10/10 Babies - The sun is showing and the pumpkins are growing

[Hermya321]

Here we go, pull up a deck chair, catch some rays and help yourselves to a mini eggs ice cream.

Link to the stats list.

[Hermya321]

And now we have five threads, I think we should slowly take over Mumsnet and start a revolution from within.

I mean, my diarys looking a bit empty at the moment and I need something to do whilst the Pumpkin does it's thing.

Oh and here's the new disco themed thread!!

[lilmissmummy]

We must be the most talkative group ever... we have 4 thread on the front page of the antenatal groups page and that is before the new thread is added

[AbFabT]

Thanks for the anniversary wishes, Everyone!
lilmiss, we didn't do much, just enjoyed chilling out together. It was lovely.

tiredfeet, the reviews I've read say the bag on the bottom is remarkably spacious. Slight design fault in that when the seat is facing one way, you can fit loads into the bag, but when the seat is turned round, it's slightly restrictive. But these reviews are from 2009 and I know Stokke have brought out the 2010 version now, so maybe they've addressed that. I don't know, am not too bothered.
The height is the main selling factor for me - out of exhaust-fume height (I know fumes rise but they should at least be a bit more dissipated), out of cigarette height and out of slobber-distance from dogs. And better for me to be able to chat with my baby, and for my child to see what's going on! I sound like a Stokke saleswoman, I know!!!

[Hermya321]

Dilly Cool!!

Righty ho, baring no objections. I'll start the new thread with 10/10 Babies - Rock and Rollin Pumpkins showing us their groovy moves.

[DillyDora]

Nymph I meant to say I like the new thread title and also that I feel your pain re maternity wear shopping - tears were shed last time I tried. Those mat jeans from Debenhams are working out well though, very comfy!

xx

[Nymphadora]

Forgot to say when we were in Glasgow in John Lewis dh spent a lot of time playing with the prams (favouring trendy v expensive ones then looking ) He also spent a lot of time looking for the tiniest baby hats Think he is getting into it now!

I was just pleased cots werent as expensive as I thought.

[lilmissmummy]

x posts

dilly hope you feel better soon and good luck with your appointment today. Come back and tell us all about it!

Off to look into hypnobirthing!

[lilmissmummy]

ooh I like the second name with the rollin!

Nymph I will check out your thread
Hermya I get soooo tired after walking too but havent noticed my blood pressure.
Happy Anniversary AbFab and VMum did you do anything nice?
VMum* 10!!!!!! My goodness. I think I have only got one and I was considering cancelling as I am huge already! I don't think I would fancy the one 4 days after your due date... either v heavily pregnant and possibility to go into labour or couple of day old baby - no thanks!

Saturday 5... hope it is not too late

1. My childrens favourite book was "Going on a Beat Hunt" it is a lovely book to start with but DD loved to listen to it over and over again every night.

Cbeebies - no thank you, drives me mad - we ended up subscribing to Disney to avoid it. Playhouse Disney is much more civilised!

1. Do you want a list?? Really suffering this week! Mainly hip and back ache - I am seeing the midwife on Thursday so will get it checked! Oh and the pain when sneezing! I don't remember suffering this bad with the last one!

1. Yes 1 but I don't know if I am going to go yet!

1. I have no idea... I have kind of lost interest now!

1. Yes, I think we are going to go to Centre Parcs in France at the end of August. The plan is to get the Ferry over to do 1 night in Le Mans (so my boys can see the racetrack) , 7 nights in Centre Parcs and then we thought we would do 2 nights in Northern France where the Normandy Landings were.

I have the midwife on Thursday so very excited and apprehensive about that!

Anyone got any exciting plans this week?

[tiredfeet]

hello all, hope you all had good weekends. Mine was lovely but very busy, luckily I've got a day off now to recover!

AbFab I saw an advert for the stokke the other day and I'm really interested. It looks lovely, it looks like its much higher off the ground than a lot of prams today. I'm not sure about the prams that are practically at car exhaust level, but then my mum had a really high pram so I guess thats what is 'normal' to me. The only thing that bothered me from the advert is that the stokke doesn't seem to have any kind of shopping basket bit?

dilly I'm quite interested in hypnobirthing too, although I haven't been totally convinced yet. There don't seem to be any classes round here though, so I would probably just have to get a book/ cd and not sure that would be as good really?

[DillyDora]

Hermya cooool! It sounds amazing (if pricey - £300 where we live). The woman I spoke to said it helped to make labour a really brilliant experience which she'd love to do again (she's done it twice and was induced once and still managed to do it all with no pain relief so....)

[Hermya321]

Dilly I'm going to do a hypnobirthing class. I'm actually quite looking forward to it.

[DillyDora]

sorry about the heartrate thing Nymph better to get checked out I think (sorry, I know you're having a lot of this at the moment!).

I'm feeling rough, couple of days when MS is back with a vengeance and I'm quite anxious - I'm hoping it's all just cos I have 16 week appt today and I'm nervous about that (because if that's the case I hope to feel better afterwards!) DH can't come with me so let's hope there's no bad news, eh?!

Had a lovely time yesterday - pub lunch with friends, then off to a party at another friend's place - the place was awash with babies and toddlers and lots of lovely mums with sensible advice so that was great. Heard an amazing story about hypnobirthing, I think some of you are interested in that aren't you? I may well invest in the course....

xx

[Nymphadora]

floozie hope today is better!

hermya walked down the hill to the house (150m?) then had a rest for about 20mins then walked up stairs (only one lot haven't been near top floor for ages, dread to think how bad the kids room is!) Have phoned Drs to have blood done today (&BP) but no appts and am at the hospital anyway.
Google tells me its common but needs checking and put a thread in pg last nighht which says similar.

