Babies due in November 2016 #4

[FuzzyOwl]

New thread for us to chat and if anyone else also wants to join the secret Facebook group just send me a private message with the email address that you use to login and I will send you a link.

littlegrey I am so pleased that the surgeon was positive and that it is safe for the pregnancy to continue. It must be a weight off your mind. I think your attitude to the future is amazing and you are right, research will have changed so much by then, who knows what will be possible.

Thurlow I am most definitely NOT buying anything. I'll wait until at least 34 weeks I think. I didn't buy anything for my DS until 35 weeks (and even then it was only a cuddly toy, the big stuff came at 36 weeks) but this time round I have the essentials anyway so I don't think there would be much to buy in any event.

Copper really hope the website isn't some sort of scam, maybe report to your bank just in case?

Littlegrey oh I'm pleased it's as positive as it can be at this stage. What a weight off your mind!

I've not been sleeping well this week. I keep waking up at dawn then I struggle to get back off. Not great as I'm off with my little man for half term so I need to be energetic

Thurlow, I'm not buying anything yet. My mum has bought a couple of little bits like sleep suits and muslins though. Big purchases can wait, ideally til after 20 week scan at the earliest. Feel too uneasy buying too much just yet plus also don't have the space to store it.

Littlegrey, so happy that it went well! What amazing progress they've made over the last few years. Hope you can relax and start enjoying things again.

Thurlow I'm not buying anything yet. Partly because of moving but mostly because I found the last few weeks so tedious last time I'll want distraction when I'm 30+ weeks!

I think we're leaning towards the Bugaboo Donkey too, we'll need a double and it seems like the smallest one with ok sized seats (I make giant babies). I love the fact that it converts down to a single too. I'm not a fan of big buggies either, we have a babyzen yoyo for traveling/the UK and it's amazing! They work from birth so if anyone's looking for a really small buggy and they live in a city I would really recomend look at them.

Also the Isabella Oliver summer sale is now on - SALE!

We're not really buying anything for this baby at any point tbh. I'm leaving the nursery exactly as it is with everything in it and just shipping DD out To the spare room so will need to get her new stuff and redo that room! So just a double buggy and new mattress and we're done. Even all the newborn clothes are unisex and donated by a friend following her little boy so no problems just reusing them! Poor, unloved second baby...

House stinks of onions! Think this baby might be an ogre

Well it's my scan day today!!!!! Toooooooo excited but have a long wait as appointment isn't until 6pm so going swimwear shopping with my 3 daughters and meeting other half after work! Pink or blue...I wonder

Got a feeling, tired?

Thurlow-I'm thinking boy because my cravings are savoury this time and with my son it was the same, with all my daughters it's been sweet things, plus I feel different this time then I did with my little one

little mine will also be a poor, unloved second baby, I'm really happy to be getting more use of muslins and things I would have been tempted to buy new again if we'd left it a few years! Even if it's a girl she'll be wearing rather blue clothes and playing with 'boys' toys (shocking I know!)

tired oo I wonder if it'll be true about the cravings - I've totally gone off chocolate and am all about potatoes and salt.

Isn't funny how you get feelings? I knew DD was a girl right from the word go. This time around I'm going to be very surprised if it's a girl, I'm just feeling "boy" right now and everyone - me, DP, our families - just find ourselves saying "him" all the time.

Good luck killing time until your scan!

Thurlow I knew DS was a girl, I was so shocked I cried when I found out! It wasn't that I was disappointed, just very, very surprised! This time I'm pretty sure boy again but I've been I lot less sick so am thinking that might mean girl..?!

Just back from midwife. Heard a nice strong heartbeat. Sounded very different to DD's (even DH noticed) and going by old wives tales (girls are like galloping horses and boys are like trains) this one's a boy as it was properly train like and DD was properly galloping horse like!!

I've had a 17 week appointment with my amazing midwife today (should gave gone last week) and also heard a lovely strong heartbeat. Best sound in the world, until the first time your little one giggles IMO. She kept losing the heartbeat though, so she thinks this one is a wriggler

Littlegrey I'm soooooo pleased for you! You're incredibly brave and strong x

I bought so cot sheets and muslin squares. Just cos they were on sale! I won't get anything big yet. I'd love to but I'm still a nervous wreck :)

I would ring your bank Copper to be on the safe side and Perfect Prep machines do come up in baby events at a discounted rate. I got one for DD and still use it now; it is one of my top purchases and I highly recommend it.

On my shopping list, there is: a double pram, new car, car seat and sorting out a bedroom for DD so this baby can have the nursery. I think we have pretty much everything else we need although if we use bottles, we will get new teats for them.

Hi all! Saying hello from Greece this afternoon, managed to get some wifi so of course spent an hour catching up!

Fab news on all the positive appointments, heartbeats and scans over the last week and a huge sigh of relief for you Littlegrey

I bought two baby grows after the twelve week scan but nothing else, and it's my first so we need everything!

I was planning to wait until 30 weeks but a friend of mine gave birth yesterday at 31+2 so thinking perhaps I'll start after 20 weeks so I'm prepared just in case. Baby is doing ok but in NICU and mum and dad are just in shock by all accounts.

Actually it's at £70 at John Lewis, which isn't bad at all.

I've got lots of stuff from my first but things have moved on! Does anyone have experience of the sleep pad things (can't recall name!).

So scan went really well today apart from the cord was in the way and a little hand lol baby is looking great and it's a little girl for us got to see her in 4d as well, and listen to a lovely strong heartbeat, the pics I've attached are my favourites, a little wave and a pointy finger lol, she's an awkward one she didn't want us to know the sex

Hope you're enjoying your time in Greece fedup.

Do you mean the sleep pad monitors Duck or the beds like sleepyheads?

Lovely news and pictures tiredmum.

Thanks Fuzzy it's lovely here, the heat is a bit too intense sometimes which the midwife warned me about due to the extra blood. I've popped too and now officially have a little bump at all times at 16+4

Congratulations Tiredmum! Is this your 5th girl?

Hi Fuzzy- yes, the sleepyhead ones. They're so expensive but I've heard rave reviews and if it means we get better sleep it would be worth it!!

Hi ladies

Just got back from the US, caught up with the thread! Thanks for book recommendations & pleased to hear all the positive scans & results.

I am 18+1 today, some people don't think I am showing at all & someone else yesterday asked if I was expecting twins! 🙈
I have booked in to go to a local Mamas & papas event, anyone been to one of these?xx

Congrations tired! Fifth girl?! Wow! Have you started to think about names?

duck we had a sleepyhead and I loved it so much! It's hard to know if DS would have been a 'bad' sleeper without is as we used it right from the beginning, but he did/does sleep well.. We didn't have a Moses basket or anything like that so he napped/over nightered in it all the time and used it up to about 7mths. The other thing we brought based on all the great reviews was a Ewan the Sheep and he never took to that so that was a waste..