October 2013 - wobbling and sweating through the last trimester

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Baby due dates/sexes/name choices here

could you take pram and baby carrier soup? I used to push pram there then put shopping in pram back, bit of a faff we usually got it delivered but sometimes its nice to just a) get out of the house and b) choose your own food.
Hope you have a lovely night MoN special takeaway night sounds lovely.
Wedding yesterday was so lovely but now feel like Ive run a 10km race its ridiculous! my whole body aches and I really just sat down the whole day. We left at 10 using DS as our excuse but it was really me who was flagging. Glad you got a dress sorted flyer
pseudo Ive also been living in birkenstocks and have the most ridiculous tan lines because of it but theyre so comfy!!
We used a moses basket for DS last time and the carry cot for the pram downstairs. but he was really lond and grew out of moses basket stupidly quickly. This time have been given a crib which is a bit bigger so hoping it will last longer.
cuille Im flying ryanair on the 6th as well, mine says is 2 weeks before outbound flight but am by no means expecting it to be a hassle free process when do you fly?
Hope those of you stuck in have a lovely night, I vote lots of nice food and a girly movie, Id also normally have a hot bath but its too hot to even enjoy it. bring on more thunderstorms!!

When they refer to third trimester tiredness I think mine may have started. Can hardly keep my eyes open, any other ladies experiencing this yet?

Right there with u flyer x

Flyer......I am exhausted. My children think I'm pathetic for needing to have an afternoon nap but I just can't stay awake

For sleeping, we have a crib in our bedroom and another downstairs. We can also use the carrycot on the pram when out and about. My older 3all stayed in the crib until 6 months which is when they went into their own room and into a cot.

You could always get a bike lock for your pram and lock it to something in the supermarket..
Here there are prams locked everywhere, but crime is generally much lower.

mon such a shame, though you can still have a nice night at home. What are your kids ages? I thought one was old enough so could cover for an hour or two while you were very local!?

Lots of ppl use bike locks at children centre as well.
But I guess it's also an issue of how would you get it back.
Using a sling n the pram to carry shopping is an option.
Or shop with a large bag (as if a basket) on each pram Handel. So you know how much shopping u can carry.
Do heavy shop online, then lighter items from sainsburys.
Ask sainsburys if you can use the vouchers you have to buy gift vouchers, which I think you can use online. Don't forget to join their baby group. You get a free gift.

Also nat you don't need to spend money to pack your maternity bag. Why don't you pack the items you have around the house to make a start. I imagin only things you won't have laying about are maternity pads and breast pads. Both cost less then £5 together from a supermarket. Dh old baggy t shirt to labour in. Comfy socks. A loose t shirt to wear as a nightie, u can just pull it up to BF doesn't need to be maternity. Toiletries, tooth paste and toothbrush, see if you have any sample pots you can empty to put shampoo and shower gel into. Sort thro your knickers and pack the old ones that should have been binned ages ago (admit it ladies we all have a few of them).
At least then you will feel prepared. Then as you have a few pennies to spare buy an item and replace anything you want to have as new.
Tbh I'm doing as above.

Yes I am knackered too flyer. I usually crash at the end of the school year and get really tired and ill for about two weeks but last couple of evenings I have barely kept my eyes open at dinner and think I feel more tired than usually would. 28 weeks tomorrow.

Whoever it was saying they felt a bit cheated of the second trimester I agree, I never had the burst of energy, beautiful skin, rampant sex drive etc. Maybe slightly thicker hair but also sore hips, bad sleep and for the last few weeks hot, sweaty yukkiness.

My second trimester was being sick until 17 weeks and then having spd and heart burn kick in.

Tarlia my oldest is ds who is almost 13. My 10 year old dd is with her dad tonight so I'm sure ds and dd (11) would be fine left in for a while and I could have asked my sis to take Linah who's 4 but Desperate Dan wasn't keen to leave them home alone. Ds would have played Xbox happily while we were out and dd would have just sat on the laptop all night so it's not like they would have been getting up to anything dangerous.
We'll never have any proper time together if he doesn't learn to trust them and things will only get worse when little Eliana arrives.

