Due April 2009 - Saucy dreams, squirting boobs and spacehoppers. Whatever will the April mums get up to next?"

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BabyBolat, the pram I want is £350ish, too! It's not a £700 one. I dunno what she expected. & let me know if you're up north so we can compare bumps - I find it impossible to get off the floor now too. I have to sit there like an old woman & wait for DP to pull me up, muttering 'ow, ow, ow' to myself as I'm hauled upwards. It's so dignified

As for other relationship issues, there have been a few. Nothing major in the last couple of weeks, so I hope we've worked through the worst of it. But we argue loads. Usually once every 24 hours. It's great fun, as you can imagine. We always make up okay afterwards & can carry on as normal, but we're certainly feeling the pressure, put it that way.

& Nutty, I think it's going to have to be that tactic next. I may go out this afternoon & have a look. Maybe I won't miss him so much after all

Afternoon all

Gareth Gates is on TV as I type. His missus is having a baby in April too.

I always get nervous when celebs are due around the same time as me. Last time Jordan was due shortly after me and I was petrified she might choose the same name. Luckily I didn't call DD Princess Thi'ing in the end - phew. It was a close call.

Hey LuLu :-)

That's what I'm thinking about the scan. I'm due in 19 weeks anyway & we already know that the bump's healthy & it would just be being nosy to have another scan - I don't know that I can justify so much money on being nosy. I'm sure that it'd be lovely, but you can only have them done between 26-32 weeks, which is so near the end anyway...

I'm glad you're feeling better now hollytree. How sweet that you didn't want to leave your DS. Makes me all excited

Also, very unrelated (more Loose Women ) didn't Gareth Gates stop stammering? Because he's been really struggling all interview, but I'm sure he was over it. Or did I make that up?

Springy when I was pg with DD my PIL offered to buy the pram. Very grateful, I told them what I wanted and where I had found it on sale cheapest. The deal I had found included rain covers. My mother-in-law got all sniffy and said "You don't need rain covers"

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"Well you won't go out when it's raining."

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Will do! Yesterday I had sunday lunch at my parents and had to lay down because I had eaten too much then could not get up for the life of me, DH had to literally DRAG me off the floor - was my finest moment of pregnancy so far!!

If it's any consolation DH and I argue everyday too (we always have) normally over the tiniest things nothing major and it was really tough the the first few months of the pregnancy as he just couldn't understand where I was coming from!

I am with Nutty on the Rabbit thing!DP will either flip out and snap out of it or want to get involved - both are bonuses!!! .

The 3d scans do look lovely, but I figure there are plenty of other things to spend the money on. You are going to find out what the baby looks like before too long anyway.

Although I guess if you have older children who you want to 'bond' with the children, or relatives abroad copies of the CD rom might be nice.

Ha Ha LuLu - classic! well, thankfully PIL are restricted to knitting clothes and my parents are purchasing (mainly because I think mum wants to be involved and also loves the shopping!!! - must be where I get it from!)

LuLu - I'd not even thought about the name thing! LOL at the close call, though. I'm hoping that 'George' will be safe from Gareth Gates - there are enough 'G's in that family already, surely?

Oh hand-knits are adorable. I knitted loads when I was pg with DD but when she was born we were given all sorts of other hand-knits - so much better than I could ever achieve. She ended up never wearing what I had made as it looked so shoddy next to everyone elses works of art.

Oh God, LuLu - I had such a (hilarious) similar thing! We were looking through the Mothercare catalogue:

"Will you be getting a parasol as well?"
"I suppose so - it'll be much nicer weather by the time the baby's here."
"Don't."
"... Why not?"
"It'll make him gay."

There are just no words.

Although the more I think about the whole sex situation, the more I wonder if she's speaking from experience

feeling quite envious of the hand knit phenomenon......

lol ok so dont leave the house for 90% of the year due to rain and dont have parasols due to gay influence

mil/pil logic doncha just love it

Ha ha!! It'll make him gay - DH has had some similar concerns - we were watching X Factor on Saturday when Eogan was singing High School Musical and bump was bouncing along to which DH shouted turn it off - you will make him gay!

Hilarious!

