Due April 2006 - new thread for the April Shower!

[colditz]

Ok, I did it!

Now shall we get our stats down again? I think we have had some joiners since we last did it.
Copy/paste the list and add yourself to it.

Colditz - due 06/04/06, aged 25, DP aged 32, 1 DS aged 2.9, having a baby boy! Very scared of needles....

I have been cleared of gestational diabetes, although aparently my kidneys are 'leaking sugar'! Yuk. But my iron levels are still abit on the low side even though I am taking pregnacare (15mg or so) and some pricey supplements (an extra 17mg or so). Boring!

Hurrah for your date order list Pepperrabbit - now I just have to make it look pretty!!!

MrsQ - due 30/3/06 aged 34, DH 33, DS 2.7. Expecting 2nd boy.

FirstTimer40 - due 01/04/06 (yes really) Aged 40 DH age 47, first baby,its a boy.

Colditz - due 06/04/06, aged 25, DP aged 32, 1 DS aged 2.9, having a baby boy!

Ponka - due 06/04/06 (yes, another one) age 28 DH 36 DS19 mnths.

Spots - due 06/04/06, aged 31, DH39, DD 20 months.

MrsEvs - due 8/4/06, aged 31, DH 33, DD 18 months, having a girl.

Homsa - due 12/4/06, aged 34, DH 39, DS 2.7, expecting a girl.

Pepperrabbit - due 12/4/06, aged 37, DH 37, DS 20 months. don't know the sex.

allyco - due 14/04/06 age (41 - shush) DH 44 dd19 dd13 dd8 and dd16 months. Expecting a BOY!!

TonTon - due 20/4/06 aged 35, dh 33, dd aged 5. Having a girl.

Pacinofan - due 24/4/06, aged 38, dh 46. We are having a girl!

jifda - due 24/04/06 age 30 DH 32,DD 7, DS 5 & DS 3. We knopw we are having a boy this time & he will be called Ellis Owen (we think!)

Curzybabies - due 25/4/06 (my birthday!!) Age 27 DH 31. Already have DS age 3.

Enid - due 30/04/06 Age 39. dd1 (6) and dd2(3)

It's all pretty even isn't it with 5 boys, 4 girls and 5 don't knows!

Just copying again because I want to add that we know we are having a boy. I've never made things bold before on MN so I hope I don't mess up your very pretty list, Mrs Evs!

Just curious as to what people think of the following names:

Luke
Elliot
Harry
George

I think this is our short list for the hospital. We are currently swaying towards Luke Elliot but I'm wondering if it's too similar to DS1 (Jake).

MrsQ - due 30/3/06 aged 34, DH 33, DS 2.7. Expecting 2nd boy.

FirstTimer40 - due 01/04/06 (yes really) Aged 40 DH age 47, first baby,its a boy.

Colditz - due 06/04/06, aged 25, DP aged 32, 1 DS aged 2.9, having a baby boy!

Ponka - due 06/04/06 (yes, another one) age 28 DH 36 DS19 mnths. It's a boy!

Spots - due 06/04/06, aged 31, DH39, DD 20 months.

MrsEvs - due 8/4/06, aged 31, DH 33, DD 18 months, having a girl.

Homsa - due 12/4/06, aged 34, DH 39, DS 2.7, expecting a girl.

Pepperrabbit - due 12/4/06, aged 37, DH 37, DS 20 months. don't know the sex.

allyco - due 14/04/06 age (41 - shush) DH 44 dd19 dd13 dd8 and dd16 months. Expecting a BOY!!

TonTon - due 20/4/06 aged 35, dh 33, dd aged 5. Having a girl.

Pacinofan - due 24/4/06, aged 38, dh 46. We are having a girl!

jifda - due 24/04/06 age 30 DH 32,DD 7, DS 5 & DS 3. We knopw we are having a boy this time & he will be called Ellis Owen (we think!)

