Due April 2008 - Spring Lambs and April Fools

[PortAndLemon]

Previous thread here.

TA - mine is not isofix, but comes with a base you leave fixed in the car and just click in/out the seat. Seats are a PITA to strap in every time IMO.

Knitter, that does sound interesting. Would be great if it works...That seems like a good success rate. Maybe you should put a thread out in the big wide MN world and see if the stats are true?

TA - we've been through a lot of cars since having DD (we always buy crap old ones) and the car seats have always fitted, so don't worry about the new car...just get the car seat you want.

TA, we wanted to get an isofix base (for less hassle getting seat in & out of car) but when we went to mothercare to see if it was suitable, it made the seat too upright.

I've done a search for acupuncture success rates, and the general thing seems to be like everything else... worked for some people and not others!

If your staying with a 3 door car it would be easier to have a base unit so you spend less time having to bend in trying to secure (thinking from a physio back care perspective). Weve always had a strap in one and never had a prob, think coz weve never had the luxury of a 'click' on one.

Knitter, if you can remember the points they used you can try acupressure instead, either as a static pressure or as massage to those points. Not as strong a response as needling but cheeper.

THAT IS IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DP said he rang insurance company at 4pm and their systems are down and to ring back on Monday!!!

He is such a pri*!!!!! (Sorry about my language but I am really fed up with him now!)

Its almost as if he is trying to be controling and not letting me drive!!!

xposted with you there Knitter wandered what sagitta was talking about has taken me an hour to relise you posted above me can I ask are you a big girl usually only because my doctor wont even try turning the baby as he said he didnt think there was a point because I am chunky (am in size 22 maternity) was slightly oh right! I have a friend who went down the acupuncture route and it work for her I have a needle fobia so dont think I could go through with it!

At least with the c section route it gets rid of the risk of GBS so one less thing for me to worry about! although that why they have booked me in at 37+5 as they dont want my waters breaking before hand!

With the strechmark thing I put on 6 stone having Max so as you can imagine got quite a few from having him dont think I have added more but cant really tell but then again I have only put on 15lbs this time around as have been very careful

I have never had a new enough car to get a isofix base but I have the M&P car seat last time which has a base you fix with the seat belt and you click the seat in and out this time I have a maxi cosi which again I have bought the base for which works with the seat belt so clicks in and out.

TSLM, I'm normally a size 18 and in size 18 maternity (except for my enormous size 20 knickers at the mo, they're fab!) but size 18 over bump jeans are digging in at the top now too. So I'm normally a bigger girl, and the doctor at the hospital didn't seem to think there'd be a problem with chunkiness.

As for your needle phobia, even though I inject myself 4 times every day and numerous finger prick blood tests, I have a massive phobia about 'proper' blood tests as a result of it taking 4 adults to hold me down to take blood when I was 3. The needles they use in acupuncture are so tiny they just feel like you've been bitten by an insect for a few seconds, if you wanted to give it a go, you could ask whoever does it to just try 1 needle to start with to see how you cope before you commit to the treatment. Honestly, if you keep your eyes closed like I did, it really didn't feel like needles, just a tiny scratch. And I'm a naeedle expert!!

Cake update - Peach & Pear cake is gorgeous. Apple & strawberry is disappointing, I need to use dried apple bits instead of grated apple next time.

knitter, those cakes sound really nice!

Thanks Sheds! They are

Next batch will include an apple and black cherry one. Asda do fab little bags of dried fruit for 99p that are perfect. Have dried apple for that one.

Ours isn't Isofix not the baby one or DS's current one. I looked into Isofix when it came to get his current seat but liked the Maxi Cosi and their Priorifix I couldn't install in our car (it can be installed in our car the Mothercare man could do it easily, but his female colleagues couldn't and I couldn't so there didn't seem much point). It's easy enough to fit a non-Isofix seat if you are a woman read the instructions properly, TBH.

Think I may give all relations a different cake recipe and they can keep me supplied once I've had the baby and can eat cake again .

