Curvy ladies

[sunshine623]

Thanks! Hopefully it will be a less stressful position, but I guess only time will tell. He's told them he could start immediately since we'll have to wait 30 days before the insurance starts again. That's the scary part for me, thinking that at this stage in pregnancy I'll have to go a month without insurance. You all are so lucky to not have to worry about all the insurance crap.

Guess everyone's about stopped using this site?? I'm still checking in on it about every day just in case. Guess since we have the facebook page, we're using it more.

 

[Mrs B mum2b]

yes we are lucky although I think a lot of people don't think like that and take it for granted!
What's the facebook link pls? I should join!

 

[Tizy]

Hello those of us still left, its so sad that this group has fallen apart, its just not the same on Facebook, you can't get as much accross.

I had a reasonable weekend, day to myself on Saturday, so I did some baking, made banana and chocolate chip bread and then chocolate and peanut butter brownies - god they are divine but think there is about 200g of butter in them, plus chocolate, sugar and the rest!

On Sunday, Mark and I went to this little village called Cartmel and sat in a beer garden listening to some nice Jazz music, it was lovely, I had half a cider and then a pork and apple burger, very relaxing and the sun came out a little too. On the way home we decided to pick up our pram from the in-laws.

So the story begins.... we wanted to get the carrycot part of the pram set up in the lounge (with some foil inside and citrus oils around the base) to deter the cat from using it before baby arrives but we also decided to see how the car seat works in the car etc....being practical, making sure we know what we're doing when the baby arrives!

So we set up the carrycot, it clicks onto the surefix stand which I bought separately (as it is specialist to the mamas and papas stuff) to make a sort of moses basket - it looked lovely. Great I thought, was so pleased and very chuffed with my purchase.

We went to the car with the car seat and the surefix base which i bought separately (as it is specialist to the mamas and papas stuff), this means you just have to click the car seat in and out of the base without having to faff with seat belts as much. So we put it in the rear passenger side and realised that it would only fit with the passesnger chair pulled right forward, which means anyone sitting in the front would be very uncomfortable with their legs pressed against the dash! GREAT! Only option then to put baby in the front, so that sorted but not particularly happy about it and still not sure if I have the option of disabling the air bag?? I'm trying to look into this becuase obviously baby can't go in front if air bags are on!

Then we try the pram in the boot, well the pram chasis (i.e. the frame) only just fits but takes the entire boot, maybe you could squeeze a few bits underneath or on top but nothing of any large size, so useless if we wanted to go away with overnight bags! ALSO it is not possible to fit the pushchair seat part of the pram into the boot with it! Therefore if we wanted a day out somewhere as a family our only option is to use the car seat with the chasis!!

Sorry i'm ranting but I really need some advice, here are my options:

1. Get rid of the whole lot, car seat, pram, pushcahir, carrycot, the stand and base, all the accessories and try selling on ebay and then start again.
2. Keep the car seat and base for car, carrycot and stand for the house and then use the pushchair and chasis for when I'm going anywhere by foot from home and just get by with the chasis and carseat combo for days out by car
3. Keep car seat and base for car and sell the rest and then try to find a small pram which folds up smaller for the boot of the car and that is suitable from birth

I just don't know what to do, one part of me thinks well, how often in the first year are we actually gonna get to go away (overnight stays), we will go to my mums, then we wouldn't be able to take the buggy at all becuase with holly and the bags there wouldn't be room, but maybe mum could just buy a cheap buggy for her house. Then if we do go on a day out as a family, we can just fit a picnic box and Holly and I in the back seat and just use the chasis and car seat combo - do you guys think this is suitable?? I know you're not meant to keep babies in them for extended periods but a few hours is ok.

I'll attach some piccys (these are the ones the ebay seller posted, its actually nicer than it looks as well) so you can see how nice it is, it is in immaculate condition and has all been professionally cleaned but I would need £375 for the lot including the car seat base and stand, just worried I'll lose money on it or it won't sell. Honest opinions please. I can look for a new car seat and smaller pram with the money if I do sell it.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO???

