10/10-sunny days and sleepless nights; third trimester here we come

[nymphadora]

And off we go again

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I bought my nightie to give birth in. Scary!!!

Elsa Nope not unreasonable, but hopefully the sheepskin is nice. My Mum does this as well, she once bought me a knit your own cushion set for my birthday. I've never knitted in my life at that point and never showed an interest. I honestly don't know what goes through our parents minds sometimes.

Pisey How blinking rude are they!!! I'm not surprised you and DH were livid.

Elsa You know stuff about how to find out where you are using the sun, thats some fancy pants training there . As far as I was aware the sun was something that sort of hung around occasionally and looked pretty.

Is anyone else just blindly walking into things? I've walked into two sets of drawers today, I saw that they were there but instead of avoiding them I just careened into them. I nearly fell down the stairs as well earlier. I swear I used to be somewhat graceful.

Yeahhh- I swear I'm not that big, but my spatial awareness has gone to pot and I keep knocking my tummy on things. I smacked into my DH yesterday when there was loads of room for me to pass him and I nearly fell down the stairs of the restaurant we went to last night and was saved by the fact it was a narrow stairway and I could grab the walls on either side.

Well done on the nightie buying Tyson! where did you get it from and whats it like? I want a cheapo one but not synthetic which loads seem to be. I don't wear bedclothes, so have nothing tatty to wear, so will be wearing bespoke stuff iyswim!!

I went primark tbh, it was £3.50 and black with a dodgy bow on the front, but after ds my nightie was rather gross so wanted to be abit of a tightwad.

Tyson I think for stuff to give birth in, primarni is the way to go.

Actually speaking of birthing clothing, has anyone seen this? I thought it was a bit

Piesey, your PIL are rubbish! Sounds like you are better off without them, really! Though, to be fair, many grandparents seem to be closer to their own daughter and those grandchildren than their son's. Or have they always favoured SIL? I know it's more than that with yours though, as they were so mean to you in various ways.
I think mine are quite fair and I am lucky, but I think it seems to be quite common to be closer to the daughter than a son. Still not nice, and yours sound particularly mean.

Elsa, aw, bless yours though! Hope you are pleasantly surprised with what you do get though. My mother has the same tendencies, but I have suggested she come to the Baby Show with me in October, and she can splurge there (under my watchful eye!). Heart's in the right place, totally.

I've just got back from my first antenatal class. Doing the NHS ones - really good so far! Got three more to go.

Hermya, that nightie is £££! Yikes! Though the brand is the same brand my favourite maternity bra is by, and the bra really is much better than the other bras I have.
Can't remember which one of you it was who suggested wearing one of DH's shirts for the labour - I am still loving that idea loads! Though I don't want to wreck one of his nice shirts, and I do have a nice nightie bought already. We'll see! Maybe I'll pack both!

And, my mei tei has arrived - I had one commissioned; chose my fabric, and this lovely lady put it together for me. I love it - my baby is going to be so snug in it!
If you are interested, she's listed it on her website, scroll to the bottom of the page: www.cozyquilts1.co.uk/Unique-Orders.html

Hammock should have arrived today, hopefully it will be here tomorrow.

Yet to get:

• reusable nappies
• car seat
• muslins
• toys inc playmat/gym
• bouncer

And possibly a bath support thing, though not sure it's needed.

So really nearly there! Oh, and I'm two months to go as of today!

gosh hermya what an idea, I can't imagine spending £40 on a nightie to give birth in!

I guess I can see the point in the fancy nightie. How many women do you know won't answer the door until their face is on and their hair is done? And now an entire hospital is going to look at you in your nightie? So I guess it's a way to make yourself feel as if you've dressed for the occasion... IF that's your thing .

Went to order pram today & look at car seat.

Pram #1 didn't fit in the car
Pram #2 wouldn't fold , none of the stafffcould get it to even with instructions & we both tried so wrote that off
Pram#3 was quinny buzz which was £££ and not sure it was good enough on cobbles
Pram#4 was cheap, light, folded small again don't think it would begreat on cobbles. Carry cots released in next couple of weeks
Pram#5 was reduced ex display. Not convinced on it being small enough& no proper basket for shopping.

