*Due in Jan 2008* - Get those bags packed!!!!

[Amani]

Sorry can't think of a better title and my PC is so slow.........

I rather like these pjs. Need front-openers at night, can't be doing with all these push-up and try to find your boob thru a slit tops!

Sadly I don't actually need any baby clothes!

Nicky the women in here with hyper-wotsit (can't stop being sick) get told to keep sipping water all the time.

Spooky there is no way this baby is coming out anyway except the sunroof. Placenta is blocking the other exit. And I've had 2 sections, never been in labour, and had a (very little) scar rupture...

And Nicky - ROFL at "the murder I start in a couple of weeks". Surely you shouldn't admit that kind of plan on a public forum?

Hiya girlies!! like these wee spooky people!
Found you all again! Good grief, think i only got about 2 posts in on the last thread before it got too big! Glad everyone is sounding so upbeat, keep smiling fruity! Mrs McSpooky, i'd have got dead upset (and probably a bit sarky) at the silly bitch, hope your consultant is fab!
ooooo... guilt about caffeine! I've been trying to be good, but the odd cup of Java and can of Diet Coke has passed my lips since week 12 (i was really careful before that!!)but don't think it's under the 300 every day..... guilt guilt!
As far as everyone's list goes, i'm impressed at all the packed bags, haven't got there yet! Also found when dd came home that i had no where near enough bibs (i couldn't breast feed and am still waiting on my milk arriving 16 months later!!Not a drop!) and obviously had bought loads of breast pads i didn't need! Also found Always nighttime were fine, though, and less yucky and bulky than mat towels. I also reckoned disposble knicks were good for the first couple of days coz you could just rip them off and bin the whole lot although Asda's 3 for a quid basic knicks were good for that too and didn't rustle when i moved!
Anyway, knackered so need to go and try and get a kip... have a good curry ladies, snap a poppadum for the rest of us! Stay well all love lolo xx

MrsMJ - Glad to hear your scan was successful (in the important sense) and sorry it was crappy because of the sonographer. All fine with me. Me and SOH are running a "who can sleep the least contest" in the May 07 Club.

Re your list -

• forget the top and tail bowl - waste of money.
• Get the micromave steriliser - less space consuming and cheaper
• Bubble bath? you don't need it. I'm still only using water on O, but it's a personal choice.
• Sling - Karrime's rock. Baby Bjorn buggars your back, but is good for short use!

Good luck to you all with your new year babies

Hi ladies
I hope you don't mind me joining you. I have been reading for a while and trying to keep up with you all and thought I would finally say hello!!
I am due on 14th Jan with my first LO and I can hardly contain my excitement as I finish work next Friday!!!! Woohoo - actual mat leave not until Dec but owed lots of TOIL and holidays. Guess I won't have any excuse to be unprepared with that amount of time off - all this talk of packing bags is making me feel very unorganised. Hope I'm not the only one?!?

Morning all!

Cazzybaby - Cant remember do you know that youre having a girl? Lovely name too..I dont care what that guy thinks of Amelie, i think im quite set on it if its a girl. I dreamt I had a girl last night with lots of hair and called her Amelie!

Nicky6 - Good luck for the trial, try and take things easy when you can xx

Barristermum - Enjoy your guilt free cuppa xx

Fruitful - Those pj's look v confy! I have bought a pair from there too, the grey ones...they are lovely and i live in them! (well not at work! ) xx

Ayreshirlolo- will definately have a popodum or 10 for the people that cant make it!

babato - Welcome to the madhouse!! xx

They have changed the site overnight havnt they!! All round the other way now
Hope everyone is well...Its friday! yayyyy and im 31 weeks today! woo-hoo!
Realy looking forward to the cury tonihgt..will be good to catch up with some of you xx
Tomorrow i have a friend coming down from Coventry, we are off for a pamper , im having a facial and reflexology! cant wait....
Hope you all have a great w/e and are well...Fruitful, thinking of you having to spend another w/e in hospital xxx

Welcome babto and morning all!

