Due Feb 06 - Our coats won't do up!

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Here it is then ladies - our shiny new thread, named without reference to jumpers, sweaters or cardis!!

Stats to begin - hope they're all up to date!

Teuch, Due 28th Jan, Baby # 1, Age 27, Lives West Lothian (Inner Hebridean Island from Jan), Surprise flavour, mm/c previously
Hotmama1, Due 1st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 38 (DP40), Lives Nottingham, Girl flavour,
3K, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 28, Lives Gravesend, Kent, Boy flavour, IVF conception
Tabs, Due 2nd Feb, Baby # 1, Age 32 (DH40), Lives N Herts, Couldn't see flavour, mm/c Oct 04
Kando, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 3, Age 32 (DH35), Lives Holland, Girl flavour, DVT last time. Heparin injections.
Lulu68, Due 3rd Feb, Baby # 4, Age 37 (DH40), Lives ???, ?? flavour,
Yeahbut, Due 4th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Holland, Girl flavour, IUGR in previous pregnancies
Mimi5, Due 6th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 37, Lives ???, Boy flavour, mm/c previously
Popadopolis, Due 8th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26 (DH30), Lives Bedford, Girl flavour, hyperemesis early on - tablets to control
JuA, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Both Girl flavour, 1 m/c prior to DD. Expecting twins!!
SmallHouseDragon, Due 9th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 39 (DH 37), Lives Devon, ?? flavour, induction then emerg c-sec with dd
Womba1, Due 10th Feb, Baby # 3, Age 30, Lives Eastbourne, Girl flavour, Baby 1 stillborn
TicTac, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 29 (DH 42), Lives Horwich, Lancs, Girl flavour,
Ixel , Due 11th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 31 (DH 42), Lives North London, Hospital won't tell flavour,
Spacecadet, Due 11th Feb, Baby # 5, Age 33 (DH 37), Lives Cambs, Girl flavour, m/c in March, underactive thyroid, dvt after delivery of last dd
Popmum, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32 (DH 40), Lives Broxbourne, Herts/Essex border, Secret flavour,
RachelRog, Due 12th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 33, Lives Chesterfield, Derbyshire, Surprise flavour, mm/c in March
Chloe55, Due 13th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 24 (DH 27), Lives West Yorkshire, Boy flavour, 2 previous m/cs
Jasnem, Due 18th Feb, Baby # 3, Age , Lives , Surprise flavour, 5 and 6 yo girls already
MrsDoolittle, Due 21st Feb, Baby # 2, Age 32, Lives Oxford, but soon to be Newbury, Boy flavour,
Morgan, Due 22nd Feb, Baby # 2, Age 37, Lives Hitchin, Dubai from Jan, Surprise flavour, Ectopic Jan 05. Heparin injections
Flamesparrow, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 24, Lives Bournemouth, Surprise flavour, Waterbirth for no 1. Hoping for homebirth.
mum22soon, Due 24th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 26, Lives Eltham, South London, ?? flavour,
Frizbe, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 2, Age 30 (DH40), Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Girl flavour,
Thell, Due 28th Feb, Baby # 1, Age 26, Lives London, Girl flavour,
angedemarche (Jangus), Due 1st March (c-sec 14th Feb), Baby # 2, Age 27, Lives NI, ?? flavour,
poppyh, Due 3rd March (c-sec earlier), Baby # 3, Age ??, Lives South East London, Girl flavour,
Scotsbird, Due ???, Baby # 2, Age ???, Lives ???, ?? flavour,

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Hi All,

Womba - Wow on your date in Jan, I can imagine how nervous and excited you are.

Chloe - hope your boss is being a bit nicer today. mine is in a good mood for once so making life easier.

I have doctors again tonight to check blood pressure but had 2 near fainting episodes since Saturday so think it has gone high again. Will probably be back on the tablets come 6pm.

As for being organised, we have bought basically everything now and the cot is on order to be delivered in January. We are still working on the nursery though and have to finish the wardrobes, get shelves etc up and move bits in. I have started washing all the clothes etc and blankets and putting them in baskets ready to move them in. Hospital bag is packed with the exception of knickers as I need to buy some more. My bag is a large sports bag type thingy, I have just about managed to get all of my labour stuff and baby bits in there but not my clothes for going home in. Think I might have to unpack and re-pack using another bag but I look like I'm going away for a week!!

3k, congrats on being organised, hope docs goes ok tonight
Hi Kando, glad your doing ok over there!
FS and Jasnem, I know what you mean, shame I missed that thread! he's off again today....and on bloody wow again!! all morning, hello???? you have a nursery to empty and paint, grrrrrrrrr, have a good mind to get admitted to hospital for a few days with something and leave him looking after dd evil
Hotmama, shame about the snow......
Womba lol at your dreams!

