April 2015 Thread 10: full of chatterboxes, only 2 months to go...

[Hidingthefear]

the other thread was almost full already! Any newbies welcome to join : )

Copied this from Boo from the last fred, sorry if it's changed since then, wasnt sure where to find it.

Unknown/Surprise
Misty414, 30, #1 edd 25th March
Fingerscrossed, 33, #2 EDD 1st April
ChickenMe, 38, EDD 4th April
LadyStinky, 35, #1 EDD 5th April
Rustyzilla, 34, #1, EDD 7th April
Floppypotato, #1, EDD 7th April
BrixtonBunny, 26, #1 edd 8th April - Surprise (but more likely to be girl according to sonographer)
Nerdsgirl, EDD 9th April
Chiliplant, ?, #1, EDD 11th April -
Wineandchoccy, 33, #1, EDD 14th April
AnniaFausta, 32, #1, EDD 15th April
AbiBanbury, 38, #1 EDD 18th April (but ovulate early so likely to be more like 14th) -
BitchPeas #2 EDD 19th April
Kismac, 29 #1, EDD 19th April
NinnynoodleNoo, 37, #6, EDD 19th April
SquattingNeville, 24, #2, EDD 20th April
CherryLips1980, 34, #2, EDD 21st April
Chococroc, 31, #1, EDD 22nd April, (but will likely be a couple of weeks earlier due to health condition) -
Lauren82000, 30 #2 EDD 22nd April
Ivegotacavetroll, 30 #1 EDD 23rd April
Mswibble - 29, #1, EDD 24th April
HippoPottyMouth, 38, #3, EDD 25th April
OneDay, 27, no DC, MMC June 2014, EDD 26th April
Squidge14,#1, EDD 27th April
JaneyTea, 34, #1. EDD 29th April
catsofa 35, #1, EDD 30th April

Boy
RiverRocks, 30, #1, EDD 26th March
houghtonk76, 38, #1, EDD 1st April
Lindalove, 38, EDD 2nd April
Lila35, 35, #1, EDD 3rd April
Cinnamongreyhound, 33, #3 edd 6th April
berberana, 34 #2 edd 11th April
Hidingthefear, 25, #1 EDD 13Th April
daholster, 32, #2, EDD 14th April
BonjourMinou, 32, #2, EDD 19th April
BananaToast, 26, #1, EDD 20th April
smogsville, 33, #2, EDD 22nd April, csection booked for 16th April
LadyNovember, 24, #1, EDD 23rd April
StuntNun, 38, #4, EDD 27th April
Mel0drama 36, dc #2, edd 29th April

Girl
Roastpots 35, #2 EDD 1st April
Babiecakes11, 23, 4th pregnancy, 2nd baby EDD April 1st
minipie, 34, #2, EDD 4th April
Skyra13, 26, #1 EDD 6th April
londonlivvy, 39, DC#2, EDD 8 April
upduffedsecret, EDD 8th April - Girl?
TinyTear, 41, DD2 EDD 11th April
TheBooMonster, 25, DD2, EDD 11th April
Mamabear0315, 24, #2, EDD 12th April
MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet, 36, #2 EDD 23rd April
FreedomHuntress, 40, #2, EDD 27th April
Siarie, 26, #1, EDD 27th April

RL I have managed to trim with my husbands clippers, but it is become difficult I may have to rope the hubby into it lol!

Anyone els having odd dreams? I was dating Ed Sheeran in my dream last night but then he left me for this ugly fat girl lol then she cheated on him and he came back to me Odd The ermm sex was pretty amazing in it lol

rl I am planning on booking a couple of appointments to get my everything waxed. I figured one early March so that I know what to expect (34 weeks) and one then at 38 weeks to tidy everything back up as it starts to grow if I've not already had the baby. Last time I ended up in the hospital with my fanjo on show rather earlier than expected, the poor midwife basically had to wade through the garden! She didn't say a word (far more grumbling about the hight of my cervix than about the lady garden), but I was mortified and wouldn't let DH or my mum anywhere near the business end!

Ooh, everyone's hospital lists are making mine seem less insane now, I've spilled over to three bags (all for different times and purposes) and was worried I'd gone way overboard, but it's about the same as everyone elses!

Hand Held Maternity Notes no matter what and phone and charger.

