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 ???,

lol Chloe - I think that the thing with the blokes was that they were all nervous about it for the same reasons, and didn't really know what to expect, which I guess is why they do some of the exercises in boy/girl groups, so that they can all bond with each other and be put more at ease.

Bewitched, I know your doing slimming world, but couldn't you just stick it for the next few months, then as soon as baby is born, you can get straight back on it? just thinking it might be better for you both in the long run, both mentally and physically? Glad NCT class was good, sounds like you could get some good friends out of it!
Flame, I read that as took a pile of ironing, good job I double checked I mean I've heard of pregnancy cravings but that one would really take the biscuit!!
Ixel, phew!
Hi to all else, gotta dash n pick up ss from school x

Bewitched...great news on the classes. We start ours on Monday so I hope we have as good an experience as you guys did!!
Hmm, you know what I am like about the GTT stuff and I had very dark wee for a couple of days this week and wondered if that might be the onset...turns out I couldn't have been drinking enough. Anyway, my midwife told me that even the healthiest woman get glucose in the wee if they have just eaten lunch or had a sweet breakfast. It isn't exactly an indication of diabetes and thats why they wait until they see 2 positive samples before acting. When is your GTT Bewitched??

I am meant to have mine on the 18th November.

Hoping it was just a one off with your glucose. 3 months of veg sounds great to me, then I'm on this cravy healthy cravings thing

Swimming was great - DD now just bobs round the pool in her little armbands, and has even now got the courage to slide in off the side by herself... then things got silly... she decided that she didn't like armbands, or need them, so took them off and refused to put them back on!!! We discovered what not wearing armbands did, and even with water in her eyes and up her nose, she didn't want me to hold her, or to put the armbands on - she liked the drowning All I can say is - she'd better learn to swim pretty quick!!!

crazy... not cravy

Well at least she's not scared of the water and I guess it will MAKE her learn quick if she refuses to be supported

PMSL at your DD flame...don't mean in the drowning sense...just that she is madam enough to defy the armbands and drown in the process....she must offer you hours of entertainment! How old is she??

She's 2 1/2... she's only just woken up again. I forced myself to cuddle her about 1 1/2 hrs ago, and have been asleep since

aww bless her flame! hope my dd gets into that! she often has a paddy when we go to our aquatots lesson, round about the point where I'm supposed to let her go, so she can float on her own....we're down to one hand being held at the mo, but that's not a patch on the rest of the kids in the lesson....sure she'll get into it, in her own time tho

DD was like that for a while. She still shrieks when we first get to the pool (possibly because I don't take her very often ) - One day I just peeled my hand away from her to see if she would stop shrieking once she registered that she could float... and she did. Since then it takes less and less time for her to get her courage, and she gets more and more courage as the session goes on.

One thing that might help you though - she doesn't like the swimming pool closest to us. It is much more echoey, and she gets very distressed in there - once we changed pools she was much happier.

All is fine here today - dreamt that my bump was made of chocolate, and I ate it Woken up really wanting chocolate now!!!

Thanks for the tip flame, I shall check that out actually!
Chocolate bump, that'd get rid of the excess pregnancy weight quickly wouldn't it

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Something's gone nuts with my computer, and it won't give me the pop up to log in - I've fiddled with all pop up blockers I can find, but can't seem to fix it!!

I've spent all day cleaning. I'm aching all over, but Spark is wriggling away, so I know its just me I've damaged!!

Where are you all hiding???

DH felt Spark move last night

My house is gleaming (apart from the lounge, that's being done while I'm at shops in a minute).

I've realised that we gave away most of our teeny clothes to a friend when she had a baby, and told her to pass them on again as we didn't have storage Oh well, it means I get to go neutral shopping! Sorted out my nappy cupboard yesterday (use cloth) - this baby has got piles of nappies from about 6 months, but nothing for before... hoping my dad turns into the nappy fairy again and wants to buy us some diddy ones.

Hi Flame - I'm here! Just briefly though as going out to lunch with in laws and family friends today.

Have you managed to get your comp sorted okay now? Sounds like you had a very industrious day yesterday. After all the tidying I did before DH's party, I thankfully seem to be managing to keep the place tidy without having to do tonnes of housework. Even been emptying and sorting the wardrobe that we need to get rid of out of the nursery this weekend.

I'm hoping to use cloth nappies too. Was reading some of the threads on here about them yesterday. Have asked if we can have a session on them at our NCT classes, as I find it all a bit confusing still at the moment! Apparently one of the teachers from another local branch is an expert on them, so we're going to have her come down and bring some to show us and talk about. Hopefully that will help the scales to fall from my eyes!! And I think that totsbots are at the babyshow next weekend too, so must make sure that I visit them.

