Due in April '07: Hold onto your Hamburgers ............

[CaptainDippy]

Sorry Bramshot about your nightmare I sometimes have dreams like that too. Also a chap a work was telling me in the oft this morning about his DD who is 9 weeks old and born 10 weeks prem! So not what I wanted to hear!!!

Suggestion for boys Irish name - killian - we have friends with a DS with that name and he's very cute! Irish girls is harder, what about Orla - at least its easy to spell!

oops - meant "lift" not "oft"!!

Hiya loves. Still no news from Pesha?
I am waiting for my lovely midwife to come - trying not to tuck in to the cakes before she gets here!
How is everyone? Hope all the scans go well.
I feel a lot better than yesterday and dd was much more manageable this morning thank God.
I meant to say for anyone suffering with a cold, I found olbas oil really good for clearing the passages - a few drops on a tissue you can sniff. I had really bad sinus problems at the start of pg and this and steam worked quite well.
Well, need to do some housework before mw comes - can't spend my entire dd free day on mn!
CD, thanks for your comments re our potential names. I love your dd's names. My dd is Rebecca, although always called Becky.
Must run. Love to you all. xx

Know what you mean about Irish names. We thought about a Welsh name for this one, but tbh, trying to pronounce them, never mind spelling them turns the whole name game into a minefield

When I was hospital with ds, a lady next to me had called her daughter Anais (sp?) The mw commented how pretty it was, then asked asked her to confirm the spelling. The new mum replied (completley straight faced) "oh, I don't know, I just liked the sound of it" I think the mw spent the next hour trying to spell it!

Ooh, I like both those ideas Hotlips! We also quite like Declan or Ryan for a boy, or Aislin for a girl (but that's verging on the unspellable).

DD was 7 weeks prem so I'm so, so much looking forward to getting to 28ish weeks and will feel I can breathe more easily then. I think last night's dream was all because of all these newspaper stories about them not resuscitating before 22 weeks, and even though rationally I know it's not an issue, and that whether they resuscitate does not necessarily effect the final outcome (IYSWIM), I think that's where it came from.

God, that sounds really miserable sorry!! I don't mean to be - it was just a dream, but one I was SO grateful to wake up from!!

Now sitting here waiting for the plumbers who are supposed to be replacing three of our radiators. What sort of time do they start work then - hey?!?

GMM - I love the name Heather! We have a very good and wonderful friend with that name and it's a possible on my list for this LO.

So much better than my own name which you will never guess but my full name with my maiden surname meant "Green bough from the stream" which I thought was rather lovely !

RH - Re the South West / Wales meet-up. Shall we have a thread specifically for this purpose? Otherwise I feel we will get nowhere fast. Can you or another SW / Wales lady who is good at links do the thing? You would have to put it in ante-natal I think, and call it "April 2007 - South West / Wales meet-up" or something equally startling and then I think we might get somewhere!

I have just won an Amby Nest cradle on Ebay and am over the moon!

PESHA - where are you?????

Consider it done GGF - heres the link

South West and Wales Meet Up

Hope Pesha is ok

morning all!

Everyone's getting pink! I'm convinced mine's blue, but dh thinks pink. We shall see...

You all seem to be so prepared! We've decided not to start getting baby stuff until after xmas/new year! So at the moment we have zero stuff, not even a baby grow!

bramshot - what an awful dream! I woke up in the night sobbing a few days ago too. not nice. dh was very lovely though and didn't mind me waking him at all.

wilderbeast - LUCKY YOU! Always jealous of people who get their PhD funded. Mine's in the arts, so funding is harder to come by. I'm writing up, but coz it's arts we write up as we go. I had a really difficult start to it. Was doing it alongside a job where I was getting treated really badly and had to leave, then my mum got terminal cancer and everything got put on hold while we looked after her until she died. Then I had a few months where life seemed to be on the up and I got really bad morning sickness and haven't worked on it for 3 months!

Anyway, going on now!

Great news about your amby cradle

Really, really should get on with some work.

You lot are just too distracting

Might have a cup of tea first though....

Bramshott- sounds like a terrible nightmares, So far I haven't had any baby related one although I do keep dreaming that DH is having an affair.

Isn't ezra a boys name?

I will give you a huge clue of what my name is, in the mirror it looks like a form of urrrrm "sex", (deffinitly not how babies are conceived)

My babies names would either be "bed" or "sofa" so I could use one of each.

What's the D stand for CD?
I can't work this one out
Doris?

BTW - Tesco have got 20% off clothing until next week (I think, but not sure) Might start stocking up on baby things...

1B3 - Felicity (I think you know where I'm coming from although I don't know how the mirror bit fits in!!!!!)??

CD - what about Delilah?

1b3 - you have completely lost me with the mirror clue!

lana?

Think back to front

Starts with an E

elana?

What about Dorothy

or does it start with De...?!!

Got it GMM!
(do you get the mirror thing now anale)
My name is spelt Elana but for some reason my parents thought it should be pronounced e-lay-na
so I am for ever correcting people.

quite amusing that you go mine and I got yours!!!

elana is such a beautiful name!

Can we have another clue CD, or has someone got it?

LOL at name guessing.

bramshott - you made me laugh at the B&Q reference!! Capatin Dippy - LOL as well at BBQ - we didnt actaully do it ON the BBQ amongst charcoal and burnt burgers!!

we are def going for an irish name (me 100% irish and dp 50%) looks like Dara or Ruari for a boy and Caiomhe for a girl. I am imagining some puzzled faces at the girls pronounciation. think Keeva.

WO - they sound lovely. Our surname is a county in Ireland, and I love Irish names (Niamh is particular favourite) Sil traced family back, and they turns out they are actually from that county in Ireland (had to go back a hundred years or so though!)Dh visited there once years ago, and the locals treated him like a king when they found out his surname.