The fabulous frolickers planning the way for their first arrivals....

[LankyLegs]

Hello ladies! Let's hope we have lots more BFPs and healthy pregnancies as we approach Christmas and 2012!

ARRIVALS:

Fudgecat - In loving memory of Baby Elliot - Born asleep on Friday 17th September 2010

Fulhamgirl - EDD 30th May - DOB 9th Apr - Girl - Lily Ann - 4lb
Trying4Baby1 - EDD 25th Apr - DOB 6th May - Girl - Emily - 10lb 2.5oz
Pepperonipizza -EDD 24th May - DOB 28th May -Boy
CurlyCasper - EDD 21st July - DOB 24th June - Girl
Spirael - EDD 25th Jul - DOB 7th July - Girl - Miranda Jane - 8lb 3oz
DesperateHousewife21 - EDD 18th July - DOB 9th July - Boy - Dylan James
Sazziej - EDD 1st Sep- DOB 24th Aug - Girl - Evie - 7lb 8oz
Ozziegirly - EDD 24th Aug -DOB 25th Aug - Boy-Thomas - 7lb 1oz
NovemberAli - EDD 2nd Sep - DOB 8th Sept - Girl - Matilda - 8lb 6oz
WhiteRoses - EDD 15th September - DOB 19 September- Boy
Hobnob - EDD 26th Sep - DOB 21 September - Girl - Matilda 6lbs 6oz
Pixiestix - EDD 24th Sep - DOB 26 September - Girl - Tegan - 7lbs 7oz
Addie81 -EDD 7th Oct - DOB 19th October -Girl
Chancewouldbeafinething - EDD 10/10/10 - DOB 21st October - Boy - William James - 9lb 14.5oz
Hermya321 - EDD 24th Oct - DOB 24th October-Boy - Asher - 8lb 3oz
WorrisomeHeart - EDD 12th Oct -DOB 26th Oct Boy - Lochlan - 8lb
YorkshireTeaDrinker - EDD 6th Nov - DOB 5th Nov - Girl - Eleanor
Bunnygirl80 - - EDD 19th Nov- DOB 11th Nov -Boy-WIlliam - 7lb 2oz
Mumnerves - EDD 8th Dec - DOB 16 Dec Boy - Sean 8lb 2.5oz
Luckyseven - EDD 17th Dec - DOB 20th Dec Girl - Beth Elise 8lb 4oz
Oneof8 - BFP 18th May - EDD 17th Jan - DOB 3 Jan Boy - Tom
Homebound - BFP 30th Apr - EDD 8th Jan - DOB 12 Jan Boy
Aly323 - BFP? - EDD 31st Jan - DOB 25th Jan - Boy Kai
Muser - BFP 22nd June - EDD 27 Feb - DOB 15th Feb - girl
Kurlyvoice - BFP 1st September - EDD 16th April - DOB 12 March - Boy Alastair 4lb 13oz
Superpenguin - BFP 1st July - EDD 4th March - DOB 18th March - Boy Thomas 8lb 13oz
Haloflo - BFP 22 July - EDD 20 March - DOB 29th March - Girl Hannah 8lb 9oz
JollySergeantJackrum - BFP 7 Aug - DOB 21st April - Boy Harris 8lb 3oz
MrsWajs - BFP 13 Aug - DOB 25th April - Girl Robyn 7lb 2oz
Crazydays - BFP 4th Sep - DOB - 28th April - boy Thomas 7lb 3 oz and girl Isobel 6lb 14oz
Cherrycobbler - BFP 3rd Sep - 11th May - girl
crazybutterflylady - BFP 1st Sep - EDD 13th May - DOB 24th May - girl - Tabitha
Bellaby -BFP 11th Sep - EDD 22nd May - DOB 16th May - girl - 6lbs12oz
Highheelsandequations - BFP 30th Oct - EDD 13th July - DOB 6th July - Girl Rose 7lb 4oz
Roundtable - BFP 14 Jan - EDD 17th Sept - DOB 20th Sep - Boy
CrazyAlien - BFP 29th Jan - EDD 2nd Oct - DOB 27th Sep - Girl - Imogen
Toriajayne - BFP 16th Feb - EDD 26 Oct - DOB 25th Oct - Boy - Thomas 9lb
Goldmaple - BFP Feb 28th - EDD 9th November - DOB 30th Oct - Girl Emily Grace