BabyBolat, the arguing just really gets me down. There were bigger issues before, but I think we're getting there. But I bought him a book ('From Here to Paternity') which is really good. Last night he even said, "this book is entertaining me, freaking me out & making me feel like a twat in equal measures." "Why like a twat?" "Because he does stupid things that I've been doing, that I've not even realised until I've read about them."

Oh yes. Clever purchasing there. It's really useful - it's not like some of the books where the woman's the picture of health from beginning to end & nobody ever bickers. But it's all from the man's point of view, so it doesn't seem preachy. I keep sneaking looks at it it's that good. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone who feels that their other half isn't quite getting it.

Hahaha, I love the gay hysteria. If my little boy ever wears any of my shoes or anything, I'll be making sure I'm there with a camera to innocently show MIL how much he loves cross-dressing already: "Sadly I didn't think to photograph it until I'd already wiped the make-up off his face - he'd done a fantastic job though, honestly! Almost looked professional! Give him a couple of years & you'll be wanting to have him do yours... & he's so good with putting outfits together. He knows all about fashion seasons. By the time he's 5 he'll be giving Gok a right run for his money!"

When I was pg with DD we were given a book called Fatherhood: The Truth by Marcus Berkmann. That was very good too. Helped prepare DH for some of the err gorier elements of childbirth and back me up in my claims that my moodswings were not my fault.

He seems to have forgotten it all since last time though. I think he needs a refresher course.

that sounds like a great book springy - seems like men need other people to spell things out for them sometimes.

get the rabbit anyway - spices things up alone or together either way .

dh is one of the least homophobic people i know but ds has taken recently to putting things round his wrist - i have hair bands round mine quite a lot and he takes them off me and puts them on his own wrist - then puts anything with a hole on too - just trying things out - a bit of copying and a bit of seeing what he can fit on - then walks round with it like he's wearing a bracelet - but its so funny watching dh's reaction to it.

looks like he's geuinely nervous that it could show gay tendencies - i keep saying to dh well what if it did? and he says oh well it wouldnt matter - but it cleary would or he wouldnt be bothered by it. makes me lol lots.

DP says that he doesn't mind if DS is gay, but that I'm not allowed to make him gay. Again I wonder how I'm meant to do that.

& the book is great - it's quite funny, definitely from the man's point of view, but it's really sympathetic to the woman. The man's biggest complaint so far seems to be that he's not getting any sex. Hopefully DP will realise how lucky he is as a result.

I say get the parason Springy.

A gay son will probably dote on his mother father better than a straight son.

And much more fun to spend your Saturdays taking your son shopping than standing on the sidelines of a chilly football pitch.

Parasol - doh

My DH is convinced that if I had a son I would 'make him' gay. And my DH is the one who things Valeri is a good name for a boy.

Any son of ours wouldn't stand a hope in hell of growing up straight. Ha ha.

Oh lord, I'm in such a great mood right now. I'm still in my jammies () watching Tony Christie's Top 30 Christmas Classics (Shakin' Stevens, anyone? ), looking for a good vibrator & laughing my socks off at MN. To think I was so down a few hours ago. Oh, speaking of socks - M&S bedsocks are the best purchase I've made in ages (although that may change ) - I was wavering as to whether or not to buy them as they seemed a bit pointless at £8 a pair, but I'm totally in love. I may never take them off.

& the more I think about it, the better the idea of a gay DS seems. DP was talking about how DS's 18th birthday will be the same month as DP's 40th & DP is already intending to take him out & get him completely off his face. I much prefer the idea that he'd rather come out with me & sip cocktails & dance to Abba

Ha ha ha - Margaritas with Mummy sound much better than dad's birthday plans.

V. jealous of you in your jammies.

I've been awake since 5 - so accustomed to being woken by DD. But she didn't wake until 6:15 so was twiddling thumbs for a while wondering what to do with my 'free' hour.

She's sound asleep again now, so I've been icing gingerbread to take to a kiddies Christmas party this afternoon.

Turns out I am rubbish at icing, but it put me in a very good mood doing it!

if we have a son we're doomed .....dh used to be a hairdresser, loves screaming orgasms (the cocktail) dresses up in my clothes occasionaly when im down to make me laugh and does the clinique three step

should i be worried? lol