Shagged out viroids - JS Grads 2

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Our old thread ran out of space! The horror!

LOL COAAF - got DH an Everton baby grow (for the bub you understand...!) and despite my at the chav nature of it you cannot help but melt over the teeny tiny clothes!

Boobs/nips now beyond itchy...may have to sit in the disabled loo for half an hour sans bra....

I only got two and they were a tenner for the two, and if they don't fit I'll just sell them vallinna, planning on using disposables until the meconium disappears! I suspect they will be straight into the one size ones after that anyway, but I did wonder about maybe using the reusable ones at night for the first week or two, just to get into practice? Knowing my luck I'll have a gigantic baby!

no JSing for me either, must start a thread on how to JS without aggravating spd... hmmmmm

hmm, one of DH's postie friends keeps going on "if it's a boy, we'll get it a chelsea kit"

1. why if it's a boy???? can girls not like football? and
2. no child of mine will wear a Chelsea kit - it's Notts County or NOTHING!

Said like a true Notts girl

No child of mine will wear any kind of footie kit (unless they are in a team of course), RUGBY... now that's something different entirely!

Mine will no doubt have his dads favourite football teams kit. I second the rugby top. We might not have a great team, but I do love the Scotland rugby kit :)

Someone bought DS some Canterbury booties when he was born. They promptly went to the red cross shop. It was Waikato or Otago or nothing I'm afraid. I don't care that we lived in Canterbury and the guy said he bought them for all the new babies in town, I never ave and never will support Canterbury!!! (you listening Dad?).

To be fair my sister did buy a couple of (seccond hand) All Black onsies for Currant Bun, so we're all set for test matches . And DS did have a Scotland Rugby top when he was Tiny. It was soo cute (sadly not sure I still have it)

so I'm a rugby loving Kiwi.....

(and I call football soccer!!! )

DP was trying for a while to get me to agree to give birth in Wales so that if it was a boy he could play for the welsh rugby team! I told him where to go!

see, it's such an emotive subject, you can't afford to put your opinions on others!
this is how hooliganism started

Get us having footie and rugger chat, even if it is still based on clothing

(and directly related to babies )

Katee that is an amazing result, 20 Motherease for free. I have gone a bit mental buying nappies of late, since I promised DH that I'd only get one-parters this time so he doesn't get confused. I now have 3 new Rumparooz (recommended by an acquaintance on another board), 5 new and used Itti Tuttos with three extra booster sets, an Easyfit and a Teenyfit that a friend sent me, 4 small Itti Snap-Ins (2nd hand) and an Ebay cheapie pocket Am still, however, very tempted to pick up some cheap two-parters for the early days as I understand they contain poonamis much better than all in ones.

Also have a bag of two parters left over from DS's cloth days that I'm going to keep just in case unsure what to do with Why are these things so addictive?

ttl I tip my hat to your JSing activity. None of that here, DH is too overworked and I feel too much like an incubator to be feeling teh sex.

Also no sporting affiliations, thank goodness. Not sure how a pair of nerdy bookworms like us have managed to produce such a sporty child...I have already decreed that he will be encouraged in whatever physical pursuits he wishes to follow, EXCEPT RUGBY.

I know what you mean about addictive... a week ago I was clueless, by the end of next week I will be in possession of 28 nappies... what happened?!

LOL nickel I am not allowed to buy anything red (Liverpool connotations...!)

Good idea re: selling if they are no good Katee I hadn't appreciated the huge resale market before! And I totally agree...bub can be as sporty as he likes but rugby and crickets. This chavvy football lark is not to be tolerated

confessions I'm sure we've had this convo before but I grew up in Thanet, so not far from Canterbury :)

DH and I support Norwich City now though (DH started supporting them when he was 10 and they were good but I've been with him since we were 16 and it's rubbed off). But their baby stuff is vile - they don't tone down the yellow and green at all, and it all says stuff like 'Number One Canary Fan' on it .... bleurrrrgggh.

