We're BROOKING NO ARGUMENT for easy and blooming pregnancies and pain free sneeze births (part 9)

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Here we go again.......

cakes the Moses basket I have has plastic screws and washers that just thread through basket weave and the curved bits in the hood. There are seams in the fabric to thread these through.It is attached just behind the handle. For the covers there is a layer of padding that goes around the edge then the cover goes over that, elasticated at the ends and ties around the handles.hth. I am hoping once the mattress goes in everything will stay in place:)

Our Moses basket was the same but we never used the hood and just took it off in the end. I need to buy a new mattress for ours when mil and fil bring it back down from sils this weekend.
Can anyone recommend a good baby bouncer chair? We borrowed one last time but it wasn't that great. But it was tres useful....

I have a second hand Hauck chair. It rocks, has no vibrating gizmo and the back adjusts to a more upright position so can be used for early weaning. I don't think they are very expensive new but they do pop up on eBay occasionally.

we had a cheap fisher price one last time which was fine. it did have vibrations which DS seemed to like and fall asleep to. he loved that chair and it enabled me to get lots of showers in relative peace!

we need to get a new one actually, had been looking at one on amazon recently. the baby bjorn one looks nice and lasts longer than 6 months, bit expensive though!

Urgh, the clocks have stuffed me and DD too fishcake... Today i was determined to get her up at 7am as usual an ddown for nap dead on time and bedtime would be ok.... Needless to say it hasn't happened, and there is shouting, singing etc coming from upstairs, but I can't face going up again yet, and I don't know what I'd do if I did- but it's 9:10pm DD, go to sleep!!!! My biggest mistake was thinking that because I still have heartburn the ranitidine wasn't working, so I thoguht why continue a prescription drug needlessly. OMG, it's clearly the stuff of the gods, last night was true agony, and I'm not 100% sure why I didn't take it at a different time to normal... but i didn't and so when DD was dozing this morning I did too, we didn't get up til 8am, she napped til nearly 3, and now bedtime is up the creek... ARGH!!!!!!!

8 days to go for you fishcake, I'm very excited, and how great your trace was good and bp good. I will Brook No Argument that you get renters in with no messing about and the mega-move goes smoothly, newborn and all.

We've got a travel cot with basinette level for the twins to sleep in- figure better than a moses basket, high up, and you'll use it til they're 2 anyway on holiday, visiting family etc. Never used basket hood either. Blinking basket!

good luck pops, I was terrified of my scan being heartbeat-less etc despite so many strong symptoms and all the anti-emetics I was taking. It'll be wonderful Let us know asap!

oh jaggy I've been massively hormonal the last couple of days, its ridiculous. Something really minor is going to set me off soon, I can tell. Still, better than trying to hold it in I guess?
I think I shall do some research into bouncy chairs....

Jaggy, you are perfectly entitled to be tired and emotional and to cry! I have done a lot of crying in the last couple of days - stupid sleep deprivation/hormones/whatever it is! 5 shifts left is great, hurray! Being off work is the best feeling.

Grandma gave us a swing chair that swings and sings automatically, but so far Maia screams when she's put in it . Maybe it makes her seasick. Hopefully she'll like it when she's a bit bigger.

Gaah, why can't I sleep? Bean is asleep and I had dinner then tried to go to bed but sleep eludes me. I will so regret this later on when she's cluster feeding ALL NIGHT.

I have been feeling abit emotional too, knowing DH is going away on weds probably isn't helping! Also I was meant to be having tomorrow at home as a study day to get cracking on one of my essays but a staff member has phoned in sick so I will have to go in so the person covering me can cover the sick person instead!:( gah! I could do without the stress. I am going to bed now.

Another one here where tears are now a daily occurence. Actually more like 3 times today . I get mad with myself for being a mardy grump, when being pregnant and having a baby is what I wanted for so long. I guess it's down to sleep deprivation and hormones. I feel terrible because DS has seen me ranting at DH a few times now, but I can't seem to stop myself even though I know I shouldn't. I have to keep telling myself that it's temporary and DS will soon forget all about it. Surely I won't feel such irritation towards DH once the baby has arrived? We were so loved up after DS arrived, it just feels different this time but I'm not sure why.

jaggy I bought the Baby Bjorn chair a few weeks ago. I really wanted it first time round but made do with a much cheaper Chicco one. Then every house I seemed to go round had a Baby Bjorn and I was . Especially as DS learned to tip himself out of his by the time he was 5 months. I left him for a minute one day and then found him face down strapped in with the chair on top of him so never used it again after that. The Baby Bjorn is supposed to go up to 2 years so that's how I justified the expense!

