Anyone due October???

yah I guess it is good huh?

Never thought of that......

No the spotting has stopped (last two days)....but I have the wonderful thrush.....

I know what you mean; my husband's auntie lost her baby at 5 months.... I get scared just thinking about it.
However I think we are going to be fine. How is your pain by the way? Did you find out what was causing it?

See my husband’s family is very old fashioned and believe that it is not good to buy stuff for the baby before it is born....hello!!! What am I suppose to do run around straight after my baby is born??? I think not.

Hi Lizzle, yeah I sort of thought Shaun would be a boy, but I dont know if its because I really wanted a boy last time. This time, its more important to have a healthy baby but I still want to know. My scan date is 20 May at 1pm.
Roksana, that is so silly, your quite right, are you supposed to run around straight after you've had bubs, duh. Maybe in their day, after bubs was born, someone else ran out and bought all the stuff, at their expence.

As for that pain, I felt so silly, The midwife said it was more than likely to be my uterus, hips and ligiments stretching. If it was anything serious the pain would of started out dull then went bad, not the other way around.
Every pregnancy is so differant. Maybe, the older we get, the more we worry. Wow, if I'm this bad now, what am I going to be like next time? Yes, I'm greedy, I'd like another one after this one.
Hey, I'm glad the bleeding has stopped, lets hope it stays that way.Sorry to hear about the thrush, if its not to bad use diluted malt vinager as a rinse, it really helps.

Roskana there are some fantastic online places. one is winkalotts and there are heaps of others. You should put together a list of everything you need and go ask for a price. You wouldnt beleive the differnce in quotes. We ended up getting all our stuff for ALyssa from a place called second childhood in dunedin. They did free delivery and were much much cheaper than baby factory. But now there are heaps of online stores and it pays to shop around for a price.

I bought everything new for Maya, we went to the baby factory and gota discount coz we bought the carseat, cot and change table all from the same place. We got the whole lot for $750. I bought a cheap 3 wheel pram from The Warehouse, which I now regret coz I have had to replace it, but I have spent $350 on a new pram that will last me thru all my children (I hope )

we haven't got a monitor, but then baby will be in our room again, and our house is so small i can hear my little girl breathing from her room almost now.. and i am in the lounge.. lol, our hallway is 2 steps long (ok exageration)

we got our cot and buggy new, we are using the cot again, replacing the buggy (i hope, apparently my MIL called mike today and said she just went to look at the buggy we want and she hates it, i went nuts at mike and said she better fricken buy it, cos we have had 9 months to save and put it on layby, but have left it till now cos she said she'd get it, i'm not spoilt, but just don't like people backing out on me!!!) we got a new bouncer given to us by my sis, and a baby gym from my mum, and thats it. never used a change table - always change mat on the floor - baby can't fall off the floor!!

definately shop around - even look in your bounty pregnancy book too - our one had a voucher for 10% off at baby city - sometimes, if you get quotes from lots of shops, some will try and better the others, and i have even heard (for those expecting twins) that some will do really great deals if you are buying more than one or each thing. be crafty.

I was always worried bubs would fall off a change table too, but the new ones have a safety harness on them, so much safer than the old ones.

depends on the safety harness though.. most have a lovely one that goes across the tummy to prevent rolling. but the first movement most babies learn is to push off with their feet and scoot upwards.. so a tie across the tummy isn't gonna do much if their little head gets over the edge.. cos they're so top heavy. I think ones that have top edges to them are good, with harnesses as well, but still prefer to change baby on the floor.

went and had another look around today at all the buggys, and still that is the only one that will work for our situation. told mike he needs to arange a time where we go together with her, and she can try it out with putting paris etc in and out of the buggies like we have done.

Maria, I like that idea of the movement monitor.. that is something i wish i did have.. i think for the first little while with paris i was quite paranoid that she would stop breathing.. but most new mums are. didn't help, and this was so scary..that even now, when she is in a deep sleep, she goes a very whiteish purple colour, and you can't see or feel her breathing. mike was so scared of checking her cos it freaked him out. but yeah, the sound thing would annoy me.. just cos i think i would sit there waiting to hear a noise, lol. dunno if anyone has seen that thing billy connolly did about them., but it is so true and cracks me up... he reckons babies use them to torment their parents.. pretend to stop breathing, and wait till get up to rush to their room, then they let out a big breath! (sounded funnier when he said it, really it did)

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i would recommend buying a minimal amount of clothes, especially if baby is a first grandchild. I bought a lot of clothes for Jake only to be given soooooo much by people. Honestly he has grown out of clothes that he hasn't eve worn. Wait til babies born, then buy the clothes that you haven't been given. especially cause you don't know if baby will have a long torso, but short legs or vice versa./

stock up on the basics yourself

flannels for face washing, (and bottom washing)
bibs, (frilly ones are cute, but plastic backed and bigger is better)
nappies
singlets
bodysuits
socks

basic stuff is always good to have cos that's what you will go through the most of.. washing wise.

all the rest you will probably be given heaps.