April 2007 - an Easter surprise

[Katy44]

Morning everyone!

trying out christmas name, not great but all I can think of for now!

Hello everyone!

Well I got home from a lovely, relaxing holiday a week ago and believe it or not, I think I've managed to catch up with about 90% of the posts! Course after all those reading sessions, I never got around to posting. Loved following all the chat though. MIAM - glad you are alright - I followed all the drama and worry after the fact but was still concerned along with everyone else!

GMM - brilliant idea with the festive names!

A big warm welcome to Opinionsrus (I know - you've been here a while now!) and Hollyhormone.

I am SO SO pleased for TreacleTart - what happy news If you read this, TT, please drop by whenever you can and let us know how you are doing.

1becomes3 - I think we share a scan date this Friday? I'm very excited. If I remember correctly you are pretty sure that you have 1 pink and 1 blue but this scan will be a confirmation?

I love the name talk. Katy - we are also thinking of Tristan, but as a middle name. For a boy we are thinking James Tristan and for a girl Annika May. Like someone else said, I'd love to hear your thoughts on these but please be a little bit gentle because we are 90% sure!!

Hugs to all suffering with SPD - sounds painful and difficult. I had a MW tell me breast-stroke was a definite no-no because of the risk and then a (special ante-natal) physio say it was okay as long as you had no pain with it. I went with the physio's advice and swam a lot during our holiday - including breaststroke. So far so good. Is it most likely to develop at the end of the first trimester?

Like so many of you, this past weekend we put up our tree and decorations. Looks lovely and I especially look forward to coming home from work every evening and turning the lights on and having cozy evenings.

Good night all. Definitely past my bedtime!

Hi all - quick pre bedtime post:

TREACLETART - omg - so well done to you!!! . Keeping everything crossed for bean to hang on.

HOLLYHORMONE - welcome to you. If you are in Wiltshire you might like to be a part of the South West meet-up. There is another thread (I can't do links !) about it which I'm sure some clued up person will do a link to if you can't find it.

NAMES - love Jack, but very biased ! I'm afraid I just don't go for the Tristan, Toby, Freddie type stuff - sounds so yummy mummy to me. Love Stella for a girl though. I also think Reece/Rhys sounds chav-ish! Love all the old-fashioned names like William, Luke, Sophie, Kate, Alice etc.

So (and this is a BIG secret in RL) DH and I are almost agreed on Rose for our LO. Honest opinions please !!

Night night to all .

Jinglebellamoi - LOVE James for a first name! - sorry for x-post.

REALLY going to bed this time!

Morning all!
Holly: We considered Rose for a girl - very pretty name! I like many of the more classic names, too. Luke was near the top of the list of possibilities for me but DH didn't like it so much.
I find it more difficult to find boys' names I like than girls' names.

One of the VERY best sites for looking at baby names (especially to see popularity over time) is:
Baby Name Voyager

The data used is American but the site is interactive and the program is designed by someone who really understands statistics and naming trends and is passionate about all things related to baby naming. She also runs a baby name blog that you can check out from that site.

Morning all. Well I have my scan this afternoon so I'll find out if there is anything wrong. (My nuchal scan was 1:33). I'm not looking forward to it.

We are not going to find out the sex. DH doesn't want to know. But I have a girls and boys name in mind - just haven't discussed it with DH!! .

Smole - best of luck with your scan and lots of [[[[hugs]]]. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Those odds are still way in your favour - I should know!

Hope it goes reeeeeally well Smole - We'll be here waiting for you when you get back honey - [[hugs]]

Hello and Welcome HollyHormone (love the name!! ) Good to have you with us!! Oooooh, I am originally from Wilts - whereabouts are you????

Runny - William Luke is lovely. Ruby, Alice and Lola Kate and are all nice.

Ellie - Matthew is a very sweet name and quite easy to match imho, Sam is nice, or you could go with James, William, Luke, Jonathan - one of those sorts of names??

Glad you had a super time away Jinglebella! (Cool name! ) James is lovely, not so keen on Annika, but quite usual.

H&Mforever - I am very much "into" traditional names too and I think Rose is gorgeous - DH doesn't like it, otherwise it owuld have been on our list.

Ooooh, all this talk of names is very exciting!!

Best do some work .....

Hi all

Welcome hollyhormone and congrats on blue bean

Congrats TT

And congrats Bugmum on scan and another blue bean, we are definitely catching up now!

Am very y today arent I?!

Right - braxton hicks - am on 3rd pregnancy and never had them just straight into the real thing each time, or more likely had them but not felt them, so cant really help but think everything happens sooner with subsequent pregnancies.

