Pregnancy #24 Sponsored by our nicu graduates going home ♥️

[Borntorun]

New thread, in honour of the twin baby Thank yous and Baby Yoda making it home in our last thread

And fingers crossed there’s more baby news in this thread as I’m sure there’s lots due now!

 

[I’mThankyou_]

I'll never be emotionally ready to leave this thread

 

[tinymouse1]

Hi there
Thought I'd introduce myself as I just read the entirety of the last thread in one go! I'm 6 weeks 4 days with quite a high risk pregnancy due to a heart condition (not sure if I need to put a trigger warning?) but I had a late miscarriage at 17 weeks back in January so feel very anxious this time round, but trying to keep as positive as possible. I've got an early scan on Monday because of being high risk, and I'm excited but also a bit worried. Also baby will definitely have to come out early so reading about all the NICU babies getting to go home has been really lovely xx

 

[Jellybean093]

New thread, in honour of the twin baby Thank yous and Baby Yoda making it home in our last thread

And fingers crossed there’s more baby news in this thread as I’m sure there’s lots due now!

God, the title has made me get all teary

Regarding visitors -
My mum will probably be waiting outside the labour door
My siblings will come probably the same day
MIL is too nice and tells us to let my family come and she will meet the baby the next day or whenever I’m ready
My dad will probably come over the same day, but he doesn’t really like kids so they won’t stay long
Husbands siblings live further away, so we won’t see them for a few weeks
We have 2 close couple friends that will meet the baby straight away
Everyone else can wait. As I’m due the week before Christmas, everyone will be too busy doing their own thing than to meet another one of our kids

 

[Rubystaff]

So scary to think that in the next thread I’ll be clicking the ready to pop option !!

 

[WhatABore]

@Lulu Goss in response to your previous post about sharing photos.
I think it's all very personal.
I have never shared photos of my kids on social media as I had a friend have all her kids photos taken and shared by a random stranger 1000s of miles away. All her social media was also set to private but people have a way of getting round it.

 

[Dipdab]

Re visitors I’ve already asked my sister to be visitor management. As I don’t like the thought of being bombarded for the first couple of weeks. Think I will just limit to our parents, grandparents and our siblings. Friends will have to wait a little bit a longer.

 

[Smallpotato]

I'll never be emotionally ready to leave this thread

I never want you to leave

husband just made a joke that he needs a second job as “I just keep eating and eating, like the hungry caterpillar”

his funeral is at the local temple, Saturday 2pm.

 

[Borntorun]

My husbands parents live abroad and last time he said he didn’t want friends and the whole world meeting her before his parents did. So that meant I had a nice peaceful few weeks until they came over.

This time I’m more worried about Christmas and visitors than focusing on when baby is here. I’m due 17th Jan, but my daughter was born at 37 weeks (although that was an induction) and am worried about my homebirth plans going out the window if someone in the house gets covid. Will see how I feel nearer the time but I may just have Christmas just the three of us… although I feel like that might go down like a lead balloon with my family

I never want you to leave

husband just made a joke that he needs a second job as “I just keep eating and eating, like the hungry caterpillar”

his funeral is at the local temple, Saturday 2pm.

Christ he’s a risk taker! Do you need help with the task, or Dya want us to just provide the alibi?

 

[Smallpotato]

Re visitors I’ve already asked my sister to be visitor management. As I don’t like the thought of being bombarded for the first couple of weeks. Think I will just limit to our parents, grandparents and our siblings. Friends will have to wait a little bit a longer.

We made the decision that no one except LittlePotato is meeting NewPotato in NICU, and when we get home it’s double vaxxed and LFT tests. When littlepotato was born we didn’t have any visitors (bar the infamous FIL in Halfords visit)

 

[onlyheretoorbit]

We made the decision that no one except LittlePotato is meeting NewPotato in NICU, and when we get home it’s double vaxxed and LFT tests. When littlepotato was born we didn’t have any visitors (bar the infamous FIL

You mean newpotato will miss their first Halfords visit?!

 

[Smallpotato]

My husbands parents live abroad and last time he said he didn’t want friends and the whole world meeting her before his parents did. So that meant I had a nice peaceful few weeks until they came over.

This time I’m more worried about Christmas and visitors than focusing on when baby is here. I’m due 17th Jan, but my daughter was born at 37 weeks (although that was an induction) and am worried about my homebirth plans going out the window if someone in the house gets covid. Will see how I feel nearer the time but I may just have Christmas just the three of us… although I feel like that might go down like a lead balloon with my family


Christ he’s a risk taker! Do you need help with the task, or Dya want us to just provide the alibi?

i just death stared him with a mouth full of bacon. I’m going to eat toast on his side of the bed. That’ll teach him.

I said in the previous thread that we are doing Christmas the 3 of us, which is what usually happens as I’m at work. I’ll miss my mum though

 

[Trombolese]

Woohoo I’ve gone up a voting option since the last thread had a few people comment on a small bump the other day for the first time, some days I just forget that I’m pregnant and then someone says something and I’m like oh yeah

 

[Smallpotato]

You mean newpotato will miss their first Halfords visit?!

bless her, she will miss out on looking at some spark plugs

 

[Nursty]

I've clicked the ready to pop option for the last three threads now.

 

[Hannah_204]

The only thing I’m worried about with visitors is people who drop off gifts unannounced I’ll feel really ungrateful not inviting them in even if I’ve said we’re not having visitors yet.

 

[I’mThankyou_]

I never want you to leave

husband just made a joke that he needs a second job as “I just keep eating and eating, like the hungry caterpillar”

his funeral is at the local temple, Saturday 2pm.

Where do we send condolence money for takeaways?

 

[Hannah_204]

I never want you to leave

husband just made a joke that he needs a second job as “I just keep eating and eating, like the hungry caterpillar”

his funeral is at the local temple, Saturday 2pm.

I’m starting to think men are actually a different species!
When we were talking about having a baby my partner said ‘ok you can have a baby if I can have a new Audi’ we said ‘deal’ and here we are. Anyway he’s ordered the new Audi and he talks about it likes its a baby he says ‘can you believe We’rell have the Audi in 11 weeks’ like I’m saying ‘I can’t believe We’rell have a baby in 9 weeks’ he’s deadly serious though

 

[onlyheretoorbit]

bless her, she will miss out on looking at some spark plugs

Terrible. I’m sure my dad will be whisking Baby O off to Screw Fix as soon as he can…

 

[Gorbs]

MrGorbs and I are both the eldest, both first grandchildren and both families live an hr away and siblings like 30mins away. We're hoping the Babs will be here around 16th December but based on what @I'mThankyou_ said, it could be right up til 23rd Dec . In saying all that, I hope we don't have a nicu stay and we'll not be telling anyone when we get home or the parents will be on the doorstep!
Because of their own medical stuff I'm quite happy for parents to come without LFT'S but siblings will have to and I'll be asking them to either not go out partying OR wait like a fortnight after having been out to come and see the babies. No matter what, everyone else won't be allowed until the new year and I'm not even sorry about it.
I've had duck all interest from everyone but family anyway so it could get to a stage where I tell everyone to piss off and there will be no visits from 'friends'