I'm exhausted too flyer and having much difficulty regulating my body temperature, I am always boiling hot!

Have had a mammoth day today, was in IKEA from 12-7.00 7 hours!! And spent 1000 euros which was 200 over budget. BUT apart from the nursery (which he won't be in until 6m anyway) our home is furnished! Just so much more packing to do and unpacking and cleaning and arranging before move day on Wednesday and I don't know how ill cope! I've no energy at all!

Also bought a new bugaboo fabric set which makes the 6 year old model look brand new, that was definitely worth getting!

Similar ages to my friends kids her oldest two is a ds(14) and dd (11) her youngest are 2 and 3 and she often debates about whether she could leave them alone or not. Its tricky isn't it cos like u say no reason anything dangerous would happen but would u have been able to relax had u gone out. ? Also I think leaving older children depends very much on the child has dh has a much younger sister she is 11 and there is no way I could leave her on her own she's very immature for her age x

Flyer I feel your pain. I am completely exhausted. Would do anything for a day off!

Thanks for the idea gt but for some reason I have an obsession that I need absolutely everything new or my hospital bag, absolutely no idea why I have this urge to have it new?

Excellent news about your fully furnished house umlauf :-) as u say no rush for nursery furniture x

I've been fed and watered now and dh is out isit too early for bed? Lolx

I've often suggested to Do that we get the older 3 a DVD and a pile of sweets to occupy them then we only need to find a babysitter for the 4 yr old but he won't do it. He's worried the neighbours might report us. He won't listen when I tell him that it's not actually illegal.
He'll happily leave them in during the day while we go to the supermarket or whatever so not sure why he views night as any different really unless he believes in the bogey man.

I also have no energy and even the thought of upcoming holidays is exhausting me. Did over an hour of ironing this evening and thought I was going to first melt and then collapse. Saying this it's been a lovely day. DS was out at a long party this afternoon so we had a nice long "nap" with DP . So I've been in an amazing mood for the rest of the day. We also went for a nice long walk and bought a beautiful woolen blanket for the baby in a local shop. I love seeing how everything is slowing coming together!

MoN hope you are having a lovely night in with DP anyway! I can only imagine how hard it must be to get someone to babysit 4...! I must say I don't think I would be brave enough... but they grow up!

chickien DS was in our room for 8 months too. Mainly due to laziness. We built the cot in our room and then it wouldn't go through the door so we had to dismantle and build it in his room again. We took our time... And he never really woke us up (unless he started crying but then we wouldn't need to get up anyway, wherever he was) so we had no incentive!

re: dummies, I tried to resist them for 4 weeks as advised but DS was such a sucky baby... that I gave in after 3 weeks and my life got so much better! It didn't affect his BF at all at that stage. I will try to resist them for at least a few weeks this time too.

re: GP "flying" letter, my GP actually specified in hers that I'm fit to fly between 30th July and 20th August (although I told her we are flying back on the 10th)

gtbaby you mean those pants with holes in them at the bottom of our drawer...? NO... we are ladies, we don't have them... of course not!!

meant "we would need to get up anyway" NOT "we wouldn't need to get up"!

Thanks for the info on cribs vs mosses baskets ladies, I think im gonna go with a crib and see how long it last before we move her into her own room and as for down stairs im thinking of getting a travel cot as the pushchair were thinking of doesn't come with carrycot.

We are staying in this evening just had pizza and were gonna watch a movie im way too tired to even consider anything else.

Travel cots are rather big to have downstairs on a permanent basis? U could try and get a Moses basket second hand (or asda haz neutral ones cor £16 the ther day)for downstairs for the first 8-12 weeks and then i find after then I tend to put baby upstairs for a nap as they tend to develop little routines of sleep patterns around that kind of time x

MoN believe it or not I used to babysit 5 children, they were lovely quite a handful but very nice children. Their dad worked away Monday to Friday so their mum was basically a single mum through the week, it must have been so difficult for her I guess. I hope you and desp dan have a nice night together (I won't ask what'll you'll be getting upto, given what we know so far about desperate dan, haha)

More energy today. Bought some lovely items in Debenhams blue cross sale (apparently the sale ends tomorrow). Also sorting through some of dd (now 7) clothes up to age 3, forgot what lovely condition some of them are in, also found gro bags in the bags that I had kept so real bonus.

