Due November 2008 - some know the flavour by now but rest of us relying on the folklore...

[sparkletoes]

Ok I am guessing this thread will last about 2 weeks!!

pinky...should I send the money for the blanket to the email address that you used for buying the wraps? I was going to do it tonight.

hi lacks, yes you can, I've not finished sorting the business account yet, so that one would be fine
That chair looks like the one we had for ours, that was a many hand-me-down from my brother, but the farbric has finally worn out where it stretches over the frame. They really do last for years, though, don't they?

pinky- had to LOL at the bouncy chair for xmas. was thinking that wa rather extravagant just for one day!!! but each to their own!

i am really, really down today. like you say, dozy, we are so up and down at the moment, it's hard to know when i wake what kind of a day it's gonna be. i don't know about the testosterone thing, i had a great time when i was pg with ds, was very happy and relaxed and not full of mood swings like this time. felt so good, i couldn' wait to be pg again! kind of glad this time is not so good as it's the last time, and i won't be craving pregnancy again!

i went shopping with my sister today. she pushed the trolley, loaded the belt, packed the shopping, put it back in the trolley, put it in the boot, brought it in the house - and i was shattered after! i went to sleep. i just feel like i don't want to be pregnant anymore, and yet know it is only going to get worse, and then there's 2 babies to cope with after. felt like my life is going to be awful, hard work and tiring for the next 2 years at least. boo hoo hoo. felt very sad and sorry for myself.

feel better after:

• ds shoved a screwdriver in my bottom and said "I fixing mamma's bottom"!!
• said "I got you a present, mamma, i made it". It was a little box (he didn't make it, but the thought that counts!).
• chinese takeaway . capital spare ribs...YUM

oh MM I know howe you feel. I've just had a long soak in the bath and I feel much better. I think a lot of it is to do with that sort of creeping tiredness you feel when pg- not the narcoleptic tiredness you feel in the first trimester, it's a very physical tiredness that sort of creeps up on you.

I felt UTTERLY CRAP when pg with DD. I couldn't eat without very strong medication, I hardly played with DS at all, loads of people gave up on me because they didn't appreciate how ill I was, I thought I would never be able to cope when DD was actually born- but I felt so much better when she arrived! Within about a week I felt great.

You will cope- you will cope fantastically well.

We just need to remember to be very nice to ourselves- you forget that when it's not your first, I think.

I really want some chicken wings now

just wanted to say also that John lewis were selling loads of car seats and buggies half price when we went today. The had a vcery nice Micralite for 75. They also had a number of very nice ex-display cots etc. going very cheap.

Hello all, at brothers house, DS has finally settled in his travel cot after being an angel and sleeping for the entire M6! DH is running the urbanathlon tomorrow morning which is like a very long assault course - he is mad.
We stopped in at a big cheap sports shop just off the motorway because he wanted new trainers and I got a fantastic pair of jogging bottoms, not maternity but so comfy and will just fit under bump, and 3 long vest tops for 1.50 each!
I feel much better than yesterday, I just crashed and haven't done that for a while. Lovely bath full of birthday smellies and a lie in - DS wanted milk at 4, then slept till 730, sometimes I really love him !
Hope everyone finds their mood swings swing back happy soon, and if not that shopping/window shopping helps!

Yorky, the clothes sound great.

I am up bright and early...6.30! Ds isn't even up - what am I DOING? Needed some chocolate spread on freshly cut and buttered bread . All I seem to think about these days is food. It was like this in the first 3 months and then wore off, and I was fine, in fact almost 'forcing' myself to eat the recommended amounts of food. Now I can't stop eating again, waking in the night to eat, and am full of all sorts of craving.

It's a beautiful sunny day. We are having a chuch picnic, so am hoping it stays nice and sunny. Hope you all have a good day too.

DS was hideous last night, took nearly 2hrs to get him settled back down
At least the weather is nicer than I expected so DS and I don't have to stand around in the rain watching DH
DB got in a selection pack of breakfast cereals so I've had all the naughty ones I wouldn't let DS eat! Spot the batchelor uncle!
Enjoy your picnic Merry

Haven't had chance to post for a couple of days but have just about kept up Apologies for not mentioning everybody...
Merry I'm with you on the chocolate spread on nice fresh bread - yum! Enjoy the picnic.
Yorky Your DH sounds like my BIL - he's doing the triathlon at Excel in London in a few weeks' time. Hope it goes well today.
Ceebee Good news about another little boy for the thread and fingers crossed for your next scan on Wednesday. Hope the bowel issue is nothing.
Our washing machine has decided to give up the ghost so I've just bought a new one online. Better now than once the baby is here I suppose and it was 12 years old.
Haven't bought anything for baby yet - my friend showed me the pram/buggy combo she's going to give me on Thursday and it looks as good as new. It's a M&P one. DH has been tasked with researching car seats and I want to get one of those Amby nests for when the baby is in our room. We'll see about the cot afterwards I think.
Bright and sunny here too so I'm going to knuckle down and get the work I need to do out of the way and then go and relax in the garden this afternoon. Have a good day all

Yorky - sorry about your ds. my ds took a whole week to settle down when we went on holiday! nt eating or sleeping a lot (even tempted him with coco pops, but didn't work!).

cricri - hope your washing machine works out. we got a new machine 2 years ago, triple A energy efficient, and it takes about 3 hours to do a wash!!!! Apparently the energy efficiency means it takes forever. Am getting used to it, try and do it overnight! The buggy sounds brilliant. We had an M & P Pliko for ds and used it till now.

