'Due in the new year the next generation - who ate all the pies'

[Bettymamma]

I hope you all find this. I'll write a proper message once I see it works!xx

On the clothes front - i am still just buying one size bigger than usual, i go away tomorrow and realised i dont jvae a bikini/swimsuit that fits - nightmare so now have.

Have found that primark you cant go wrong - really cheap little tops/smocks and dresses ideal for the summer and not much more than a fiver so it doesnt really matter if they dont last more than a couple of months.

H and M also have some good stuff.

I am not big enough for maternity yet but i think by the end of the summer holidays i will be so til then i am making do with primark purchases.

will be on the lok out for suits when i get back.

So am away now til the end of august so all take care and that will be the reason you dont hear from me for 3 weeks or so.

Enjoy the summer

Re: cots, we have an IKEA cot which seems to be rather on the small side. The bedding is not standard size either - and then we learned that they were changing their cot mattress sizes & they flogged off all the old size bedding - we bought a load of sheets in the sale. Also beware - what IKEA call a cot-bed is not a "proper" cot bed but just a small single bed with a guard rail!

The thing more on my mind ATM is a pushchair - I was interested in the Mamas and Papas Pliko Pramette (always coming up on Ebay nearly new) - liked the idea of it being a pram at first - but my friend pointed out that we would be out walking lots with baby and dog at beach, woods etc. so an all terrain pushchair would be better. I have a mk 1 Clio (P reg, 90,000 miles and a lotta rust!) & DH has an Almera so we can't have too big a contraption! So now I have no idea what to look for! I would love to see a comparison website with simple recommendations based on your needs - does anyone know if such a thing exists? Here on Mumsnet you have to trawl through loads of peoples' personal recommendations...

Have a lovely hol Nicky!
Am this am as just had letter getting all my bank charges back this am, whooopee i now have £700 to go shopping
Angechica how much are you looking to spend ?

Firstly - I know it was posted a while ago but so sorry to hear goingfor3's news. Have just had a little tear in the loo at work. Just awful, I'm so sorry.

It has been busy on here.

Hello - all newbies. Scampynoodle, your name is making me hungry - scampi and noodles yum. Then again i'm a hungry monster at the moment.

Flutters are coming and going - some days nothing and then last night it was jumping about. Amusingly its sister was also jumping about in her cot being a monkey.

Housemum -freakily enough I was in Croydon Ikea yesterday lunchtime in the cot section. I bet we were standing next to each other looking at them!?

Toomanyshoes - 6 weeks left at work!! Wow! There are loads of people at mine who still haven't realised i'm pg how amusing (they are men and short-sighted). Would love to turn round and say 6 weeks to go - byyee!

18 weeks yesterday - have been checking out phil&ted buggys but won't purchase until 2nd scan the scan in few weeks time. Anyone have any experience with them? My dd walks almost all the time but want back-up so am looking at 2nd hand ones.

Hope you're all ok xxx

Good morning ladies. Feeling a bit sick this morning. Mind you ds3 is still getting up around 6am so I think its more tiredness than anything.
Hi to even more newbies.
Sounds like your all doing well.
So of your hols Nicky6.
Re baby bedding. Have any of you thought about Gro bags? Or toasty bags as we call them in our house? They have lovely ones on Ebay and I have 4 which I have used with ds3and 4. Am currently using one for ds4 now which is just 1 tog.
I think theyre brill and come in lots pf neutral colours and patterns too
Bettymamma Im realy hungry at the moment too. Had my dinner last night and went to bed about 10 got up again at 10.30 for a bowl of ccereal. I was starving!
Just a quick queston. A bit of a personal one. Has anyone else gone off sex? My poor dh. All that fantastic sex we had then I fell pregnant and thats it Ive totaly gone off it. Tried to get 'in the mood' Saturday night but just felt a bit sick and frustrated.

gingme - same baot as you!
Gone off it and too bloddy tired to do anything anyway!!
DD sleeps at 10pm now and it takes me 1/2 hour to get her to settle down and sleep. By the time she gone, am so knackered, especially on a work night, that I tuck myself in aswell.

