Due December 09 - Fluttering Tums and Excited Mums...

[SarahL2]

New Thread before the old one fills up.

hehe they are getting big now! 103 days to go for me lol

sent of the pg grant today too

Got my 24 week GP appointment tomorrow. Hoping to whinge about feeling sick all the time and get my grant form...

People keep asking me how many weeks there are till christmas...baby is due on the 27th December so I'm counting down

im on countdown too pmsl

102 days!!

Just worked it out - 108 days to due date. Hopefully with at least 7 to be taken off for good behaviour c-section

3 months today for me! Haven't worked it out in days yet ...

Xmas day is 15 weeks Friday (my EDD)

My EDD was the 25th but they added 2 days at the 12 week scan.

So much to do before she gets here but I half wish it was sooner

scary when really xmas is just around the corner!! funny how im well prepared for baby boy but not xmas

Only 92 days for me, eek! I started my christmas shopping today. Thought I better be organised this year as christmas shopping with a huge baby bump/tiny baby might be rather tricky!

this is what i am buying

In local baby shop, its £390 for buggy and double kit, £23 for raincover and £52 for cocoon = £465. The one above is £415 = chuffed . Have decided against footmuff as bought dd a hideously expensive lovely snowsuit instead.

dd as in dd1. dd2 has snowsuits ready, plus i will line cocoon with a fleecy blanket or buggy liner or something.

I've just seen the posts re lucozade and I blame that stuff for me having to transfer to hospital with DS. My sister worked for GSK at the time so got me a crate of 12 bottles of lucozade sport.

I think I had a wee around 6pm ish and then started getting regular strong contractions at 8pm and by 5:30am the following morning I'd drank 7 bottles and reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaally needed to wee but couldnt so 1hr later DS was pulled out via forceps at the hospital. I won't be making the same mistake this time round!

There's a place near me doing a P&T with a doubles kit, cocoon and double raincover for £390 too.

Still working on DH...[frustrated]

Is your DH reluctant? Mine is used to me and pushchairs , and if he ever says anything, i say i don't comment on his purchasing of tools (he is a builder) so he shouldn't comment on mine

I'm unresonably excited. I will probably order it in a few weeks, as i'm only coming up to 25 weeks now. After buggy i only have a bouncy chair left to buy, but think i will buy a Graco sweetpeace swing.

I bought a second hand P&T when i was 14 weeks DS1 loves it and we sold our single pram. We figured if anything went wrong it is so much more comfy than our single anyway as it is bigger and as a 2 wheeler much easier to handle one handed. A great purchase and once the DC1 have outgrown it, it still only take sup the same space as a single buggy, whereas the side by sides take up a lot of room. Highly recommend!

My DH is notorious for being tight, therefore spending the best part of £400 makes him squirm. Especially as we have to buy a bed and new bedroom furniture for DS too.

He is of the opinion that (2 and a half year old) DS can walk and therefore our old buggy should do just fine. He is of this opinion cause he hardly ever goes shopping with DS and when he does, I am there too to help herd and hold him. He is aware that DS runs off, sits down when we're not going in the direction he wants and regularly asks to be picked up and carried but as he deals with it so infrequently, he doesn't think this is too much of a big deal. DS can also get his hand out of wrist reins.

I have a Polo so the P&T is about the only double that will fit in my boot and DS's sitting protests mean a buggy board won't work. Plus, my silvercross is impossible to push with one hand while holding reins (which wouldn't solve the sitting even if they were chest ones) or carrying DS. And - it looks like I'm going to end up with a section too so I won't want to be running after or carrying him.

A double buggy seems, to me, to the best option. Especially as it can become a single buggy again in the future.

Might try your arguement Scorps - I don't interfere with/offer opinions on/balk at the price of your computer bits - now leave me to order my double buggy!!

I have to say that P&T's are great workhorses and last years, so you can get a second hand one and it functions just as well as a new one but so much cheaper. We got ours second hand with all the extra bits and pieces and cozytoes footmuffs as well for £200. Ebay do great second hand ones and i would definitely recommend. You don't get shiny new shop bought but you do get a great buggy and it is relatively cheap to replace any parts if they need replacing (although they do last a long time these buggy's so should be fine)

i just sold a p&t lol
and erm brought another superb buggy i've had them all but the dash and have stuck with the sport.

oh and have decided not to even faff about with buggy boards this time around lol

dd1 was just 21 months when dd2 arrived and the amount of double to single then double then single moments i had is not even worth thinking about so this time

p&t stays and then can be double or single

I want a Sport. In black I think Little pink blankets wouldn't 'go' with a red one

24 week check went well. Dr says my blood pressure is fantastic (which is good cause it was low) and that urine is fine. Found baby's heartbeat straight away and it sounded good and strong. He even suggested getting a full blood count test done to see if there is a reason I'm feeling so wobbly all the time.

Can't get my Maternity Grant form from him though apparently, have to wait till I see the midwife at 28 weeks! Got my appointment all sorted but it means I have to wait another month!!

And, I have to wait 12 days to get my blood test done cause they can't get me in any sooner! Good job it's not urgent!

I'll be getting rid of my "Pistachio" Silvercross 3D when I get the new one if anyone's interested....

I've got the extra's kit with the matching babybag, parasol and pushchair cosy toes too.

ooh i have black nice!

grr at the form why not just make a appt at 25 weeks i would!?

GS is it the £500 maternity grant you're after? I downloaded the form today and filled it all in apart from one bit which the midwife has to do. Might be quicker to do it that way than wait to get one from them?

yeah cant wait to send off for the £500 one is it at 29 weeks that one?