Thanks for the carseat advice
I clearly hadn't done enough research! From the mothercare catalogue, it looked as though the only alternative to using the seat belts was isofix. But Babies R Us have a couple of Graco ones which have a leave-it-in-the-car base, lots cheaper than isofix. So I shall investigate them on Monday

Denny - the reason we are getting a 5-door is exactly that - to save my back. It can be a bit dodgy, so DH wants to make my life as easy as possible So a new car it is

Those cakes sound gorgeous Knitter. I've made a lemon drizzle cake this afternoon, but it is for guests tomorrow so it will taunt me til then..... think I am going to have to order some takeout now to compensate

PAL, did you see the recipe I posted before? It's basically wholemeal flour, dried fruit, butter and eggs, with a bit of bicarb and mixed spice. And I stick some baking powder in too to make it bigger

There's no sugar in it, the sweetness comes from the sugar in the fruit IYSWIM so you might be able to have some now? If you had a piece after a meal the sugar would be absorbed slower too. Especially cos it's mixed with wholemeal flour.

Oh, and you could always make it with most of the weight of fruit being carrot, with just a sprinkling of dried fruit. That would make it even more GI friendly! Carrot with currants/sultanas is gorgeous. And you wouldn't need many of those for a bit of sweetness.

Dried fruit is a bit iffy unless it's apricots. And I don't do well on willpower (what is this "one piece" of which you speak...? ) so the only way I am managing to stick to the diet is to cut out things altogether if I can only eat tiny amounts of them. But it's on my list... (I want to stick to a more-or-less low-GI diet after DD arrives, because having had GD puts me into a relatively high-risk category for developing Type II diabetes in ten or fifteen years, and being careful with my diet improves my chances of not developing it, but I have every intention of allowing in the occasional piece of cake ).

I hear you!

My final suggestion though... a carrot and apricot cake. cut the apricots into teeny pices before you boil em so they go further. Then cut it and freeze it in slices so you have to go to the trouble of remembering to take one out each time.

Not helping am I!

Right - that's it - last day of work for the next year over with! Had a lovely send off - lunch with my team yesterday and lunch with the girls today... and a lovely pressie too - £200 worth of Venture vouchers! How nice?!?

All this cake talk is making my mouth water - I love lemon drizzle - especially with lemon icing and blueberries on top - yum! I am going to make that this weekend.

Have to admit I am one of the VERY lucky ones weight wise - have not put on anything at all - but I think as I have said before it has been because I have been a bit poorly - and still carry weight from before I was pregnant - so as pleased as I am not to have put on any more - I still have weight I want to loose after baby is born.

My female head of my team was telling me today that at 6 months pregnant she was skiing and at 8 months she was still going to the gym and doing that inner thigh exercise (not sure what it is called) and everytime she opened her legs she could feel the baby's (who was engaged) head pop out and everytime she closed her legs the baby's head would go back in! She had 3 babies - all 10 pounds (she is 5ft nothing and weighs about 7 stone) and all natural births, in fact the one she was exercising with was born in the taxi on the way from work to hospital - caught in her tights! CRAZY woman or what?!?!?

Toastaddict its ok, I have LOADS of stretch marks on each side of my belly too.
-gives you some sympathy tea-

I had the Graco seat with the click-in base, best money we spent I think! (and I hummed and haa'd because am super-stingy) SO much easier than trying to fix it with the seatbelt every time, esp if trying not to wake the baby. Going to be so weird having two in the car! Still haven't quite figured out logistics of how I get them both in the car - I guess I'll work it out at some point!

YAY work is finished! Feels completely surreal (and yet very cool indeed). Congrats M2B2BR and, erm (sorry), the other person who finished today! I am only 34 weeks, wot a skiver.

I feel the same Scampmum - it is very surreal and hasn't really sunk in yet!

Yay for not being at work!!

Argh, I'm being filmed on tuesday!
I will be exactly 37weeks wtf shall I wear?!?!!?

Well DP has gone out for the night until at least 3am. No drinking, but plenty of roleplaying and the like.
I have an emergency mobile number just in case but will take him 40mins to get here if I do need him. At 38weeks I am a little anxious but since little one is no longer engaged (we think) its unlikely??
Is that logical?

Any opinions there are welcome please!!

The plan is, if my waters break then to call DP first. If I get contractions to ring the labour ward first and check with them. I dont want to drag DP home on a false alarm.

We've seen your pics, hon - you'll look gorgeous whatever you wear! I would go for jeans, a long-sleeved top and a lovely smock dress with a necklace if you have anything like that?