PerpetualMama
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My first batch of baby clothes is currently in the dryerbut other than that we are just starting to get things organized. My basement has been dumping ground for friends' hand-me-down donations towards our "oops we're expecting again" dilemma, but now I have other friends asking what do we need and I have no idea! I am not having a shower, and probably don't really need one. We're holding off on painting the nursery now since we decided we'd like to move this year (and why spend money on paint twice?) The room we would use is semi-empty, but has Christmas and baby stuff in it. Next week my best friend will come by and help me get some of the baby stuff from the basement up the 3 flights of stairs to the room. She won't sleep up there, but it'll be where we store her stuff.
What names have you chosen, saysib?
Glad its not just me then! To be fair our dumping room is just Christmas bits and everything leftover from our daughter too, but its quite a small room so it looks so much worse than it is! I cant wait to be able to get in there and make it at least organised. We dont need to paint as the room was pale green anyways and it matches all the baby stuff we have
Awww, I cant wait to get the tiny clothes washed. I've sorted the majority of them into sizes back when we found out it was a boy and got rid of a load of DDs old stuff so at least thats done.
For those having a different sex, would you keep things like a pink bouncer seat/swing etc for a boy or sell and buy in a different colour? I was happy enough to keep the pink but my mother keeps mentioning it and how I need to just dye the fabric or something (which I dont really want to do as I'm worried I'll spoil the fabric) and now I'm feeling paranoid about it.
Perpetual, the names we like are Calum, Hamish and Dylan. I've always thought I would use Calum as I've loved since I was a child but it just doesnt feel right now I'm having a son. My DH loves Hamish as we have an H surname and our daughter is Isabel. Dylan just sort of came up over Christmas but we all like it. Not sure now, lol. What names are everyone else using?
the room we have is super tiny too, so it looks terrible. I just painted it light green in May, so I'm not going to bother wasting my money. I would still use the baby stuff. Swings and bouncers are at home and who on Earth will see them anyway? Your little boy will not have a gender confusion issue from sitting in a pink flowered bouncer while he sleeps...and the money can get used for other stuff. That's just my opinion, but I had little girl stuff donated to me and planned on using it regardless of the gender. DH may not have liked it too much, but I wouldn't have caved. They're in that stuff for such a short time, put a blue receiving blanket in it, cut holes for the straps and call it a day? (My daughter wore boy clothes more than 75 % of the time for the first year because everyone was convinced I was having a boy, and I only got 2 girlie outfits at my shower). She was thrilled to find that out today, she's a major anti-gender-stereotyping "activist", lol
he is breathing fine & regulating his own temp which is great. He is just on a drip with antibiotics & some glucose, and when that comes out tomorrow he can come in my room. I have not had many cuddles as I have a catheter in and need tk get wheeled into the nursery to see him. They tried induction and u was contracting for 7 hours but didn't even get to 1cm dialated, and Toby was getting distressed with the stronger contractions, so they wanted to get him out ASAP. He really is just divine!! Pics to follow
So glad hes doing well, what a fantastic weight for such a small little man, hope you get lots of snuggles soon and make sure you rest up plenty and get your strength back after the csection no running around trying to be superwoman! Cant wait for pics! 
xx
