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Due March 2009? Grab your duvet & sick bucket!!

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auntyspan · 01/08/2008 16:59

Brand new thread ladies!

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babyinbelly · 05/09/2008 11:18

I would ask to hear the heart. just tell her that your worried and i'm sure she will comply! I cant think of anything else that I need to buy really. Except maybe a new cot matress. My friend gave me loads of stuff for ds1 which I gave back to her for her dc2 and she has now given back to me!

Have been regular on ebay since found out pg so other than clothes if its a girl I am almost sorted!!

Is that really bad?

babyinbelly · 05/09/2008 11:20

Grinningbee - I am having consultant led care because i had cs last time. Dont be worried I think it is just precaution.

TantiK · 05/09/2008 11:22

I'm in Italy and I think they took 5 vials from me! They also test for toxoplasmosis immunity and for Rosalia here. Unfortunately because I am not immune to toxo I can't eat any raw fruit and veg unless I have washed it thoroughly in bicarbonate of soda! A complete pain.

Emma - lucky you having all these things bought for you. My first pushchair is broken (waiting to be fixed) and my stroller collapsed on me the other day too! Will have to speak to some relations nicely I think....

Grinning - i seem to have much more of a bump if I am constipated. I enjoy the bump and then remember why it is there!!! lol

meep · 05/09/2008 11:40

Morning everyone.

I have a bump now - my jeans are tighter today than yesterday (and I didn't eat any tea last night) - i don't even have constipation to blame it on.

I don't think I have much to buy for this baby (unless it is a boy - babyinbelly, maybe we can do a swap?!). Dh has asked if we can buy one of those movement sensor mattresses this time. Dd stopped breathing in his arms just after she was born (nothing serious - but very scary for him - I had no idea as I had gone to sleep on the operating table while they stitched me up!) and he still wakes up in the middle of the night to check her and she is now 14mo. I think it will just give him peace of mind for number 2.

Other than that I want a decent sling this time round and a 2nd hand double buggy for any long walks. All (hopefully) to be funded by selling my beautiful (but ridiculously expenseive) pram that we bought for dd!

Great news about all the happy scans!

emma2617 · 05/09/2008 11:41

I think I will ask her to have a listen...I have a doppler but as I am only 14 weeks and a complete novice I can only get my hear rate or my gut noises!!!!

Grinning - I am incredibly constipated...I have never has constipation before and I am not enjoying it!! I think I might actually die though if midwife was feeling and pointed it out!!

grinningbee · 05/09/2008 11:49

It's kind of funny though, there were me and dh thinking it was bean, and all the time it was wind and poop!

I get the funny feeling that will be the first of many embarrassing things along the way...

SunshineSmith · 05/09/2008 11:50

Tantik_ are you been seen by midwives or doctors in ITALY? The whole system works differently there, right?

TantiK · 05/09/2008 12:14

At the moment I haven't been seen by anyone!! I am based in Rome (but soon to be moving to the mountains in the north where I am resident) and there were no appointments here in Rome until end of Sept! Well, I've been to the GP who has refered me onto a Gynaecologist and for my scan. So my first appointment is up North on Friday - for my Scan and then the same afternoon my first Gynae appointment. We still see a gynae here - which I am a little weird about (my first was born in England). It is all going to be a learning experience....!

MKG · 05/09/2008 12:29

Well I've got you all beat on the vials of blood. 13 in total. Plus the one last time for the triple test, and I'll have the AFP test next time.

Boobz · 05/09/2008 13:45

Is it raining wherever everyone else is? Is pissing down here (SW London) - so miserable. Makes me want to curl up on the sofa for a snooze with the dog (who's already snoozing).

To put off sleep, and work, shall we have a "first ideas for names" chat - for those also pretending to work? I like Claudia or Penelope (Penny) for a girl, and Dashiell )pronouced Dash-ul), Gabriel or Alexander for a boy.

jollyjoanne · 05/09/2008 13:54

I like Mae for a girl but my DH best friend has just had a baby and called it 'ellie may' and now I am not so sure about having names so similar. I'm thinking James as a middle name for any boy baby's as it is a family thing but really struggling for a first name that isn't 'too posh', 'too scally', 'too common', 'to unusual' and one of my friends or relatives hasn't already used - so Callum, Lewis, Sam, Tom and Matthew are all out.

TantiK · 05/09/2008 14:01

Mae is very pretty. Last night my dh came up with Leone (for a boy) (he is Italian) - but this translated means Lion. I do hope he was joking. Others are - Sofia (already a cousin), Isabella (already a cousin's middle name), Eva (another cousin's middle name), Ania (but dh says it sounds too much like onion). Can you guess we already have a boy and are just assuming this will be a boy? What is the etiquette for borrowing the middle name from a cousin? A do or a don't?

emma2617 · 05/09/2008 14:28

Oooh....I like this! I too am procrastinating like a pro!

