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    • ButtonAndBoo
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    As some of you may know, a few weeks back we found out I was pregnent (unplanned), will be about 10 weeks now (going off how long I have been sick for, can't work it out the usual way as I don't get lady time of the months).

    At the start of this year we had a misscarrage and it litrally tor us both part, so when we found out I was pregnent again we where both a little concerned (doesn't help the fact I have epilesy with no trigger signs, and fighting 3 eating disorders), and OH said as awful as it may sound to some of you, he won't let it sink in until he holding our baby in his hands and he hears it crying.

    Well we are doing up our house, I'm starting off my own business, making christmas cards and pressie for the whole of our families like every year, making litrally everything for our wedding, making things for babies room soon too (as I like been prepared so won't be leaving it to last min).

    Anyhow the reason for this post is down to what happened today...

    I collasped twice and blacked out. Luckly, OH was there the second time and he caught me. Luckly I wasn't at the top of the stairs when it happened. Luckly when I blacked out and threw up OH had turned me on my side... but I won't always be that luckly.

    So after a very long chat, we decided I needed to drop a few things as it might help.

    So what to drop? Well my mam has now decided to pay someone to come do the house up for us, so thats one big chunk gone, but also a fair bit of my mam anddads money. Dropped making christmas pressies for the whole family and just sticking to the cards, but that means we are now going to have to scrip and save so we can afford to buy pressies for people (thats 31 people, not including gifts for each other). Can't really drop the buisness, or the soon to be baby things. So what does that leave us with the wedding... yes that would take a massive load off my plate as like I said I'm litrally making everything and I mean everything, you name it and most likely making it. But it's just so awful to think that if I do "drop" doing the wedding things it's gonna takr forever to have a wedding at all.

    And I don't want to sound selfish at all I know right now my health needs to come first, but I just wish there was another way...

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    • LauraY27
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    Your health and the baby does need to come first, and if hope you're okay !!

    However if you're getting married in 21 months, you'll have plenty of time once the baby is here and safe to sort everything for that out. And you can rope in family, bridesmaids etc to help you out.

    There's always ways to do things and remember everything happens for a reason. Good luck with bubs! Xx
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    • MrsH-2B
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    I agree with Laura that you'll have a good amount of time after baby is here and you're both healthy and safe to do everything for your wedding xxx

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    • ~Beauty&TheBeast2Be~
      CommentAuthor~Beauty&TheBeast2Be~
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    A baby and your health should ALWAYS come first, especially if you have reason to believe you may have a tough pregnancy, or it's a wonderful unexpected miracle of one.

    You've made an excellent decision, and i clap my hands to you.

    Just think, when you do get married, your developing little buba, will be there to join in with the day and make it even more magical, as a flower girl/page boy ect.

    As for the black out, get your blood pressure checked, and if your being sick to much get the injection for anti sickness. I kept getting told it was all normal bla bla, then i ended up in hospital for 5 days due to a serious infection. You know your body better than anyone, and you'll know whats right for baby.

    Your a brilliant Mother already!

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    • almost a year wife!!
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    Weddings can wait, yours and babies health can't and is too priority... Thinking of you x

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    • Elinor Claire
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    You definitely need to think of your health and your baby first. If after the baby is born you feel that you don't have time to get the wedding organised you can postpone.

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    • thefuture:Mrs_Hurren
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    Concentrate on yours and the baby's health for now.
    Once you have the little un safely you can then focus your thoughts elsewhere.
    Even if at the end of the day you have to put your wedding back I'm sure it will be more than worth it to keep both yourself and the baby safe.

