Due in Jan 2009 - the everexpanding bum(p) & ladygarden planning society

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hello!!!!
I've done it....

I've bought a 2008 Maclaren Techno and all of us love it. DD is sleeping in it really well, so I'm confident it'll be great for the newborn when its not in the sling (used a sling 99% of the time for DD until she was 14 months (and my bump got too large to tolerate 10kgs of child on it). Now using the back carrier for shorter journeys instead and it works well as DD just falls asleep when she is tired, knowing that shes tied to us!

Evening all, so exciting everyone getting nursery stuff together!

We will be moving DS out of the small room and into what is at the moment the study but it looks like a bomb site and I have no will to do anything just yet... MrsMagpie I had a second hand moses basket too and found it really useful for the first couple of months. Might mean we can delay all the room moving malarky for a while too as the new baby can be with us at first.

chefswife - I have no idea what these pains are and it is second time round for me so you might be lucky. Huge sympathy for all those getting them! Think we are all bound to get something nasty though, I'm still lamenting that now I have varacose viens I can't wear skirts without massively hot thick tights. Ah well...

don't know about baby names but think the next thread should have "crotch zingers" in the title - lol fourlittlefeet!

seriously, needle-like pains in the fanjo? this is what i have to look forward to? eek.

we are going to get one of those co-sleeping cot things (see how i know the technical term?), hopefully before we have a daughter...

lg&t - respect. i am not even convinced i am going to be able to cope with one...

I have chosen Olivia Erin for a girl and Darren Stephen for a boy. That took months of deciding!

Yep - working now - and they are lovely pics too

No names here yet - well none we're set on anyhow. No crotch zingers either but with the SPD think I can do without crotch zingers for a while yet

Ms Sparkle - love the name Olivia Erin!

Everyone seems to love the name Olivia when i tell them! Boys names are so hard to think of so i went with Darren because that was the name of my late brother who died many years ago. I thought it would be nice to do this in his memory.

Argh too many posts to keep up with, will have a bash.

MsSparkle you sound like me, i cannot leave things alone. I have to do the washing and keep the place ticking over even though i am supposed to be resting. Lovely baby names and so sweet to use Darren in memory It is a lovely thought.

Books good grief you are having a rough week, thank goodness you finish work and can chill a bit (as much as you can with a toddler) Get a paint pod from B@Q they are fab! DH just painted the front roomand dinning room with ours, super quick and no mess! I am also useless at forgetting to lift food out the freezer for tea

Mshairspray my sil is due the week after me and is not leaving work till mid December, she was going to stay on till she had the baby (her first) but on realising pregnancy is in fact hellish she has chosen to leave for a rest before. I have already said "I told you so"

I have used moses baskets for some of mine, we have a folding square crib. It is much bigger than a moses basket but you can still pick it up and move it easily. Will try to link one later.

Chefswife you may be lucky and avoid the fanjo pains

Lenni what co sleeper? Link for me please Harrods sounds fantastic, i love it there. I bet Santa was fab too, i am very of you. The lovely baby department >

Tallulah i have used Spatone and Floradix rather then the prescribed meds by the doc as they just leave me mega constipated. Very good for a pregnancy boost too.

FLF i had forgotten the croth zingers term The techno is fab, i have had a quest before and they are so easy to push. What sling did you use first? Am keen to get one this time as i am out and about so much and B will be running off in all directions. I want hands free!

Givethedog your midwife app sounds like mine when i take the children. Blardy stressful. I always forget what i want to ask her and come away hot and bothered. Glad to hear you are managing to sleep a bit better. The pics of the children are GORGEOUS! Why do you think this is a girl? What names are on the list?

Phew, did i get everyone?

i have been SHOPPING
money went in earlier than expected as dd @ nursery went off to toysrus and mothercare to get baby bits just have bits on internet to buy

in toysrus bought soft jingly apple
got dd a playmobile advent calender it is gr8!!
have always wanted to get one as they are age 4plus she is nearly 3 and a half so right age for one now.
it is an animal one each day you get a box with a playmobile animal etc in has trees etc and a santa.
in mothercare bought vtech pink phone and nursery rhyme book and whoozit

it is really dark here now and has started raining i am cold too have put heating on

tomorrow i am getting dhs family xmas pressies as they are down to see us on dec the 6th and on sunday going to my dads it is his bday having fireworks

gtdab - pics are lovely

we are going with bracken hope
lg&t i am like that @ mo have to keep tidying etc

Givethedog did you know my 18mth old is Beau! Blardy Emma Bunton named her baby Beau 12 weeks after we had him. I am SURE she lurks on here. I have never heard it said before

It is a fab name, we get lots of looks but mostly people just say how sweet. He is Beau Oscar.

