June 2015 - thread 7 - finding out our teams!! Pink/Blue/Yellow which are you?

[jazzyjenbo]

For ladies expecting very late Maybees or Junebugs 2015

Trying - i put the scan pic onto of one of the tops i bought today.

I have a sensor pad tommee tippee baby monitor and it only ever went off once when ds was rolling all over his cot but it ticked when there was a movement... Reassuring when baby is upstairs and you are downstairs.

Yes the guidance re sleeping in your room is 6 mths... But it is still your choice where they sleep. As i said earlier ds went in his own room straight away, dd was 7 mths due to house move.... I have no issues with ds sleeping now but dd is a nightmare, wants to co sleep (usually lying ontop of me) every night. This time i will keep baby in with us for a couple of months and then get her used to sharing with her sister... And my dd1 sleeping in her room with the baby!
I'd say do your re search and do what works for you... Take precautions to reduce the risk of SID.

We finally told ds and dd about the new addition tonight whilst the 3 of us were in the bath... Both were fine and neither really cared tbh, but ds(4) put his hand on my belly and asked if he could feel a kick!

Evening ladies :) Hope all is well! Had my 20 week scan today, baby is looking perfect and the scan was a really nice experience, the sonographer was fantastic! In fact, i'd like to give the hospital feedback on her if possible, I really do feel she did a great job in explaining everything to us and taking her time etc.

I am also suffering with dry skin, particularly on my face, boobs and tummy :(

Jazzy that's a fab cake, I love it!

buba come to think of it, yes - i got ever so hairy in my first pregnancy but am noticing the opposite in this one! Both are boys so goodness knows what the difference is all about

How are you feeling now tracey? hope you get better soon!

re: buying stuff - I am hoping to have a moses basket for downstairs and fx a snuzpod for upstairs, if not i have a crib i used for ds. I think further along than that i'll be buying a single bed for ds and using his cotbed for this LO as ds is pretty big anyway and might aswell have a single bed

congrats on your little girl mrsbeebee :)

congrats on your little girl too jazzy, lovely pictures :)

clearly the 6 month thing is a guideline, you won't get in trouble for not following it - we did with ds and plan on doing the same again - but am also aware it might not work out how I want it to!

monitor wise, I have a video monitor, and wouldn't not have one - but I do have to say i spent a good portion of ds's early life watching him sleep, literally watching his chest rise and fall, petrified something would go wrong, so this time I plan on investing in an angel care type monitor/mat thing, for my peace of mind. I simply will not survive on the amount of sleep i survived on when i just had ds, whilst caring for a newborn plus a toddler this time. There is totally no need to be as paranoid as I am though ladies, it's pretty irrational but if I know it's gonna keep me up all night I intend to combat it lol

I started to feel movements between 16 and 17 weeks rosie but they were infrequent - i'm getting a good bashing now as i type, though! Am 20+4 now though!

glad your scan went well cuphat!

good luck to those with upcoming scans and appts!

glad everything else is looking well aconda and having extra bits certainly sounds better than missing bits, if anything! Hope all continues to be okay :)

glad your appt went well emz

oh gosh Croon how are you feeling now?

awww jazzy that's so sweet! My DS is 2 and a bit, and he sometimes tries to talk to baby, today he lifted my top up and said 'BABY, come eeer now please' and I said the baby is there sweetheart, right there, and he said hikay (he means okay) and gave my belly a kiss. Melted me, it did!

Thanks for the advice re. pram buying.
We live in a 2 bed apartment so even in its own room, baby will never be more than a few metres from us - hadn't thought a monitor would be necessary but actually hadn't heard of these sensor mats you've been discussing. Definitely something else to look into...
Haven't felt anything distinguishable yet, thought j may have felt a 'ripple' last week but was only around 15+4 and haven't felt anything like it since, so it was probably just wind can't wait to feel something I can be certain is the baby, although a colleague who is 24 weeks pregnant is in real pain at the mo as her baby is constantly kicking her soooo low down, pelvis and lower... Don't fancy that much!!

Hey, not been around much last few days as been busy getting stuff ready for the big move :)

Lovely to read all the good scan news, I see the girls are starting to push their way through :)

My scan is next Monday, 2 days after we move! Going to have a busy few days I think!

Jazzy, your DD's sleeping issues weren't necessarily related as DD slept in our room till 7 months and when we put her into her nursery she slept through with no issues and still does at 19 months (she started sleeping through from a couple of months). Just in case it puts anyone off following the guidelines.