It's Friday - whoohooo!! Anyonegot any interesting plans for this weekend? I am defo going to be packing my hospital bag this weekend.

at the meet up. Wish I had one of those Doctor Who travelling machines, where I could wizz to London and then wizz back again.....

i think ill pack an emergency bag too?
I have the curry tonight...a pamper day with my mate tomorrow...then sister and nephew coming over sunday! Just chilling really...cant wait!

What about you Amani?

Hi Babato

My due date is 14 Jan as well!

On new server Big Bro is watching me and I have to use "quota" time to see this site because lifestyle sites are restricted. It's used up 10 mins just getting here as well so it's so slow!

Someone needs to update the list but I think that would take the rest of my days quota at this rate!

hope London people enjoy curry and have a good weekend all.

We'll be doing lots with the nursery - exciting! DH and I have been to IKEA about 3 times in the last 2 weeks... allen keys ahoy. I assembled the POANG chair last night & was very proud of myself! (Sad I know)

Beller - am going to be going through all the boxes I've stored in the attic, which contain all of DD equipment and clothes that I bought when she was born. Need to determine what I have and what needs buying, make some lists then go shopping.

DH said he's also going to take me out for a meal tomorrow night to my fav Chinese place. (Am sure you mentioned Chinese so been going on about it to DH )

Morning all, like the MN forum changes, hopefully it will solve the problem of pages taking ages to load etc

I'm so glad it's Friday - I LOVE the weekends! And sad though it sounds, I'm proud of myself for getting through another week at work without taking any time off sick. Finding work quite a struggle just due to lack of sleep and general grumpiness! 5 weeks to go until I finish though

I'm very jealous of your curry tonight! I'm sure you'll all have a fab time

I clicked customise board cos I didnt liek the new way so am back to normal...

Lookign forward to curry tonight... apparently cant make a reservation unless we are a party of 12.... anyway I am sure that at 28 weeks onwards we will all be recognisable... I am wearing a green top and wear glasses and have my hair tied back and will be early as i finish at 5 so look out for me.

McSpook - have to agree about the microwave steriliser... i have a normal steam one and a microwave one and the microwave one is just so much easier... which reminds me that i need to get it back off a friend i lent it to. it is much more portable aswell.

I just read all the posts and am sure i had more to say but my mind has gone blank... oh yes hello fruity and gingme def one more meet up at least before Jan as i know fluffy wants to do one as well.

Hellooooo to everyone.

5 weeks for me too yay. Cant wait.

Angechica - is the Poang chair for nursing? I think I have pursuaded myself to get a chair for the nursery now...think im going to get a rocking one with stall. They had them in the discount warehouse i bought the rest of the furniture from

Amani - Yes, I have been for a chinese for the last 2 weekends...really enjoyed it too...Lurve crispy duck mmmmmmmmmmmmmm , enjoy! xx

Chinese for next meet up then??

I havent had chinese for ages. We moved in april and havent been able to find a chinese that we like so we drive 45 mins to get chinese, but it is the best.

Is it wierd that I fancy some stir-fried chicken and mushroom noodles and crispy duck for breakfast now?

Actually saying that, when I went to Thialand and Malaysia, the hotel that we stayed at made some delicious noddles for breakfast. yum yum

Ahhh so annoyed. We completed on our house sale two weeks ago now and gave someone a cheque for the money we owed them which was quite substantial. I have been monitoring the account for two whole weeks to make sure the money doesnt get spent etc and he only put the cheque in yesterday, which has now meant that the moeny is £60 short (which i know isnt much) but it is just annoying, as DH started a new job and they apparently pay him on Mondays.... who gets paid on Mondays and who doesnt bloody well cash cheques until two weeks later.

mmmmmmmm noodles.....will lsettle for curry tongiht though

How annoying mixedmama!

hey everyone - I'm back from Barcelona and straight back into work. I have eleven days straight of work now and then three days at a conference (have to speak twice, no idea when I'm going to prepare my talk) and then - I have nothing in my diary at all!

(I'm a freelancer, so that is both good and bad - good = lots of sleep ins and lunches with my friend, bad = no money coming in). For the time being I'm going to hope that some of that time stays free, although it never does, so I'm not going to get too excited.