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Han Xxx

 

[Tizy]

Mrs B - the Facebook link is here:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/curvyladies/?id=273778089303759&notif_t=group_activity

Definately join, its just us Curvy Ladies on there and the group is closed so no one else can see our posts.

Han Xxx

 

[Gemmylou86]

Hey Han... How frustrated you must be? What car have you got?

What I would suggest is keep the pram. Just be realistic about what combinations you will actually need/use. It's such a waste to re-sell, it's a beautiful travel system. xx

 

[no1seasider]

Aw Han

The pram is lovely.I think you should be ok with the car seat and chassis as you say for trips out.If you think about it,when you are out in the car,baby usually nods off in the car seat,so its much simpler to click it onto the chassis than transfer them into carrycot!This is what i'm planning to do anyway.The carrycot will be used while im walking everywhere(i.e school run etc)and although it will all fit into the car(we have a 7 seater galaxy) im pretty sure we'll use the car seat mostly while out and about in the car.
The pram is lovely,one of my good friends bought the exact same one off ebay for her baby Lucy and it is stunning! she's always out walking with Lucy in the car seat on the chassis as she says she sleeps much better in it!

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend?We had our weekend with no kids and spent all day sat and sunday decorating and moving furniture!we have swapped bedrooms with Kyle and Ellis(who had the bigger room).Wish we had done it ages ago now as both rooms look great! Im on a 'get the house ready for baby' mission i think as now thats done im thinking i'll re do the kitchen and put some ceramic tiles in the bathroom!I'm having a chill today,as completely wore myself out doing upstairs and im working tonight til half ten Then tomorrow i think i'll start stripping the kitchen May as well do it while i have a bit of energy as im normally shattered by 8pm!!

Have a lovely day girls x

 

[Tizy]

Thanks Gemma,

I'm starting to come round a bit! It actually helped massively to type out that post, I offloaded!

My car is a Citroen C3, its not a compact car but small ish, it has 5 doors so i was surprised we have the problems we have.

Mark wants to keep the pram too, It is really nice and it would have cost over £1K new! I guess we maybe just have to be more careful and realistically I don't think we'll be going away much first year, then it'll be time to buy a forward facing car seat, which takes up less room and I'll sell the pram at 2 years and get a stroller.

Maybe I've made this into more of a deal than I need to. Just hope I can get the air bag switched off on the passenger side, there is no switch on my dash that I know of. Anybody know about this? Its a 2003 car.

Thanks Xxx

 

[cranberry987]

id sell the lot tbh if it doesnt do what you want then theres really no point keeping it. cant be altering your life because the pram wont let you do stuff. would probably sell better as a whole set as well.

back from beautiful days, was fun but different being sober and not as mobile as usual. had to rest a lot more and washed my hands about 50 times a day so i didnt get ill at least. bit knackered now tho tbh

 

[Mrs B mum2b]

thanks Han - will endeavor to join FB soon!
My tummy hasn't stopped rumbling since I read your baking fest!!! yum yum!!!!!!

Sorry you are in a rut re the pram etc but I'm afraid I am of no use and not even got one yet to see how it all works! I hope you work it out and glad to see you are calmer about it now.... it is a gorgeous set. xx

 

[Gemmylou86]

Thanks Gemma,

I'm starting to come round a bit! It actually helped massively to type out that post, I offloaded!

My car is a Citroen C3, its not a compact car but small ish, it has 5 doors so i was surprised we have the problems we have.

Mark wants to keep the pram too, It is really nice and it would have cost over £1K new! I guess we maybe just have to be more careful and realistically I don't think we'll be going away much first year, then it'll be time to buy a forward facing car seat, which takes up less room and I'll sell the pram at 2 years and get a stroller.

