Due in November 08: Missing - 2 feet, last seen somewhere under bump in late August. If found, please massage and trim toenails before returning.

[ruthosaurus]

Hi ladies, new thread as we seem to have outgrown the old one!

Saurus you mean you are going to cook and no takeaway - I am impressed!!

I was pondering about changing bag as saw some lovly ones but could not justify the £50 / £60. I have the one you get when you join the Boots baby club for free and may put a nice bag on my christmas list! I also kept looking at the carseat bases as we have the Britax seat but only DH car has Isofix points and I thought he can struggle if I have got to!

We do have DD's Graco seat and 2 bases in the loft but they are not compatible with the Britax pram we have got this time so I may as well sell them.

Add me to the catholic guilt list aswell :
so thats :

Oblomov
Dozymare
Pinkyminky
Twinkling

Anyone else ?

It does all add up doesn't it? I thought we wouldn't need much this time round but ended up buying a new pram because I wanted a lie flat one and then I got the car seat that goes with it too as it fits straight on the chassis so will be easier to fit in my tiny car. I had my sister's baby bath and sterilizer last time round but she has since got rid of them so I had to get new ones. Even the hospital bag stuff adds up pretty quickly.

Lol Oblomov, You can add me in to the guilt list. As a non-practicing Irish Catholic I am riddled with it. My mother gives me regular lectures on how awful we are not to take dd to mass!!

I'm not signing up for anything this time round. I'm still receiving mailing for stuff for dd and she is nearly 2 and a half.

I got a present of a change bag last time round and I never used it. There were so many bits and pieces in it that it weighed a ton before you even put a nappy in. I have a cord satchel that I hang on the buggy. I think if you are breastfeeding you don't need such a big bag as you won't be transprting bottles, formula etc. Just a few nappies and change of clothes.

Nope to changing bag here, too. It's one of those things that I never got around to buying and seem tohave manged without.

Pah with your middle class angst. We are talking proper guilt that gives you the proper DREAD FEAR, and the only kind of that quality is the lapsed Catholic kind!!

Rutho- I cannot recommend NCT sales enough. You can get loads of stuff from them very cheaply. It's a proper scrum, though. I go to the ones in Hale and ALtrincham where the posh yummy mummies live and you can get some fab things.

I didn't sign up for any of that marketing stuff either. We get more than enough junkmail here as it is.

Get there early and get those elbows out!

I did it all to go to DH email account!! Happy with free bits and money of vouchers come in handy!

So Hana what time shall we all be at yours on Sat !

100+ posts and a new thread since i last logged on???!!! INSANE!

Just marking this whilst I go to catch up......

My bump just made a clicking noise accompanied by a clunking sensation . Felt very odd indeed.

Good news though is that he seems to have turned the right way up. I was rubbing what I thought was his head as usual the other night and it split in two .......took me a while to figure out it must have been his knees.

Can't remember all that's been said as I'm still in at my clicking/clunking bump.

Me too re. 11 october nct sale, hanaflower. hopefully should be able to bag some good stuff and feel like i'm getting somewhere with the pre-babby preparations...

i went to a breathing and relaxation class on tuesday and the physio lady was amazing, but she's given us loads of exercises to do. i feel worn out just thinking about them. all i wanna do is sit at home eating pies - why don't pies help shorten a labour by 2 hours?

Bookmarking! Good title saurus...though it is a rather high expectation. I can hear dh now, "Find 'em yourself!"

I bought a changing bad and, seperately, a travel changing mat for DD. Both were silly purchases, for me. The bag was so stiff I couldn't use it fully and teh travel changing mat was so big I found it cumbersome.
In the end I made myself a bag, but that was when DD was about 1, up to then I used an old cotton saddle bag kinda thing. Only decided to make a new one when it got wet and stained things.
Made the new one out of an old curtain sample from my local fabric shop, lined with fleece to stop leaks. Does the job perfectly

I have just sold my changing mat on ebay and my bag is due to end tommorrow Hopstar Changing Bag
It is quite a good one really, just didn't suit me and comes with a matching mat, which I used for a bit.
But I ended up using one I got free in a magazine because it was so lightweight.
All that money spent and in the end I used the cheapest of the cheap!

Though, I do like the look of that travel mat from mothercare, it seems to be smaller folded up that mine was

clicking and clunking??
lacksa what do you have in there??

at the seperating head!!

I am pretty sure that the predominately (my spelling is atrocious!!) sticking out bit is a bum and I am a bit put of by stroking it! Poor thing, is already starved of affection because his mummy is a prude!

Oh and I have to share the sentiments; Yup, there ain't no guilt like catholic guilt!!

Love the new thread title. Haven't seen anything below my bellybutton for weeks - god knows what's going on down there!!

Just placed a huge order with Boots online. Figured it's got to be easier to get nappies, maternity pads, breast pads etc etc delivered rather than struggling through the shopping mall with them. Plus it's free delivery if you spend over £40.