Well nothing going on much here, work is on a go slow today, seem to have caught up with all I have to do so far have written out all Xmas cards! which tells you how much work I have to do today....(self employeed tho girls so can take liberties when I wish to) which is why I'm keeping tabs on dh's lack of motivation to do bloody nursery, Men!

hi all, I'm back after lugging a great big dolls pram in a box home from the bus stop. I really should know better than to buy big things, but I didn't want to leave it 'til the weekend and then have it sold out. I need a rest this afternoon, but luckily Tuesday is the day when both my girls do a club after school, so I'm free 'til 4.

Any one who's worried about looking like you've moving in with your suit cases, you could always do 2 bags. Leave the "baby " bag in the car 'til you need it, and just go in with your "labour"bag. It also saves having to empty out all the nappies and baby clothes when you need knickers or a toothbrush for you. I think I did that for DD1 (it was a long time ago), and for DD2, I took nothing, as I was only going in to be checked before coming back home to deliver.

Hello all.
Have got my physio appoint for possible SPD next Tuesday and until then have to keep legs together and avoid walking much!!!
Am having to stay at my mums this week as major building work is being done to my flat, she keeps telling me how in her pregnancy she didnt have any aches and pains and was never sick, and i keep reminding her it was 36years ago and she's undoubtly forgotten so let me have a little moan in peace!! Families can be trying when one is pregnant.........

Afternoon everyone!

I had 2 bags last time - labour bag and bag for the ward - this was left in the car until after delivery - also took a nursing pillow with me but this was carried separately. I took a weekend bag for the ward and a sports bag for the labout suite - and I still got dp to bring stuff in .

I like the idea of a due in Feb postnatal thread - so we can all stay together whenever ds/dd's are born (and share our woes!)

I took 2 bags in last time - one with baby stuff and one with my stuff. Also dh had to bring more stuff in and he also took stuff home - mostly washing!! but then I was in for a week which I am hoping I won't be this time!!

Jua - snap - I was in for a week as well - and sent dp home to do washing and get more nighties/maternity pads etc. (My mum brought me in the extra supplies of chocolate - that I needed to get my iron count back up )

hotmama, JuA - me too, my check up resulted ina6 day stay for DD2, and I had stuff brought in every day too.

Hello, I'm back from the Isle of Wight! Wasn't too cold actually, but ds was a bit fed up of so much driving. But he did see santa... again... and dinosaurs

Re hospital bags... I took a pumpbag size for labour (which didn't get opened!) and then a bigger holdall for after, largely because I took tons of nappies as didn't have a clue! Agree that people can always bring you stuff in you need, so you dont look weighed down at first, although as I'm not sure how much dh will be able to visit this time, I'll prob take loads of baby stuff again to be on the safe side. And you have to take your own formula at this hospital, which I shall do just incase the breastfeeding all goes horribly wrong again! I like to be really well planned.

Am starting to think its time to begin stocking up on nappies soon, and testing the monitor and sterilizer etc, incase they've managed to break whilst being up the loft. I'd love to get the crib in situ, but that needs to be a last minute thing, so ds doesn't see it as a climbing frame. My Mum got me a great rocker chair from an NCT sale, as we sold the one we had in the interests of saving space before we moved house. Ds has already tested it out!

Reading through the bits I've missed over the last few days, I feel so lucky not to be at work now. Sometimes its tiring with ds, but at least anything that goes wrong is my own fault 99% of the time. I'd hate to still have to answer to a boss now. God help me when this one is in nursery and I need to find a job again!

I have a small gerbil trying to burrow out from behind my eyes.

Ok, it may just be a headache....

Bright side - soooo much happier today. Think yesterday was just a glitch . I got a pile of housey bits done this morning because my clean and tidy friend was coming, and I always get flustered - it still looks a bloody mess to her eyes, but it is tidy to me .

DD is looking very pale, which could be why she was up at weird times last night... she's not eating properly, and hasn't been for a couple of weeks - think I'll dose her up on vitamins and try and jump start her. Not that the lack of food is affecting her - still got way too much energy for any human being, and not exactly looking like she's wasting away!!!

I seem to recall leaving the hospital bag in the car too, and just taking my little labour one in. Handy hint - PUT THE CAMERA IN THE LABOUR BAG!!! Don't leave it on the side ready to take with you... you will forget (Obviously not talking from experience or anything... I never forget anything me - none of you go talknig to my friend to verify that though... she had to pay for my shopping today because I forgot my purse!!!).

I should get power over the PC for a few days come Friday - Xbox 360 comes out, DH's much anticipated new toy... he has even booked the day off work to play, and then he has friends coming round in the evening to play too! It sounds soooo sad, but if you saw the way his eyes light up to talk about it, it is sooo sweet I don't have the heart to be mean .

Not a lot pregnancy to report (why am I the only one who rambles on about her life on here ? You can all tell me to shut up if you want, I won't be offended... unless you all think I'm slightly insane, and do the online version of patting me on the head while I rock in a corner muttering....). Hurty braxton hicks are back, but I have done lots today, so expected... I will force myself to eat lots of chocolate tonight to make up for it.

Flame - funny that, I thought I was the only one giving her entire liife story in daily installments!
Glad you're feeling better, even with the headache.