Maybe I've made this into more of a deal than I need to. Just hope I can get the air bag switched off on the passenger side, there is no switch on my dash that I know of. Anybody know about this? Its a 2003 car.

Thanks Xxx

Dans a mechanic so if you tell me what reg and style c3 you have he can look it up to see if you have an airbag disarm switch.

Like you say, it's unlikely you'll ever need all of it in tge car with all of you at the same time lol.
But it can be disheartening if you've got it all worked out in your head and it doesn't go to plan.

You've got me worried now. We're in the process of getting a new car this week and I cant take the pram with me because I cant pick it up til it comes back in stock at the end of next month! Eeek!

 

[Tizy]

Thanks Chris, your lovely comments have cheered me up Sounds like you've been really busy, bet the house is coming along nice We did the same earlier on in my pregnancy, swapped bedrooms with Holly and its made the world of difference.

Hi Helen, hope you had a great time. Thanks for sharing your advice, I'm leaning now towards keeping it, to sell would mean I'd have to sort new car seats, bases, pram, and a sleeping solution to replace carrycot and stand in the lounge, soooo much hassle. But we'll see.

Mrs B, see you of FB soon and thanks for your comments.

Gemma, I've just read on google that there might be a slot to put the key into on the right hand side of the dash when you've got the door open, so i'll have a look and let you know, if I can't find it if you could ask Dan that's be great, thanks thats really helpful.

I'm sure your new car will be fine, its just bad luck really, its hard to get an idea, of size and shape of something with wheels on when you've only got the dimensions. We could def do with a new car too, but we looked into finance yesterday and we just can't afford it when I go on Maternity, will have to wait another year or so.

Thanks everyone Xxx

 

[cranberry987]

id get my next car on finance for sure but cant afford £100+ a month while im on leave so will stick with this one for now. hopefully rich wont need a car for his new job when hes made redundant next year, can maybe get a new one with his payout for me and he use mine as i use it loads more than him.

sorry, bit rambly and tired.

 

[Gemmylou86]

The only reason we can afford it is because I'm downgrading from a 2L saloon to a 1.3 hatchback. My insurance is going from 135 p/m to 45 p/m, tax is going from 230 a year to 30 a year. Plus I'm currently using about 160 p/m fuel and smaller engine will drastically cut that down too. Oh and it was no deposit and interest free finance too. I'm actually going to end up saving myself around 100 p/m months and getting a newer, safer car into the bargain. I'm well chuffed x

 

[pink sparkle]

Sorry its taken me a while to get on. Just wondering han, does the carseat better in the back without the base? Maybe if it does just use it without the base and re-sell that. We are using the same pushchair that i had for ds which is a loola by bebeconfort. You honestly wont be out that much with such a young baby in winter and honestly the carseat/chasis combination is fantastic, as when its raining, freezing cold etc etc you will not want to take baby out of carseat and put him into the carrycot. The carrycot is ideal for going on nice walks, even walking to the local shops (if close enough). Ds was out of his carseat which came with the travel system within 3 months!!! We had to buy a 0+ carseat as he was too big and looked too uncomfortable in the one which came with the system. We then invested in a very cheap light weight one so that when we went shopping (he was too young to go in the trolley) we would also have room for shopping and also for when we went away etc we didnt want to have to take a big pram/chasis with us. Most of my friends have their babies on the front passenger seat as they like to be able to see the baby when driving etc and can be handy if baby starts to cry etc you can tend to them at traffic lights hehe. Ds was always in the back but i hated not being able to see him more than likely will have baby in the front when im on my own with the two under 2s (eeek!!!).

I hope this has helped ...i would work around the pushchair if you really love it, most systems are big and bulky and take up most of the room in the boot. Also great idea about having an extra pushchair at your mums and there will always be space on the back passenger seat and under seats for clothing, just dont pack cases pack supermarket bags for life which is what i always use now when going away as can get much more in the car.

I hope what i have written makes sense as i seem to be rambling on a bit hehe!

