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[ConfessionsOfAnAchingFanjo]

Ha! I made it to the next thread.

oh, god! yes, i dread going to france - i'll end up starving!
still, pizza's good

well done for Bump getting you in quickly!

Katee a vegetarian acquaintance once told me how, on holiday in France during which she was heavily pregnant, she asked for some cheese she could eat at the end of a meal and was solemnly presented with a Dairylea triangle on a plate

PMSL at the Dairylea!

I am trying to nest here. That was going to be putting all the nappy inserts through the wash 3 or 4 times so they become more absorbent. Only for the washing machine to pack in. My mum said 'Oh, yeah, it's been on the blink for a while' She then suggests it's OK, we can get it fixed when I am on maternity leave....in 3.5 weeks....double Can I point out this is a relatively young Gran-to-be (well, 57!) who has a high powered full-time job. How does she get through life?! Any way. I am now waiting in on Friday...can't say I am hugely put out by 'WFH'

My biggest dilemma of the day is an intense craving for that the baby would like chocolate brownies. This would involve getting dressed, which I have so far avoided today!

Paris sounds divine! Especially the preferential PG treatment!

tell her to sort it out now!
what will she do if the baby comes early?
all that washing and she's not sorted out a washing machine?
maybe you could make her do all the baby's laundry by hand

so true about dairylea! Being veggie and pg in France is special...half the time they won't give you salad because of the dreaded toxoplasmosis Glad you had fun katee.

I'm jealous of Paris too. I want Paris back :( we don't get to go until December. Hopefully we'll be getting M baptised there then.

TTL sounds great. We did much the same but stayed in bed. Then the hordes of annoying well-meaning visitors descended.

vallinna at leaving washing machine over 3 weeks! Though excellent excuse to work from home I did my bumgenious prewashes at the weekend and sorted out the clothes I have received from people already. Realised I have about a 100 sleepsuits aged 0-3 months. How many newborn items do you all recommend purchasing? (admits to still being bemused by all the different vest types)

Dh and I are having a final 'babymoon' this weekend. Will be really nice to have some time with just the two of us. Have to admit there has been a serious lack of jsing. Despite best efforts to keep it going it normally results in fits of giggles these days. The bump is too wriggly

ttl really good to hear everything is going so well. The odd crazy trip to the gp is def normal.

I am now wondering where I could get some chocolate brownies...yum!

Oh, one more question. How long are you all planning on letting little ones sleep in there Moses basket. I was thinking, depending on breastfeeding and how big the baby is, around 4-5 months. Been told this is completely unrealistic by sil and baby should be in it's own room by 8 weeks?

Excuse my spelling and grammar as usual

M didn't have a Moses basket but he's 10 weeks and nearly out of his pram carrycot which is a similar size.

The recommendation is to keep them in your room for 6 months.

Oh dear, I'm going to need to buy a cot and work out a way for it to fit in our room.

LOL and a big at the washing machine outrage! She has lived by herself for too long - I tend to put ours on everyday as it is for smelly gym stuff (DH or mine!) - OK only a half wash but still. Never fear, the repair man is coming on Friday

B2B I think the guidelines are that LOs should sleep in with you for 6 months - meant to help prevent SIDS. I know lots of people who turfed them out sooner as apparently babies are incredibly noisy! We have a crib, moses basket and cot-bed . TBH the cot-bed will remain unmade until we move as there is no room for it until we have the nursery. The crib fits much better by our bed - am hoping he will be in it the 6 months he is with us. On the ground floor we will keep the pram carry cot and then the basement will have the moses basket. Think I mentioned before that while we are at my Mum's we needed a baby-putting-down option on every floor!

Although at Frak's comment....was hoping it lasted a little longer!

We managed to keep DS in a moses basket sized crib and then pop up travel crib until he was about 6 months. He was huge in them though and really should have been in the cot at 4 months, but globe trotting meant that wasn't an option at that time. Not going anywhere this time (even if we could afford to) so DD will be in the cot when she out grows the moses basket.

TTL Alba and I are doing fine. She's (for now at least) the most chilled out baby I've ever met. Which is just as well because DH is not doing well and went into the Mental Health Unit in hospital today. Never ever thought I'd be better off home alone with a new born and very active preschooler.

We are moving a couple of months after the baby is born, so was going to wait to buy the cot. I thought Moses baskets and prams lasted much longer (naive emoticon).

coaf sorry to hear about your dh. Hopefully getting the right help will have him home in no time.

Oh COAAF - not what either of you need right now but hopefully he can get the support he needs.

Not much we can do in the virtual world but if there is anything just shout.

