April 2015 Thread 12: Where are the carseats and are the bags packed, the babies are threatening to make an entrance!

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Welcome to the 12th April 2015 babies thread!

Here’s the stats as they currently stand:

Unknown/Surprise
Tannyloo, 42, unknown, EDD 3rd March
*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
Heyitsholly #1 EDD 16th 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
*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
FIRaffe 30, #1, 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 (ind 36)
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 (ind 36 weeks)
*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
FizzyBubbly, 32, #2, EDD 23rd April,
*HippoPottyMouth, 38, #3, EDD 25th April
LondonSuperTrooper, 41, DC# 2, EDD 26 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

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Hello! Morning all
Can I vent please!?
I left a completely fair review online for a shockingly bad experience with a furniture store and within minutes their "social media team" called me... Since then I've had multiple calls from this guy, all completely hollow, moronic managerial cliches mostly, but no action and no compensation and yet I'm being asked each time to remove my review and bribed that he will look into compensation if I do.
I'm so fed up. Today when he rang again, this is a week of phonecalls now, I said it amounted to harassment , that I wasn't changing anything as nothing had been done and to STOP ringing the house.
Also the "social media team" likely seem responsible for the corny positive reviews posted after mine. I'm sure they are fake.
Just in such a bad mood. I haven't had decent customer service from anywhere in so long :( we are also still waiting for the remaining parts of a kitchen ordered last YEAR with "guaranteed 21 day delivery". I find it so humiliating that companies can treat you like this and I find there's not much I can do because my blood pressure just rises at the thought of it. Never would have believed we wouldn't have a kitchen in time for baby, but still a building site and less than a month to go.

Can I cry please?

I know a few of you are having worse problems with houses and more importantly your health so I'm sorry for ranting. A healthy happy baby is what's most important but omg I could do without these stresses!!

36+2

who was it?
one of my work colleagues actually did a flyering campaign outside a specific shop fior their shoddy work installing his kitchen...

moomin yes cry!!! I would!!! Unacceptable. Just start tweeting about the harassment...

Well to name and shame, the furniture company in question is Oak Superstore and the kitchen is from Homebase.

I'm normally fierce, not to be messed with, I get angry and get things sorted. I love the flyering idea... But with this I'm more sad than angry, I've avoided dealing with it and got OH to chase it up and complain because I really feel my health suffers. I'm sad about it, I take it personally , I'm sad that anyone could care so little what they put me through when I just want to create a homely wee nest for my new baby.

Okay so time for my random catch up replies, while I sit eating mini eggs. Oh I forgot to add that my bloody baby has gone transverse since the weekend, I'm pretty certain of this because I feel kicks and punches to my sides and while I was in the car on the massive drive there I had something big wedged in my rib that was not a foot

Moomin We also bought the groegg to be honest it was more for a nightlight and that fact we can get shells for it so it looks cool in the nursery.
I'm not expecting to see a health visitor until after the birth, so I hope I don't. I wouldn't have any worries about them judging me but I don't see the point in it.

Squatting I seem to be able to almost put myself into early labour by walking, on the weekend we walked to an italian place for dinner and by the time we got there I was having BH. Then I started timing them they were coming every 2-3 mins usually about 1 -2 mins in length too, this went on for an hour and then when we got back to my friends house they stopped. We were all on high alert that we might have to go to hospital! I didn't even have my bag with me, just my notes so I was a bit reluctant to go. Whenever I walk for a period of time I do seem to bring on a bout of hour long contractions, I honestly can't really call them BH because they aren't randomn at all.

RL20 Yay for hot water finally, hope you enjoyed that bath even though it probably seems like a long time ago now.

Daholster I hope you are still feeling better, the last few days seem to have been quite up and down for you.

Penguin I haven't weighed myself at all, but my friends on the weekend all said that I don't look like I've gained weight just baby bump which is what I've been trying to do. Bump and boobs thats all, everything else looks pretty much the same. I'm sure if I weighed myself I would be shocked at how much just those weigh but what's the point? Weighing yourself doesn't really tell you anything, you might as well do it after you've had the baby and go from there instead.

Dances I can't believe no one has come to check you over, I'm sure they have to do it by law? They have a duty to care for women a certain amount of time after their birth.

Rusty Ohhhh your waters broke, that means a big count down is above your head now. Is it 24 or 48 hours they will wait once waters have broken before inducing if there are no contractions? Seeing that you are 35 weeks ish that makes me even more worried that I must finish my hospital bag! Just kept reading down and I see they are inducing you Monday, I suppose as long as there is no infection its ok then!

