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!!

Cor blimey - i cant keep up with you lot! Do any of you work?! lol!!!!

Yeh i heard you're not sposed to wear underwired bras during pregnancy because they dont offer the right support. Well trust me, i have a couple of non wired ones and these puppys dont stay in there! My bras are like industrial ones, lol.

Congrats to Tegan on the little boy! So i read there are a lot of boys due in Nov?

No Babylove, I don't work anymore
That is not true about underwires in pregnancy. They are fine.

OOH I know where you mean now Merry!!
Me and dh often have a walk in Wanstead park and have a cuppa from the tea hut!!
And I have a friend who lives in Aldersbrook!

I love the greeness of the area too.

Why musn't we wear underwired? Do they do damage?

Yorky you have good snacks! I have apple pie (exceedingly good ones at that!!) if anyone fancies?

erm baby love I look after two children under four, full time. I work very hard.

Underwires are not good for changing breast tissue. You need to make sure they are not digging in anywhere. It's not about support, it's about damaging milk ducts, and causing mutation in breast tissue. You can get special maternity and nursing bras that have plastic-more flexible-underwires.

oof

Definitely time to buy maternity then!!

With you on the glamorous nursing bras pinky, definitely not getting cheap multipack ones this time!

Off to bed now...

goodnight

advice - anyone had a graco duo sport pushchair? good or not? seen 1 for £99.95 inc del and raincover on www.preciouslittleone.

any other recommendations as i found the maclaren types tight on ds? ive seen the m&p twin aria new for £95.

just keep thinking about twins and tandems. wondering if i have made a mistake being so impulsive buying the petite star zia. it's exactly what i want and love it but didn't think about DS much. can't take it back either, once out of shop can go back.

Ooh I am glad I asked about who was feeling frisky, look at the conversation that followed!

But where are we to get these glamerous BF bras??

Those Carriwell bras look good though, but how do you know what size you are. I am norm 36B or C. Gone up and down since DD when I was a 34D which I was very happy about, now my chest is bigger but my boobs smaller?? Not good.
So, anyway, as a 36 B/C am I small or medium, do you think?

HI Twinkling
hope you got my email
there's a size guide here

Yeah, Pinky, ot your email, sorry should have said.
So by those sizes I, as normal, am straddling both the small and the medium. That always happens to me!

Ooh Pinky me too, saw some gorgeous glam nursing bras on Blooming Marvellous! My previous ones were real matron/granny style and I have decided that as this will be last baby for me I'm gonna BF in style!

oh dear. I start off 34D I am in 36D at the moment, and go upwards from there, but tend to go back down the back-size and I think I have medium.

Yes sparkle- I am not getting sruck with grey droopy m&s nursing bras this time! I bfed DD for 15 months, so I'm getting some nice bras. The bloomingmarvellous ones look very nice.

I have BF bras in several sizes, just kept getting bigger in the cup! My one glamourous one (black and lacy!) was v. uncomfortable because it was too small!

It's too early to be up. Not sleeping well again - doh! Must try and go back to sleep before the day's onslaught begins...

I still can't actually believe that we will have a little boy. dh has promised to have the snip as soon as he can after the birth so definately no more little ones for me thank you

Good morning all
vbab - don't worry about your petite star, can you use it as an incentive to get DS to walk so baby can go in buggy - it might take a little while and it might be easier with a double at first but I'm sure you will get lots of use out of your buggy.
Off to look at bloooming marvellous now, DH was very scared when I fantasy shopped on the next website and put £140 in the basket!

yorky - DS (25mths) loves to walk just unsure how I will be able to cope if on my own with baby in buggy and DS wanting to go in opposite direction. DS on occasion does get tired and mardy so the only option is to let him have a nap. DH also really doesn't want me to spend £ on a twin/tandem buggy.

I need to do some real shopping but £ is beyond tight.

Got a little emotional leaving the house this morning. Feel like (& look) like a bag lady. My main stay black trousers I bought from Mothercare only 2 months ago max have turned into a saggy mess that seem to be falling apart.

