Due May 2009 We're Nesting and Napping, Squeezing and Holding

[FiKelly]

here we go

pulapula yeah i feel absolutly crap in the mornings just like you describe, i find it so hard to get up and until ive had something to drink and eat (and my anti-sickness tablet) i can hardly move or speak to anyone! your def not pathetic hun, your just pregnant and its hard work!

re. strange dreams. I have some very vivid ones, some very disturbing. One the other week was like the film "shallow grave" - me and DH had to dispose of a body and i asked him to do the chopping off of hands, feet and i had to go find somewhere to dig a shallow grave. One last night involved a lake/water and i kept touching things which would bob to the surface and be dead prostitute's body (there was a serial killer on the loose). mmmm nice. no wonder i keep waking up all sweaty

Hi all. Sausage I hope the migaine is over and doesn't come back, at least not until you can take something for it. My DP gets them. Its harrowing. Also Jael so glad you're alright. On the topic of feeling worried about our babies making it, on Tuesday when I saw the consultant, he said that he loved the 28 week milestone, as he put it, because he said that if your baby must be born from there on in there is a 98% chance that it will survive. I feel very comforted by knowing that, I know theres more to it than that, but really it does remind me that we are all, now, on the home stretch. I think it is very natural though to worry about these things, it would seem more unusual to hear of someone who had never worried about it at all.

I'm looking at carseats. Does anyone have any thoughts about how important it is to have one that also fits into your buggy chassis? I know that its not good to leave a sleeping baby in the carseat for very long, but have you found it especially useful in transferring baby from one situation to another? Or do you think its a bit like the moses basket - an individual thing and of limited use? Would love some advice if anyone has any .

Polony I found it really useful to have a car seat that fitted on the buggy. Just gives you more flexibility when out and about without disturbing LO who may well fall asleep on car journeys.

Polony After I had my first, I never used the carseat with the buggy. This baby will be using our Britax First Class which isn't a bucket seat, and I have a cocoon to go in the Phil & Teds but truth be told I'll probably end up using the moby wrap most of the time. It's all dependant on personal preference I think, I'm just wary because I have family history of back problems and I want to make sure that nothing I do could make that an issue for the kids.

I agree with pulapula about the car seats. I didn't have a travel system with my ds and actually found it was something I wished I got. With dd I got one and it got a lot of use. It was nice to be able to just transfer her onto her wheels without waking her when popping into the shops and stuff. If I was planning a longer journey I generally took the carry cot.

Re the 28 milestone: I was thinking just the same when I was updating the list yesterday. Once babies have passed 28 weeks they're usually OK. But I like the 32 week landmark even better. Those babies tend to really really do well and not spend all that much in NNU.

blotted because of having a weak back myself I tend not to use my slings as much as I like to. With my dd I found my SPD symptoms returned if I carried her for too long. So I definitely valued having the travel system.

I have the Quinny Buzz and found the ability to slot the maxi cosi carseat onto the chassis really handy for short shopping trips. For longer trips I'd use the carry-cot part, but just for the supermarket, the carseat was handy, particularly if DS was asleep.

Belgian My SPD pain only really flared up around my time of the month after having DD but I really felt like the moby supported my back pretty well while DD was small. It's worth noting though that DD was a failure to thrive baby who didn't double her birthweight until after her first birthday so she wasn't ever putting much strain on me.

That said, buying a new pram with a higher handle has made a massive difference to my posture and therefore to my backache!

Hello everyone. Just a quick post from me as am off to bed in a minute. DD1 birthday party today then lots of blokes round to watch rugby so pretty tired.
Re: car seat to fit on buggy - I'd definitely do this (although current advice is not to leave them in car seat for more than 1 hour at a time I think - not sure what they think you are meant to do on a long car journey....?) Anyway, can be very handy for popping from car to shop then back again without waking the baby.
Also wanted to know if anyone has experience of using a 'BabaSling'? They are down from £40 to £20 in TKMaxx and wondered if it was worth getting one or if there is a better one? Haven't really used a sling with my other 2 but thought I might give it a try this time...any advice welcome.
Anyway am off now, hope everyone is having a good weekend (sorry not caught up properly yet).
x

I've just bought a babasling but no idea what it is like yet! It wasn't £20 though, I bought it from John Lewis.

blotted I had 8+lbs babies who were great feeders, so they were heavy to carry around from quite early on Maybe if my dcs were a bit smaller I wouldn't have found it quite such a strain on my back. I am planning to take my wrap sling on holiday, to try and avoid having to take the whole pram, but with my SPD as it is I'll see how I go after the birth first.

frazzled True what you say about long car journeys. Belgium is definitely more than 1h drive away. I suppose you're meant to buy one of them carry cots that can be strapped in, but with 2 other dcs that just doesn't work + it's a bit expensive for the 1 or 2 times you might go that far while they're still a baby. Or maybe you're supposed to stop every hour for a break? About the BabaSling. I think there are some reviews of that sling on MN. I havent used it personally.

oops sorry llare [take it back to JL, get your refund then sprint to TKMaXX]........
and What!, you mean you haven't been practising around the house with a baby doll in it to see what it would be like with a real baby....?[ahem, not that that is the kind of thing I'd do though....!]

And I didn't try out my wrap sling with my dd's teddy either...

belgian I looked into getting a carry cot car seat thingy for the back of the car but as you said not practical with 2 other kids in the back, very heavy to carry (apprently) and also when I researched them properly they didn't come out as very safe in crash tests (they flip over apparently). So I didn't bother.
Someone should invent the perfect child seat.....[hmm, frazzled feels a stint on Dragons Den with my new invention coming on.........] - best get on with inventing it first tho!

[snort] at belgian
Well, DD1 and I haven't been practising tucking up baby dolls and teddys in the freshly laundered moses basket this evening either......
and there isn't a cuddly toy currently lying in the Amby Hammock upstairs either......and no bouncing it up and down has been happening either

frazzled when you invent that perfect car seat you'll have made your fortune. Get inventing!! That also reminds me that my parents told me that I used to be transported in a moses basket on the back seat (in the 70's when there weren't seat belts in the back). Apparently I fell of the back seat more than once. Hmm, I suppose that might explain a few things

How many times can I say 'either' in one sentence? [oops]

llareggub- don't john lewis have a price promise, which means they will refund the difference if the same item is cheaper elsewhere?

My parents used to plonk me in the carry cot on the back seat of the car. And it wouldn't have been strapped in either. But then that was the 70's and things like that were ok then werent' they. Yikes, can you imagine doing that with your DC"S?????

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OOh yes pula good thinking. 'Never knowingly undersold'. Not sure if that applies to places like TKMaxx though?

we used to sit in the boot of our estate if there were too many of us to fit in the seats- again, it was the 70s and no seatbelts in the back or anything back then...

That was the either. Not putting my dcs in a loose moses basket on the back seat! I did forget to strap in the car seat once when ds was in it and it fell off when I did an emergency break. It was horrible, but he was OK.

yeah thanks for counting belgian
pregnancy brain obviously worse than I thought, either.