I've already put a maternity mat under my mattress protector, our mattress is crazy expensive ££££ so I don't want to ruin it.

This thread goes so quickly, one pain in the ass from the weekend was finding out some git has hit our car while its been parked in our underground car park. No note left, CCTV doesn't quite reach to the bay that the person probably hit it using as there is a pillar in the way. Pain in the ass because the car has been valued already for part exchange which is happening this month, so we have to now get that repaired or just get the car reassessed when we pickup the new car (and who knows what they will take off for it but we would be committed to the price on the day). I think we will get it repaired instead but just GRR, I hate that someone damaged it as it was in such amazing condition and that they didn't even notify anyone. The car park is like a car show room down there, but the concierge have started using the bay next to ours for visitors overflow. I might have to ask that they use a different bay, one that is actually viewable from the camera!

Moomin you're definitely right to complain to the company, and I would have no qualms about naming and shaming given the grief they are causing you - and I wouldn't retract the review either - in fact I would probably add another one saying how they are now harrassing you! on your behalf - I know what you mean about wanting to create a home for your baby. I feel at the moment that I just want to hide away at home and get everything ready and heaven help anyone who tries to interfere with that! Only person I want here is DH. This is the first day I've felt like this - so mega protective of my baby.

Siarie your baby shower sounds lovely! What a nice surprise for you. I agree with your point about weight as well, not going to bother anymore as there's nothing I can (or more like will) do about it at this stage anyway. That's so annoying about the car as well!!

Smogsville carpal tunnel typically feels like tingling/pins and needles in thumb and first 2 fingers - could be what you're getting especially if your hands/fingers are getting puffy. I've had it a couple of times last few weeks but generally find shaking my hand around eases it off.

I need to return some pyjamas to mothercare (whose 'small' nursing pyjamas are definitely small!) and buy some light bulbs, but really can't be bothered to go out especially now it looks wet outside! Also waiting for a delivery of the rest of my nursing bras which are meant to be between 10-2, so midi go out later!

Smogs I don't know what it is, but I've noticed that my hands are much weaker at the moment - I'm struggling to open jars etc that I'd usually have no problem with, and having to ask DP. I've also noticed that just holding a paint roller yesterday has left my hands really achey. And I've been getting pins and needles more quickly. And they are definitely a bit swollen. Sexy!

Thanks penguin, it's eased off now so we'll see. I don't think my fingers are massively swollen, I will now spend the day staring at them obsessively...

Moomin, you poor thing. We are still trying to get our builder to finish tiny nuts and bolts jobs. Still owe him money but he's hard to motivate nonetheless.

Sairie, mine is moving from head down to transverse several times a day which is worrying me! Midwife weds and scan fri so hope he's at least behaving at those appointments! A cs would mean a lot more time off work which I really can't afford. Ds2 was transverse until 36 weeks, and they say each subsequent baby has more room :( sucks about the car!!!

Car failed MOT booo But.....only needs new break pads!!! yay!

And made a huge discovery though my car was due MOT in April when baby was due but its not due till 30th of june I am now a very happy lady!!!

On a sad note Dog needs his annual booster when we get his passport so will now have to pay an extra 40 quid on top of the already 110 pound for passport and wormer's boo.

Been told bother in law is getting us baby monitor!! yay just need to get a cot top changer and sheets and we are set I think :D

Just dreaded bra shopping this week putting that off till Thursday!!

MoominMama - I think I would of given them a mouth full, we had new windows fitted last year and the company seems to want to ring me all the time asking if we are happy an do we want anything else done, I could deal with it until they rang at 8pm on the night and I went ape shit at them!
They have only rang a few times since an they get same answer now take my fucking number of your system!

Siarie - Sorry to hear about your car hope it don't devalue it to much! A lorry scrapped down my husbands car last year and we have had to settle on 50/50 even though it was the lorry's fault bit of a pain! effected our insurance this year as well it is annoying!!

Ha lunch out with my dad and now I don't want to clean my house lol

Penguin - I find Mothercare items come up small I was brought a 2 sets of Pjs in largest size tops fit fine but the bottoms are really tight so I were the top In the day now they will come in handy for breast feeding! The trousers will be better after the birth!