Grapeseed oil is my top tip! (And it is the stuff you buy from supermarket, tescos own ) Doesnt smell as strong as olive oil but really good, used it for baby massage as the proper baby oils are apparently mineral based and actually dried out ds's skin so hv recommended grapeseed and its great, and imagine it would also be good for perineum.
And dd has had nits [festive yuck emoticon] so on sunday covered her and ds's heads with grapeseed oil, wrapped their heads in clingfilm and left for 3 or 4 hours, pmsl-ing at them, then washed it off, combed hair through and all lice dead

Love all the name suggestions, dd was (probably) going to be william jake if she'd been a boy. She is Maia Natasha (maia pronounced may-a like the month not my-a) and ds is Nathan Peter (peter after dp's dad who died when dp was little boy). Nathan was the only boys name we both agreed on, dp was bit more keen than I was but cant imagine him being anything else now. Oh and the dog is murphy so my sister has banned me from having anymore M or N names as she has a megan and it all gets a bit confusing!! I really liked lily for a girl this time but we have blue so are thinking finley, dylan or jack but no idea on middle names. My sister really liked jack as a name for her baby if it had been a boy but her dps last name is russell!

When I was in labour with dd Id been there all night then sun came up and (now)xp said oh why dont we call her dawn, i said no i hate the name dawn then suddenly thought OMG i have no idea what these mws names are and started worrying they might be dawn or have family called dawn so I started waffling on about how it was just because there was a girl called dawn at school who i hated (which is true) and that had put me off! I was in labour at the point of pushing ffs but still worried about offending people , none of that swearing and hating people for me. I also remember thinking I really couldnt do it anymore after id been pushing forever but didnt want to say it cos it seemed like such a cliched thing to say!!

welcome HollyHormone - am slightly disappointed that's not your name in RL as it would have been nice to "meet" another one who's not under 5 or a dog IYSWIM!!!

Anyho - good luck on today's scans, esp Smole.

Am enjoying all this talk on names - I like the name Jack but would never choose it as its been far too common for far too long (as in popular, not the other common). I know 3 Jacks born this year out of 5 boys! Personally am quite keen on Austen for a boy and Darcey for a girl. Also Rachel, Siena, Esther. Am finding boys names harder as used all the ones I liked on DS! We have to be quite careful with our surname and can't have anything ending in "olly" as too confusing!

Ooooh, Rachel and Esther are names DH and I like too, hotlipsmummy!

X posts earlier, good luck with scan smole, will be thinking of you

Shopping tips - toys r us have some great special offers on at the mo, well worth a search if you're looking for toys, just look at the offers. And also vertbaudet have a sale on at the mo with up to 60% off and have some discount codes from a thread on here. I managed to order a smart jacket for ds, scarf for ds, 2 sarah kay (remember sarah kay?! dd has my duvet covers from when i was little girl with sarah kay 1970's girls all over them!!)T-shirts, 1 for dd,1 for neice; gorgeous traditional purple cord dress in 2 sizes for niece (will send 1 back but wasnt sure what would fit her) all for about £25 after using code for £10 off and free p&p and free gift (walkie talkies) so very pleased with myself. The code for £10 off (min spend £20),free p&p and free gift is 1091. If anyone is interested ill try and do a link to the thread with all the other codes or just do a MN search for vertbaudet codes, there are quite a few threads.
Am not buying anything thats not reduced or part of a special offer this year

Sounds good - link away!

MY GOD LADIES you lot can talk, I take one day off shopping and it takes a week to catch up!

first things first:
Welcome holly hormone, and congrats on the blue bean.

Treacletart so pleased for you, make sure you pop in and let us know how your doing from time to time.

bugmum- glad your scan went well and yea on another blue bean.

katy- you have just named my blue bean I hadn't thought of Tristan I LOVE IT ! so I am going to steal it for my blue (if DH will agree on it.)

Nutty I feel you pain on the whole extension thing. For the past 3 years after Dh and I brought our first house together i have lived in soooo many different building sites it is unreal.
Your lucky that your allowed to get people in to do the work for you, DH does all the work on our houses himself, takes him bloody ages , and he never seems to finish anything just starts something then gets bored and moves on to something else, so this house is Half finished and half started!

So all of you out there with braxton hicks are you having sex?
I have found that every time we do it I get them!
(TMI)

I really want to know if I am def having a blue and a pink, but it is against our hospital policy to tell, althought the consultant told it wasn't 100% and I want to know on friday can't wait till I see him again in jan, so I am going to try and trick the scan woman in to telling me with out getting my consultant in too much trouble.
Not quite sure how I am going to do this yet.
INSPIRE ME

Moring all

Love all this name talk, you lot have some fab ideas. Loved both Tristan, Willow and Annika. I like different names but have had no inspiration yet for our blue bean. Plenty of time yet but its great fun exploring all name options. My mother blessed me with a very unfortunate name so I get very nervous when trying to name beans!