Thankyou for putting my mind at rest Motherofoz . Mind you I was the same with all my other pregnancies just seems more of a deal as it took ages to start our sex life again after ds4!! Then I feel for this baby quickly and very unexpectedly.

Sex - whats that?? No its improved over the past few weeks, the desire is slowly returning but it was out of the window for months!

Grobags are the best - I will have a look on ebay. All our old ones are slightly stained with milk!

MotherofZ - your dd is similar age to mine. I have ben mean and have started cutting back on the day time naps to ensure tiredness in the evening. Its worked!

Morning everyone,

Have just spent soem time catching up. My scan is not until 23 weeks - of you all but good luck with all of you who have scans coming up in August.

of you going on maternity leave in 6 weeks toomanyshoes, but very pleased for you. I temp so will probably work until xmas unless it all gets too much before then.

Completely went off sex as soon as the sickness came along (was worse at night usually) not to mention the sore boobs and absolute knackeredness.

Recently I've been having problems with my bladder (think bean is squashing it too much) but I think this is starting to get better as bump moving further up, so maybe we'll be able to get back into our old habits soon?

I think DH is desperately waiting for the fabled time when I will go absolutely mad for sex...I have a sneaking suspicion it just won't happen

Up until recently i have been completely off sex as I have just been so tired and ill.

More recently seems to be on the cards again much to hubbys relief. Although I think (TMI) I may have cystitis or thrush or something... every few days i have a burning sensation and am incredibly itchy. really uncomfortable, anyone have any ideas... a little worried it might be an infection.

ohh bettymamma - Mine sleep for around 2 hrs during the day.

Does your little one wake up at night still? DD wakes at 4am for a bottle. Wish she would sleep through, although I did have a months bliss in Feb when she did - but then went back to waking at night again.

Neatha - having problems with bladder too. Before I could wait to go to the loo, but sometimes it's like i need to go staight away.

gingeme - what's your secret to coping with more than one child?
Am bit scared with what life will be like with dd (will be 2 yrs when little one is born) and a newborn i.e coping with tiredness when i have a toddler to look after. etc

Angechica- im thinking of the mammas and pappas prammette too...i dont have any dog or beaches to walk along so ok. Was going to buy my sisters loola, but test drove it at th eweekend with my nephew in it, and was really heavy.

Stop talking about sex!! probably because its not an option for me, im climbing the walls hahahaha....oh well!

Motherofz there isnt a secret but if I can give any sort of tip is to be calm. If your calm your children are calm. Try to include your 2 year old in all anit natal activities so they are aware if not fully understanding of whats going on. Whem baby comes please ask family and friends to buy a gift gor your toddler as well as baby. We bought ds3 a t shirt from Mothercare saying'Im the big brother' on it. He is realy into Bob The Builder to so my sister bought him a Bob ruck sack.My parents bought him a Bob hat and tool set. My neighbour bought him a baby dolly dressed in a blue babygro which he had a little blanket for and it went to bed with him for a while.
Think thats about it realy. It does take its toll sometimes to try to stretch myself around everyone. Especialy while my big boys are visiting. Still I just get on with it I guess. Oh and it helps to have a great dh too

MotherofZ - have youtried giving some cereal before bed... not sure if it works but it was a recommendation in some book that I read.

I do that most nights mixedmamma. It seems to keep me going. Never eat an apple before bedtime as you will wake up revenous! I learnt this when I went to slimming world as they are a speed food. This means they speed your metabilisem (cant spell that word) and so digests your food form the previous day quicker. Helps if you have problems'going' though

gingeme - that is really interesting. I always eat a plate of fruit in the evening (quite late in the evening) and do wake up starving. that is a snippett of info i cam going to remember for losing the baby weight, of which i am sure there will be lots since i am a gannet at the mo.

