Martians 2014 Thread 14: on intra-uterine discos and knocking stuff over with your bump.

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Not watching CIN either. Will obv donate (and also to the hurricane/typhoon appeal) but my preg hormones are making it very difficult to see bereaved/terminally-ill/maltreated/starving children at the mo. Just writing this and thinking about them is making me tearful.

Cookie the oyster is suitable from birth with a carry cot, I still use mine for DS (he's 2.8Yrs) and I love it! I have a stroller that mostly sits in a cupboard, as I don't like it as much as a proper pram, and am only getting rid of it coz the seat unit isn't suitable from birth and I want one that I can swap kids partway through the day! Xxx

hot no he started a new job in Jan, daily commute now so home every night!

Is anyone else snoring yet? DH says I've started snoring, last night he got up to go to the loo and it was so loud he could hear from the bathroom! This happened in first pg too.

Yep Owl snoring here too. Especially now I've got a horrible mucus-y hacking cough and cold too . I'm very attractive right now.

Rock, I don't understand. Would I have to pay for a carry cot to go on that Oyster stroller you recommend? Sorry to sound fick.

Hi to all the people who have sent me a nice welcome. On prams; I have finally persuaded my husband that we should get one! At first he said he only wanted a sling...and I laughed and laughed and laughed...

Cool thread. Ok here goes

I love the name Rory but oh wants none of it :(

prams cookie - was going to get oyster but ended with Joie Chrome under £250 from mothercare instead. As a city girl I chose it for being light for carrying, small-ish, folds easily for bus , backward and forward facing and has adjustable handle bar for tall people.

welcome midnight

unbelievable MIL situation panto but as others have said hold your own and if dh is aware it should make it easier. good luck and tell us how it goes.

bionic yeah on the surgery date!
I don't have to worry about too many toys as also don't like cluttered house but OH is obsessed with Christmas hot and will be dedicating a weekend to decorating the house from top to bottom (urgh). But have bought the one toy a 'despicable me papoy' :)

Has anyone heard from gawjus ?

Liberuna - no surgery involved this time thanks goodness! It's a matter of swapping the outer bit of my processor for the latest model. Am a bit about the fact it will have a remote to do the more fancy stuff with, as have vision of the DH or DC running off with it and trying to switch me off!

DS has been more curious lately about my implant and asking more questions. He starting to fig out that when I don't have it on, I can't hear him, but is still perplex by why I need a gadget to hear. He's never known me without it.

DD was about 2 & 1/2yrs when I had it fitted and I still remember vividly her telling people proudly that, "Mummy has a cock implant!" follows swiftly by me going "Cochlear Implant not cock implant! and showing them it to prove it!

Not heard from gawjus but she was off on hols, so am presuming she might still be away? Don't think she actually said how long she was going for?

at cock implant.
I think gawj is on holiday this week. midnight - was DH offering to carry baby around in a sling for the first 2/3years for you?? ha ha

Laughing my head off at your DD, Bionic!

Thanks, Liberuna, for the pram recommendation. I am putting all these pram photos into my favourites so keep 'em coming, ladies

I think he just thought he would feel more manly with a sling...then I explained all the baby paraphenalia we would need to haul around as well as the baby and that seemed to do the trick!

Just looked at Martians FBook and found last posting from Gawjus saying she was away for 10 days, so think she'll be back around the 18th Nov if I've worked it out right.

So hopefully all is well with her and she is enjoying her hols whilst we all freeze here.

DD does come out with some crackers I must say. Thou DS aged 3yrs made me giggle today as we went to visit a friend who has just moved house and he inquired if she has any pets. She went to great length to impress him by saying that they has a wormy at the bottom of their garden, but that he couldn't go and look at them right now as they were all snuggled up together to keep warm for the winter. DS just looked at her and said in the most patronising voice I have ever heard from a 3yrs old "I don't think so!" We just both burst out laughing at this.

Should that have been enquired not inquired?! Slaps self!

place marking peeps :)

Right must go to bed, have failed once again to get an early night. Tuts at self. Maybe I will lie in tomorrow? One can live in hope.

Hilarious bionic

midnight brilliant - I'm guessing the nappies, clothes , baby wipes shopping etc will magically carry itself ha ha ha. Has he thought about how you'd go to the toilet when on your own? not to mention the back issues

liberuna, I think it was just a romantic notion in which practicalities didn't factor at all! He is usually very pragmatic, so it was very strange! Can you imagine, though after carrying the baby whilst pregnant, only having a sling after it's born? Ugh. At only 24 weeks, my back is already fucked! Can't wait to let my husband/the pram/random strangers take some of the weight.

liberuna, I think it was just a romantic notion in which practicalities didn't factor at all! He is usually very pragmatic, so it was very strange! Can you imagine, though after carrying the baby whilst pregnant, only having a sling after it's born? Ugh. At only 24 weeks, my back is already fucked! Can't wait to let my husband/the pram/ random strangers take some of the weight.

I'm also hungry all the time and waking up in the night - definitely making up for the months of feeling sick.
A friend has offered to lend us a pram and cot (she wants them back after we've used them in case any more grandchildren arrive) so we don't need to worry too much about choosing. I am not keen on spending loads of money on baby stuff which will only be needed for a few years, although will of course buy a new car seat, and prob a new mattress for crib and cot. The crib is coming from a different friend: we bought it together at a jumble sale when she was pregnant and I made the bedding and got a mattress for it. If anyone else needs a mattress, I got it from a website where I just sent in the dimensions, it had loads of advice and choices of shapes, material cover etc and seemed to meet all the necessary safety stuff. I thought it might be really expensive to get it custom-made but it wasn't at all. (somewhere around £20 incl p+p and cover for the crib mattress if I remember rightly).
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Morning all. midnight I'm with you, love the idea of a sling but have a pushchair too.

Lolling at cock implant!!!!

Those with 2 cars, are you buying 2 car seats? We have only bought 1 car seat and base unit working on idea that I will drive larger 4 door car and that will have base unit, we will then use this car at weekends too. Other car doesn't get used as much, as DH cycles to work quite a bit now. But we could use seat belts to put car seat in this car theoretically if necessary.

Might need two seats when I go back to work but we think one will do for now? Is it really worth buying 2 bases?

Anyone know where I can buy plain dyed cot bedding? I cannot stand the flowery, pink, pukey shit for sale on every website. Urgggh.

I am bloody starving been up since 6 o'clock as OH needed his breakfast made. Porridge and scrambled eggs with toast minus the crusts. Fussy bastard is too good to eat cereal and doesn't know where the kitchen is.

Feeling slightly better regarding the dog rehoming situation this morn, the lovely lady sent me a picture of the dog looking very happy.

Missed all you lovely lot ;)

Kara we just got cot bedding from tesco or asda (depending on where we did the shopping that week). Just bought DS some more cotbed sheets from tesco - think it was 2 fitted sheets for £6, just plain ones.