"The best laid plans of mice and men ...and expectant parents …" ;)

I think you have just confronted the FIRST coin tossing dilemma of real life parenthood. :) This is actually an easy one as only your condition, actions and reactions with the world are involved. ;) And this one is going to be resolved very soon, regardless. :) Not to worry though. You only have another quarter century of these things ahead of you now. :D
There are two good points to all this. First, you will become proportionally better adapt as the situations become more complex and by the time they leave to deal with these things in their own life, you will have learned you don't have any more absolute answers with guaranties than you have now, but you'll be more comfortable dealing with them and that they DO work out and become the milestones that our lives are built on. :)

The other point is that I hope you were able to divert your thoughts for just a few seconds, reading this. ;)



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Awww, I missed this post this AM cause I was watching the Macy's Parade.

((((((((((Lou))))))))))))))))

Hope you did'nt have to wait to long for Fussy to get home. Hope your getting some sleep. Hope everything comes out with the tests.

/me huggles Lou

Let us know...

News?

Well, apparently my liver function test was a bit dodgy. Everything else was fine yesterday BP and sample were normal, and baby is absolutely fine.

I'm going back to the hospital in the morning to get results of the blood tests they did yesterday and if my liver function is worse, they may well keep me in and induce me, or they may decide to monitor it on a daily basis, which will mean lots of trips to and from the hospital until baby makes his appearance.

So weirdly enough, I'm hoping that tomorrow's results are either poor enough for them to induce me, or good enough that they don't have to monitor me daily.

They also did an internal exam and attempted to 'stretch and sweep' my cervix. All I can say is 'OUCH' and, she didn't even buy me a drink first!

Loulabelle,

Glad to learn that all is (mostly) well. :)

Hang in there Lou.

Lou & Fussy

Glad to hear baby is fine, although Mum sounds pissed off ;)

I hope everything comes good for you all this weekend, as much as I'm hoping Wales will beat the All Blacks, so that's a lot of hoping!!

We're pulling for you, Lou! Please, just take care of yourself so you and Fussy will have that wonderful holiday gift home and healthy soon. :thumbs:

We'll keep the prayers going at our end. :wish:

Thanks everyone....having slept on it, I really do feel it would be best if I get kept in today - otherwise the combination of waiting for baby, worrying about my liver, and having to go back and forther to hospital everyday is really going to get me down.

Oh and Glyndwr - Go Cymru - let's hope Wales' luck against the Kiwis is better than England's has been against their neighbours!

((((Lou)))) ~~ hope the visits to the hospital end soon...In the best way possible!

Wishes, hopes and sincere prayers are definately being sent out for you.

(((((Lou & Fus)))))

There are good wishes and prayers coming your way from Tennessee darlin'...hang in there!

I've been getting texts to keep up on the Pucker news. Lou, sorry you are feeling stressed. It's not unusual for some of these things to happen but I know they are scary. Good thing your bp is doing better. Being induced can also be very hard on a body and baby so maybe things will happen in their own time. By the way, as worried as you are now, times that by 5 when they are out on their own moving about the world. Try to rest and watch mindless television or a few good comedies. (((((Lou))))

The best of luck and loads of love to you all! I went 10 days overdue with first kiddo and 3 days overdue with 2nd kiddo so I understand the "Hurry up and wait" of it all.

No one has picked the 28th of November, so I say Baby will be born between 12am and 5am GMT*

*I hope that I am wrong and baby is being born as I type this, or a healthy, strong boy has been born and a set of happy relieved parents are relaxing and marvelling over their miracle baby Pucker!

ok couldn;t be arsed to switch to my nic!
Proud daddy here :D

Lou had the little fella at 2:11 GMT he weighs 7lbs 1oz and both mummy and baby are doing fine..............daddy is doing ok too :D:D:D

more info to follow I'm home getting food for myself before I go back to the hospital

did I mention that I'm a daddy??!?!?! :D:D

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Hello Baby Pucker, welcome to Pixies.

Hope mommy and daddy get some rest before you get home.

Congrats to the proud parents.

That would be 12:39 GMT and make Tess the winner. :nod:




<---*wonders if Tess is going to send her panties to him for safekeeping until baby pucker is ready for them? :wish: *

Congrats to the whole Pucker family... get some rest!

Kiss him for Auntie Lil and tell Lou I'm proud of her. Fussy now it's legit, grats Big Daddy:D

CONGRATULATIONS....BABY, DAD AND MOTHER PUCKER!!! :D

blame PS it's HIS fault! :roflmao:

AWSOME !!!! Congrats Lou & Fussy

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:wine:

Congrats to Fussy, Lou, and Loula-baby! :nana:

Congratulations to Lou & Fussy...and welcome to the world, Baby Pucker!

That's awesome news! Congrats to the new mommy and daddy!

Congrats FussyPuckers!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awsome!!!!!!!

And did you decide on a name?

:huh: I hate to be difficult, but wouldn't that be 12:39 am GMT on November 27?

Great news Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

You are EXACTLY right Maddy. :o

I made both, a mental calculation error as well as adding a number of assumptions.

One nice thing is that FussyPucker is AT Greenwich Mean Time (or Coordinated Universal Time), so we can take his announcement as the time and date posted, regardless of guess date locations for any contending entries. His post was at 13:24 EST for me,and should have been 18:24 for him. I was assuming that he did not use the two-times-a-day clock, and that 02:11 was the birth time.

Unless GMT or UTC was mentioned, I took the guess date to be the poster's local time. I think Georgia's longitude puts it 5 hours later than GMT, so TinglingTess's 7:39PM WOULD be 01:39 UTC the next day, just as you said.

That would make hers guess later than the event by 23 hours and 28 minutes. Aqua was 11 hours and 32 minutes later with his 26th at 13:43, so I guess he gets Lilith's panties. :(


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*FIX!!!!!!* :ranting:

Congrats to you both.

Fussy, were you there for the amazing gray to pink trick they do?

Many congratulations and warm wishes to the proud parents. :loveshowe

Awwwwwwwwwwww...Congratulations to the Pucker's all!

*hugs n hugs n hugs*

Congratulations!!! :loveshowe :loveshowe :loveshowe

Congrats! We're very happy for you and send happy thoughts your way.

Oh wow.

Congrats to you both.