Anyone due October 2004 - number 2

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Well here goes in date order:

Eyelash (age 36) - 30 September (but always very late). DS1 4 and ds2 21 months
Piglit (age ?) - 6th October First pregnancy
geoteach (age ?) - 7th October 2 children
Toots (age 37)- 8th October dd1 2
Beansprout (age ?) - 12 October first pregnancy
florenceuk (age ?) - due 15 October
Debra64 (age ?) - 20th October dd 7 ds1 6 ds2 4
Miffy2 - 20th October dd 5 ds2 2
Harman (age 34) - 22nd October dd1 6 ds2 3 dd2 2
neuman - due 26 October
Nueman (age ?) - 26 October

I don't have much information on scruff so hope she sees this to let us know how she is getting on. Also hope I haven't missed anybody off. If so let me know so I can rectify it. If any of you want to add further information such as age, children, etc also let me know.

Ladies, ladies, i found this gender predictor on the web (daft isn't it that while I definitely don't want to know what the little wriggler is, I still get excited by such gimmickry). Anyway, felt I ought to share it with you since it was accurate for my DS and my sisters DS and DD!!

Here it is - I hope!

Plus, it confirms my suspicions that there's a little brother in there for DS!

Sooz31 - Do you put in the age you were at the time of conception?? If I put my age now it says a girl and my then it says a boy!

Toothache, I think you put in your age at conception? That's what I've been doing.

Oh hell... another boy!! Won't ever have to buy hiim an item of clothing if it is a boy.... he'll be hand-me-down kid!

Sooz - it says I am having a boy and I already know its a girl so can't be 100% accurate

Good point, same here (if it is another boy of course!)

Turtle - My friend was told she was having a girl from a Private anatomy scan she had at 21wks..... out popped a BOY!

ah, yes, turtle, maybe it's only 99%?!

I tried the gender prediction thing too but ahve a dilemma - I conceived the weekend of my birthday (which was a Sunday), so I was either 24 or 25 - one says girl, one says boy! I KNEW I should have asked at the scan!

Anyone tried this quiz...?
Boy or Girl quiz

Oh no I don't like hearing stories like that, I have been buying pink!! I was shown the labia in the scan with two scanologists in the room, surely that must confirm it.....no?

Turtle35 - lol, depends how many weeks you were at the scan.

Turtle, Don't mean to panic you, but I know I girl who was shown a willy at her scan and now has a beautiful girl called Maia!

Also, anyone else having wildly vivid and highly inappropriate dreams about gorgeous men? Hugh Jackman has been particularly good to me these last few nights ...

Beanibabe, can you transfer over if you decide to? Speaking as a lady who couldn't have contemplated her first birth without all the pharmaceuticals on offer?

(OK, and a lady who had a MUCH better birth at home with next one. Split personality, moi?)

Turtle - our db was being very shy at the 20 week scan (db had its legs tucked underneath and its knees together) The sonographers (there were 3 of them!) said that on balance it is probably a boy. She then went on to say that leedle girl bits are quite big and can look like a scrotum and that's why it can be hard to tell!

Another option is to hire an independent midwife, who could do your antenatal care and take you through to birth, either at birth centre or hospital, whatever you chose.

I was 20 weeks? I guess I should cool it on purchasing gorgeous little pink dresses until she/he arrives.

I haven't bought a single thing for poor db. I turn to a pile of soppy goo when I even look at the leedle outfits!

Piglit me too and I just can't stop myself, I went nuts in the Little White Company - there should be a warning on the front door!

Can I be a real bore and go back to the aromatherapy quesiton??

Is the Clairns Body Treatment Oil "Tonic" OK to use for stretch-marks? does anyone know? I just read we should stay away from rosemary and sage and they are both in this one? I have it but am afraid to use it?

I saw an advert for the White Co baby stuff - god help me when I get a chance to go there.

That Clarins stuff is fine. I bought some for stertchmarks and was told by the Clarins lady (well, young girl of about 12 ) who sold it to me that it's fine. My friends who have been pg all said they used it. A word of warning though - it makes the shower slippery than a slippy ice rink so be careful when you get in and out (and tell dh/dp to watch out as well. Ooops.)

Aaaargh... check out the White Company baby booties...

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I have been reading that swinging is a great way to get your little baby to sleep. Would it be better to buy a swinging crib than a moses basket for the first few months and then put the little one into a cot?

any thoughts on this?

I haven't got beyond cutie booties I'm afraid. (I will work out how to do links one of these days...)

Turtle, You can buy rocking stands for moses baskets if you didn't want to splash out on a rocking crib. Don't know if they work or not, I kow I'd rather lay still than be swayed from side to side though!

Have got back from my appt and have now transferred to the Edgware Birth Centre (although I do hear good things about the Tooting one Flo).
They are lovely and moose centred. Basically it's v quiet there and I just do what I need to do with all the support they can muster. No medics but option to transfer if I want or need to.

Am very relieved and all my instincts tell me I have made the right decision.

Right, that's the business end of things, now for some big time gooing over booties.....