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frakyouveryverymuch · 18/04/2011 11:47

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Baby2b · 26/05/2011 20:14

I have been waddling for a while despite being able to fit legs together easily too. I think it is just the general pressure down there. Sometimes I don't realise how bad I am until dh gets the giggles at me :)

brassica i am a bit of a closet Eco freak and more importantly trying to save some money. I don't know anyone in rl who uses reusables though.

BrassicaBabe · 26/05/2011 21:36

I've just written a complaint to mamas and papas about their delivery charges. I've placed 3 orders recently and the delivery charges have come to nearly £50! Everyone else (JL, Boots, Mothercare, Debenhams, Kiddicare etc) are all FREE! Humph!

vallinnapod · 26/05/2011 21:46

I waddle in one of the pairs of flip flops I own. All other pairs (I have several) and shoes I walk fine!

Shock at M&P charges! No judgey pants at the nappies - disposable/renewable whatever works best for you! Esp with double the amount required!

LOL B2B I hav been looking at wraps and stuff for night time heavy wetters, despite not even having a baby and knowing if this will be a problem Blush

5 squares of my blanket done...not sure how many I will need...25 prob. ARGH!

Eskarina · 27/05/2011 07:31

I don't think I'm waddling yet. Will have to watch out for it. Bump feels huge, though people keep telling me how small and neat it is (apart from the person who randomly accused me of being huge a couple of weeks ago), and mw says it's bang on where it should be. I feel like it precedes me wherever I go, and I'm just following it around.

Keep going with the blanket Vallinna. I'm supposed to be making a jumper for DH but really want to make baby things instead Blush.

ConfessionsOfAnAchingFanjo · 27/05/2011 08:29

You're waddling because your whole centre of gravity has been thrown off by by the bump (and the human spine is very badly designed for childbirth, due to us being bi-pedal). I started early with the waddle to cope with the spd, now I waddle and limp and go very very slow.

KateeHasABunInHerOven · 27/05/2011 08:37

Another waddler here - I was laughed at at Easter for doing it (and that's with quite a small bump back then!). I think its to do with my hips going a bit wonky, gawd knows what I'll be like in another 15 or so weeks....

Bump size is weird isn't it? Mine feels massive to me some days and other days I see non-pg women with bigger bellies and then feel like its titchy. All relative I suppose! No idea if mine is bang on as I won't be seeing a mw until I'm 25 weeks (first week of July) which is aaaaages away.

Well done with your squares vallinna!

takethatlady · 27/05/2011 09:37

Aaaaargh that Canterbury. Quite far from Margate Grin. star I've spent my life trying to get away from the deepest reaches of Kent ... but there's a high-speed rail link to London St Pancras now, cutting the ambling 2-hour train journey to an hour, so get in quick!

bb I've given up trying to work out reusable nappies and have decided to buy new clothes for myself instead Blush. And I wasn't actually going to wash the baby clothes Blush. And last night at antenatal I managed to say that if I could have any 'snack' at all it would be a vodka and coke, and said one of my fears about breastfeeding was I wouldn't be able to express so I could have a drink. The lady read out info about bfing which said 'if you have vomited or passed out from drinking don't bf the baby until the next morning' and said therefore I didn't need to be able to express - and then I said, 'well, if you knew you were going to have more than one or two you would need to express to cover your recovery time'. She looked Shock and said 'but only if you pass out or vomit' and I said, 'well, just in case'. Luckily I think she thought I was joking Grin

I am a very very bad mother.

I also have a stinking cold and am feeling grumpy. If you want to set me on Mamas and Papas for you, bb, I'm in just the mood for a fight Grin

I have waddly and non-waddly days, no idea why :)

nickelbabe · 27/05/2011 11:29

I've got a friend who uses reusable nappies. her husband sat once and told us about how easy it was, so it must be! Shock

I loved that article about the genderless child.
wish I could do something like that.

ConfessionsOfAnAchingFanjo · 27/05/2011 11:56

There is no way I could manage a 'genderless' approach to my baby. If I have a little girl I'll be the first onbe out buying her cute little dresses etc BlushGrin and I'm just not old fashioned enough to dress my boy as a girl until he's five!

nickelbabe · 27/05/2011 11:58

I'm actually dreading a boy, because the plan is to do the room in space wallpaper (because it's just ace)
my obsessions as a child (and now Grin ) were space and dinosaurs, so of course I want to foist that onto my child.

If it's a boy, it'll look like I've just gone down the "boys like this" route, rather than just thinking they're cool subjects.

aStarInStrangeways · 27/05/2011 12:39

I suspect you're overthinking this, nickel Wink

BrassicaBabe · 27/05/2011 12:47

Shouted at Bump:
PLEASE STOP KICKING ME IN THE RIBS. I CANNOT CONCENTRATE OR SIT DOWN COMFORTABLY!