Tori, they rarely get boys wrong at that stage and 99.9% is pretty confident! They wouldn't give that figure if they weren't sure. It's much more common to get girls wrong and they won't usually give a percentage that high (they told us 96% with DD).

Thanks, glad your scan went well too Kyz!

DD is impatient to see baby, she keeps saying "baby, please!" and pointing to my tummy! It was nice that she could see baby on the screen yesterday, she kept saying baby during it!

jazzy as soon as I pressed submit on my post I wondered what had crossed my mind. I still love it as a top, lovely print.

Kyz glad yoir scan went so well, lovely news.

I need to start researching monitors too. A video one appeals but all that stuff in the news about hackers being able to watch your baby too puts me off. Need to have a proper read up.

They can't do that on all video monitors. Just the ones linked to the Internet for remote access. And only on those if people haven't set up the security that they should have.

Tori - I read that thread too! I thought the poster was being a mardy so and so. The poster who used "hun" and ended her post with kisses was just trying to be supportive. Not everyone likes being "hun'd" by someone they don't know, but surely it's fairer to take it in the way it was probably meant rather than posting on a thread that the OP started because they were worried and in need of support and hand holding. That's surely not good etiquette or even being compassionate to another person on a thread?!

Also, I wonder who appointed the person who told her off as queen of etiquette on mumsnet? I must have missed that announcement.

Have good days junebug huns... Xx

Cuphat, no i didnt mean that dd's sleeping was necessarily due to her staying in with us.. Just the comparison between the 2 was interesting, i still used the sensor pad even when she was in with us and would only move the child into their own room using caution and like i say by being aware of all guidelines. I would never say to anyone you must keep them in with you, nor encourage to move early, its what works for you.

However she is clingy, now at 2.5 still wont sleep in her own room unless i'm in her bed with her. We're going to have fun when dd2 arrives arnt we

I've not seen that thread, but some threads need xxx's sumtimes, especially ones like this where we are all much closer.

Oh I'm loving all the scan news!

And thanks for all the info on movement; i feel heaps better.

Just had my 16wk appointment, listened to the heartbeat for ages (I'm in Somerset) it was 145bpm. So chuffed. Everything seems good so far :)

morning ladies

kyz congrats on the good scan news!

rosie yay for hearing the heartbeat...

Has anyone seen that new programme being adverstised on sky called Born in the Wild?? women across America are choosing to give birth in the wilderness in the middle of nowhere with no medical help on hand to enjoy the "primal, primitive experience" is it just me or do they all seem like a bunch of nut jobs?!

I have no objection to huns or xxx I think we could all do with a bit more love in the world! It is not seen as the 'done thing' on MN but we can make our own rules here!

Omg there are some nutters out there! I can't imagine anything less sexy although a friend of mine said he got really turned on when his wife was in labour as she was stark naked bent over the bed...

Lol jenny, i'm almost 100% that my dh didnt feel like snogging me or got turned on by my 'labour body'... (Or the sick)
Ohh the glamour.

Just doing my tax return... Yawn... And writing a letter to my minded kids parents telling them the news and that i can't look after their little darlings for 4 mths.

Good luck with todays scans - perpetual, mummyteacher, and any others.

HAHAHA the last thing my dh wanted was a kiss after me puking all over his shoes! and i would have quite happily punched him rather than kiss him!

I am so glad I'll have avoided labour both times. My husband would drive me mad, I know it!

My DP is useless in a crisis as well as squeamish about anything gynecological so I am just assuming he will be no help at all then I can only be pleasantly surprised!

Not a hun or xx's fan here, but no objection to anyone else doing it!

Rosie888 where in Somerset are you? We seem to be few and far between! I am right up in BANES near Keynsham, but DH used to work in Street, and my closest friend lives in Stoke-Sub-Hamden, absolutely love it down there!

My goodness, I've seen the pictures taken minutes post birth and there is nothing sexy about a whale with greasy hair and pasty skin! Haha, sexualising labour/birth is a new one!!

Giving birth nowhere near a hospital is my very worst nightmare, those woman are either mad or made of much sterner stuff than me!

Eeeeew snogging during labour??!! No thank you!!

And yes, from what you've said it sounds like those women who are going off into the wilderness are nut jobs. There's a reason mortality rates during childcare are lower these days than they were, and it ain't to do with wilder-births. Crazy.

That's my tuppence worth anyway :)

I'm getting hideous braxton hicks already :( Much worse when I'm active - hoovering yesterday and dd's swimming today were painful. Got to clean the bathroom now as it's embarrassing but am "just having two minutes".... Haha....