Due in June 10! Longer than the Lord of the Rings!

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new thread 604 posts is far too many for one little thread, time to start again!!

Oh Pink, it's never too soon to plan for school. We have joined a church three towns away in hopes of getting DD and DS into the school which is connected to them. This will come as no surprise on here, but I am seeking out state funded education. Needless to say som £12000 per annum of private school fees is not on the cards... no one will take our cards .

SCHOOL? I haven't even bought so much as a babygro yet! You ladies are impressively well-organised.

Thought you might like to know that I had a little chat online with sweetheart.
She sent all her love and thanks for our support over the last few months - saying that she felt a bit out of place on MN now without her'regular' thread. She's trying again and hopes to have some good news to share soon.

thanks for letting us know Welshie. Let's hope it's good news soon x

What courage she has to already be trying again. Wonder if she would consider naming it "Jue" in our honor.

Give her some cyber hugs for us, if you chat again.

Oh Trib, you can not have the anal retentive planner of the June thread award, then.

Uwila - I operate a 'just in time' principle to baby planning. Baby is not arriving til June, therefore babygros and other stuff can be bought in June. Or maybe May. (In truth I do have some baby kit kindly supplied by my cousin, but feel no incentive whatsoever to buy anything just now, the money is doing me and bubs more favours earning interest in the bank you see )

I shall be keeping my fingers firmly crossed for Sweetheart, Welshie.

Btw, I am knitting a baby blanket, as well as having a much more impressive Debbie Bliss one knitted for me by my mum. Normally the way my baby knitting works is it takes me so long to finish the item that whoever it was knitted for has long outgrown it (and gone on to university, etc.) so I give it to the first baby of the right size that comes along. However, I am determined to get the blanket finished for this baby. (Blanket does have the advantage of being useful for some time however, I didn't say I would get it finished before the baby arrives!)

Trib, I assume you know that getting your child into a good state school requires years of planning in the UK?

Hello! Does anyone remember M&S crisps, garlic and herb flavour? They came in a light blue pack and as soon as I decided I had to have them all the time they stopped doing them?

Be careful what you eat!! I ate tomatoes on toast every day with number 1 and he still loves them now at nearly 4. Ate too much rubbish with number 2 as had lots of sickness and she would always choose puddings over main courses.

Anyone used a Baby Bjorn sling? Would you buy it again? I want to get one as soon as I have sold my Tomy one. Are they worth the extra cost?

I borrowed a Baby Bjorn sling last time and it was really good - dh loved using it too (v important in my book)
We'll be borrowing another one this time round - can you try to do that Nab - save a bit of outlay as they don't use them for all that long - unless you're got a back of steel!

Personally, I think the baby bjorn fron carrier thingies are over rated. I never really worked out how to be mobile myself without her head flying around. So I never got much use of it. Although, I hear that lots of people like them. Also, if you have a caesarean the last thing you want is baby kicking your scar in the weeks to follow. And after that I found she weighed too much. (perhaps I'm a wimp)

Ooh Nab I was thinking of getting a (better) sling this time round. Last time got a cheap babies r us jobbie and it failed to mention that only babes upto a certain weight could face outwards otherwise it would cut into their chest needless to say ds was a massive babe for age, and by the time he could hold his head up himself and therefore face outwards, he was too heavy and screamed the place down until I discovered the wirght note . Have looked at the baby bjorn's and Tomy's too - what was wrong with your Tomy one??

wirght = right ??

doh just noticed that you say you sold it - mental note to self to read things properly!!! Soooo would you buy another Tomy?

KVG I'd heard that too - ooh maybe this will be our next big debate...prams, done; nappies, done; slings...

Lua - good luck for tomorrow...what time is your appointment again?? mine's dead early - 8.45am - will have to leave by 7.30 to be on time...30 mins to get there and at least 45 mins to get a parking space!

Night night girls off now...'see' you all on wednesday...

Good luck tomorrow Lua. Keeping everything crossed for you.

I used a Baby Bjorn sling last time and thought it was great (and so did DH, who found it a serious babe-magnet).

All was fine at my appointment...next visit is now 34 weeks! Scary how time is passing .

I have a Baby Bjorn (from my cousin, naturally - they cost a bloody fortune!). She said it was very good, and dh is looking forward to testing out the babe-magnet potential already

Oh Uwila - I never thought I'd say it but my poor little boy will be christened as a Catholic!!! I never thought I would make a deal with god but if I ever move house having a biblical manifesto under your belt for access to schooling is a good thing I hope to never use it - I could never forgive myself if he comes home from school having heard horrors about going blind from masterbation! That said in Bristol the only state school worth 2p is a church school so being christened as a baby may have its advantages if something falls apart with the trust I have.

You see the thing about this smelly trust - I can't actually buy anything though I am poorer than a gypsy living in Manhattan. I have to wait so many x years then I have to apply to the fund that it is a valid cause. I consider if I can't spend it on anything to get myself out of poverty I may as well give my son a decent education because I can't access it for much else. Specially with the news this morning telling me less than 1 in 3 (stats might be wrong my memory is poo) black boys end up leaving school with 5 dcent GCSE's. I'd go nuts if he went running around Bristol wearing tommy hilfiger smoking weed moaning about respect. Infact I expect he won't - he'll have my temper to deal with. Though you can never be sure.

Well the poor little begger will be starting violin lessons as soon as he's big enough to hold one up - 50% off fees if you have a vein of musical talent.

I already got my baby carrier. Infact I have almost everything I need. I need to get breast pads and all that hospital type stuff but I basically just need the baby now. I have only really started opening the packaging now - I didn't open the travel system until 24 weeks. I still won't through out the packaging though. I wouldn't want to tempt fate.

The only reason I am organised is cos I am too damn skint to by it in one go. If I stagger the costs it is quite managable. Plus I can be quite obsessive. I hate to be ill prepared. My own childhood was a quagmire of crap parenting so I want to at least get the younger years sorted out before I have a sullen soul sucking teenager on my hands. I think also if you get in early you have a better chance of gettint what you want - or if they don't have what you want you can shop around until you get it. That reminds me I must send away to the other schools in the area...

Oh thats for telling us Welshie, hope things will go ok for her now.

Charleypops - I wrote a mail to Pupuce Anyway I really must go and study. I just walked in didn't even pretend to look at these awful seamus heaney poems and sat down in the puter lab

Oh, Pink. I heard that news clip too. Then it mentioned that someone forgot who wanted black boys to be segregated in their own schoold an taught there. Thinking back to the "separate but equal" pre civil rights movement in the states, that notion horrified me. BAsically, (if I remember correctly!) separate but equal was thrown out because separate is inherantly unequal. In otherwards the things that were meant to be equal were not at all equal... I'd be curous to know your view. But, my white girl reaction thought that the suggestion was not going to do black children any favors.

Sorry, if I've just completely changed the subject on here. But, Pink brought it up so it's her fault.