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You guys sure can chatter!! Sorry I've been MIA again, had a packed weekend as some of you who have me as a friend on FB will know... Went to London yesterday to see Finlay (it was the first time I'd seen her in 3 and a half years, and the very first time she'd met her little bro!!) It was lovely, though the car journey was tough and I cam ehome with hideous amounts of pain! But it was so worth it 
Anyway, I was going to catch up with you all but there was just sooo much! I did read every post but will try to remember as much as I can... Probably won't be "personalised" but will try to join in with all the convos you guys have had
Firstly, Sam, sorry to hear that Elin is worrying you sweetie, you definitely shouldn't feel bad for going out and having soem "you time", that has nothing to do with anything Elinor might have going on: You are a wonderful mum and she has everything she needs, but I think I'd agree with the others that it might not hurt to get her checked out by her doc ASAP... With all of the other stuff she's had going on it's probably better to be overly cautious than to miss something small but important
And Shiv, sorry to hear about your nan, that's really sad
but 93 is a wonderful age to live to, and like MJ says maybe it'd be nice for your grandad to take Sophia to meet her before she goes... If you could manage it. 
Ok, so there was talk of weight loss. Now I'm not getting too excited, but it seems I'm starting to shift a little bit of my extra weight finally. Jai Jai honey, you really should not worry about trying to lose weight already: I have only JUST reached the point at which I feel properly ready to sort my body out again, you're much further behind than me so you should give yourself a bit of a break I think
It's not like you'll be that size / weight forever, there'll be plenty of time to sort it all out later I think I've lost about 3 kilos in a couple of weeks, which I am very pleased with (sorry, I only work in kilos these days, I've totally forgotten what that is in "old money" !!) I'd like to lose another 6 in the long run, but I'm not fussed about how quickly that happens. It's pretty tricky with my electric wheelchair, not exactly easy to lose weight!! (But I do love my chair we went to the beach with it today, it was loooovely!)
Another topic of convo was mums... I do feel like my mum often now in personality, I find myself calling Vince things that my mum used to call me and laughing at myself, or doing things that I could totally imagine my mum doing with a baby me!! But as for her body, I'd be VERY happy to have my mum's body if I were in her situation: She's 62 but looks about 45, she's had 5 children and has no stretch marks or varicose veins or anything!! And she still has a [retty decent figure for a woman her age! No such luck for me, I'm already coooovered in stretchies!
Ok, the next exciting topic you guys covered was getting preggers again... I feel JUST the same as most of you!!! I see preggo women and feel so jealous (and I had a REALLY rough time at the end of pregnancy, so it's totally weird to me that I want all of that again!!) It's funny, just after Vince was born when I was so messed up I thought for sure that I'd never be able to do it again. But now I just can't WAIT! I've already convinced OH that we should try for at least one more (a girl would be nice! But I'd probably want to be team yellow this time!) and we're talking about having an April / May / June baby this time (which would mean trying just after Vince turns 1... ) Like you, Cleck, I'd get pregnant reall soon if I hadn't had a C-Section, but also I agree that I want to be able to focus my energy and love on Vince whilst he's tiny, I think that was you MJ who said that? Anyway, I feel like we're officially "waiting to try" now
Hmmm ok so I'm doing a terrible job trying to remember all the things you guys have chatted about, but it's soooo great to see people back on here now and finding time to natter again like we used to!
Does anyone think they'd do anything very differently next time around? I think I'd definitely combine BF and FF for as long as I could, I think trying to exclusively BF was a huge mistake for my situation and that I ruined all of my chances to BF at all by trying too hard and failing so miserably!! Although Vince is very happy and healthy on formula, I would really like to try to BF my second for longer if I can. Other than that, I don't think I'd do much differently next time round!! I'd secretly love a girl next, though I always thought I'd want all boys!
OK so that's a pretty long post for my "not spending so much time on the computer" plan...
