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oh BDT I'm so sorry to hear that, thinking of you.....take care of yourself :hugs:. Even though its no consolation I hope you have a really enjoyable and refreshing time in Europe, hope to see you in here again soon.
oneday - hope all went well today
hi to everyone
worst chocolate binge for me today - I'm not really sure where the block went but hope its not on special at coles again next week.
BDT - I'm so sorry. There really is nothing worse, is there. I hope you are being very kind to yourself. I won't try to say anything to try and cheer you up - that feeling will only come when it's ready. I hope you don't have to go through any more pain before your little miracle finally does arrive. xox
Oneday - Congratulations - so glad you got the news you were looking for and that all is going well.
Possums - you must be so relieved - I know I am - to know that everything is ok in your head. Wierd preggy symptoms are ok, brain problems are not. Phew!!!
JBM - Congratulations mate! Lovely little flickering heart - the best best best feeling ever.
Grub - can't believe you're 35 weeks and so so so close to the end. I know I've got 5 weeks of saying that to you yet, but when most of us are still in the teens and 20's it still seems like a faint distant hope to be 35 weeks. Hope it's all smooth sailing on the home stretch!
Ah, come on memory - nope - it's all on the old thread and I have NO memory these days. Sorry - Hi Aimee, Mindhugs, Dreamrise, and every other lovely lady. Hope you're looking after yourselves
AFM - my sugar levels have just started to rise. Well, actually I just bought a new glucose meter because the other one was crap, so really, I don't know if they've been high all along or if my body has just started to change. Damn it - please don't put me on insulin again - it's a big old pain in the butt. Anyway, It's DSs birthday tomorrow and party on the weekend - it is the event of a lifetime, get ready to hear about it on the news. So, I'd better go wrap prezzies and start baking. Seeyas xoxo
Congratulations JBM!! What did they make your due date??
BDT - Big hugs to you. I'm so sorry for your loss.
AFM - Been MIA been the worst week ever. My brother-in-law was killed tragically on Sunday, only 26 and my hubby's only sibling. So it's been a really hard time for all of us. Funeral is on Saturday. So I haven't had a lot of time to think about pregnancy. I'm 6wk 1 day today. Not a lot of symptoms still fuller breasts but not as tender and still tired but no sickness at all!! When did other people start to get morning sickness??
Scan is next Friday so really looking forward to that.
Oh and as well as all that they accepted our offer on a house so we have brought a house too!! Arkkk !
BDT - my heart sank also hearing your news. So sorry that happened for you. I felt so positive that this was your natural miracle. Looking at those 2 gorgeous girls, you know what you are capable of, and it's not over for you by a long shot. As I said to you before, you have been one of the main inspirations that has kept me going on my fertility journey, particularly through 2 harrowing miscarriages last year. Enjoy your trip to Europe and take care of yourself xxxxxxx
JBM - yay - you go girl! That's such great news for you.
OneDay - congrats on the little girl bub. Aw, love girls. So easy to shop for, as I am finding out - since we are having a boy!!! Nothing much out there for boys.
Kaybee - I've got my blood sugar test next week. I can't stop eating sugar though, and now I think I'm getting thrush.....................
Grub, Poss, Trishy - hey girls
AFM - holding my cousins hand through her first IVF cycle. She has only enough money for one stim cycle and has literally not listened to any of the tips or guidance I gave her, nor did she pay much attention to the info sheets her clinic gave her. It's been very frustrating as she believed she would get loads of blasties and fall straight away. Out of 15 eggs, they put one back and she got none to freeze. If her bub on board doesn't work she's out until she can save enough money in another 12 months time, by which time she'll be 40!!! I so wanted to pass on all the things I've learnt that no one told me so she could get her best chance with this one shot. Particularly since her and her partner have tried naturally for 10 years already with only one early miscarriage in that whole time.....................so girls, I'm feeling frustrated and under-appreciated. The barrage of questions from her as the reality of it is becoming apparent is killing me, since I briefed her so thoroughly. Aaaaaaargh!
Me and bubs are good though
Oneday - congrats on your girl - now you can go to town with the shopping So many cute things to buy...