Sorry i havent been on much over the weekend but im back!!! xxxx

 

[Tizy]

Oooh Gemma, thats a cracking deal with ya new car - miles better than before.

Jayne, thanks hunni, you've talked perfect sense there, and think you're right. I will get my use out of it, the main reason I wanted it in the first place was so that I could have the car seat attached to the chasis without the hood bit on the front of the pram. I'll try your car seat idea, but Mark and I discussed it and feel baby will be better in the front, like you said. We'll be ok in the end. Oh and guess what the parcel arrived, the clothes are lovely, sooo nice, i'm really happy with everything. Thanks Jayne Xxx

Gotta go, I'm at work.....ooops Xxx

 

[pink sparkle]

YAY for the parcel arrived and so glad your happy with it shame on you royal mail for taking so bloody long...i can relax a bit now was really starting to stress about it!

When baby arrives you will find what works best for you in terms of seating arrangements in the car etc its all trial and error xxx

 

[Rees]

Ello! I'm using my phone at work again!

Amy - yay and nay for Nick! At least he can reapply next year and get a better paid job in the mean time

Han - we don't have a car or drive but tegs was in the car seat attachment on the pram for ages, she was a nosey baby and liked looking around

Do the wheels pop off the chassis easily enough? Might be an idea and help to squidge it in further?

We've just got a new pram for Tegs/baby - the Britax B-mobile, half price on amazon - £99! It's amazing! That arrived on friday, sofa's appeared this morning so hometime can't come fast enough gonna get Luke to chase Sky up for when our phone and internet will be connected, I need it back! At least we finally have TV back!

My phone has been playing silly buggers, keeps cutting the internet off when it should be connected, not the best time for that to happen

My bump feels huge, especially today! Only got 3 days left until my scan can't wait to see baby

Hope everyone is good and bumps are behaving! Xx

 

[cranberry987]

tbh i stopped posting in here because of rachel, she has massive issues with me because of her multiple chipped shoulders and her passive agressiveness was just getting boring. shes defriended me and anything i post in the fb group she attacks.

it doesnt bother me as im not that shallow to get my self worth from someone on the internet, just boring to read.

anyway...yey for scan in 3 days. is that all of us past the anomaly scan then?

 

[pink sparkle]

Oh helen im suprised by that tbh i saw you had one heated conversation on here but didnt think that it ran that deep. I think we have very different opinions on things but i like that we are all so different. I saw a post of yours in another thread and didnt want to mention it but i hope i have never made you feel like i was criticising your choices in your pregnancy. I may not agree with everyones decisions but your baby your body iykwim and tbh i actually felt it was more the other way like hospitals were being criticised. I dont want to get into that at all just wanted to have my say but not in an argumentative way or anything like that but maybe at times we have all felt a little like our choices have been criticised by others.

Yay for your scan rees bet you cant wait to find out baby's sex!

Also yay gemma for a new car...very jealous! We have a shitty excuse of a car but hubby has points on licence so insurance an issue for us and ive only been driving for a few years and would hate to drive anything too nice as hubby would go mad at me for any little scratch knock or bump....and i tend to get a few hehe!

 

[cranberry987]

The stupid thing is it didn't run that deep. Everything said has been on here. I pm'd her once to say look what's going in lets sort it but she didn't want to. Not like there's been some massive toing and froing behind the scenes. Like I say it's just boring and nit worth all the drama tbh.

The post I wrote about my birth choices wasnt that I mind being criticised but it's unfair that I can't do it back if I disagree with other peoples choices (nor would I want to). Was just a rant about inequality really. And I get it from everyone btw not just here so it wasn't really specific to this group.

That's a separate issue tho really. Like you say we can have differences in opinion and respect each other. No need to throw a flounce.

She's not here to defend herself tho so maybe it's unfair for me to post. But it's like shes trying to stop me commenting on anything ever which disagrees or is slightly different from what she says. Ive tried sorting it out with her and she refuses so not much more I can do.