April 2007 - Ladygarden? Ladytropicalrainforest more like

[Katy44]

CFK - I couldn't resist!

hello lovlies

Congrats on your scan GK! Glad everything was ok. Now you can just relax and expand with us all!

CFK - loving lula sapphire. Thanks for the link. The dungarees and stripy tops are adorable!

CD - welcome back! Sorry to hear your PIL were crap. Sounds awful! Poor you, and at xmas too! Hope that enjoying your new home and seeing your dd's so relaxed and happy is making up for all the stress. Well done to survive!! And glad to hear the scan was all ok. Very at 7 photos! We had to pay £4 for one!

Yvie - a friend of mine has offered to do a baby shower for me. Not sure what I think of them. To be honest, feel a bit embarassed about getting all my mates together to buy me stuff!! I guess a surprise one would be ideal!

We are off on hol tomorrow, quiet break in the uk, lovely, so dh will be taking the hair removal cream to me later today! I've no chance of reaching round there anymore.

LOL at you SOL, wandering round the house in just ya pants! Sounds great!

I'm looking forward to getting away and spending lots of time in the swimming pool. Hoping that it will ease the pressure of ever-increasing bump. Was feeling very stretched and sensitive last night, ended up in a heap sobbing when dh accidentally scratched my back!

Hope you're all having a good day!

Hi to CharnBump - don't think i've 'met' you on here before. Unless, you've changed names. Am I the only one getting vv confused with everyone's postxmas names and abbreviations!

Good to see you too WO. Glad to hear you're taking full advantage of the sales! Am a bit scared about how much stuff everyone's getting already!

Cornflake..that is a lovely link, thank you re. lulasapphire, although I don't think dh would say the same..I've just bought two swaddling blankets hehe.

And about to go buy a baby sling too.. anyone sense boredom?

SOL- I WISH I could walk around in just my knickers, in summer dh has trouble getting me to put clothes ON but in winter..brrrr..our heating is definitely not up to half dressed shenanigans.

Has everyone now got a definite leaving date for work? Mine is still up in the air.. boss wants me to leave end of march but I am not due til 25/04 and would like to get a couple more weeks of work in if I can, mainly because she isn't giving me maternity pay and the state only gives 3.5 months so we have to pay for every single day extra I take and we're going to be pushed to make it to a full 6 months off as it is.... anyway, she is back from hols in a couple of weeks and I'll have to try and pin her down then..

I have also decided that from 26 weeks I will officially be 6 months pregnant and into the 3rd trimester, sick of being 5 months already!!

I've been look at www.freedomslings.co.uk and looking to buy the freedom sling. I can't find any independant review of it and was wondering if any of you with experience of these things could have a wee look and let me know if you think it looks ok?

I checked mumsnet reviews and had a look at the ones they recommend but the main thing I like about this one is that it looks simple and it looks like there is little fabric. My wee one will be born at end of april/beginning of may and it will be getting very warm here by then (spain) so not too much fabric around me OR the baby is a big factor, if we both end up sweaty messes I'll never use it.

Thanks for all the congrats- just hoping (I know I'm being wicked) that the baby dosent take after me & have red hair - I don?t feel it really works on boys...Oh, and I'm also completely confused by the '3rd trimester' business'- I'm 24 weeks so that?s 6 months- but still have 16 weeks to go- which is 4 months?

Maveta- I'm off on 2 March- but only because I had some A/L to use up- not starting maternity leave until 26 March. I'd go off now if I could- completely lost interest in work now! I just want to buy little socks and think about the baby's room!

Has anyone done aqua natal classes before? I'm going tonight and wondered if its normal to go on your own- or will I look stupid and no-friends person?

GK am desperately searching for aqua natal classes but can't seem to find any in the SW London area. I'm not a strong swimmer but love aqua aerobics and thought I'd like this type of exercise better than yoga but alas no luck yet

Maveta i'm due on the 21st and am starting my maternity leave on 10th, howver I'll be on annual leave from the 23rd March until the 4th April. I Just wanted the Easter bank holidays hence why I am starting my mat leave late as my company do not give back BHs.

Eca my cousin in the USA (who just gave birth yesterday!)had one and the only thing she has had to buy is a cotbed, the whole nursery was practically kitted out by her guests!

SOL - I know exactly how you feel, i'm getting to the point where i'm even finding knickers bothersome.

Ooh Maveta - I'm 26 weeks today so that makes me 6 months! I think I'll call myself 3rd trimester from 28 weeks though - gives me something to look forward to ("how sad am I" emoticon)!

Glitterkitty I went to all that sort of stuff on my own. What use would a DP be in that situation?