Pre-Labour Bag (this isn't packed, there is just a list ready to pack on the mornings of my 32 and 36 week scans)
-comfy undies x 3
-PJ’s x2
-Maternity tops x 2
-Leggings
and then dragged out of the labour bag:
-pump slippers
-Squeezy squash pod
-Make up: Foundation, BB 5in1 eyeshadow, Colour Boost Pallet
-Wet bag filled with Toiletries: hairbrush and bands, toothbrush x2 and toothpaste, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, deodorant, Moisturiser, Cleanser, hand cream to deal with sanitiser dryness, lip balm, face wipes, flannel.
-My iPad full of books and solo games
-Change

Labour Bag
-Toiletries: pretty much as above, plus plenty of stretch mark cream
-Dark towels x 2
-Nighty x 2
-Slippers
-Disposable knickers x 3
-Disposable maternity pads x 10
-Nursing bras x2
-Disposable breast pads: just a couple of pairs as milk doesn't come in straight away
-Lansinoh
-Going home clothes (leggings, nursing top, nursing bra, cardigan)
-Snacks (crisps and little bags of popcorn)
-Glucose Tablets
-Drinks cartons with bendy straws
-Mints
-pain relief (Tens Machine, Natal Hypnotherapy Book, Natal Hypnotherapy CD's, Homeopathic remedies box By Helios, Nelson's Rescue Remedy, Massage oil)

Baby's Bag
-vests x 3
-body suits x 3
-pink hat
-Blanket
-Muslins x 3
-Pack of newborn nappies
-mouse comforter toy
-Water Wipes.
-unscented CJ's bottom BUTTer (to smother babies bum pre-first-poo)

DH's bag
-A change of clothes for him in case labour is long (or at least top and underwear)
-Laminated birth plan
-Loose change
-Phone & charger
-Snacks and drinks that don't fit in my bag!
-Painkillers and energy drinks for him
-The iPad (loaded with books, games, contraction timer)

Post Labour Stay bag
-Maternity pads x 10 (or possibly 100?)
-Disposable knickers x 3
-Breast feeding tops x 2
-Prune juice - to ease the first poo situation
-leggins x 2
-dark nursing pj’s x2
-Blissful Tincture - from the natural birthing company, For easing post birth wounds!
-Nursing pillow
For Baby (have stacks ready and labeled in size order to go in above bag )
-6 x vests
-6 x sleepsuits
-3 x giant muslins
-Cotton Wool Balls
-Small bowl - for water for nappy changes and blissful tincture for me
-more nappies!

LOL for fanjo lights and Lauren lifting your bump to have a root around your lady garden!

Am planning to get a regular bikini wax at around 36 wks when I go on mat leave. Same as last time. I'll be under GA on an operating table with quite a lot of people standing around me so I'd rather be neat and tidy but it's a personal thing innit.

Have left DH to put DD to bed so she is taking the piss quite royally and keeps zooming downstairs on tummy feet first to take another lump of Lego upstairs. Might as well make the most of his last week of being here at bedtime before new job starts.

Unknown/Surprise
*Misty414, 30, #1 edd 25th March
Fingerscrossed, 33, #2 EDD 1st April
PenguinPoser, 27, #1 EDD 3rd April (ind ~37 weeks)
ChickenMe, 38, EDD 4th April
MoominMama, 28, #1 EDD 4th April
LadyStinky, 35, #1 EDD 5th April
solstice930, 30, EDD April 6th
Rustyzilla, 34, #1, EDD 7th April
*Floppypotato, #1, EDD 7th April
LittleGreyCatwithapinkcollar, #1, EDD 7th April
Nunkie, 39: #1 EDD 7th April
*BrixtonBunny, 26, #1 edd 8th April - Surprise (but more likely to be girl according to sonographer)
Nerdsgirl, EDD 9th April
Chiliplant, ?, #1, EDD 11th April
usernamefeefifoe, EDD April 11th
Wineandchoccy, 33, #1, EDD 14th April
AnniaFausta, 32, #1, EDD 15th April
AbiBanbury, 38, #1 EDD 18th April (but ovulate early so likely to be more like 14th) -
BitchPeas #2 EDD 19th April
*Kismac, 29 #1, EDD 19th April
NinnynoodleNoo, 37, #6, EDD 19th April
*CherryLips1980, 34, #2, EDD 21st April
*Chococroc, 31, #1, EDD 22nd April, (but will likely be a couple of weeks earlier due to health condition) -
*Lauren82000, 30 #2 EDD 22nd April
*Ivegotacavetroll, 30 #1 EDD 23rd April
Cowbiscuits, 35 #2 EDD 24th April
*OneDay, 27, no DC, MMC June 2014, EDD 26th April
Squidge14,#1, EDD 27th April
*JaneyTea, 34, #1. EDD 29th April

