a heavy feeling in your cervix? Hopefully bub's engaged?
Renee - great work on the list! Hope you're sleep issues settle down soon. I've been having a few too - waking to go to the loo and can't get back to sleep, but worse than that, having really weird dreams/nightmares which are waking DH up. Poor him...
Juniper - Hoorah that the Report from Hell is finally over! Good luck for your OB appointment on Friay, and NT scan next week.
Brunette - hope those stabbing pains have gone away and leave you alone. Maybe it was one of the bubs being a bit athletic? Only one more sleep til your next OB appointment.
Chrissy - have a wonderul time tomorrow at your morph scan! How exciting. I don't feel that this pg is going quickly, I'm impatient to a) actually LOOK pg; and b) feel the bub kicking, so I don't have to hang out for every scan! hehe.
Lairdoz - hope your MS and asthma are coming under control, you poor chook. KWYM about these expensive babies - DH jokes he wants to keep a ledger of the IVF costs, and then send our child out to work to pay itself off...
Hi to anyone I've missed! Hope you're all travelling well.
AFM - not much to report, found out I passed my latest glucose tolerance test - YAY! But my thyroid is struggling so have to take more thyroxine - boo. Oh well. Feeling good, except the sleep issues, and my lower back is playing up, damn sciatica. DH has been a good man, and is giving me back rubs, bless him. I think of it as good practice for him!
Have a great day everyone.
PS Please excuse my obviously American ticker this week...
Sadly still here - and just putting on make up to go and see the obs. The only time I ever do, ha ha. Wrote a great long thing earlier but it got eaten. The only thing I can remember typing was went to see a friend with a baby yesterday and she told me of a friend of a friend who was told they were def having a girl and the father had the babies name tattoed on his arm. And you know what's coming next.... it was a boy! So don't trust sonographers, and certainly not before 18 weeks!!
Wishes - congrats!! wow 2ltrs of blood loss, I can't even imagine how you felt, what an ordeal. But so glad little Casey is doing well
WantBaby2 - Wow!! It's so close!!
Leabie & Brunette - my belly popped in my 16th week, so Leabie you might be just around the corner! Also Leabie, how good are pregnancy dreams!!?? They are the wildest things!
Brunette - I've been having some horrific tearing pains in my lower abdomen, and I've put it down to growing pains (thought the stabbing and cramping pains around week 15 or so were bad, but they've got nothing on these doozies!)
To everyone else dealing with fluid retention (poor Paula!), emotions running high (um, that covers all of us I think), demanding bosses who only provide 1/2 the information, leg cramps, bad backs, braxton hicks (oh god, I am not looking forward to those!) - BIG BELLY RUBS TO YOU ALL
Wishes, congratulations! I'm sorry to hear the birth was such an ordeal. I hope you're recovering well and that everything goes more smoothly from now on.
Yogi Bear, woo hoo for seeing the heartbeat! I'm so thrilled to hear it went well! I couldn't get over the difference between the 7w and 10w scans. They grow so quickly.
Brunette, I hope the OB says those pains are nothing to worry about. I have to admit that every tiny twinge sends me into a momentary panic.
Leabie, yay for the GTT but boo for the thyroid needing more help.
Paula, I'm glad to hear everything is fine. The fluid retention sounds unpleasant. I hope it eases up a bit for you (or goes away completely would be even better).
LondonMiss, how did you go with the OB?
Afm, this week I've been feeling more like eating during the day. I just tend to feel sick in the morning (before 10am) and then for a couple of hours in the afternoon (2-5pm-ish). I'm going to have to start planning ahead for our office meetings though. We have them at lunchtime so sandwiches are provided. They were making me hungry today, but I don't want to eat the cold sandwich meats, so I'm going to have to start bringing something to the meeting with me now that I don't feel sick at lunchtime.
Glad that everything is going well for you now.
Hope that all the tests etc have come back with great results. 
I totally understand the tears, I started crying when I saw our little one's heart beating, and didn't stop til I was back in the car driving home! Such a huge relief for you. Hoping the next 9 days fly by for you.
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