Hi girls,
Tara- good to hear that your back is doing better! maybe that's the same for me as well then with the not crossing your legs thing, as i've been trying really hard to correct myself when I catch that I'm doing that, so yeah I didn't think it could be that helping to relieve some pressure
Ali- Oh I know exactly what you mean about people sticking their noses in with unwanted comments! I mean seriously?? why do they do it? surely instead of them 'warning us' of what's to come, it's only highlighting their own shit parenting skills and experiences! lol It's not all bad!! Great news about getting some bits for baby though, and even better when you get given stuff like your furniture set, those things really come in handy!!
Oh I had my sis in law come over yesterday for that roast dinner, and she really annoyed me with her comments like that too, she has two kids, one and three, and she was saying stuff like oh you'll have to get used to them spilling drinks and snotty noses all over your furniture and poo etc! And when we showed her what the nursery is like at the moment, she noticed my hospital bag and was like 'oh you won't need half of that, you always over-do everything with your first one, you'll learn with your second!' And I was thinking 'f**k you!' lol seriously everything in that hospital bag at the moment, I WILL need, nappies, maternity pads, baby clothes etc!, I seriously haven't over-packed on this one! I haven't even got half of it in there yet anyway! lol why does she think I won't need those things??? and she was like 'just take one outfit for baby, towel and a few toiletries and if you need anything else, mike can come back and get it' errrrr no! why would I want mike to keep leaving the hospital to come back and get me things? if I can fit it in the bag then i'd rather get it all in there so he doesn't have to leave us! I mean geeez his first born will have just arrived, I don't think he's gonna wanna keep leaving us to come back and forth to get things I didn't pack on purpose! she can be soo frustrating!
She also kept saying 'oh you won't make half as much effort with everything when it's your second either, you learn with your first that a lot of it doesn't matter!' I just kept thinking ' are you mad?? do you know that basically you are saying that you don't care for your second child as much as your first! lol, I mean I know you won't need to buy as much stuff cause you'll have a lot that you can re-use with the first, but I'm sorry I don't think i'd ever 'not bother as much' with any future children I decide to have! Again they are not burdens to me! If I choose to have them then I take all the responsibility for them and treat them all equal, I mean how could you not??
For example, her first child hit all the milestones very quickly as she spent loads of time with her, with her potty training, speech, crawling, walking etc etc and she did a great job, and she said with her second she's not pushing anything on her, she'll just do it when she wants to, and I haven't got time to spend on her like I did with the first! Her second is just over one and has only just started to crawl and can say maybe one or two words, now I know some kids are late developers etc and that is absolutely nothing wrong with her second at all, but I just know that if she had put in a bit more effort with her second, that she would equally be developing well like her first child did! It's like she doesn't care about openly admitting that she 'can't be arsed' to spend as much time helping her second child like she did her first......like I said before, she's just pointing out her bad parenting skills, rather than trying to tell me how I am gonna follow in her footsteps and treat my second child with less effort than my first!
Sorry that was a MASSIVE rant there! haha I was sooooooo annoyed though! Every child is different, every parent is different, I hate when people are so adamant that you will experience everything they have, just because they already have kids and think they are the experts! Just can't wait to prove her wrong! lol I'll do it my way and my child will most defo benefit from it thank you very much! lol
Anyway....haha sorry! Hope everyone is having a good day, defo a good day for walking, we haven't had any snow either, which is weird for northern ireland! we just seem to get rain! lol xxxx
love the dark wood! Ours is dark wood too, here's a link to ours:
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Did you buy a bedding set yet? I can't remember if you answered that or not. Excuse my pregnancy brain 
I wasn't going to have one since this is my second child, but since I am having a girl, my family all thought I should. 