Good luck on scan smole - its very nerve wracking isn't it? Will be thinking off you.

CaptainDippyClauswithbump, I live in Swindon. Do you know it?

Chiilitillitinsel - this bean is 4rth bean and I have had Braxton Hicks for about the last month. Felt them all the way through pg with 3rd bean aswell. I dont think that they are anything to worry about just bean practising! But it is uncomfortable isn't it? Ask your mw next time you see her if you are worried. I have found them worse with each pg, hope that hepls.

Hello to all that I have forgotten and feel very bad for all those with spd. I have never had it but it sounds yuck.

Oooooh, I sooo want to know your RL name now HH!! yes I know Swindon - I'm originally from Salisbury!

Mmmmmmmmm, trying to think of ways you could trick the Sonographer 1B3 - You could always go down the direct route of "begging", after all, you are having twins and it would just be sooooo heplful to know in preparation, wouldn't it?? Or you could say, at my last scan, the Sonographer said it was almost definitely a boy and a girl, do you think that is right, in your expert opinion (butter 'em up a bit!!? )

love Tristan and Willow too (am not very good at remebering what others have posted but not sure about Tristan being shortened to Tris...

Hollyhormone what are your other 3 DCs called?

Blimey - have 30 secs...

Hello Hollyhormone - I am live in Wilts - between Bath and Chippenham

Love all the names

Glad to hear thrush is better

Good luck with scans

Will catch up later!

Hi all,
Thinking of you today Smole hope it goes well.

All this name talk is lovely I'm getting quite excited even though I can't think of any names myself.

HH - I am also intrigued as to what your RL name is

I also have Braxton Hicks I notice them quite a lot but especially after orgasm

1B3 - hope you can trick the sonographer. I think there should be different rules for twins.

I've just had a letter about my next scan it's on 3rd January I'll be 26+3 then. Hopefully this bean will still be growing well.

I was born in Swindon (dark secrets here)!! I live in Hampshire now, but do lots of work in Wiltshire so much driving there. Not Swindon though as it's work funded by the County Council so are not even allowed to mention Swindon, let alone work there!!

Had a total Mumsnet result this morning, as I'd been looking for a number for this magician who did my friends DD's party last year since about October. Posted a thread on it yesterday, and someone had posted back this morning with his number! So I'm all set now for DD's party in Jan - I'm so relieved!!

DH working very late last night - finally called me at 10.15, not realising I'd spent the last half hour totally convinced he was dead in a car crash and was on the point of phoning the police! I can't seem to keep my emotions in proportion at the moment, and am worrying about DH loads as he commutes on a very windey road and the weather is so attrocious just now.

Was panicking about Christmas shopping but have decided I will take the easy way out this year and try to do it ALL online, including M&S hamper-type stuff for the grandparents. Feeling much better now I've decided this, and hope to get it all done this week. I don't have anything like the problems (with SPD etc) that some of you poor people have, but I still get really achey if I walk round the shops, and DD is not always co-operative and is too big for the buggy this year. That's my excuse anyway!!

On a positive note - discovered the other night that I can touch my toes, and I haven't been able to touch my toes since I was about 10!! So this 'relaxin' in the joints stuff isn't all bad!

Enough from me - you should see the pile of work I have, and all to be done by 4.30 next Wednesday as that's when DD finishes nursery for the duration (there's not a emoticon for GULP!)

1B2... Tell them you had a provate scan and were told it was a boy and girl but you just want to clarify before you buy something extremely expensive.....

Enjoy your online shopping BB, hope you get all your work done too - I've just finished mine so just tapping around on the Net looking at stuff ( can't afford to actually buy anything, so just "Window Shopping" )

Also meant to say to weeonion - love the name Caiomhe. DD is Niamh and this one will be Irish too, but I don't know what yet! Found a good site last night here and there are loads of nice ones there - currently loving Declan for a boy or maybe Orla (suggested here I think) for a girl.

Orla's nice!

I think that I will keep you guessing what my RL name is! Its bliss not having to confess it!

As to the names of my other DCs. 1st DD is called Niamh ( pronounced neeve ) then 2nd DD is called Abigail and DS is Benjamin. Finding another blue name to go with those is not easy - need inspiration.

Between Bath and Chippenham is gorgeous SSK as is Salisbury CaptainDCWB. We are only in Swindon for the moment. DH and I met through work here. We are moving next summer .

Must be hard doing all that driving Brandybuttershot. Those roads are not the easiest especially in this weather. Totally understand the worry thing. My DH travels alot aswell. Do you have long before you go on M leave? Also v.impressed with toe touching!

1B3 perhaps you could ask if beans are different colours? Good Luck