October 2014 - thread 7: blooming or just blooming hot?

[YellowWellies]

Hello all new thread!

My first night sleep was horrendous!! Prob cos on maternity ward though and then started to worry about every snuffle and squirm that ds did!! But also a tummy sleeper naturally so being able to do that again was amazing (although sore huge boobs prevented that for a short while!!)
I've invested on amazon in a theraline. Hope it helps!!

You would need to go to the gp taking but I've always been told to try to go without or take it at my own risk type of answer!

Hi all I got a v shaped pillow from Ikea for 7. Its great as it supports my back, between my knees and under my bump. I just find its way too hot to use it at the moment. Dont need anything extra in bed so have to choose between overheating or morning back ache.

I'm off to dunelm in a bit to investigate! binks the humidity has been horrid hasn't it? We luckily have a ceiling fan but the noise has woken me up once or twice, the temperature is much more bearable though!

fedup being in a hospital trying to sleep is horrendous. Ds had his first bowl movements whilst still in me. Therefore we were placed on a higher dependency ward where they could check him every 2 hours. Plus baby next to me had breathing problems and was on a noisy machine. I nearly cried when they wanted me to stay an extra night due to the amount of blood I had lost. I insisted on going home and ds was fine.

Ah yes I'm forgetting I was on Orkney where we had the ward to ourselves because of the low birth rate. DH was able to kip in a bed next to me (good thing as J was in 13 days) And the MWs would happily take him for a cuddle between night feeds as he was one of only three born that week.

You could try this year's local honey as a natural treatment (and in some cases like me, it works as an actual cure) for hay fever xxxx

yellow I bet that was lovely I would have loved if dh could have stayed with dd. remember being wheeled to the ward around 1am and dh had to go home we were both emotional about it I was tired and frightened and he didn't want to leave us and go home to an empty house.

I'm totally paying for a private room this time! Had some woman next to me swearing all night and demanding the mw fed her baby as she didn't want to do it. Wasn't fun!! I had to fight to get home too - having a baby on a Friday isn't good as no one around at the weekend to discharge you!! They would have kept me there if it wasn't for constant chasing to do my paperwork / see a paediatrician ! Opposite of Orkney here. Baby boom zone!!

I've got a dream genii but haven't used it for weeks as it sometimes makes my hips ache more with the pgp.

Had a lovely day out at monkey world yesterday, wore my support band and I am not in agony today! Yay! Felt comfortable plodding around and a snails pace and only started to get hip pain in the last half hour before we came home!

The buggy dilemma continues! The mil is dragging dp on to her side! She's decided that since I drive any old cheap buggy will do and now he thinks she has a point! Apparently all I now need is a car seat which I can carry to and from the car when we are out and about!!!!! If I kill someone whilst I'm pregnant I'll get off on diminished responsibility right?!

First night after Dd was born she slept Beautifully. We were on the ward and I was awake all night because the woman opposite me refused to see to her crying baby all night!

Mum2 if you BF the PGP can continue after birth - meaning you couldn't be hoiking a carseat around!

I'll provide an alibi.

mum your mil is just getting worse! I think I would have had a big something to say to both mil and dp if it were me.

Lol thanks yellow!

Pgp or no pgp, who carries a car seat around town?! I'm considering bringing him on the first trip into town and letting him carry the seat! We'll have a buggy before we leave town I mm sure!

Oh he knows a big talk is brewing! This morning he was all "are you ok my dear?!" The "Yes I'm FINE" response seemed to shake him. I texted him when I got to work and told him to clean the kitchen (which he hates doing) and he responded "of course! Anything for you...". He knows I'm on a war path and I don't intend to lose!

Weird to think that the next time I'll be here (for new year) we'll have a wee extra person

My dad booked us all in to a Centre Parks in March - he had to put an extra infant on, obviously. Then I questioned whether his booking was right. Duh!! Gives me a ridiculous swim suit deadline, but never mind.

Secretly glad to hear other people have irritating MILs as well. Mine means well but she has zero empathy. Got into a heated debate (mainly my DH and her) the other day when we happened to mention that this child might, shock horror, be occasionally given formula - I exclusively bf last time for 14 months. We explained that this time round there might be times where I wanted to spend quality time with DD and leave DS with DH or just have a rest maybe! Cannot be doing with judgement on parenting methods, especially before it's even here!

Another one with major house renovations going on a well. I'm in denial and have decided that a newborn and half finished extension/no kitchen won't be a problem at all...

Hi how is everyone? Has anyone looked at the graco evo travel system? It looks good for my price range i think.

I'm on the hunt for a reasonably priced pregnancy pillow and starting to think I need to actually start buying things! How much has everyone got? Xx

OMG I just realised tomorrow im 24 weeks and the babys viable. I think if I was obviously pregnant it would have seemed more real but as im still in my normal clothes it seems weird.

Think I'm waiting for the 24 week mark gun

I am willing my bump to properly pop now, even though I probably will be fed up of it by the end!

I'm 21 weeks idt87 and have just started shopping following scan last week. We've bought buggy and Moses basket we will probably not do anymore until After our holiday in 3 weeks.

gun 24 weeks..... I will def be feeling a little happier once I reach that.

Lou, gun me too. In fact I was having that wee chat about not making any departure plans for another month, ideally two and if possible three months!

My MIL just informed us we'll need to buy a TV for the spare bedroom so FIL can watch TV when they come up after the birth (he watches anything on WWII and knows I'm not going to let him have bombs and the Hitler channel on all day whilst I'm stuck to the couch BF) and have some respite from his grandchildren!!!! WTAF I hate TVs in bedrooms!

Oooo not had a MIL rage for a while, so might jump on! A few weeks ago MIL told us she was going to buy the car seat. We told her the one we'd seen at £130 which was too expensive for her and she started talking about buying a second hand one, which I told her quite uncertainly no way.

Anyway, on Friday night we gave her a call to explain we were going shopping for a car seat on Saturday and did she want to pay for it or not, as we have vouchers for Mothercare.

After an hours conversation we had been told that we can;t keep buying things for our baby as she wants to but they don;t have the money at the moment so we just need to hold off until they do. The problem is in the 10 years I've known them they've never had money as FIL never works.

Also the baby is going to be born in 4 months time and I'm a bit of a control freak wanting everything to be done int he next 2 months, so how long exactly do they want us to hold off!

They have now agreed they won;t be buying the car seat, but they want to buy our nursery bedding... in a few months time. But the collections will have changed- aaargh!

Ok, feeling better now :)

Oh binky don't get me started lol. Luckily mil never buys us or the kids anything (sister in laws kids however want for nothing!). She hasn't offered to get us anything. She usually buys us something that we've already got as she never asks...like a pram suit! I'm feeling rather pleased at the moment. They've announced they are off on holiday on Saturday. Perfect as they get back we go away so won't have to see her for a month :). Can't stand it when she goes on and on about how big bump is, all the moaning she does about the other outlaw. My ears must burn when I'm not there. I actually said the other week that I would hate to think what she must say about me when I'm not there and she nervously laughed it off!

My mil is lovely most of the time, although she has a has habit of buying random things we probably don't need. Like disposable bibs. I had never even heard of them before!