TO BE CONFIRMED:

Capricorn76 - BFP 12th Apr - EDD 1st Jan 2011
Seablue - BFP? - EDD 10th Jan
stegasaurus - BFP 27 Aug - EDD 3rd May
Slowshow - BFP 3rd Jan - EDD 15th Sept

CURRENT GRADUATES:

Truffkin - BFP 10th March - EDD 18th November
Lankylegs - BFP 27 May - EDD 1st February
Womanly Tales - BFP 14 Aug - EDD 25th April
Empusa -
Latetothisbabymalarky - BFP 8 Oct - EDD 8th June 2012
Florin - BFP 14 Oct - EDD 22 June 2012
Flickstar -

Been super excited all day about my scan, baby seems to have been as well as been kicking all afternoon.
Had my scan and all is well and it's a boy! We have said its a boy from the day the stick turned positive. Both over the moon already had a boys name picked out so lovely to call him by his name. Going to go shopping at the weekend and buy him his first little outfit. I can't wait!
Sarong idea is a good idea that could work on the yacht will see if I can find one I like.

florin yay for your little boy. Enjoy shopping for him

late I think what set up you need depends on how you travel and where you'll be going. I live within walking distance of pretty much everywhere I needed to go so didn't bother with a travel system, just got a good pram.

I used the carrycot on the bugaboo a lot, as Will took pretty much all his daytime naps in it for the first 3 months of his life. He slept in his pram if we were downstairs, or in his Moses basket if I was upstairs and napping too (don't underestimate your need to never be more than 1cm from your baby at all times!!!). The other benefit to him sleeping in the pram was that if I decided I just wanted to pop out for a while he was already loaded up and ready to go!

If you'll be doing more driving then a travel system might be more use so you can just clip the car seat on and go. They're not meant to spend more than a couple of hours at a time Iin a car seat though so its not so great for using as an alternative to a cot. Check out how big the toddler seat is on all these things too,as you're going to use that for much longer. My nephew was too tall for his buggy (mamas and papas skate) before he was 1, and he's an average sized boy!

Oh yay florin how exciting to know! Congratulations on your little man :) EEEKK! Must feel especially real now.

late great to hear from you- how exciting to be approaching 20 weeks! Am just starting to realise just how close in dates me, you and florin are! Well, especially you and florin! So you are 20, I think florin is 18 (?) and I am 15. June and July is going to be a bumper time for the frolickers! My dh has put his foot down on finding out the gender too although I think we may be able to see as at my hospital they also do an internal scan to check the length and condition of your cervix. When I had this done at 12 weeks the view we got of the baby was of it's back and bottom sticking up and it was at a tilted angle so if you were looking carefully you may have been able to se eif something was between it's legs... They repeat this at 20 weeks so we will see (or not as the case may be!) Thanks for asking after me, I'm doing well thank you. Feeling good and lots more relaxed although will relax more after my 16 week appointment and then of course the 20 week scan (which is actually at 22 weeks!)

Hope everyone else is well, especially lanky!

Nice to see you HH! Bless your little Rose, what date is her birthday, she is a JUly baby too isn't she? What have you decided about going back to work?

bunny thanks for that, did you use your moses basket for long?

Ohhhhh, congratulations on your son Florin!!

CONGRATS Florin.... a bouncing baby boy! How exciting you can now call him by his name and buy relevant things for him!!! Oh and I just popped into JoJo Mama this afternoon to pick up some nursing tops in the sale and they have loads of vests and skirts etc in there already (both sale and non sale) and also topshop maternity do a few nice things. I hope your holiday wardrobe gets sorted soon! Remember the 80/20 rule - you will only wear 20% of the stuff you take on hols so as long as you have a few basics and a good swimsuit you will be sorted!!

Late and Flick my DH was like yours - wanted it as a surprise but actually now love it as it will be a wonderful surprise for all that hard work... plus it's really easy to dress the nursery very cutely quite neutrally too. I imagine the majority of pressies/clothes you will get post birth too.

