Due in Dec 2007. Enough already, bring on the babies!

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hellloooooo?

imawurzel, I've got a very small wheely bag (like you'd take inflight with you) filled with stuff post birth and a small rucksack with stuff for labour - I'll take the rucksack in with me when I first go in then when I've had the baby I'll ask DH to go and fetch the other bag from the car. Last time round I was moved from one ward to the other and room to room then onto theatre for delivery and then to a recovery area before going to a ward and it would've been so much easier if DH only had to follow me round with one small bag.

I stocked up on loads of maternity pads today, for any first timers you really will need hundreds of these. I've gone for mainly the Kotex bran or the very thick with wings Always ultra.

MM - you lighten our days! I'm sure you are really valued where you are, when you go on ML is that you finished there for good or is there a possibility you will return there?

In total agrement regarding the maternity pads-think in the bounty book i was given last time it suggested 20 pads so i rather optimistically bought 10 of the huge ones and 10 of the slim ones. The huge ones only lasted until that evening!
Ended up sending dh out for more of the huge ones at least 4 times before i used the slim ones, and then went on to always or bodyform with wings. This time i have got 60 of them ready at home, and then will buy more as and when-just hope i dont bleed for quite so long this time (10 weeks with dd )

Nah thats me finished for good... I am only a temp here, plus the work is mind numbing just came at the time when i found out i was preg.

Thinking about admin withn a school locally, or potentially coming back to the City / West End to earn some good dollars and improve our quality of life... got 9 months to think about it tho.

I didn't even use pads when I was in hospital - they just put these huge mat things (about 1meter square) under our bums in the bed and came and changed them when needed!! saved me a bit of money . think I must have worn pads for going to the loo and stuff though.. can't really remember

was that not uncomfy tho skidaddle...

mums got me a few pads, she's thought of everything!!!
I will go and buy some more though, sounds like i'll need them!!
Think she's got me tesco's own. she's also got me some breast pad thingys.

i've seriously wound down at work, am doing the bare minimum and guy taking over from me has arrived so by next week I'll have even less gives me a chance to apply for my chartership and just help he get into work

i'd forgotten about pads got some because I had couple of threatened miscarriages at beginning and v useful to have around but think the 60 plan is a good one clairybee, altho at 10 wks, 6 was bad enough!

ds is only waking early because of clock change and being ill and unsettled past couple of weeks - bit of a shock because he's always been so good, learning the hard way how much stamina they have the older they get!
he's fine if I go and sit next to cot, am I making a rod for my own back tho??

I do things like that insy... bring DS into bed with us... bad move prob, but just have the energy to do anything else.

Talking about maternity pads, Asda are doing 3 for £3 on the Always pads. I found the Always night time one much better than maternity pads.

I must have bled heavily with ds, if it wasn't boots mat pads then it wasn't worth wearing - felt like a nappy between my legs it was horrible but always just leaked, hope its better this time

mixedmama I don't have the energy either and sitting on the floor does me no good and I can't see how I can keep it up when baby is here, if he comes to our bed he's awake and chatting, its like a real treat so i don't need to encourage that either!

insy and MM - I am the same sitting with dd till she goes to sleep and bringing her into our bed. I do often wonder if I'm making a rod for my back but then I think well she won't be still doing this when she's 3 or 4 surely - she'll WANT to stay in her own bed at some point (please God)

amani - I used those always night time ones too (post-hospital) they were great

not looking forward to stitches and bleeding, gulp

Yeah I also could only wear the huge ones in the beginning (and 2 at a time for the first 2 days) but used the always etc later on when it became more like a period.

I also bring dd in with us quite a lot but I then take her back to her cot when she settles cos I can't sleep with both her and dh in the bed! I usually try to settle her in her cot a few times first but then when I get sick of getting out of bed to her I bring her in with us. She usually gets over excited at seeing daddy though and just wants to play. Luckily she goes down in her cot ok at the beginning of the night, its just when she wakes at 3am and can't resettle that I have to do that.

claireybee - ds is the same, great at 7pm, in fact will pretty much take himself off to bed and keeping him up has no affect on his wake up time but once awake in morning thats it, will lie in cot but only if he can see me in room, am like a prisoner

DS is in a bed now as well which makes it a little more difficult as he actually gets up and comes in. In his cot often if i just left him for a bit he would drop back off.

Hello everyone.

Slept well last night so feel human again for the first time in days. Perhaps I'd be better being a zombie for halloween - more seasonal but am glad I'm back from the living dead.

I love everyone's new halloween names. Makes me feel a bit less silly for changing mine.

Just bought a Quinny nappy bag on ebay so will fill it with stuff for the boy to take to hospital. Have my old gym bag (not seen much use recently) for my hospital bag. Hopefully I'll not have to go to hospital.

I've got a stinking cold! What can you take at 33 weeeks pregnant?

Bambino - normal strength paracetamol is the only thing you can take - or hot lemon and honey. Poor you, I think its doing the rounds. Two people at work have had it, so far I've not - touch wood.

dd was suffering all last week with it so inevitable really. Just want to curl up under duvet but impossible with 3yr old!!! I'll take some paracetomal before bed.
Hope i'm ok for tomo night, going to halloween party.

Hello all - haven't been on here for weeks! Hope all are well.

Back now and wondering when is it OK to start taking raspberry tea? Have been to mothrecare, dug out dd's old kit and am good to go!!

Ladies what type of mattress have you got for your moses basket? I borrowed my sister's moses basket so went to get a mattress today (lost the link that someone, was it Wizzskas posted before). Went to Mothercare and they had either a foam only, a foam covered in waterproog cover or a breatheasy mattress. Wasn't sure which one to get so delayed purchasing until I got the concensus!

Amani - I've got lots of the normal Always stocked up too but last time round I needed the cushioning of the thicker pads for the first few weeks when episiotomy was so, so sore.
Skidaddle - I didn't use any of my mat pads in hospital, they had loads in all the toilets so I just used theirs but this time round will use mine as theirs didn't seem to be very absorbent (sorry TMI).

Hi girls sorry to butt in without joining your conversations but i just wanted to say bye for now as we're moving house tomorrow, I'm sure I'll be online again soon but just not a great priority for us yet.

There's a lot of work to be done on the house still (ie kitchen putting in!) but there's hot water and electricity and a working bathroom which is great! Upstair carpets are down and painting's done so at least it looks like a proper house there...

I've single handedly packed up our house (apart from unscrewing fixtures and fittings) as all of 'those' people who said 'yeah we'll help' didn't Anyway I'm super proud of myself as a 34w pg woman who packed a 2 bedroom house into boxes, I feel invinsible

Had scan y'day too, his kidney s still large but ok and now he's BREECH, GAH! No-one's worrying yet so we'll just have to see how it goes, got another scan in 2 weeks time....

Have a lovely week girls hopefully be back on in a week or 2.

Loadsa baby love to y'all

Well done Lizzer, you're a superwoman packing up the house at 34wks pregnant - hope everything goes smoothly and that you're back online soon.

Euuchh just been to measure the moses basket that borrowed from sis and euuw I can't use it, had too many dead cheesie-bobs and dead moths in it! She kept it beautifully, must've been since it was in storage (her DD is nearly a year old). So now my search is on for moses basket AND mattress!

bambino - sorry to hear about cold, I was the same a couple of wks ago and ds was ill at same time, get loads of early nights and hot ribeena, that was all I found I could have hope you feel better soon

lizzer - good luck with house move, cleaning those skirting boards will help the baby turn!

loucee - I got the breatheasy one for moses basket, one with removable cover with mesh on. Was £29.99.

Got one the same for ds1 when he was a baby and was fine.