We have our middle names set in stone...after DP relatives who died recently...cheerful I know! Steven for a boy and May for a girl. First name options are:

Evie (not decided on the spelling yet!!)
Ava
Finton (Finn for short)
And I really like Aloisius, but I don't think I could do that to a poor little baby!!

lizziemun · 05/09/2008 14:43

grinningbee

I think that rubbish about being 38 and needing consultant led care. I was a month of being 38 when i had dd2 last year and i will be 39 when i have this one and both pregancies have been community led care.

Boobz I have an Alexandra (dd2). We have no idea about names yet.

As for maternity clothes i have only bought jeans/trousers and skirts mainly from Next. Tops i have bought tops from normal shops as anything to do with maternity are so expensive.

lolianja · 05/09/2008 14:44

Since we're both confident it's a girl, we've got Anna down as our favourite and that's unlike to change now. Rosie is our standby/runner up, and we've decided on Pamela as a middle name eitherway. We'd like to give two middle names, haven't decided on the second yet.

Boy names we're finding trickier. Our "shortlist" (ha!) is still about 20 names long and changes almost daily, but ones that figure frequently are Thomas, Benjammin, John, James, Seth, Joshua, Max, Jack, Michael, Daniel, Simon, Joseph and Noel. High on the list were Matthew and Nicholas, but my half-second-cousin who I'm quite close to is due soon with her first baby, a boy, and she's planning to call him drum roll Matthew Nicholas, so reluctantly we've had to strike Matthew off the list. As TantiK said, we're not sure of the etiquette on borrowing middle names yet so we'll have to wait and see probably won't be an issue though, because I'm certainly she's a girl!

lolianja · 05/09/2008 14:45

Bugger, misspelt Benjamin. We're not going down the alternative spellings route, just to clarify!

dinny · 05/09/2008 14:46

I feel like I'm showing even more today, am nearly 14 weeks

just can't contemplate maternity clothes this early - arrrrrgggggh, just been and put on baggiest jeans and jumper!

emma2617 · 05/09/2008 14:56

dinny i would love to be showing and go buying maternity clothes!!

Is anyone else desperate to show?! I know its probably like being desperate to get morning sickness...once you get it you dont want it anymore, but I want the reassurance that bambino is growing well in there and also it would be nice not to feel like a fraudster anymore!!!

Ally90 · 05/09/2008 15:22

Hi all, hope your all blooming...!!

Just briefly join in (again!)

Had scan yesterday, lovely wriggly squirming baby there dd now knows there is a baby in mummy's tummy and keeps asking me about the baby coming out... even asked me to 'open' my tummy to get the baby this morning! Bless.

All day nausea (I will not dignify it with morning sickness ) seems to be better this week...and only felt a little this morning...and now...right now...I feel FINE...my god is it passing early??? Spot on 12 wks last time it was about 5 months .

Bump wise...I tried on maternity jeans on this am...other jeans been in tumble dryer...they were a wee bit tight...gave me a second set of boobs around waist level . Maternity jeans now in wash...

Anyone else felt any movement yet? I know its sixteen weeks usually but...sometimes...

Take care all
allyxx

lolianja · 05/09/2008 15:27

emma2617 I'm exactly the same! Flat as a board, or near as dammit, and I'm 15 weeks on Monday. I'm so envious of folks already visibly pregnant.

Boobz · 05/09/2008 18:10

Oo I like your names everyone, especially Ava and Seth. Might nick those.

Lizzie - my names is Alexandra! But I'm called Ali for short (no one has called me the full name, ever, not even parents, so we think it will be ok calling our son the male long version. Or maybe we'll just use it as a middle name).

I fear I am going to be sucked into the expensive maternity wear black hole... have been looking at Isabella Oliver stuff today! Gorgeous but exorbitant!

dinny · 05/09/2008 18:21

have been feeking movement from about 10-11 weeks (really) - but tis my third pg in total

honestly, I'd love not to be showing, means you have good abdominals (or you are quite tall/long torso-ed!!)

SunshineSmith · 05/09/2008 18:39

Well, I just look fat at the moment.

Thighs have widened, tummy looks bloated and I walk differently ... defo not look pregnant but plumpy!

Off to do some maternity shopping tomorrow and some for my little one.

Names, i love Agnes, Daniella, Flora, Kitty, and for boys Theo, Armand, and Oliver.

So excited about being pregnant now that I am not that shattered. Gonna chillax this weekend with my little family- pj day on sunday with a roast and spuds.. Can't wait!

Hope you all have lovely weekends!

lizziemun · 05/09/2008 18:58

I love not to look pg, but i haven't lost my weight from dd2 last year . I am realy going to try realy hard to lose all my excess weight when i have this baby as i don't want to be fat and forty next October .

As for names if it not a blue one this time we have no idea(again). We have had a boys name for both previous pregnancies. DH wants to name it after his father as his father has no living relatives other then his 3 children.

As for this weekend busy,busy busy . Have got to go to see my grandad and then prepare for dd2 1st birthday on sunday.

babyinbelly · 05/09/2008 19:06

Dp and I have decided on Raine for a girl. Well his choice really as he has liked this for years before he met me! I do agree it is nice and a little different. For a boy it will be William.

My mum hates the name William saying that he will get called willy and teased. I already have a Jonathan tho so I will have have a willy and a johnny!

Mum was horrified when I pointed this out!