Due in November 2006 Part 3

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seeing as the ;ast thread has over 1000 posts i thought it was time for a new one!

Hi everyone

Have been reading the last few days posts. Thank you to everyone who welcomed me! Congrats, fatbetty, on your little girl.

Can't remember who mentioned potty-training - but it is a good idea to start now if your DS is ready and willing to do it - easier in summer, and better than leaving it till late in pg or just after your new baby's born. My DS was late, as he was ready at 2.5 when DD was born but regressed, as they often do when a new sibling arrives.

Leg cramps at night are awful - I had them in previous pgs but not this time (not yet) but get numbness and pins and needles in hands when I wake up in the mornings. Sleep's getting harder in this heat.

I don't mind the heat so much during the day if I can stay in the shade - the sun's too strong for me. I had my feet in the kids' paddling pool today. Also eating salads with cold food from the deli counter, houmous, pasta salads, potato salads, cold meats, as too hot to cook. Only doing minimal housework till it gets cooler! We're outside most of time so don't notice the accumulating dirt .

Hattie - I too am finding it hard sometimes when people tell me what to do. I'm enjoying this stage of my pregnancy and know I should appreciate not having to do the more strenuous jobs at work, but I just feel useless and it annoys me when people tell me I shouldn't be doing certain things. I suppose they have only got my best interests at heart so I shouldn't complain.

Fatbetty - I know my friend had thrush in pregnancy. She was prescribed something by the doctor but it was just the same as something you can buy over the counter at Boots - canisten I think. Best to see GP before taking anything though.

Chubley - A pregnancy physotherapist told me that you can prevent swollen hands/pins and needles in hands or wrists by pumping your fingers each night and morning for a few minutes. Opening and closing your hands and bending fingers like this gets the circulation going. Hope this description is ok, I don't know how else to describe it.

Morning all

Just to let you all know babies r us have a sale on at the moment, and I saved £££££'s last night trawling through it all There is only one thing I like better than shopping, and that is shopping for a bargain!! LOL I have got all of the nursery stuff (it is the peek-a-boo range if anyone fancies a nosy!) I got (all cot bed size) 4 sheets, 4 fleece blankets, 4 cotton blankets, 2 quilts and pillow cases (for when the baby is a bit bigger) 4 cuddle robes, 4 flannels, curtains, light shade, cot tidy, nappy stacker, cot bumper, and from the 'le petit Chien' range I got the bath and top 'n' tail bowl, and I got a set of three rattan baskets with blue gingham material inserts (to match the nursery range) all for just under £200 - I know it sounds a lot of money - and it is a lot of money - but when I have added other ranges up it came out close to £400!! I have still got to get a changing mat, a clock, and some other decorative bits but other than that, I think the nursery is sorted, well after it hads been decorated and new carpet put down!

Sorry I know I am worbling on again!

Congrats on all the scans and to those of you have found out the flavours

I am off to sit in the garden and enjoy the sun TC xxx

Hi

I get pins and needles in my fingers and in my little toe for some bizarre reason will try your idea !!!

Just thought I would mention to those of you who were on the TTC boards with us, Peachy has started a 'Graduates from TTC' thread in the ante-natel section if you are interested

i would like to share with you all how stupid my dp is..... when i was sorting out ds room recently i found a few tops and sleepsuits etc size 0-3months so i thought i'd wash them up ready for new baby, left all the clean clothes in the basket for a couple of days not thinking anything of it... dp being the lazy sod he is just grabbing clothes out of their... today i have just found one of these tops screwed up in a ball covered in food!! so i asked dp if ds had worn this, yes he had, so i asked how it fit.. apparently it fit just fine.. so i put the top on ds... the sleeves were tight and came to his elbows, but the body of it came just below his chest... he really is that stupid.. ds is 17 months and a big boy (off the scale on the height centile, average for weight though) how on earth did he think this fitted him... i just hope he didn't take him out in public... how embarassing... nad it's not as if ds doesn't have clothes, he's got too many (guilty grandparents on both sides living in london always sending stuff) it's made me wanna cry, why?

of all the men in the universe why did i fall in love with that one????

please tell me i'm not the only one breeding with a mindless idiot!!

lol oh sarahlou I shouldn't laught but you're post sounds so similar - my SIL dispares of her other half, has no idea if things fit or go together and usually ends up having to take both her girls back into the house to change them before daring to venue even to the local park.

I think DH might struggle as well when the baby arrives cause then we'll have 2 loads of clothes to sort out and if they are both boys I can see the baby ending up in DS stuff and vice versa.

Take care today everyone and make sure you drinks LOADS of water

h x

this is my concern, when new baby is here will dp be trying to dress ds in newborn clothes and vice versa.... don't even get me started on outfits that go together, ds's nursery must think we're colour blind!!! he just finds it funny!!

Awww saralou, my DH is exactly the same, he can barely manage to put his own clothes on with out asking me if he looks daft, and then when I say it looks fine he always says I am lying or joking or something... and men say we are caught up in fashion....!

When I get DS's clothes out of the drawers, if I know DH is going to be home the next morning, I always put the clothes I want him to pick on top of everything else, because I know he only opens the t-shirt drawer and grabs the first one, and then opens the trouser drawer and grabs the first pair, so that way what he grabs, matches and looks nice, and DH thinks he made a good choice

it's 44 degrees in my garden... nowhere is safe!

i also try doing that, but sometimes i can't and these are the consequences! i'm gonna try selling him on e-bay i think!

LOL Oh no, you can't inflict him on to someone else, you took him on so live with it - the rest of us have to!!!

lol nj - don't remind me!!! i'd kill him but we don't have life insurance right now!!

My DH has to remind me time and again that I won't get his pay out if I kill him!! LOL

Bless him, here I am moaning on about him, and he has just rang to say there has been a nasty accident on the motorway he is on, 100 yards infront of him, matching shorts and t-shirts isn't really the be all and end all.

(It is still fun to moan though!! )

it's certainly cheered me up!! made me forget im bloody hot too!!! have to move away from the computer now as i'm getting sunburn through the window... catch up later

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cranberry juice is for cystitis and other urine infections, not thrush.... canesten is good, but i don't think you can use pessary's

Went to the doctors this morning and he thought it might be more of a urinary infection. So he took a urine sample and sent it to the lab. He did give me some Amoxicillian (sp?) and said I could take it but he wasn't completely sure if it was urine infection or thrush (in either case, it's not the most comfortable thing to have) but we are off on holiday tomorrow and suggested that I call back in on Monday to get the results to make sure that I don't need further meds. Hopefully the medicine will help and I don't have to worry about it.

But for future information if any of you, you can use canestan and a pessary - but would ask the doc first.

It is so hot!!!! I think I'm going to go and grab some ice cream, sit in front of the fan and watch Neighbours while my kids are resting.

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sarahlou - my DH has just left his mobile phone in a shop at Paddington Station. He is probably on teh train back to Yorkshire by now. Thats daft! And you should see the combinations of colours and patterns he puts our boys in, they can always tell at the nursery if Daddy has dressed the twins!

it's of no consolation that other people suffer along side me.... why can men get away with this?? spoke to mil today, she's coming to visit next week so she phoned me to emphasise to dp to not drag his feet and to be ready on time as i will be at work the day she arrives!! as she was telling me how useless he is at these things i pointed out that he's her son to which she said i have no-one else to blame really then do i!! so i blame the mothers and it's up to us lot to not do the same things to our ds's and ruin them for their futures wives/partneres!!

LOL SaraLou, my DS can already put colours together better than my DH!!

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