Barman! A pint of your finest Gaviscon with a ferrous sulphate chaser if you please! On the February 2012 Baby Bus.

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Right then my lovelies, this thread is going sloooooowly now we have our little secret facebook group

But we need to keep posting here for people who haven't joined our other group, so keep on going!

If anyone wants to join the facebook group, can they ask someone cleverer than me and they will set it up for you!

Old thread is here

OH MY GOD

I have just spilled an oversized mug of fresh HOT coffee all over myself!

Left leg now cold with wet kecks on but boy did it sting going on! Just called DP to get me some clean jeans to wear... TOTALLY embarassing, but No one is in so no one saw!

Bloody clumsy oaf that I am... I am about 4 seconds away from tears.

Oh monkeybix that must have hurt :( At least DH can get some clean trousers to you so you won't have to sit there in discomfort for too long.

I will likely be childminding on NYE, same as last year. I figure that I am stuck in anyway so might as well have DD's cousins too so their parents can go out. DH will be there too as not sure I could handle 6 or more kids under 14 on my own right now, especially as the youngest (22 months) is like the tasmanian devil

Quick question...I have just had a phonecall from a colleague who has just been diagnosed with chicken pox. I've not had it. I saw her in the office for about an hour on Tuesday 20th and have had cold symptoms but no spots to speak of since then. WWYD?

I was also in contact but because I had already had it it was ok. If I hadn't have had it they advised speaking to doc or mw. I found quite a bit info at the time on google x

I'd give the MW a call and see what they suggest. Ah, the good ol' MW hotline... brilliant

Thanks ladies, I'll give the MW a call just now. I'm sure there's not going to be a problem given the number of chicken pox parties I've been to and not caught it...but better safe than sorry, eh?!

Midwife today went fine, nothing to complain about for once! Apart from my iron levels still being low and the fact that i feel like i havent slept in a week even though ive been sleeping really well! Just a waiting game now.. Cannot believe its only just over 5 weeks til D Day.. slightly panicking about the lack of stuff we have for baby...
Also panicking about the lack of room we have to put baby stuff!!

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Just ordered a baby weavers nursery chair for £139 in the kiddicare sale so I am pleased. That and all the mamas and papa furniture is getting delivered tomorrow so I am very excited.

I want to buy some nice decorative letters for the baby's room that spell out her name. Any recommendations? I also want a nice name plaque for her door

The room theme is lemon and biscuit coloured. With lots Bambi and thumper. excited

Kayano Jojomamanbebe do some nice decorative letters and plaques I think, they certainly used to.

I feel horribly disorganised this time, only 4.5 weeks to go til baby arrives and nothing is done! I have all the bits and bobs, but the place is a tip, and there is literally not a spare inch of space. The girls were supposed to be in their bunk beds by now and we haven't even bought them yet! The baby will have to sleep in the bedside cabinet I think, there's no room anywhere else! We'll get there I suppose, lol, dd1 never had a nursery til she was 6mo, and we were so desparate to get her out of our room so we could all get a decent night's sleep we finally did it!

Kayano I got mine from Mamas and Papas for our nursery, there's a picture on my Facebook of them, I'm glad you had a nice splurge on MAC stuff, I could spend hours in there

Don't worry Esme I am equally disorganised, haven't bought the moses basket or bedding for it (although have a cot on standby, but it is too big to fit in our room with us).

I have no 0-3 month clothes as my nieces premature baby is still in them (she will be grown out by D-day I hope).

Still have not unpacked fully from moving in 2 months ago.

To top it all we will be having a new kitchen, bathroom and windows fitted in January/February aarrrgh!

Yay, someone else doesn't have a nursery!! We don't either, and won't until DP has built a shed in the garden to move his office to! Baby will be squatting in our room until then.

31+3. Somewhere between 6 and 10 weeks to go. Oh god...

Sugar DD1 was in our room until 12 months old, so wouldn't worry about baby squatting for a while. We will not move DD2 in with her sister until she is 6 months old as when you bf at night the cold walk to another room wakes you up more so you find it harder to doze while bfing and get back to sleep afterwards. Maximum sleep time is vital for mummy survival!

31+3 too :)

We dont have a nursery this time either as its now DDs bedroom! Not sure when we will move this little one in with her big sister - just see how it goes!

hello!!!! feel like I have been MIA but i'm heading home tomorrow so have just snatched mins on my mums laptop to catch p. Slept in till 11 today :O wow tha felt good. I am glad chrismas is over with. Alfie has had his first normal nappy today after beeing ill for nearly 2 weeks :( I have a consultant appointment tuesday an the kids are back at school. Next big event - my baptism on sunday (yeah that will be amusing with me currently looking like a beaches whale) then I can just focus on the baby :) 7 more weeks yay! Glad all here sound relatively well and nothing but usual preggie rants :) Can't believe some of you only have a month left. How exciting

Quick question re maternity pads.

