My delivery came!!!
So have now have a cot mattress but no cot (should be delivered next week). I kind of want to take it out of the packaging and jump around on it, but I know I can't return it if it's out of the wrapper (and with pregnant woman damage!) so am restraining myself.
Same kind of goes for the other things... I have a bottle chiller/warmer (to save me going downstairs every night in the middle of the night - it keeps a bottle chilled for 8 hours and then heats it in 6 or 7 mins), the changing mat with sheep I posted a link to yesterday, a matching room thermometer and the folding bath seat thing. The bath & nursery kit (which included stuff like the snot sucker, a digital thermometer, medicine dropper, etc) was not delivered but checking back on the last email I had it wasn't listed as having been dispached so am not worried.
Went back to the hairdresser this morning... after waking up and thinking, oh maybe I could get used to this after all. So the guy trimmed the bit off the back that he'd missed and trimmed some other bits that were not done very well, and we had a chat about how I can manage it, and I feel better about it all. It's still too short but heck, it's hair, it'll grow, and hopefully in a month it'll be perfect (rather than needing a trim).
And then I popped into the library and borrowed some books on labour, childcare and one for my OH on becoming a dad... I have looked around in book shops a bit but get too overwhelmed with the choice (what if I get the wrong one, etc) so library books are ideal for now. Have not really looked into the book on labour - it looks scary, a WHOLE book on the birth process... eeeeep. But I will get brave at some point in the next few weeks.
Have just realised, because I am having a week off work in the beginning of June, I have 5 weeks on, one week off then 5 back on and then I finish! It doesn't seem like a lot at all if I think about it in that way.
Coffee and Auntie E - I also kind of wanted a Cameleon (my OH's sister has just bought one) but three things put me off - the weight, the bulkiness (big wheels, ok not huge but bigger than I can cope with, with our stairs) and the cost. So we're getting a Bee and I think it'll be ideal. Some people say their kids grow out of it quickly, and maybe that'll be the case for us, but for now this is what we need as we won't be moving somewhere with more space for at least 2 years. And when the wee boy is bigger, we can get a normal little folding buggy if we have to, one that doesn't cost hundreds anyway.
I liked the Loola and did consider it for a while (agree that the carrycot is a great option) but it was simply too heavy for me.
We live on the second floor and I don't drive (am hoping to get going again after baby is here because we bought a car in Feb - failed test years and years ago and never bothered again because I didn't need to, living in London) so when my OH is at work, it'll be me taking baby out and carting the pushchair up and down the stairs. Also, we have practically no storage space so the Bee folding up small will help a lot.
Xarxa - there is such a range of different prams, pushchairs and travel systems available in the UK... you could spend £800 quite easily, if you bought a top of the range package that included a car seat, etc, or you could get basically the same package in a different range for closer to £300. The Silver Cross 3D pram that converts into a pushchair (no car seat), which I think is quite popular, is £335 at Mothercare right now; or the Bugaboo Cameleon is £620, but then you need to buy the fabric on top of that for £75; or the Bebe Confort Loola is £200 at the moment (usually £275) and then you can buy the Windoo carrycot for £170 more, again not including a car seat. My Bee, which I ordered from a small online shop, was £495 (4,830 NK, 552 euros) for the pushchair, baby nest, Maxi Cosi car seat and car seat pushchair adaptor, which was about £100 less than Mothercare's price for the same items.
My brother and sister in law live in Oslo and I think my sil ordered their first pushchair (for my nephew who was born in 2005) from Sweden. They might even have travelled to Sweden for it...
but baby can share him if he wants.
but 
he tries on all the clothes and sat in the car seat, he's about the right size of a 3 month old baby!!! It's his first cuddly toy (even has cute stitching telling you so on his foot) So soft too...... my Dad thinks having babies is like having dolls...... I'm nearly 30 and he's right!
& the tell tales she said he said never helps any situation does it (referring to the pasting of messages by the looks of it). Also what has her post count got to do with anything? What is your point because ONE lady picked out 2 posts (in your words) doesn't mean there isn't or hasn't been any more concerns between members in the past.
