November 2012 - babies arriving thick and fast

[StuntNun]

Previous ante-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/antenatal_clubs/1589461-November-2012-lots-of-babies-that-cant-wait-for-November

Post-natal thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1579907-November-2012-babies-are-here-at-last

I'm just being silly! I might have them professionally cleaned anyway, as I've had everything else done that is in there

Febrese is your friend.

I just had the most delicious cheese fondue with garlic steamed potatoes and pickled onions for dinner... with the complimentary glass of white wine... don't think I'll be moving off the sofa tonight.

Just ate my tea, got a kick and threw up again. Not happy about this new trend.

Just waiting for DH then placing a food order. So far on the list... jacket potatoes

Going back a thread, detective what happened about your toe?

I am having terrible toe trouble. I thought it was my bunion being exacerbated by my huge weight and then I remembered something hugely heavy fell on it yesterday. Is v sore.

I've just had some scrummy beef enchiladas followed by half a cantaloupe melon

Had a few tummy cramps this evening, presume baby is getting in to position

I have optimistically ordered two nursing bras a size smaller than I am now these ones for after the baby's born and a packet of bra extenders just in case. I also washed the baby carrier which amazingly still buckles up just with the straps on their longest setting.

DS2 keeps asking me when his baby brother is going to arrive - he really can't wait! DS1 is a lot more laid back about it (he has been through this before I suppose) but I suspect he'll be pretty excited when it actually happens. I have packed their bags as well in case they need to go and stay with granny and gramps. I'm hoping nothing exciting will happen in the near future because DH has to travel to Scotland for a family funeral on Friday so he'll be away for two nights. Have to cancel my blimmin' midwife appointment on Friday now so I probably won't see her again before the baby arrives.

I phoned my mum up today and told her I had changed my mind and was sending the baby back! I know it's a sin but I was ironing all the tiny moses basket sheets and blankets and thinking about 'feet to foot' and all that malarkey and I just panicked. Mum says it's a bit late to be changing my mind and that if I hadn't got pregnant I would have spent the rest of my life wishing I'd had a third a child. She obviously doesn't realise that I'm tired and hormonal and I don't need good, sensible advice right now.

Can't wait to hear about today's arrivals. Mine can hang in there for another 19 days or so before I'll be buying pineapples etc. I wonder if YW's DH is annoyed that he didn't get to go in the helicopter?

We had home made pizza and chips for tea, wish it had been jacket potatoes now tho!

Saw the consultant this afternoon, she said I was looking peaky, tbh I was struggling to catch my breath after the short walk there. They said I probably have a chest infection and have prescribed antibiotics, but if I don't improve they said I might need an inhaler cos I'm wheezing so much!

Also what is it with our men and cars?! DP's broke down at the weekend and the garage rang tonight to say he's better off getting a new one as his will cost more than its worth to repair! Not what we need 3 weeks before having a baby!!

It is on the mend Sophia! Ended up using some anti fungal cream inside a bandage which helped draw out the crap! It only hurts slightly now!

Managed normal shoes this morning although I didn't exactly walk far!

Cars and boats kissy. It's dh's birthday today and he's been off sailing for all of it. I caved and have let him go for 1 night on the condition he stayed in contact and because I made him cancel all his plans to go sailing/diving for the whole week. The fecking muppet has set off on some half baked mission with a pensioner who has no sailing experience. I have no idea where, or even which coast. (when either of us sail we always make sure we leave a chart with a route mapped out for the other) His phone is out of range and I have no way of contacting him. I'm furious. There's no f-ing way I'm picking him up when he gets ashore and he can sleep in the garage. He really needs to grow up in the next few weeks, me being pregnant has turned my once sensible, level headed man into a reckless teenager!

I've given him an inch and he's taken miles and miles of nautical miles. Right now I could kill him. And no, IANBU!!

I swear if he behaved like this before we got pregnant I would have left him. I don't do unreliable or wreckless, and he knows this.

Just tried my tens machine.....

Jesus!!!! Upset the baby on the lowest setting!!

Mm hope you get hold of him!!

Right now it's probably just as well I can't horsey - I have a few choice words for him!

You should get a tens and strap it to him. Seriously!!

MM that sucks - I'd kill him :(

I've just had chicken in tomato sauce and rice, courtesy of DP. Very nice.

tits I think you need to speak to someone different if you can, and see if you can't find someone who is a bit more sympathetic to your plight.

kissy hope you're feeling better soon.

Never did get round to looking at tens machines......

Back from my hypnobirthing. I guess it's doing what it's supposed to because each week I come out and think 'I can't wait'. Friday I'm 37 weeks which is full term so from then on I'm trying everything to get this baby out (which means I'm bound to go to 42 weeks )

Speaking of dinner, I had a homemade fish pie with green beans. Yummy.

Oooh i've just had an email to say my TENs machine has been dispatched.

Those of you who have packed their hospital bags, have you packed it completely? Because I won't have much to wear if I pack it all so i'm sort of developing piles of things in the nursery at the moment.

Also, stupid question time... Next First Size babygrows will be big enough won't they?

Fatima - no not everything. I have nothing to wear to go home in as I hardly have any clothes to wear normally!!

Depends how big your baby is Fatima. My next first size stuff says 7.8lbs so if you have a whopper they may not fit. My auntie had a big baby and most of the newborn clothes she had wouldn't even fit over his head!

MM I'd go ape shit... but then me and you may be on the same end of the hormonal wire .

I'd do the only thing I could right now. Feck off and disappear on him for a day or two and make him sweat. A lot.

Fatima I've got the majority of clothing from Next. If I was packing a hospital bag, I'd be putting in 6 first size, and pop 2 extra in the up to 1 month size.

I find Next sizes are annoying me. DS was 8lb 5, and the Next newborn size fitted him well, and for a few weeks after birth. I have one baby grow from when he was born. Turns out they have messed with the sizing! Their smallest size 10 years ago was newborn - and this is up to 10lb according to the label! Their up to 1 month size is now 10lb. So I bought lots in that size. Except when I put the older babygrow next to the newer ones, the older one is clearly smaller.

Basically, they have changed their bloody sizing! Gits! So I had to go out and get some first size stuff! Which is up to 7lb8 or whatever! But to be honest - most newborns need the first sizes, 0-3 is always massive on them! It is rare that the stuff is too small! More likely to be too big in my experience!

Thanks kirrin

My DD only fit her newborn stuff for about 2 weeks fatima but she was 9lb 2 so quite a big un

The gros should have a weight on them. Not sure how next work their sizes but I think they are one of the more generous brands. My kids have never fitted in gap even though they are now both average size.

I cannot believe how wonderful my DH is being. He is doing things without being asked and has worked so hard today around the house. Perhaps it is the fact that we have three more sleeps to go. And the fact that I can barely walk due to pelvic pain. It has just got bad so sudden. I am kinda walking with my knees together. Not attractive.

I think the weights on them are rubbish! It is more the length that makes them not fit. And clearly a newborn weighing 9lb who is 55cm may not fit in the first size for long, as they would be long. Where as a 9lb 50cm baby is shorter, and will fit for longer.

I don't think that explanation worked, but basically, I reckon they should give sizes in height not weight!

Detective I'm debating moving in with my mum when his folks are over at the weekend. Or being the hostess from hell (they can't dislike me more than they already do). Not that I'm petty or anything....

Next's sizing does seem more generous than other places though. Their 0-3 months clothes are way bigger than the 0-3 months things I've bought elsewhere.