Due in Dec 07 - Feel them kick!!

[buzzybee]

Hi, thought I'd start a new thread. Hope ou find this OK!

Just been shopping downtown and bought a fab paid of maternity pants for work.

Also bought "The Baby Name Wizard" as Borders were having 20% off everything. Feel free anyone to ask me a question about names now!! The book categorises them into the following "style families" (chances are if you like one name in the family, you'll like a number of others - e.g. I tend to go for "Antique Charm" names for girls which include Abigail, Adeline, AMelia, Anna. Annabel, Annalise, Ava, Bella, Clara, Daisy, Eleanor, Emma, Eva, Georgia, Grace, Hannah and Isabel):
African, Androgynous, Antique Charm, Bell tones, Biblical, Brisk and Breezy, Celtic, Charms and Graces, Country and Western, English, The -ens, Exotic Traditionals, Fanciful, French, German, Greek, Guys and Dolls, Italian, Jewish, Lacy and Lissome, Ladies and Gentlemen, Last Names First, Latino, Little Darlings, Long Gone, Mid-Century, Modern Meanings, Muslim, Mythological, Namesakes, New Classics, Nickname-Proof, Place-Names, Porch-Sitters, Saints, Scandanavian, '70s and '80s, Shakespearean, Slavic, Solid Citizens, Surfer Sixties, Timeless and Why Not?

Phew. Last Bank Hol w/e of the year over. We were very busy on Fri/Sat/Sun night (way over capacity with people in the staff rooms!) and it was awfully nice to just have 3 rooms taken tonight instead of 7 very full ones.

My feet have been looking like purple/red/white sausages by the end of the day despite my best efforts too, so DH sent me to bed for a snooze this afternoon. Bliss .

Still not having any luck in coming up with a girl's name we both like....

We're thinking of moving rooms in the hotel to one upstairs which doesn't have central heating/insulation but which is next door to the loo/bathroom. Currently I've got to either go upstairs or along a public corridor if I need the loo during the night, and there's nowhere in our current room to wash a mucky sprog either.

Hmm. It's perishing in winter up there, but perhaps some thick curtains and a dimplex will help.

Sounds like a good plan to me thelady. Was just thinking last night how nice it was to only have walk only a few steps for those inevitable trips to the loo in the night.

OHHH that explains the quiet-ness yesterday! I am in New Zealand - had no idea it was a Bank Holday in England...still winter here so no bank holidays until the end of October.

How did you get on at Mothercare Bouncingturtle? I have just bought one of those baby swing contraptions on NZ's eBay equivalent. I remember thinking last time they looked like they would clutter up the place and were very expensive but now can see I'm going to need a range of options for managing the diverse needs of a 5-6 yo and a new baby. Plus have more space in my NZ house than in the tiny London flat so space is no longer an issue. Aside from new cot/bassinett mattresses I think I'm about sorted which is rather scary 4 months out!!

Morning all.
Hope you are all ok

Sounds like you are all busy now buying and picking names etc

Dh and I both like the names Devon and Cole although whether they get picked or not is another story!

Puppydogs, what kind of support have you had from the CPN?
I was told I would be getting one and have heard nothing. I'm 27 weeks now!

Hi Nbg. Cole would have been LO's middle name had she been a boy. A contemporary twist on my Grandfather's name Colin.

Hello ladeeeez

Nothing much to report. Not on soapbox today, too chilled out!

Baby appears to wake up every two hours and wriggle/give me a couple of kicks and then is off again. He or she always awake at 10am and 10pm.

Do you remember this? www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_article_id=437236&in_page_i d=1774 I keep looking at it thinking gosh if my baby was born now, it would look a bit like this. Her little feet look like cola bottle sweets I ate when I was small. Actually she looks more like a little baby monkey than a human!!!

Morning ladies,

Not much to report here jusy saying Hi.

PuppyDogTails: I dont have any answers or experience but just wanted to say I feel for you. I assume the size of baby is to do with if you werent eating due to depression etc, but i cant imagine that the baby would be that small where by it would need any special treatment if you went full term. I know peoplee whoose babies have been around the 5 lb mark and they have not been depressed and have eaten well, so not sure how much that should matter.

If the ddocs are really worried about natural birth andd think a c-section might happeen then i woulod be inclined to have an elective c section, but that is just me.

I hope it all works out how you want. keep us posted.

Thelady ; sounds like you are having a really uncomffy time. I think maternity allowwance (which i think is what i get as i temp) is either 90% of you salary or the equivalant SMP which is like £112 or something. I have this link, which i am sure you have read before and I dont understand all of it andd have to go to job centre and have it explained..

www.dwp.gov.uk/advisers/ni17a/intro/

Hey there, hello from me too, loving the last week of the school hols and wishing it wouldn't end a week today Have to get real and get bits of uniform for dd that I've been putting off for ages now! I hate shopping..

