Due Feb 06 - what flavour baby??

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Well ladies - I certainly want to know Amanda's result, so figured I'd kick off a new thread straight away. Hope you like the title - seemed appropriate as several of us are hoping to find out over the next few weeks.

Quick stats update as it's always useful to have at the beginning:

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH39), Lives N Herts, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, IUGR in previous pregnancies
BarefootMama, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Marite, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 30, Lives ???,
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, 2 previous m/cs
Kyliefan, Due 20th Feb, Baby # ???, Age ???, Lives ???,
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives In Dubai from Jan, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 23rd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
Amanda1, Due 23rd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 34, Lives Leeds, Recently single. Breast cancer treatment last year. Heparin injections.
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire,
RosiePosie, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Isle of Wight,
angedemarche, Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???,

well my scan was all good. Did find out the sex, but gonna keep it to myself for now - sorry girls! Don't yet know if we are going to be telling anyone in real life so would seem a bit weird telling you guys!

Baby baths, Tabs - we had one and for the sake of how much they cost i think it is worth it for the first few weeks. If you get a moses basket or carry cot stand it can go in that whilst you bath baby, or in bath when he/she is a bit bigger. Or do as my friend does and just get in bath with baby and hold them (though am not sure how you get out with baby.....!). I'd say just get a cheap one. Ours ended up chilling beers at a party once so they have other uses!

My friend showed me a little inflatable baby bath she's got - tis great - light and easy to use/fill

Ooh you little tease Popmum! I wish I had your patience though. I planned to not tell anyone and then burst it out within 5 mins of leaving the hospital!!

like this

Tabs - We are getting a baby bath (will use on moses basket stand) but if you are not keen then there is always the kitchen sink! Loads of room for a new born!

So have people been shopping for baby stuff now then?

Nope, not a thing here.

Oooh, I tell a lie - buying a sling off a mate on Thursday.

My mum and MIL have been spend spend spend! I have told them not to until I was 20 weeks so God knows how much they will go overboard now!! It's mums first grandchild though so she is gettting a bit carried away. I like that inflatable baby bath.

Wow - not seen an inflatable bath before! I guess the only disadvantage to this would be having to use it on the floor, as a moses stand wouldn't work with it.

Has anyone got/knows anyone who's got the bucket style baths, like this , and if so, what do you/they think?

Popmum - like the idea of putting beer in the bath afterwards! Roughly what age do these baths last up to? I know the inflatable and the bucket ones say about 6 months, and the tall one with the changer says a year (though I thought it looked a bit small for a 1 year old) but what about the standard plastic ones?

Popmum - you know you want to tell us really - go on, go on, go on, go on, go on (said a la Mrs Doyle) .

I've not actually bought anything yet - saving it for the babyshow next month, but trying to pick stuff so that I know what I want and can look for bargain prices, rather than being blinded with unresearched choice!

Same friend (with inflatable) has the bucket one, she seemed to like it... not too sure about it myself.

I used one of the plastic shaped bath thingies in a normal bath (like this , but not good if your bath is deep

Tabs - B&Q sell orange buckets for 97p! Not keen on the idea of plopping baby in a bucket....although very funny!!

Tabs, I have an associate (!) who has a tummy tub, reckons its great! have to say they do look a bit odd to me tho.....sure I've said this before but we had a bath and cause I couldn't bath dd, it was no use what so ever!! good job we'd borrowed it! when dd was able to be bathed, very briefly and quickly from 3mths onwards, we did her on a baby shaped sponge in the normal bath.
Lol at the toothpaste boobs you could make some money out of that!
Oh & Congrats on the boy Chloe!

Oh also congrats on the scan too Hotmama!

We had a baby bath for dd - we used it for about 3 months I think - we used it on the floor in the bathroom. It was a pain to fill up. I think you can get them that sit on top of the bath and so you don't have to lift a full baby bath or use jugs of water. After that we just used the normal bath and put an inch of water in the bottom and laid her down so she could kick - she loved it. I don't know what we will do this time - probably just dunk them in the bath whilst dd is in there!!

Just worked out finances and maternity pay.....gulp.

I think I am going to start mat leave on the 8th Jan but actually leave the office on the 16th Dec on annual leave! That way I get paid until 12th June....just 1 month before my redundancy!!

Frizbe - why couldn't you bath DD?

JuA - the ones that fit over the bath unfortunately won't work for us, as they are designed for 'standard' baths, which ours certainly aren't!

Part of me likes the idea of the tummy tub because baby is immersed in water up to shoulders, which is how I like my baths (hence Japanese soaking tub)!

TicTac - 97p eh? Sounds like a bargain! Maybe you should consider it if finances will be tight during ML .

forgot to tell you all that i found out the flavour on friday.

The only reason I didn't ask was because you said that your hospital wouldn't tell you! So what was it?????

the sonographer told me, she asked me if i wanted to know, i was surprised too!

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so did you want to know then??

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Always thought I was a fairly good judge of character, but obviously not, as I hadn't put spacecadet down as a cruel, sadistic woman!

TELL US NOW OR ELSE!!!