Its June!!!!! 20 week scan next month!!! Whos with me?

[ttc_lolly]

Good afternoon ladies hope everyone is well?

I haven't really got a linea nigra yet, I did get one with DD but it was much more towards the end. Saying that though, bump then was pretty small and bump now is already big so it could come a lot earlier! No leaky nips yet either it is normal though, for whoever asked sorry I forgot your username

 

[Scally]

Hey lauryn! How are you doing?

x

 

[ttc_lolly]

I'm good thanks hun 26 weeks today so celebrated by eating half a pack of biscuits how are you?

Anyone doing anything nice for the Bank Holiday? x

 

[Sarahcake]

Taken from my Facebook...

"So cooked up some mince for lasagne, look in the cupboard see no red lasagne sauce but see a white sauce. So i think right, ill use this el crappy Tesco tomato sauce which is infested with large chunks of tomato. It will be ok right as its mixed into a lasagne with tasty white sauce right? WRONG!!! My white sauce turned out to be carbonara pasta bake.

So now I have a frying pan of beef and tomato fail sat on the hob. I am a culinary failure. Sorry Neil, its Mince-a-la-Fuckup for you tonight."

I hate cooking, I mess up the simplest of things! Im now sat in hysterics at the whole thing lol

Hiya Lauryn, I approve of your way to celebrate

 

[pops23]

I'm not sure if Ive felt hiccups yet, but my stomach has been moving all over the place for the last half hour!!

Can't believe so many of you are 3rd tri already, wait for me! ;-) only 5 days to go, can't quite get my head round it!

Have got totally on top of my list now. Chosen pram (iCandy strawberry) and a car seat maxicosi pebble). Need to research bottle sterilisers and baby monitors and going to get the Medela swing breast pump off amazon. Think we've chosen our furniture and everything else is on a list for baby shower, anything I don't get I'll buy myself (it's on the 13th oct so will be 34 weeks). Yay! Also going to get a carrier (baby bjorn active)

Have Moses basket and nursery theme and all clothes I'm going to start with.

Also got a nappy dispenser (tommee tippee) from boots yesterday for £12.95, yay!

Will do hospital bag when I return. I was thinking soft duffle bag for my bits and then baby bits all in the changing bag. That way can just pack everything and not have to worry about a 3rd bag of bits to leave in the car.

Exciting!

Happy 27 weeks Sarah! Xxx

 

[pops23]

Happy 26 weeks Lauryn! X

 

[pops23]

Ps Sarah I've gone from being a good cook and loving it to barely able to make scrambled egg! I blame bean, dinners have been pretty shite at our house lately! X

 

[Scally]

I agree with the shite dinners, I haven't had the energy to do anything, or its been too hot or my memory has been so appalling i have forgotten to get the chicken out of the freezer for 3 nights running now resulting in us eating fish fingers, noodles and soup!

Pops- sounds like you are getting on well with your list. I have a few more bits to get but nothing major.

Lauryn- we are going to take my daughter to the cinema on Sunday and have a day out to get the last of the baby bits, totally didnt realise it was a bank holiday until today!

x

 

[Scally]

I have had a pm back from wobbles- they are not able to move the thread, and she asked that we start a thread under the groups and discussions forum. What shall we call ourselves ladies? I thought i would start it off in the next couple of days and then write a visitor message to all the ladies on here directing them to the new thread. Its a shame we cant bring this one with us x

 

[Inoue]

Thats a shame that we cant move the thread over but thanks for asking wobbles anyway. I guess it would make sence to move it to the discussion section, cant really think of a great title name but this came to my head "Yummy mummys of winter 2012" or "November booty babies 2012" or "November snowflakes 2012" x

 

[ttc_lolly]

I'm glad you approve Sarah! Wine was obviously off the menu, but chocolate biscuits sure ain't!

Thanks Pops

That is a shame they won't move the thread over I have no idea for a thread name though, I have lost all creativity (cooking wise too) a long time ago. If I ever had it in the first place is questionable!

 

[kellie_w]

Wow! So many posts in the last few days! Hi everyone hope you are all well

Aww what a shame this thread can't be moved, I don't want to see it disappear down the page, I love seeing this title bumped back up knowing its one of you ladies writing on here! Not many of us left to cross over to third tri now! I couldn't resist any longer, I washed all my baby clothes this week. My washing line looked amazing with so many tiny clothes on it. I have found so many clothing bargains, I went eBay mad over the past two weeks and now definitely need no more 0-3 clothes! I'm putting my bag together as well, spreading the cost of things to buy. I brought the best thing yet last night from mothercare, some sleep bras! Sounds strange but wearing that I had the best nights sleep in ages and woke up with no painful boobs. Definitely worth every penny Im also getting huge kicks, they really make me jump now and are all over the place. I had one were it was like I was kicked in back then the next in my bladder which was so hard I nearly peed

Is anyone else's smileys to the right flashing blue and yellow?! Looks weird! X

 

[ttc_lolly]

Kellie I've been going eBay mad too! I've got so many bargains, pretty much all of my newborn and 0-3m stuff. I just need to get some vests really and maybe a few more cute outfits, you can never have enough

My smilies are fine, they sometimes do that when I'm on my phone though!