:( coaaf - thinking of you.

vallinna I have a giant baby. DH is 6ft6 and I'm not short either! DS is happily tracking the 99th centime.

val DS was in his moses basket for rather longer than he should have been till about 5 months I think. He spent a lot of that time sleeping in our bed/in the sling/on me so I didn't notice how cramped it was in there...when we put him in the cot he stretched out like a cat and went to sleep with limbs splayed out in luxury. I felt well bad The cot was in our room anyway so he didn't go into his own room till at least 7mo.

coaaf that sucks :( Hopefully he's accessing some good help and support now that he's in there though?

Feeling very tired, and a bit anxious - baby is being very quiet this morning. She has moved a little bit but not much, when usually she has a good wriggle around 5-6am. I think my bump has dropped, and I know she probably hasn't got much room in there as there has been less 'big' movements and more wriggly/stretchy type of of things going on this week, but still...sigh. Wake up baby!

Frak I now have a great image of your family towering over everyone else on some tropical island

Baby Pod should be a long 'un, if not a big 'un as DH is a 6'3" bean pole and I am 5'9" (less bean pole-esque though :))

Star our bubs seem to wake up around the same time and mine too has been very quite this morning. Something in the air?! My movements are all large and swishy now, IYSWIM. Some boots in the ribs but mainly I think his bum gentle goes from one side to the other alot. Not much room in there any more! LOL at your DS, if you think how cramped he was immediately before (and during) birth, the moses basket was probably palatial!

Sorry DH is poorly coaaf. Hope everything improves quickly for him

:( coaaf Hope he recovers quickly. That's the problem with mental health - it's so unpredictable.

fingers crossed ours will be a short one - i'm tall for a girl at 5'8", but DH is short for a bloke at 5'9"
so hopefully that will mean a short(er) baby....
But I can't hope for a tiny one, because although DH is skinny and I (was) thin, we were both bloody huge chubby fat babies! (as is right)

coaaf I'm really sorry to hear your DH is struggling so much at the moment. Are you getting any extra help or support while he's not there? Is there anyone you can ask? I second what vallinna says - anything any of us can do in any way, just say the word. On the other hand I'm really glad Alba is so laid back and that you are enjoying motherhood second-time-around :)

How are Barnaby and Meredith doing bb?

star and vallinna I'm not sure if this is actually real or not but Isobel used to be quiet most days and start wriggling in earnest at about 11pm and into the early hours. Now she's out she sleeps all day - everyone who has met her thinks she is the most contented baby they've ever seen - but comes alive at around 11pm until yep, you guessed it, the early hours! I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but be warned! Had a lovely night last night though - she woke up lots for feeds and nappy changes (she fed on and off from 8.30-1am, then again at 3am, then again a 4.30, then again at 6), but was easily soothed by cuddles and milk :)

Milk is in. Breasts are like bowling balls with red raw stumps in the middle of them . Going to bfing clinic today - things are going pretty well but if there any tips on stopping the pain on immediate latch-on I'll be pleased. All I can say to those of you who haven't popped yet is buy a hundred tubes of Lanolin. It's expensive, but without it I think my nipples would have fallen off by now :)

baby2b current guidelines say that the baby should sleep in your room until 6 months (whether or not you actually do that is obviously a different story) :) We only have room for a moses basket but may use a pop-up crib after that. Tbh everyone tells me that they have managed with moses baskets for 4-5 months anyway, and Isobel is a little baby and the moses basket is really quite big - we were given it and it is bigger than the ones you standardly get in the shops nowadays unless you hunt around. So I reckon it will be fine. I'm sure you can figure it out too.

Glad you had a nice trip katee. I love Paris :)

In other joyful news (news I haven't been able to share with anybody, even DH), I managed to go to the loo for the first time since the baby this morning (the worst way), and nothing (perineal or otherwise) appears to have been destroyed in the process !

nickel any boys of yours will be bigger than you, therefore possibly bigger than your DH. Sone weirdy maternal genetic thing means boys are taller than their mothers unless there's a problem. And I still need to get my butt down to the PO to send you clothes. You'll have had the baby at this rate.

LOL ttl for your toileting achievment

Barnaby and Meredith are doing well. Although I think life is going to get harder soon. At the moment all they do is sleep! They wake or are woken to feed, I change them, then they go back to sleep . Maybe it's a prem thing. They take turns it seems to be unhappy between about 11pm and 1am though when they just want to cuddle. Lovely, but would rather they cuddled at 8pm and we all slept at that time of night

We've bucked the guidelines and put both babies into their own room. However they are sharing a cot. I believe the logic behind the sharing your room advice is that your breathing helps regulate the baby's and it prevents them sleeping too deeply. My logic is that the other baby performs this function.

Cursing HD sound on the baby monitor though I want to hear them, but not sure I really want to hear every movement and snuffle. Scarey!