Due in June and entering the home stretch - keep the creme eggs rolling!

[makecakesnotwar]

And the Revels, the Greek Yogurt and the curly fries....

Debs - Nice to hear that your two boys get on well, as we will have 22 months between ours and I am secretly hoping for another boy .

Wow it has taken me days to catch up so glad to be back online!

Looney good news for your DH

G43 happy bday

Ernest yikes im so glad DS gets his on NHS as lost a pair in the playground i would have killed him at £500 a pop.

Neeze congrats on your little girl one of each thats special. Love the names.

Well had a busy week - have decorated bumps room the cot is up and new furniture in place, bought a new pram the fabric I wanted has been discontinued but the shop had one in stock, but it had a carry cot which i wasnt prepaired to pay for so as it was x show she just through the carry cot in for nothing, there isnt a mark on it so quite happy.

I have had an awful cold all week cant shift it loosing my voice nose keeps bleeding everytime i get to sleep i either wake with heartburn or coughing my back is giving me jip im bursting out of some of my maternity clothes I have decided I hate being prengnant and I cant wait for this to be over 12weeks Wednesday(well fingers crossed)

Looney I had caster oil with both of mine I went into labour a couple of hours later but didnt have a bad time with it I did just have a teaspoon mixed with OJ though.

well better get on will keep more up to date now.

Ktpie - have you tried putting a want on freecycle for a moses basket? Worth a go...
I know a mattress costs a bit, but it would save you money to spend on something else...

Hello ladies. Have just hit a wall of tiredness, but at work and nowhere to slope off to for a nap. Boo.

Bitofadramaqueen - I wear lenses too, feel really disorientated without them or with glasses - my specs are also v old! I'm going to pack some of those individual contact lens eye drop things - do you know the ones I mean? - for the hospital, as well as several spare pairs, and hope for the best. There's a place online to buy really cheap specs (from about £25) - I was thinking about getting a pair from there just in case.

Just woken from a nap with tummy ache. Bought a set of fake wedding/engagement rings in M&S on Saturday because mine don't fit anymore, and I refuse to go into hospital without a ring on (plus if the stories are right and people steal your things, the thieves will be disappointed to get my cheap fake set and not my antique real set!!)11 weeks to go and feeling very sorry for myself- we lost yet another house today...ours just doesn't seem to want to sell. I tell you what, I was an emotional person before but this pregnancy thing has kicked it up to an entirely new level!! The dog is going mad with all the stormy weather, but I'm glad I don't have to go anywhere today. Even DH is working from home.

I got my Moses Basket on Ebay- new and never been used so didn't have to buy a new mattress! I see them quite often in my local charity shops...worth checking them out too.

makecakes- that's bad news on the house front, it must be awful for you as I know how strong the urge is to get everything ready for the little ones arrival. Fingers crossed something great will work out for you.

I agree I am really mean!!! Hopefully the batteries will run out really quickly and then I won't feel so bad putting it away though it wasn't very nice being woken this afternoon to the sound of an irritating disco beat - I probably shouldn't fall asleep when I'm alone with DD2 though!

Makeckaes,, so sorry about the house.

DP's parents did get some lovely playmobil for dd2 so she won't be left presentless, I think I'm being oversensitive and hormonal!

Hi all.

Makecakes - sorry about the house. What a bugger. Am doing a virtual patting of the hand becuase was in a similar predicament when pregnant with DS1 and know how stressful it is - I recommend lots of deep yogic breathing.

Goingfor3 - totally agree with noisy toys - very inconsiderate.

Am impressed about how organised everyone is - haven't even thought about the organisation for this delivery.

Am frantic at work and weekends are busy just keeping on top of domestic harmony eg washing and ironing. May possibly have overdone it on Saturday when was woken up in the middle of the night by a huge Braxton Hicks - babe inside was not impressed. Could also be because I ate some pineaple before I went to bed - one of the 'tools' for inducing labour (although never worked for me before).

Just quickly skimmed the thread! Looney - great to see you and lovely news about your DH's job. What a relief for you.

ktpie - I was at an NCT sale on Saturday too. Was it the same one? North Liverpool? I didn't get anything for the baby though I bought a few things for DD . I'm sure that all I need is new mattresses and nappies but I expect there's a huge list waiting for me!

Rolf - I was at the Nottingham one, I was impressed by it, going to have a look and see when the next one is and this time arrive in time to park!

Freecycle is a good idea for a moses basket, on our local one baby stuff gets snapped up really quickly but it's worth a try. Ebay seems a good option as a lot of them seem to come with the stand included which makes the cost of a new mattress worthwhile.

Sorry to hear about the house makescakes, we lost the one we wanted the other week, the market seems to be rubbish at the moment, no one has even been to view ours. We are getting used to the idea that we will definitely be having the baby in this house, not too bad but it will be a squash, at the moment there isn't room to put the cot up which is why we are looking for a moses basket, hoping that by the time the baby needs to move into the cot we will have moved, otherwise we will need to do a lot of rearranging!