 

[kellie_w]

Same here! We brought nearly all new for Luke, but they grow so quick it feels a waste spending so much! I got a beautiful ted baker outfit, jeans, tshirt and thick cardigan for £7, would have cost nearly £50 new. I'm so pleased with it but it makes me want to buy more!

Is anyone else having any breast feeding fears? I couldn't do it last time, and really want to make a go of it and be successful this time. I have heard about classes, I may book onto one but reading horror stories of bleeding nipples etc is making me scared! X

 

[Scally]

Hello Kellie!!!!!!!! Wondered where you went!!!!!!
Yay for washing the little mans clothes and starting getting to get your hospital bag ready..... I think i might start sorting a bit today, i am itching to do it so much!
I breastfed last time for about 4 weeks, but I was so poorly with bleeding the breastfeeding was making it worse and i needed to be put on stronger antibiotics.
I enjoyed feeding her, but i am not going to lie it was bloody hard work and many times i screamed at my OH to please grow some boobs and help me! lol. As for bleeding nipples etc I cannot recommend nipple shields enough, they were my life saver especially when i was expressing as that blooming hurt at times! Ooooh and dont express in the first couple of weeks if u can help it, it hurt my nipples so much and i got hardly any milk to show for it!
Fantastic for your e bay bargains, I got a lot of our little madams clothes on there, secondhand but great condition, like you we had so much new with Izzy that just didnt get the wear.

Inoue- i like your suggested names, we'll have to have a vote and decide definitely in the next couple of days maybe?

x

 

[Scally]

Ooooh and isnt it strange we are all getting our hard kicks back..... oh yes Kellie the kick in the bladder, i can just have been to the toilet but have to go running there again after one of those kicks! x

 

[Inoue]

Morning all

Yeh, maybe we could put the title to a vote... or just stay on this thread . I dont mind clicking on here when i want to chat .
My LO kicks are getting harder aswel, even when i sit down. Im still waiting for a rib kick though! lol.
I plan on 'trying' to BF for the first week then thats about it, im not very comfortable with the idea/thought but i want to give the best start to LO if i can. It doesnt make that many odds to me if i BF or bottle. My mum never managed to BF me as i was prem and was purely on goats milk fed via bottle.
I may be a little naughty and wash LO going home outfit, i just dont know what wash powder to use? I have a few of them fairy tablets you get with the bounty packages but other than that, i only have biological nice strong smelling surf. Maybe that will be to harsh for baby? .
Ive also gone Ebay mad and got loads of 0-3 month baby stuff, i will stop now as my draws and cupboard are bulging! It difficult to remember we need winter clothing, not what you get in shops now.

Hats go off to Kellie for being the first mass washer x

 

[pops23]

My mass washing date is booked in for last week of september, going to hold off till then. what is everyone using to wash baby bits?

Shame about this thread but lets definitely get a new one going, only 4 days till I can join you in 3rd tri! xxx

 

[kellie_w]

Hi ally! Thank you for sharing about breast feeding. I had a dream last night about it, it was such a lovely dream too. If only it was that easy!! Are you going to try this time? My view last time was my son is poorly, he needs to eat NOW, get me some formula. He was purple from screaming whilst we tried to latch him so I just gave up. It was such a unpleasant experience, especially when I was pressured every day in hospital to try again and again. Do you have your midwife appointment this week? I know you are just before me normally.

Ladies who are expecting their first: this is what you have to look forward to! This morning Luke comes in soaked in pee where he has pulled his nappy down in the night. His top and bottom are soaked, as is every sheet and quilt in his bed. Strip him and his bed, Leave him with cbeebies and IPad in our room, everything goes in wash, grab a nappy, back upstairs to find he has poo'd everywhere, walked it everywhere and smeared it all over him. Put him in bath, grab carpet spray, soak the stains, quickly wipe the walls, go into bathroom and he has poo'd in the bath and wiped it everywhere in there. Arggggggggggg

It's going to be a great Friday

 

[kellie_w]

Thank you inoue! I was making the most of the 'lovely' hot weather for getting clothes dry and in quick! I didn't want them all to end up on airers in the house, I love drying clothes outside so they air well. I used fairy liquid and blue comfort. I think its recommended not to use bio detergant, i used non bio until luke was about 6 months.They smell so lovely! Some of the clothes I brought second hand were a bit musty smelling, a couple of bits were also smokey so I didnt want them hanging around.

I wasn't breast fed either, I was taken straight to great ormond street at birth so my mum had no choice. I would be so happy formula feeding again, but my only niggling thing is that Luke was ill so much in his first year (and second!) that did I cause that by not breast feeding and him missing out on antibodies? He has always been in the top percentiles for weight and off the chart for height so I guess it's not all bad! X