Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Conception

When's the best time to get pregnant? Use our interactive ovulation calculator to work out when you're most fertile and most likely to conceive.

Original poster

To bake or not to bake, that is the question...

968 replies

largeginandtonic · 14/02/2008 16:25

Her we are ladies!

OP posts:
Playingthewaitinggame · 18/02/2008 14:49

try ebay too and the pg threads. There was one talking about slings end of last week I think.

kayzisbroody · 18/02/2008 14:49

I got this one and dont get me wrong I love it to pieces and I really did throw a big tantram that only a pregnant woman could about getting it, BUT I wish I'd got something a bit smaller and more practical.

kayzisbroody · 18/02/2008 14:50

Playing, we used ours once and it really hurt my back, it was horrible.

Playingthewaitinggame · 18/02/2008 14:56

Good ones should never hurt your back. Look at this link for a discussion on pros and cons of slings vs carriers. It will be biased, its on the website of the company I used to work for, but it is an interesting read. Re your travel system, it looks lovely be interested in why you though it was unpractible, is that mainly its size?

GeordieJogger · 18/02/2008 14:58

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

kayzisbroody · 18/02/2008 15:10

Yeah Playing it was its size. We live in a first floor flat, we are lucky enough to have a small cupboard downstairs that the wheels go in, but its the carrying the chair part up and down when we want to go out.
If we had a house it would be perfect.

YAY GJ thats great!! We really need to have a sort out.

kayzisbroody · 18/02/2008 15:14

Thanks for that link Playing it was very interesting

Playingthewaitinggame · 18/02/2008 15:21

Tis ok Kay, As a said they will obviously be in favour of their own products, which are pretty good, but I was not nec recommending those products, just thought the general advice was good. I will of course be getting products from there (loads of them) cos I will get them cheap as an ex employee with a good mate who still works there. Some of their products I absolutely love (e.g Handysitts, no high chairs for me!) others I am sure there are many similar products (e.g bebebags are the same as Growbags etc) and they are all much in a muchness.

Hi Geordie, great plan to get your house organised now, will make moving so much easier and yay on the 2 months till implant comes out!

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:26

BB, the travel cot... like I said the vibrating bit was nice, and the night light, but TBH, I woul dhave been happy without both of those things, I wouldn't buy it again I don't think.

Graco buggies. I had one with DS1, many moons ago. It was heavy, unmanagable, the brakes used to spring on on their own (once in the middle of a road, scared the shit out of me!) I think the only thing I actually liked about it was that it had a hugeeeee shopping basket!

Last time I went for this with the carry cot and Maxi-Cosi car seat, to make it a travel system. I think it is still the lightest travel system about, I could easily steer it one handed, so I still had a hand to hold DS1's hand, it was absolutely fantastic, until DS2 got too big for the carry cot, the seat on the buggy does have an up-right and a reclined position, but he looked really uncomfortable in both of them. So we got this (but it is blue and orange), mainly got it for holiday, but he looked so much more more comfortable in it, I use it all the time now, and he had grown out of the car seat so didn't need to get another travel system.

But, I had a bit of an obbsesion with these whilst I was pregnant with DS2, I really wanted one, but my sister (who at the time worked in a posh baby shop) managed to talk me out of it with horror stories of the seat tipping up with the baby in it and baby falling out, cracking head on ground blah blah blah, but, now they do this one which is very similar, but I need to find out if they fixed the problem seats! I like the Maxi-Cosi carseats and they fit on the Quinny's.

But, I think I will end up with the new Micralite one here, because they have changed the uncomfortable seat, and I don't think I could pass up the chance of having the lighter one again! I am on and off the bus too much to have a heavy one.

Had enough buggy talk yet?!!

GeordieJogger · 18/02/2008 15:29

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:32

One thing I will say is no no no to another high chair in this house, I don't really care what we use instead, but if I have another 2 years looking forward to cleaning the highchair everyday, it will be something much less substancial than DS2's, and that will hopefully go in the dishwasher!!

Playingthewaitinggame · 18/02/2008 15:36

Never too much talk on pushcharis, never . Only downside I know with the microlite is it wont fit a buggy board, just in case you were ever thinking about getting one. Quinny's are fine .