The clocks have put us in a spin too. It took DS until 10pm tonight to get to sleep. Most unlike him.

thanks all :) up too late again but will be determined to have a better day tomorrow. i just got a bit behind with work and instead of knuckling down to sort it when i had plenty of time, i did my usual and panicked and procrastinated, leaving a big rush at the end and work to catch up tomorrow.

i so wanted to hang out with DS when i got in, as he was asleep when i went out, but i didn't want to freak him out with blubbering mummy.

i think it's a lot different this time scarlet, i can't just come home and sleep as DS wants to play and needs fed and sorted out!

have probably committed myself to a bit much this week in and out of work, so am flapping a bit. roll on Monday when I'm free!

DS was awake till 10 as well, think this clocks changing will take a wee while to sort!

night all. x

Excuse the very quick message, must get back to work

Back from the scan, and the verdict is that I am in fact pregnant, did POAS correctly, and haven't just eaten too many pies!

Dragon Baby had a little beating heart and waving arms and legs, and even managed what looked like a little yawn for us. I promptly burst into tears (and got told off for making the baby move in the wrong direction ). At which point the scanner asked if we'd been trying long, I said a year, and she commented how it really wears you down - and though it was just a passing comment it really touched me and made me feel like less of a loon. (In the car, DH said when she'd said "it really wears you down" he'd thought "yeah, all that sex was really tough..." typical man :o )

Then was in such a daze I forgot to collect my 20 weeks scan appointment on the way out, d'oh!

Oh and they moved my dates to 12+3 which is a physical impossibility (I was charting and hadn't ovulated at that point!) but whatever :o

Absolutely marvellous news pop think I cried in all my many scans with DS2 no shame in it I think, don't they know you are a brooker? (will pm you DH's name for your list then if we ever meet in Rl I'll spot you a mile off )

Think it is easier not being pg but having two nippers to deal with does mean that you feel everyone is getting a rough deal at times. However we managed an amazing day here yesterday. DH working really long hours so I did the lone parent thing all day and I only lost my temper when trying to put both boys to bed and they were both shouting. It can be done (just may never actually happen again :o)

Ohhh do it hawthers I'm dying to know DH's secret superhero identity name (and I promise not to divulge) :o

DH has now started referring to him/her as Squidward, sigh.

popcorn what lovely news! So glad there wasn't a little pie on the screen and it was a baby instead! I bet sonographers see tears all the time. Very glad all was well and the baby was wiggling about for you.
I'm not surprised you feel different this time scarlet as you've had a stressful time with builders in and it really imposes on even the most placid of people. Add that to be pregnant and uncontrollably hormonal and I'm not surprised there are tears. Can you explain to you ds that pg sometimes makes you go a bit 'not in control of how you feel', would he understand? (sorry I can't remember how old he is).
Big slap on the back to hawthers for excellent parenting skills. I'm impressed.
We're off to the Natural History museum today I think, ds wants to see the dinosaurs, go on a train and have an ice cream. I'm planning things to do on tuesdays between now and baby arriving so we can spend some really nice time together. I sooooo hope the weather stays like this for a while. We have also decided on going to the cinema and going on a boat trip down the thames so thats the next few weeks sorted! Right, off to have a shower and get on with the day. Poor ds is complaining of a hurt knee, I think he twisted it at nursery yesterday so a bit of calpol before we set off and the promise of an ice cream should get us there....laters y'all x

Fantastic news Popster - so so pleased to hear your scan news

I agree Hawthers about feeling that everyone gets a raw deal sometimes when you're looking after both of them. And bed time is the worstest! I've been doing the lone parent thing too as DH is busy.

Poor DS2 wanted feeding last night when it was DS1's bedtime so poor DS1 had to endure a grizzly baby interrupting his story and DS2 had to wait for his food. In fact he seems to always time wanting a feed with me needing to either take DS1 somewhere or pick him up from nursery or some such thing!

I'm hoping though that ds2 is just having a bit of a growth spurt and once the feeding settles down I'll BR able to multi task a bit better

of your trip to the NHM Ninja. We took DS1 in the summer and he loved it - it was awesome! Enjoy!

Exactly the same here re feeding biscuits though DS1 has taken to saying 'feed him mummy' when DS2 cries - bless.

Have pm'd you pops :)

Oooo ninja can I come? Sounds like an amazing day out, bet he'll love it :)

Hawthers DS2 was grumbling in the car seat this morning as we were just about to set off for nursery and DS1 was very patiently explaining to him that when he (DS2) and I went to pick DS1 up from nursery then he could have some food as soon as we got home, which was exactly what had happened yesterday and I'd been trying to get ds1 to walk quicker so I could get home to feed DS2

Yay for the scan Pop, I had bad morning sickness from week 5 - 14. It was all day every day but I still had a thought in the back of my mind that maybe I was wrong and the scan would show nothing. The worst one for me was the 20 week scan as I had still felt no movement at that point and both me and DH were worried that it was bad.

Yay for the NHM Ninja! That's exactly the kind of thing I can't wait to do with our LO!! I'm not so sure I'm a natural Mummy when it comes to tiny people (under 2 years) but once they're more 'child' than 'baby' I'm really looking forward to all the stuff we can do!!