Curzybabies - due 25/4/06 (my birthday!!) Age 27 DH 31. Already have DS age 3.

Enid - due 30/04/06 Age 39. dd1 (6) and dd2(3)

I'm a new poster so will add myself to the list:

MrsQ - due 30/3/06 aged 34, DH 33, DS 2.7. Expecting 2nd boy.

FirstTimer40 - due 01/04/06 (yes really) Aged 40 DH age 47, first baby,its a boy.

Colditz - due 06/04/06, aged 25, DP aged 32, 1 DS aged 2.9, having a baby boy!

Ponka - due 06/04/06 (yes, another one) age 28 DH 36 DS19 mnths. It's a boy!

Spots - due 06/04/06, aged 31, DH39, DD 20 months.

MrsEvs - due 8/4/06, aged 31, DH 33, DD 18 months, having a girl.

Homsa - due 12/4/06, aged 34, DH 39, DS 2.7, expecting a girl.

Pepperrabbit - due 12/4/06, aged 37, DH 37, DS 20 months. don't know the sex.

allyco - due 14/04/06 age (41 - shush) DH 44 dd19 dd13 dd8 and dd16 months. Expecting a BOY!!

TonTon - due 20/4/06 aged 35, dh 33, dd aged 5. Having a girl.

Pacinofan - due 24/4/06, aged 38, dh 46. We are having a girl!

jifda - due 24/04/06 age 30 DH 32,DD 7, DS 5 & DS 3. We knopw we are having a boy this time & he will be called Ellis Owen (we think!)

Curzybabies - due 25/4/06 (my birthday!!) Age 27 DH 31. Already have DS age 3.

Enid - due 30/04/06 Age 39. dd1 (6) and dd2(3)

Debithescot- due 22/04/06 Age 24 DH 25. 1st baby, don't know sex.

Oops, meant to put it into correct place in the order and didn't.

I'm the youngest here. Might make it to 25 by the time its born as its due 1 wk before my birthday.

Bizarre Ponka, we've (well, me, DH and DS just keep suggesting nonsense words!) been talking about names loads over the couple of days. Harry is also on my current shortlist - George was for a bit but I think I'm going off it cos irritating Emma in the Archers has baby George (how old does that make me, that the Archers is the only soap I manage to keep up with regularly these days!) I have to say Luke is quite similar to Jake... but still nice. I'm trying to avoid J names (DS is James) I think. James wasn't even on our shortlist last time, we were home from hospital before we finally decided so who knows what we'll end up with this time.

Hello to all newies by the way!

All nice Ponka, though Luke and George my definate faves. If this baby had been a boy he may well have been Luke, but that's because my husband is called Mark, his brother is Matthew and his Dad is John!!

At the moment for us it is between Isobel and Sofia with Scarlett as a 2nd name probably, although there is still a part of me that hopes dh will change his mind at the last minute and let me have Francesca, which is what I'd really like to call her. I can but dream........

Francesca is lovely. Such a shame it takes two to name a baby. If our list was just my list girls would be so much easier... love Frances, and Jane too. As it is we can't agree on many at all, and there are very few (none so far!) we both love. Ponka, I like George a lot and have met a few too many Harries recently... can see the problem with Luke but agree it is a nice name and Elliot works v. well with it.

Welcome Debi the Scot.

Mrs. Evs, all those names are nice. I really like Sofia and Francesca.

I agree that there are a good number of boys called Harry out there. It's kind of the same with Thomas, which I also really like.

DH will get teased for a bit if we do go for Luke. He's a massive Star Wars fan. He's also been suggesting Darth and Jabba to wind me up!

We are currently decorating a bedroom, too. For DS to move into a.s.a.p. It's going to look something like this I hope.

Don't Ikea do well! We're also thinking about an Ikea changing table but wondering if we can get away with using one for the both of them.

