Due Nov 2008 - PMA - our tums & bums are growing but we get an excuse to wear big knickers - now that's a stroke of luck!!! x x x

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Hope you like the thread - minds not working so well at the moment!

Dozy you have good taste - I love Imogen too!
P.S. Dolly is short for Dolores (which I'm not so keen on).

Pinky you're right - Bunny sounds like she should be a jolly good Pony Club kind of gal

I find girls names really hard- much more difficult than boys. My two have latin- rooted names so I guess I should stay on those lines but I really have no idea.

Evening
Lots of chatting going on today, we will have to think of a new thread title soon.

Heartmum fab pictures and your little boys are gorgeous.

Just uploaded some new pics of brown bump at 31+4 but i'm afraid not in the same league as Heartmum's impressive bump though taken at the same stage

Anyone else bought/getiing a birthing/gym ball? Dp is pumping mine up as i type, it's taking him ages bless him.

Sparkle i never though choosing names would be so hard and like monkeymargot our combined list of names which dp and i agree on consists of 3 so far. At least we know we are having a boy. If we hadn't have found out this naming game could have taken much much longer!

ooooo I want a birthing ball, does the pump come with it or do you have to buy sep??

I love the name Layla too

Dolores.. Dolores Clairborne comes to mind..
Imogen is lovely- I have a lovely friend with that name.

Lacks- I thought you were naming your child after your underwear for a minute, then!

Lola I've got a gym ball which I bought ages ago and used for sit-ups etc before getting pg and it's fab. I've also used it in the past few weeks to stretch out my back when it's sore. We were shown various labour positions using a ball at our AN class on Sunday too.
Our current favourite for a girl is Elise... I like Olivia and Imogen too but don't worry, we shan't be stealing them because DH isn't so keen.

Beaches No pump doesn't come with the one i got, although mine only cost about eight pound. Poor dp is pumping it up with a bike pump

Ah bless him! The one I saw was nearly eighteen pounds Does a fitness ball do the same job, they are in Argos for less so confusing!! I also like the name Isabella

I wanted an 'M' name for my DD2 as we can give her my MIL initials- I don't particulalry like her name but I'd like to represent her somehow. Any ideas?

WE have a space hopper in the garden- would that suffice- or do I need something morespecialised?

Signing off ladies, have a good evening, I have a date with a sanctuary bubble bath and an oversized choc bar

Pinky LOL at spacehopper, at least you have little handles/antennae to hold onto

i'v got a Reebok gym ball from Argos i'v been told they serve the same purpose.

very of the whole chocolate thing...am texting shopping list to DH now...

I think I may get a ball, but I'm still not convinced I'm actually going to have a labour so I really don't know what to do.
Right of to put finishing touches to Ceebee's blanket! (Well, sew face on dolly actually)

I used the kids spacehopper before I went to get a gym ball from argos last week. I was also told it served pretty much the same purpose.

We are struggling with names. It is hard to name your 3rd child of the same sex and have to think of 2 names, a first and a middle name and THEN have a back up incase he doesn't look like a ....... whatever! I am still leaning very heavily towards the only name we all agreed on many months ago, Zack William. Plus, I know the in-laws don't like Zack and dh is pleased it will annoy them

Lolabella, great belly pic! I am jealous of your browness. I may have my roundness, but I am glaringly lily white, I wouldn't be suprised if I glowed in the dark or something! I actually try NOT to use the fash when I take my pics because it reflects really badly off my white belly, LOL!

lol ...but now you mention it, Royce isn't such a bad idea

I bought my gym ball from Lidls for about £3, I think, months ago.
Then I blew it up myself, veeeery slowly.
Then we had teh scare when I nearly lost baby and I let all the air out.
Now what will I do?
Prob just blow it up again, but extreeeemely slowly! I am too determined and impatient to wait for DH to do it. Besides he would make a song and a dance of how much effort it was

So glad I am not the only Scot Yes, I too would love to live in perthshire and funnily enough, have just returned from a visit to my Grandads house (sadly passed away in January) in Rosyth (seconds from Dunfermline).
So much to catch up on, I now can't remember who said that
But DH would have to get some job for us to be able to live in a nice house and keep me as a SAHM, which I just love being.
Also, who's DH is from up here? Not from Caithness?

At least I am not the only one in the naming dilemma!

Lolabella, we found it much easier with DS purely as he turned out to be a boy and we had a main fav boy's name (my choice!).

What worries me this time is the girl's name we kinda agreed on for DC1 had he been a girl I now HATE with a passion! So kind of a near miss there!

Cricri I LOVE Elise but it soo doesn't go with our surname , also like Layla/Leila/Laila like 'la' names in general but DH not keen. I have found that having a surname that starts with a vowel seems to make it harder with my preferred choices?? There also seems to be too many of one letter in each aaargh!

Names are getting scrubbed off our list as quickly as they are being added. Would be sooo much easier if we knew flavour!!

I have a gym ball but it is in cellar so not sure if it will still be useable this time!

Yes we need to get thinking caps on its new thread time again... are we too soon for lady garden tidying to be included??!

Someone on the name thread was asking about 'Lorna'. I think that's really nice - unusual yet well known - but already have my 'name'. It's a secret so I can surprise you all! I had a doll called Cecily, always liked the name...not keen on Dolly or Bunny - a bit Enid Blyton (is that bitchy?) . I like Scarlett, funky. I like Blythe for a girl but didn't go with our other ds name.

LOL at the lady garden tidying. I shaved my legs in the bath the other day, I needed a shower by the time I was done as was very hot and sweaty. I am starting to think it is too much like hard work and may just have to go for a more continental look. I did also sort out the lady jungle (waaaaay worse than a garden!). I can't even get hubby to help as he doesn't wet shave himself. A mirror works fine, if you can get your arms around and under your bump that is, lol!

Lola and Heartmum love the bumps - they are so neat!

Ahhh - names - the most difficult thing since sliced bread (ok I know that analogy doesn't really work, but I'm just not that funny). DH and I each have one boys name we like, for some reason I haven't spent too much time thinking of a girls, I just know our LO is going to be one of the poor mites that doesn't have a name for 6 weeks. Ok so I need honest, honest opinions here - the names we like are:

Me - Flynn, I like it because it is not common but not too wierd and plus it means "son of the red haired one" - which DH is!

DH - here goes..... Elvis, not after Presley but after our favourite fictional character (if anyone reads Robert Crais books). And if I admit I quite like it too but I don't want to condemn my child to a life of cruelty and would I be doing this??? Honest thoughts please ladies!!

arses.

Just went to call the cat in for the evening, and found DD's buggy, sitting all forlorn on the drive, sopping wet as it's been chucking it down with rain this evening. It's never going to be dry in the morning, so fook knows how we will get to school; even if I drive, there's still a fair walk at the other end, too far for DD.

Daisy - how about a hairdryer?? Or putting the rain cover on the buggy for DD to sit on?

For a moment there I thought that was Daisy's thoughts on your DH's choice Chocorange

My honest opinion is, don't do it.

but I do like Flynn.