Ah well, it's so lovely in here when everyone is chatting I'll try to restrain myself but great to hear from you all
Lots of love! x x x x
P.S. Just remembered another topic you mentioned: Hair. I found that my hair was falling out loads and totally had a mind of its own before I had the chop! So I went for it and I love my new "pixie" doo! I haven't regretted it for a minute since I had it done! xx
You guys sure can chatter!! Sorry I've been MIA again, had a packed weekend as some of you who have me as a friend on FB will know... Went to London yesterday to see Finlay (it was the first time I'd seen her in 3 and a half years, and the very first time she'd met her little bro!!) It was lovely, though the car journey was tough and I cam ehome with hideous amounts of pain! But it was so worth it Anyway, I was going to catch up with you all but there was just sooo much! I did read every post but will try to remember as much as I can... Probably won't be "personalised" but will try to join in with all the convos you guys have had
Firstly, Sam, sorry to hear that Elin is worrying you sweetie, you definitely shouldn't feel bad for going out and having soem "you time", that has nothing to do with anything Elinor might have going on: You are a wonderful mum and she has everything she needs, but I think I'd agree with the others that it might not hurt to get her checked out by her doc ASAP... With all of the other stuff she's had going on it's probably better to be overly cautious than to miss something small but important
And Shiv, sorry to hear about your nan, that's really sad
but 93 is a wonderful age to live to, and like MJ says maybe it'd be nice for your grandad to take Sophia to meet her before she goes... If you could manage it. Ok, so there was talk of weight loss. Now I'm not getting too excited, but it seems I'm starting to shift a little bit of my extra weight finally. Jai Jai honey, you really should not worry about trying to lose weight already: I have only JUST reached the point at which I feel properly ready to sort my body out again, you're much further behind than me so you should give yourself a bit of a break I think
It's not like you'll be that size / weight forever, there'll be plenty of time to sort it all out later I think I've lost about 3 kilos in a couple of weeks, which I am very pleased with (sorry, I only work in kilos these days, I've totally forgotten what that is in "old money" !!) I'd like to lose another 6 in the long run, but I'm not fussed about how quickly that happens. It's pretty tricky with my electric wheelchair, not exactly easy to lose weight!! (But I do love my chair we went to the beach with it today, it was loooovely!) Another topic of convo was mums... I do feel like my mum often now in personality, I find myself calling Vince things that my mum used to call me and laughing at myself, or doing things that I could totally imagine my mum doing with a baby me!! But as for her body, I'd be VERY happy to have my mum's body if I were in her situation: She's 62 but looks about 45, she's had 5 children and has no stretch marks or varicose veins or anything!! And she still has a [retty decent figure for a woman her age! No such luck for me, I'm already coooovered in stretchies!
Ok, the next exciting topic you guys covered was getting preggers again... I feel JUST the same as most of you!!! I see preggo women and feel so jealous (and I had a REALLY rough time at the end of pregnancy, so it's totally weird to me that I want all of that again!!) It's funny, just after Vince was born when I was so messed up I thought for sure that I'd never be able to do it again. But now I just can't WAIT! I've already convinced OH that we should try for at least one more (a girl would be nice! But I'd probably want to be team yellow this time!) and we're talking about having an April / May / June baby this time (which would mean trying just after Vince turns 1... ) Like you, Cleck, I'd get pregnant reall soon if I hadn't had a C-Section, but also I agree that I want to be able to focus my energy and love on Vince whilst he's tiny, I think that was you MJ who said that? Anyway, I feel like we're officially "waiting to try" now
Hmmm ok so I'm doing a terrible job trying to remember all the things you guys have chatted about, but it's soooo great to see people back on here now and finding time to natter again like we used to!
Does anyone think they'd do anything very differently next time around? I think I'd definitely combine BF and FF for as long as I could, I think trying to exclusively BF was a huge mistake for my situation and that I ruined all of my chances to BF at all by trying too hard and failing so miserably!! Although Vince is very happy and healthy on formula, I would really like to try to BF my second for longer if I can. Other than that, I don't think I'd do much differently next time round!! I'd secretly love a girl next, though I always thought I'd want all boys!
OK so that's a pretty long post for my "not spending so much time on the computer" plan...
Ah well, it's so lovely in here when everyone is chatting I'll try to restrain myself but great to hear from you all Lots of love! x x x x
P.S. Just remembered another topic you mentioned: Hair. I found that my hair was falling out loads and totally had a mind of its own before I had the chop! So I went for it and I love my new "pixie" doo! I haven't regretted it for a minute since I had it done! xx
well done Pips, I'm trying to cut that stuff out too but Fin baked us a delicious halloween cake and I had some for breakfast today... oops!!! xx
Poor Emma is still bald as the day she was born. 
DH has had the snip now though... 