Ratty, not slept well Angry

nickelbabe · 27/05/2011 12:48

I am.
Grin

i can't help it.
I can't stand it when I see girls and boys having been pigeonholed.
It's like, my sister had this thing about the fact that because her children were boys, that they had to have blue and boys' things
so, no dolls, no dolls' house, no "girls' toys", nothing.
blue clothes, like football/ice hockey/judo etc, books hadto be about trucks and cars etc, nothing that might indicate that a girl might also like them.
drove me nutty!
and made no sense, either, because she wasn't brought up like that.

nickelbabe · 27/05/2011 12:49

:( BB
Brew and Biscuit
and [footrub]

vallinnapod · 27/05/2011 13:08

TTL we are possibly one and the same person...Grin the only reason I would express is to booze...!

BB - I had to have a quite word with the bub after the guy next to me in a meeting raised his eyebrows at the extreme movement coming from my bump during a meeting!

I am feeling very Blush and Sad as just fallen up the stairs at work. Bump fine as instictly put one hand out and one forearm (as carrying meeting papers and laptop). However they are concrete, firewell stairs and I have taken the skin from my for arm, it kills to type and I had to go for a little weep. Shock more than pain :(

nickelbabe · 27/05/2011 13:10

ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow.
hope it feels better quickyl.

rub some ibuprofen gel in, or germolene.
and make sure you put something cold on it now - even if just a wet cloth, because it will swell massively and hurt more if you don't.

KateeHasABunInHerOven · 27/05/2011 13:12

Germoline might be better than ibuprofen, not sure if that's safe to take when pg (apparently ok 2nd trimester but not 1st or 3rd - orally anyway Hmm)

Ouch!

KateeHasABunInHerOven · 27/05/2011 13:13

That was a Hmm as to why ibuprofen should be safe in only one window... not aimed at you Nickel!

vallinnapod · 27/05/2011 13:20

thanks ladies - guzzled some arnica and have wet paper towels around it Smile

KateeHasABunInHerOven · 27/05/2011 13:25

Can't say I am looking forward to being booted in the ribs, but will be interested to see movements rather than just see them Smile plus will make for interesting conversation in meetings, I'm sure!

nickelbabe · 27/05/2011 13:31
Grin i didn't, don't worry. I wasn't sure if ibuprofen was allowable - I'm a germolene person, anyway, so I worry when I recommend it it looks like "oh, you and your bloody germolene again " Grin
takethatlady · 27/05/2011 13:31

nickel I just wrote you an essay on Judith Butler's Gender Trouble - a pig of a read but basically says all sex, gender and sexuality are 'performative' rather than natural (i.e. we create them through daily little performances like wearing pink if we're girls) and that there is no 'original', 'natural' or precultural state of being a 'man' or being a 'woman'. She does advocate wearing drag (a whole different story) but I'm pretty sure she'd say about the genderless parenting that it's pointless because it assumes that there's a 'real' or 'natural' identity that we all possess before culture and stereotypes get in the way and that we can somehow avoid, when in fact all our identities are imitative and performed no matter what we do. So wearing pink or wearing blue, going to space or doing the dishes, 'girl' or 'boy' - they're all equally made up as each other. The upshot is: remember that whatever you do it's made up and imitative, and that therefore your dinosaur-loving boy and your high-heels-wearing girl are no worse or better off than if they swapped their interests :)

Hope that makes sense. I agree with you about the pigeonholing and the stereotypes being all-encompassing and I'm keen to avoid them too, - but all I'm doing is lots of pink for my LO but no aversion to blue either, and all toys - tractors, trucks, and dolls - all fine. The other essay was longer! (How's that for overthinking it Grin Wink?)

takethatlady · 27/05/2011 13:35

Oh katee I was reading about ibuprofen this morning as I have a horrible cold and sinusey headache ... I think it's miscarriage in the first trimester and high blood pressure in the baby in the third, or something ... the links aren't well-established so on a doctor's advice I think you can take it ... or something like that

nickelbabe · 27/05/2011 13:48

thanks ttl Grin

aStarInStrangeways · 27/05/2011 14:00

Oh don't get me wrong nickel, I think it is a massive load of bollocks as well and have been cringing recently on a cloth nappy forum when people say things like 'I love that [whatever] brand nappy but is the colour too girly to put on my boy?' As if it matters fgs, they're utility items for catching shit and piss.

I just meant that worrying what other people might assume about your choice of decor or whatever is totally pointless. YOU know why you're doing or not doing something with respect to your child, who gives a shit what anyone else might choose to infer?

My DS has had pink sleeping bags, a pink buggy, pink nappies, all sorts. He doesn't care (in fact he loved his pink buggy). A female friend once came over, saw it in the hall and said 'you did have a boy, right?', all agog. I gave her this face Hmm

When my DD is here I really hope we can avoid the worst of the unicorn vomit avalanche from well-meaning friends and family, but we'll see what happens. She will certainly have access to whatever type of toy she wants to play with, same as DS. I also look forward to dressing her in most of his cast-offs [cheap]

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