Hi Girls - not been around for a short while just SOOOOOO busy at work!! Gross. Isnt it great to hear what everyone else is doing, what everone else is feeding their babies, etc? There is no right or wrong. Alice is 9 and half months and still has two eight oz bottles per day. One they give to her a...

Know what you mean Debra. This is the Christmas that we have dreamed of for years .... this is what it finally feels like to be parents at christmas - we are so amazed and so grateful and thankful. Alice at 9 months is well aware that something special is happening - she has clapped her little pudgy...

Hi Sally - know what you mean about checking for those teeth!! Alice just will not let you look, you have to catch a glimpse when she laughs - which fortunately is all the time!! She has little white dots along her bottom gum - I'll be glad when her teeth are through but there's nothing so cute as t...

DEE................ yyyiipppppeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What brilliant news for you and what a lovely thing to hear. It really does show that miracles happen. Absolutely thrilled for you - and however bad you feel, I'm sure it's a joy to be pregnant after so long trying. Well done - so happy!!! My hubby...

Shell says it for us all - wishing all the girls a merry christmas and hope its a special time for all of us, wherever we're at. Big Hi to you Traci .... been a long time since i've seen your posts, but that's probably cos i've been absent for some time. Hope you're OK - still lighting those candles...

Great - so 10am then. Gonna set my little phone alarm so I don't get swept along in the excitement and let the clock go past that 10 !!

Lots of love to everyone. Jo Lockerxx

Hi Shell .... we're very well thankyou although Alice has a cough poor darling. Oh Gosh the sound on grinding teeth ...... it just goes right through you doesnt it? Of course the more you try to stop him doing it the more he'll just LOVE doing it !!!! Alice hasn't got any teeth to grind just yet tha...

.... I know we can't really get together, and this might sound a bit mushy but it comes from the heart. I think it would be nice if we chose a time on Christmas day just to each have a minutes thought or prayer for and about each other, our babies, and especially those not so fortunate. Those of us ...

To echo many many congratulations - Amelia is a lovely name. We have all been through so much to get pg in the first place and then the birth !! It's such a life-changing thing! Our little girl is now 8 months and we just do not know where the time has gone from that tiny little helpless thing to su...

Hi girls .... just to add my comments too. Alice wriggles and wriggles and is always contorted into positions I've only previously seen playing Twister!! I think they're all the same. Once she got her leg stuck through the cot railings when she's sort of kicked the bumper to one side - she soon let ...

Hi Shell - well I'm at work now actually, but you still have to check for messages now and then y'know!! We've got a big staff meeting today and we're having food brought in which smells gorgeous!!! So excited for you about your holiday - Adrian and I will probably go somewhere on our own next year ...

Shell, how wonderful for you and don't you worry a bit about Alex ..... babies seem to have their own little time frames going on and don't appear to view a couple of days any different to a couple of hours! I'm sure in fact that it will do you good to have the rest, the holiday, and the time with L...

Caz ....... are you the Caz that cycled with me last year??? It you are, and indeed even if you're not, then I'm over the moon to see your brilliant news and will be watching the board for your "birth-day".

Congratulations ...... lots and lots of love. Jo L. XXXXXX

Lorraine just to add a few words to the others - the excitement must be unbearable and it really takes me back!! Alice was induced so it was very much an "arranged" thing rather than the mad dash to the hospital I was expecting!! Treasure every moment (of course you will). At least c-section births ...

Hi Sally - how lovely to hear from you - its fantastic to be able to communicate with people who have "special" babes around the same age. You would imagine on a site like this that it would all stop once you'd been successful with IVF etc but we will need the support from each other just as much as...