I feel like I am getting a cold this afternoon, a bit headachy, maybe it's just the weather (wishful thinking!)

SO Sorry about the house, makecakes. I hope your house gets sold soon, it's so stressful (and unnecessarily complex)

G43 - happy birthday for Saturday. Love the microphone . Someone gave DS a battery operated power drill last week, so I completely understand what you mean.

Hope everyone in England is able to travel around this evening.

whinegums - good idea on the drops. Will add to list for my bag. Anyone (apart from makecakes ) even started thinking about getting their bag ready?

Sorry about the house makecakes, that sucks!

hospital bag ... ? [Upsidedowncake places head firmly back in sand again]

Thanks everyone...I swear this is the last time we ever move....

LOL DQ- am too organised for my own good. I even went and got new glasses at the weekend (the dog chewed mine) BOGOF, so have a spare pair for hospital. That's entirely luck but feeling very pleased with myself now!

HAve made myself feel better by buying things for CJ on Ebay...very cute bright pink muslins with little white stars. Just need to hide them from DH!

Have to join the great London commute tomorrow...not looking forward to it.

ktpie- I managed to get a brand new moses basket on ebay for £20 so there are bargains o be had. When I had DD I got one for £5 with a wipeable mattress, keep looking!!

hospital bag??

Good, its not just me then. Crikey makecakes, I dont even have a pair of glasses never mind a spare pair .

Anyone getting, well, kind of BORED of being pregnant? I've gone through a whole pregnancy overload so now that I should start thinking about birth choices etc I can't be a*sed researching anything vaguely pregnancy related. I'm also pining for my social life and the days when people had a conversation with me that didn't start 'how are you keeping?'. Oh and very very bored of feeling uncomfortable, tired, fat and sober (not that I was a raging drunk beforehand obviously ). I was muttering to my DH the other day about how I couldn't wait to get my social life back and then I realised I would never ever get back the one that I had .

I have a list for my hospital bag... Only because I am a compulsive list maker.

Dramaqueen - I'm not bored being pregnant yet, but probably because I didn't know I was til 12 weeks - so handily 'missed out' the first trimester. Duh! But I am bored of watching friends get pissed (it's putting me off getting hammered in future I have to say, not that I was a raging drunk in the past either, and nor are my friends now!) and also v bored with the 'advice' on what I should call my baby - and if I suggest some names I like, friends telling me not to! Baby names now banned from all future conversations! Oooh, I wouldn't say we'll never get back our social lives, just maybe not until 2024.....

A friend here said that you hardly need anything in your hospital bag - just toiletries for yourself was what the hospital said! Apparently they provide everything for the baby - nappies, clothes etc..., and everything for Mum - nighties, maternity sanitary pads etc... It's going to be strange - very strange.

we'll take a couple of mags, eh?

I remember last time them bringing me my own personal trolley of a variety of teas, still & sparling water etc. I didn't dare ring the biuzzer at all after UK experience. The girl in the next bed was buzzing every 2 minutes - take baby away, bring me a tea, plump up my pillows, my phones not working etc etc

wonder if they're as keen on quark in austria as here in switzerland?

Bad luck on the house, Makecakes. Moving house is the pits.

Goingfor3 - I sympathise about the noisy present. My MIL asked what the DSs wanted for Xmas a few years ago, and I said anything that is small and quiet. She bought them a 2' tall electric organ! She lives in the US and has loads of space and I think just forgets that English houses aren't the same.

Dramaqueen - I'm a bit sick of being pregnant, too. I think something odd is going on with my digestion (nice!) as I feel so uncomfortable and bloaty, in a not-merely-pregnant way. I feel as though the baby's head is very low down, almost like pre-labour feelings really. Early labour is NOT something I have experienced so I'm assuming it's not happening this time, but I feel very odd. I also can't believe I'm going to get any bigger. I'm sleeping very badly, which isn't helped by having at least 1 child in the bed with me. Must somehow find the energy to deal with DD's awful sleep habits. DH is away for a few days so I'd quite looked forward to being able to spread out in bed and adjust my pillow arrangements but instead I had DS2 and DD starfishing all night

I'm not remotely fed up of being pregnant...still amazed to be here to be honest after fertility treatment, one mc and ectopic scare. I am fed up of people not wanting to talk about anything else, like I don't have a life, and of reading baby books. Spent a fortune on them in the first few weeks and can't be bothered to look at them now. The closer I get to labour, the more I am taking a head-in-sand approach

But I am impatient to meet her...is it May yet?

That's a nice perspective on it, Makecakes

I agree with Rolf makecakes! I've had two mc's so I am hugely grateful to be here with a lo kicking away at me - i'm just a bit bored of all the other pregnancy stuff. Can I join you in the sand? I bet you've got a packed lunch in case you get hungry while you're buried in there! .

Right - I'm going to go and do some studying for the first time since October... wish me luck...

Hope you get a good night's sleep Rolf!