PART 3!! Sept-2012 Baby Bus!! Christmas-and-New-Year-Shaggers-all-aboard!

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Cant see another one anywhere on the board and part 2 is full up (finally) so here is part 3! (unless I'm just being a moron and missed it?)

Chat more please ladies, we are too fat and useless to do anything else! ;)

cakelady my midwife wouldn't get me anything on prescription when I asked her but I know there is something you can take while pregnant. Although I don't think it's any of the ones you can buy off the shelf.
Your GP can prescribe it. If you can bear to wait that long without scratching your own eyes out!

Natural remedies are to put vaseline around your nostrils to keep the pollen out, wrap around sunglasses to protect your eyes when outside and local honey.
I hate honey but found it's bearable dissolved in a cup of black coffee.
It's best to get honey from a beehive within 7 miles of where you live.
You'd be surprise how easy it is to get hold of. Local farm shop or garden centre should have some.

Sympathy to those suffering with hay-fever. Hope you feel better soon. I'm struggling too, got a virus picked up from dd and it's gone on my chest. It hurts every time i breath and coughing is unbearable; my pelvic floor can't take it and I'm like some wheezy incontinent granny!!! Joy of joys

The midwife told me that you can take piriton for hayfever and they can prescribe it for you if you want to take advantage of free prescription thing. I was suffering a couple of weeks ago but mines gone now, it's such an annoying allergy.

Hello! Glad to hear you are all wiggling and waddling along nicely! I had my 28 week app a fortnight ago and now a massive 6 week gap until 34 weeks.

I did NCT last time and made lots of lovely friends that I still see often. Last night I went to an NCT homebirth workshop thingy and thought it was a waste of time, really fluffy and setting the NHS up as "them" whereas the NHS one I attended was brilliant, lots of useful real info like what kit to expect the midwives to turn up with, what's useful for me to have ready etc.

Ok personal question - how is everyone's sex drives? I was really mad for it first time round but now, urgh no, really really don't fancy it - feel too tired and unattractive

Thanks for the hayfever advice ladies, i'm not too bad today which is good, but I will ask midwife at appt next week if it gets really bad again.

MakeTea - what sex life?! I honestly havent had any urge/desire/anything at all!! I do feel bad for my husband, but he's incredibly patient and lovely and not been pushy at all.

Hi all,

Really good luck to all those moving house - my best friends have just bought a place and I'm having to hold back on my nesting urges because otherwise I'll end up decorating their house as well as my own (well, DH is decorating, I am supervisor and designer)!!!

Is anyone else finding it a bit of a slog now? I realised yesterday that I worked my dates out wrong, and I've got 5 weeks left of work rather than 4 . I blame slowly melting baby brain. I know I'll be thrilled at the end with my new baby, but blimey, nine months is a long time!

clearly hormonal today. I cried when I heard Ed Sheeran Small bump on the radio this morning then ate a whole pack of Jaffa cakes (feeling a bit sick now). Then baby pram arrived and been drawn to tears again.... lordy WTF?

So glad I've practically wound down work now but too much time on my hands and no energy to do anything about it.

Wish those moving good luck, have no idea how you do it at this stage!

pgreen that song should be banned! he only has to say the first word of it and I am in floods of tears, in fact I'm welling up now just because you mentioned it! dear god lol!

maketea my sex drive comes in fits and starts, weeks of nothing and then all of a sudden I have a few days when I cant get enough of attempting to and never finding anyway thats actually comfortable lol, still got to have a go though! Think its on the downward slope now though.. 'Til I get my "help things get started" mood towards the very end...

Certainly no sex here! I feel so unattractive anyway and luckily the doctor has banned it as my membranes have a hole in them it's easy for infections to get in so no sex allowed! DH did say the other day that he was really looking forward to having me back to normal, I'm not sure he realises it might be a while longer after the baby's born before I'm feeling remotely inclined!

No energy for that sort of hanky pankie Also many be tmi but feel bit swollen in the undercarriage area so not sure how comfortable it'd be!

I have 2 questions for you lovely ladies:

1. Anyone know of any decongestants I can use to clear sinuses?
2. How many cellular blankets do you think is appropriate? Was thinking maybe 2 or 3. One for Moses basket, one for pram maybe a spare? Is that OTT?

in advance

twizzle we swaddled DD in celular blankets for the first few weeks until she was big enough for sleeping bags. And if she was sick or did a poo in the night (or several such incidents) we could get through 3 or 4 per night. The great thing about them is that they dry very quickly so if you put a wash on in the morning they should be ready by bedtime.

twizzle we won't be using cellular blankets, baby will go into merino sleeping bags straight away, as we found DS slept far better in those than in anything else, and the sooner we can get this one sleeping through the better - DS was doing it by 7 weeks, so will be interesting to see if this one is quicker if we use them from the outset....but i would back up madmonkeys in that whatever you use, you will need lots of them. We never had an issue with leaky nappies (highly recommend pampers new baby, followed by pampers baby dry) but DS had (and still has) reflux and so we would get through so many things with him being sick - as a result we now have lots of sleeping bags, lots of bra's for me, lots of duvet covers and fitted sheets for our bed and lots of bath towels to minimise the amount of sick that would go on our bed etc(as i would feed him in bed as he was in our room till just over 5 months) as he would very regularly feed from me and then throw up the entire contents of his stomach - far more than a muslin could ever hope to cope with!!! and have bought a new sick bowl in case this baby is as sicky as DS was - as our current sick bowl now lives in his room as if we are very quick we can often catch it in there now as we can tell the signs when he is going to do it....

