Due August '07 Part 5 - Whizzing into our third Trimester !

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Hellooooo !!

Mrs S - hee hee - with you on the magpie rhyme - mine's Good Morning Mr Magpie, how's Mrs Magpie and all the little baby Magpies!!!! I don't know where it came from. you're not Irish by any chance are you??!!

Hurray for finishing work early Jem! I've got 7 weeks to go today. Good luck with the nursery decorating. We're just waiting for carpet now but I keep wandering in and out of the room just to look at it!!!

Yep, definitely Irish hahahaha

i am much more like you too tt - the only thing we have actually bought is the car seat. we were given a moses basket and a wee towel and thats it.

i think i have always thought it was too early, and i would be left at the end having bought everything with weeks to go, getting bored. but now we went and spent a little too much on holiday in may, so are slightly strapped for cash - oops. think we might get the smaller things in july and just make sure we have ordered the cot and pram (paid for by parents and pil) before then.

i have to say - i'm fairly relaxed about it all. it could come early, but coming before july would be quite unusual, and if it did, i am sure lots of people would be willing to help us out by going and getting little things that we needed.

That sounds like a sensible approach Conkertree - we do still have a wee while to go yet!

Kite - don't know if you're around today but I meant to say thanks for the lead to the Quinny Buzz for sale on MN. I've had a look but couldn't find it. Will keep looking! (Really fancy it in Capri though - another MNetter was selling a Capri pushchair 2nd hand for £250 but I could get it for £260 new from Kiddicare.com...)

Here's to an afternoon of surfing...

Hi Babyloves - maybe it had sold? Kiddicare is a pretty good site anyway. I am miffed at the moment as I was ebaying for a car seat and had one of those last forty seconds pipped at the post things happen.
Could have been here chatting instead...or working perhaps.

That's a shame about missing out on the carseat Kite. I always think it just means there's something better round the corner Will keep fingers crossed for you.

Have you tried one of those sites that do the last minute 'snatch' of ebay items Kite ? Know it might feel a bit mean but others are doing it to you so it might help stop you missing out on things at the last sec

Did not even know about them TT - how odd, I had wondered how someone would know just the right amount to pip me by.
To be honest I find bidding woefully distracting and really should eliminate the time cost by buying things straight off BIN. It is still saving money on new retail prices, but I am v conscious that we will probably only use this seat to get home from hospital and very rarely afterwards (no family to visit for eg) so I just don't want to spend on something LO will outgrow so quickly.

well I've not personally used one but I've read about loads of people on here using them and it sounds really helpful. Can't remember where I last saw it mentioned but will have a look to see if I can find it for you. what's BIN ?

Buy it now.

ah, of course it is.

wow i'd never heard of that either kiteflying - but i think i prefer the thrill of the chase (have worrying tendencies to get addicted to sites like ebay with an element of gambling) unless its something i reaaaally want.

we bought our car seat off there too, a new one from one of the ebay shops - babyvalue - they had the same seat up for sale every night this week, and we missed out on one on tues, but it went for pretty much the BIN price for the next night so we just bought it straight after that nights auction ended.

Ebay is a certain menace to mental health.
I saw those babyvalue ones - the mauve colour, yes?

Anyone bought a sleeping bag/grobag? I'd heard they're supposed to be very good but don't know if they'd be too hot for August - I think you can get different togs, just like our duvets??

If August is as hot as it was last year, do you think we'll need bedding at all??

I was thinking about grobags- I think you can get very light tog (0.5)? but also think they need to be over 10lbs until they can use them- is that right?
Apparently TK Maxx has lots of 'official' grobags at fab prices (well they do in Exeter...)

went for the azur one kiteflying - quite fancied a bright colour. should be arriving today or tomorrow which will be quite exciting.

havent bought a grobag yet but think we will probably need at least something in our house - its a 150 year old cottage with big thick stone walls so doesnt really heat up too much even in a hot summer.

speaking of ebay- wanted a green maternity dress off there but the auction ended at 7.40 this morning and I only remembered at 7.45 whilst lying in bed- hope noone here bought it or I will be very upset! Have to go to a wedding in France at the end of June-it's for a colleagues of DH who I don't know and wanted to look halfway decent which is becoming more and more impossible. Have just ordered 4(!) dresses from Crave but they didn't really have the sizes I want so will probably end up sending them all back next week.

OK I found one of the threads on "sniping" and then the website offering this "service" and it is just so MEAN. I give up on this world that I am bringing my baby into.

Jem I think you're right about the baby needing to weigh more than 10lbs for a Grobag - I'm sure I've read that somewhere before. It might be worth buying one just to have anyway I suppose

Sorry about interrupting the ebay conversation! I got addicted to selling on ebay in the run-up to our wedding last year but then DH complained that he never saw me I'll need to start again soon, in order to keep this LO in babygrows!!

Awww Kite If you were bidding on my stuff I'd make sure you won it I hadn't even heard of sniping websites... I always just assumed that people went "click crazy" in the last few minutes before an auction ended!

I think you can allow ebay to bid up to a previously agreed max amount on your behalf, can't you? This means you don't miss out if you can't be online?? I could be wrong - can't remember very well.

I know it's mean but I guess it's a case of 'when in Rome' unfortunately. It's mercenary but no-one else seems to worry about it !! Never really used ebay myself anyway but am trying to get into it !

I warn you TT - that way madness. Twas great for maternity wear though.

Thanks BLM. I had also assumed people just went click crazy but it is the fact that the sniper software judges the time that you simply cannot respond before the auction ends that made me suspicious. And now a bit grrr.

Perhaps I could just set DH on it then....although with his DVD buying habit (or addiction methinks) perhaps that isn't the best idea !!!

Right, have good weekends all in case my home computer is still out of service and I can't get on later!

What a busy day on here!

I've been to cadbury world today - so just about chocolated out! Hot weather has made my fingers swell up - anyone else getting that yet?

My tip for baby monitors is not to bother unless you live in huge house or have a huge garden. If you have a normal size house you will be able to hear it if it crys, otherwise you'll get addicted to watching the line on the monitor moving everytime the baby breaths!

I keep thinking I would like a glider chair but not sure if I'd ever use it (apart from stacking clothes on it!) - Have always done night feeds in bed and would want to be down stairs in the day.

DH has caught the eye thing from me - obviously it is much worse than mine! He is walking around in sun glasses and talking funny! Not sure he would get through the back thing your DH has got TT.

loler

Glad your eyes all better, although it will probaly 10 times worse now your DH has got it.

I haven't got swollen fingers yet, but i have got a lovely cold.

I haven't posted much as i am still waiting for mastercare to fix my laptop (Now in for the 3rd time).