Late I imagine you have a very cute lil bump! When are you going to tell work then? I tell you what - baby buying is quite overwhelming (and bloody expensive) so not surprised you were flustered in Babyworld! Worth starting the shopping now as you are. I have inherited a bugaboo cameleon from my sister so that decision was taken out my hands (thank god) but as bunny said my sister used the carry cot loads downstairs when her kids were small for there naps so she got tonnes of use out of it. It does depend how much walking etc you plan to do. In a way am pleased I didn't have to make that decision.... I think I would have been just as perplexed as yours. I think getting adaptors for the car seat onto the travel system is defo a good idea too! Good luck though!

Flick I think depending on size of baby moses basket lasts 2-3 months.... so think about whether you plan to get them into their cot after this otherwise a crib in your room might be a solution (I think this can go for 4-5 months depending on baby size). How is your lil bump growing? Do you think you will convice Mr Flick on finding out the sex?! Good luck with the 16 week appt - shame you have to wait a bit longer for your 20 week scan too. Once you hit that milestone the weeks will start to fly by trust me!

Bunny and Highheels thank you for your reassurance!!! Am feeling a lot calmer now about it. Big head or not... s/he will come out however which way. HH lovely to hear how Rose is doing too - I do nosey on FB to see how cute all the froliker babies are. You girls have produced some cute babies!!!

Ok - just over 1.5 weeks to due date but am ready for little one now. Just have a wax and pedicure booked for tomorrow and some friends over for dinner on Saturday and then I am ready for the sprog to drop!! Think I might start the pineapple. Am drinking rasberry leaf tea, eaten lots of curry last few days and might even venture down the sex route at some point!!

Otherwise am feeling fine really - just usual backache and tiredness at end of day but nothing too bad. Come on baby!

Hope everyone else is well too!!!

Ooo, Lanky, getting excited for you!

Florin, how lovely that you're having a little boy, and so interesting that you both kind of sensed it was a 'he' from the beginning!

I have my 20-week scan on Monday afternoon and I'm going to look HARD at the image and see if I can spot anything, despite my DH's ruling! Almost everyone thinks I'm having a girl for some reason, don't know why...
And then on Tuesday morning I'll come clean to my work colleagues - they've probably already sussed me out anyway, but it wil be a relief not to be hiding it anymore, and a bigger relief to finally stop squeezing into normal work clothes! My bump may not be very big, but my clothes are not accommodating it comfortably!

Thanks for the thoughts re the carry cot, I don't think I've been giving it enough credit for it's potential usefulness... especially the nap-time thing, I wondered if I'd use it enough, but if the baby sleeps in it every day for 3 months then it will have been well used!
We live in west London so I imagine I'll be doing more walking than driving - though who knows! We were quite taken with the Bugaboo Chameleon, it's so compact and you see a lot of people with them... (yes, I no longer see the babies, I'm interested only in their buggies!)

Has anyone else got a Dreamgenii? I keep getting tangled up in mine!

florin lovely news about your little boy.

flick Rose was born 6th July, EDD was either 10th, 11th or 13th depenfing on whether I listened to the private scan, the NHS dating scan or my dates! You must be due around the same date? Have decided I'm going to ask for a career break for a year and then see about going part time after that, need to actually go and talk to them but I keep burying my head in the sand!

late it is all about what you'll be using your pram/travel system for. We have a bugaboo chameleon and I love it. It's really light but travels over rough ground really well (the main reason I got it was for walking along the very bumpy path through the woods to town!). Rose loved going out in it as a pram and it's lasted her easily to 6 months, she's slender but average length so I think it should last most babies, I know other people who's babies have grown out of the carrycots fairly quickly. We didn't use it for naps much but it's great for going out for walks. Have recently bought the car seat adapters but haven't tried them yet as I now tend to walk most places. Only downsides are that it is quite bulky to fit in my car boot, and when set up as a pram it's not easy to get into the basket thing at the bottom.

flick We used the Moses basket for about 3.5mths. It was an extra big one (I don't think you can get the brand on the UK, but it was a Seed Organic Pod if you want to google the dimensions) and Will would have easily fitted into it until he was about 6mths. The reason he got moved out of it was because he was an early roller and after his third attempt at rolling out of the basket I decided he'd be safer in his cot.

