MSE Pregnancy Club 24

sexymouse

Good morning all!

So pleased to hear that Tristan has finally arrived. Can't wait to hear how Happy is doing. Thanks for letting us know Emmy.

My bump is starting to look a little bit bigger this morning - we took a bump picture at 14+1 and 16+2 (we were a day late as we forgot) and there wasn't much difference in the size but I think it's growing more now (16+4 today).

Woke up again with another splitting headache today so succumbed to taking some paracetamol. Feel a lot better now. How is your cold emsbet? Sorry to hear your rash is spreading. Could it be that you are allergic to something on the pillows you're using to sleep on?

Well one child has done all of his homework and the other one is doing revision with a friend (past paper) so happy days. Moon dropped me off this morning so I don't get asked to be a taxi service again (it's becoming a habit for them to invite friends over then expect me to ferry them all around which I'm not very happy with).

I suppose I'd better wander upstairs to check the girls have finished their paper then the friend can go home.

Hugs to all who need or want them, and labour vibes where appropriate.

Sexymouse xx

emsbet

((hugs)) for your headache SM. My cold's ok, just a bit snuffly and a bt of a cough. The pillows I'm using now are just ones fom the spare bed. We did start using a different fragrance of the same make of softner the other week. I have bought some fairy sensitive softner and re-washed my clothes in case it helps. My mum thinks it might possibly be just a reaction to the cold which I guess is possible.

Yay for bump! Are you going to post pictures? Mine doesn't seem to be growing more getting rounder.

xx

sexymouse

Don't know if I'm brave enough to post pictures. Pleased to hear your cold is getting better. Hope your rash improves soon too.

sexymouse

Yay! I taught the boy how to make himself a bacon sandwich yesterday (he's 9 and hadn't ever cooked before) and today he's made one for himself. He needed a bit of help to turn the hob on but has done the rest and turned it off after too.

MissMonkeyMoo

Yay, congratulations Happy! So pleased to have heard that everything is ok!

Fluffnutter don't worry about nesting - I wish I didn't have that particular instinct kick in as my house is now upside down from having the kitchen redone! We now have 4 months in which to:

• Fit central heating
• replaster all walls downstairs and up the stairs
• paint aforementioned walls
• replace all wooden flooring downstairs
• lay loft flooring
• clear out both spare rooms
• oh and then decorate a nursery!

Apart from our finances taking a battering, my head is swimming from all the work we have left to do!

jovichick123

We have got this one http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/3768978/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7CNursery%7C14417537/c_2/2%7C14417537%7CBaby+monitors+and+safety+gates%7C14417612/c_3/3%7Ccat_14417612%7CBaby+monitors%7C14417613.htm
It does everything we want it too and has a free travel sterliser too

Am not sure what planet my friend is on at times, she seems to think that because I have got one child, it's somehow easier to cope with another - I will remind her of it if/when she has another, see if she still holds that view then She's always been overly competitive, and I am not (I take the view that life is too short for all that ), it's part of the reason I keep my distance

BB1984

MissMonkeyMoo wrote: »

Fluffnutter don't worry about nesting - I wish I didn't have that particular instinct kick in as my house is now upside down from having the kitchen redone! We now have 4 months in which to:

• Fit central heating
• replaster all walls downstairs and up the stairs
• paint aforementioned walls
• replace all wooden flooring downstairs
• lay loft flooring
• clear out both spare rooms
• oh and then decorate a nursery!

Apart from our finances taking a battering, my head is swimming from all the work we have left to do!

Wow MMM, that sounds like fun and games! I thought our current project was bad, but yours sounds worse if anything!

We live in a bungalow and are having our loft converted. I did all the structural/architectural design and drawings, which I started in January, as well as getting all the Building Regs approval etc. Building work started early March, and will hopefully be finished early May.
Then we've got to decorate, carpet and furnish the whole of the new upstairs, which includes our new bedroom, a shower room and the nursery. Also we have to redecorate the new dining room downstairs, which now accommodates the stairs - that was our old bedroom. In the meantime we are sleeping in the spare room, which now has a (unintentional) hole in the ceiling! :eek: The other little spare room is filled to the rafters with the contents of our loft, plus all the baby stuff. We've also got to re-paint the hallway, as there are some marks on the wall and the newly-filled in loft hatch to cover up. Then there'll be a mad cleaning spree required to try and rid the house of the layer of plaster dust that covers every surface!

Oh - and I'm due 9 weeks today!! :rotfl:

jovichick123 wrote: »

Am not sure what planet my friend is on at times, she seems to think that because I have got one child, it's somehow easier to cope with another - I will remind her of it if/when she has another, see if she still holds that view then She's always been overly competitive, and I am not (I take the view that life is too short for all that ), it's part of the reason I keep my distance

Everything I've heard says that the second baby/pregnancy is much much harder because you're having to run around after your first LO! Ignore her, she sounds like a right pain, TBH! She obviously thinks the world revolves around her. Hope she's not too competitive though, that would get really annoying (and I'd probably end up trying to out-do her despite myself!)

Off out to lunch with my mum in a min, then to the hospital for my blood tests.

BB x

kelda_shelton

BB1984 and MissMonkeyMoo: Argh! All your work to do sounds scary - you're better women than me!

Triangle

I am loving all these lists of household stuff to do...I am such a geek! Although BB, I didn't realise just how big a project your loft conversation was! :eek: When do you start maternity leave?

Hope you are ok MrsManda :grouphug: - I am in a similar-ish situation so understand how you feel. Unfortunately, I do have a competive streak so I am very well aware I need to stay away from certain people/situations which make me feel bad and bring that out of me. Much love xx

Hope everyone is having a good afternoon - I'm off bed for a couple of hours....much needed after last night!

Txx

Lixi_2

MrsManda wrote: »

ooo baby monitors, haven't bought one of them yet (checks it's on my list of things to do). What type has everyone got?

I got the angelcare sound and movement monitor. I was bah-humbug about the movement monitors, but succumbed to the MiL raving about them and recommendations from friends. They are currently £79 on Amazon, but I got mine a few weeks ago from there for £65 (quite pleased about that - I watched loads on ebay and looked around for cheaper deals at the time and couldn't find anything better). It was the sort of thing I didn't want to buy second hand though or from one of the high street returns retailers on ebay as it is relatively expensive and you want to make sure they work!

Wow to MMM and BB on the DIY front. We (although when I say "we" I mean Mr L :rotfl:) have been decorating for months now. We had horrible textured plaster in our hall upstairs and downstairs and new ceilings in all the upstairs bedrooms before they were re-skimmed and plastered (and finally painted). We had carpets fitted in the second bedroom and nursery the other week. Wood flooring fitting in the downstairs hallway too. We have to re-carpet our bedroom and the stairs in due course, although I don't mind if that isn't done until after sproglet makes his arrival.

Before sproglet does arrive, however, we have the same horrible plaster in our living room, dining room and back room to have skimmed, old ceilings to be ripped down and new ones put up. Then the whole lot to be repainted, cornicing put up (high victorian ceilings) and carpeted. We are hoping we can have that done sometime in the next 8 weeks (on both the money front and because I want it done so I don't have to put up with a mess when on maternity leave!). Which reminds me... I have to remind Mr L to ring the plasterer!

L x