Everyone thinks DH and I are going to have brainiac children, based largely on all the books we have. I think they are going to rebel and become hooligans or strippers

the thing that pisses me off, is when teams have the same strip for babies, but in pink

it makes no sense at all - chelsea does this too - their strip is blue, of course, but how does that make it a boy's only colour?
Their ladies' team plays in blue, not pink, so why should they do baby kits in pink???

You don't like pink much, do you? except as a colour for boys of course

it's not that I don't like pink, it's that i don't like its connotations.
that it's for pretty, fluffy, ballerina girls and can't possibly be a proper colour in its own right.
It's a sad indication of how polarized gender stereotypes.
:(

Only pale pink is for fluffywuffy ballerina girls. I always liked dark, bright pink. I remember some woman in a shop trying to talk me out of it when I was about 9 or 10 because it would be to old on me. Pah! It didn't work either still secretly sad I wasn't allowed to take ballet. Next do quite a lot of pink for boys (very metro sexual!).

TTL Canterbury is a province in NZ (named after the English place). My Dad think because I lived there for a couple of years I should follow the rugby team. Silly man!! I've never been anywhere near the English Canterbury sadly.

Some young kids have just been pulled over outside our house and are being given pat downs etc. DH and I are in no way having a good ol'nosey from the upstairs window

I don't mind pale pink.
i've got quite a few pale pink teeshirts.

COAAF if you ever get the chance to visit the English Canterbury, do - it's a lovely little place :) DH and I had a weekend break there not long ago and came home trying to work out how we could move there

I'm glad I'm not the only one who seems to acquire nappies alarmingly easily. Another BG newborn arrived today (from www.usednappies.co.uk) - only £2.99 inc postage so cheaper than the "free" ones from bounty! I now have various Tots Bots 2 parters and wraps which I bought for small monies in dribs and drabs when I was first looking into reusables, but then I got the BG bug and bought the full set of flips. They're pretty but I do like the newborn nappies - have 3 BG newborns and an Itti Bitti in small with a lush red and white polkadot print. If I'm honest I'd still like some BG v4's but think DH would go spare!

Neither of us are fussed by a particular sport or team, so no mini football kits for Squiglet. I do get annoyed by the "braniac" type comments I get (DH and I both went to Cambridge) - especially the ones which suggest that it won't matter that Squig will be super-young in the school year. I'll love him/her whatever his abilities, and know all about children who are bright but really not emotionally ready to be treated as "older" just because they appear more able at certain academic subjects .

On the whole pink/blue thing, has anyone else come across the story about the couple in Canada who are trying to raise a "genderless" child? It's taking the no stereotypes thing just a bit too far I feel:
MN thread here
Sky News Article

LOL Nickel Everton have a pink baby strip too....WORSE than blue believe it or not

Esk I'm with you on the assumptions as to what our child will be. One of DH's parents' (rather cockney) friends said to me that clearly our child wouldn't be a footballer but would be an actor or a lawyer () because I am posh .

That genderless child story seems like it is just attention seeking on behalf of the parents I think. TBH everyone has the right to raise their children as they see fit. I would hope no one judges me because I fancy being more traditional, have bought most things in blue for our boy, because I really want him to go to university etc. Likewise I hope my judgey pants don't get too large!

Nice one on the JSing front ttl

PMSL for the pineapple chat!

I've just started washing the baby clothes/blankets. I have to say I'm rather at having to wash new things. Also, it's made me sort out what I've actually been buying. (Note to self: It's time to STOP woman!!) There is way too much if these babies grow as quickly as people say they do. I'm sure I've got enough white sleepsuits/baby gros for them to be fecking disposable!!

I take my hat off to all of you reusable nappy guys. Sorry, it's pampers all of the way for me

I watched a documentary a few years ago about a parent who tried to raise her two kids (b/g) genderless. At the first oppurtunity the boy picked random items up (sticks etc) and turned them into guns. I can't remember about the girl, but I think there was a similar example. It was hardly scientific though... I'm happy for girls to have pink in some forms etc, but I do have to wonder when it became sooooo A-L-L encompassing

Can anyone shed any light on why I'm waddling?! It's pissing me off!! I can fit my legs together nicely, way off being engaged. But I still waddle. Why I ask you?! Thanks