August - first month of TTC? Join me!

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Hiya,

I put August as its a little late for July!

I'm TTC number 4(!)

Due to test on the 15th August but don't think we have much chance this month as its only our first and DH has been ill for a few days and now I've got the bug, so not much romance happening!

So just wonderded if anyone is just starting TTC and wanted to join me?

your gonna need more than a box for all that stuff

just googled that i'coo pushchair and it looks lovely, not too dear for all that clobber either, what colours are you thinking? are you going to find out what you are having? (if i get asked that one more time i am gonna scream)

it looks abit wide on the wheels though for my liking, i had a proper pram with dd and it was wide and i found it hard to get rond the isles in shops with it.

also make sure that when you do go to shops to road test the pushchairs, rmemeber to factor in weight in it when it gets bigger. all these pushchair shops have really smooth floors which can fool you into thinking it is the smoothest ride ever, till you get it on mormal road.

there is my wisdom of the day treasure it cause you wont get no more

lol Liz. Not finding out as DH doesn't want to know, I do as I don't want to buy white, yellow, cream everything, but happy to buy the coloured stuff when little one here. Another excuse for more shopping!! Don't think DH has clicked to that one yet

Like the beige one. Know what you mean about the wheels. They do another one, NEW HAUCK i'COO PEAK 8 PUSHCHAIR-CARRYCOT-CAR SEAT, front wheels bit narrower. You do seem to get quite a bit for your money.

I like the icoo prams too klou. I want the full travel system with absolutely everything in. DPs mum has decided she will but the pram, yey! They have some nice nursery furniture and travel cots etc. Its not far from me so I hope I can go and gave a loot at the actual shop.

Liz I'm going to take note of your words of wisdom. - my words of wisdom are 'try the pram in your boot to make sure it fits'

no we arent finding out either. dh does want to know though and wants one of those 3d scans when i get bigger, although i will have to instruct the sonographer to stay away from that area! i dont know why i am so set against knowing cause it would amke buying stuff so much easier, but i just think it makes it much less of a suprise for everybody.

i am going to make a list of what i need and what i already have. most of my baby stuff is in a room at the tops of my mums house so i will have to have a look what i have got and whats gone mouldy

DH wants a 3d one one too, one of the first things he said the day we found out we were preggars. Priorities and all that :). Our nearest one is Swansea, about 30 mins away, so got to look into that to see when we can have one. Think it's quite late on.

Order has been despatched, will get filling my box hopefully tomorrow :) Winnie prints, plug blanks and bath thermo turned up today, oooooo it's so exciting :)

Can't believe am almost a third of the way through

Anyone been having/having the downs tests? We don't get one til end Feb, we don't get a nuchal offered here, only the bloods at 16-18 weeks.

i think the 3d ones are best at about 26-28 weeks, when the baby has enough fat down to make it look like it will do when it comes out, dont hold me to it though!

oyu know what, all this testing confuses me, i ahve agreed to anything that they reccomend, i would always want to know sooner rather than later if something was wrong, and last week when i went for a scan they tried to take a measurment of the fliud from the back of the babies neck, and they also took some blood which the results combined will come back with a percentage result of the chances of downs, thats how i understood it anyway. i am going to get the results in a letter but dont know how long that will take.

i am sure i am starting to feel this baby move, even thought i know i am only 14 weeks, i am sure of it. on saturday dd was playing with a friend and i was sat on the sofa for around an hour, not moving (very rare!) and felt the flutterings, only for a split second and havent felt anything more till today when i have felt it again. i know the difference between trapped wind anda baby and am 100% sure its the baby.

i told my best friend who was sat next to me (childless best friend) who said 'moving???? you can feel it moving????' like she tohught it was just some plastacine baby inside me that stays still all the time

on another note dh is really pissing me off. now i know i am raging with hormones and can be stroppy with it, but he is really not making any effort at all to take the strain off me. he is such a busy person with work and is hobby and helping other people that i come second and he just swans off doing as he pleases leaving me to cope with dd every night. its not that shes naughty or anything, more just a handful, but i am dead on my feet by the time she goes to sleep. he also wont do anything round the house at all, wont even put his clothes in the wash basket or do a spot of washing up.
its really getting me down, i have tried to talk to him but it always ends in a screaming match about he goes to work all hours of the day.
please dont tell me what you would and wouldnt do with him, i know what i h vae got to do to make a change, but i just keep putting it off and simmering till i blow and blow i will
when we started trying for a baby i said that as soon as i got pg i wanted him in the house after work untill dd went to bed, then he could do as he pleases, which lasted for all of about 4 days.

sorry for the rant

Oh hun, I hope you're OK. I don't think they realise how much work being pregnant is when you have another little one to look after. Between trying to rest cos you're constantly knackered, and spending time with your little one, you've got no time for you. Perhaps you should not do anything and see if he then clicks how much you do do :)

I'm sure your 2nd one, you can feel earlier, I can't wait, but apparently I won't feel anything til 20+ weeks :( Plasticine baby lol!

