June 2013 - thread 6 - will this thread see any early arrivals?

[AlohaMama]

Welcome back all June-ers, just realised we were about to run out of space on the old thread.

Mines still an innie like you red it has stretched but it is still in... For now

Mine has been stretched to being flat, but depending on baby's position there's a bit of skin which sometimes sticks out. My belly button ring scar is now stretched over about an inch. Weird indeed!

Citybaby - yep, also been washing everything!!!! I think it's a combination of nesting and the sun finally being out so I can dry things quickly outside (our tumble drier takes over 2 hours for a load, and I hate having all the washing all over the raidators, as we have for months).

I think it's best to get on top of all the nesting now, my friend felt the need to rake her front lawn just before having her baby a couple of weeks ago...

I think i've upset my MIL - on Friday she came over to see DS, I mentioned I was washing everything for the baby and there was a lot of blue - I said if this is a little girl, she's going to have a lot of blue to wear - MIL said that "oh, it's fine for baby grows and vests, they only wear those at home." I said that she'd go out in them too - and that I wasn't over fussed if people thought I'd got a second boy, i wouldn't be throwing out perfectly good baby clothes and some had been really expensive gifts (when we had DS we got some really generous people buying outfits from Harrods and the White company). Thought nothing of it, but it seems she's mentioned to DH about buying the new baby lots of new clothes so they don't just get hand-me-downs. I foresee a sea of pink arriving... (remembering to pick my battles)

I think it depends what position baby is in whether you get an outie also. I had a really deep innie which has been flat for a few weeks but its now a definite outie! Baby is lying LOA at present which means your likely to feel kicks under your ribs and the area by your belly button feels firm. Good position for labour but got a few weeks left yet ....

I get the urge to wash everything when it is good drying weather, so I'm not putting that desire down to nesting!

I'm like you, Dontmind, and hate stuff over the radiators, but there isn't much choice when it is yucky out :-/

I do have a need to keep everywhere clean, tidy and ordered, which is driving DH mad. Men don't get the nesting thing, I don't think. And I forced him to help me do the garden yesterday! He doesn't seem to get that I will just do it myself if he won't. Then he will shout at me. :-/

And just let them buy things, Dontmind...at this stage you need to not get stressed, so if they want to buy stuff, then just go with it! I generally wouldn't, but I've no energy for battles right now, so am letting loads go that I normally wouldn't. People must think I've gone soft!

After a terrible night with dd (she has one of the buckets of green snot type colds) I handed her over to DH so I could have a lie in and was then woken by hom shouting and her screaming all over getting her dressed.

May have seen red and lost my temper with DH, he refuses to understand she is only two and that you reap what you sow. Shout at dd and she shouts back. Figure out why she is upset or cross and though it may not be rational at least she gets heard. So that reduced me to tears. And dd hates me crying and somehow I now need to enjoy my lie in.

Dh however doesn't see he is in the wrong at all, clearly at 6'6 pointing at a toddler and using a threatening voice is perfectly acceptable. Arse.

What does LOA stand for, littlemiss?

Hmmm. Also devating washing the baby things and cot blankets etc today. But didn't really want to start until we'd finished painting.

LOA is left occiput anterior which means baby is head down with their spine on your left hand side - best position for birthing.

Sorry to hear you're having a crap morning Red.

I (stupidly) booked my DH an all day photography course for his birthday and its today. Think I might drive the boys off to my mums for the day!

Thank you :-)

Baby B is still all over the place! Midwife tomorrow, so see where he is then.

Morning all!
Oli- glad that things are a bit better!
Also nice to hear that people are having better nct experiences!

Mrsbri was it you that said about the first bloods we had checking immunity? Was it measles too or just German measles and chicken pox?

It was a lovely day here yesterday so we were out picnicking (?) and playing in the park. Really got me out of rubbish mood thankfully.

I hope everyone has a great Sunday! I'm personally counting down the number of 'that Sunday evening feeling' left dreading work on Monday! Not too many left now!

Hi AmI...I'm afraid I don't know what they were checking as I've never been given my results! Changing from my maiden to married name after booking in seems to have baffled the system. I'll try to remember to ask tomorrow (ha ha!).

We briefly considered a BBQ yesterday, so a picnic sounds lovely :-) And even better that it is pre-wasp season!

Only 2 more Mondays for me. Yay!

Looks like just German measles, but unless your parents chose to not immunise you, you'd have had the measles jab as a child.

www.babycentre.co.uk/a536351/routine-blood-tests-in-pregnancy

MrsBri Babycamper is still moving around - mostly with it's head on my right hand side. I don't think it's been head down once, although it has moved a bit from side to side. It's much more active now, so I'm hoping it's gearing up for a big dive downwards .

I'm doing the laundry by kneeling on the floor to load and unload the machine and I have a small table in the garden near the washing line so that I don't have to keep bending. We have a washer dryer and I don't use the dryer at all if I can help it, for several reasons: because it doesn't cope with the laundry caused by 5 grown people (younger stepson is 17, 22 year old and his girlfriend both live with us); because it takes too long; because the fluff clogs the machine and ends up all over the dark laundry and because it is too expensive. Having some nice drying days has been brill! I vacuumed our room yesterday and moved furniture around so that I can fit the moses basket in. I don't really like sharing, but there isn't room anywhere else in the house for the baby! Goodness knows what we will do if it outgrows the moses basket before the oldest stepson and his partner move out. Mattress in the bath, I think!