One of Each!
Littlesupersparks, 32, #3&4, EDD 30th April

Boy
RiverRocks, 30, #1, EDD 26th March
*Cisforcat, 31 #2, EDD 1st April
houghtonk76, 38, #1, EDD 1st April
Lindalove, 38, EDD 2nd April
*Lila35, 35, #1, EDD 3rd April
*Cinnamongreyhound, 33, #3 edd 6th April
littleash789, April 6th
Obeliaboo, EDD April 7th
berberana, 34 #2 edd 11th April
Suzybean, 39, boy #2, due 12th April.
Hidingthefear, 25, #1 EDD 13Th April
daholster, 32, #2, EDD 14th April
*BonjourMinou, 32, #2, EDD 19th April
*BananaToast, 26, #1, EDD 20th April
RL20, 22, EDD 20th April
smogsville, 33, #2, EDD 22nd April, csection booked for 16th April
LadyNovember, 24, #1, EDD 23rd April
*Mswibble - 29, #1, EDD 23rd April
*StuntNun, 38, #4, EDD 27th April
*Mel0drama 36, dc #2, edd 29th April
Brummagem 39 #1 edd 28th April
*catsofa 35, #1, EDD 30th April

Girl
Roastpots 35, #2 EDD 1st April
*Babiecakes11, 23, 4th pregnancy, 2nd baby EDD April 1st
minipie, 34, #2, EDD 4th April
Skyra13, 26, #1 EDD 6th April
*londonlivvy, 39, DC#2, EDD 8 April
*EbwyIsUpDuffed, EDD 8th April - Girl?
*TinyTear, 41, DD2 EDD 11th April
*TheBooMonster, 25, DD2, EDD 11th April
*Mamabear0315, 24, #2, EDD 12th April
ToutDeLeFruit, #1, EDD 12th April
*SquattingNeville, 25, #2, EDD 20th April
blackwidow74, DD#2, EDD 22nd April
MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet, 36, #2 EDD 23rd April
*HippoPottyMouth, 38, #3, EDD 25th April
FreedomHuntress, 40, #2, EDD 27th April
*Siarie, 26, #1, EDD 27th April
Zahrah5, 38, EDD April 27th
*LucyandPoppy EDD 28th April

Born
Dancestomyowntune, DD (I have the date on my master sheet, not sure if you want it published so easily accessible dances?)

Thanks for updating the stats Boo. And thanks to everyone who has posted their bag packing lists. I have babies bag packed but mine is only half done so need to get it sorted this weekend. I would have forgotten a towel! And glad I'm not the only one with makeup on my list

Long day at work glad it's over now. Going to make a chicken and spinach masala curry for tea. Saving the romantic weekend takeaway for valentines hehe.

I'm not taking a towel. I took one last time but didn't fancy using the delightful communal facilities at the Chelsea and Westminster in the state I often found them in. Shower when I get home will do nicely. Obvs if you think you have a shot at a private ensuite room that's another matter entirely.

lol penguin I've seen the pictures me post labour, I look pretty awful, not least because of the PPH, so I figured just a bit of make up would be a useful thing. I've been buying all the Bare Minerals foundations and concealers and compact blushes type things I can get my hands on and experimenting to see what I can get the best results with in the least steps!

Mmmmmm anything that involves curry and spinach is goooood! I made beetroot burgers for dinner, and they were actually surprisingly edible!

Thanks for sharing all of the hospital bag lists....I'm far less sorted than I realised!! My DH surprised me at Xmas, one of my Xmas presents was a gorgeous new hold all and inside was everything he researched that he thought I would need in there for hospital, bless him. I haven't really been through it since but looking at these lists there are definitely things I haven't got yet or need to get more of! A job for in a couple of weeks when mat leave starts I think.

I've just had dinner and hoping I can keep it down tonight, I'm getting very sick of being sick :-(

Thanks for everyone's replies on shaving, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's thought about it!
I'd love the idea of having a wax but although I've had my brows and legs waxed numerous times, a vajayjay wax seems a bit scary I think I've been scarred for life though from when I got my partner to try at-home waxing on it one time! Ohhh the pain! You can imagine. Needless to say the rest was done by myself- with a razor!
I wonder if Veet hair removal cream would work?

And in reply to whoever it was that mentioned is anyone else scared about the new arrival coming up, I suppose I am! Although I can't wait for him to be here, I'm just scared about labour and birth! Trying not to think about it though because at the end of the day, I've got to do it however he comes! Time is creeping up on me though and I can't believe how fast it's gone by so far!

Tout that's so thoughtful of him!