Got a lovely dress for 3pound at nearly new sale and it fits well over bump so looking forward to wearing it for DH birthday in a few weeks If Bump stays where she is supposed to!!

moomin I'd cry. then I'd leave a further review to describe their harassment too.

arses.

I'm one phone call from threatening to go to the police with harassment from a company linked to fiance's insurance company who keep on and on phoining to try to get us to claim for "injury" in the accident despite being told to jog on. No injury, we're all fine mentally too, not going to sue just because they keep phoning us two to three times a week.

34 week midwife appointment this morning, and my first encounter with a breastfeeding hard liner. I explained that I wanted to breastfeed, but also wanted to have some formula in the house just in case of unforeseen circumstances. Before I could ask what brand the local hospitals use, I got the full-on 'it will all be fine if you just think positively about it!' treatment... which wasn't actually what I'd asked or why I'd asked it. Frankly, I think I've got a better chance of successfully breastfeeding if I know there's some formula at the back of the cupboard just in case, because it's a psychological comfort blanket and takes the pressure/fear off me of having a hungry baby and not being able to do anything!

I got the answer out of her in the end, and I do understand why they're encouraging women towards breastfeeding, but honestly.

Annia-I plan on breast feeding but I have also brought a starter kit of bottles and milk just in case things don't go to plan always better to have some just in case!!

Started getting a stabby pain left side of tummy now I am getting back ache outch!!

moomin and ebwy that is disgusting, I'd be demanding to speak to someone very high up the chain and give them a very angry piece of my mind - it is definitely harrassment!! I am sick to the back teeth with all the calls I get, obviously now I'm off every Monday I'm realising just how many there are. I've been informed that I am definitely entitled to PPI refunds but when I ask them to tell me exactly what cards this would be from they can't answer! I feel for the people working in the call centres (I did it myself briefly when I was about 18) but some are so bloody rude!

annia seems some are still sticking with the whole mind over matter approach, helpful!

Well today I have done naff all and its been great! Domesticity is evidently setting in as I really fancied something sweet and rather than get dressed properly and make myself look respectable to get a snickers from the shop I made flapjacks! I have never made them before, was very much a bung it in the pan attempt but they are v yummy! I used Clover (didn't have any butter), a sachet of Dorset Cereals honey porridge, the dregs of some muesli, two mashed bananas and the last of a jar of Nutella. I could do with a nap now to be honest but I suppose I really ought to do something. The dining room looks like a launderette has exploded and the bedroom is a disgrace ... Yawn!

33+4

Annia every time I was asked how I would be feeding DD, I always said breastfeeding if I can. I was dismissed every single time with an 'of course you can' and I did struggle with it at the beginning. I even had that emergency carton of ready made formula in the cupboard but DD didn't like rubber nipples any more than she liked mine but at least she attempted to use mine and eventually got her head round it and then wouldn't touch a bottle.

I'm hoping this one will be a bit easier as I know what I'm doing this time round so the confusion phase shouldn't last as long.

I am so uncomfortable today I have a band of ache right across the middle of my bump and it's making me feel sick.

Mine spend hours in the bath and ds1 (7) will top up the water with hot periodically!!

Don't know about sizes for adults but mothercare come up small in tops and big in trousers for boys.

Sorry they're harrassing you Moominmama22, that's really not on and tbh id just ignore the calls.

Lovely baby shower Sairie, I don't expect one but would secretly like someone to do something.

I cried so much yesterday, tip of a large iceberg I asked dss to eat some his vegetables on his plate and Dh instantly said he'd made a good effort and so he didn't eat anything more. I wouldn't mind but if it was my two I would have made them have a couple more forkfuls or split it in half and eat their choice of half etc andnhe wouldn't have butted in. It's the last of a long line of things where Dh sides with dss and goes against me. I'm so worried that it wil start to rub off on my boys and they'll start thinking that they don't have to do what I tell them too. I don't know what to do about it because we talk and Dh says it will change and it never does. It's got to the point that I dread the weekends he's here because I know that we will have some kind of argument at some point. I told him that I will not tell him anything to do so that I can't be undermined again but I then feel totally powerless to stop things happening in my house that I don't agree with :( I know my hormones made it worse and I haven't cried that much in ages!!!!