Hi all, newbie here! Just wanted to say thanks for all the responses to my question about getting a second scan; may well play the 'anxious' card and see where I get to!

Sparkletoes, I posted a question on another thread (Products: double buggy advice) and got some really helpful replies about what to go for, incase that helps.

As for flavour, no idea what mine is, already have 1 ds (19 months), so a dd would be nice, although will be delighted with whatever I get - happy to consider any manner of old wives tales or theories that might predict the flavour!

Thanks jm54 I may just take a quick look at that thread!

Busy attempting to make a curtain (yes just one - small window!) for DS room so we can convert cot to the cotbed. Saw lovely quilt in John Lewis so thinking of getting it too as will match the curtain. Have to say tho I wouldn't win any awards for my sewing...!!

Pinky are you selling that ebay Baby Bjorn bouncer?? I clicked on the link and it looks really good and its local pick up and only 10 mins away from me!! I will be keeping an eye on the auction so thanks for that!

Hello!

hope you're all having a lovely sunday - weather fabulous here!!

Haven't been on here for a while so hello to all the newbies (although I do feel a bit like a newbie myself really!!)

Everyone seems to be starting to get organised so I thought I'd get dh to put up the cot today.. have been up cleaning, washing and chucking stuff out since half seven. feel quite pleased with self but knackered now. Dh is going to do the hoovering (yay)

Just wondered if anyone has any experience of Whipps Cross? Bit nervous about the whole giving birth thing and have seen different midwives every time I go so a bit worried about not having a familiar face when it's time. Does it matter? Is the hospital o.k.?

Well soz for the long post...

x

Barbareeba. I am at Whipps. Even with the same hospital it works differently. I saw the same midwife throughout my pg with my first child, but she didn't work on the labour ward, so saw no-one I knew when I gave birth. Had one great midwife and one rubbish one. This time I am seeing the same consultant each time, but I doubt he will be at the birth either...

Where do you live? I am in Forest Gate, E7.

Merry / Barbareeba I think Whipps Cross is an excellent choice. All the best babies are born there (me)!!

Oooh jm54, that recommended buggy - the Easy walker duo looks like a dream! Mucho expensivo tho even direct from Holland but I will await Dizzy's review of it with anticipation (see she is due in July!). Its a side by side which I didn't want but then again no point in a tandem I can't push!!

I agree with Hana/ChocO's view Barbs, the midwife that delivered my DS was completely unknown to me beforehand but she was just fab. Its pot luck I guess but the delivery midwifes all sounded great from what I heard on the ward...

hi all fab weather here today. We have been at a music and food festival, having a great time.

Choco- not it's not my bouncer- I won't be parting with mine until this baby has outgrown it, but thought someone might like the bargain on ebay. I have found it great as it has the highest weight range of all of the baby chairs- DD loves sitting in it.

My bump seems to have ballooned this week. I have a feeling I'm going to have a really big bump this time.

hope everyone has has a good day.
ps I love chocolate spread, too. It's yum.

Hi again,

merry I live in South Woodford E18. Not sure where forest gate is. Am pretty crappo when it come to where places are around here ... When is your EDD?

Thanks for messages re:Whipps / familiar midwives. It totally makes sense now to have different midwives - I didn't think of it like that. I think I was just worried - London still feels a bit scary/new at times and I suppose I was just tagging general anxiety feelings about the 'strangeness' of it all.

Good grief what am I on about???

Thanks hanaflower for the link.

chocorange Thanks for your personal recommendation

evening all. Had a really busy day here, pulling the house apart looking for my MS office disk that I bought weeks ago but had to load on my pc as the preloaded copy had run out of time. Then we had to tidy the ensuing mess, but I got lots of paperwork sorted. Plus we've had a friend round setting up a home network for us and had just finished tea (yummy curries) when Yorky and her DH and DS popped in with my bookclub book and stayed for a cuppa before heading home again. Yorky's DS and my DD fought played really well together over DDs ride on....with my DS marshalling them . Yorky's DH looked remarkably good for a man who has just completed a 10K assualt course!

And Yorky's bump is really neat whereas mine is huge and sprawly already !

oh, and hello again to jm54

Am having a self imposed MN ban through the day next week so that I can get on and get the house sorted out a bit more, so I'll catch up in the evening.

Have a good week all

barb - i know where south woodford is! (i used to live in woodford for a couple of years). FG is about 10 mins drive. forest gate is across the fields from wanstead. we are the 'wanstead side' (oooooooh, so snobby am i!). my EDD is 11th Nov but I will likely have a c-section or induction at the end of October when I am 38 weeks.

choc - are you from east london then?!