Your welcome love. I often wondered why I felt hungry after eating an apple when I was younger. I sometimes eat an apple if Im having one of those 'lost my appetite' days. It usualy gees it up a bit.

hello mixedmam - you here too?
Tried ceral at night, but she's a bit unpredictable - some nights she will have it and other nights she won't. Anyhow - even when she does eat it at night, she still wakes up. Maybe it's a habit thing???

Never knew that about apples - very good advice.

Gingeme - I read somewhere that its good if you to have a present 'from the baby' for the toddler as well - do you reckon this would help? My dd attended my appointment where midwife listened to the heartbeat with the doppler thing and she seemed quite panicked and told her to 'get off mummy'.

Beller - The mammas and pappas prammette is fab - my friend has it and i was vjealous. I'm bidding on a double buggy phil&teds on ebay but some bugger keeps beating me.

Bladders, hmm I wee myself everytime I sneeze...must do those pelvic floor exercises.

Motherofz - my daughter JUST started sleeping through for past 2 months. (Ha ha and i was led to believe they slept through at 6 weeks). Anyway - she had 2 hour nap and I cut it down to 1hr and she often unfortunately goes to bed with a cup of milk next to her (after her bedtime cup) and I have a sneaking suspicion that in the night if she wakes she helps herself to the milk cos its gone in the morning. It's probably very bad and goes off abit but I like to think it all helps the immune system!! Bad bad mum. By the way - have read that babies who do not sleep well are often very clever. I like to think so!

Hey motherofz

I always find that when DS eats cereal that is his cue to poo anyway, which is not very helpful at night.

I thought since my date is 31st December I may as well be here too... also I had thought that being here I would be one of the first to have a scan yet i still seem to be the last.. never mind, hopefully everything will be more prominent when i do have it.

lol bettymama - looks like I have a future Prime Minister then!!!
oh PM don't need to be that clever.
Make it a brain surgeon!!

Definately bettymamma a gift from baby is the best idea too. We got ds3 a new pair of Bob trainers from his new baby brother
Sorry MotherofZ got mixed up with the cereal business. Thought you meant a bowl of cereal for you at night

Hello ladies

Glad to hear that everyone is well. I have been busy at work and on mumsnet less and less so there is always so much catching up to do when I get back. We are still very chatty!

Mrs McJnr - I am not sure about your hubby being "officially displaced", generally there is no actual requirement to give an employee work to so (as strange as that sounds) unless he is losing skills by not working (only in certain sorts of professions has this been accepted). Frustratingly he will probably just have to go with the flow. That said, it might work out well for you both becuase redundancy is probably a pretty good possibility in the not too distant future - and meanwhile he is still getting paid so everyone is a winner. If he has not been made redundant before you go OS he might miss out though if he has to resign.

Cazzybaby - I didn't know that prawns were on the list of stuff you can't eat!?? I ate a whole packet of prawns from m&s a month or so ago (!?).

Toomanyshoes - I am so JEALOUS about you starting mat leave in 6 weeks! (I have a count down in my diary - 16 weeks to go) You lucky thing! I can't really justify leaving any earlier than I am. I have no other kids or things to do so I would only be sitting at home drinking cups of tea and watching old movies (bliss).

Mummyto2 - I am so jealous that you bought a doppler off e-bay and now I want one too! Can I ask you what you paid for it? I saw another baby monitoring thing in a blooming marvelous catalogue but you can't use it before 21 weeks. Also, when I had my last appointment they did a doppler (at 16 weeks) and it took him a while to find the heartbeat but it was there - so don't panic if you don't hear it right away.

Housemum - Ikea is a good tip.

In terms of maternity clothes, I have bought some cheapy tops and things from Dorothy Perkins maternity which are quite decent given they are cheap. I splashed out on a pair of black work trousers from mamas and papas (£40) but they were worth every penny and I have worn them to work nearly every day since I bought them!

I am also wondering about buying a pram and I really like the bugaboo ones although I nearly died when I found out the price! It seems like a lot of people have those however so they must be pretty good? Does anyone know? They are ridiculously expensive at £599.

PBirdy x