Mindhugs - your cousin sounds frustrating - denial maybe? Glad you're going well
Kaybee - hope you don't need to go to insulin - enjoy the party
Albi - so sorry for your loss I still have no symptoms at all - not even fuller boobs - I've decided that after the ivf my body is just used to all the hormones, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I won't get any nausea at all! Hope you're the same
Hi Aimee, Grub, possums, trishy, and everyone I've missed
afm - really nothing new. Just cruising along feeling completely normal still. This really isn't what I was expecting!
sorry been mia a bit. keyboard played up and i've been really tired.
albi - that is just awful. my heart goes out to your family and your dh. he must be full of mixed feelings regarding life/death and the pregnancy. i hpoe saturday is a healing day for the family. oxxo
bdt - NO! no no no no! that's what i felt when i read your post. not fair. stupid ef-fing universe! big hugs to you darling. take time to take care of yourself! and be kind to yourself. oxxox
well yep as kaybee said 35 weeks! i think i must be the next 'due' or is there someone else??? having quite a bit of pre labour stuff atm. a bit of bleeding (mw thinks it was maybe the start of my 'show'), back aching, crazy nesting, lots of movement from bubs and loads of period-type pain. also carrying fairly low. i don't really want anyone to arrive til my mum does on june 18 tho! lol. But i'm so excited part of me thinks (in 10 day's time would be good).
oh better go DS is being a mental case. driving me nuts. daddy going away really screwed his head! poor bubba. oxox
Even though I have now graduated from this thread now - again - I thought you might like a look at our birth pic's. I'll still be stalking you all and can't wait to see the new faces in the parenting thread and of course now things are on the move with grub hopefully I'll be able to pass on the good news of her bub's arrival to you all.
So anyway we are home and OMG all my 3 children are in bed asleep, so I'm trying to get some washing done - boys and there ability to pee and poop through everything - and to upload my birth pic's on Facebook.
For those girls not on FB and who want to have a look here is the link: Rhys Patrick & Liam James Allen 11/05/2011 | Facebook
We have some really graphic pic's of the birth that I didn't put on FB but shall we say that we got a good look inside my tummy...
Oneday - big congrats on the pink bundle!!! so exciting
Kaybee - oh dear, hope your sugar levels are ok, hope the birthday party goes well too!
Albi - I'm so sorry, sending hugs to you and family. Wow sounds like you've had a massive week. My morning sickness was different with each bub - from 6 weeks with DD1 I vomited for 7 months. with DD2 I only vomited from 6-14 weeks, and with this baby I have only vomited a couple of times, just really tired and hungry alot, some nausea from about 6 weeks. Its so hard to tell, I have friends who have no ms at all.
Mindhugs - glad to hear you and bub are well, goodluck with your cousin, its not nice feeling frustrated and under-appreciated esp when you've been trying to help.
kass - hi and glad to hear you're going well
grub - so exciting, def sounds like baby is getting ready soon - eek - I had DD1 exactly 1 week after my "show". hope bub can hold out til your mum arrives though! still so exciting!
Kelly - wow supermum already, sounds like everything is going really well!
AFM - nothing new just wanted to say hi, wishing my pregnancy body would keep up with all the things I want to get done lol!
Just a quickie as I no longer have Internet access at home (hopefully will be on with new service in a couple of weeks - it's killing me not having it).
BDT - so sorry to hear your sad news. I was hopeful your bleed wasn't too major. Fingers crossed that you have another miracle when you feel ready to try again.
Well I have finished my new job working with the Aspergers boy as yesterday he basically lost the plot when I tried to get him to do his school work and he started throwing things at me (tape player, Size D batteries, 2 glasses of water, and whatever else he could get his hands on) all the while he was swearing at me and then he threatened to punch and kick my tummy (he had already told me the day before that he knew there was a baby in there so it was really stressful when he then made those threats). I ended up in tears and his mum had to come home from work. It was actually really scarey. The agency I was working for have now decided from an OH&S perspective it is too dangerous for me to continue... so I'm unemployed again!
On top of that we have started cleaning and repairing the unit at the back of my house which my old tenant basically wrecked before she did a runner owing rent and bill money. We had to remove all carpet, underlay and curtains and burn them and have bleached the concrete and sugar soaped the walls. Now leaving it to air out for a few days to see if the smell from her dogs urine and poo everywhere will clear. We also found piles of used needles all over the unit, dog **** in plastic bags and hidden under furniture and saucepans and pots of fat and god knows what hidden in the bathroom cupboard, the TV unit and wardrobe! I can't believe someone could live like that!
Anyway with some luck we might only have to repaint one room and do a little bit of patching and then get new carpet and underlay and replace 5 doors and then be able to rent it out again. Oh and she also left 6 rotten mattresses and a couch here for me to have to take to the tip!
As for bub... well the day after I wrote about not feeling any movement I finally starting feeling it... which was nice.
I also had another trip to emergency with those same pains that I got just before Easter. They have not decided that it is caused by a virus in my chest lining and if I wasn't pregnant they would give me pain killers and anti-inflammatories but due to the pregnancy I can't have the later. The Dr was suprised it has gone on this long but did tell me to come back again in a few days if it's still persisting... though he has no idea what else they will be able to do.
25 weeks now... I have found this pregnancy so much more taxing physically then my last (granted that was about 15 years ago). I hope I go a little early because at the moment another 15 weeks just seems far too long.
Albi - gosh that's horrible. My heart goes out to you and your husband and family.