I have a couple of friends who just used the carry cot off the pram instead of a Moses basket, some brands even make stands for the carry cot. Moses baskets certainly aren't essential, but lots of newborns will freak out in something the size of a cot because if all the open space, so it's worth having something smaller to deposit them in

late I have an unhealthy obsession with buggies now, just like some men know the specifications of most cars, I know them for prams!! The chameleon is great if you'll be doing a lot of walking as it handles really well on rough ground. It also has a really really tight turning circle so it's extremely manoeuverable in tight spaces (eg cafes, narrow aisles in shops). You have to take the seat off the chassis to fold it which is a minor pita when going in the car, and it completely fills our boot, and we have a massIve SUV not a teeny tiny hatchback. If I'm going shopping in the car and intending to actually buy something then I take Will in his baby carrier rather than the pram

Oh Florin a lovely baby boy exciting that you will start buying now! We didn't find out the sex and a couple of times whilst shopping pregnant I did think how handy it would have been.

For those debating though, the 'surprise' route worked for us although when DH told me L was a boy, I was surprised as my sister had convinced me he was a girl from the day I announced my pregnancy!

Re: moses baskets. We're still using it at almost 2 months. L is average weight but on the 85th percentile for length and fits comfortably still. I think the rolling thing will do it for us too as he rolled from front to back yesterday - eek! I'm hoping he might drop his 4am feed around 3 months so we could then move him into his big cot in his room to save the hassle of bringing it into our room. That's if I can bear hime being away from me! He is a noisy sleeper though so might be nice

Re: prams. I'd agree that it entirely depends on your personal needs and the spec of the pram you've chosen. We have the Silver Cross 'Surf' and I really love it. Pros and cons sound very similar to the Cameleon actually: well sprung for bumpy roads, easy to collapse, can use adaptors for it to take car seat if needed, very tight turning circle. I also find the adjustable handle really useful and was absolutely seduced by the range of colours! Cons: chassis and 'seat' bit fold separately so do take up a chunk of boot space and storage areas not huge for shopping. We didn't get the carry cot part with ours as on very close inspection we felt that the seat part once it has the newborn baby nest plus the footmuff / sleeping bag thing was very comfortable for lying flat. As the carry cot on ours is not suitable for overnight sleeping, we didn't think it offered anything extra. L will nap in his pram in the day and when we go out for a few hours he always sleeps in there so for us comfort is important.

For the first few weeks when we were still in London, I used the sling much more than the pram and we're getting a car at the weekend so will be using the car seat more again. Sorry, am not sure that's helpful at all to you!

Right Lanky I'll concentrate my cheerleading efforts after the weekend to encourage the baby out. Pedicures were my favourite treat in the last few weeks and I had my waxing done the week before my due date (but think it was less than pristine when he was a week late !) I haven't managed a pedicure since he arrived so may have to rectify that soon

Hope everyone has a great weekend'

Re moses baskets, we had to move Rose out of hers at 6 weeks! She still fitted in it but was sleeping really badly as she couldn't really sprawl out. We ended up buying an armsreach cosleeper crib as I wasn't ready to put her in her big cot and it's been great, wish she was still in it beside me but it's just a little cramped at 6 months. She's not a big baby, I don't think I'd bother with a moses basket again.

Hello lovelies,

Thanks for all of your feedback on moses baskets! I think I will get one and try it. Have been watching the videos of the Organic Seed Pod bunny and it looks great. I'm about to investigate the possibilities(and COST!) of getting one in the UK.

highheels My EDD is similar to your little summer baby! I also have a variety of dates too- 7th July by my LMP (which I think is wrong as I never ovulated on day 14), 9th July from my private scan at 7ish weeks, 11th July from my scan at 11+1 (too early for nuchal so had to go back) and 12th July from my most recent scan at 12+5! I'm going to go with the 12th as it will be better for maternity pay and induction should it come to that!

lanky! so exciting that you're ready for the baby now! Enjoy your pampering and your dinner and then rest up. I won't be able to convince Mr. Flick about finding out the sex and deep down I do want a suprise too. My bump is coming along well! It is smaller in the morning but grows by lunch time and the evenings! I'm suprised by how big it is already to be honest!

How exciting for your scan on Monday late and with the double whammy of telling work too! Good luck for both and come back on MOnday and let us know how you get on.