Had NHS antenatal class today. Everyone else was first time mum so the teacher kept asking me to to answer questions. Felt a right knowall . Perhaps I'll give the next one a miss - I hate being the odd-one out.

My near collapse on Monday (sorry said it happened Tues it wasnt) happened nearly again at tea time but I felt a lot worse and took longer to recover. Luckily DS was safe (and me) and DH managed to get to me in about 10 mins.

I reckon it is low blood sugar as a result of having long gaps between eating and not having anything of nutritional value when I do. DUH! Lesson learnt.

I seem to have upset my parents though by not calling them as they are only 5 mins away max. Just called DH without thinking.

On a good note though my bump seems to have gone a little crazy over the past couple of days.

merrymarigold - Sorry to hear you were upset with DH, I would have been at keys being thrown at me.

I had a meltdown yesterday on the phone to my mum and made her feel awful ... I was having the day with DS at my mums (happens a lot) but I popped to shops (lots of things kept going wrong, long story) when she phoned to ask me to get something (DS was with her) she made the mistake of asking if I was ok. I then had a crying fit on the phone saying "all I want to do is have time with my son and things just keep getting in the way". Think everything (decorating and the rest of it) is getting to me.

twinkling - Your DD sounds so sweet.

monkey - hope your leak gets sorted soon.

nursing chairs - LOVE THE IDEA ... but dont know if I can justify the cost as didnt need or have one with DS. Also thinking about where it would go once the nursery (box room) becomes a childs bedroom.

Daisy! I thought I was the only one with a clicking/clunking bump! It is such a bizarre feelig I couldn't even describe it to dh, just that I had never felt it with my other 2 pregnancies. It's almost like the baby is drumming his fingers rapidly against the wall of the uterus, but not like kicking. Very weird and almost undescribable.

Vbab, your "turns" sound very scary, make sure you have a nutricious snack handy at all times I guess is the best way of staving them off.

I am absolutely certain baby is headdown, bum up. I am forever patting or tapping his bum gently. I was in the bath last night and could completely make out his entire body. His back was lying all to my right (I was very lopsided!) with his bum up by my ribs and his legs were down on the left, with his feet tucked up by his head. Was very cute to see, but quite uncomfy as he was so stretched out like that that I couldn't breath and he was wriggling his feet by my bladder/cervix. Right now I would day he is curled into a ball as I actually look like a basketball from where I am sitting!

vbab......sounds like you need to keep yourself regularly topped up wiht food, but please call your MW or GP tomorrow for advice. They may want to do some bloods etc to make sure all is well.

I seem to remember a few threads on this clicking phenomenon before heartmum and that it's normal if not usual iyswim! To me it felt and sounded like someone cracking their knuckles.

I'm a bit worried though as my BHs have stepped up a notch. Every time I get one I have a huge hot flush and have to breathe my way through it.

This is shaping up to be like a repeat of DD (but with added clicking)......started at 33 weeks, monitored at hospital twice before 35 weeks, then just learned to put up with it. It was still going on, only much worse and more painful the weekend before my section. We had our babysitters on standby at least three times as well.

I've just caught a glimpse of my feet......at least I think those two hot, swollen lumpen things are mine

More shades of DD.....I had hideously swollen feet with her; it was so bad by the end that I could hardly walk (an no shoes fitted), and they didn't go down until about three weeks after the birth.

I'm falling apart tonight.

Vbab - sorry you are having a bad time at the moment. Agree with Daisy though that you should definitely call your MW/GP - even if it is just for reassurance that you are ok.

Am v of those who can tell where the baby is lying - my MW told me on Wednesday he was head-down but when I have a feel, everything just feels the same!!

Does anyone remember that episode of Friends where Phoebe's smoke alarm keeps beeping - even after the batteries have been removed?? Well, we had a re-enactment of that at 4am this morning fgs! After about 10 beeps, DH eventually shifted and got up to have a look, after about 10 minutes, he managed to change the battery and came back to bed.....5 minutes later beep beep. Dh got up again and I said just take out the damn battery for now - which he did.......beep beep beep! He eventually got it to stop but how can that be????

Am going out for a meal tonight with people from my gym - they have regular nights out but thought this one would be good as my 'leaving do' which means I have to go - it doesn't start till 8.30 and, normally, by 8.30 on a Friday, I am sat lounging round in my PJ's ready for bed Please send me energy vibes to keep going until then - particularly as I had a rubbish nights sleep anyway!

Hope you all have a good day - got to go to a really boring meeting this morning - woohoo!

gowd another not very sleep filled night last night. Didn't help that DH woke me up at 3am with "demands" as he couldn't sleep either and wanted some attention! It was all a bit one-sided on my part and then he went to sleep leaving me awake .

I'll get mine though, don't worry

lol at your smoke alarm ceebee. I can just imagine the scene

Off to Waitrose to see if I can get any Motherease nappy bargains this morning.