February 2014. Bodystockings at the ready. We make pregnancy sexy.

[DawnOfTheDee]

Ok we don't. We're sick a lot, cry at adverts, moan about back/hip pain and if we got a quid for each new stretchmark generated we could all give up work and employ a nanny.

In fact if you know any teenagers feel free to show them our threads...we are the most effective contraceptive since sliced bread don't ask.

Ladies...as you were....

Now I know i'm team pink i've been putting a bit more thought into names.

I've even put my big girl knickers on and started a thread in baby names here Please feel free to weigh in with your thoughts/suggestions!

I have an anterior placenta (again). Felt movements much earlier this time but with DD it was definitely after my 20 week scan that i began to feel movements. It doesn't cause any problems in particular but i've discovered recently that you are a bit more like to have a back to back labour than if placenta was posterior.

I wouldn't be worried about buying second hand carriers. I sold all of mine (except for one ring sling) from ds2 years ago and they were all in perfect condition apart from a stain on a woven wrap and the Ergo fabric faded slightly as they are prone to do. The only reason I bought this carrier new was because I couldn't find one in the UK. I wanted to try it instead of an Ergo.
The only thing you need to be wary of are fake carriers. Ergo are having problems with fake products on eBay and elsewhere.

Thanks thingy - will stick to ebay for now Guess I can always re-ebay anything that doesn't look up to the job when it arrives.

Back to back labour, well I was back to back with my DS and ended up with an ECS, wonder if I had an anterior placenta that time to??? I will have a read up, as if that is the case I may need to factor the real Likely hood it may happen again, and the pain was immense! It may help me make a few decisions about the birth.
As for carriers I had a second hand one off a family member and was fab, I think they hold well providing they are of good quality

Wow it seems like a lot of us on here have anterior placentas (I was told at my 12wk scan).

Congrats all who had scans today, lots of happy news!

Anterior is the new posterior dontcha know....

I've got anterior placenta too! ><

Just popping by to say that my scan went well - everything looks fine, and I am officialy Team Blue!

Tiny bit disappointed, but I think it's more fear of 'how does boys work' :P As long as I get a girl next time!

Being a bit awol, as I just started an architecture course and it's a lot more challenging than expected!

wowee litleen - good luck with the course!

My labour was back to back with ds - I have no idea if its more painful or not as have nothing to compare it too but I managed to sleep during active labour and thanks to my mw MAKING me move on to all fours, ds turned in the last hour and came out the right way up.

I will be disappointed now and feel a bit left out if I don't have an anterior placenta - they seem to be all the rage

Congratulations on the scans!

Congrats to everyone who's had scans today, and welcome to team blue Littleen and Panda!

Very excited here today as we've just competed on our first house purchase! Woohoo! Move in on Monday, can't wait work is passing soooo slowly, I just wanna go sit on the floor in my new house!

Going to check out your names in a minute Dawn, DH and I talked boys names for the first time last night and had one name we liked in common, so we're making some progress!

Congrats Litleen & Tiny house move is a stressful time and I hope you are taking it easy.
we are moving in Dec/Jan when I will be 7/8 months pregnant luckily i will have excuse not to do anything ha
I am really struggling with boys names as DH and I can't seem to agree on one

sunflowered are there any NCT sales nearby you? I don't think you need to be a member to go along, and they have good bargains there. I got a Moby wrap in a lovely mushroom colour (good for DH as well) for 12 quid, when they retail for around 45, and I was happy buying it because I could see that it hadn't been used much and was in good nick. I would prefer to buy stuff like that up front rather than online, but that's just my personal preference.

Good idea gnitting. I think there's one in November so time to do some full-price window shopping to decide what we both like, plus time to search on ebay if we can't find what we're after.

Good luck with the house move - you can put all those nesting hormones to good use between now and feb

Congrats on scans guys!
I'm anterior placenta too but it doesn't seem to be stopping me feel his movements and little kicks. Maybe mine is higher up I'm not sure

Yes I'm anterior placenta too but very high up so I feel loads of kicks and punches but mostly low down

Congrats on all the scans! I'm here just had a lot on this week so haven't posted much.

Awww congratulations on all the scans glad all the babies are looking healthy and now lots more f you can go out and buy pink or blue!

Wow it's crazy how many if us have anterior placentas! Oh my god I was talking to one of the pregnant ladies about mine today and she had no idea what I was talking about when I was mentioning the placenta! I was like and tried to explain but think she still left thinking it was "the bag" - oh dear!

Woke up at 10 to 8 this morning after completely sleeping through my alarm too so had a ten minute get dressed and leg it to work which was an interesting start to the day. My voice has also gone after teaching for the last few days with my cold and I sound very silly and squeaky. Very glad it's the weekend now! Gonna check out Dawns name thread now I hope you're all having relaxing Friday evenings and have lovely weekends planned.

congrats on all the scans I had mine today too! all good with baby and managed (just) to stay team yellow was amazing to see everything so clearly, had a 40 min scan as we apparently have a strong willed baby!! the sonographer wrote "restricted view due to fetal attitude"!!! who knew personalities were developed so early!! Only thing is I've a low lying placenta hopefully all will be good and it'll move in time and cause no trouble.....fingers crossed. bonus is we'll get another scan at 32 wks to check

I love that durk79! Restricted view due to fetal attitude - you'll have to keep a copy of that to show him/her when they're older

just reading my notes i have an anterior placenta too! which explains the lack of moving!

lots of lovely scan news! :)

Just been checking out the local NCT website and there's a Nearly new sale just a couple of miles away on 5th October - going to go and see what bargains I can find! Will need to write a list before I go though.

For those of you who are sling users, should I bother?
I have a backpack carrier which DH used a lot last time, a and a very sturdy off-road buggy.
I never had a sling last time and never really wanted one, I kept thinking what if I trip up and land on the baby... What do you think?

Littlest - I know pretty much naff all about slings but people I know who have them love them and say they can be great for carrying baby around and still being able to do stuff like washing up etc and that baby often just falls asleep in them. That's what I'm hoping anyway - I'm sure someone more helpful will have better advice soon

Nice one thingmajigs on finding the cloth nappies. They cost a fortune. Have you used them before? We've discussed cloth nappies, but I think that the price of them is putting DH off.

Teaddict, try adding up how much disposables will cost if you want to persuade your DH - a new born will get through up to 10 a day, my DD is still in DryNites on occasion at 4.3!
Reusables really will work out cheaper in the long run, especially if you keep them for a second DC.
Having said that I thought about it and stuck to Pampers for ease!

My dating scan notes say anterior too - I guess that explains the sort of muffled movements I've been feeling.

we had a trained sling lady come to our bf group on monday and she was explaining how/why the baby bjorn style carriers are just not good for baby. TBH me nor ds enjoyed using our mamas and papas version last time and this time I will be going for a lentil weaving wrap type sling. They seem to versatile. Just trying to find one in a print that doesn't make me look like I should have dreadlocks and a child named rainbow. Apologies (a bit) for any offence caused to any dreadlocked vegans.