Evening all - eek 9 pages to catch up on!! Thanks jazzy for the new thread :) Weekends are always busy for me so i'm not usually about this thread moves so quickly! I'm 14+4 today :) I feel fine, other than being really tired!
Congrats on scans and welcome to newbies :D
I shall do my catching up now, i've briefly zoomed through and see you've all been chatting about slings and allsorts! I'm thinking of a caboo or an ergo, but I don't know which yet. I'm not buying anything until after xmas though at the earliest, I do think I might make a list though and get on with looking about at things. I'm not sure what i'm doing about a pushchair, DS has a nipper 360, but I don't know if he'll still need it, currently he does, so I don't know whether to buy a carry cot for that and use that, or buy something else completely. It's quite wide but a very good pushchair all in all. I don't want two of them though! I don't know if it's worth getting a double or go for slinging the baby, ds in pushchair for long trips then baby in pushchair, ds walking other times. Det our age gaps are similar, what are you doing i bet you've already said and i've missed it!
Age gap wise, there'll be a 2 and a half year gap between DS and this one. As well as not knowing what to do with the pushchair I don't know what to do about the bed/cot situation. DS is in a cot bed, it's still as a cot atm. I don't know whether to buy him a bed and put the new LO in the cot when the time comes or convert the cot into a bed for DS and get another cot for this LO. Argh. Feels like lots of decisions! DS is quite tall/long though so I suspect getting him a single bed would work best for us. For now though he's staying behind bars! He's very good in his cot, and generally a very good sleeper unless ill or teething so I'd like to keep it that way!
re: the second being more difficult, I have always been told this, and both my DP's younger sister and my oldest younger sister (if that makes sense) were difficult babies! My MIL says if SIL came first DP wouldn't be about, LOL! DS has always been totally fab with his sleeping, he's had a few patches like the 4 month growth spurt/recession thing, but his issues tend to last a few days to a week, and generally he's really, really good. At just over 2 he still sleeps 12-14 hours at night (15 if i'm exceptionally lucky) and 2 hours in the day. He has been waking up last week in the night and early from his nap but he's cut his last canine and now has a cold. Anyway I waffle. I am basically petrified this one won't sleep. I've always said I can deal with DS if he's ever being difficult, because he sleeps. Well what if this one won't? I am not someone who copes well on small amounts of sleep, DS was sleeping through all night from 7/8 weeks, I have been incredibly lucky with him I feel. Also, I lived at home when DS was small, so I had alot of support particularly from my mum. I'm quite worried I can't do it by myself. Nights i'll be on my own as DP works nights. I'll be ok, won't I? . I'm a natural born worrier, sorry all!
I don't think I have a bump, I just feel fat. Mum reckons I do though and I can't do my jeans up anymore, I can't even pretend I can, it just isn't happening
lovely scan pic emem!