Due April 2008 -The one where SCORPIO GETS MARRIED!!(and we get virtually drunk)

[VictorianSqualor]

hi portandlemon

Hi meandbump if you hang around on here you'll pick up loads of good tips and also find out that other first timers are thinking similar things to you. A great place to be!

As for Essex peopl, have you checked out the list below?

sorry to start with all the questions but is anyone else worried about childbirth and when do you start buying prams and stuff.

I will then ask does anyone else have leakage and stuff and how do u cope i do have quite big boobs sorry for that question.

thanks sheds75

i'm in essex meandbump. at work tho so will have to post more later. they've come down on us about internet usage!!!

im in thurrock where abouts are u paranoidmummy.

Portandlemon, have you used the new Monthercare reusable system, I was thinking of moving onto these once I'd got my head around everything else

Hi meanbump welcom cant comment on the big boobs thing as dont have them i know Scorpio was suffering from leakage boob wise just pop a breast pad in your bra.

PAL Brilliant pics oh getting me very excited about mine did you have your scan done in Ashford?

thanks ive been using breast pads its just at night i dont like to wear a bra as it hurts and i have a wet top in the morning.

I looked at the sheds (I am going to use totbots and little lamb bamboos) i didnt like the look at them but i like the whole real nappy look

PAL - great pics. Me&bump - hi, like everyone else has said if you read through this thread & others on MN you´ll find loads of people going through the same thing SuzeM - my DH is 40 in April & Sam will be making an appearance at about the same time. His party will have to wait

ok i never looked at the Sheds I looked at them sheds!

30 March: Peachy, 34, from Caerleon, S/Wales, a boy. 4th baby (already has 3 DSs (8, 7, 4.5)).
01 April: siameez, expecting a boy.
01 April: vacaloca.
02 April: Redmonster, 29. This is her first baby.
02 April: Sheds75, from Cheshire, expecting a boy. This is her first baby.
02 April: V1KK1M, from Hertfordshire, expecting a surprise. This is her first baby.
03 April: NoMoreHighHeels.
04 April: CeylonSapphire, from Twickenham. This is her first baby.
04 April: lemonaid, 35, from SW London, expecting a girl. This is her second baby (already has 1 DS (2.9)).
04 April: lorisparkle, 33, from Cotswolds. This is her second baby (already has 1 DS (15 months)).
06 April: micegg.
06 April: paranoidmummy, 24, expecting a surprise.
07 April: Daftmoo, from South Hampshire. This is her second baby (already has 1 DS (8)).
07 April: Fleecy, 30, expecting a surprise. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (14 months)).
07 April: Piccalilli2, 32, from Sheffield, expecting a girl. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (2)).
08 April: Denny185, 33, expecting a girl. This is her third baby (already has 1 DD (5) and 1 DS (14 months)).
08 April: Elfsmummy. Expecting a surprise
08 April: KnitterInTheNW, 32, from Warrington, expecting a boy. This is her first baby. Next scan 13th February.
08 April: Rainbowdays. Expecting a Surprise
09 April: egyptianprincess. This is her first baby.
09 April: mummyofaprincess, 21. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (2)).
10 April: Gangle.
10 April: MathairNua, 29.
11 April: scorpio1, 23, from Cornwall, expecting a girl. This is her third baby (already has 1DSS (5) and 2 DSs (5 and 2)).
11 April: VictorianSqualor, 26, from Bicester, expecting a surprise. This is her third baby (already has 1 DD (6.10) and 1 DS (2.9)).
12 April: gemprincess, 29, expecting a boy. This is her fourth baby (already has 3 DDs (7, 3, 16 months)).
12 April: Velbels, 28, expecting our first baby.
12 April: positive, 38, from N Ireland. This is her first baby. High risk baby has Down's.
13 April: MassiveMollyfloss, 32, from Ireland but living in London, expecting a girl.
14 April: Jaq39, from Edinburgh.
14 April: SuzeM, 35, from Ireland but living in London, expecting a girl. This is her first baby.
15 April: Bainmarie, 30. This is her third baby (already has 1 DD (almost 4) and 1 DS (2)).
15 April: pad.
15 April: PippiCalzelunghe. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (2.4)).
17 April: babywhiting, 30. expecting a Girl
17 April: EllieG, 29. (already has 1 DSD).
17 April: soph28, 28.
18 April: bunyanvillas, from W London. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (2.9)).
19 April: dolly1, from London, expecting a boy. This is her first baby.
19 April: northeastmummy, from Aberdeen. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (16 months)).
19 April: AttillaTheHan, from Preston. This is her second baby. Has ds 3 1/2.
20 April: Ayomi. This is her first baby.
20 April: mumzyof2, 21.
20 April: munchkinmum. This is her second baby.
20 April: Toastaddict, 31, from Nottingham. This is her first baby.
21 April: Annieroo. This is her first baby.
21 April: littlemissturquoise.
22 April: BabyBratt, 30, from Manchester. This is her first baby.
22 April: rdk, from Manchester. This is her second baby.
22 April: Soph73, 34, from Gran Canaria. This is her second baby (already has 1 DS (5)).
25 April: loisstella, 33.
25 April: scampmum, 29. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (18 months)).
26 April: TLSM, 29, from Surrey, expecting a boy. This is her second baby (already has 1 DS (3) Next scan 2nd Feb
26 April: eva07, 29, soon to be from Cardiff, expecting a surprise. This is her first baby.
26 April: Sagitta, 34, from Suffolk, expecting a surprise. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (21 months)).
26 April: meandbump, 21, expecting a boy. This is her baby.
27 April: ShellySara, 30.
28 April: Beeper. This is her second baby (already has 1 DS (8.5)).
28 April: honeybee10. This is her third baby.
28 April: Woollymummy. This is her second baby (already has 1 DD (17 months)).
end April: chipmonkey, 38. This is her fourth baby (already has 3 DSs).

