@nursebickypegs please do take it as a HUGE compliment 🙂 Turnip has started to sing a long to the moana sound track which is just the cutest. I love her singing. Bean is far too cool for that kind of stuff, but as soon as it's on the tv he somehow becomes totally engrossed.
I love your baby grow idea. Spud has quite a lot of woody things so far. Think that's what his bedroom is going to be done up as too.
@Tickyboovicki we were meant to move today originally, but now it looks as though w/c 8th for us too! 😟 I just want to be in so I can fully relax and nest. Fingers crossed for us that babies stay put a little while longer, although you're further ahead than me.
Turnip seems ok today, she's having a sleepover at grandmas tonight as me and DH are exhausted and really need a night just the two of us. Last time was 4th October, our wedding anniversary and the day after we found out we were expecting spud 🙂
I would also say that the pains you are having are all signs your baby is getting ready. It could be some slight movements in your cervix and it softening up. I have too been having dull aches with the odd sharp pain around my cervix.
@Rustler74 you are a genius re cot bed upside down! How simple yet totally fixes having to sleep half way down the bed! 😂👍🏼
@Badgerbird turnip def is surrounded by love and support. However DH comes from a really unemotional family ... quite the opposite to my family. And so struggles to deal with emotional turnip. I struggle to deal with unemotional DH and unemotional bean. As bean tends to rage instead of showing how he truely feels. Anything other than normal comes out as anger. This is something we have learnt over the past 7 years.
@Nurse15 💖💖💖 congratulations 💖💖💖 finally some pink 💖💖💖
@EsmesBees I totally agree with you! There is nothing I love more than watching my DH with our children. Although he annoys the hell out of me sometimes, the majority of the time we are great. He gets Turnip and bean in to the most hysterical giggles that we forget why we're laughing. It's lovely. Even just sitting with a glass of wine and watching our creations play is such a nice feeling. There's just some bumps to get over sometimes, we were 5months into our relationship when bean surprised us and we managed to get though all that. And we are truely happy.
@SanitysSake I felt just the way you describe and was petrified too when I was having bean. I think I've shared this before, but when I was in labour I talked to myself in my head, and told my self that I could do this. Then my mw told me that there was a 13yr old delivering in the next door and I thought ... if she can do it I can do it 😂
It does hurt, but each pain takes you closer to your baby. And afterwards you don't forget but you forgive as such.
There's a stinging sensation (ring of fire) as the baby is crowning, if you listen to your body and to your midwife they will help deliver without tearing. I had a first degree with bean and a second degree with Turnip (I didn't listen to my body with Turnip) and i healed better with her than with bean ... I put that down to lavender oil!
Anyway what I am trying to say, is it is totally normal to feel a little scared but our bodies were made for this. You've done the hard part growing your little baba for the past 9 months from a little seed and a little egg.
Also I've never read a parenting book, I've raised Bean to nearly 7 and turnip
To 4, and I think they're ok. 😂 when they were tiny babies it was a feed when they wanted and they both automatically went in to their own routines. Quite quickly they both did 6hour stints at night 12-6 think they were around 5wks.
The thing with routines is that they can be quite restrictive ... as in I know I can take my two out past 7pm bedtime and they will be horrendous the day after. As I know some mums who have never had a routine can take their babes here there and everywhere. We had no choice of routines it kind of naturally happened.