I've bought the Ikea changing table, but it';s still in it's box (dh is v nervous about 'jumping the gun').
Re names, I've always said it's 60-40 to me in terms of power of choice. Actually in reality it's more 90-5%!!

morning all and welcome to Debi.

Am late to work today because been to doctors. Got the usual advice about when I can't take any more puking to go to hospital for fluids and anti-sickness injections. Must admit I feel as though I am headed back that way, although I hate giving in to it. Yesterday had to stop on motorway (well, on hard shoulder!!) put four-ways on and puke into my handy ice-cream container, as was going too fast to puke while driving which I have off to a fine art at lower speeds . I was petrified the police would arrive and pull me over for stopping!!

I love MrsEvs' names. It seems strange that I will never again have to think of a dd name, but given that I've done it four times I suppose it's someone else's turn!!

We never had a changing unit for any of ours. I always changed on the floor on the basis the baby couldn't fall off that. What I would REALLY like this time though is the Stokke Sleepi cot, you know, the oval-shaped one. I saw one in Mothercare all put together and dressed with the lovely white drapes and it looked so cute. Trouble is, it costs £500.00 and as someone has said to me, it is lovely, but it's just a cot. i don't know what to do... Help!

Hello and thanx for the welcomes.

We've decided on Cameron for a boy (and there are lots of others we like too; Murray, Lewis, Euan. Can you see a theme here?!) but can't decide on girls. Its the same problem as spots where there are a few that DH and I 'like' but none that we both love.
My current faves are Caitlin and Katie. Would like a Scottish name (esp as we don't actually live in Scotland at the moment) but there aren't many girls names we like.

Anyone else getting rather excessive baby movement? She kept me awake last night. Today in a meeting the chap sitting opposte me looked rather freaked out by the gymnastics on prominent display through my tight-ish top! It's actually ather painful sometimes.

I've been getting lots of movement too. I'm a teacher and I can see the kids watching the bump as it moves. Doesn't normally hurt but every now and again theres an almost painful kick.

me too, little man is very active (surprising really given the amount he gets to eat, unless it gets to him before I recycle it!!!).

We have names picked but I am keeping them secret in case anyone steals them! Debi, I love Euan, it was going to be his middle name for ages but then we changed our minds...

Dropped off littlest DD at childminder yesterday and the lady next door to her had gone into hospital to have her second baby the previous day. Childminder said hadn'st seen husband since so we joked about it being a long labour etc. Anyway, DH picked DD up in the afternoon and turns out the baby died .

Kind of brought all my problems into perspective a bit and makes you realise these things stil happen sometimes. Don't know the reasons or anything yet, although no doubt childminder will find out. I feel stupidly very guilty knowing I will be passing those poor people and their little boy for a few more weeks yet with my gigantic tummy on display and then will be lugging baby around in carseat...

So sad

How terribly sad. My mum lost one at birth - we've never talked about it.

Oh really sad. Know what you mean about feeling guilty - there's obviously nothing you can do but at the same time you just feel self conscious.... (was trying to say something else there but it just kept coming out sounding obtuse and crass so I've given up!)

Allyco, I meant to say to you(! sounds odd, having never met you) about an article I read about hyperemesis... no idea if this is actually what is causing your sickness, but incase its of any help and you haven't seen it they give the website . Love love love the oval stokke cot, maybe if I win the lottery between now and the end of March!

Oh, that is really sad. I just don't know how you'd get over something like that. I know what you mean about feeling guilty as well, but you only feel that way because you are a nice empathetic person, which is a good thing really.

That's funny about the Star Wars thing Ponka. My hubby and I are both massive Star Wars fans also, one of the things we first had in common. We even left the church to the Star Wars theme tune on the organ at our wedding (which was very funny, because we didn't tell anyone that's what we were doing and as we walked out we could just see people thinking "I recognise that, what is it" - and then a look of realisation when it clicked), and as a gag my brother in law then put Han and Leia figures on our cake!!! (We sound like massive geeks now, but it was all light hearted - we aren't scary people who dress up and go to conventions honestly!)