Hawthers nice work on the dual parenting! (Clearly that's you done for the year and from now on your DH should have to do all the bedtimes )

Popcorn hurray for a great scan! Such a relief I'm sure, and also very exciting!! You're now sonographer-endorsed, which is even better than mw-endorsed (because mw's just take your word for it - I spent my booking in appt wondering if I was inadvertently kidding both myself and the mw!)

I hope all the kiddies who've been thrown by the changing clocks catch up today. Lot's of No Brooking needed there, because sleep is precious and elusive at this stage!!

Bit gutted, all the ladies from my NCT class are meeting up for lunch for the first time today, at a lovely little cafe just moments from my house. I can't go though because my hips have been nightmarish since I had friends over on Sunday. I can barely sit up on the sofa at home, and walking even a few steps is a big no-no, so there's no way I could get to this cafe and sit on the wooden chairs. Sooooooo disappointed though. DH is concerned at me being trapped in the house and keeps coming up with outlandish endearing suggestions, such as taking one of our own chairs to the restaurant and asking if I can use that! Ultimately I know that I would really regret pushing my body too far today, and I have to be sensible. I wasn't sensible on Sunday and two days later I'm still a wreck. I'm just disappointed to miss out on the getting-to-know everyone stage!

On the plus side I have a new shiny red Nikon 1 camera to play with now! Yay! I've been wanting to learn phototgraphy for ages, I've spent the last few weeks sensibly researching the best entry-level DSLR camera to buy, and then yesterday I discovered that I can't get the DSLR I want in red but the Nikon 1 comes in red and has interchangeable lenses - so for a clueless beginner like me I figured that's close enough! (DH despairs at my inability to separate expensive decisions from my magpie-like need for pretty shiny things! I say this as I type on my still fairly new shiny blue laptop )

Oh Scream what a shame you can't meet up with your friends. Would there be any chance of them nipping in to see you if you're quite close by? I know it's hard though at the 'getting to know you stage'. It's a shame you can't sort of video conference in!

Exciting about your camera though - we got a Canon DSLR for Christmas (joint Christmas present although it was 100% me who wanted it and DH can't even switch the thing on really') but I love love love it and it takes such good photos unless DH is operating it.

And nowt wrong at all in making sure that an expensive purchase is also shiny and pretty - after all you have to keep them for a long time

Scream, I sabotaged our first joint car purchase by refusing to look at 'boring' (ie, cheap) cars - hence we wound up with a shiny blue Mini which broke down every 5 minutes and cost a fortune in spare parts before spontaneously combusting as DH drove it down to the dealer to sell. I am also incapable of separating shiny design features from practical sense. What does DSLR stand for? Poor you having to miss the NCT group . Could you maybe invite them/some of them round to your house instead? Then you could be comfy (and get DH to make the cups of tea!) and sociable at once.

Pop, hurray for the scan and Dragon Baby! Impressed by the name - is it a Chinese Year inspired one?

Result: it only took us walking through the village three times with pram prominently displayed to run into the breast-feeding peer supporter! She has a baby girl 9 days older than Maia (a leap year baby) so was easily identified and DH and I basically accosted her and introduced ourselves. Her baby is so much bigger than Bean! We have now exchanged numbers and I look like being absorbed into the village coffee morning set, excellent! Will be much less lonely when DH goes back to work. Had to laugh: after 2 years living here we have now been told where the elusive post office is - down someone's private road with a secret sign (and probably handshake as well) to identify it. The woman who runs it said they didn't like to advertise it!

What a difference a night makes! Bean spared me from cluster feeding last night - slept for nearly 3 hours and then fed for only about 30 mins and actually went straight back down and slept for another 2 hours! I feel human again. The dog jumped on my tummy in the night and it hurts on one side now, but hopefully that'll go away if I lie on the sofa MNing all day.

Biscuits I did think long and hard about inviting them round to my house as an alternative, because I'm just so close to the cafe where they all are, but I couldn't bring myself to do it because my house is so topsy turvy at the moment! With my huge bed in the dining room, plus loads of bedroom-type junk in the dining room as well, the dining table itself and other furniture (new changing table, etc) have been folded up and piled into random parts of the sitting room. So my house is super cramped, and messy at the moment.

It's one thing to have family or really long-term friends over, who've seen my house when it's looking normal and they know this is all temporary. I feel really self-conscious though about inviting round several women who I've never interacted with outside of our classes, to perch on random seats in our completely dishevelled house! It doesn't help that our little cottage is the size of a doll's house, so it would be genuinely difficult to fit them all in at this stage.

I know it's misplaced pride, but it doesn't help that I know at least one of the women lives in one of the multi-million pound 6 bedroom houses further down our road So I'm sitting home-alone as johnny-no-mates for the day nursing my stupid pride! I will definitely have them all over after the birth, when my house is presentable again.

Oooooo loving the Canon DSLR! Which one is it? Also, does this mean you know your way around a proper camera? I'm really hoping to learn, but I can't say I've ever done more than play with the zoom function in the past!