Right, really must go and get showered and dressed.

Morning, DH felt Tictac last night too...he was v.excited!

Can I ask, for what reasons would you use cloth napies? Are they better for your baby or is it an Ecological decision?

The only reason I ask is because I know this can be a v. controversial topic and we have opted for huggies/ pampers rather then cloth as Ecologically it has recently been proved that actually they each hold the same ecological cost. There isn't a right or wrong and I really don't want to spark off any emotions just curiosity that's all!

For me, it was the gel used in disposables. I know that people tell me its in lots of things, and its harmless, but I felt that I had no idea what was in it (I still don't really), and it would always leave little crystals on DD's bum (it doesn't seem to do that to many children as much as it does with DD), so I felt that I would rather switch to cloth as then I knew what I was washing them in etc, and what was up against her girly bits.

DH then realised that it was saving us a fortune too, and decided it wasn't such a mad idea after all . They really don't take much extra work (an extra 2 or 3 washloads a week, and when you have a baby who attracts dirt like mine does, that really isn't noticeable!!!).

You do tend to get addicted too . It starts off as just a nappy, and then you spot different makes, and different patterns, and it spirals .

I only tried a couple of types last time, so I'm looking forward to experimenting a bit this time

I love the way cloth vs disposables can cause as much squabbling as breast v bottle!! I've always been an each to his own type person, so all you get from me is obsessive nappy love, rather than trying to convert you

Hi all, great Flame and Tictac's dh's can feel the babes moving
Bewitched congrats on getting your wardrobe sorted out, we need to do the whole room for dd to move into (sob) have agreed for dh to do it in Nov after dd's birthday, so that its done before Xmas at the latest.....(har, har)
Personally we shall be using pampers (again) as I have enough washing to do with the current 4 of us, without adding to this with our latest addition, I feel the extra load of babysuits covered in sick, will be quite enough as it is!

Thanks flame. I had never heard of the crystal deposits before so I will now keep an eye out for it! I am an each to their own person too! I am always open to suggestion and therefore geniunely interested in other peoples reasons...the crystal deposits is deffo food for thought

Hi All. For me the thinking about using cloth nappies is a combination of the crystals, plus not wanting soiled nappies lying around for a week, plus a bit about cost. I'm one of those people who'd rather pay out a big lump sum to buy the cloth nappies initially, but then not have to hand over tonnes of money every week to the supermarkets for something that will be in the bin by the end of the week. Also planning more than just 1 child in all, so total cost should be cheaper with cloth.

Also a bit about the ecology thing, as no matter how many studies are done, they can't yet come up with a true ecological cost of disposables, as the first disposable ever disposed of hasn't yet broken down!

Finally, a bit of me wonders if it actually makes it harder to potty train if they are in disposables that keep them bone dry instantly, as they won't get used to the idea that weeing themselves makes them wet! Don't know whether cloth nappies will make them appreciate that any better, but I guess I'll find out .

Don't feel mega strongly about it though, so agree that it's an each to their own area. Expect I'll still use disposables occasionally, particularly when out and about, and poss during first few weeks.

Oh, plus they can look quite cute

Cuteness was actually a factor here in the first place too

DD has been trying to potty train since about 20 months (I put her off for quite a while though) - I think that I have actually hindered the process by using pull ups - I would have been better off with her either in cloth pull ups, or straight into knickers when she wanted to.

Have to say that dd ended up wearing double nappies to start with anyway due to her hip, so looked cute in those! but disposables were lots easier for us, once she was in the harness.....and now its another girl again, so odds are on, for another dodgy hip....another year of anguish again no doubt!

Yay! DH felt Chip move this evening .

Frizbe - don't bank on DD2 having dodgy hip just because DD1 did. We have friends whose DD1 had to have cast and stuff due to dodgy hip after she was born, but their DD2 was fine.

Yay for more movements being felt!!

Frizbe, I know absolutely nothing about dodgy hips, just wanted to let you know that I'll be thinking all the non-dodgy hips thought I can

I found DD's off button!!! Turns out that if you take her swimming on Friday, send her out with Gran on Saturday for dog walks and shopping, and then take her to a soft play place for a birthday party on Sunday that she FINALLY gets worn out... poor thing got back from the party yesterday, curled up on the sofa and fell asleep at 4.45pm... we got her into pjs, and took her to bed at 8pm... she came into my bed and fell asleep again at about 3am... and then didn't wake properly til 7.15!!!!!! 14 1/2 hours straight!!!

Unfortunately I'm still broken from all the activities over the weekend, and could use a 14 1/2 hour stint myself