April 2015 #4 - time to start glowing and growing

[BrixtonBunny]

I thought I'd start a new thread as the old one was almost full up xxx

I'm trying to be patient waiting to feel movement, hoping it will start soon! Lovely to hear you all describing it.

Nursery wise, we have a blank canvas to start with - white walls and cream carpet (not ideal - I would have chosen laminate with a rug). Not sure what we're going to do to decorate it yet but looking forward to using it as a proper room - since we moved in over a year ago it's just sat pretty empty being used for laundry etc. as we prioritised furnishing the other rooms.

Noticing my little pot belly more the last few days, a mini bump is emerging!

16+1

My dd's room has primrose yellow walls, a red blind and a green rug ( on cream carpet)
Furniture is white. Also have a red IKEA chair there and then soft toys bring colour

We have owl stickers on the walls, but I we waited until she was old enough to have preferences so we chose stickers she would like
i have heard stories of parents decorating and then the child is scared of clowns or something...

my DD was in my room until 14 months anyway
Although newbie might not be so long, will depend on illnesses and teething and sleep and choosing the right time to move

feel a bit like an uneducated mum here but what is an anterior and posterior placenta??

mswibble we have carpet throughout our house (except kitchen) and it's bleach clean. so far we've cleaned up dog poop, cat sick, cups of coffee and a pint of vimto in the last 3 years and it hasn't left a stain behind so im pretty confident baby wont be a problem.
Our room has 3 cream walls and i'll be painting the one around the window a pale minty sort of green colour and adding some whinnie the pooh wall decals which I got off ebay for a fiver. and I got some neutral coloured black out blinds made by Dunelm which are bril and help make the room dark in summer.
I'll post a pic in a few months once we've actualyl got round to doing it :)
ooo Tinytear I got some owl stickers too (off ebay again)
had to be something gender neutral seen as we weren't finding out the sex. (and if it was a girl i don't like pink anyway!)

anterior is at the front, i assume posterior would be at the back.

Our nursery is currently the largest spare room and is cream walls with a beige carpet which was only done 2 years ago. There is a double bed in there at the moment which will be dismantled, wardrobe and a ikea billy bookcase with baskets on the shelves which I will fill with nappies, wipes etc.

We have bought some alphabet stickers in reds, browns and greens that have animals on them I.e M has a monkey. They were in B & Q clearance section.

If you choose laminate and put a rug down make sure it has a sticky backing my nephews room had both and my brother went sliding on the rug across the room.

Morning all.

Our nursery is another beige one, (the only one in the whole house!) - I'm planning on introducing lots of colour with pictures on the wall and bits that I'm knitting/embroidering. In my head it looks nice! It's quite a small room, but the previous owners had it as a nursery, so I'm presuming all the necessaries will fit in.

15 weeks today. According to the app I'm using, bloblet is now the size of an avocado. I wonder at what week they will run out of fruit/veg to compare it to?!

Did antenatal yoga last night and listened to my "confident pregnancy" hypnotherapy track, and feeling a bit brighter this morning. I think it helps that I've told the other pregnant person in my team that I am also pregnant, (although she's much further along), so we've been able to have a good natter about things.

Today I am wearing some over the bump maternity jeans that I picked up on ebay (as my normal jeans were getting a wee bit tight). Having no bump and just podge, the elasticated bit is hoisted up to my bra and is keeping me very cosy. I am the height of elegance......

they don't run out, i think it goes all the way to watermelon - large

All of you talking about your 16 week appointments suddenly reminded me mine is today, I'd completely forgotten! I thought for a horrific moment I'd missed it but just double checked and it's not until 2pm, phew!

We're going to put new baby in DD's current nursery, which has yellow walls on 3 of the walls and the fourth wall has a mural of farmyard animals, like this one:

Farmyard mural

It has cream carpets. Not so worried about spillages etc in her room for now because we spend minimal time upstairs, only to sleep in. Now, the front room carpet is another matter. Permanently filthy, permanently having to go at it with carpet and upholstery foam (and our lovely cream sofas too).. looking to replace with some lovely wipe clean laminate before we start the dreaded potty training!

Haven't decided what I'm going to do for DD's new room yet, we've more or less cleared it out, now, but won't decorate for another few months yet. Maybe an In The Night Garden theme... we'll see what she favours at the time!

Oh forgot to say I'm 16+2

leather sofas!! wipeable and cleanable and non stainable... we also have 2 velvet armchairs but they now have a permanent throw on it for spillages

All this talk of nurseries is making me anxious - we're still in the process of buying our first flat (London prices are tough!) which, if it goes through, will have a laminate floor nursery which I think we'll paint white and then have colour from posters / toys etc. It's only a two bedroom flat so if we have another baby in a couple of years (that's the plan anyway) they will have to share for a few years.

The seller is being a nightmare though, needs to sort out a problem with the lease... DP and I are very worried that something will happen and we won't end up moving till the baby's here which would be a disaster (currently living in little rented 1-bed flat).