Hoping that tomorrow brings me some energy too as lots to do. DH is starting to prepare for decorating nursery too, nesting in full swing!

Yup , with you all on the exhaustion and lack of 2nd tri bloom. Still, nearly there ladies and its most certianly worth it!

mon he must believe in the bogey man! Still, at least it's his birthday, he made the decision to stay in so cannot sulk about it. Hope you had a lovely cosy evening anyway.

clapham just remembered I didn't answer about Bare - it's on the street that runs parallel with Northcote above the schools, through Wakehurst, forget its name but I'm sure you can very easily work it out. Had a small art gallery, lovely rose shop etc on.

30 weeks today - should crack on with the packing as I was in hospital 6 weeks from now last time! I'm seriously debating an ELCS but arrrrggg such a tough call. I had a 3hour start to finish labour last time without any drugs or gas (just oxygen for baby), but this time they are insisting on an Epidural (they were too slow to get it in last time), which I know would have slowed last labour down and know that I was on the verge on a crash CS as DS was in distress the whole pushing stage (when they finally took my labour seriously) and came out with the cord around twice etc etc I dread to think what a few more mins would have resulted in. This is mixed with we have very few who could look after DS while im in labour so the schedueling while he is at nursery school seems too convienent. Someone decide for me please!!

Webb's Road tarlia*! I remember seeing it now. The little art gallery is still there but the lovely rose shop closed months ago. They've now opened a Spanish delicatessen there - very nice but full of random stuff... I've never bought anything there and it's always empty so I wonder how long it will last.

No idea what to say on the birth front... your first birth was super fast!! 3 hours is nothing. My induced labour was 9 hours! They say the second one is always quicker so perhaps, even if the epidural slowed it down, it would still be ok for you if you are so quick anyway? Can your MW advise? And would it not be easier for you to look after two afterwards if you don't have a CS and could recover quicker? Your first birth sounds traumatic so no wonder you want to avoid something similar this time... Do they insist on epidural because of your blood pressure? X

Clapham and tarlia was also thinking bare was on webbs road! Went there for my pre labour wax :) they were very nice esp as I hate waxing and had this huge bump too.

Do you remember how long your ds used the dummy for clapham? We were 18 months and I felt was a bit too long but he was definitely quite sucky at the start. It didn't interfere with bf and I think he was about 3 weeks old too. I'm a bit apprehensive about using dummy this time.

Hope you had a nice night in MON. I don't think dh and I will be getting out much after number 2 arrives :( We were very spoilt in London as my sisters and dh s brother were around for free babysitting. We ve no one here and ds is quite clingy at bedtime so we haven't tried to sort out a sitter yet. I think he knows things are different cos most nights he wants both dh and I to put him to bed which can take up to 45 mins sometimes!!! I really don't know what to do about it.

Tarlia can you book the elcs so you have a date and see what happens? Would they do mobile epidural there? It's hard when you add in child care for ds. Again similar here in that no one to take ds at the drop of a hat if went into labour. Have booked elcs for first thing on a Friday am so hopefully dh can make it after dropping off ds!

Soup online shopping for bulky things is te way to go. Smaller things can usually fit under the buggy.

And to orange et al I am absolutely knackered!!

Sleep tight all

Orange is was me moaning about the lack of a "proper" second trimester

I can't think of a single positive pregancy symptom I got - even though lots of people keep saying how well I look, I can't say I feel like that and I'm convinced its just clever use of makeup! No glossy, thick hair - just hair and nails that grow too quickly so I have to cut them every five minutes!

Even my nausea seems to have returned

I shouldn't complain, as it goes I've had a really very easy and trouble free pregancy, but I just don't understand anyone who says that they enjoyed being pregnant!