october 2010 continued

[Katy86]

just thought id get a new one going as there are only 2 messages space left on the original..xxx

Jacks hope your not too lonely, I love being home alone but only when I have a bottle of wine handy so no good when pregnant!

Saartjie hope you feel better soon

weekend is set to be a scorcher - hurrah

crazyh, I am on this Sept thread, as I'm actually due on 26 Sep, but date was revised once I'd already started posting on this one, so keep an eye on them both these days!

Everyone heard that the HIP grant is being abolished - but not until next year? Phew.

26+5

Thats good that we still get the HIP fornthe time being - I thought for sure they'd scrap it just when i'm about to get it! :p

Is anyone else doing the baby's room yet? I'm having a cotbed mattress quandry if anyone has any advice?

We're still having a bugaboo colour war.. After fainting, severe hyperemesis and everything else I think we're going to stick to our plan of just having one DC.. so I want pink! In my very pregnant way I don't see why my DH is being so unreasonable about not wanting to push a pink pram around ;)

Hope everyone else is loving the sun! x

anythingwithagiraffeonit When we bought our phil & Ted for DD1 I had to get charcoal as DH wouldn't push a red one due to that being Manchester Utd colours and him being a Leeds fan! -

Hello all.

Hevster are u ok? Saw you on another thread today saying you were having a bad day but did not want to hijack that thread to ask!

Hey Jacks had a really bad week but am guessing thats down to spending 2 days in the office - how pathetic is that????

How's things with you - are DH and DS back today?

Not pathetic at all! That's rubbish, sorry u are having bad time . Is it the travelling or the stress of being in the office, or both?

They are back Sunday night. Half contemplating getting on a train to go and join them for the w/e but I think the journey might just finish me off!

Hiya girls, sorry I've not posted in a while.

BabyB; Glad you're feeling better, so sorry to hear about your mastitis that sounds bloody horrendous Really don't envy you at all. Is it just something that happens every so often?

Hevster; Sorry you're having a bit of a rubbish time with your job

Dilly; How's the quandry with the insane mum? Hope it gets better for you soon. Thinking of you!

So glad they're not abolishing the HIP until next year. I was raging lol! I definately thought that it'd be just my luck that they'd ditch the whole thing with me a week away from eligability putting it towards the frankly, shameful cost of my pram to soften the blow.

I'd be glad to hear about mattress advice from anyone, because other than not buying second hand, I don't have a bloody clue!

hey everyone, we are starting the nursery properly this weekend! got a few trips to the tip to make before I can start rearranging the spare room then we can paint and finally start buying!!! hope everyone has a relaxing few days x

Re cot/cotbed mattresses, we just bought the most expensive one from Mothercare last time (sprung, not foam) on the basis that it was probably the most comfortable and wasn't that expensive (about £60/70 I think, for the cot size). (Also my mum was paying which helped ).

Now trying to decide whether I need a new one for DC2, it seems like such a waste but I would never forgive myself if anything happened to DC2 and I would forever wonder if it was the mattress that did it!

hi ladies

i am having a bit of a worry day today. it's probably just hormones, but it has been building up for a few days.

i have been feeling proper kicks for a long time now (since 18 weeks i think). I had felt wriggling before that since 15 weeks. I am now 22+6 and in the last few days they have really settled down to almost nothing. I never seem to get the proper big kicks any more, and i just have this weird bubble sensation in my guts occasionally (but not that often), like she's pushing around my insides maybe? i also feel quite sick - which i guess could be a result of moving around on my guts.

i know that people go on about counting kicks and things but i thought that it was supposed to be from 25 weeks and that as i had felt things early i should just chill because they would come more regularly and maybe i was just lucky to feel things early.

i am sure i am being silly, but it is making me worry. do you think that she has just moved herself around so that she is kicking in rather than out? or do you think it's something more serious?

has anyone else had this?

it's really bothering me and i am finding it v difficult to concentrate at work. the nausea isnt helping either. although that could also just be from worry

any experiences gratefully received!

x

hi kfw maybe your baby is moving at night and you don't notice it when you are asleep?

thanks Roo

As if she knew that my worry was getting too much, she has finally started moving properly in the last hour! Nothing for days, and then a whole lot of boogaloo going on just now. She clearly likes Pret chicken salad for lunch. I must remember that.

I am sorry for the dramas everyone. I feel a bit now - but I had honestly not felt anything proper for days, regardless of how much sugar I ate (and I have eaten a lot ), so I got really worried.

I hope everyone has a good weekend. I am playing tennis tomorrow and Saturday. Not sure how good I am going to be with bump - haven't played since being PG. Running around the court is one of the only things I can do usually! And I dont think I will be able to blame a rubbish serve on a bump. Or can I?...