So back to drawing board.

Where did you go Nymph? There seems to be a decent selection in the shop near me. They might have something you can look at.

Fiona Yeah I can see it that way, but I'm going with the whole cheap shorts and nursing top combo in hospital. After that I'm going to have a selection of comfy pants that I can mooch around in.

Hello all. Just catching up with the news before bed. DH on his way home now and will be here tomorrow morning. Very happy as have had a nightmare with parents for the past week. Too complicated to bore you all with though.

Nymph I thought the Buzz would be good on cobbles. Have you looked at a Jane Slalom?

Hermya that nightie made be laugh my socks off. I'll be wearing a vest top - the Blooming Marvellous one that I got paint on. Got 5 pairs of huge white pants in Sainsburys for a fiver today so will have them on too - for a while. And not all five pairs at once of course.

Night night.

ILGH I love the idea of you wearing five pairs of pants while labouring - one in the right place and one on each limb maybe?

Well today I made my decision about leave and decided to go for the early option, so I am finishing work in three weeks. Actually, three weeks yesterday. I've got next Monday off so i'm only in work for a total of eight days from now, and they will all be day shifts, so no more late nights. It's ridiculous, but when I saw all the leave on our leave system, followed by months of maternity leave, I got slightly scared. It suddenly started feeling very real, and even though I'm no great fan of work it was like my structure was suddenly being taken away. Weird.

Piesey it was me who asked if your MIL was American. That's just rubbish, but sounds like you have a great family so I should just concentrate on them. Hard on your DH though.

Fiona - definitely not me! The only face that gets seen is my own! I'm planning on wearing nothing for giving birth. But I do fancy getting something comfy for post birth. I suppose I'll start off in something, but clothes really irritated me after a while last time, and I can remember ripping them off while up on all fours!

I've got another scan tomorrow, so hoping all is continuing to be normal, and the cyst is behaving itself. I'll make the third trimester on Friday. Wow.

Dilly that's so sweet of your DSS.

Last night, because I didn't get in from work till 10.30, I didn't go to bed properly till 12.30 - it takes a while to wind down, then DS woke at one, wanted a drink, toilet, our bed, his bed, music on... he kept waking until 4am so I basically didn't get any real sleep until after that, and I woke just after 6 for a pee too. I cancelled my alarm and slept till 9, didn't get to work till 10.30 but I just had to catch up. That's when I got the shifts changed... His sleep has gone not great suddenly, he seems to keep having nightmares or something. He also slept for three hours this pm while DP was looking after him, so I am slightly dreading what might happen tonight. I put him to bed late though so hoping he will sleep, now he's had one wake-up and is in our bed.

hermya will have a look there next week. Annoyed cos we thought we had 2 decent options & option 2 wouldn't fold even when the staff knew how to do it!

According to the Internet the buzz is no good on cobbles. Have also posted on the pramsection again so see if any thing comes up. Will look up the Jane one . Did some googling & small prams tend to be city stuff& decent suspension is bigger. Can't find a compromise

Wow your all getting so organised, I think I'm falling behind. Still need a cot and dresser, pram, car seat, nappies, and a nightie!

Morning all! Floozie I actually felt excited for you that you only have 3 weeks left in work, I'm feeling similar myself, but with that impending sense of doom of all the work i have to do before I go and handover notes for my successor, who has yet to be formally nominated.

Nymph, I know you must have said before, but which prams were you looking at? Suspension was a must for me too, but all the 3 wheelers designed to be very good for that kind of thing folded down so long that it was not practicable for the car. We went with the mothercare spin as it had suspension, and you could do everything with it one handed, including folding it, which is just one lifting operation and hey presto its folded.

Hermya i saw that nightie a while ago, the blurb on the website really romanticises labour doesn't it?! I was planning on a few (some for after too) cotton nighties from somewhere like BHS that have buttons on the top front, but I'm now liking the idea of black Tyson as the just visited an abbatoir look might not be soo visible to my blood avoiding DH! I know some people have clean labours, but I'm preparing for all eventualities!