Thanks for all the advice and info truff!

xxx

Truff yay for rolling! Will did front to back at 6wks then back to front at 12wks so you've probably not got long to wait until L's rolling all over the room. It's slightly unnerving when you turn your back on them for a minute and return to find them not on the playmat anymore, but wedged under the dining table

Ooh moses baskets! Our moses basket was probably our single most extravagent purchase! We spotted this one in Mothercare and then just had to have it although there were loads cheaper. Its really solid so we got loads of use out of it. T was in it for about 5 months in the end. I love, love, love it.

Going to try and read the thread properly now and catch up on everyones news rather than just leaping in all the time!

Enjoying all the opinions on Moses baskets. I an trying to avoid one at the moment as having a crib in our bedroom and getting the bugaboo donkey so baby can be in that during the day. Dh wants to use his old noses basket his mum has kept but it's not like any Moses basket I have ever seen and don't think a standard mattress would fit. For dh his mum made a mattress out of a bit of old foam she had! Plus mil wants to do it up and I really hate frills which is what she will do,
Had long shopping trip in London for holiday, dh has been so patient bless him. Bought a tankini, since I really popped out feel a bit self conscious in a bikini. Plus 2 pairs of shorts (thank your for whoever suggested h and m) got one pair there and another in mothercare. Oh and a lovely white tunic style top in mamas and papas which is gorgeous. Very happy with my holiday wardrobe now! Feel much more ready to go away, now just need to sort out dh's summer stuff and iron it all!
late good luck for your scan on Monday, enjoy seeing baby!

Oooooooh florin am very very of your donkey. I really really want one but DH won't let me get one. My friend has one and when I went visit her and newborn dd I spent slightly longer cooing over the pram than the baby

Hi Ladies just popping in to wish late luck for tomorrow and to send baby vibes to lanky! Hope you enjoyed your pampering and dinner- bring on the baby!

Sounds like a successful shop florin! Well done :)

I wanted to ask about weight gain. I was average weight for my height before I got pregnant (BMI around 24ish and size 10-12) but lost 5lbs during my first trimester due ti my food aversions and sickness. I'm feeling tonnes better now and have put on 4 of the 5lbs I have lost but am obvioulsy still 1lb under my pre pregnancy weight. I read somewhere that you should be gaining 1-2lbs a week during the second trimester and wondered if my weight gain sounded ok to you more experienced ladies?! I will check with my midwife when I see her on Thurs but just wanted to sound it out here first.

Oh and also wanted to say that I have been very lazy and not left the house all weekend so have had a good trawl of the internet and found some good bargains!Both Asda and Tesco have baby events on. I bought a steriliser which comes with 4 bottles for £10 instead of £27.99. It is a Tommy Tipee closer to nature one. The reviews are generally good and even if I don't use it or if it does turn out to be rubbish you can go wrong for a tenner! I plan to breast feed but you never know do you? I also went a little bit crazy on the Next website on some baby clothes. I justified it to myself by saying that it is really hard to find nice, colourful unisex stuff so I got a few gorgeous bits from the animal brights and bright stars range so the baby will have some funky things for it's first few days! Really worth a look for you late and lanky if you want some last minute bits! Boots has some good deals on nappies too at the minute...

Ooh Pixie we've got the same moses basket! I love it too, really traditional and very sturdy.

Flick I have the TT microwave steriliser and get on well with it (we're using TT CTN bottles and dummies too). I use it for the breast pump and dummies plus bottles when we give expressed milk. It's a nice size and so handy to get everything done in a few minutes, ours goes on at least twice a day! Sorry can't offer advice on weight gain as I didn't get back to my pre-pregnancy weight until well into the third trimester due to sickness (and Lucas is just fine, so no harm done to him at all) and gained around 6lbs in total by the end!

For bright baby stuff, I have put Lucas in some sleepsuits my Mom bought from Sainsbury absolutely loads. They have lovely bright stuff that washes well (doesn't bobble or fade like some things have), so much so that I've bought the next size up in one of the sleepsuit packs as he's worn them so much because I love them! Gap is also very nice and has some good sales, baby stuff seems so cheap compared to adult clothes that it's easy to go crazy on a spending spree!

