Brilliant question about clothes, seconds - I have a followup. What is a vest in this country? I think of a little cotton ribbed thing, which has arm and neck holes but no sleeves, and goes down to the waist. Is that right? All my nieces and nephews always wore vests when babies, but I just haven't seen them here. Usually they would be layered under a onesie, or something. I have got some little things with short and long sleeves which snap together between the legs, but don't have long legs. What are they called? I probably need to buy some... trousers? tights? to go with them, so the Bean doesn't have cold legs. Right?
I had a conversation along these lines with my husband while we were at the shops today, and we just looked at each other blankly and said 'We're really crap at this.'
Pretty tired today - we threw a very elaborate early Christmas dinner for friends yesterday (we usually do it in mid-December, but given I'm due then we had to reschedule), four courses with all the trimmings. Everyone (but me) got completely sloshed, and more than one might have been slightly ill as a result... no sympathy from me! But I didn't get to bed until 3am and I had been on my feet all day. Definitely felt the pregnancy yesterday. Today I think I might have been having BH contractions - tightish feelings, not very distinct, and some period-type pains. Nothing too bad.
Today we went to pick out a pram/pusher/whatever it's called over here, and found out that John Lewis isn't accepting orders for the one we want as there is such a backlog that they won't be ready until February! Very crap. So back to the drawing board...