I think I need to look in the loft to investigate the emergency washable nappies - they are a bit ratty, but I think some are smaller than the nicer ones that I have out and I don't want to buy more disposables than neccessary.

My navel is still an innie, although it is wider and smoother than before. It was very creased to start with.

I've been spending the morning scanning old photos. It's my parents 40th anniversary this year so we're making them a photo album of them through the years. I've come to the conclusion that 3rd babies don't get photographed as much as there are hardly any of me (3rd baby), quite a few of my sister (2nd baby) and flipping tonnes of my brother (1st baby). So all you ladies having a second or third think about that for when your kids want to surprise you with a nice anniversary present!

It's not like I wasn't cute mutter.....mutter.....mutter

hello all!

aww sunny, maybe you were so cute they didn't want the other two getting jealous lovely present though!

I have spent the morning cleaning the downstairs carpets as stupid dog knocked over a cup of coffee and I couldn't shift the stain without getting the carpet cleaner out. packed the shopping away - although now I realise baby brain and online shopping don't mix - I have a list of things I left off the list and still need to get!! Dp will love me.

had my midwife home visit Friday evening - baby's head is down, bum to the left and feet right side under ribs. and I am pleased to say I can now feel some proper movements, having an anterior placenta has meant they have been muffled and not strong but that's certainly changed the last week or so!

belly button more a flatty now than anything else.

hope everyone has a quiet Sunday afternoon and can recoup a little before the next week.

Our little one is back on my left side today, he decided to move back yesterday and lie in a way that crippled my spine, very happy to wake this morning with him back at the front again, am looking forward to this afternoon, the in laws have visited this weekend which is lovely and all but I'm pooped and have not been fed at regular intervals so am starting to get grumpy!

Goodness, cycle...have they said they're planning on leaving, or is it just you hoping they'll go sooner rather than later?! Let's hope they give you the much-needed space sooner rather than later! :-)

I've been looking at ways to tell which way baby is, and I think we may actually be head down, as I get kicks at or above the belly button. It's so difficult to really tell though! Though we think the Alien movement is baby crossing and uncrossing legs. Hmmm!

Cycle, do you have any inkling what sex Babycamper is? We are team yellow, but I'm utterly convinced we are having a boy. Willing to be proved wrong, as we've no preference :-)

Sunny, that's a lovely gift for your parents. I'll keep that in mind re photos too!

Pink, I'm crap at shopping these days, so I fully understand your issues. Anything which involves memory is a challenge. :-/

Steff, not good re no regular food. Not surprised you're grumpy! Good news re baby moving, however :-)

Sunny - youngest child here too! However, only girl on my dad's side of the family, so hundreds of photos of me in a selection of different girly clothing bought by my Gran who was so excited to finally be able to buy pink!

this one will be getting lots of photos, I've also bought this week a big photo frame that holds multiple photos like the one we have of DS's first year ready to fill with pictures of this one.

Cycle - can you start dropping unsuitable hints, or at least insist on total boob out breast feeding in the lounge. they'll be looking for flats before you can say "colicy baby at 3am feeds".

MrsBri - we're team yellow here, but everyone bar 1 friend is convinced it's a second boy! I don't know, boy would be easier (looks at mountain of blue clothes I've washed and happy with a boys name we can agree on)

Dontmind and mrsbri - I'm team yellow too but everyone except one has said girl. If I were forced to guess I would guess pink but I've no idea :)

We've only had one person say girl, and that's DH's brother.

Strange, isn't it, how people make their decisions?!

Though my family has form for being wrong...my parents were utterly convinced I was a boy, and my sister the same about my niece! So I assume we will end up team pink, ha ha :-)

We're definitely team yellow. Midwife and Dr guess girl, but I don't mind. Girls I look after tend to end up pretty robust, anyway . (Girls are less likely to be autistic so I'd be happy with that!)

dontmind & mrsbri The 22 year old is in his final year at uni, so will probably move out when he gets a job. The 17 year old is getting himslf together, but has aspergers so is likely to be around at least another 2 years (he's hoping to start another college course in September, fingers crossed that they don't ask him to do anything that he doesn't fancy and he might finish it!). I reckon 3 am screaming might hurry them all up, although it is their house, so it has to be their decision to go.

Back now from a nice day at mums, even the drive wasn't too painful as boys watched DVD all the way there. Also managed to leave the kids with her for a bit to escape to mothercare so now have new pjs a nice new tshirt and a lovely summer dress that just about covers my awful knees!

Good point about the photos Sunny - definitely more photos of my first than second, although since third is a girl we could go overboard again! With them both I really tried to take at least one photo each week for the first year and it makes a lovely record of how they change. They both have a huge photo book with all those pics from their first year in there. Must not forget to do this for number 3!!