To be honest I've always been the type of person to find something other than clothes to spend money on at the expense of my personal appearance but i just look terrible.

DS also going through a severe spell of eczema where it cracks, he scratches and it bleeds. Nursery keep saying shall we stop him playing with sand and so on because we think it is irritating it. But I just want him to be a kid playing. DS wont understand fully that his friends can play but he cant.

Just down ... on a good note we are going on hol for a week in a caravan in Caister at the weekend. Only thing is I will get left organising everything then we will probably get stuck in the "school is out" traffic.

Hi vbab, sounds like we are in a very similar situation. My dd is 26 months and never sits in her buggy at allthese days. I really wanted a lie flat pram this time round and I got a good deal on a Silver Cross one on Kiddicare. Now I am starting to worry if I will be able to manage out and about without a double but we can't afford it now. I am thinking about getting a buggy board instead. DD will be 2 and half when this baby arrives so maybe we would manage with it.

My dd has eczema too and is going through a bad flare up at the moment. Her legs and tummy are in a bad way and to make matters worse when I put on her emollients lately she screams and says it is too stingy.

Tegan I must apologise at having a pregnancy brain yesterday and congratulating you on your girl. Or perhaps I am just a few years late with that one/two!! Anyhoo - congrats on your BOY (doh me!) - I guess they are ok apart from the dirty towels on the floor and their complete lack of finding anything in the house (based on my experience of DH only)!!

But seriously, I am very pleased for you!

vbab and suiledonn have you tried homeopathy for your DCs eczema? It did wonders for DS when the oilatum, diprobase etc didn't touch it and hydrocortisone only worked a bit, and when you stop it flares straight back up again.

Morning

Just checking in - have been beyond busy this weekend with it being DS's 2nd birthday but it is all over and I can now have a rest! We took him to Thomasland yesterday and he had a fantastic day - would definitely recommend it if you have any Thomas-obsessives like me!!

If most of us who know what we are having are having boys, then that can only mean that those who didn't find out must be having girls!!

Re double buggies - I keep swaying between a side-by-side buggy and a back and front buggy - just wih I could make up my bloody mind!! I was wandering round Thomasland yesterday checking out all the buggies

x

morning all,

tegan congrats on your boy! are you thinking dylan or Lucas for your names as well or did Dozy get confused?!
pinky how did your snackless/remoteless evening go? Huuuge sympathy btw, whenever dp used to go out i had to have a bottle of wine and a few cigerettes, I've given up smoking and dp is totaly anti smoking but it was my little treat when he was out Now, obviously i can't do either of those things so i must have an enormous pile of naughty snacks and terrible TV instead

My boy is feeling pretty active today and also making me feel pretty sick, but then what's new? The nausua must pass soon i'm 21 week ffs!
I haven't read through the billion messages as dd is at school and this is my very important tea and toast time So I hope everyone is ok

Morning All, pleased to see the conversation has made a dramatic turnaround!!

I have had an absolute terrible addiction to chocolate ice cream btu have realised it is no good for the horrible fat legs so am having to give it up once i have finished this last tub. Also had the most dreadful urge yesterday lunchtime to have PASTA... I am going to turn into a piggy if I am not careful.

I read Tarquin one of his/her books this morning (Duck in Trouble) and when I finished and asked if s/he liked it, s/he moved, so I took that as a yes... how sweet.

suiledonn - I completely sympothise with your eczema situation with DD. I know how heart renching it can be when they are crying, screaming and pulling away when you are trying to help by putting the creams on. I cant wait for the day DS "grows out of it". The whole situation, routine and list of creams for different bits seems never ending.

On the buggy front same situation. I think maybe the buggy board is a good idea as long as your DD would use it as you have said she likes to walk so much.

I can't have a buggy board because of the buggy I have bought but I don't think DS would use it much anyway. Probably walk majority but occasionally likes to crash and burn and have a nap.