Last time (12 years ago!!) I used always nightime long pads and as far as I can remember they were fine. I have seennpacks of maternity pads but they look like the old style packs from pre Always days. They scare the living daylights out of me and make me feel ill - silly I know but dont fancy walking about with a pillow stuffed between my legs.

So will the always ones be ok?

I have also bought a maternity bra :)

We are quite organised. Nursery all done, have cotbed up, Moses basket been given to us by a friend, baby clothes from another friend, travel system bought off another friend virtually new. I have bought big knickers as don't thing a thong will suffice and also have located some pjs and just have to buy a nighty.

I don't have a steriliser yet as I am a skin Flint and won't spend money lol.

Apart from that I would quite like one of those ripple air mattresses they use for people in hospital to stop them getting bed sores. That would alleviate all my nightie pain I reckon.

Currently stressing slightly at the laziness of this baby. Few kicks here and there for about 5 mins every 4 hours or so but that's it and virtually nothing at night as it doesn't seem to wake me up. Will ask MW on Tuesday about it. Boys - who'd have them.

Getting scarily close now. Keep reading the January bus thread and thinking eeeeek

I quite like the thick pads as I like the cushion to sit on when its all a bit used afterwards! However I just buy normal pads not maternity.

Another fan of the thick pads here!..Well for the first few days anyway, although the rustle type noise they seem to make is less attractive!..They are comfortable for tender bits!..

Just packed my bag today!..36 weeks today!..

Ready to have this baby now, so uncomfortable & I would quite like my ribs & bladder back!..Fed up of heart burn & pains that come to nothing....oh & being tired! My husband must be a saint!..

:)

I use always ultra night personally, can't stand the thought of going back to those early days of pillow between legs. First 3 days heavy and then quite slow after that for about 4 days in past experience.
Scan today. Wee girls is not so wee at 5.2lbs at 32+5 wks! All else well and head down at the moment- hurray!

I've got a mix of pads, some brick thick ones for the first couple of days then some thinner ones for home. I got kotex nighttime pads for the last two, but they don't seem to be available anymore! But I have been warned by every midwife ever to not get always anything, because they have a webbed surface and could catch on any stitches, and they can cause infections. (Can't remember why, lol, have only had c-sections so didn't listen much!)

Slowly getting organised, have finally given away all the girl's clothes..15 bin bags full... and sorted out any neutral things that we can use for this one. Maternity nighties have arrived from ebay, lol, so one step closer to getting that hospital bag packed!

Deardear I'd leave the steriliser til you see if you're going to bf or not anyway. I bought one for dd2, as dd1 was formula fed, then never used it as dd2 never took a bottle until she was over a year old. So it's still all new and shiny in the cupboard.

Anyway, onwards and upwards, the great toy clearout is about to begin!

I'll be using the Always Nighttime (black packet) again, mainly because I still have a pack but they were fine.

Ds was supposed to have his own room ready for just after being born. It was finished and he moved in three weeks after his second birthday, thanks to the builders from hell... At least this time we have the room ready for me and Thumpy and we'll worry about a room for her later. And, as MrNC keeps reminding me, at least this time round we have a roof!

Had GP doing MW appt yesterday -she thinks Gaviscon stuff should help with my puking, as apparently heartburn can cause nausea, so at the slightest hint of either I should take some. For some reason I had a similar appt today which I cancelled as figured taking kids to see a play was more important - lovely day out, but a lot of walking for me. I think it's probably time I started carrying my notes everywhere again!

I wouldn't buy a steriliser until you need one - a saucepan on the hob will do if necessary until you get to a shop, but I got given three!

I finish work tomorrow!!!!!! Soooo excited. It has been SUCH a struggle to keep going. I was on the verge of puking all morning. I will have some bits and bobs of paperwork to sort out after I've finished, but I won't need to drag my sorry ass out of bed at the crack of dawn and can at last rest. The start of mat leave was the first time I actually felt well when I was pregnant with DD - here's hoping it's the start of a wee bit of nausea respite!

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Oh, and naughty mini-Wicket might be breech. Or might not. The midwife was undecided when I was at the hospital AN clinic yesterday. The consultant is going to see me again in 3 weeks and we'll talk then.

If this kid is breech, I AIN'T trying to push it out. DD was head down and small and she got stuck. But can't face the thought of them trying to turn this wee one. Will need to do some tilts down the stairs...

I think I will be paying the docs a visit in a couple of hours. Pain in my left side is horrific. lO been kicking like mad all night so not sure if it's upsetting him but had loads of BH just on that side as well all night. Literally can't touch it it's that painful and beginning to wonder if I have a cyst or something :(. Went to bed at 10ish and tried to sleep at 11 and then have been awake since1 am. Was In Agony before I went to sleep and really thought I would be paying a trip to hospital.

Got up about half an hour ago and came onto sofa as couldn't stand it anymore and I was hot. No heating on and window open and no covers and still too bloody hot!

deardear is it in your lower abdomen? If it is you need to get seen asap. Do you have a fever?