We had a fabulous trip though - so relaxing. Lots of eating and sleeping and shopping. (we both have more shoes now than we we left London... can't resist)

@Amani - when we're traveling in Asia the thing my DH gets most excited about is the 'breakfast curry'. Makes my stomach turn at the best of times, but he loves it.

so much to catch up on since I've been away that I'm not even going to start trying, but it looks like you've been busy and hopefully well!

I can't believe how far on we all are now! I'm still getting my head around the idea of being 30-something weeks pregnant! (I have until next week to come to terms with it... super-weird).

good to have you back Sabinar! You can never have too many shoes! x

Hello

Just spent 5 mins trying to work out why I seemed to be reading everything backwards and then realised they've changed the board. Not got the sharpest brain at the moment.

Beller, I've finally ordered my rocker chair, but have now decided I'm not sure about the colour of the covers but I think it's too late to change them. Honestly, it took me about 2 hours to finally make a decision and then next day I change my mind again - I'm sure I never used to be this indecisive

I can't remember who mentioned the Haynes Baby manual yonks ago, but can I say a massive thank you to whoever it was - I bought one for dh, and it's the first thing that's he's really related to, and made him engage with the thought of having a baby around.

Welcome Babato. Lucky you stopping work so soon - I've still got another 35 days

I love the little hats... just read a funny post in AIBU about the fact that the face doesnt have a hat.

@MrsBisuit - we bought one of those Haynes Baby Manuals too (via recommendation from this list) and I agree - it's a cracker. Very DH friendly and full of good information too!

Much more exciting than the booklet of breathing exercises and 'internal work' (eek!) I got from the midwife last week!

It is quite funny watching DH come to terms with the whole baby thing. Just last night as I was making dinner he was saying 'one day you'll be pregnant, and the next day you'll be a mother. That's going to be a big change for us, isn't it'.

um. yes?!

Morning everyone! (FM waves and blows kisses all around and is generally happy about being back in London for a week or so...)

Love the hats!

Fruitful - I hadn't realised you were still in hospital....I can't believe how brilliantly you are coping - reckon I'd be in a padded cell by now!

Sabinar - welcome back, quite of your break in Barcelona, although less of the 2 speaking events looking...I've got 1 coming up and that's enough

Barristermum - you live so close! I'm on Ossulton Way ! Dinner is a bit difficult at the moment, as we've got childcare issues as well as builder-chaos - maybe in about a week or so? Do you ever work from home? I could probably bunk off for an hour or so for a coffee at Del Amici next week during the day

Mmm, noodles. Now I want Thai for dinner...

Hello All! Sabinar, well done on the shoe shopping, and thanks for the discussion on coats a while ago - I finally bought my maternity winter coat from Zara (altough had to go to Birmingham for it!!), and I love it, love it! Very warm and toasty now.

Fruitful - completely agree about the front opening PJs, just seems to much easier to open/close buttons

Mrs Biscuit - am with you on the indecisiveness. Am driving DH mad as we are trying to decorate our new house, and I keep giving him jobs to do, then second guessing myself.

Angechica - sounds v frustrating with your internet quotas and v slow server. Keep posting though, we'd miss you otherwise

I guess I should probably post this as an AIBU thread, but don't want to risk my SIL being on MNet. So here goes - tell me if I'm being hormonal and crazy!!

WARNING: HUGE rant coming up!!

My SIL, constantly compares her lack of a stable relationship v/s me and DH being married (we're a similar age). WHen DH told her we were going to have a baby she started crying! And later told me she doesn't know when she'll be with someone serious enough to have children with, and she's so broody. She told DH last week that she's pregnant, and the father is a married man with 3 kids, who's not going to be really involved with her lo.

DH asked why they didn't use any contraception, and she said 'because we've both been tested'. Hellooo???? And she didn't answer him when he aked her about the morning after pill. She also told him that she didn't want me to know yet (weird?), and then told me about it herself a few days later, by saying 'I have some news for you - I'm also expecting!'. She has already started comparing how 'easy' it is for us and how hard it's going to be for her.
AIBU for thinking that she's entitled to some emotional support, but I'm not having any of this 'poor me and lucky you' bullsh**t, as it was her choice to get pregnant 'by accident'!!