Fab Feb 2009: holy shit, this is it

[chilledmama]

Cause Swampster has a dirty mouth
Wouldn't hear me speaking that way...much
How do we delete threads????

I went shopping in the local town for maternity bras - limited range of stores is putting it mildly. Asked at one store for a "bra that opens at the front for breastfeeding" (didn't know the correct Greek term) and got shown a peephole bra. I kid you not. I guess it's the same principle, huh?

Hey Pempe - I know what you mean. I am getting awful BH cramps every evening and DH still looks at me oddly and says things like - well I was the one digging the garden today.....fgs

Just spent 1.5 hours trying to work out how to put together i new Phil&Ted pushchair. I seems to have ended up with two widgets that don't fit anywhere and a 'restraining strap' that doesn't so anything. May I have whole thing assembled up side down? Anyone got one?

Yum swampy. I'll maybe add some to my raspberry leaf tea! There's a funny Michael McIntyre joke about him and his wife trying to start labour, and he says that he told her about the BJ thing, and thought he was lucky, and she said, "Don't get your hopes up, just jizz over my pineapple..."

oandu me too! but 'tis the comfiest bra I possess...

Pempe now there's a thought. A friend works in a sex shop, didn't think I'd be using her discount for a while...

Evening all. Markstretch - was it an actual shop assistant or the cleaner posing as one who was trying to fit you (or fit you up?) at Bravissimo??? Appalling service! Hope Debenhams measuring service works better for you.

Glad the BJ theory has been disproved - though am sure whole battalions of men out there are sponsoring contradictory research to say no really it does work as I type.

Welcome back MrsY. Glad all good with you and the not-so-little one (dont worry about having humongous baby - those scans are only guestimates...) and even gladder you're back online now.

Lardy - they may be willing to induce you on your due date but doubt they'd be willing to induce you any earlier, despite all the pain you're in. I'm with onwards, wouldnt recommend induction before your body is ready as there is a risk it wont take particularly quickly/easily and may mean you're still in PGP pain and also having to deal with exhaustion and confinement in a ward with plenty of other labouring women for several days.... I was induced with DS at 42 weeks and the induction took very quickly - but I was in early labour anyway and he was on his way already I think (was already 2 cm so they just broke waters and hooked me straight up to a drip).

Am cream-crackered. Nocturnal cough still there (now keeping DH awake even though he is sleeping on the sofa on a different floor!) for several hours a night. Have had 6 friends and their 6 kids over for lunch/afternoon - DS loved having lots of little friends to play with, but god its loud with that many kids all in one room! Think it will be early nights all round tonight...

MrsY- though its not that difficult at the moment...PMSL at Jizz on pineapple...I could just see my DHs face if it was him!!! McGutted!!!!

None can work out what why this baby is lying, mainly because she wont stop moving long enough for MW to use Fetoscope rather than sonicaid. I have been fairly convinced for some time that she's breech but hey I'm not complaining...I get to see her again in a nice scan and the bonus is I don't have to pay for it!!

MrsY - for breastfeeding tops, I just had a whole load of t-shirts which did the trick. Did buy a couple of specally for breastfeeding tops but t-shirts were much easier (and cheaper) in the long run...

HI everyone, just having a bit of a stress wonering if anyone can offer me some advice. I am 36 wks pregnant and we get the keys to our house 2 days before I am due, and our house is 40 minutes away from my parents (where I am currently living.) The house is brand new to the point we don't even have the flooring in and all the furniture is due to arrive shortly after. I am a little stressed about it all being such a rush, but my boyfriend is sorting the flooring that very day and everyone is being lovely and offering help. I am staying at my parents as soon as we come out of hospital for a week or two until it's all ready for us and I am wondering if the travel cot that my parents have bought is suitable for a newborn so not to have to move our moses basket up here also. The other thing is my parents both smoke (in one room of the house) and they have both promised not to when baby is here however I am being a bit fussy about having the baby and his stuff in the smoking household as they poss will when we are out but I don't want to be ungrateful and pushy and demand they don't. So do you think using the travel cot with a very good matress is ok for the first few weeks or should I just stop being silly and bring all his things here moses basket inclued? (they are all stored at my boyfriends parents.)

Justme - I'd bring his moses basket over and keep it in the room you're going to be in (well ventilated etc.) - if he goes into it (you'll be surprised at how many babies insist on cosleeping with parents for the first few weeks anyway) he'll get used (hopefully) to being in there and it will make the eventual transition to your own place abit easier and even if he doesnt use it, as long as its away from the smoking area, having it in the house for a couple of weeks wont do any harm (but will stop you worrying about the travel cot).

I forgot to say Hi MrsY!

Does anyone else find it really hard to believe that there is a person, with a face, an actual face in their belly?

Swampster's shameful admission: my favourite nursing bras are these but I'm sure they are far too eartrth-mother/lentil-wearverish for MS who I picture wearing Pempe's peep-hole bra (coupled with a French maids' outfit).

The NCT website has a surprisingly good selection of maternity bras for those of us who don't do shops.

MrsY, if you got any of those bump bands, they can be handy initially for breastfeeding - T-shirt over the top and you are pretty much covered until you are more comfortable with the whole feeding malarkey - I swear people don't really notice when you are comfortable with it.

And thanks for the yummy Greek goodies, Pempe.

has anyone else noticed the ridiculously inappropriate advert at the side of this thread, for Sweatybetty? Look at her, judging me, taunting me with her shiny abs.

Never knew abs were meant to be reflective surfaces before that ad....

Pempe, if it makes you feel any easier DH took (at ooh, about 24 weeks) to describing me as a fertility goddess - now I apparently look more like one of the more prehistoric ones (.i.e. more squat, more rotund and less appealing). Charming...

Swampy, I couldn't, I really couldn't bring myself to wear one of those. And my nipples would drag along the pavement.

Pempe- DH was reading over my shoulder the other day and saw the advert for the Baby Bolt Holes holiday company. He's right, it does sound wrong.

right. i'm off to bed (don't forget the time difference before you all start mocking my pathetic staying-up-late abilities). Nice to meet you all, chat tomorrow.

It's ok everyone! I've found my perfect bra!

Oh my god, I stop by to say Hi and there's my bra linked in the first message. It must have blown off the washing line

Damn you MS, I have now wet myself laughing at your giant bra.

I like the swampy bra choice, I really do. But I have a million bras of every size imaginable (and most with many holes in, not just the ones the manufacturers intended) so I will have to ruthlessly crush the bra craving for now. (ooh, look, a split infinitive. How Star Wars of me)#

Has anyone else ever seen "The big Bang THeory" sitcom? My bro sent it to me for my birthday and I am just ADORING it. I think I know all of the characters in real life...

That does look dead comfy swampy but the sizes don't go beyond an E from what I can see. MS I think I'm going to the same Bravissimo you went to next weekend. I was quite excited but now I'm not holding out much hope. Did they have much of a range in stock?

Norwich?! Norwich?! Norwich?! EEEEEKKKKK!

Onward here is another just for you

I met up with another MNer that I know (oh, do you know Guadalupe?) last time I came but this time I have strict instructions that I'm not allowed to move from the sofa except to go to Bravissimo!!

Which one have you ordered? There are loads linked on here!

Is anyone else feeling really weepy by the way? I'm being utterly pathetic today!

I cried watching DIY SOS earlier today - and it was a repeat I'd already seen... I am officially lame...

Will you PLEASE stop laughing at my bras, stretchy-one!