That's good KFW .

KFW glad she is moving again, had a bad scare myself last time and ended up wired to heart monitors etc. The one thing they said to me was put a chart on the fridge and stick a sticker on it every movement and if you have less than 10 a day then you need to worry otherwise all should be fine.

Jazzie we spent about the same as Jacks on a matress last time I did get a sprung one and the reason was that ours is sprung and I thought it was mean if I lowered the standards for DD just because she couldn't complain!

Jacks am getting a new matress for DD2 as I would just worry if i didn't and there is enough to worry about as it is (DD1's was donated to the dog!). Ikea seem to have a sprung one for £39.

Roo hope the nursery goes well

and everyone else, have a great weekend and thanks for all your good wishes, expect doc will put her foot down next fri and say no work

Oh ladies I'm so excited - I think I've found a travel system that I like and that doesn't cost more than my first car!

Having a lovely weekend although my eyes are realy killing me - think its hayfever although I've never been a sufferer before.

Hope you're all enjoying the nice weather.

xxx

Hello MB, good news re travel system.

I've been getting hayfever too I think. Apparently the pollen count has been super high recently. Also apparently (well according to my MIL, and this is my experience too!) women can get hayfever for the 1st time when pg.

God it's really HOT isn't it! My feet look swollen and hideous!

I have swollen ankles which look gross but I guess in this heat it's inevitable. MummyB good news about your travel system.

Hope everyone has had a good weekend

Jacks I was just reading that Pregnant women can get something called 'dry eye syndrome' which describes what I am experiencing - gritty, itchy feeling eyes - I think I'll ask at the Drs tomorrow what eye drops I can use.

Hi All,

Hope everyone's doing ok today in the heat. I am wfh to avoid the tube journey - have to try to be sensible!

Also have hayfever - ugh! And my optician said the gritty eyes are so common, you can use eyedrops I think. Mine come and go mummybeth so hopefully it won't be forever!
Glad about the travel system

Jazzie re the insane Mum...relatively quiet - we had a really really nice time with the boys this w/e though they only stayed one night instead of 2. We should be seeing them next w/e as well... watch this space as DH points out, if she realises we have had a nice time she will want to scupper that too so we're damned if we don't damned if we do!

What an amazing weekend! Apart from the small matter of the football i suppose.

mummyb how cool that you have found a travel system that you like! we chose a pram/buggy thing last weekend too

I am sorry to hear about people's eyes. Pregnancy does funny things. I am usually a real hayfever sufferer and weirdly this year (touch wood) I have had nothing at all. How weird is that? I have heard, like Jacks, that some people get it for the first time and others seem temporarily cured.

Have a good week all. I wish I didnt have to be in the office.

O lordy - the football - DH is German and a real footie fan (his brother nearly went pro..that kind of thing!) and poor man is having to be very subdued in his celebrations, poor love! (Not really much bothered by the footie myself, just like goals, don't mind whose they are!)

Afternoon All,

Hope you are well. Sorry this is a bit of a generic message, my boss now sits at the desk behind me facing my computer, so I really struggle to be able to look at Mumsnet at the moment, have managed a sneak catch up on everything but thought I would be best to type reply on an e-mail and then copy and paste it so that he doesn?t know what I am doing. Don?t actually think he looks at what I am doing or anything but better safe than sorry!

Regarding the gritty eye thing and hayfever, I went to the Doc?s about mastitis and asked what I could do as had been taking piriton, he said that although it?s fine to take it?s even safer to use eye drops and has given me Opticrom Aqueous which I am meant to use a drop 4 times a day but to be fair only use it once or twice a day and it?s pretty much cleared up my gritty eyes and hayfever! (Plus it?s free as is on prescription!)

We bought a second hand travel system, looks almost brand new and it?s a Silver Cross that should have cost £400, we got it for £120! So a bit of a bargain, although DH stored it in the conservatory and the sun over the last couple of weeks seems to have melted the lacquer on the rubber handles and they are now a bit sticky, any suggestions? Don?t really want to buy a whole new travel system but don?t know what to do. Thought we?d go down the second hand route as apparently you only use the travel systems for a while then switch to a buggy type at about 7 months so decided we?d do a cheap one initially then buy a new one when she is a little older.

Have just signed up for an NCT course? Has anyone ever done one? Have also become an NCT member but have kind of just done it on everyones recommendations, so hoping it?s worth the money!

Sorry for the long post! Hope you are all well and feeling little wrigglers!

xxx

BabyB we only used the travel system for the first 3 months with DD and then i got fed up with lugging it in and out of the car which I believe is pretty common.
We also did NCT last time and I made some really good friends that I still see on a regular basis so it was well worth it.