    Wishing you all the best xx
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    • CatherineR
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    Honey, speaking from first hand experience of someone who's also been through a miscarriage, your first thoughts must go to your wee baby. I know how devastating it is to loose a child as I miscarried twin girls at the beginning of last year and it near on tore me apart so I do understand that.. Once your little one is safely born, wait a little while to settle into motherhood and then think about the wedding.. You will still have it but you're just prioritizing sensibly because I know you'd never forgive yourself if anything happened again and you were still pushing yourself to do everything so you've done the right thing even though it's upsetting... Best of luck sweetie and I hope you get your rainbow this time so sending you lots of sticky dust and if you need a chatter, add me on here, bookface etc please do! xxxxxxxx

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    • miss_finch
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    Sweetie you don't have to scrimp and save for christmas prezzies!!! We had a baby last year (our little surprise) which meant H2B had to uproot and leave Northampton to be with me and babba. We struggled last year with him just getting a new job, we had a new house (which was a mess when we got it) and a new baby. Our families understood that we couldn't afford christmas prezzies and were really understanding about it. We bought a prezzie for our niece as we felt being a child she shouldn't miss out and we bought prezzies for our son and each other but that's it. I am sure your family will understand, you don't need the extra stress.
    You and baby are the main priority, you will still have enough time to plan your wedding once baby is here even if you have to push it back a while, you won't regret it xx

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    • Whovianbride
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    First of all congratulation on your pregnancy, just concentrate on yourself, if the xmas thing is stressung, maybe say to everyone that its too much if a stretch this year, can we just do kids? Thats what we have done, else we would have 15 not including us! But just doing kids brings it down to 6

    You can easily come bsck to the wedding afterwards! X

    Good luck hun x

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    • FernP61
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    Yes try to relax all this stress will make things worse, are you on regular medication? they may put you as a high risk pregnancy i hope all goes well for you although you may be feeling a bit disheartened about cancelling the wedding the baby and planning for him/her will take up most of your time, you never know you may decide to keep the date after the baby arrives good luck xx
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    • Velcro
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    31 presents is a lot! Is there anyway you can cut that down? As has been mentioned above I'm sure people will more than understand - and if they don't, then they shouldn't be getting gifts in the first place. The only people I buy for are immediate family. Extended beyond that are cards only. Dunno what your budget is for each person but could you not just get everyone vouchers or just some smellies for any grown ups and selection boxes for kids. I hate Xmas shopping at the best of times when you don't know what to buy people.

    Instead of cancelling the wedding, just readdress it after baby is born. I wouldn't even concern yourself with thinking about it now, clearly the thought of it upsets you at this moment, so just forget about planning or cancelling it right now and worry about it when you need to.

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    • NaomiH25
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    if you cannot cut down on 31 presents, how about something handmade?

    I'm using my niece n making salt dough hand impressions, I'm then painting santa on it and threading a ribbon through so its a gift to them as a xmas decoration. i think its a cute idea since her hands are so small and sweet.

    i bought ingredients paints etc all cost under £10 and did it for 20 people!!!!

    something handmade may be the way forward????

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    • ButtonAndBoo
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    We usally do handmade gifts for people, but like I said this year to take pressure off me we aren't.

    And the 31 people are the immediate family, OH has a lot of brothers and sisters and they all have kids.

    Yesterday had me stressing out too, we told OH's dad, step mam, sister, brother and his brother's misses that we are pregnant and well they all seemed happy for us, however literally a min later, OH's brother's misses stood up got her coat on, their daughter ready, didn't say bye and they went. A little later we needed to pop into town, OH, myself and OH's dad popped to town, leaving his step mam and sister at home. Well at about 7:30 at night his sister went home, and we got told that when we went to town, she had said she wasn't happy that we where pregnant, as as soon as our baby arrives we would take all attention off her 3year old daughter and we just wouldn't care.

    ARGH! So what the hell does she want us to do? Never have kids!?

    And I know there is no point to confronting her about this as she will just deny everything as she alawys does. But now I can't stop thinking that for most of OH's family our unborn child is already not wanted...

    So now I've got even more added stress even after I've cut it down.

    x
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    • ~Beauty&TheBeast2Be~
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    Seriously.
    Selfish b*tch.

    There are thousands of kids in this world, all deserve the same love and affection as any other. Your child will be well loved as so will the cousin of your child. Hopefully they will form a wonderful bond. Even if your future SIL is unhappy. I can't believe what a complete idiot she really is. Someone needs to take her off her high horse, she should be congratulating you. I would purposely go out my way to p*ss her off LOL. Get everything she may not of, 3d Scan, Pregnancy Photo-shoot, Bump Cast ect Well and truly knock her nose off her face.

