March 2016 Babies! Here's thread #5!!

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Mine's the same me, has no problem haggling. For my part, I try not to be super enthusiastic and give the sales person the impression we'll buy it anyway, so dh can suggest we'll only buy at a lower price.

Oh god I'm so jealous of your DHs! Mine is worse than me! He won't even return items to a shop if they don't fit or whatever.

I will try to be shameless! Is there any way of doing that when your face flames red as soon as you're out of your comfort zone?!

I don't want them to know we "need" a 7 seater - should I not let on that I'm pregnant with my fourth child?!

We finally told my parents on Thursday evening and my grandmother yesterday - they are crazy excited which is lovely to see :) We're going to make an announcement on FB tomorrow as well, it's DH's birthday and I'll be 16 weeks on the nail and it feels like a good time.

Beautiful that seems like decades ago !! We ended up getting a micra for me which was tiny obviously but dhs new company gave him a BMW which was relatively enormous but i was surprised at how easy it was to drive and felt much safer in it .

Wheeeee

Bought the baby an outfit today! And some muslins. I could have gone beserk in Mothercare but I was restrained. I cannot guarantee that next time I will be as sensible.

Beautiful What you need to keep in mind is that you hold all the cards. You call the shots. They may have the car marked at say 10k. You can go to 10k but why would you? They want the sale so make them so them work for it.

They know that they can take 8.5k for it. Sales men are a strange bunch...they love a barter and banter. Play them!!

Beautiful, my DH is like yours, it's really frustrating so always left to me to do stuff like complaining, taking things back, haggling etc. I'm also not very good at it. I would probably not let on your expecting again, puts more cards in their hand. Good luck for getting a bargain.

I tried to go buy a baby outfit yesterday but all the gender neutral ones I saw were rubbish. Why can't there be more than just white/yellow/beige or some combo of them. I find it really annoying there's not more colourful (ie anything other than pink or blue) gender neutral stuff. Why can't there be green, purple, orange or rainbow coloured newborn things?? Makes me much less inclined to buy. Anyone seen places with better neutral things?

Woken today with a stinking cold, feeling really shit and sorry for myself but guilty for not entertaining DS as it's DH's weekend on at work, so I'm currently sat in a soft play centre with a hot choc keeping half an eye on DS while he burns off some energy! Think I may need to go join in shortly! Have a good weekend everyone!

miss I'm with you...snotty cold and an annoying cough. Been to boots and they said I couldn't have cough medicine just paracetamol (bah!) and cough sweets. DH suggested inhaling Vicki so am going to give that a try later.

Hope you feel better soon

Hope you bartered and got yourselves a nice car beautiful.
Off out for tea with the girls tonight and having a strop because nothing fits, too big for normal clothes but too small for maternity ones
Feel better soon those of you who are bunged up and feeling crappy!

Aaargh maternity jeans are driving me insane! (I have sympathy for you Q).

I bought a new pair of maternity jeans. They (and all the old ones I've got) constantly fall down. (DH was saying why don't you wear a belt? Because it's uncomfortable. But it'll hold your trousers up. Yes BUT I'D BE UNCOMFORTABLE).

So I've done it, I've bought dungarees. They cost a lot more than I was hoping to spend (£45, I was hoping to spend nothing on maternity clothes but I'd forgotten how hideous my old stuff was).

I'm slightly concerned that I'm quite long in the body and they'll be just a new kind of expensive annoying. But, if I don't try I won't know.

They're from a site called Just Maternity Jeans, by the way.

While I'm on a rant (you might want to go and make a cup of tea and come back when I've finished...) apparently I have super powers. I am the only person in our house capable of doing some things. Things like, closing bathroom doors, using the dishwasher, picking things up and taking them back to their room of residence, flushing the toilet, putting dirty... You catch my drift (or, I hope you haven't because you've gone to watch paint dry rather than read my cathartic rant).

Right, thanks, I've typed and deleted a bit more but I won't inflict it on you any more.

Oh, had my full blood results back. Quite interesting, look normal in all areas (I checked online). And you know when you have a particular health worry in the back of your mind, well the blood results didn't suggest the particular one I'd convinced myself I had! Yeah I know, a symptom of building anxiety. It's subsided now.

Though I'm a different blood type than what I thought I was. Fairly sure my memory is less reliable than their tests though!

(I'm typing on the app. It's weird I can't look at the past posts to pick out replies).

Oh yes, those with colds.

I had a cold last weekend. The worst lasted 24 hours (glad it was the weekend and I could veg/snooze) and I've had a bit of a cough since.

The worst part for me was the definite feeling of a delicate pelvic floor. It was fine, but I fear it might not survive to the end of pregnancy.

On the other hand, I've found doing pelvic floor exercises keeps me alert when driving home from work. Free tip there!

Hope you feel better soon miss and paper.

Miss I bought a very cute set of unisex babygros in next the other week but there wasn't much choice. Or often they'll be in nice colours/patterns but have some stupid slogan on the front.

Has everyone told their friends/family/work that they're pregnant now? We've hardly told anyone still. I met up with some friends today and was planning on telling them but didn't in the end. I have an obvious bump now though so they must be thinking I've really let myself go!

X post Indomitable. Glad your blood test results came back as normal. Did they address yours correctly? Mine came addressed to Miss Trinpy Middlename . My middle name is quite well known and my surname is obviously a surname so it was a bit odd! No idea where miss came from either as haven't been a miss since I was 17. When it arrived in the post I thought maybe it was a late birthday card from a confused elderly relative who couldn't remember my surname. Bit disappointed to find it wasn't tbh .

Yes Trinpy, it was handwritten but correct, I think. I've dutifully stuck it all into the sticky strips in my notes.