I am finding putting knickers and socks on hard. Have to lean against the bedroom wall, raise one leg and try and lassoe (sp?) the knickers onto one foot! I am exhausted by the time I am dressed these days!

Yvie, have you done a google search on aqua natal classes in your area? There must be something in SW London - it being the Capital an' all!

yvie - that sounds pretty good though, and it should be a doddle to go in and do the remaining days in between, no?

GBBJ - That's my kind of thinking!!

Got some GREAT NEWS!!! DH got a call from a woman this morning who said she had a cat living in her garden the last wee while and she thought it was ours. Even found him sleeping on her bed on day! My parents went along to have a look and said no, it's not him. DH went along at lunchtime and said IT IS HIM!!

Welcome home baby! Can't wait to get home and give him a big cuddle. Spoke to dh a couple of times once they were home and the little bugger (the cat that is) was miaowing and miaowing and telling us off very noisily for having lost him! Yay!

Oh Maveta- Im so pleased to hear you got kitty back . And LMAO Sex on puffy legs! My dp has to put my boots on for me now, I can hardly bend over. I really need a hoist to get me up off the sofa too- but dp is selfishly refusing to put a hook in the ceiling, huh.

Yvie I'm in SE London- surely theres something in SW? I got the info on classes from my hospital...

I'm back, NTL have finally fixed our broad band (at bloody last!)

i have only just done a quick read through on this thread so soory if I have missed anything important.

Congrats on the Blue bean Gkitty.

zaza so happy for you getting engaged.

maveta glad you cat has been found.

Hope everyone else had a fab xmas and new year, ours was nice and quite, which is just the way I wanted it.

i can no longer see my lady garden so I am sure it is in a terrible state, oh well at least I get a free shave before I have to see it again.
Think it will be a 20bic razor job this time round

SOL - lmao @ lassoing (?) knickers. I had to do that last week when staying at parents house. Here i can get them on by sitting on the bed and putting one foot on the metal rail that's down the side of the bed IYSWIM.

Maveta - glad you've got your cat back

1b3 & CD - nice to have you both back!

I can't stop looking out the window cos JL say my stuff has been dispatched (not expecting the cot & dresser to have been cos they're special delivery items but hoping to get the moses basket cos it's coming separately)

Saw local news today and a woman has just given birth at the hospital I'm expecting to go to and the bed collapsed while she was giving birth . Apparently her, her DH, midwife and baby ended up in a pile on the floor . She also said they were v short staffed and baby didn't get any tags or weighed for ages. Am now wondering whether I should be doing a bit more research on where to have baby.

glad you're back 1b3!

And fab fab new news re your cat Maveta - we lost one of ours for a few days when we moved house a couple of years ago - very upsetting at the time so I'm very pleased your has returned!

YvieE I am also in SW London - have you tried the Latchmere Centre on Latchmere Rd, Battersea? Don't know how near that is to you but they do baby swimming there which I used to take DS to so I would imagine they would do some sort of aqua natal thing... let me know how you get on anyway as I might be interested...

I'm also taking my annual leave first (all of it!) as I'm not returning to work in 2007 - it should work out that I can leave on 22 Feb and with A/L and the Easter bank hols mat leave will then start on 12 April with due date of 16/17th. But DS came nearly 2 weeks early so it might not work out as planned!!!

Honestly, the indignities that pregnancy inflicts on us! Am still coping with putting my undies on but am only comfortable in gigantic maternity ones that come up to my boobs. My tummy button has popped out and is all sensitive ! The ladygarden is a wilderness. Every time I try to snuggle up to DH I get hot flushes - last night I ended up in underwear & slippersocks. Thanks to my pregnancy-induced libido I was also gagging for it but DH must have been put off by the vast expanse of white maternity knickers and nodded off on the sofa.

Hello to CD and 1b3, good to see you back. New house sounds great, CD!

oh no Nutty girl - doesn't fill one with confidence does it! Was that in yorkshire evening post? Will have to try and not read it, in case i can't go to Wakefield. I spoke to a new mum at my midwife drop in last month - she said they were good when it came down to it. Her baby got stuck and became distressed and it was all a bit scarry but she said the staff - when she really needed them to be were fantastic. She did say that they were massively short staffed and she felt like she was left on her own a lot AND her husband had been sent home cos they didn't believe that she was properly in labour and only just made it back in time! BUT, overall, when she needed them they were great.

Just realised i may have said all this before! I'm sure half my brain has fallen out. I was supposed to write an essay today but have spent almost the entire day reading mumsnet and prodding my tummy and writing lists of things to buy and baby names.

also, Liath am glad someone else said something about libido. Mine seems to have gone bonkers, but sadly my dearest p is working many 12 hour shifts in a row and keeps falling asleep - it's driving me up the wall!