    MUHAHAHAHA.

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    • CatherineR
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    I totally agree.... Rub it in her face but in a tasteful way so she has no way of saying anything!! Congrats and enjoy xx

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    • Becky1608
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    I still think that you'd have time to sort everything out once your Little one is here. If not then could you just postpone for a couple of months?

    Taking care of yourself and baby definitely comes first. Plus as has already been mentioned, you will have a little pageboy/flower girl! Xxx

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    • MrsLJDeaton
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    Your health n babies health comes first just wait and see you may not need to postpone the wedding once your lil one arrives think how extra special your day will be with your mini me standing their with you or h2b A mega congratulations to you and your h2b on your pregnancy if you need to talk I'm here find me on Facebook or here I'm up for a good natter =D

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    • JoJ67
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    Im so sorry to hear what you are having to go through. Your health and baby musy come first. Wedding will wait for another time.

    Is your medication something you need to think about now you are expecting?

    My 3yr old has been diagnosed with generalised epilepsy this week. Cant even imagine how you are dealing with this as well as being pregnant. I can barely deal with that and the rest of my life at the moment.

    I hope you stay well and wish you all the best for your pregnancy xxx
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    • ButtonAndBoo
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    JoJ - I'm sorry to hear that your 3year old has been diagnosed with epilepsy, hopefuly your child will 'grow' out of it as that can happenen. Do you know what triggers their seziers? My medication was been increased (as it wasn't contolling my abstant seizers, and I don't have a trigger) so I could get it switched to a stronger medication when I found out I was pregnent so at the moment I'm on 300mg a day when by now I should have been on 600mg a day, to be switching over soon. However, soon as I found out I was carrying a child I was told not to increase it any more as I am already at a 10% risk of my child having 'problems' and part of me thinks that is 10% to much and I just don't want to take it anymore. I have an appointment on Thursday to see a consultant about having eplilesy and been pregnent. But I also found out recently that the type of eplipsy I have is genetic, but no one in my family has it, but I was told it gets triggered by a shocknof some sort, for example: I didn't have it up until I was 9 when I broke my arm I started getting absent spells but not full fits until I was 16 when I fell down the stairs and broke my back. Oh and theres something else to make my pregnecy harder, the further I am along the more my back will play up and by the end of it I could be on a wheelchair for a period of time before and after birth. I got given some leaflets to read about caring for my child afterwards, and it basically says that when I feed my child I should do it on the floor surround by cushions as a just in case, and I need a pram/pushchair with a dead lock on it, just in case I have a fit and I let go.
    But now I'm just seem to be living my life in fear of just in cases.

    MrsDeaton2B - Thank you very much indeed.

    LaurenC - Ha, I'm really quite tempted to do that now. I have already started a little box and slowly filling it with postcards of thoughts and photos for when the little button is all grown up.

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    • InDreamland
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    Firstly I think you have both made the right decision to put baby's and your health first

    Congratulations!
    As for BIL2B wife, well she needs to grow up and learn not to be such a childish selfish spoilt brat! What a female dog!


    How much do you normally spend on materials for your homemade presents? Could you maybe spend a little on tokens this year and also do joint presents for couples? I'm sure everyone who is kind and has any love for you and your h2b will totally understand and be supportive xxx

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    • ButtonAndBoo
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    Thank you InDreamland, but in saying that I can usally make everyones xmas pressies for about £10 and thats not each thats for all of them. I've been looking on the bay seeing wholesale items and we are considering buying somthing along those lines and doing little mix and matches and hopefully that won't cost too much.

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    • InDreamland
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    That's a good idea xxx

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    • Katya
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    firstly congratulations on your pregnancy, you are right to leave the planning until after the bubba is born.

    regarding inlaws not happy that your pregnant... ignore her! How dare she feel that way! you neice will always have a special place in your hearts!

    Regarding xmas presents... how about wine? (if the adults drink)... For £27 i bought a wine brewing kit & 6 wine bottles (bought seperately but total was £27) this will make 6 bottles, then it will be another £14 for ingredients & bottles for another six. works out to be £4.5 for the first 6 bottles then £2.3 for each bottle after that. I realise that this maybe more than you are used to paying.... but its still homemade (& tastes great).

