Started TTC in August 2010, we're now all finally up the duff

[KLou111]

New home for us ladies :)
Continuation of thread from conception.
Any newbies are quite welcome to join in our quite bizarre and hilarious chat

Hi ladies.

Hope you are all ok today.

Just checking in to say I've just been to my booking appt and booked my scan which is 28th march, yippee!! Happy now I have a date.

Brilliant Iwish you have something to look forward to now!!!
Hope you're booking went OK and not too long for you x

Inknow klou I'm so excited. I'll be happy when I can see little bubba on the screen it's little heart beating away :)
Booking was ok, was just over an hour and was at work for 10:30.

Hope you are ok? X

Ohhh good luck for then Iwish! Take some tissues with you, it's all very well seeing people having their first scans on tv and you think "aww thats cute" but NOTHING prepares you for seeing your own little bean wibbly wobblying around on the screen :) Both me and Simon cried :)

That floor sounds lovely Klou, blooming expensive at full price though!!

New mattress is arriving Friday afternoon, and the nursery carpet is being fitted Monday afternoon :) It's all go here! Can't wait till its down though because then we can get furniture and empty our bedroom of baby stuff :o

Yes, defo take the tissues Iwish, so overwhelming :)

Bet you can't wait for you mattress and carpet melly.

Spoken to my mum about the Jane Slalom R pram today, and she said they will buy it for us just got to find somewhere that sells it now as they still want to go 'shopping' for one rather than just buy it off the net (even though will prob end up buying it off the net as so much cheaper!). She said they would rather buy us a good one that's gonna last this baby, and hopefully next one , than buy us a cheapo one and it gets scrapped in a year from now, then we end up having to buy another one. Ooooooo, it's so exciting :)

melly I'm prepared for me crying lol. Not sure about DP tho. He isn't usually the crying sort. (secretly hoping he cries tho haha!)
Bet you are do excited to get the carpet and mattress, making baby's room complete. Cant wait till I get that far.

woohoo for your parents buying the pram klou. They sell it on kiddicare and I'm sure they sell it at mothercare so I guess they would have one on show at one of the shops.

Little question for you all. Are you having baby sleeping in your room for a few weeks at first? I want bubba in their own room strait away but DPs mum thinks Its wrong. Our room just isn't big enough. And some of my friends babies went strait in their own rooms.

ohh not long to wait iwish is it far to the hospital?

i am planning to have it in our room for the first few months, maybe 3-4 months, dpepnds on its sleeping though. i have read in a book that babies are really noisy sleepers and keep you awake even if they are asleep, i cant remember dd being like this but seeing as you spend the first year in tenterhooks anyway it doesnt make much difference.

but if the baby will still be near to you and you will hear it, then i cant see the problem. the bedroom in our house is not very big, but i am going to jam the moses basket down the side of the bed, or maybe at the end, i am not sure.

good on your mum and dad klou for paying for the pram

Hi all. klou brill news about the pram - and you're soo organised about everything! V impressed.

Iwish we'll have baby in our room prob for about 6 months - in a moses basket to start and then a travel cot. With DS we found it much easier for night feeds than going to another room (easier for me and him to get back to sleep) and I think it's the recommendation for the first 6 months. By then DS had mostly dropped the nightfeeds (had maybe one) so it was easy enough to manage going through to his room.

Have thought I'd try the real nappies thing this time - I think there was a trial pack voucher in the bounty booklet? I think it was there. Gotta go - DS is being a nightmare to get off to sleep - there are, apparently, monsters.

Oh bless him :o me and my sister had a panda nightlight and my sister was absolutely terrified of it because she swore blind it growled at her in the night :o it was actually the hot water tank we had in the airing cupboard in our bedroom.

Thats great about your pram Klou! I bet you can't wait to get it :) I love how it starts to feel properly real when you start filling your house with baby stuff :)

I think it's recommended you keep babies in your bedroom for the first 6 months, it helps prevent cot death apparantly, although im not really sure how sleeping in a different room is going to prevent that.

Did you all know that babies can only see in black and white for the 1st 8 weeks? They absolutely love black and white things because its the only thing they can really focus on properly!

Hi Liz it's only 5 mins drive to the hospital but they are closing the mat unit in June then closing the unit that's next closest - fab, not!!

Hmm our bedroom is 2 doors away from the (soon to be) babies room but the house is small so it's not far. I'm going to get one of the angelcare monitors so I'll hear everything. Dont want to keep DP awake either while he's working and I'm off. Might have him/her in our room while he's on 2 weeks paternity leave.

gruffalo did DS not keep your DH awake being in the same room?

Sickness has reappeared the last few days. Finding it difficult to walk into the kitchen without the THOUGHT of washing up liquid making me heave. Looked at my own wee in the loo yesterday and stood there heaving - I'm a bit wierd I think lol.

melly I didn't know that about babies vision. Where did you learn that?

Oh I wish I had enough room to have our baby in with us. I feel a little scared now.

I'm doing a Young Expectant Parents course (YEP Course), and I learnt it today from this woman who gave us loads of leaflets on making our own toys for babies out of rice and bottles If you look at Lamaze toys they all have black and white patterns on somewhere. One of the girls on my course had her baby the other week and she brings her to the sessions, it's made us all so broody and impatient now. We couldn't test the black and white theory on her though because she was asleep lol :o

Oh and don't be too worried Iwish, aslong as you can hear baby via monitors he/she should be fine :) we have a big bedroom so plenty of space to have her with us for aslong as she needs to be, and her nursery is only next door to us so not really a problem for us.

