Summer Peaches... going to be ripe in late July/early August!!

[kmbabycrazy]

The fruit tickers don't change every week now. They next change at 30 weeks when it goes to a pumpkin and stays that way for another few weeks...maybe until 34/35 weeks I think it's a honeydew then 37 weeks onwards it's a watermelon.

I'm so exhausted from this weekend and work today, OH says the plumber has sorted everything. Thank god. I'm making a fry up for tea because i've been craving one and I'm so knackered I just want to make something quick and easy. Was going to start sorting the nursery tonight but I really can't be bothered. I think feet up with a brew and a DVD and other half can pamper me and bow to my every whim tonight lol. Our brand new TV is coming this evening too and baby's lovely changing bag which I used my verbaudet voucher to buy and got a free cot mobile with it. It's lovely and the bag comes with a tiny teddy too.

https://www.vertbaudet.co.uk/day-to-day-changing-bag-cream.htm?ProductId=703133098&FiltreCouleur=0021&t=6

 

[stardust599]

Koolmami nice to see you around! I get lumpy bits sticking out and moving too And sometimes my bump is all scrunched up to one side! It's funny to watch - my bump is hardly ever round!

KM glad you have hot water. Our boiler has broken today so I rang the landlord but still haven't seen/heard from a plumber yet! If I am really busy I barely feel baby moving at all, I don't really notice movements until I lie down and try to nap or if I sit down with a coffee. If you think it's less than normal let your midwife know as they can easily do a CTG trace.

I'm sick of where I live. Last night our upstairs neighbours (we live in a scabby block of Council flats) were blasting music and I phoned the police at 9pm as it's every weekend now. Well they didn't turn up until 11.30pm did they and it had stopped by then so all they did was report that there was no noise! Ahhh. And tonight our other upstairs neighbour is doing her usual Monday night DIY which starts about now and lasts til after 10ish. Not really a problem except when you have a 1 year old because she's drilling, hammering etc. LO is a fantastic sleeper at night but even this pushes her limit and everytime she drifts off the banging etc. wakes her and she starts to cry again. And the landlord never listens but had the cheek to send me a letter with a warning about flytipping cos one of the neighbours dumped a scabby old sofa in the back garden.

We haven't done anything about the nursery yet. It's still hot pink and Blossom Farm for LO. I will need to think of something suitable for a boy and girl as they will be sharing once the LO is sleeping through. We plan to move when LO is 4 or 5 so she can get her own room.

I have a growth scan tomorrow morning. Keep your fingers crossed it's a big big baby this time so I can get discharged from consultant care and don't need my labour or anything supervised by them!

OH will be taking 2 weeks paternity leave and 1 weeks holiday. So I'll have him at home for 3weeks. Although TBH I'm not even sure I'll need him that long. I had awful PND with my LO (think some of it was post-traumatic after a complicated pregnancy and birth though) and struggled to care for her so my Mum and OH stepped in but I have a great feeling this time. I get frustrated if OH is home for more than a day or so now cos he gets in the way of mine and LO's little routine

This week is my last week at work. Although nobody seems to really care, I'm the only person off on maternity leave who nobody has bothered to organise a leaving lunch or anything for! But I will just take cakes in for my favourite girls instead

Also, wish me luck cos when I finish work this week my "bigger" baby is giving up her bottles of milk. I want her to have forgotten about them by the time new baby arrives! At the minute she screams for "MILK" and is desperate for a bottle but then only drinks an ounce or two or she chews and plays with it. She won't take milk in a cup so just going to make sure she has it in cereal etc. instead.

 

[kmbabycrazy]

Stardust my DS only had milk on his cereal from about that age too but he loves yogurt so he got his calcium that way lol.

 

[Mosnippy]

wanted to share this with you ladies...saw it on another post and it made me well up.. dedication to stretch marks...not that you ladies have any lol

A mark for every breath you took, every blink, every sleepy yawn. One for every time you sucked your thumb, waved hello, closed your eyes and slept in the most perfect darkness. One for every time you had the hiccups. One for every dream you dreamed within me.

It isn't very pretty anymore. Some may even think it's ugly. That's okay. It was your home. It's where I first grew to love you, where I lay my hand as I dreamed about who you were and who you would be. It held you until my arms could, and for that, I will always find something beautiful in it."

 

[misse04]

Changing bag is gorgeous KM!
Good luck for growth scan stardust. Harvey was 2.2 lbs last week. And love that Mosnippy. I've notice some marks on my boobs tonight

My back is honestly getting worse everyday. Connies not sleeping well. I've got a million things to do and she wants picking up constantly and now waking up at 5.30-6 every morning as she hears OH getting ready for work. Love her to bits but I hope this is just a miserable few weeks with her teeth and not forever lol x

 

[molly85]

Bottles are evil! mainly because their a bitch to clean lol.

Abby is on about half a pint a day all in and all in proportion.