    Another idea is homemade jams, you can get 35 small jam jars for £15.25. You can make jam easily, i found a recipe that states all you need is a certain amount of weight in fruit, combined with the same weight in sugar & a saucepan... bring it to the boil & keep it boiling for 20minutes then while thats doing its thing, put the jars into hot water to warm them up then transfer the mixture into the jars, place the lid on and leave to set. You can use frozen fruit from tesco at £1.50 for 300g, this would be cheaper than using non-frozen fruit. you could pick blackberries, (frozen is actually fresher than "fresh" fruit anyway as it was frozen quicker than the "fresh" stuff reached the shelves) for about £20 you could do everyone a little jam? I did this the other week and it turned out lovely!

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    • *The NewMrsMalin*
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    That really sucks Button; At the end of the day; your health does come first so how about still doing wedding stuff but limiting what you do? You have 21 months till your wedding so you will have plenty of time after the baby is born to do the main diy things (sure you can fit it around looking after the baby).

    Good luck :)

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    • sarah
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    Great point! Take care of your health first. There's time for everything else later.




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    • Whovianbride
      CommentAuthorWhovianbride
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    OMG sounds like your fsil is a total bitch face, how can she say that! its terrible, and Like i said how about just buying for the kids and not the adults that would take the stress off a bit!

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    • Velcro
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    Wow, how selfish can one person be?! That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard.

    Daft cow needs to grow up....!

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    • ButtonAndBoo
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    If we bought just for the kids, it would take it down to about 7. But I would feel a bit shocking on everyone else, this would also mean we wouldn't get gifts for anyone on my side of the family.

    We have has some good news today OH's dad and step mam are giving us a crib, moses basket, pram, play pen, bouncer seat, unisex clothes, high chair and a few other bits and bobs.

    But slightly stressing out due to Monday, telling his mother that we are, and trust me I would rather sell my soul to the devil.

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    • StaceyP91
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    Surely people don't give to recieve?
    We only do the kids for our family up until their 18 otherwise it just gets silly as you would be endlessly buying,

    Ah that's good of your OH dad and step mum are helping out with the baby stuff etc that's taken a load of your mind I bet!!

    Xxx

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    • CatherineR
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    How did it go today honey? xx

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    • ButtonAndBoo
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    Well we hadn't seen his mam since.... oooh June-ish when we got there well what a lovely welcome we got....

    OH usally just walks in as it is his mam's house and I'm sure most people do that right? Well she has never had a problem with it before, but today OMG! She started shouting get out get out! You should knock first! Then as she was pushing us out the door - OH doing his best to make sure I didn't trip and break my neck going down two steps, while closing the door in our faces she said if you can't be bothered to phone me before hand I'm not rescheulling (sorry can't spell that word) my day just for you.

    When we walked in she was watching TV.

    OH tried knocking... she ignored the door.
    OH tried phoneing... she hung up on him.

    So OH opened the letter box and said, Mam, we came to see you, wanted to let you know we're pregnent, but if thats how your treating me, your own son forget it my child won't know you exsit.

    She still ignored him.

    She has four sons and one daughter. She manged to cut off one of her sons when he was still a child, another a month before his wedding, the other she kicked out and called the police on him because he turned up to pick up his post, she basically dis-owned her daughter last year when she had her child taken off her and now this....

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    • Velcro
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    Jesus, she sounds like a right piece if work!!

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    what a nasty c*w and I thought my ex mil was a piece of work
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    • Katya
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    I think its amazing that most mil's are all the same, they seem to all have the same temperament, the same lame excuses, the same behaviour.... its ridiculous.... i hope i dont turn into my mil2b when my boys get married :-/ i couldnt live with myself! sorry you are yet another b2b suffering from mil2b syndrome!

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    • ButtonAndBoo
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    I hope the same thing if I ever have a son Katya.

    The worse part is, I don't think that was the worst thing she has done since we have been together. Also so glad to hear I'm not alone on the evil MIL's.


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