Hey ladies

Just got back from growth scan my small babies measuring fine on 50th percentile, and weighing aprox 4ib 7oz, that'll be those steroids I had a few weeks ago.

Consultant felt baby very low can bearly feel head less than 1/5 felt oh bollocks! With my cervix already starting to thin at 28 weeks he seems to think she'll arrive sooner rather than later! Good job we've nearly got everything sorted

Hope you ladies are coping with this warmer weather its doi ng my head in already, hopefully it wont last too long, hub y says im just being mean saying that!

Can anyone recommend good slings? im off to buy one tomorrow don't wanna spend a fortune but want a good one

Maketeasnotwar - my sex drive has gone through the roof!! Feel horny most of the time!! Though saying that it is difficult to actually do the deed with a massive bump and zero energy!! We keep trying though, ha!!
Though like some of you, I dont actually feel very sexy or attractive but DH must still think I am!!

twizzle - we have bought 2 cellular blankets, a 'normal' blanket, 2 swaddling blankets and a gro-bag! Not sure which we will use, when and where etc yet but thought it might be wise to get a few different types and experiment with them when abby is here to see which s/he likes the best.

Sorry, cant help with the decongestant stufff but hope you're ok!!

Ju1es - cant help on the sling front either - we have decided not to bother getting one. Hope you find something suitable though!!

We started to wash the beddings, flannels and muslin cloth we bought... When I was unwrapping them from the original packaging I thought I was being a little OTT but noting what others have said here I think it's better to have some spare than to run out in the middle of the night...

I think we are quite lucky that its not too hot this summer...(although it would be nice if we get more sunny days...)

Ju1es I think slings seem to really be a personal preference thing, but in my opinion and experience you get the best ones off the net not the high street! My faves are the Mei Tai style, but I did quite like my ring sling too, though not for long.

www.meitaibaby.com/ You can get them from various diff sites though, so shop around!

Where did everyone buy their Muslins, sheets, etc am trying to find cheapest and could do with some help? X

Hi Rachel,

We also got ours from the cheapest place possible (seems a waste to spend a lot when they'll be use to wipe up yucky stuff!) - we got some from Wilkinsons (don't know if you've got any of those in your area?) and some from Aldi when they had their last baby event on. Both places were about a £1/cloth.

Planning on getting some more from Ikea at about £1.50/cloth, and I noticed Asda are about the same price. hope this helps!

Nope no aldi or wilkinsons nearest is 150+ miles from me. I'm from northern Ireland :) will check out asda.. Thanks tho xx

rachel i got packs of muslins for DS from asda direct website, and pretty sure they still sell them. They were packs with a light blue one, a dark blue one, and a patterned one. Also got some plain white ones, think from Tesco. It meant i could put one of each colour/pattern into bag when we went out, and it would be easy to then remember which one had been sicked on/which was clean, rather than having to sniff them or get sick on me!! Asda direct has lots of very cheap bits on it, just have to go through every category as its a bit weird where they hide some of them!

oh and re slings, i keep hearing lots and lots of good things re ergo carriers, don't damage babies hips like baby bjorn and similar ones do, there is a legit stockist in Peterborough so i'm going to wait until baby is here and then go over and try them on to see how they feel....we have a tomy one and a close one but i didn't find the tomy one comfy (we'd bought it for DP to use) and the close one just didn't feel secure and made all my clothes look highly unflattering...hoping the ergo lives up to my expectations as it would be really handy to have my hands free so can still do stuff with ds while baby sleeps on me...

rachel here you go - direct.asda.com/george/baby/muslin-squares/3-max-muslin-squares/GEM80133,default,pd.html

they do them in pink as well, i can't remember who is having what on here!!

Rachel I highly recommend checking out an NCT nearly new sale if you've got any near you - I've picked up all sorts for pence.

i got my muslins off ebay - brand new in pack, i've got white, yellow and purple ones. Think they're Junior Joy brand.

We've started washing everything and getting things in baskets.
This weekend its getting my hospital bag together and my nans 95th birthday party, and trying to find some curtains with blackout lining and a nice lampshade.
Have lovely weekends! :-)

We've been given a baby bjorn carrier & I want a Mei Tai one for when the baby is tiny, I've been looking on eBay for that, I'm hoping to get a Mam baby wearing coat too!

we had a 31 wk check yesterday, tracking 50th centile & head down already so it's all good here, also the midwife thinks she can talk sense into DH about a homebirth!

On the sex front, I'm horny all the time - poor DH is starting to get a 'hunted' look

Is anyone else suffering from PREGNANCY RAGE though? mostly with strangers but occassionally with family members? My mum won't give over that I know what sex the baby is (I'm firmly on team surprise) and that I'm not telling her... not sure why, because I'm spiteful perhaps, so is over analysing every thing I say to try to work it out. This week it was because I mentioned a 'viking hat' complete with horns (this one: hat - how cool?!) , this means I must know I'm having a boy apparently. I mean wtf? it's a hat! There may have been swearing about her giving up and leaving me alone or I'd never tell her what the sex was, ever. And relax.

Enormo post, sorry!