Hi meandbump! [waves]
can't help you much as am first timer myself and nowhere near Essex, but is nice to have you here x

Am better today thanks lorisparkle - think the belt is helping and I am eating very lightly so the weird pains are not too bad. Good to know it might just be a weird pg thing that will go though! I don't fancy gall stones much.

lemonaid - aaawwwwww.....such lovely pics [goes all gooey]

i got a few of my nappies from here they seem to go cheaper than ebay and you can pay via paypal www.usednappies.co.uk/index.php

eBay UK won't officially sell used nappies any more (seriously crap policy IMO). Haven't looked into the Mothercare thing.

Yes, Ashford Babybond -- went there with DS too, so odd going back with him as a nearly-3-yo this time.

I never really leaked before DS was born but in the first few months afterwards I used to sleep on a towel (also hate wearing bra in bed) and that worked out OK, leakage-wise.

Hi Meandbump, you've got the same due date as me! I'm not a first timer, but I am a crap mum, so no tips I'm afraid! Welcome.
I think paranoidmummy is in colchester.

I've got reusables for DD, but when she was first born I used a laundry service and got all the nappies and wraps from their library, so I don't have any newborn/ small stuff. And I can't quite face buying a load more...can I afford a laundry service again, I wonder...

PAL did you go for the Gold scheme with the CD rom we have ours there on the 2nd am so excited although at my 20 week scan on the NHS she flipped the machine over to 4d i was so shocked that they had the function!

PandL - why won't ebay sell second hand nappies? That's crazy...

We went for the 4D Bonding Scan option I (don't remember Gold being mentioned as a term) which got us checklist, sexing of baby (that was optional), 4D scan DVD (supposed to be ten minutes, but we got nearly 25), an A4 enlargement in a photomount, six A6 prints and a CD?ROM of around 23 images.

eBay have decided selling used nappies is unhygienic and on a par with selling used underwear (which they won't do either). Completely crazy. The US adopted the same policy for a while but AFAIK they backed down after a couple of months.

Ooo I forgot I have booked a lovely mum-to-be massage at a posh new spa that's just opened - it's a bit extravagent but I am owe some back pay and I figure I need some stress relief! Am very excited, cos you can use the pool and lovely spa areas too!
Plus am having my hair done on sat so soon I will no longer feel like frump-girl, but lovely chilled and nice-hair girl.

And I have spoken to my Dad and sorted him out for a bit and seen my Gran and her district nurse and got her a referral to physio and audiology, so everything is under control

Ooo, sounds great EllieG. Pleased you got things sorted out Me&Bump - one thing I can say is that you won´t need half the stuff you are given/end up buying. I´m dreading & excited about the birth cos I´m going for a natural birth after a c-section with DS1.

Everything went fine at the hospital little Alex is growing nicely and my blood rpessure etc is all fine, hopefully it will stay this way and my VBA2C wont be too contested!!

Is that an old list?? The kids ages on it are wrong!I'll rectify mine later, but DD is now 7 and DS is 3.

hey meand bump, sagitta's right i am in colchester. so not too far! i often venture to thurrock for bluewater and lakeside

all this babybond talk has me v excited. i have my 4d scan at the one in chelmsford on friday morn and i am pissing my pants a little in excitement.

hope everybody is well, i haven't been on here much what with xmas etc and being rushed off my feet at work. now not leaving til 38 weeks... could be the worst decision i have ever made!

ps. i am now officially a fatty boom boom and have put on 2 AND A HALF FRIGGING STONE! woohoo. i managed 5 with ds1 so here's to hoping i have the same metabolism i did 4 years ago after the birth

also great news vs . fingers crossed all will stay well and it'll be vbacs all around!