Lori - obviously you were living with a drug addict who was using your car to make long trips to score, and then sabotaged your property by planting bags of poo and fat everywhere. Apart from living a soiled, druggy existence. Just what you need when you are heavily pregnant!!! Glad you aren't working in a threatening environment anymore. Too risky when dangerous.
AFM - bloated from having too much gluten, which is naughty of me, but so hard to avoid. Pork pies, scotch eggs and cornish pasties!!! But I regret it all now
Hello all,
BDT so sorry that this little one has left you. Take care of yourself.
Lori - wow, what a mess, and not what you need. Hope that you are able to sort something out - with work and the unit! Glad that you are getting movement though - must be reassuring.
Oneday - congrats on the scan - glad that everything is well with you little girl
Kelly - those photos do not sound pretty - but good to have for the boy's 21st! Hope you get to have a bit of a rest as well as catching up on all that washing!
Grub - wow, does not sound like far to go now... my DS was born 48 hrs after my show (although I was 371/2wks) ...hope that your little on is going to hold on a bit longer! Hope your DS lets you to get some rest - put those feet up!
afm - nothing much to report. Just tired, feeling a bit sick but nothing bad. In some ways just wish I felt sick all the time so I did not worry about something going wrong Typical -never happy !
Hello to everyone I've missed with the personals, but DH has the football on and I really need to escape to the bath - and not sure I can really take the work puter in there
Take care everyone and enjoy the rest of your weekend.
farmgirl- if you are going to dropa puter in the bath, may as well be your work one i think that worry is pretty normal. I'm still worried about 'something going wrong' cos this was so "easy'' this time round in terms of falling! only been preg twice in my life... my first is sitting having a 'babycino' with daddy, the 2nd is doing some mean things to my bladder atm. i think it's part of the lttc with ac legacy. ox
mh - please don't talk pastry here!!! nom nom nom lol
trishy - oh i really feel for you. is your dd better today? and the further you get the harder it is to keep up with the llittlies. My DS now knows he can run away from me with a fairly good success rate!
lori - sounds like you are better off without that one!
aimee- yeah, i hear you! but I am planning to vacuum, tidy the kitchen, fold the washing, completely clean our very dusty room, clean the windows etc today. $50 DH intervenes and won't let me! but won't do it himself... not 'properly' anyway lol. Just do a little bit, sit down, little more!
I've been frantic with the cleaning lately! Last night i got an hour or two of mild contractions and lots of lower down discomfort, was concerned it was time!thankfully still here with bub inside I really feel like 'something' will happen soon as I didn't feel all this prelabour with DS. But I know it can go for weeks and I think the anticipation will be exhausting!!!
We both just have to be patient for about 10 more days til we hit 37 weeks and it'll all be good... I hope!!!
I bet you I'll now go 2 weeks over due cos i "think'' things are happening now, so early lol. just my bleeting luck!
farmgirl hope the bath helped and made you feel better
grub sounds a bit like your nesting.
AFM DD kept getting high temps so was vomiting because it, which set me off. Plus I think Ive hardly had any sleep that it makes me ill any way. Dreading tomorrow. Have GD test and if I am already feeling under weather I hate that drink
This might be another quickie - DS is asleep, but for how long, who knows. I survived the party of the year yesterday - weather and everything was awesome. Next year we will definitely be hiring a play centre or something. Can't see myself doing all that with a bub as well. So wierd to think that I'll have a 9 month old baby then.
Kelly - you are just unbelievable. Thanks for dropping by in all of that spare time you must have now. I will check your pics straight after this.
DR - what a nigthmare you are living. It is one thing after another. I really really hope everything is settled and sorted for you before your bub comes. Good luck
Trichy - hope your GD test goes better than mine did.
Grub - I hope you're not outta here too soon. Your DH sounds like mine. Loves to tell me not to do the housework (when I'm sick/pregnant/breastfeeding, etc), but never says "Let me do it" always says "leave it and do it later". Thanks! I'd rather get it done now. I;m sure your house will be the sparkliest ever by the time your bub comes.
Mindhugs - stop it with the food -you're making me hungry. How frustrating about your cousin. When people like 'us' are in here trying to get advice from other experienced LTTTCers throughout our IVF cycles and she has a real life relo who is trying to help and she ignores it all. It really makes you wonder, doesn't it.
Albi - oh my god, what an awful thing to experience. Like someone else (grub?) said, it must be a real mixture of feelings for you guys right now. Hope you can come in here and just feel pregnancy joy for a few minutes whenever you can manage it. Hope your scan goes well too
Hi everyone else - Oneday, Aimee, Trishy.....
Have the mega long wait clinic tomorrow and have to take DS with me just to top it off. I get to hang out at the hospital for a few hours with all the 'lovely' people. Can't wait. Take care ladies xo
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Hello all,
and I think the anticipation will be exhausting!!!
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