March 2011 babies

BK, happy belated birthday to B for yesterday

I'm kind of marvelling at how fast the past few months seem to have gone. I'm 24 weeks lol. Seems like it was just last week that I was umming and ahhing about whether or not my pregnancy test was positive or not!

Afternoon Girls,

I had a great weekend. The weather was a bit hot for my liking on Saturday so Sunday was a nice reprieve.

We had a Christmas themed murder mystery party on Saturday night which was great fun (a friend of ours hosts a party every year). It turned out that I was the murderer which was cool - it makes the whole thing so different when you are the killer. I am very very grumpy with the Costume Shop (an online costume website) - they were supposed to get some costume items to us on Friday or Saturday but they never turned up, we had to make a last minute dash out on Saturday afternoon to get replacements for those items which they were sending

Yesterday I met up with a bunch of OhBaby mums for lunch - they were so lovely . It was nice to chat to people about pregnancy and babies etc. With my other friends I try not to let pregnancy or baby stuff take over the conversation so was nice just to be able to chat freely and not worry that the whole topic was babies/pregnancy related.


That's so sweet about your kickboxing mates surprising you with a baby shower Scratchymay. One of my baby shower organisers has accidentally double booked the venue for mine so we've had to change it so it's at my place, which is fine with me anyway. She was looking at sending "save the date" invites out in the next couple of days so luckily she realised before she'd sent out all the details.

How exciting BabyKat about your 3D/4D scan tomorrow. In some ways I wish I was getting one, but then seeing as we know the sex it will be a nice surprise to see what bubs will look like.

Regarding where bubs sleeps, we will have bubs in our room to begin with. I'm not sure how long that will last, but I'm thinking two - four weeks and then we'll move bubs into it's own room. We are just going to put bubs straight into the cot - so the cot will be in our room to begin with. We don't have a single bed and there isn't really much room for one in the baby's room - there is a chair so I can always nap in that. We won't have an angelcare monitor, just a regular one, unless there is some medical reason or something that means we should have a more complex one. The baby's room is small and once we get some good curtains up, it will be really easy to heat and keep warm - in the past we haven't usually heated up our bedroom in the winter except for the coldest couple of weeks when we have the heater going long enough to take the chill off.

Ok, better go get something to eat, I'm starving!

So sorry to hear about your brother Marengo, I don't blame you for being a bit paranoid! I just know it would never work with having the baby in our room, DH would never get any sleep and neither would I, constantly listening to snufflings and holding of breaths and hoping it was going to start again!

Clarebear wonder what happened to your FB invites? BK or Brilee are probably best to give you some tips or re-invite you again, I lost my 1st invite to the group too, somehow!

Been feeling very grumpy/sensitive/tearful and just generally over-emotional lately. Only took a little comment (turned out to be joking) from DH about me needing attention all the time to send me into floods of tears! Now I'm back at work dealing with more crap and I'm just fed up with it all today. Losing interest fast, would much rather be out shoppng for baby stuff!

Anyway, whingeing isn't going to get the work done. Roll on Xmas holidays!

Also sorry about your brother Marengo. You have every right to be anxious about SIDs. I think we are planning to have him in our room for the first few weeks or a month then, hopefully, move him to his room but I would like one of those monitors that lets me know if he stops breathing for peace of mind. Otherwise I can see myself getting up multiple times in the night to check hes still okay.

Marengo, I can see why you'd be even more worried about SIDS than others may be. Sorry to hear about your brother.

I had a rather interesting conversation with my nana the other day about pregnancy and giving birth and whatnot. My nana smoked throughout all of her pregnancies and insisted that smoking doesn't really affect the size of the baby, she was just going to have small babies anyway. My nana's about the same height as me and slender build, but I can't truly believe that that is why my mum was born so small. She was 4lb14oz (2.2kg) and 12 inches long. That's TINY!! Born full term too.
It's amazing how much things change in 45+ years...

Hey Kelz - it must be weird seeing a mw to be told all the things that you are used to telling other preg ladies! I'm guessing that I'll feel the same way about parent-teacher nights in a few years (as I'm a lecturer.)

Clarebear - I totally hear you on the emotions thing. I'm totally relaxed about stuff that would normally stress me out. Like my mum and dad stayed for nearly 3 weeks and I thought it would drive me 'round the twist, but I was really relaxed about it. DH was VERY impressed! What has astonished me the most is that I've not had any major mood swings, and most of my emotional outbursts seem to be related to blood sugar levels (gah!)

Yay! 9 days of work left until Xmas break!!! (We close down from the 17th December to 5th Jan.)

ive been feeling a it emotional too.. did the supermarket shopping on my own thinking i was doing partner a favour.. when i came home all he did was complain about what i DIDNT get or what i accidentally doubled up on! no thanks for the breakfasts and lunch stuff i got him.. yes so i spent most of yesterday bawling too.. normally would have just told him to shove off or something heh..

clarebear i have had the crusty stuff on my nipples since the early days, and yesterdy i managed to squeeze a bit of stuff out of one of them! they dooo work! didnt seem as easy as the lady in the breast feeding video though.. hmm..

lillease that is wierd that she had that opinion about the smoking.. after all the medical evidence too hehe.. that is very tiny for fullterm!

my thinking is if baby is right next to me and stops breathing as they do sometimes, at least i can give her a wee poke or something from my cosy spot in bed to put my mind at ease, rather then listening to the monitor if she was in the other room and getting up to poke her every hour heh.. i like a bit of noise to sleep through so i'm sure her snufflyness wont keep me awake, partner can wear earplugs if it annoys him ;)

off for the day see you all later :)

We're using an anglecare mainly because we have one already. DP's ex-wife's cousin's baby died of SIDS so we had to use the monitor for his DD. Marengo sorry to hear about your brother

CB yip I get the swelling feeling in my tummy too after BDing - kind of like a BH. But TBH we're not really that active in that department at the mo. And yes to the "crust". No leakage yet but I sure did gross DP out the other day when I was decrusting

I'm finding myself really short-tempered with people. Was hard work with the in-laws over the weekend!! And it's going to be a test of character over Xmas with my entire family together (first time it's happened in YEARS!!). Love my family but I think the reason we get on is because we're spread over three different countries and two hemispheres.

Kiwikelz whats the problem about the baby being on the right side? My bubs has always been on the right side, I have a lobsided tummy its so obvious, but I sleep mainly on the left. Yay I'm glad I'm not the only one going for a homebirth, personally I don't think its such a big deal, I like my home comforts, but some people are horrified about it. I don't talk to my mum now because I had a homebirth with my DD and I didn't tell her and she doesn't approve of homebirths. She smoked up a storm when she was pregnant with us 4 kids, I think thats more of a problem than choosing to birth at home.
Marengo sorry to here about your brother, SIDs is such a terrible thing and baby mointiors a great for peace of mind.

Yeah my boy is sticking to my right side also and I quite often sleep on my left side. It's really funny seeing my lopsided bump from the top lol.

*Whistles* I think someone just had a bad dream lol. He jumped really hard and kicked me a good one right in the ribs. Scared the crap outta me lol.

Oh I would LOVE to have a homebirth. sucks that I dont even get the choice though. Oh well, the hospital facilities arent that bad, and like AA I think I'll find the support especially for breastfeeding quite helpful.