MSE Pregnancy Club XIV

SugarSpun

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Best use for quorn sausages that i've ever heard of:rotfl::T

Except that my left boob smells of cooking sausages...

mountainlioness

hey ladies - quick question for you - how much extra do you think you need on top of usual food budget per month for baby stuff (nappies, toiletries etc)? I've added £40 to our budget but that doesn't seem like much?

nancmat

Good morning all and ickle/big bumps...

Pay day for me yeyyy... need to pay nursery fees today even though it doesnt start still Feb goodbye £300, grrr

2 weeks tomorrow and its my 4d scan, v excited....

Had to climb out my window this morning (ground floor) to get house key as i left it in the car and hubby had already left and locked up.. got scratches up my leg now ouch...

Busy day at work today, but I'm feeling it bring it on.......

HypnoNu

Morning girls,

Sugar - no prob with the FB request, i've accepted it, i just wanted to make sure i knew who i was accepting!

Tia- you've been granted the privilege of being my facey friend as well! It does sound like your waters have gone, keep us posted on the arrival of the little person! Looks like you are beating me after all!

Jillie- I love the name Niamh, it's just lovely. The only people that i've heard who pronounced it Nee-av were Irish people, apparently it is the right way to pronounce it?

EA - Your poor mum, but you must stay away, keep beanie and you safe!

I've got another day of boredom today, although i am meeting a friend for lunch so at least that breaks up the day! and i need to repack my hospital bag after my stay this week, i'm feeling especially inspired to hurry up and do it after Tia's waters!

Hope you're all well, it's chucking it down here, thunder and lightening and the cats aren't enjoying it at all!

efrieze

I think £40 sounds reasonable (if breastfeeding) - perhaps another £20 if formula feeding per month

aless02

nancmat, you've reminded me of a question I need to ask - for those with other kids, how soon do I need to look for childminders/nurseries??? I will go back to work when the baby is 9 months, but I really have no clue of how these things work.

newmoneysaver_2

LOL @ SS and the sausages!
Tia - I'm not expecting you on here unless it's to tell us your bundle has arrived Good luck!
efrieze - Yes, you are crazy, unless you were up with pregnancy insomnia anyway, then you were just making use of the time.

Nothing to report here - Only one more week at work! Bubba keep pushing out in different directions, I'm guessing I'm getting a foot out high on the right and a had had doen to the bottom left - quite sore when he does both at the same time, and he's been at it since yesterday evening.

nancmat

aless - My mum works at the one we are going to and as its very popular, we were advised to book as soon as we knew when the child would start. We booked in March 09 with baby going in Feb 10 and paying our deposit today £313.00 for 9 days a month but we get 5% discount for paying by direct debit. I dont know if we get any help for child care costs and I'm not expecting any.. but without nursery I cant go back to work, hubby and mum looking after other 2 days a week.

Bit peeved we had to pay deposit so early, but it secures our place x

Nicki

My poor DS (9) was shown a video at school on Tuesday of a woman giving birth as part of the sex education programme, complete with full gorey bits, blood and screaming! Poor little soul has been completely traumatised since, and keeps asking what will happen if I go into labour in the evening or at the weekend when he won't be at school - will he have to be in the labour room watching! However many times we have reassured him that we will arrange for someone he knows to look after him and his little sister and its not as bad as he imagines it to be, he still can't cope with the idea. And on Wednesday morning when I took him in to school, I had to walk through a line of awe-struck slightly shocked little faces, all clearly thinking about what they had just seen (a few actually asked me when the baby was coming out) as I'm the only mum in the class currently pregnant. :eek:

Otherwise, the lovely cleaner my husband said we could have for a few months as I am so shattered all the time, started yesterday and I am sitting in a spic and span house which smells lovely. When I clean I tend to usually dust with a damp microfibre cloth, but this lady used some furniture polish and I must admit it does smell great! On the downside, I had my living room carpets professionally cleaned on Tuesday and the cleaner told me that we have a carpet moth infestation (the carpets under the sofa and under my DD's bed have been eaten almost threadbare but as we rarely pull these all the way out we hadn't noticed ) so we'll need to get the whole house chemically treated, which isn't fantastic so late in pregnancy but probably better than with a newborn in the house, and the next door neighbours had to dig up part of our garden to lay sewage pipes to a shared manhole, and in doing so have disturbed an underground rats nest, so also need to get people in to deal with that - and I hate rats with a passion, and am terrified that they will also get into the house!

Other than that, bump is big and uncomfortable, foof hurts, spd is getting worse, and I'm starting to find it really hard to drive now (or even to get into the car :rotfl:) and kids break up from school at 2pm today. So all in all, life is about to get even busier!

HypnoNu

They've showed them that at 9?????