Due Nov 2008 - Explosion Risks, Names Dilemmas and Baby shopping Galore!

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New thread ladies

Do you know, when I started reading this thread today it was 11 pages...

Agree with Pinkali - loads of great advice re: BF - I haven't got a clue so am listening avidly to all advice. Apart from my gran's - it involved not spoiling the newborn Saurus by feeding on demand. Also, she has more dire stories about childbirth in the early years of the NHS than any normal woman wants to hear [shudder].

Congrats on 5 years to Suiledonn!

I'm off away hame before my car floats away downstream - last June I spent 6 hours stuck in the Sheffield floods and am getting antsy about a repeat performance, especially with new rubbish bladder.

Hope we all get some sleep over the weekend - death to the car alarms!

Afternoon all

Have been in meetings all day and have just caught up - it is amazing how much you miss in one day!!

Pinky - will look forward to the blanket delivery Thank you very much for braving the elements to post it!

Girlsallaround - welcome to this thread! It is so hard to keep up but everyone really is so fab and it is great to get through the pg with each other.

Re Boobs - DS has also developed a recent fascination with them - he wasn't breastfed so no history there but he often sits on my lap and puts his hand down my top apparently for comfort Cue lots of moaning from DH as to why DS can do it and he can't

Routines - I tried GF when DS turned 2 but it wouldn't work - not sure how you make a baby sleep who clearly doesn't want to Anyway, I then read the Baby Whisperer EASY routine and that sounded much better so tried that but again, DS usually wanted to sleep after eating so it always turned more into ESAY Anyway, at about 4 weeks old, I decided to just feed DS every 3 hours and let everything else happen around that - fortunately he was a baby that rarely cried and never seemed to be that hungry so it was easy to stick to a 3-hourly feeding routine. By about 8 weeks, we noticed a routine emerging re sleep etc. But me and DH are very 'routiney' type people anyway so it suited us.

Re sleep - I am very fortunate in that I am pretty much sleeping through the night and not having to get up for a wee - long may it continue but big sympathies to those of you that can't sleep

Well, have 6 weeks left at work which seems FOREVER but I actually worked out last night that it is only 22 days which sounds so much better so I am not counting down in days

Ohhhhhh no!!!! I made the fatal mistake of looking at Pinky's profile pics of al those fabrics and I really love the one with the animals & rainbow hearts (cos hearts obviously feature heavily in our family life). Argh! I am now sat here wondering if that blanket with purple minky would be too girly for my boy???? Maybe I could have it for myself?! LOL!

HM2J - that is the fabric my blanket is but I have gone for a lemon minky for my little boy (I think - correct me if I am wrong Pinky ) but I did consider the lilac minky and don't think it will be too girly at all.

girlsallaround Hi, Im new to all this and also expecting my third, my third girl also =).

Just wondering if anyone else was having Braxton H's? I keep on getting them around the same time everyday (about 20 mins before Im due to pick the kids up from school which isnt ideal...lol), really painfull though....can't remember them being this bad in my previous pregnancies!

I feel like Im ready to go now and I still have another 8 weeks or so to go.....god help me!

Oh Pinky.
I have abstained from making any comments on your lovely blankets so far.
I do not need one, I do not need one, I do not need one.
Repeats mantra.
I may well still succumb.
But just incase you are in any doubt, I think they are beautiful.

Haha Ceebs I worked out I have about 6 weeks left at work too, have put a little weekly countdown on my desk calendar. It made me feel better anyway!!

Am 30 weeks PG as of today horray!

I work part time for DH... we are about to sack an employee on Thursday (when he returns from holiday) so at this rate i will be working right up until the birth, having a office birth and then popping baby in convenient drawer and getting on with it (work that is)... Why can we not find good staff????

JOB:

Commercial Insurance Executive Wanted (plus part time midwife):

Good Pay, nice office.. anyone interested?

Ok so i will feed on demand and hopefully Mini pink will fall into his/her own routine.

Pinkali is part of your job offer the "feeding on demand"??

Welcome to our office.
insur executive req'd.
One that can dodge projectile vomiting of visiting child.
One that doesn't mind that subtle smell of milk and vomit, that WILL linger on wife as she pops into office.

And why has your ad not been ininadated with applications

I think my dh may be interested, only in Pinkalis' f on d aspect though.
I get him to submit his Cv immed

Consultant today. Dropped bombshell that he 'hopes I can make it to 34 weeks.' Asked if he thought I might go into labour earlier than that and he said, "I think you MAY". (Like he was emphasising my bad grammar). Too gobsmacked to ask more before he waltzed out of room, so blasé. Cried most of way home . They don't realise what they are saying sometimes. Suddenly thought I could have 2 babies in under a month. And if I do go into labour in next month it will be an emergency c as babies are both transverse still. No doubt that lovely lady from my freezer thread would say I am panicking!