I have three threads running in pregnancy at the moment if anyone knows anything about heart palpiations, c-sections and being horny in pregnancy!

[Hermya321]

Floozie Jeez that doesn't sound fun, I hope things got better for you.

Abfab Happy Anniversery!!!

Nymph I know the body and your heart starts to work extra hard around this time as baby starts to get bigger and requires more blood. But 120 bpm, well to me that sounds a bit high. Maybe it has something to do with your blood pressure? Could you give your midwife or Docs a ring? It could be something that they answer over the phone. You weren't walking up a hill were you though? Because if you were that might have something to do with it, hills are hard work especially for pregnant people.

I'm so tired, was at work all day yesterday and I've had no sleep due to this sodding cold. Oh well, c'est la vie.

How is everyone else today?

[AbFabT]

floozie, hope your week is better than today!

VMum, ooh, Happy Anniversary to you and your DH too! One year too?

Wow about all the weddings you have lined up this year! Yikes! We had one right at the start of my pregnancy, but no one else we know getting married between now and October (that we know of, yet!).

[VMumToBe]

Blimey Toozie sounds mad! Sorry for being awol, all well and stretching by the day...

Laughing all the wedding chat, last weekend was first one of ten we are going to before the due date. Have bought jojomaman black dress and shall wear it hopefuly for every one of the bloomin ones with different accessories - works out £4 a wear and reckon can use it for work too so that's value for money!!

Was initially worried about the black colour
roo like you with the white but everyone seems to wear anything nowdays and being preg I think we can get away with some leeway!

Yes know 10 is a bit mad, seems that 2010 is just the year that everyone has decided to get up the aisle! Sure they will all be lovely.

Got invited to another today on 16th Oct, 4 days after our due date, not sure to be horried or not that dh said we might be able to make it! Hmmmmm!

Happy anniversary abfab - ours today too - a whole year! xx

[floozietoozie]

Jesus, what a day. I've been in work all day after ds got up at seven and I woke even earlier cos we don't have proper curtains just stupid vertical blinds that do nothing to keep out the light. Have gad splitting headache in work for most of the afternoon, feltvreallu sick again. Then I came home and after dinner tried putting ds to bed earlyish, in bed with milk and stories done by 7.30 cos he seemed tired - little so and so's been playing up and getting out of bed, into ours, back to his, up again back to ours then saying he's hungry. Fed him more, left him in bed with dp who's got a cold and has had him all day, next thing I hear is dp calling me saying he can't do anything with him and can i come. Grrr. Go up to find ds sitting on the edge of his bed now, lie him down and tell him we've had enough... He's currently in bed with music onbut still awake. I was hoping to get to bed myself by 8.30 cos feel so pants and am back in work at 7am but am now wound up to here!!!! Aaarrgghhhh!!! No, I'm still knackered just fearing I won't sleep when I finally get the chance to try in 10 mins. That's assuming ds doesn't get out of bed again.... Thank god he didn't do this last night when we were going out (for once).

[Nymphadora]

This thing with my BP being all over the place, does anyone know about heart rate? for the slightest bit of exercise (walking down the street for eg) my heart is really thumping. got dh to feel my pulse and he got 120 . It goes back to normal quickly but its a bit worrying.

[Tyson86]

Hi thanks for the congrats, been out today with my mum buying frilly pink things.
Told all the family that she's a girl and very happy.
I had a migraine yesterday in Huntanton and couldnt drive back so dh with a provisional did it all the way back to Northampton and managed thank god but had to help him alot.
Hope everyones ok

[Antidote]

I'm with you on the mat clothes Nymph.
We braved bluewater on the way home this afternoon (never been before, shan't be going back, v. scary place!).
The only reason for going was they have a branch of blooming marvellous and I wanted to see if the trousers are long enough and what size I am. I am 5'9'' so most trousers are way too short, and leggings are a complete no-no for work.
Seemed OK: the selection is small but a few work suitable things.

[Nymphadora]

I have been in Glasgow this weekend ( mainly in cafes) but we went in practically every shop that potentially sold maternity clothes. 3 racks in debenhams including a see through lace thing, 2 racks in h&m , 2 in next & 2 in DPs. These were big branches so AIBU to have a tantrum over wanting buy normal clothes in shops? In John Lewis their maternity section consisted on 1 swimming costume. Which was awful and £30. Tons of baby equipment though dh now appreciates that I will look shit for the next few months.



anyway Jamie Cullum was fab on Friday night even if I wasn't up to dancing around!

[AbFabT]

Thanks, Silver, it's not just the age thing, it's the utter nonsense that seems to be on (or maybe I just don't know what's good!) compared to something that would be educational as well. Sure I'll give them some fun stuff to watch, but there are SO many shows, I think I'll want to be selective.

Hope you get the personal thing sorted out. Who needs the hassle!

I called the midwife team soon after I posted this morning. She just said not to worry, and that was about it!!! But that if I was still worried during the week, to call back or see my GP. I'll sleep on it, and see how I feel tomorrow. Elsa, I'll be 19 weeks tomorrow. I haven't been very busy and have been concentrating and looking out for it loads!

fidelma, congratulations on your four!

Thanks for the anniversary wishes, everyone.
x

[Elsa123]

How far along are you AbFab? I think its quite common to sometimes feel stuff and sometimes not at this time- it depends on how busy/concentrating on it you are.

[Hermya321]

Silver Yeah that sounds good!!

[SilverSky]

Roo that will be just fine. Wouldn't worry as the outfit sounds lovely. Not like you are wearing a tiara and a veil with it!

H I like the second one but instead of "Rolly" think it should be "Rollin'"