Geordie, I am nesting but not secretly. Handysitt is this

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:38

No I refuse to think double buggies or buggy boards... I am not doing it. Ever!!

Diege · 18/02/2008 15:43

Afternoon! Lovong all this buggy/baby chat . Am in the office, but co-worker has just left so able to post and not just lurk . I have my heart set on the new bugabooo bee (it's an aquired taste, I don't mind if you all hate it!), but will have to fit a buggy board for dd3. In the past I've had a Graco (first ever buggy) which was as Nat says very heavy and unwieldly. Then I got a double graco - OK and quite narrow, then a maclaren push chair, and then for dd3 an Jane, which looked great but again was very heavy, esp with buggy board on the back! At present, I just need a lightweight buggy so have the quinny zapp whic is wonderful to push.
Re: sleeping and new babies, I think the 'in your room' thing relates to the fact that you may be more aware of breathing problems if baby is in the same room. I think that most cases of SIDS aren't necessarily those that are preceded by any obvious signs of distress anyway, so take the point that to that extent baby being in another room won't make much difference. For me, it was just less of a disturbance to have dds in the room for the first 3 months or so while they were being fed at night. I always had a problem getting back to sleep after feeding (me, not baby!)and going into another room rather than leaning over would have been the end to any chance of getting sleep! In fact even when dds slept through, I still woke a lot and developed pretty bad insomnia. Nothing more frustrating than lieing awake when the baby is fast asleep!!! Have to say it's bliss when they go in their own room - and don't have to creep around!
AF started today - dead on target, so I'm pleased as my cycles have been a bit irregular lately. Just one more af then ttc time

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:47

I think DS2 would have that handy sit thing on the floor in less than 30 sec's, the way he rocks in his high chair now, it is only because of the 5 point harness that it stays up right, if he could lean further forward, and rock harder it would go.

DS1 had one of those wooden cube hi/low chairs that change into a table and chair, it fell apart, so we got him a cheap plastic highchair from Argos, it was great, so easy to clean, the only reason we didn't get another one the same for DS2 was because DS1 was older when he went into it. (Though just looked for a link and they don't seem to do the same one anymore, so wish I had got one and put it away now!!)

DS2's is a PITA, I was so pleased with it till he used it for the first time, will never buy another one again!

Diege · 18/02/2008 15:52

I second going for a cheap, plastic high chair. We have a trendy wooden one in the shape of a frog that looks great, but is a PITA to clean. Next time def. a cheapo plastic one! And don't be drawn in by the 'will last you till adulthood line' . Have you ever seena 6 year old peched on the edge of an adapted highchair? . You'll be lucky to get them sitting on two buttocks!

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:53

I very nearly got the Jane Slalom Pro Formula, but the car seat wouldn't fit in our car at the time (we had a Picasso then, so not tiny!) and I say again, as soon as I pushed the Micralite I was hooked, and I only touched it in the first place to say to DH, "urghhhh look at that!!" LOL It grew on me!

kayzisbroody · 18/02/2008 15:53

I'm probably going to have to get a double buggy as ds will be too young to walk everywhere, just not sure what one to get.

What do people think of the name Lily?

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:54

LMAO Diege I don't think they know they have two buttocks, let alone that they are made for sitting on!

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:55

DS2 was very nearly a Lily until he grew a willy . Why do all my kids have to do that? .

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:58

If, by the slimest chance possible, the next one is a girl, she will be Maya something, maybe Maya Leigh (DH is Lee, DS1's middle name is Lee)

kayzisbroody · 18/02/2008 15:58

LOL at Nat. Its so hard to choose a name. Its hard enough finding a bloody double buggy!!

NatalieJane · 18/02/2008 15:59

Got a tip Kay, don't look for a double!! I'm not, if I ignore them, they will go away! Easy peasy

kayzisbroody · 18/02/2008 16:02

I'd like not to be able to look for one, but I'll have to get one, I really dont want too but ds wont even be 2 by the time new lo gets here

GeordieJogger · 18/02/2008 16:02

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.