Still, it was definitely was a warning to pack the blinking hospital bag! (Probably the only reason he said it, just to put the fear into me!). No point buying any clothes to take for babies at this stage, they would be too tiny to wear them! But at least if I have the rest of my basics, I will be prepared...

Sorry can't respond to all posts...just wanted to rant.

thanks for all the lovely comments about the blankies. Had more cloth come today.I myself have succombed to one of them for DD2...

Pinkali- just read your posts to DH and he said that when he worked on the market (clothing, with his brother, many years ago) many of the women stall holders would be back at work a week after the baby was born with said baby swaddled up and placed in a banana box under the stall.. warm as toast apparrently!

Oh MM, so sorry.
Are you o.k. ?
have sent you message on Facebook, re diabetes.
I kind of assumed that you would be lucky to make it to 34.
I am so sorry, I did not realise that you thought otherwise. What were you thinking on then ?

sorry you were treated so insensitively, MerryM.

O.k. have to rush out, but message to MerrM, forgive bad phrasing.
Right, what have they spelled out MM ?
I mean, they should give you date/ you should have a date in your mind for cs at 34 weeks.
You get that date lodged in mind. That helps. So, if they start coming early, and then you end up needing cs, what I am trying to say is there are emergency cs and there are emergency cs.
If they start to come early, your date will be bought forward. But it may not be quite as stressed/tense as some of the emergency cs that you read about.

Oh god I am rushing and not making sense. Does anyone get what I mean ?
It will be emergency, but not total emergency, like a rushed, nature forces, half planned, but forced, type thing. Does that make sense.
Are you prepeared for THIS ?

MM and how lucky will you be to get your babies early! Ok so a little planning will be necessary but you can do it. at consultant for putting it so nicely!

Pinky that's what my DH said about women in Africa.

Ob's ooh, the BF on demand will be an out of office delight...

Sparkles, i'm also 30 weeks today!!

Pinky, have sent you a message through your site!

MM, I am really sorry to hear your consultant was soooo unsympathetic and insensitive.

Ceebee, lol! We obviously have good taste! I am another who is still pretty much sleeping ok. I wouldn't say sleeping through the night as that would be a lie, but I only get up to pee once. I think it is the waking up to turn over every 45 minutes that is more tiring.

Really, does he come from Africa? well they must have something in comment with the women of Gorton market!

My friend's mother taught in Africa and had baby in pram and was teaching next day after birth of 3rd child. Personally I think she was bonkers!
I think the thing is, many women are expected to have the baby and just get on with things, but many of these women will have a very firm family network around them to help.

HM2J I will pick thatt up in a bit, thanks I don't have that inbox down here, and we are in the midst of a major playdoh session! but I will get back to you as soon as!

wow- no she did give birth in a pram! what a bizarre concept! You know what I meant!

oh my god it gets worse.. she did not give birth in a pram!!

Hi again, I have just had a afternoon sleep when DS was down and feel alot better now. I WILL have DH and hammer ready just in case tonight .
Welcome to the new people, Suiledonn hope you have a lovely day tomorrow.
Merry that you feel a bit dazed by it all, my friend was told the same thing and held on until 37 weeks with her twins but like you was prepared from around 33. I hope they are warm and cosy and want to stay put for a while longer.
Ooh thanks for the boots tips for Spatone I shall be going to get some on 3 for 2!

MM, sorry your consultant handled you with less than the right amount of sensitivity . I think they forget that although they are dealing with twin pregnancies every day, for most of the women it's the first time.

Did he say this was due to them being twins, or is it due to the GD? Can your community MW translate it all for you?

FWIW my SIL was told she would "be lucky to make it to 36 weeks" then proceeded to give birth naturally to two boys, one 6lbs 1oz and the other 6lbs 3oz at 38 weeks.

And I think I follow what obs is saying. If you have a CS booked and then go into labour naturally before that, you will be taken into theatre as soon as there is a slot. It'll still be viewed as emCS, but there will be lots of time to get it all organised and there won't be the mad rush of a true emergency.

If you start a thread in childbirth asking for Marslady; she is a doula who has twins and is very nice and lovely and helpful and full of good advice. She sent me her phone number when I was pregnant with DD and really scared that I was going into early labour (was sent home from the hospital with a "who knows, if things get worse come back in" and I talked to her a couple of times. She really helped me get my thoughts on it a bit more grounded.

And Obs, meant to say sorry you are still feeling crappy (no pun intended) and Happy Anniversary to suiledon