Take care, and don't take any shit!!

Oh Liz, hope you're ok.

Starting to get my appetite back a little bit now

klou i have thoguht about leaving all of his cloths on the bathroom floor where he leaves them, he peels off 1 pair of boxers, 1 pair of long johns and 2 pairs of socks and somehow manages to leave them all inside each other so i have to go and seperate everything.

but that would mean having a great pile of unwashed clothes on the floor for days, not sure if i could leave it there all that time. what would you do?

madkatz i am glad your appetite is coming back, are you eating the same things as usual?

i ahve really got a fetish for yoghurts at the min. i get through 4 at a time petit filous cause they are olny tiny and love trying all of these fancy yoghurts like lemon curd which is delish!

Liz leave them! I know it would be difficult, it drives me mad when something is not where it should be, but if it gets the message through, hopefully it will be worth it. Just try it from now til the weekend :)
We are so the same, I must have yoghurts coming out of my ears!! Eating 2 normal pots, but that only cos I am restricting myself!
Between yoghurts, fruit and cereal (and the odd lemon and sugar pancake) I am sorted :) Having a proper meal in the evening though.

I weighed myself yesterday, and for some reason I seem to be back to my pre-pregnancy weight despite feeling bloated, very confused

Madkatz glad your appetite back too. Any cravings yet?

Bugger, just been bidding on something on ebay, while writing this and lost by 20p!!

Keep smiling all

BTW, was sent this pushchair by amazon if anyone interested

No, no cravings yet, just getting back to eating normally!!

I would leave the clothes where he left them Liz at least for a few days or longer if you can stand it. See how he reacts

i think dh knows he has upset me cause he is offering to take me and dd out for tea, i dont usually go out on a school night but should only be an hour so dont mind really. if he does leave the clothes on the floor again i will leave them there then.

thought i would elt you know sainsburys has 1/3 off some baby stuff. i got 2 packs of pram sheets for just over £3 each. they have got allsorts of bigger things like walkers, bouncers, monitors and pop up bassinets which i nearly convinced myself that i needed, but didnt.
they have a hauk condor (i think thats what it was) which had a pram unit, seat unit and car seat all for about £215 which was good i thought.

i also bought some maternity pads as they were only a quid a pack. i know its too early to be thinking about this stuff but you are talking to the girl who has already made a list for my hospital bag

Oh Liz - glad he's realised he's been taking you for granted - it's one of my bugbears with DH - he's great but he does sometimes lose track. He's a bugger for the clothes on the bathroom floor thing. I did do the leaving them there and eventually (after a week) put them all in a black bin bag and hid them. Naughty but essential...

Glad you got your point across Liz now for the clothes.....:)
We've got a laundry basket in the bathroom, so DH doesn't have that excuse lol.

It seems that the DH's (once they realise what they are doing) are being a bit more thoughtful. I had a small tiff with mine yesterday about our new bathroom stuff. We were ordering a new bath, but the end panel doesn't come with it, only the side and they wanted another £55 for it. DH said he would rather tile it, which I said, we would need to tile the side then as it would look odd.

He didn't want to do that, and in the end I stormed off upstairs, slammed the bedroom door and said do what the fuck you like, if you want it to look shit, make it look shit I don't care!

10 mins later he came up, apologised, and ordered the panel :)

He would NEVER have done that (the apology bit) if I hadn't have been pregnant! I think he's getting a softie lol

Will look at Sainsbury's online at their stuff if it's on there. We haven't got one (only Tesco, Morrison, Aldi and Lidl) where we are and the next place is 20 miles away, and they only have an Asda so online is good for me :)

well i think he is taking the hint as no clothes on the bathroom floor since that day, even encouraged dd to put hers in the basket too last night wont last long! what winds me up most i think is that the basket is right there in the bathroom, next ot the clothes! it infuriates me that he must see all of these little jobs that need doing and he must think 'oh its alright she'll do it'

i got my free bounty pack yesterday from siansburys, just dringking my free can of appletiser from it

So good those bounty packs I think esp as it's a freebie :)
Have you got the Emmas Diary one?

My baby goodies have arrived. DH a bit speechless as everything so small (doh :) ), he can't wait now, almost a third of the way in, yippee!

I was talking about what still needed to be done in the house today (been doing it up, so gotta get a shift on now as want to get it all done by end May), and mentioned we're going to need the Dads' help. I said my Dad can do the nursery (he's really good a wallpapering etc, our walls are crap, so either need re-plastering or lining). DH said, I am doing that room, with a big grin on his face, was very sweet :)

i think it was the emmas diary one i got from argos, it was bit rubbish but cant complain seeing as its free

have you thought about colours in the babys room? i thinki am going to do mine lilac and aqua with lemon curtains. its what i did for dd when she was born, but as we were burgaled 2 days after she was born and we moved out the same day to mum and dads, she never got to sleep in it. but it looked so pretty. i think i am going to go for a jungle animal theme to make it abit more boyish in case i have a boy. but want nice colours and the ones i have seen are all abit garish. then if i do have another girl i think pink items will go with the pastels nicely, what do you think?

