Due April 2009 - Tralalaboomdiay, our bumps grow every day!!

[BabyBolat]

Place your bets on how long this thread will last, my guess is two weeks!!

Well I phoned the surgery this morning to see if there was an appointment and managed to get in for my swabs doing at 9am so I am done and sorted now, just need to wait for the results to come back. Nurse took one look at me and said it looked like a classic case of thrush though so hopefully thats all it is and I can stop worrying and just continue to try to live with it.

Morning all, I slept like the dead last night and woke up with a stiff back, I think a bath might be in order tonight, but first I have to get to tonight.
I'm going to continue with the hobby room, moving stuff off the little shelf and onto the big one, then moving the little one upstairs. Then I'm going to sort baby things in the nursery and put it on the little shelf, making a list as I go a long of all the things people have given me so I can be more exact in the things that I need to purchase to 'top up.'
If I get all that done, then all I have left to do is move the weaving things down from the nursery into the new hobby room... but I'll do that tomorrow or Friday, no way I'm even going to try it today/tonight.

Good job being proactive Clairey and getting into the nurse already today. Hopefully its nothing more than thrush and maybe they can give you some more/different ideas on how to sooth it.

Have a good day everyone!

Morning all

Do you think it's acceptable to have a pain aux raisins and a pint of chocolate milk for breakfast?

Clairey, pleased you got an appointment and fingers crossed they'll sort you out quick!

Bleuravin, v impressed at how you're getting the nursery / baby stuff sorted. I am still very much in denial over that I'll have another baby in 3 months' time and that there's stuff to prepare. But I did manage to order DD's new bed plus all the trimmings last night (she'll have to give up her cot for the new baby), picked up a cute cuddly toy at GAP (just couldn't resist!) and am planning to buy some big knickers at M&S today... how glamorous is that

Have a good day everyone!

Ooops sorry looks a bit funny how my email ends in the same way as Bleuravin's... but I do mean it!

It does. But each repetition means ££££.
Remember only to put how it affects you as a single person - they are not interested in problems looking after kids, etc. It can be a bit depressing after a while because you have to describe yourself in the bleakest possible terms to give a picture of how you are at your worst, btw. Everyone has ups and downs but you shouldn't be describing good days.

I learnt all this DLA form skill from a really brilliant paraplegic man who ran a compulsory equal opps training course I had to attend at my last workplace. He described how they came around his house to fill it in with him, and started asking him personal questions about bowel movements. He was about to protest but then he thought "Hang on, this could mean £30 a week" so put his scruples and inhibitions to one side and then painted a graphic picture for them. . He got the money.

He explained to me all this was about the social model of disability, rather than the medical one, and the money was to reimburse you for the extra expense of having mobility problems or whatever, as a result of how disability was impacting on your day to day life.

He was a great guy. BTW he also told me that if you get it you can also get a cinema pass for £5 from the Cinema Exhibitors Association, which lets you have a free 'Carer's' ticket every time you go to the cinema. That basically acts as a 2 for 1 for a DH. Legoland will also let you have a free carer's ticket which means if you have got the Legoland ticket with Tesco vouchers for free anyway, then you are getting in for nothing!!

Schulte, that sounds positively balanced as a diet to me.

BTW last post was for Nutty.

Schulte- brekkie sounds good. Fruit, carbs, protein.... Perfect!

purplemonkey - your dream could well come true - you me and think there is a third in our area around that time - could all be in the ward at the same time - will need to have a signal cause i didnt know till i got home last time that i'd been on the ward with someone from my due in August thread.

bubbaluv - i think it was from threads on mn that i saw that about the amby nest - but will have a look and see if i can find it again.

re - dh/dps and second time round, dh is similar to the others, says he's bothered, but doesnt make quite as much effort as last time (fairly justifiably cause he's busier at work since he is at home with ds two days a week) but its little things like last time, he'd rub my feet every evening we were home together, and this time, its just not happening. but cant complain - i know he will be fantastic once the baby arrives.

nuttytaff - like the idea of a mn break. mind you given that i'm never off here on work days, i guess maybe i'm not entitled.

