Sophia does the Joie stages seat come in and out of the car easily (e.g. a base it can unclip from), or is it one that you really have to leave permanently fixed in, and lift the baby in and out of? That's the thing that's making me dither over the Graco milestone at the moment...
Cookies so sorry they were rude to you - it seems RIDICULOUS that they would measure a pregnant woman's BMI - you have a person inside you, for goodness' sake! Fingers crossed about the GTT. I've been thinking about you all and your GTTs so much that I actually dreamed I was having one done last night!
allthegood would love the discount code if you can find it, thank you!
I've just found that our county (Somerset) runs a nappy library where they loan you kits of washable nappies to try out, which is great as I wouldn't want to invest in an expensive kit and then find that baby/we don't get on with them. (DH can't believe that I'm okay with using other people's nappies but not old mattresses - for a scientist, you would think he would understand a bit more about the cleansing power of hot washes!)
We just had a 'discussion' about what we're going to do about a nursery. We have three bedrooms - two doubles, one which you could fit a double bed in but not much else. Biggest bedroom is ours, second biggest is my office, smallest has a single bed in it that folds out into a double for visitors, plus all our junk that won't fit anywhere else.
Basically, we are not going to be able to have the third bedroom as a nursery with the spare bed remaining in it - there is not enough space. Options are:
a) Move my office into the smallest room. Put spare bed at one end of the second room, and cot at the other end of the second room. Leave half of my stuff in the second room because there is not enough space in the smallest room, so it becomes nursery / guest room / my craft and book storage. When people come to stay, move baby's cot into our room.
b) Move the guest bed into my office, blocking off a lot of my storage. Turn smallest room into a nursery (god knows where all the junk will go, though).
c) Move house.
Another good solution would be to have a sofabed in the lounge instead of the fold-out bed upstairs, but unfortunately our lounge is the tiniest lounge you have ever seen - we had to have a tiny sofa custom-made to fit it - and there is no way a sofabed will fit in there.
I am tempted by option b). At least that way the baby gets a decent nursery, and I get a decent space to sit and breastfeed. No idea where we will put the stuff that's currently in the second room though, if we do that! ARrrgggghhh. I need an interior design queen to come and sort me out!