Lanky hope you've enjoyed your weekend and am sending labour vibes to you x

Flick the only time I was weighed was at 12 weeks for my booking appointment and I'd already gained nearly a stone (!) so I can't offer any advice, I believe they don't bother weighing pregnant women here anymore as every pregnancy is different and it was causing too much stress. I must have gained about 3 stone by the end as I was 2 stone heavier than pre pregnancy the first time I braved the scales post birth and that was without Rose and the gallons of water I had been carrying around :) Seriously though, try to eat healthily and stay reasonably active but if your body's craving something go for it (including sleep). I also got lots of bright sleepsuits from Next as I didn't want pastels and needed unisex, they've been great and generously sized too. Mamas and papas stuff was tiny and didn't last long at all, and Rose wasn't exactly a big baby!

Florin our moses basket was actually DPs old basket from his mum, we found that mamas and papas moses basket mattresses fit it although the ones everywhere else are a different size.

Lanky hope you're doing lots of lovely relaxing things and also sending labour vibes your way.

Ah, excellent taste Truff! I felt a bit guilty about it as it was sooooo pricey - but not guilty enough not to buy it!

Flick the weight gain thing is just so personal to each woman. As long as you are feeling well and keeping down what you are eating then you are doing fine! I gained 9lbs in total during my pregnancy but then I have always been a bit of a chubber so I didn't really need any more!

The Next stuff is lovely this season, isnt it! Jojos have some nice funky non-gendered stuff too.

Hope today is going well for you Late.

Popping into to see if any news from late or lanky Will be back later on xx

Hello all,

Just checking in on late hope the scan went well and looking forward to hearing about it!!

Lots of shopping going on - I like it!! Flick sounds like you have made a good start on things - that's what I like to see. Thanks for the tips I might go and take a nosey - esp if things are in the sale. Thanks for the tips re nappies too - have brought enoough for the first couple of weeks (I think) but have heard different babies get on better with different brands - e.g. one of the nct girls was saying that the huggies new born ones leak on her little boy. So think I will see what the little one will suit ( have a selection of pampers and huggies). Re weight gain - I have not weighed myself that much but it looks like I may have put on a couple of stone. I think the majority of that was during third trimester too. I don't feel massive at all and think it is mostly bump and some around my hips (which is exactly where I thought the darn weight would end up!). As truff said the baby gets all they need from you so don't stress too much my dear. How are you feeling otherwise?

Florin sounds like your holiday wardrobe is sorted too - am very - it will be amazing I imagine!

Truff can't believe little Lucas is starting to roll already - eeek how quickly they grow!! It was only yesterday you gave birth surely?!

Thank you for all the labour vibes everyone!! Lots and lots of twinges this weekend and baby is nestled down very low making sleeping awful and walking is getting tough so am keeping everything crossed that it arrives this week! I really don't want to go over my due date but trying to stay chilled out at the same time.

I think I need to stop having people over for dinner too as it's turning out to be too knackering! Weekend was lovely but exhausting. Had lunch with the nct girls again today and got to meet another one of the new babies so the 4 of us that are still left to pop from the groupgot lots of cuddles hoping it would do the trick!!

Looking forward to hearing news from late!!!

Hello ladies, scan was FAB! Everything is fine and normal as far as they can see - we were looking especially for cleft lip as DH has that & his grandmother had the cleft palate as well, but my genes seem to have won out on that one
I looked hard to see if I could see any 'bits' but the baby is obviously taking DH's side and wasn't giving anything away! It gave the most adorable yawn while we were watching, just amazing seeing it! The only thing was that the brought my EDD forwards 4 days, otherwise it would have been in the 95th percentile, it's a bit early to be contemplating that so I'm going back for ANOTHER scan in 4 weeks - this is one super-scanned baby! The sonographer said the size thing flagged up gestational diabetes, but that I shouldn't worry about that until the next scan& it will all probably be fine.

SO, feeling very happy with it all now, going to tell my work colleagues tomorrow and start wearing some more comfortable clothes!

Sounds like things are revving up to go Lanky, will be keeping an eye out for updates!

Yay for scan late :o

Fantastic news on the scan Late so pleased everything is well. Enjoy and hope today telling your work colleagues was also fun.
Also nice bonus to see the little one again in 4 weeks! Not a bad thing at all!