I might insist on passion in exchange for supper tonight.....

at all this gagging for sex stuff! Funny isn't it, as I keep asking DH if he still finds me sexy (with my enormous belly, pendulous boobs and overgrown ladygarden), and he still does. Thank goodness.

Have been reading through all the lists of stuff you girls are buying / planning to buy, and I'm sure my blood pressure is rising. Haven't bought poor little bump anything new yet (although she got a teddy for Christmas from the PILs - like we need any more stuffed toys...!!!!!). Oh yeah and the PILs also bought us one of those nappy-wrapper things - didn't have the heart to tell them that I'm not planning to use disposables anyway, so it's a bleedin' waste of time. Ungrateful old cow I am .

DH pointed out that dd2 will rarely get anything new - she's just gonna be a little hand-me-down girl wearing all her big sister's old clothes and playing with recycled toys.

Tummy has also expanded and I just find myself walking round scratching it all the time (images of a large gorilla spring to mind for some reason) - very attractive.

Anyway, CD very glad to hear the move is over. Can't believe your PILs are so useless and unhelpful.

Also Glitterkitty - congrats on the blue bump - lovely news!

Thank god, I am so glad that we are on libido didn't want to be the one who had to start this conversation, I have found that mine has gone mad I want it all the time, which is weird cause with DD I didn't ever want any.
I have how ever devised a plan on how to get my own way, even if DH is tired .
I tell him that he has to rub my boobs and bump with bio oil as they are really itchie and it will help soften up his hands.
This seems to work, unfortunatly I seem to always end up in tears as I think he seems to have a mental block with me being a huge beached whale or something and can't seem to "finish" (TMI I know )
Normally I wouldn't mind but it is making me really paranoid IYKWIM.

I did actually come on to ask a question any one know the best electric breast pump out there, need one that I only have to hold so I still have one hand free.

WB - no, it was on the tv, local news on BBC. I mean I'm not too worried about the weighing stuff cos I don't see it as hugely urgent, but the bed collapsing that's just scary.

Hmm, think DH is a bit put off as well 1b3, last time he confessed that he felt as if he was (sorry TMI) sh*gging the baby.

On safer topic, my medela elctric was fab and usable one-handed but I think I wore it out as it was sounding a bit ill by end. I was exclusively expressing for weeks, though.

Aww 1b3 don't worry too much about the not finishing thing...my dh gets a bit worried he's bashing the bean or squashing it or hurting me. I just tell him to finish it himself . Also once I'm 'done' I kinda lose interest and remember I'm uncomfy, big and wanna sleep/eat/pee...poor DH keeps getting shoved off!

Nuttygirl i am still laughing!!!!!

hee hee on the current topic of conversation - I'm hopeless personally and am usually too knackered so its more or less up to DH anyway . Also am like nuttygirl and generally just fall asleep once I'm done !!! Poor DH! Last time was the same too - I just don't feel sexy when up the duff!!!

On the pump question - agree re the Medela one (was a loan from a friend so will have to buy one this time) used it loads with DS as bf was not the easiest.

I am thinking of expressing for one and BF the other then swapping them over, it will be alot of feeding so i think I need the most sturdy pump around.
I know you can hire them from our hospital (the type that make your nips 4inches long) but I would prefer to have my own in case my plan works and I can feed them like that for 6 months.

1becomes3 don't feel upset everytime I try and jump on DP he cowers, he says its because he thinks he is going to hurt me and the baby. I'm sure alot of men feel this way.

HLM - I hadn't thought to try Latchmere, funnily enough I used to attend Latchmere School (way back when!)

GLK - my hospital was only advertising yoga classes. Which club are you attending in SE London?

SOL - Alot of the clubs offer aqua aerobics but they are not specifically natal classes. Think this could be an issue if I attend - insurance liability and all of that. But I have to do something about my thighs .

Glad you got the cat back Maveta, as for the remaining days in between annual leave and mat leave - they are bank holidays here, Good Friday and Easter Monday, so thats it for me after the the 23rd March.

Maveta, soooo pleased about your cat coming back - what a relief.

Can't get over you all wanting sex! The thought of having sex just doesn't appeal, and didn't last time around. I just feel so uncomfortable, and exhausted at the moment. I didn't even hear dh come to bed last night and he was only about 20 mins behind me!

I quite fancy antenatal yoga. My mw has said it is really good, and a lot of 2nd time mums (or more) said it was a lovely way to take time out and concentrate on the new baby as opposed to all the other stuff and demands of another child/ren.