Oh cinnamon that would frustrate me too, but I bet a lot of your emotion is coming out at the moment because your dss has started being difficult due to age and that you have the worry of integrating a new little one into the family too and you want so much for it to work out well. I bet your dh was surprised how much it upset you. You are trying to be a good mum to dss and teach him right, and by the sounds of it dh is trying to make sure dss enjoys his time at his house (your house) as much as possible so he doesn't nag or be strict perhaps often enough... Maybe dh is worried how dss will perceive the new one too and wants everything at your house to be all positive? I don't know, guesses from afar with a teeny bit of history, but I'm sure you've thought about all these things. The key here though is not that you disagree how to handle him, but the undermining bit in front of the kids and I think you are perfectly right to be annoyed with him. Even if he had said to your dss "well I think you've done OK but since dsm has asked will you please do as she says and maybe next time we'll give you a bit less" or something... Its a hard one. Family dynamics are hard enough without the "step" bit to contend with... Dh and I sometimes disagree on how to manage dd and have cross words, and we realise we shouldn't... Soon she will be old enough to clock it, right now we are getting away with it...

I hope you feel better today. Hugs

Lauren get out of those trousers!!!

cinnamon sending and a hug! explain to your DH how it's making you feel - that you don't want to have negative thoughts about DSS but are finding it hard bc of the arguments and feeling unsupported. Good luck.

Annia what a dumbass mw. And I speak as a fully signed up member of the EBF club. When will they learn that telling people what to do only rubs them up the wrong way? As Ebwy eloquently puts it, jog on.

mswibble your odds and ends flapjack sounds amazing! I've just eaten a Lindt hazelnut bar and a malteaster bunny (to keep it real). Really v tempted to carry on troughing. It's so dangerous having a drawer full of chocs at work.

Yes it is Smogs. Despite feeling sick I have munched my way through the chocolate pretzels from my last graze box and had a chocolate brownie. It's not helped my tummy but gave me something to do for 10 mins.

LOLZ Lauren! As someone else said you need to get out of those trousers!

That pretty much sums it up daholster! And smogsville we've had that conversations many times and nothing changes that's why I think I got so upset as I feel like nothing will ever change :( thank you both!

Can't believe how close to the end of another thread we are!

Blimey this thread moves fast!

I know that my scar isn't infected because if it was it wouldn't have healed as well as it appears to have. I am a bit peeved though, that no one has been in touch. My named community midwife hasn't seen me since I was about eighteen weeks pregnant! The team midwives last contact with me was when they sent me in for monitoring at about 28 weeks because my bp was 160/107.

I'm not surprised though tbh. My friend, who had a baby before Christmas, was discharged on day 2, saw a midwife on day 4 who asked if she had any questions and then signed her off! Her reasoning being that they were short staffed and it wasn't a first baby.

I have a "review" booked for next week at the drs and will be saying that postnatal care has been atrocious. I know it's due to cuts but I can definitely see a a marked difference this time around. Not necessarily their fault, but not good!

Congratulations Babiecakes. I really envy you being at home with baby Sarah already. Tiger-Rose has had a bad weekend so doesn't look like she'll be home this week (which i was hoping for).

I have wi-fi again. Yay! But Im 20 pages behind. Doh!

Hope everyone is ok. I've had a very up and down couple of weeks. Heart murmur is playing up, so being sent for more tests and today doctor signed me off sick. Feeling very emotional about it all. Trying to work from home to get some handover notes in order as I feel very guilty about finishing early. Grump grump grump!

Well they will be coming off as soon as I get home. I'll have to get my leggings out for tomorrow.

Afternoon everyone. I can't keep up with this thread!

Dances sorry to hear that Tiger-Rose isn't likely to be coming home this week. She's in the best care for now though, and will be home when they feel she's ready. Hope your getting to spend as much time as possible with her!

Lauren I used to absolutely love Graze boxes! Had them weekly but then at the beginning of my pregnancy I went off literally most foods so I had to cancel

Cinnamon sorry to hear your troubles. As you know I've got similar problems too, and they're not ones to be sorted out easily are they, when they're not your own children.
I'm already wondering about when our baby is born and is a little bit older, I don't want my partners daughters habits rubbing off on baby too much. She has terrible eating habits and always has done. Would much rather eat sweets and chocolate than proper food but as we only have her every other weekend, my partners family (his mum etc) just let her get on with it which really irritates me! I'm more strict with it but what's the point if no one else is going to jump on board with it
I would suggest to let your husband get more involved with tea time if he isn't already. Take a step back from being the maternal one if you can (with stepson) and as long as you continue to teach your children what's right and wrong when it comes to eating, what your stepson does ultimately comes down to his habits at his own home. It's what I'm going to have to try and do anyway. Good luck