MSE Pregnancy Club 24

savageHK

BB1984 wrote: »

I've washed all my nappies so they're ready for action...they still have so very slight p*ssy aroma though...how do I get rid? Labels say wash at 30-40 and don't use fabric conditioner.

Perhaps some essential oil in there as well? I've just started looking at nappies (going to go re-usable as well) and I'm sure it was mentioned on some sites. I have some soap-nuts as well, if you had any I'd give them a shot (you put the essential oil on the bag of soap-nuts). Thinking back on it I think it was something like 'put some essential oil on a bit of cloth and put it in the machine' for the nappies (or am I going mad?)

mishkanorman

Gillyx wrote: »

I love caleb blake reminds me of amy winehouse junkie hubby sorry.xx

:rotfl: i didnt even know thats what he is called :rotfl: how uncool am I ??


I like Caleb, i also like it shortened to Cal, but in my head i just keep going back to Blake so we are going to wait till he gets here.

Hubby asks me every day "so whats he called today then" :rotfl:

Kitten_Pie

Elena is also on our list.

I like Blake but it feels more of a girls name since Blake Lively.
Issaac is my cousins name so automatically dislike it but don't see any reason you shouldn't use it, it is a nice name.
Caleb is my favourite out of those but then both me and OH loved American Gothic when we were younger.

savageHK

So on the names topic, are there any good books out there? I picked up one at the NCT nearly new sale on Saturday, but it's not that great - it has decided to source names (heavily) from Native American (amongst others) which are completely unpronounceable! Or... do I just need to keep browsing the 'net and noting names we come across that we like? We have a fairly unusual surname so need something that works with it so I'm casting my net far and wide.

moneypuddle

mishkanorman wrote: »

We have 3 names, if anyone cares to give opinions my Fav is Blake, OH likes Caleb and Issac. We will pick 2 from these, our surname is Norman so not too worried - although I have said I prefer not to have Isaac Norman as in my head I hear Isaac Newton :cool:

Love Caleb and Blake - my friends babies are called caleb and Blake. I get what you mean about Isaac Norman and Isaac Newton. We like Ellis Hilton which I worry is a little like Paris Hilton :rotfl:

moneypuddle

savageHK wrote: »

So on the names topic, are there any good books out there? I picked up one at the NCT nearly new sale on Saturday, but it's not that great - it has decided to source names (heavily) from Native American (amongst others) which are completely unpronounceable! Or... do I just need to keep browsing the 'net and noting names we come across that we like? We have a fairly unusual surname so need something that works with it so I'm casting my net far and wide.

I bought 40,001 baby names but wouldn't recommend that. Its just full of such made up names to make the total higher - from the top of my head Bacon and Schmoopie are listed. Erm..?!?! I wouldn't even call my dog those things. And certain really obvious normal names are missing completely!

mishkanorman

Ive been looking on babyandbump but most of the suggestions from there I dont like, and they seem to spell everything strangely (like jaxon kupa for Jackson cooper ??) but it has helped me cross a few off the list if nothing else.

ive found myself reading the credits for everything now scanning for possibles

Kitten_Pie

We also bought that book and ended up throwing it across the room. They are all made up names.

"If you like jasmine and you like Lorraine why not have Jasraine" Grrrrr

I just want an English name book without all the Americanisms.

hannah27

Hello All:j

Sorry it's taken me ages to get back on her, our little baby girl arrived eventually on 18th May ar 12.17am. She is gorgeous. Quick run down of birth:
Went into hospital to be induced with propess pessary, pessary inserted at 3:15pm, had to be monitored for an hour and monitor showed a couple of conctractions, then was told to walk around and come back every hour for 6 hours. Sent hubby home as expected to be in for the long haul. Started getting really bad constant pains, went back for my first check at 5:30pm and midwife said things are going well, told her I was in so much pain and I must be such a wimp because this is only the beginning of labour. She advised me to have a bath and get into a comfortable position to ease the pain. Text hubby who came back, had a bath and then threw up over myself in it! Couldn't get comfy as pain was constant. At about 7:30pm I started feeling dizzy, OH was worried so called for midwife, had about 4 running in, blood pressure was checked and it was dangerously high. Asked them to examine me to see what was happening. They did this and I was already 5cm, was given gas and air which was lovely! I had a cathetar put in as I couldn't wee even though I had a full bladder also had an IV thing put in my hand as they wanted to give me an epidural to bring my blood pressure down.
Felt heavy feeling down below, was examined again (approx 10 mins after first examination) and I was 9cm. Was wheeled round to labour ward and immediately felt the need to push. This was about 9:30pm, continued pushing for 2 and half hours before she was born at 12.17am. At one point I was going to have the sucky thing used on her to bring her out but then the dr got called away to an emergency so that didn't happen. They injected me ready to cut me to help baby out but unfortunately the final push I did meant the baby came out in one go so ended up with a 2nd degree tear.
Birth sounds quite traumatic but it actually wasn't that bad, I didn't get the epidural as everything happend so quickly. Did the whole thing on gas and air and gave up with that at the end as it kind of lost its effect on me! I didn't find the pain that bad even when I pushed the head out and tore, it was just the pressure that was difficult to deal with and trying to get good pushes out of each contraction! I am a complete wuss so proud of myself! Also did about 8 poos with all the pushing, kept on apologising to the midwife! Literally lost all dignity!
We came home the same day at about 4:30pm. Was in a lot of discomfort first few days as I had bad piles but feeling a lot better now.
Had quite bad baby blues, breastfeeding was an issue for me as although she latched on and fed really well, I just found it so painful, got to the point where I was dreading her waking up as it meant I would have to feed her. She weighed 8lbs 7oz and is a pretty hungry baby! Decided yesterday to give up on the breastfeeding as I felt it was affecting my relationship with her and I feel much better for it. Going to talk to midwife today as yesterday was quite a bad day and think it will help to get feelings off my chest.

Anyway dont think I'm going to have time to catch up on 10 days worth of posts so I hope everyone is ok.

Hannah xxx

LittleMoog

I really hate made up names as well, we ended writing a shortlist and then going through the last baby names stats released by the ONS (2010) and ruling out anything too high up. 2 of my nieces are called Isabelle and Emily and even though they're really pretty names there are so many of them! I want my baby to have a less common name (but still a real one, I can't be doing with these made up names, or ones that are really surnames!) as my name is a little unusual, and I like that I hardly ever meet another one (Juliette)!

Our top 2s are Laurence (Laurie)/Arthur and Charlotte (Lottie)/Eleanor (Ellie), DH and I each prefer one of the 2, so will come down to which one feels most appropriate one the day (and whether I get my way ) . Middle names will be Malcolm John for a boy and Josephine Ann for a girl.