Knocked Up Rollcall

That's a beautiful image.

So have you managed to escape morning sickness so far?

congratulations!
both for the baby and the excuse to post that classy-ass picture! ;)

Thanks, guys! not really loving the thought of the next 7 months but cant wait for baby to appear.

Meg, im already totally sick most of the time and if the first pregnancy is anything to go by i'll be like that for the 2nd and 3rd trimester too. blah.

Justine, thats sucks for your friend! I always hear about the second time being the easy one as far as conceiving but i guess not for everyone. :(

congrats, sunny!!!!!

thanks, tza!

(and pp i guess)

he had something to do with it! he did!

also, congrats. beeps II !!

congratulations!!

All I know is that she went to New Jersey for a week...

hurrah! i doubt beeps will get it. until beepsie two is around for realzzz. :-) well, we tried to tell ophelia (who was of course quite a bit younger).

my friend's daughter told her kid sister:"look" (while pointing at her mom's belly) "you're getting a new sister!" hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha guess she thought that little fat bump was cultivating a third kid. they're not, sadly, even though mommy wants one. daddy has decided it's not possible.

yeah beeps doesnt get it. although i couple of weeks ago i drew what i had seen on the ultrasound on her chalk board so pp could see how tiny the kiddo is right now. i said to beeps 'hey come look at your brother or sister!' she walked around and saw where i was pointing to. she let out an 'ohh!' then picked up and piece of chalk and proceeded to furiously scribble over the baby part until it was obliterated. she then set down the chalk and said in a very cheery singsong voice 'All done!' and walked away. pp and i just stood there with 'holy shit!' looks.

holy shit!

That is awesome.

LOL!!!

that's the awesomest thing i heard all week. beeps, you go girl! :-)

Yay, congratulations!!!! Am slightly envious, just ever so slightly!

Congrats to sunny, PP, and big sister Beeps! (November 1st is my sister's birthday and thus a fine time to be due.)

We might have been working on (ew) small Holland number two by now if I hadn't started a new job in January - going on maternity leave after anything less than a year in post seems just slightly cheeky.

Oh my god, YOU HAVE TO DELIVER ON 31st of October, then your baby will share his/her bday with Elisabeth. Woohoo. :-)

Congrats SS/PP!

Awesome, you guys!

Congratulations!

hooray!

it's gonna be tough coming up with a name as good as "beeps" tho

honks

loops

joeks (if it's a bruv)

name it lord farthing

Congratulations Sunny!

Aww, I missed this thread - congrats SS and PP!

Now, Beeps what have you got to say about it?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3089/3207343677_907f079fdd_o.jpg

haha thats about the attitude too. thanks guys!

okay this puking is getting out of control

redecorated work bathroom floor this morning

Congratulations! (About the baby, not the puking).

thanks!

I should read this board more (not that I have any intention of using it for anything other than vicarious thrills at other people's kids). Congratulations to the SS/PP household, the world definitely needs more kick-ass kids.

Thanks, Ailsa! This kid is already kicking my ass!

I am STILL knocked up and not happy about this, surely second babies are supposed to come a bit quicker?

wow. when is the due date. i was figuring sometime this week?

just imagine in a few days youll never have to be pregnant again!

Due date was Monday, so the little wotsit is already six days late...

wow! i always assume second babies are early. well, hang in there!

Had a sweep this morning, 1-2cm dilated, but nothing moving yet. Booked in for an induction on Thursday if nothing happens by then (boo).

Beeps was induced. People have said to me that she doesn't have a real birthday. Whatever. I'm pretty sure if you were born you have a birthday.

Were you overdue with Howie?

What a stupid, terrible thing to say!! I mean, I can be blindly natural-childbirth/LLL/dirty hippie etc-crazed but to say a child didn't "have a birthday" is just ridiculous point-scoring!

peeps can be lame. what can you do? maybe we can use it when shes 16 and wants a car 'oh you know we'd love to get you a car for your birthday but its probably time we told you you don't actually have a real birthday. sorry!'

SS, I am constantly amazed at the rudeness and mentalness of people!

Howie came 10 days late but I was in labour for two days so was already in labour by this time with him. The annoying thing is the hospital doesn't routinely induce until term+12 which would be Saturday, but they don't induce at the weekend and they're fully booked on Friday so I have to go in two days earlier.

Cant wait until Monday? We need Ally on this thread to tell the story of how her mom was a month overdue with her.

My preggo update: still v v sick but getting longer and longer periods of feeling ok (before the sick starts again) too.

Sunny, that's like classic Gilbert & Sullivan. I highly recommend that strategy for keeping Beeps under lock and key (and under the legal age for anything fun).

I think you only don't have a real birthday if you were born on February 29th.

Alice was induced too, but I've never ever heard that 'not a real birthday' thing. How bizarre.

Meg, good luck for tomorrow (if not before!!)

They won't leave it til next week because it's hospital policy to induce at term+12 and I would be +14 on Monday, plus the delivery suite is so busy that often you have to wait a day or two to get an induction slot, so that could take me into the middle of next week. TBH I am so fed up with being pregnant that I'm willing to be induced if that's what it takes! but would obviously rather go into labour naturally.

I had strong, regular contractions from 4am-6am this morning but they have tailed off since, here's hoping they get started again.

good luck!

It's your first? prepare to ride a crazy rollercoaster of emotions! (it's awesome)

yeah, first for both of us

psyched/scared but mainly really looking forward to hanging out with this lil dude who’s been kicking the shit out of my wife since week 16

Good luck! My top advice for new dads is to remember that for about the first 12 weeks that baby is basically not gonna understand or care who you are, and will only have eyes for mummy. Don’t be disheartened! Also, it is totally ok to feel like you’ve made a massive stupid mistake in the first few days. Persevere. It gets better. By the time they walk and laugh it is amazing.

thanks, that sounds like v sensible advice!

best wishes to the bg family, so exciting!

oh shi just read this HAVE IT

My top advice for new dads is to invest in sleep futures and in a few weeks or so when they need their nails trimmed for the first time, do not volunteer for that shit. Remember, at all times, that you don’t have a clue what you’re doing.

Biting the nails off is less stress than clippers tho

alternate take: let them nails grow so they can defend themselves against vicious and selfish babies at daycares

congrats and best wishes, you'll have so much fun

the cumulative pain I have suffered from my baby's nails honestly rivals childbirth. cut them, OFTEN

ok maybe not honestly, but those things are like teeny razors slashing and grabbing and holding tight

Oh god the fingernails

while waving my arms around wildly in my first few months on the planet my insufficiently trimmed fingernail scratched my dad's eyeball and he had to go to hospital. a lesson for you all.

my friend also has a scratched eyeball from her kid!

anticipation!!

The worst is when their fingers go up your nose.

Best wishes, bizarro!

no longer on the knocked up rollcall

our daughter is here and she’s pretty fkn cute tbh

also her fingernails are a) long and b) very sharp

a+

wooooooooooooooo

congrats!

Way to go bg

bizarro! congratulations :)

Great news. Have the kitties met her yet?

congratulations!!!

bg congratulations!!!

Yay!!!!! Congrats, BG!!!!

congratulations and welcome to babby gazzara!

congrats to you & the lady gazzara
welcome babby, RIP yr eyeballs

Top work

Congrats my man!

:D welcome baba gazzara

thanks everyone!

delivery was pretty intense but my wife was a champ. there were stitches and blood loss and so it might be a few days before they can come home - will be going to visit them in a couple of hours and hopefully we’ll have a clearer idea of the timeline soon.

i expect the kitty reaction might be equally intense - might be more nervous about that than anything else tbh

GOOD WORK GUYS

congrats!