All these boys are going to be huge, stretch marks I look like a flaming zebra and it's getting worse. I can't tell what's what but i can def see my bump move the foot in the ribs feeling is pretty grim I never had that with ABby

 

[kmbabycrazy]

Oh Molly my little miss sticks her foot into my rib then pushes so hard that it gets pops back out again. Its agony! I have loads of stretch marks on my boobs and hips but none on my actual bump. Got a little more sleep las night so feeling a little more alive this morning. Started putting away some of little miss's things away last night too. 4 weeks today until i finish work. Excited!

 

[misse04]

I had a good night sleep too! After walking around like a zombie we had dinner at my mums last night and Connie fell asleep there so my mum said she will she will have her as theres not much point in waking her and bringing her home. My mum lives literally a 2 min drive from ours. She works from home so just said to pick her up at 8 so I said ring me to wake me up as OH uses my alarm on phone and cant set 2 times. But woke up 1t 8.15 to a text from OH saying theyve been rained off work and he will pick her up so to stay in bed I feel like a new person! x

 

[molly85]

OMG you lucky girl! Abby hasn't stayed out all night yet. not sure if waiting foe badger to arrive will be the best plan

 

[misse04]

I hate Connie staying out shes only stayed at my mums but I do need it sometimes get so tired!

 

[molly85]

I'm lucky she sleeps so well i know at MIL's she wouldn't sleep well as she doesn't have a room and would just be demonic the next day

 

[misse04]

Connie used to sleep really well but its just seemed to go downhill the last few months lol

 

[molly85]

oh dear.

I'm just looking at taking Abby to intech at winchester have you ever been?

 

[stardust599]

Growth scan went good. Little man is measuring bang on average/50th centile for everything at 2lbs11oz today! Been discharged from consultant care and back to community midwifes. Yay

Ladies you are just approaching the start of the sleeping troubles - it only gets worse from here onwards

 

[kmbabycrazy]

I agree my son was a wonderful sleeper until he hit about 11 months old and then it was waking in the night wanting to get into bed with me. Refusing naps so being over tired by the time it came to bed time which would make it a nightmare to get him to bed! He got better when he hit about 2 lol.

Having a really bad day. My back is in agony I feel like there's a golf ball in my throat I'm suffering with blinding headaches and I have a horrendous pain under my ribs across the top of my bump. Today I've gone from thinking YAY only 4 weeks left at work to How the hell am I going with another 4 weeks of working!?!?!

 

[molly85]

I've already been setting toddler bench marks no leaving cot before 7am she will go for quiet time if not a nap etc Abby has always been a reasonable sleeper but only has 2 teeth so looking forward to the rest come in as my bladder looses it's fight to hold water

 

[Mosnippy]

awww stardust glad your growth scan was good, did they give you pictures? I have one tommorrow in the evening... looking forward to seeig how big he has gotten!

 

[stardust599]

I got 3 pics but you can't really make them out cos they are so big at this stage. You can just see an eye and nose LOL. I think I got the sonographer into trouble cos when the consultant spotted the pics he said oh you shouldn't have got them at a growth scan. Oops!

molly85 - keep up with the consistency for sleep. i think our sleep probs started about 10/11months? no getting up before 7am (we do 6am cos we're early risers in this house!), no getting into mummy/daddys bed, no getting rocked/cuddled/fed to sleep and once you've put her to bed don't get her back up to play no matter how many times you have to go in and you'll be fine. we go through bad phases but always come out unscatched lol.

tonight was a bad night LO was overtired as didn't have a good nap today as fell asleep on way back from midwife but woke as soon as the car stopped as always meaning she'd only had 15mins all day 8-( . so bedtime at 6pm which is usually okay but OH's sister was here and kept playing with LO and had her hyper which meant 30mins of screaming and i only just got her to settle by repeating the bedtime routine in quiet after she left! i have this issue a lot when the inlaws just won't leave at bedtime grrrr. going to have a very firm rule for when baby is here of no visitors between between 5.30 and 7.30pm as that's when we do quiet time for bed!!

p.s. i am thinking about a homebirth now not sure though. i need to read more on it. would be so much easier for us to keep to our routine etc. and wouldn't have to leave LO either :-S

 

[molly85]

I carry on with the bedtime routine around people they don't come again. I even did it at a pub restaurant despite teh fight abby was putting up and inlaws nosing in. i won after half an hour. a bit annoying but figured we can't be recluses forever lol.

Stardust I have always been strict on bed time and sleeping to show for it i have a napping genius and usually a very happy baby.

 

[misse04]

No Ive never been molly. Glad scan went well.

I'm strict with bedtime stuff but still get nowhere lol. To be fair she wakes up for her dummy most the time. And now she just wakes up earlier which is mostly 6 but I think its reasonable time as she goes to bed at half 7. Wish she was a baby that likes a lay in lol x