I should add I won't be doing labour so it's not quite as minging not to take a towel as my last post might have made it seem

awww tout that's the sweetest thing for your DH to have done! fx on keeping your dinner down!

rl veet hair removal stuff can be used on bikini line but not close to the intimate regions, it hurts like fuck!

are hospital showers really the blood bath that everyone talks about? I have no recollection of unclean showers... though I was mostly sponge bathed by a stranger because I couldn't stand until we were on NICU anyway...

Tout that is lovely! They can be cute sometimes can't they. My partner orders from Amazon a lot and the other week some parcels came

• he had ordered a big box of nappies, wipes, a big tub of sudocrem and

Whoops posted before finishing..
And a Tommee Tippee little grooming kit thing. I found it really cute!

Also with regards to showering at hospital.. I hadn't even thought of that? ?? when are you allowed to shower etc?

I had chance to shower when on postnatal ward but in a bathroom that was available to anyone on the ward and either the cleaning was crap or the other women really vile at clearing up after themselves. Suffice to say I wouldn't have felt any cleaner after washing there.

I bet if you do labour you get to shower in the labour room though straight after baby born?

Will depend entirely on the hospital in question and its facilities. I'm still jealous of Wine's which sounds amazing!

I don't think it's a given that hospital bathrooms will be grim. I used a private one attached to the delivery suite immediately after I have birth then one on the post natal ward, then I was moved to an en suite private room. They were all completely sparkling and I was never wishing I had a pair of flip flops or whatever ! I guess it does rather depend on who used it before you and how tidy they were but in my experience they were nothing to be concerned about!

Yes, must admit he is very sweet and thoughtful like that. He knows what a stress head and worrier I am and decided to just do it so it was one less thing for me to have to do :-)

Well dinner didn't stay down long, third time today, grrrr!

Yuk, not liking the sounds of hospital showers then. We are yet to do our tour, I'm hoping for the birth centre which is attached to our hospital rather than the actual delivery ward, if all remains well of course. I have no idea what to expect!

I've never been in hospital before so have no idea what to expect with the bathrooms etc! I'm lucky though that my hospital is all private rooms on antenatal/postnatal ward and delivery suite and I think they mostly have en suite so fingers crossed!

I'm way too much of a wimp to get a wax... Will have to do with a trim as best I can without being able to see...

Your beetroot burgers sound good too Boo! And ToutDelafruit how sweet of your DH that's a lovely gift

And on a different note was it Skyla who asked about odd dreams? I have def had more saucy dreams than when not preg... About inappropriately aged men usually. One a 60-odd year old folk singer, then Roger Moore for goodness sake!! Most recently David Mitchell. In the bath. What weird is that they are all very pleasant indeed whilst in the dream. But then I wake up and think WTF???! Why can't I have those dreams about the lovely Frenchman from Mr Selfridge?!

Hi Littleash789, usernamefeefifoe, ToutDeLeFruit and blackwidow74. Sorry to hear about your loss blackwidow74 :(

Your comment made me smile littlesupersparks :)

Sorry to hear your Dh isn't being particularly in helpful daholster!

Sorry to hear about all those having bad nights, I sleep pretty well when asleep and my boys are pretty good sleepers! I finished babysitting early and was in bed by 11 last night and alarm went off at 7. Had hectic day with lots of children, couple of hours walking round forest and at park and helping Dh building the boys bed.

Newborn/unweaned baby nappies are no probs compared to later!

I think a lot of how children respond to baby siblings is down to personality but you can certainly make it sound more exciting. We had a battle with dss as his mum was bad mouthing his 'half' brother at every opportunity but he was always good with small children/babies. Ds1 totally ignored ds2 pretty much until he moved and ds2 is very excited about this baby and will coo over and stroke any baby he comes across!

Dh is set on Joshua but we will see, I still want Elliot but he won't have it and ds1 would really like Thomas which I also like. Hannah is lovely SquattingNeville :)

Didn't feel I had a choice with either of mine smogsville! With ds2 it was a bath which was hideous and I couldn't wait to get out!

I do mine with dh's hair clippers RL20 with a no1 guard on it so I don't have to worry about catching skin. Will just use mirror.

The showers at hospital were fine when I had mine TheBooMonster. They made me have a bath with ds2, which was horrid because I had to sit in the water and I would have much rather had a shower but it wasn't dirty just bits from me.

I had my usual all off wax this week, should put me in good standing for two more appointments up to the birth. Honestly it isn't that painful, I mean before pregnancy i would rate it 2 out of 10 on my pain scale. Now I'd say maybe 4? Depends as some appointments have been a 2.

So either I have a high pain threshold or you ladies need a decent beautician doing the procedure! The ladies who I go to always apply pressure to the area immediately which stops any pain. Also they use hot wax which hardens then you pull the wax off instead of the strip method.