MSE Pregnancy Club V

jillie1974

morning everyone!!
wish all the supermarkets would stop having these baby events now can they not wait 3 or 4 months for me to buy!!
hope you all are getting some bargains!!

elle_gee

Hi all!

Jillie, when are you due? There's been an Asda Baby Event in September for the last few years too

I was woken up by a phone call from the Wickes salesman at 10am, wanting to arrange our appointment for the planning/ordering of the kitchen. All booked for Friday evening - got to get it ordered before 26th I think to get it in the sale and we're away from 23rd! Nowt like leaving it to the last minute..

I've had two breakfasts and now got to get ready to go out. OH has been in a bit of a funny mood this morning, didn't seem very receptive to the idea of going out, but I've worked out what's wrong - he's about fifty pages from the end of the book he's reading and he wants to get it finished before we go and I keep interupting with shouting out about this and that baby store! Apparently I'm driving there (about forty mins) so he can finish his book and I've got his full attention :rolleyes:

AM, hope you get the car sorted, one way or the other

Hope everyone has a good day!

(Feelie, hope you're okay too.. noticed you weren't here yesterday - hope you were just having delayed b'day celebrations! xx)

ETA: Tine, I'll have another look at the bits you sent me / said about work on Friday later tonight and let you know if I can think of anything else

astonsmummy

jillie1974 wrote: »

morning everyone!!
wish all the supermarkets would stop having these baby events now can they not wait 3 or 4 months for me to buy!!
hope you all are getting some bargains!!

Dont worry hun, there are ALWAYS baby bargains to be had all year round

jillie1974

i'm due 24September
i sooo dont know even what we'll need to buy!!
i'm hoping that someone has a thread somewhere on what baby things you defo need to buy and which you dont really need!! cos i can see me buying things i can do without etc... like a moses /crib will a cot not do instead??

elle_gee

jillie1974 wrote: »

i'm due 24September
i sooo dont know even what we'll need to buy!!
i'm hoping that someone has a thread somewhere on what baby things you defo need to buy and which you dont really need!! cos i can see me buying things i can do without etc... like a moses /crib will a cot not do instead??

There have been a couple of threads about it.. one was called Baby Essentials, I think - I was reading it last night

I think the moses basket/crib thing is they are smaller so you are more likely to be able to find room for them in your bedroom (I think the guidelines say about keeping baby in your room for the first six months at least), plus they're smaller so a little baby doesn't feel quite so lost in them. You could have a travelcot instead and then you'll have it for multiuses in the future. It seems moses baskets last about 4/5 months, cribs last 6/7 months then babies go into their cots.. Moses baskets can be picked up second hand for as little as about £20, but you should always buy a brand new mattress for it.

ETA: AM wrote a list for us a few (probably about 20 by now!) pages back too

astonsmummy

jillie1974 wrote: »

i'm due 24September
i sooo dont know even what we'll need to buy!!
i'm hoping that someone has a thread somewhere on what baby things you defo need to buy and which you dont really need!! cos i can see me buying things i can do without etc... like a moses /crib will a cot not do instead??

There are lots of list etc, but alot of it is down to presonal preferences when it comes to equpiment such as cots etc.
I have a moses basket, cot and am getting a crib LOL
But the moses basket cost me a tenner, got the cot for free so dont mind paying out for a crib, if I had to buy it all new i dont think i'd have all 3.

Millie's_Mum

elle_gee wrote: »

There have been a couple of threads about it.. one was called Baby Essentials, I think - I was reading it last night

I think the moses basket/crib thing is they are smaller so you are more likely to be able to find room for them in your bedroom (I think the guidelines say about keeping baby in your room for the first six months at least), plus they're smaller so a little baby doesn't feel quite so lost in them. You could have a travelcot instead and then you'll have it for multiuses in the future. It seems moses baskets last about 4/5 months, cribs last 6/7 months then babies go into their cots.. Moses baskets can be picked up second hand for as little as about £20, but you should always buy a brand new mattress for it.

ETA: AM wrote a list for us a few (probably about 20 by now!) pages back too

Listen to you! Elle Gee you know it all now! Just need the baby to go with it.

Thanks for support last night girls, OH is out today so me and millie had a lie in and we are not planning on doing anything today, also hoping OH will cook when he gets back.

tiamai_d

I used mysupermarket.com for the first time ever and I love it! :j *gushes*

Got to make a proper budget and stuff now. We put the extra £2000 for the car upgrade onto my credit card... :rolleyes: and also we have a sofa coming in about 6 weeks which I still have to pay off.... and a holiday in May to get spending money for.... But atleast we won't be squandering all our extra cash! So £50 to CC £50 to savings a week. Should manage it. I hate having debt... but then we are impatient... Baby stuff, I should make a proper list, but the Health in pregnancy grant will pay for the cot, carry cot and car seat!

Ok, list, spreadsheet, time to do tha books.... :eek:

elle_gee

Just been talking to OH about the strange names everyone in Shipwrecked seem to have now.. I said maybe there was a strange name phase going on in about 1990.

OH then asked when Philidephia Tyxilix was born.. :rotfl: He meant Paula Yates' daughter, Fifi Trixibelle! :rolleyes:

Her others were Peaches Honeyblossom, Pixie, and Heavenly Hiraani Tiger Lily, just in case anyone needs some inspiration.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Deary me...I bow down to all you ladies who have multiples of children!

3 boys, 10, 9 and 7 currently in the bath after being breakfasted and allowed to commandeer the tv for a couple of hours. Sandwiches made for lunch and I am officially shattered!

1 grumpy girl, 12 going on 15 woken and dispatched early this morning so at least I can stick the 3 boys in the same bath together!!

I am so glad that I don't have to work this hard every weekend!!