AbFabT you say hammock- are you getting the Amby nest too? We put ours up on Monday night and it looks great. Its currently in the spare room next to the bed there and it looks ridiculously cute by the bed, like the adult bed 'makes it' iyswim?!

30 weeks today! Crikey....

Morning all, I have a shirt of DHs ready for the birth but fully expect to be nekkid much of the time... have some softy trousers for after and will need a giant t-shirt I think. The birthwrap thing made me laugh too - yeah, a couple of deep breaths and a sigh and the baby will be out and I'll be sipping chamomile tea and smiling serenely...right!

Mole update - it is fine - yay! No fanjo chopping required tho the dr did offer then we had a lovely chat about pregnancy, childbrith and bfing and I found he used to work in neonatal which is why he is so utterly soppy about pg women and we always chat so much. Bless.

Fragile this morning - SPD bad (3rd long day in office on the trot), feet swelled up lots yesterday, breathless, tired and fed up and it's only 29 weeks (BP fine though). humph.

I cannot tell you how much this thread has cheered me up. First baby, so everyone keeps saying "enjoy this time around, it's much worse with a toddler", and I mean, I know it is much harder work, but it's hard to remember that when you can't sleep properly, can't walk properly, can't digest properly and keep crying randomly! So I was so glad to see that it is not just hard for pathetic me.

And yes, I want black and dark red for hospital! My dad's contribution to the 'what labour is like' story is something like: "Take 2l of red paint and drop it on the floor! That's what it looks like. With screaming." Thanks, Dad.

thats something my dad would say fiona

Oh my goodness! Just when I think I've got everything on the list of things to buy and do, I read MN and find out a whole heap of things I'd not thought of. A cheap nightie in a dark blood-hiding colour is now on my list for after the birth. I have a very large freebie Euro 90 (I kid you not-remember that tournament?) t-shirt that's bright red, so that will do nicely for the birth itself. Hermya love the corny ad for the v expensive wrap around thingy!
Where are you finding nursing tops from? I hadn't got as far as thinking about that, but might have a shuftie around and see if I can spot anything nice.

dilly good news on the mole front. That's a relief. I remember an "ask anything you want" session in GCSE biology, where a friend asked if it was true that if you picked a mole it could go cancerous. The bio teacher said she felt sorry for any mole that got hurt and why would you want to do that anyway? Took us a while to realise she meant moles of the burrowing furry kind!

Floozie hope ds slept better last night. Good luck with the scan.

Glad we're cheering you up Fiona I'd go fekking mental if it weren't for this thread (not to put too fine a point on it!)

Enjoy the scan Floozie

TBH I really struggle with imagining anything after the birth apart from lovely baby boy....my mum asked about nice bfing nighties today and I nearly said 'Mummeeeee can you sort it, I can't thiiiink' wail wail...

I am pathetic today.

elsa pram spec is- needs to manage cobbles, small shops, small car, big shopping basket!, get up & down steps easily(7/8 in & out of house). And I'm having a section & needtonbe able to manage on my own by week 3/4.

shieldbug I'm going to go with the great institution that is ebay, I bought some maternity t-shirts for £7 on there and they were fab. Otherwise I'll probably go with mothercare for the vest top types or get one or two from jojo mamabe.

I thought that about the wrap as well 'you need to feel your best on your special day' .

Nymph give the spin a go. Its the only one I could manage in the shop when I has severe sciatica and I also disn't crash it into anything on quite a tight obstacle course and it can be used one handed.

The chair converts into a carry cot- but it can't be used as a carrycot on its own, it needs to be on the stand as it would collapse otherwise, but it means you don't have lots of different bits of paraphenalia. There is a car seat that goes with it, or you can use adapators for the maxi cosy- but we're having a 0-4 carseat separately.

For folding it up, you unclip the carry cot/chair- very easy and there's a 1,2,3 system that is labelled as such. You basically flip a handle in the middle and pick it up- it collapses in on itself, but upright iyswim. You can then slide it into the car unright, or on its side and it would it into the boot of my Audi TT (with the dogs next to it), so it really is small! You can take the back wheels off dead easily which makes it even more compact.

good Lord my spelling was awful- sorry about that!