Glad you got your scan date iwish.

I'm a bit like you, can't wait to see a heart beat!!

Don't worry Iwish about keeping baby in your room, I know of plenty of friends of friends that didn't and all is fine. I am getting an Angel Care also, as the reviews are fab and a few peeps said it saved their babys life.

I am planning to have a moses basket in our room for 6 weeks, then put the moses basket in the cot in babys room so baby gets used to the bars, (my mum, the MW, recommended this).
There is no right, no wrong, just as long as you take all the precautions you and baby will be fine :)

Didn't know about the black and white vision Melly. That will be very useful to the fact my mum told me yesterday she was out shopping with dad the other day and dad spotted a sheep cuddly toy and he bought it as his first gift off Granddad :) He said, every baby in Wales should have a sheep!! LMAO!

Got my blood results back today. 1 in 439 for Downs which they've said is low, but I actually think it's high. Told my mum and she said cut of for high risk is 1 in 250, but they'll check baby at scan next week anyway. What the hell is wrong with me, I just keep panicking!!

Lol sheep :o are your parents really excited then Klou? They sound it! My parents are but this is grandchild number 3 so they're a bit more relaxed about it all.

I think the panicking thing is normal, I panic if I can't remember when I last felt a kick even though it was probably only an hour ago! I think my Downs test came back as 1 in 1200-ish, which I thought was low, I suppose you just expect it to be something like 1 in 45000 so having a lower number makes you panic. But if no-ones worried (especially your mum!) then just try and relax. Must be so handy to have an ex-MW as your mum!

Excited isn't the word Melly. I'm 31, and brothers are 37 and 40, and this is their 1st grandchild, of which they though would never happen lol!
Mum had already knitted about 6 different clothes sets all in different colours and sizes (hats, booties, cardis, scratch mittens etc), she's knitted a beautiful pram blanket, which she could seriously sell, it is THAT gorgeous!
Yes I am very lucky to have my own personal MW! I think my own MW would be pissed off with me by now!!

Oh wow, what sort of colors are they? this will be DP's parents first grandchild and his mum has knitted me about 4 blankets, one of them is white and looks just like its made out of cottonwool balls :) Whats the blanket like that your mums knitted? My sister has also started knitting. She told me she was going to knit me something and I was like "ohhh noooo!, I'll end up with a jumper with 2 neckholes or something!" to which she replied "No don't be silly, it won't have any neckholes!" :o

hiya all. i have been really busy and not had chance to get on. dad had a hip replacement yesterday and i have had to be at work more than usual.

you lot's familys sound lovely, nice of all your relatives to be knitting for you

have you seen the thread in pregnancy about cravings, sweet or savoury and what sex its ment to be? fun reading but doubt its true as i craved savoury with pg1 and she was a girl! trust me to go against the grain.

oh and the thrush is back

I hope your dad recovers well Liz, wish I could have new hip, this ones killing me at the moment :( thats not good about the thrush though, what can you take for it when PG?? I have looked at online gender predictor things and they all said boy, im having a girl! I suppose I must be craving sweet things, I had a thing for apple juice around 8 weeks, and ate strawberries and cream every day for about 2 weeks the other week, and now I seem to have a addiction to party rings. Do sweet things mean a girl then?

They are all sorts Melly, pale green, turquoise-green, yellow, white. The blanket is knitted on the top, then a padding underneath (has a speacial name, but can never remember it!!) with a frill around the edge. It's absolutely gorgeous and was almost crying when my mum showed me.
Lol at your sister with no neck holes :)

Sorry about your Dad's op Liz, hope he's OK and his recovery won't be too long. (Also sorry about the thrush)

My Dad retires tomorrow, yippee! He can't wait. He's 65 on Friday, but finishing tomorrow. Took all his cakes etc in today as he thinks he'll only be in for a couple of hours tomorrow. What a feeling it must be, knowing you'll never ever work again. I know we don't work as such, but if the business went tits up, we would have to go back to work, so it's never set in stone. So excited for him. Now he and my mum can come here and help us!!

DH been doing conservatory floor today. Bar 1 row (where he's got to do a bit of chopping etc as against our stone wall to house), he's finished, can't believe how quick it went in! Finally getting somewhere. He wants to tile the bathroom next week, GET IN!!

Wow he has been cracking on then Klou! What else needs doing after the bathroom? Blanket sounds gorgeous, is it an eiderdown or something like that? and the outfits sound lovely too :) I can't even begin to imagine what it must be like knowing you're leaving work forever! I have years and years to go yet, seems like a lifetime away!

After the bathroom, all our lounge furniture is going into the conservatory so we can plaster the lounge, then carpet it. The carpet from lounge is going on landing and baby's room (as they're a dark pink, bloody awful!), as nothing wrong with it in lounge (it's cream), but want a seagrass sort of one in there. Then nursery, then garden (he used to be a landscaper, but going to keep it simple). He wants it all done by end of May :) Good for me!

melly aparently you crave sweet things for a girl and savoury for a boy. and apart from using canestan cream i am not too sure what else i can do. someone on here said ironing the crotch in your pants as the temperature kills the bacteria what washing cant, but there is no way i am standing doing that!

klou you dh sounds like a diamond!really cracking on. my dh is still not being ANY help at all. i got the paint for the nursery as it was buy one get one free in focus, then i had a 20% off voucher that ended last weekend so i got it then, ended up costing £12 odd for 2 tins of paint!