The 'We are brooking no arguments whatsoever for an uneventful pregnancy and pain-free birth' thread

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Ladies, our previous thread was getting full so here is a lovely new shiny home for us all.

I've put some comfy cushions around and plenty of pregnancy safe snacks and drinks. The Segway park is in the corner over there next to the stack of glittery vom buckets (plenty of extra buckets too for all the newbies).

In the corner over here you'll find our library of leaflets including sections on early pregnancy private scan clinics, pushchairs and car seats.

Hope you all like it very much :)

With dd I used a moses basket and blankets until she was two months old when I started using the cot and a sleeping bag.

For months now dd naps with no cover and sleeps at night with a bag. Cannot remember about naps when she was little. I imagine no cover as it was a warm summer and she tended to nod off anywhere and everywhere - I didnt start using cot for naps until about 7 months iirc.

It all just kind of...happens I think!!

What, no scan updates yet? Good luck everyone!

Ah Baby sleeping bags are fab Love.

DS was 8lb 3 when he was born so from very young was big enough to go in a bag. but we only tended to use the sleeping bag at night and used just a blanket in the day for naps (and at night too before we started the grobag thing). I have to confess I though sleeping bags were a 'fad' type thing so we never had any, then read up on them and I realised I was wrong. They were ace and we used them up until DS was about 15-18 months (when he started to get too long for the bigger size ones).

Blanket wise the mws said we should swaddle him when he was very small, but we were never very good at it / he didn't much like it so we tried that for a bit and then just used to tuck him in with the blanket 'normally' (foot to foot of course). But DS was in a sleeping bag at night before the midwife stopped coming I think and that was when he was about 3 weeks old i remember this because i used to hide the sleeping bag and leave a swaddling blanket out in case she came upstairs as she was anti sleeping bags and pro swaddling

Still impatiently waiting for scan news - come on ladies

How you doing Too - thinking of you lots xx

Just popping in to say good luck with scans

Exits thread, but only for a bit, natch

Come on jaggy, surely you're scanned now! We're dying of impatience here!!! And meconium and Scream, I can't get on with anything for the waiting....

DD was 7lb 5.5 at birth and was in a sleeping bag by 2 weeks. Still using them now, they're great. I did go back to swaddling, but she was a very early thumb/finger sucker, and was sucking her fingers to comfort herself by 6 or 7 weeks, so gave up on swaddling altogether, as leaving her arms out for finger access meant she got herself unswaddled!!!

Far we're keeping your cushion plumped for you and you are welcome to visit it as many times as is necessary to remind AF that you belong here :) xx

Seconded on the not getting anything done for waiting for scan news Dream. I think Scream and Jaggy and Meconium should have to club together for a cleaner for me to catch up on what I've not done today?

ah thanks biscuits

Having an unbelievably crappy week at work and therefore haven't been able to keep up with this thread at all! Please forgive me for not reading any of the posts over the last couple of days before posting this, will hopefully catch up properly later.

I just popped on (in a moment of madness because I have two partners breathing down my neck at the mo waiting for stuff from me) because I'm absolutely DYING of nerves at the moment and really wanted to see if Jaggy or Meconium had any good news yet which might give me some courage!

I'm soooooooooooooooo scared my fibroids will have grown and they'll be all set to cause huge problems later on. Or maybe the baby hasn't grown/isn't even there anymore! What if my results from last week's blood tests are bad?! I'm also scared they'll push my date back and make me do week 11 AGAIN!! (This has been the worst week!) As you can tell I'm a million miles from rational at the moment, I've been working about 14 hours a day with minimal sleep/food/drink and my ability to control my fears with logic has completely vanished. ARRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Oh scream how rubbish. You have reminded me of some work situations I was in when pg with dd. I have been thinking much harder looking after her but you may have reminded me of the dark times!

Deep breath, do what you can and don't let anyone bully you into doing anything you know could make you ill/too tired etc. Make sure you eat, drink and sleep please!! Your new mantra is 'Maternity leave, maternity leave, maternity leave, stuff you!'.

It's all so different when (if) you go back post maternity that noone will remember any of this bit any where.

Positive thinking and brooking on the fibroids. And pork pies and milkshakes to keep you nourished.

any where = any way.

I have serious baby brain at the moment.

Scream take a few deep breathes.

It sounds like you've been having a horrid week at work, but there's no reason to suggest that will follow on with anything other than a fabulous wriggly little bean at your scan. Now, what time is your scan and what time do you get to get away from work?

It WILL be awesome - we're all here and much as you may have been otherwise engaged with work, we've all been brooking like mad for you. So i repeat - take a few deep breaths, try to relax (easier said than done) and stay calm for this afternoon.

Have a and a and breathe........

Love that mantra pomme (not that I have a job to have maternity leave from, but it sounds jolly good for everyone else )

Oh come on, if there is no scan news soon I'm going to have to go and clean the bathrooms :(

ok, updating from car on way home. hope you're impressed!

well... there's a baby in my tummy with a nice wee heartbeat and everything. measuring a week ahead of where i thought, so apparently 12+3 not 11! midwifes etc were all super nice and DS was well behaved and charmed everyone. yay!

when's the next update then?

Yay!! Awesome news Jaggy well done all round. And to your DS and his charmingness. And to getting to skip a week forward.

Super well done all round

aw scream, hope scan makes up for crappy week. :)

Yay jaggy - a week more preggers - good work! Congrats on the bean :)

I am getting nervous/excited, I am seeing my mum in about an hour( she lives abroad) and telling her about pg!

Looking forward to all the scan news too!

Oooh good luck wants

How many weeks are you? xx

Scream - calm! Your bad week at work will melt away when you see a wriggly bean :) Brooking no argument that all will go fabulously.

Jaggy, congrats! And congrats on skipping a week too, always fabulous! After being put back earlier I'm secretly hoping I'll be able to hop forward a bit, but I think that's wishful thinking...

Wants - How exciting! :D Hope it goes well! :D

Two things - firstly, was reading a book today and the phrase "Brooking no argument" came up! I've never heard of it apart from here (and in the sister thread) on MN!

Secondly... feeling a tad jealous today. Two friends on Facebook have just announced their pregnancy. One, it means they got pregnant supersuper quick, but that's not what I'm jealous of.. I'm jealous of the fact they can tell people! Can't wait til we can - but we made the decision we'd wait until the 12 week scan (13 weeks in my case)... argh! On the plus side, I'm seeing two of my closest friends at the weekend. One already knows (needed someone to outpour to!) and I think we'll tell the second, so that'll be lovely at least :)

Ah Musical your time will come soon enough to be 'out of the closet'. How many weeks are you now? Hope you have a lovely time telling your friend - it is nice to be able to tell those sort of lovely friends isn't it. It seems like such a long time before you can tell everyone but my scan was only 4 weeks ago and it already feels like I've been 'out' for yonks!

Waits patiently for news from Scream or Meconium

Scream - all will be well! You have a whole thread brooking for you. Are you, perchance, a corporate or banking lawyer (of course feel free not to say!). Good luck.

Yay to Jaggy's lovely news!

Thanks for advice re bedding - I am starting to realise how little I actually know about looking after babies...

Love you cannot possibly know less than I did before having DS - seriously - I would have been at the bottom of the remedial class! And I don't think I've missed anything important yet!

We've got months to go until these little beans pop out well, less months for Hawthers but months nonetheless. By that time I think we'll have entirely pooled all of our communal knowledge and we'll be the best briefed parents out there :)