The lady (and mixed mama) - I have just spent the morning in Maternity Allowance Form HELL! Think I've finally filled everything in right after checking everything twice. The best thing about tit is you can CHOOSE your 13 weeks of wages (your test period will start around aug last yr) so you can choose your BEST weeks. Honestly, they don't have to be chronological or anything and the women I spoke to on the helpline actually told me to pick the best (as I get the same each week it didn't matter to me but as you're self-emp it really will) The number is 08456088545, choose number 3 for 'incapacity benefit' (cheek!) as they are the ones with the info on MA (I wasted 20 mins being on hold for various depts to find this out!)

Caz10, I do think it sucks that scotland don't get aug bank hols, poor you

I like Cole, Nbg Think we're liking Dexter (but I still imagine what Sadie Rose would look like, might have to try again after this one [joke] )

'the best thing about it' Not (ahem) 'tit' ?????!!!!

Morning everyone.

Not much to report as still have bank holiday brain - its still ticking over but not overly stretching itself. Easy jobs only at work today please.

Spent most of the weekend with DH drinking cups of tea, sitting in the sun and watching the frogs in our pond.

Morning all,
Hope you all are well. Just a quick post to say - haven't had a chance to catch up properly as yet. Hope you all had a good B/H - don't want to be backk at work today

AS IF there weren't enough things to distract me from work, WE HAVE A DOPLER MACHINE at work. My boss has just shown me.

I said i'd wait til lunchtime before i start listening in.

HOW EXCITING!!!

Does anyone know if TK Maxx sells maternity clothes?

Our local one doesn't, but went in there a week ago and they had a fab sale though!

Why do you have a doppler at work...

I am really freaked by those... toyed with the idea of getting one as lots of people did but then thought what if i cant find the heartbeat (due mainly to me not have a clue where to look) and then I will be freaking out all over the place.

One of our clients is a medical supplier and i think we've got them in to photograph for a catalogue/website/print stuff...
Thing is, i don't want to get my tummy out in front of anyone. So far only a few people have dared touch it. I just don't like it.
I won't be worried if i can't hear heartbeat cos bubba is wriggling around plenty.
Anyway, i think it's quite hard to distinguish between the hearbeat and the blood going in and out of the placenta.

Does anyone really give a toss anymore about Princess Diana?

WHO CARES!! SHE'S DEAD. ARRGGHHHHH

nO - BUT THEN I think we should get rid of the llot of them!

Errr.. did I miss something about Diana???

For the record, no i dont really care... didnt really at the time either if i am honest. It was sadd that they were both so young, but that was the extent of it for me really. Oh and the fact that she was leaving kids behind.

I so dont really care about the royal familly, but when Charles and Camilla married I wrote them a letter saying congrats, got an oficial relly too - to this day i have no idea what possessed me.

sorry why are we talkign abotu diana again...

Isn't like a certain number of years since she died. Yes very sad for her family, but not for everyone else. I didn't know her.

i brought it up because it was on the radio and i wanted to rant.

I just get fed up.

Yes, need to get rid of the whole minging lot. the Queen's alright, she brings in cash to the country. The rest, shudder, you only have to look at them to see the inbreeding...

if anyone is into the whole Diana story the Daily Mail are running a series of articles about her on their website www.femail.co.uk

Hello everyone,

Where's all this princess Di talk come from then??

puppydogstails - sorry to hear about your situation and how horrible to be hearing different advice from all sides. Hope you manage to have a vaginal birth if that's what you want.

buzzy - thanks for the names, makes me want to get the book to have a really good look. Dp is set on Killian but I'm just not that keen. MIL and FIL are already asking after baby Killy... Oh dear

Claraq and any other potty trainers- we are now on day 4 of potty training! Moderately successfully. Have you started yet? We have pretty much stayed at home and not too many accidents so-far. However, tomorrow I am taking dd to Edinburgh zoo (2 hours on the train)so not sure how that will go, might have to put her in pull ups although I know I shouldn't. It's all a bit exhausting constantly worrying that she's going to poo/wee on the floor!

mixedmama cannot BELIEVE you wrote to Charles and Cammilla!!!!!!

I wrote to Ryan Giggs during my teen - still no reply....

Skidaddle dont know what poossessed me - honestly.

Potty training - hopefully starting next week when childcare resumes normality. Having saiid that he is only 18 months so prob a bit early. Not goign to push it iif hhe isnt ready.... will just leave it until he is about 2 i think. it would just be good not to have two babies in nappies, but that is more for my convenience, which is not the best way.