Sounds lovely Liz. Will be nice to have a room that both sexes can be comfortable in. Shame about the burglary, bastards!!

I'm doing a Winnie the Pooh theme as even though little one won't be sleeping in there for a while after he/she is born, so could get away with not doing anything until then, I don't really want DH to be decorating after he/she is born, I want him helping me lol!!

Planning a very pale lemon for the walls, I've already got some pastel colour background winnie canvas prints, and will get a winnie border for the top of the wall (found one in B&Q), and will get some nice blinds, so when I am BF, I can slightly open them to overlook the garden in my rocking chair (sounds very romantic doesn't it, but I am sure it will be FAR from romantic!)
All the furniture I want white, and will probably get a nice winnie rug.
I haven't planned it or anything, honest

Aren't we mad!! But the bumps will be babies before we know it! Still no bump here as yet :(

Oh, just made some muesli flapjacks, sooooooo good!! Had some muesli in the cupboard (which I have swapped recently in favour of rice crispies :), so thought would look up if I could use to do flapjacks, and you can.
In case your interested:
100g sugar,
100g butter/marg,
50g honey,
200g muesli (or 100g each muesli/porridge oats.
20 mins in a 190 oven, leave to cool.

NICE!

Hi Ladies!

Awww so sweet decorating your nurserys! We have kind of thought what we would do but it mostly includes little pastel coloured ducks. it looks nice in my head lol!

How are you all feeling? sick and tired? I have sore boobs and thats it.

Hi Iwish how're ya doing? I am sure whatever nursery you do will look good.
No sickness here for a while now, so think that's well and truly gone thank god! Nips hurt occasionally a bit, not constantly which is good.
Lifted something heavy earlier, and have strained my belly area. I did the same a couple of weeks ago. DH not a happy bunny with me, said some things aren't worth doing if I am going to strain myself, or risk hurting baby. Hoping everything OK, will just have to take it easy for the weekend.

Hi klou. Im ok thanks. Boobs are sore and I'm a bit tired so all in all a happy bunny .
Yeh you should take it easy - you can relax now and get your DH to do all the hard work hope your belly is less sore now.

told my best friend our news tonight so thats it for telling people now, only a couple of people know and I'll keep it that way till the scan. She was thrilled and has already decided what to buy him/her! Talk about forward planning.

ohh klou that flapjack sounds delish dd has found she likes flapjack too so might make some when i get a free half hour.

i want of of them gliding chairs, i keep looking on local ebay bargains and there is nearly always one or 2 on there in my area so might get one from there, i dont really want to buy a new one of those, would rahter spend the money on the pushchair

and dont get doing anything sill y like lifting stuff you dont need to!!!! a lad at work said this week that he should do MORE lifting, that he doesnt think it will affect me. well sorry but i dont have a dog and bark myself. whats the point in doing summat i dont have to when we employ people to do it for us!!! i dont usually think like that, or put the other workers down, but he made me mad trying to tell me what to do when his wife doesnt work AT ALL

glad you are feeling well iwish i am feeling alot better but still have very sensitive nipples!

CLOTHES UPDATE - small pile now accumalating

I've seen the gliding chairs to Liz, I think they come with a footstool too some of them. I really like them, they look so comfy! Will have a look on ebay. Think they sell them in Ikea quite reasonably too, but our nearest is over an hour away.

My mum text me last night, said she can't wait for me to go back to the Midlands at the end of March so we can go pram hunting lol (parents are buying that, and no doubt half of Mothercare!!) Can't wait. Seems a while off now though. Should have had my next scan by then too :)

Re the clothes, I'd really have to say something, suttley, but say something as he'll just keep doing it. He may not realise what he's doing hun, and it's stressing you out unnecessarily x

I am really struggling to sleep at the mo. I only like sleeping on my back, and I am trying not to do this as not good for baby when you get into 2nd trimester apparently. I am absolutely knackered as I don't like lying on my side or front as my arms fall asleep!

i did say last ight just before bed, 'why are these clothes here?' to which he replied ' i am going to sort them in a min' he has been out all day and not long been in, but i have sorted a load of dark for tomorrow morning, the basket is right there in the bathroom next to hte pile and its killing me not to sort it and make the load up, but i am not going to do it.

i wouldnt worry too much about the position in which you sleep, there was a thread on here abit back about it and some 2nd and subsequent pregnant women were still sleeping on their stomachs at 5 and 6 months.
i personally dont think there is much to it. do you move around when you do get to sleep?

my fave position at the mo, is my bottom half on my side with my head on the corner of dh's pillow his pilows are abit hhigher than mine, but to have mine that high all the time makes it uncomfy. i only go to sleep in this postion, then move about. i used to sleep in the recovery position, but the pressure on my stomach makes me feel ill, so cant