More shopping Tink, my dh would have a fit

Tink i went shopping minus dd today, it's so much easier isn't it! I'm sure you said you live in the south at some point? I live down south too

Bloody knackered now but most of my xmas shopping is done Had urine test results back and all seems to be ok, no infection. In a way it's good that all my tests come back fine but in a way it makes me feel like i imagine aches and pains?

Still eating carrots. I normally get them from my local veg shop but bought a couple from Asda and they didn't taste like carrots. They tasted bland and didn't have that lovely earthy taste to them.

We are initial Y. So Beau is BOY Part of the reason his middle name is Oscar, he often gets called The Boy.

Will think on names for you

any of you got a vbac/tolac/planned section quandry? Had a long chat with lovely consultant midwife yesterday. Came into the meeting convinced to go for planned section at 38 weeks, after hearing the evidence changed our minds with the idea of going into labour naturally but booking a section soon after my due date (vbacs are less likely post 40 weeks apparently). But she only realised my advanced age (40) just as we were leaving and said this increases the change of having an emergency section quite a lot. Any body else in same boat + keen to share?

Can I check in here. My baby is due on 14th January and he will be my sixth, and dh's second. I have dd1 (25), dd2 (23), dd3 (21), dd4 (18), all from my first marriage, & ds1 (4). Ds2 will probably be called Kerr Desmond, middle name after my brother who was killed in an accident years ago. I noticed some others on the thread with similar losses in their past. I'm 30+2 now, so the time is flying past and I can't believe it's the home stretch already.

With 4 grown up dd's I certainly won't go short on babysitters .

Until yesterday I had the most negative community midwife in the world, but met a new one at my a/n appointment who seems so much nicer.

I'm 43 so first midwife coudn't stop telling me all the pitfalls. At my last a/n appointment with her, she told me my placenta could stop working but didn't warn me what symptoms to watch for or when to panic, so I spent the last few weeks panicking anyway!

However, that's all a bit off topic, just really wanted to check in and say hello.

Oooh a newbie

Welcome Scotia nice to meet someone as wise crazy as me having so many children I am on baby #7.

Witch am an expert on battling consultants and VBACs. I had twins at 29 weeks that were an emegency section, dd was planned home birth (oh the grief i got) but had to transfer at the last minute as she was stuck, all well when we arrived though and i oushed her out naturally. Had a 3rd degree tear though. Next i had a home birth (even more grief as i had now had a section, transfer fro home and a 3rd degree tear) next baby home birth but shoulder dystocia, all well though, next baby planned home but late so induced in the end. He was a nightmare transverse head in pelvis with every drug going and a ventouse!

I am planning a home birth with this one too, time will tell! The consultant shudders when i walk in the room Ask away

shopping is definetly better when you havent got kids with you.

hi lg&t dh doesnt mind me shopping as long as i am using my money

welcome scotia

Thanks for making me welcome

LG&T, I don't know about you but I've had looks like this from most of the staff I've met so far, lol. Had to have a growth scan last week because my firt mdwife thought the baby wasn't growing a he should. I knew he was fine, and was proved right - big baby (gulp). It ws a mal sonographer who did the scan and he was fatastic - first person to congraulate me rather than treat baby as a mistake!

I have the VBAC/planned section choice to make too. Have been undecided all the time, I met my new (much nicer) midwife a couple of weeks ago and was leaning to going for VBAC again -had emergency section with dd and VBAC with ds but a tear so more complicated this time. My due date is 31st Dec so worrying about what date they would do a section isn't helping - I do not want to be in hospital over Xmas by choice, there are only so few years when your kids are small I don't want to miss seeing them open their presents.

I finally gave in a did some house shopping this week, all ont he internet though so ds will have a new bed and we can move the cot into the nursery, currently the study and full of junk so need to find time to clear it out.

On a good note only 3 more weeks at work until I'm on mat leave - can't wait!