Anyway, when we were talking about names for babies initially we thought Luke for a boy (cos of the Matthew, Mark and John thing I mentioned before), and then one of the only girls names we both like was Leah, which was DH's grandmother's name. It didn't occur to us until we said them together that people would think we'd named our children after Star Wars characters - so we had to think of some others pronto!

I am also obsessing about sleeping arrangements for the new arrival. I have seen a bassinet that I love (actually I wanted it for dd, but as we were moving when she was 6 weeks old it made no sense). It still makes no sense to get it as I have a moses basket and a travel bassinet that dd used, but I just really want it. It's not like it's really expensive or anything, but when I have no real need for it whatsoever it seems difficult to justify!! This is it here . I might just go for it anyway - the new baby has to have some things of her own doesn't she!?!?

Lol Mrs. Evs. That's cool to have the theme tune. DH and I joked about having a complete Star Wars wedding at a family meal with my parents when we got engaged. I am not such a big fan but DH is a huge one. Mum asked DH who she could come as and he said Darth Vader! Talk about getting off on the wrong foot with the mum in law! She has actually got black hair in a kind of bob style, too! Luckily it was taken the right way and it's now a bit of a family joke and we've now taught DS (20 months) to do the Darth Vader breathing noises to wind her up further.

I've got a scan this Wednesday. Last scan, the head measurements were slightly too big so they wanted me back. They can't have been all that worried though because they left a ten week gap before it. At least, that's what I'm trying to tell myself..... I might have to have another at 36 weeks as well because DS was undiagnosed breach.

Tonton, lots of baby movement here, too. Perhaps it's that optimum time at the moment when they are getting really strong but there's still room to move around in there.

Oooh yes. I've seen the Stokke cot, too. If only.....

Another mum here being roundly thrashed by my baby on a nightly basis. I swear the little blighter bruised me the other day. I bet he has enormous feet, like his brother.

DebitheScot, I must object, you have knocked me off the youngest spot!

Hi everyone, I've been at work for the last 3 days and only just had a chance to catch up. Welcome Debithescot, you young whippersnapper! I suppose online I could pretend I was 25 but I'm typing here on a friday night with my slippers on fgs!
Baby has been hugely active and beating me up regularly, I was quite glad to read everyone else's posts re the same thing as I had one of those email updates on "your baby this week" and it said I would be feeling LESS movement around now as baby would be squashed! Was quite concerned mine might be hyperactive already. Or it could come out ready to go on one of the "child modelling" threads cos it could already do Act 1 of Riverdance....

DebitheScot- I've just realised we're both on the same thread about Frimley Park Hospital, and we're due 10 days apart. We'll ahve to arrange a secret wave or handshake to identify each other if we're in at the same time!
I go there a lot at the mo...... can be found lurking in the diabetic clinic on a monday afternoon.

Hey PR, I was tapping away on a Friday night and I am 25! lol

morning all. I wish someone would knock me off the oldest spot - I feel so old.

Had to console childminder this morning, she is very upset about the neighbour losing her baby. Apparently the neighbour came home and had to be carried out of the car by her mother and MIL.

The latest news is she had simply stopped feeling the baby move and thought she was gathering her energy ready to be born the little boy keeps asking where his baby sister is . It's the funeral today....

This all does make me very guilty for whinging on but wanted to share my latest ailment which is a (really quite nasty, to be serious) pain right at the front of my pelvis when I walk or take big steps. DH says I should mince everywhere. It also hurts to drive and roll over in bed and get in and out of bath. God, I am falling to bits.

Got to work this morning and only two car parking spaces left. Managed to squeeze my little car in, seeing as the Clio in the next bay had gone over the white line (and we all know how big Clios are don't we?). Was proud of squeezing in, but only until got door open and realised I could only just get out because of my huge gut!!!!!!!!!! AND I've got to get back in after work tonight