Ixel - you could always follow my example and wait til they are both at school, then have another one!

I don't miss work at all, except the social life. I was very bored at home when DD2 started school this Sep, but I'm filling my days up nicely now and am starting to wonder how I'm going to fit in all the baby stuff I'll be doing soon. When I read about the problems some of you are having, I'm really glad to be not working. Of course the money would be useful though... I have just discovered that I'm probably eligable for a maternity grant, so I'll be checking that with the midwife tomorrow.

Flame - glad you are feeling better and hope dd is not sickening for anything.
dd got up from her nap and decided to throw up - once on the sofa and then when I had got her changed and put the sofa cover onto wash, all over the carpet! So she has managed to create 3 loads of washing in about 1 hour! Poor baby. and to top it all I had someone coming round to measure up for windows and I was still cleaning up when he arrived! She is flopped on the sofa watching cbeebies now - I think we will be having an early night.

The last of my Christmas presents (apart from dh's) arrived this afternoon - so that will require more wrapping - but at least I will have them all to give out when dd has her birthday party! and they won't be cluttering up my bedroom.

Tic Tac - I might be up for coffee evenings - especially now work is just about finished - let me know when and where! and also did you have some info about nappies from Lancashire County Councl - I am sure I read a leaflet by them at my last antenatal appt but I don't remember it mentioning free nappies! but I am not going to turn freebies down.

Oooh, poorly baby My sofa is a nightmare when we have sick child... the covers don't come off, so it involves me washing it in the bath!!!

My DD had dozed off on the sofa, but DH has just walked her to the shop to wake her up, and get milk for her bottle.

Christmas is bought round here, but not wrapped (not sure I even have paper!!!).

wow well done to those of you who have finished Xmas shopping, I'm still at it.....
JuA sorry about poorly baby, hope she's better soon....
FS hope yours is ok too?
Catch you all tomorrow ladies.

Aww jua poor DD. Hope she gets better soon. Mind you with kiddies aren't they normally sick for a day and then bright as a button once the sick stuff has come?? I will email a friend one of the girls to ask about the nappies...saw her last night but I totally fogot to ask!
I will let you know when the next coffee evening is. Well it is tomorrow actually butI can't make it so will let you know the next one!

I've started a thread for a sling recommendation - anybody used one and/or got any recommendations? Want it to carry dd2 around and to feed her - and to be able to run around after dd1 if needed - so any advice gratefully received.

Morning ladies. Up earlier than usual today as I couldn't sleep anymore! At least I've managed to get the kitchen tidy (ish!) before the day starts properly, and perhaps I'll even be ready to start work by 10 instead of it creeping to 10:15. Hope so, as I'm skiving off to meet up with Morgan and Popadopolis for lunch today. Must try and remember to pop into the shop that's supposed to be getting my car seat whilst I'm in town - thought I'd have heard from them to say it was in by now, so wondering if they've lost my name/number!

Hope everyone else is bright and breezy this chilly morning!

I still have the gerbil trying to break free through my eyes DD seems better today, she was in with us all night though!!!

Man has just knocked on my door and informed me that he is fixing my front garden today - would have been nice for the letting agents to tell us!!! Am I meant to stay home while they do it??? None of it is inside the house...

Jua - How's your little one doing today?

Morning All,

It's sooooo cold this morning, I have my little heater on under my desk at work. Nasty boss is out all day and I have no work so I've brought my Christmas cards in to write - may as well do something useful. I think I am going to leave here at Christmas now, was going to come back for a few days in Jan but for 3 days it's going to be a nightmare coming back after 10 days holiday so I dont really see the point.

Went to doctors last night, blood pressure still creeping up so back on the pills, they do help though as I dont feel as faint on them. I have to stay on them for the rest of my pregnancy now and have my BP checked regularly.

Washed a load of newborn babygrows yesterday, I have got zillions!! Friends have been really generous. Do you iron them??? And vests??? They are not too creased but was wondering what to iron and what not to - the creases probably come out when they go on dont they?

Sorry for those with poorly children, hope they are better today.

pmsl @ ironing babygrows!!

You're insane . Just chuck em on!!!

Morning girls,

Been awake since 5.30am, knackered now though but just couldn't get back to sleep as my back was giving me grief, off to physio this aft though so hope that starts improving things.

Hope all the poorly kiddies are feeling better today.

Can you believe it is December tomorrow? How close are we now!!!!!!

Chloe - wash your mouth out with soap and water! We are not close. We have ages to become organised and prepared for the arrivals of our little ones.

Yup, LOADS of time! Still being messed about with nappies, and just found out that my "test run" one, won't be in til Janurary now!!! That is a tad too close to baby for my liking

Glad you said that Flame as I kept looking at them and thinking "hmmmm, do I really have to iron them????" Will spend tonight folding only!!! hehehehe

December tomorrow means we can say that baby is due any time from Mid Jan which will be "NEXT MONTH" ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH

Told you Tabs - listen to 3K