MSE Pregnancy Club XIV

csh_2

aless02 wrote: »

I think it's different in every PCT and I seem to remember reading that Scotland don't offer the 20 wk scan at all?

Again, in Scotland it depends on PCT! Edinburgh don't do them, but lots of others do. My hospital only started offering 20 wk scans in November last year. I don't know of any Scottish PCT's that will tell you the sex tho. We paid £70ish for a private sexing scan. Photos: ours were £2 each but they tell you its a donation and theres a box on the wall on the way out to put the money in. Most people just walk by it. We paid for the 12wk ones but not the 20wk cos the pictures were crap and I was in a huff:rotfl:

nozza76

Hello ladies.
I'm only 14 weeks pregnant at the moment so still very early days and like many others on here just trying to determine which are the essentials and which are the "not really that necessary but nice to have" items for the little one.
Also trying to plan ahead and snap up the odd bargain when I see it rather than having to shell out for everything at the last minute.

While browsing through Tesco's yesterday I noticed they had the Tommee Tippee Nappy Wrapper Tub reduced from £29.99 to £9.98 (or something similar, was less than a tenner in any case). The additional cassettes were in there at around £3.99 which I don't think were reduced.
Just wondering:
a) Are these actually any good or are they a bit of a gimmick?
b) Are these normally available at around this price in any case so not really a bargain
c) Having looked on the internet there seems to be many different options with these, so if anyone has any experience is there anything I need to check - e.g for £30 should it come as part of a kit with a number of cassettes already with it to get you started?

Thanks everyone.

SugarSpun

Jenny - first poops are apparently tarry and disgusting and stick to small bums and are a nightmare to get off.

Pookie, is your OH slightly mad?! Why would anyone ask a pregnant woman to move a sofa in order to release a scary little beastie from behind it?!

Edit: sorry nozza, didn't see you there

I've no idea if the Tommee Tippee thing is necessary, but (editing again) I've just looked it up and it seems to be stupendously pointless unless you plan on keeping a day's or a week's worth of dirty disposables in the house.

carlamagee

jenny - the first bowel movement from lo is delightful!!!

aless02

jennynoo wrote: »

Not quite sure I understand that one. Tar?

Meconium, I think?

Glamazon

SugarSpun wrote: »

Jenny - first poops are apparently tarry and disgusting and stick to small bums and are a nightmare to get off.

Pookie, is your OH slightly mad?! Why would anyone ask a pregnant woman to move a sofa in order to release a scary little beastie from behind it?!

Edit: sorry nozza, didn't see you there

I've no idea if the Tommee Tippee thing is necessary, but why would you need to wrap a nappy?

Pookie - agree with ^^^^^ although my OH would do this to me as well!

nappy wrappers - a bin which has individual bags inside which wrap the nappy up so it doesn't smell. Waste of money IMHO - my step-mum had one for my sister and her room always smelled a bit. I'll just wrap them in a normal nappy bag and sling in the bin

csh_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

I've no idea if the Tommee Tippee thing is necessary, but why would you need to wrap a nappy?

For the smell! For those lazy people like me who have the changing station up the stairs and have no intention of walking to the outside bin with it:rotfl:
I've got the TT nappy wrapper and its defo not necessary, just one of those things that will make my life easier. Fill it with smelly nappies and get OH to empty it:rotfl:

workinmummy

carlamagee wrote: »

jenny - the first bowel movement from lo is delightful!!!

Ooh I missed this one last time. Think Oh got to do it, as i was incapacitated due to section.

carlamagee

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pookie5488 wrote: »

Just had a text from dh to ask would I pull the sofa out and look behind it as he is sure he heard a mouse when he was getting ready for work this morning!!!

OH MY. i could not do that!!!! spiders i would let walk all over me before i would even look in a corner to see if there was a possibility that there was a mouse there. oh the thought of it is giving me the heebe-jeebes!!!!!!!!!!!

nozza76 wrote: »

While browsing through Tesco's yesterday I noticed they had the Tommee Tippee Nappy Wrapper Tub reduced from £29.99 to £9.98 (or something similar, was less than a tenner in any case). The additional cassettes were in there at around £3.99 which I don't think were reduced.
Just wondering:
a) Are these actually any good or are they a bit of a gimmick?
b) Are these normally available at around this price in any case so not really a bargain
c) Having looked on the internet there seems to be many different options with these, so if anyone has any experience is there anything I need to check - e.g for £30 should it come as part of a kit with a number of cassettes already with it to get you started?

Thanks everyone.

Hi nozza! Welcome first of all.
When i was pregnant with DD, my SIL gave me lotsa stuff that she had left over from nephew, and one of those things was a Nappy wrapper. We attempted to use it a few times with DD - but to be honest, it annoyed me more and too a lot more time to work out how to use it than it did to throw a nappy in a nappy bag and chuck it in the bin!!! I think that IMHO they are a bit of a waste of money!!!!

Nicki

Hypno - I'm having my baby privately too but in the UK, though don't work for a healthcare company.

Are you having your baby in the NHS but want the insurers to pay for extras, or do you plan to deliver in a private hospital? Everything depends on the insurers themselves of course, but this is my third baby privately with three different sets of insurers, and they have all provided a baby payment on proof of the birth, which if you are having the baby on the NHS would probably go some way to paying for a private room on the ward if that's what you are after.

No UK insurers as far as I know will pay for routine ante natal care, or a vaginal delivery or an elective c section for social reasons. Some, but not all, insurers will pay for an emergency c section and for an elective c section for some medical reasons (but not all). Most of them will pay if you are suffer unexpected complications after the birth.

Even if you are having your c section on the NHS you should expect decent care for at least the first 24 hours after the birth, and I think that a lot of NHS hospitals don't want you in a private room for the first 24 hours anyway due to the need to keep that extra close eye on you (but I'm not completely sure about that).

My experience so far has been:

Baby 1 (elective c section because breach) - insurance company paid 1 off cash bonus of a few hundred pounds, we paid the rest ourselves.

Baby 2 (vbac followed by complications) - insurance company paid for all the time in (private) hospital after the birth, running to thousands of pounds, plus the 1 off cash bonus. We only paid for the antenatal care and the delivery itself.

Baby 3 (?????) policy is not very clear and we will play it by ear when we see what happens to me. However it is clear enough that they will also pay for any post birth complications, and they MIGHT pay for a c section depending on why it is said to be required.

It is complicated to work out who offers the best cover, but it is true to say that all insurers have holes in their cover, and none of them cover all eventualities. We discovered this most when DD was diagnosed - and none of her speech therapy, occupational therapy and regular paediatric reviews were covered, as she was classed as "disabled" not "ill" so the get out clause kicked in. Birth tends to go into the "your choice" category along with things like cosmetic surgery and fertility treatment and is also very rarely covered.