My hip is still agony, having to WFH today with a hot water bottle permanently glued to it. Saw GP yesterday who has referred me to physio, but otherwise said there's not much I can do apart from take paracetamol. She also said it's likely it will get worse... Pain is worse when sitting or lying down, which makes working and sleeping tough! Pottering around is fine though. Weird.

Was also having some uterus pain but she said it's just round ligament, heard baby's heartbeat again, sounds like a galloping horse!

Three weeks until our scan.

17 + 6

Hmmm permanent throws on the sofas... now there's an idea...

Sorry to hear you're in pain, BrixtonBunny glad your work is being understandable with you working from home though. xxx

thanks booMonster but what difference does it make?
i'm the first preggo in the family for about 14 years so im a total novice at all of this baby lark. I was 10 the last time someone was born :/
never changed a nappy in my life! oh uh maybe im back to the worry sofa...

Janeytea Mine is an Onion at the moment. i've not been using an amp but have been using a website TheBump

BrixtonBunny we only have a 2 bed too in our house and our plan is that if we have another in 3 years time or so they will have to share as well. bunkbeds at the ready seen as it's a small room! but i'll concentrate on just the one for now lol

Loving the decor chat

In DD's current room: bright stripy blind, cream walls, wood floors with a big cheap beige IKEA rug (this was already old and it has borne the brunt of a few projectile poos/vomits etc so after DC2 it will be ditched I think!). White furniture. Colourful animal posters and a red wall hanging. Leather armchair (wipe clean for those milk based accidents).

DD's current room will be DD2's room.

In DD's new room we will probably do a floral blind in this fabric (hope this works, never done an image before!) and pale blue or green walls, and a greige carpet of some sort.

Beautiful blind, minipie!

Hiding I think if you have an anterior placenta you feel the baby later/less as the placenta is in the way? Happy to be corrected of course! x

Yes correct, anterior placenta can mean you feel movements less and/or later. Though not always - depends exactly where it is and where the baby is positioned.

Also, if it's anterior and low then it can cause issues for a C section (as the placenta is right where they would cut) though usually by the time of birth they are high enough not to be a problem.

Ooh decorating chat. My current obsession. Not for the new baby (who will neither know nor care) but for DD. She's moving over to the old study and the new baby will be in her old room, so I want to make her new room as nice as poss so she doesn't feel evicted. Her old room is very plain as we moved at 35 weeks preg and I had neither time nor energy to do anything else. It's magnolia, cream carpets (no longer cream, but stained) and with charcoal curtains (on special at b&q at the time, we had no money after the move). I did subsequently add cute decowall wall stickers of bird houses, branches and birds, but that's it.

For her new room, I'm a bit torn. We were given a beautiful quilt by a friend (who made it) but it's so tricky colour wise, I'm not sure what to do (it's turquoise and brown and yellow). I don't like safari stuff and tbh, dd is likely to be moving more towards pink in the next few years.

My sister has offered some grey velvet curtains, so I'm thinking soft grey walls on three of them with rabbit wall stickers, one pink wall, grey curtains, grey and pink striped blackout blinds (if I can find them, any ideas?) and a rabbit lamp. I have a Pinterest page if anyone's particularly into sharing deco stuff.

On the pregnancy front, I've ordered two coats from h&m, hoping one will be ok, and had flu jab this morning. Still feeling perpetually exhausted.

janeytea if I remember rightly, they go through all the fruit (up to melons etc) then move onto balls. I winced when they mentioned rugby balls...

lottie hmm maybe if the blind had some turquoise or yellow in it as well then that would tie in the quilt a bit?

DD's blind is a multicolour stripe which is very useful as all sorts of things go with it. hers is the top one here- not very girly though. A prettier one is the one below. Both from the Deckchairstripes website, they make roller and roman blackout blinds too.

Could the sofa bed not stay Misty414 you could sit and feed there?

I would go for carpet in the baby's room every time. Much more cosy and I had pretty much nothing on my babies carpets until ds2 had his sudocrem moment at about 18months

I've gone with yellow both times but ds2 went into dss's room and he went in with ds1 so the room was already blue, to match with the yellow nursery curtains etc I painted 2 walls yellow and left 2 blue. Will see what we're having before I decorate anything. I love transfers but dh won't stick anything in the walls :(

Hidingthefear and anterior placenta is at the front of your uterus so tummy side and often can stop you feeling the baby, posterior is at the back so near your back which is the most common scenario.

It isn't essential BrixtonBunny, you can decorate any time and stick a cot in any room . Sorry you're suffering, have they not offered you a support belt?

We have leather sofas too, got them when I was pregnant with ds1. I didn't want them but dh insisted and they were great for wiping when I had a baby who vomited up what seemed like most of every feed for a good few months :(

Mine is a dragon fruit on my app JaneyTea :)