Bleuravin - thats a great website. might even email about my own baby kilts that i make.

clairey - good that you got seen quicker, hopefully as you say that will get it sorted.

bubbaluv- it was threads like this one i was reading www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/638990-opinions-needed-on-the-fake-cheapo-amby-hammock-please

which although is about a cheap copy amby nest - the person says they rang the SIDS helpline about the actual amby hammocks - but at the same time lots of people on other threads have said that they are used extensively in hospitals in Australia, and that the Amby website says its SIDS approved, so I think I may just ignore these ones, and assume they are safe.

Conker, I saw the threads on MN, but that point seems to be a bit misleading I think. She says that the SIDS hotline says that the nest does not tick the boxes re the type of matress etc they recommend, but I think that the number of saftey tests it has passed plus the fact that it has NEVER been associated with a SIDS death shows that those guidelines don't fit because they are guidelines for buying a cot/moses basket.
It is used in hospitals for neo-nates etc and is recommended by a lot of medical professionals. I wonder if the SIDS people have even looked at it?

SIDS - DH doesn't even want to buy a new cot mattress for baby because he thinks this rule that you need a new one for each child was invented by the mattress industry. He's probably right, but what does everyone else here think? BoffinMum did you get a new mattress for each child?

Crikey - yesterday I had just about the worst anti-natal appointment ever in the history of three pregnancies! The midwife clearly could not be bothered. I had various questions (which is unusual for me) which she did not bother to answer. I also have had a lot of cramping - quite painful and unlike my previous experience of Braxton Hicks and she said 'just phone the emergency number on your notes when you get home' - she didn't check my tummy.

I have not seen anyone for about 6 weeks and she was supposed to take my blood, so she put the needle in, said 'sorry, I can't get anything out, I'll just leave it for the consultant to do'

Then she didn't bother to make me another appointment...Unfortunately I ended up having to go to the hospital for a check up later because of the pain, and they then had to do all the things she hadn't bothered with and put me on the monitor. Anyway, I am fine it seems but she was very lazy I feel.

Shulte, I'm certainly not buying a new mattress for DS2. The first one cost a bomb and is still in great nick. Will give it a good clean and airing (DS1 moving into a big-bed shortly).

Electra- that's appauling - have you complained?

Sorry my spelling is

Electra, sounds wholy unsatisfying I agree. Can one complain about things? Is there some sort of 'helpline'? Thank goodness you're okay though.
I'm a bit afraid of such things in the future as my first appointment was so not what I expected that I hardly knew what to think.

electra - agree it sounds ridiculous and i'd complain if there's someone who will listen.

i think i'll get a new mattress too once ds goes up a bed size, although i suppose if dc2 is over 6 months by the time they actually go into the cot, it wont matter as much. will definitely get a new one for the moses basket, if we decide not to splach out on an amby hammock.

Is anyone getting their DH/DP a present from the baby? I think it would be such a nice gesture, as he's had to put up with a hormonal cranky wife over the past few months, but I have NO idea what to get... I would like something that he can keep and pass on to "future generations" as it were, so my thoughts so far are-

Pocket watch
Nice pen
Silver picture frame for first pic with Mini-Munchkin

Any other clever ideas??

lol Nutty

I'm going through all the things that people have given us... OMG I really am going to be getting off cheap...There's so much stuff here steriliser, bottles, monitors, nappies, liners, pacifiers, breast pump, play arch, 2 bouncy chairs,4 types of changing mats, some stuff I cannot figure out what it is...
All we're going to have to get is new mattresses for the cot and bassinet... as I already got a few newborn sleeping outfits. !!! I too am quite excited. It suddenly seems so real...but for me it feels rather near...

I'm the opposite - i am not really feeling its real at all yet - but then i havent just got loads of exciting things to look at. am loving the kicking but am still 15 weeks off due date so it still feels like a very long way away.