I've generally had really good experiences with them, though a colleague swears they tried to kill his wife. A friend of a friend works there, I've never heard anything else dodgy.

Everyone knows about me now. We were with friends last weekend, I had to tell them because of the no hot tub or booze - and my enormous gut. Told everyone at work after the scan. And I think I told everyone else before that. I was never any good at keeping secrets so decided not to bother. I'm only breeding, it's no big deal here! (As opposed to some of my friends, for whom it is a very big deal that they've finally managed it!)

Oh indomitable how cruel are you making me laugh when I've got a cough!!

"I'm only breeding, it's no big deal here!"

I bloody love you

Last time I felt awful, and existing was a big deal. Then there's the bit afterwards when you're at work on 3 hours sleep. That bit deserves the "well dones" (for not crashing on the way in) and "congratulations" (on that sentence being coherent). This bit, this time, it's no big deal.

I do have issues with drawing attention, now that I think about it. I have started carrying my iPad in front of my belly rather than under my arm as I've started getting the lingering belly-gaze.

I told work and all our friends and family after the 12 week scan. We haven't put anything on Facebook though so I'm still bumping into friends who I don't see very often and telling them and word hasn't got around to everyone at work yet - I think I'm enormous but most people I tell now still look surprised and say they wouldn't have guessed - maybe they're just being polite though!

There are some adorable unisex things on Jojo Maman Bebe but they cost a fortune - £12-£16 for one baby grow! I think I might buy a couple for the going home pictures etc and then stock up on basics at more reasonable prices!

5 years ago we found some multipacks of rainbow coloured sleepsuits for DS. I'm sure they were cheap supermarket jobs too. Just had a scan through the supermarket pages and all the sleepsuits are either white or deliberately gendered.

How have we gone backwards in 5 years?

Anyone looking for intresting unisex baby clothes might want to check out this lady's work.

www.rainbowtot.co.uk/category/tag-tags-bibs

I got some beautiful muslins made by her before dd was born. She makes clothes now too.

Although it's mostly public knowledge now, it's blindingly obvious looking at me, we've still got a few hard work members of dh's family to tell. Dh will probably tell them after the scan next week. I've been having to conciously wear baggy clothes when there's a chance we'll see dh's nan. She's not the most sensitive of souls and if we could get away with it we wouldn't say anything until after baby is here.

I had lots of nice bright ones from asda for ds, 3 years ago. And some from next I think. I've never found it too hard to get bright neutrals, we knew what we were having but I'm not a fan of blue and hate pastels so I had plenty of nice bright things.

Morning all! Having a bit of a crappy weekend here as had to work all day yesterday at an event at university then come to a family event in Bristol so knackered!

DPs SIL and brother had their baby last night, very exciting, was 9 days overdue. Apparently she had a quick labour and was 'brilliant'. I'm feeling oddly jealous my first labour was very long and DP never praised me for what I went through. Think it's just pregnancy hormones making me a bit mental I feel bad for feeling so petty! In my (shaky) defence, DPs DB and SIL have a history of being a bit smug about things so I probably read too much into a short text message! Ah, i feel like such a terrible person. Ah well, I'll get over it.

Re baby grows that are decent gender neutral colours, I have no idea but would love to know where they can be bought!

Hope everyone with colds is feeling a bit better!

I've also found unisex clothes to be rubbish nowadays, although Primark had a few things.

Most people know about me, if not then I just casually drop it into conversation, and they're always shocked and claim you can't even tell yet. THAT really annoys me, cos what else could my bump be?!

Marmite - I know exactly how you feel (although my labours were pretty short and DH did praise me ) but I always get jealous of people going into labour/giving birth. It's one thing that made me broody actually. Yet now I'm pregnant I'm terrified about the birth. Ironic!

We went to an Evans Halshaw, and coped really well actually. I think it helped that our salesmen wasn't the over-confident, intimidating type but he actually seemed a little shy.

We didn't buy anything, kind of wanted to see what we could get for our money. It turns out not a lot (when it comes to 7 seaters!) And I'm so sad about the shitty amount offered for my car, cos I love my car...

Still don't know whether to go back and get a Zafira or try to manage with my punto. I'm very nervous about driving a bigger car, and my car is all paid off, but we're going to need a 7 seater eventually and the punto has been making a strange knocking noise for a while now

Anyone got any words of wisdom?

Oh - and apparently at Evans Halshaw they're not authorised to lower the prices on the forecourt - even by a penny - as it's all done through the head office and they are the lowest priced in the market anyway. That kind of put a spanner in the works!

Hi All,

Just wanted to say hello really! Due 7th March so 17+6 today :-) First baby, I'm 37 too, and a little terrified ;-) Hope all your pregnancies are going well!

All our friends and family know now, but I STILL haven't told work, which is ridiculous as I have a proper bump now, it couldn't be more obvious!

How many of you guys have felt movement yet? I THINK I have, but not 100% sure!

16wk appt on Tues (it's late, I'll be 18weeks) and then 20 week scan on Fri 23rd Oct, can't wait! :-) :-) :-)

Good luck with your pregnancies and all the 20 week scans coming up! :-) x

beautiful we got my current car from evans halshaw - instead of negotiating the sale price as we were told the same we did manage to get an extra £500 on the trade in value of the car we took in, and got them to cover the cost of 1 year tax and a full service and mot before I took it away. They are negotiable - just not on the value of the one you buy.
My dm has bought us some lovely bits from asda and sainsburys - couple of baby grows and some towels and blankets with dumbo on. The supermarkets seem to be the best places I've found, next, m&s and h&m all have just pink and blue sections.