Due in February 2017- Thread #10

[Readyfortwo]

Hope you found it ok ladies!

Ready thanks for that website. I'm definitely signing up for that alert. This is one of the last expensive items we need as we got so much at the baby show and now also from the baby shower. I also want the Aden Anais sleeping bag in gray stars.

Bisquick our pram's seat can lay completely flat and we can fit the car seat directly on top of the flat seat rather than have to carry either when using the other (this is a big plus of the bugaboo bee). We aren't using a carry cot as its not needed for the Bugaboo Bee as the seat can lay flat making it suitable from birth-- we will use a footmuff to make it more cosy though.

When out for longer than two hours, our plan is to do a combination of things. Assuming we are going somewhere restaurant, friends house museum, etc once we actually get where we are going, we will take off the car seat and store it and just use the pram (almost everywhere has some place you can check things like a car seat based on using my Brompton Bike in London). If we then go out some place else (and aren't coming to back to where we've been) we'll put her in the car seat attached to the pram for up to two hours. We'll bring the sling in case we are walking around without stopping off for more than two hours but honestly, I think that will be very rare. Our friends with kids do the same and its not a problem.

I hope that helps. These features plus how compact and lightweight it is are really what tipped me in favor of the Bugaboo Bee 3. It really is perfect for urban living. The iCandy Rasberry has virtually all of the same features (its basically a dead copy of the Bugaboo Bee).

Ready forgot to say thanks for the new thread!

A friend of mine was telling me about this www.argos.co.uk/product/3196038 I don't know anything more about it so best to do some research but could be an option?

My sister has given me her old travel system but I'm reading a book that says not to use second hand car seats and now I have THE FEAR.

Marking my spot!

Curiosity second hand is only bad as it may have been in accident from what I've read. Assuming you trust your sister, I'm sure it will be fine.

Thanks London - super useful as always!

Curiousity - I'd imagine you'd still have the 2 hour time limit though since the seat doesn't recline fully?

London- I just bought a chair thing on Black Friday lightning deal & the price isn't yet showing on Camel. Not sure if lightning deals don't show up or if it just takes a little while to filter through. Still worth having the alert but you prob should keep an eye on the lightning deals too.

Marking my place. Thanks for the new thread

Curiosity I'd totally use a second hand car seat or borrow one from a friend if I knew the person I'd got it from and trusted that it hadn't been in an accident. It's no different to us re-using our car seat we had with DS1 for this baby. The issue is buying them second hand when you don't know the history as being in an accident can make them unsafe.

Ah ok cool. Thanks for the reassurance! The child isn't even here yet and I'm already full of guilt and worry!

Bisquick I don't think you can send a pic on a PM but here are the Which? scores for the Baby Jogger products.

Marking my spot x

Marking my spot! I'm gonna be making the effort to check in with you lovely ladies once a week now. Found chatting with others who are expecting a life saver in the third trimester last time around.

29+4 today, I can't believe how fast its going and I just know December will fly by. Here's a pic of my bump two days ago!

Hi all, sorry - I lost track of the other thread! 28+4 here and starting to feel very ready for this to be done!

Is there any way I could jump on the Facebook page ladies? I had forgotten how frustrating the mn format can be!

Rose I can invite you if you pm me your email address that you use to access your FB account.
28+5 today and feeling huge and exhausted. December is really going to fly by so it doesn't feel like long until we'll be meeting our babies!

Thanks Ready!

Hello! Found you!

I have been so sick again the last few days with a cold and fever, I was stuck in bed since Thursday but had to drag myself into London today through the train strike to do an hour and a half of presenting at a conference. Not sure how I'm going to do it, I'm too weak to even stand for that long and can't think straight. Wish me luck so I don't make a fool of myself!

I am not agreeing to anything else like this for the foreseeable future!

I don't know how much more off work I can cope with I'm utterly exhausted Not meant to finish till 1st January think about finishing Christmas week but it means less time with the baby when he's here

EURGGGGGHH. Just eurrrghhhh. Another one who's struggling a bit here now - I have a nearly 2 hour commute each way and both of those involve traipsing up a reeeeeally steep hill. I'm sleeping terribly and having weird pregnancy dreams again - not sure how much longer I can keep this up for! And I am not meant to finish until the second week of Jan.

I won't be finishing until mid-Feb

Hello everyone, please could you add me to the FB page?

Another one who is struggling here too - and my commute is not nearly as bad as some of you. Have a cold and not sleeping well at the moment, which aren't helping. Finishing on 6th Jan but hoping that the Christmas break before will help keep me going.

I really feel for you guys with what sound like terrible commutes - especially across London and so on :( I have just shifted to the train, finally. I was cycling but I was getting slower and slower, and our cyclepath areas were getting slippier and slippier from leaf fall and damp, so it was time to retire the bike. So my commute now is thankfully only a 5 min train ride, but a 15 min walk at each end, to/from the respective stations to home/office.

I'm doing ok so far, but then it's only been three days! Luckily our office closes completely over xmas and the new year period, so I get from 23rd off through to 2nd Jan. My mat leave doesn't start until 25th Jan (as annual leave initially, until 3rd Feb) because I wanted to try and maximise my baby-time if I could. A few recent, random sleepless nights being struck down with pregsomnia have definitely made me wonder about bringing some time forward, even if it's just a week earlier or so. Will see how it goes!