MSE Pregnancy Club 24

ikkle87

They recommend just using water on baby to start with. So no toiletries are needed.

Twinklie did you see the list of stuff I've gotten on the 12-24 week thread? I've spent less than £200 so far.

The basic things the baby needs are:
A place to sleep - cot/crib/moses basket. You will need a couple of sheets for these and then a couple of blankets.
A means of feeding - bottles and formula or breastfed, obviously not everyone can breastfeed so if you have bottles just in case and for later on it helps.
Clothing - buy different sizes just in case bubs isn't a tiny little thing, I'm expecting baby to be tall as both me and OH are over the 6ft mark and some of the new born stuff doesn't seem very long so we have bought a mix of newborn and 0-3 months. This can just be vests and sleepsuits and a coat, they don't need fancy outfits you can wait till baby is here to buy things like that or see what you get given.
Nappies and wipes and nappy cream etc - again buy a few of each early size just incase baby doesn't stay in them for very long. Don't buy loads in early sizes though but enough so that you don't need to dash out for the first week or 2 when your at home.
A means of transport - our hospital doesn't let you leave unless you have a car seat now so that is a must and we bought a Hauck Viper Trio but there's nothing wrong with a normal stroller just make sure it lays back flat and is suitable from 0+ as newborns need to be laid flat to help develop their spine.

silly_moo

gtothec and twinklie - I've noticed you both bought bottles and sterilisers. I was looking at bottles and then decided not to buy them before the baby is born. If it turns out I do need them I can always tell dh to pop into the shop and get some. Or am I wrong, should I have a couple ready?

As far as baby cosmetics are concerned, both my Pregnancy Bible and BBC Health website advise to use just water for bathing in the first few weeks. I did buy a bottle of Simple Baby All-in-One wash but am planning to use it when the LO is a few weeks old.

twinklie

The problem we have is that we don't live within 10 miles of a supermarket and we don't have the internet where we will be living when baby is born. So we have tried to buy things we will need in the first 2/3 months in terms of nappies and toiletries already (it was all on offer, it's all triple the price or more where we will be living).

As for bottles, I've no idea. I just figured I'll need them at some point anyway so getting a couple now is no biggy. I'm going to my friends in a couple of weeks so will see what she's donating to us and then will sort everything else out. I KNOW we will need a robust travel system though, so that's what I'm trying to focus my research on. I'll pop back to 12 - 24 to check your list ikkle.

gtothec

silly_moo wrote: »

gtothec and twinklie - I've noticed you both bought bottles and sterilisers. I was looking at bottles and then decided not to buy them before the baby is born. If it turns out I do need them I can always tell dh to pop into the shop and get some. Or am I wrong, should I have a couple ready?

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No I don't think yo are necessarily wrong - the only reason I've got some (my mum bought them) was because my sister planned to breastfeed and after 3 days of no success she was demented between the stress of not knowing if the baby was starving and the pain as her nipples were cracked and bleeding.

I got some so I don't have to think about going out for some or getting someone else to select approporiate ones :money: should that happen to me. Don't have any formula though - I should look into the appropriate formula for a newborn - any suggestions?

Hopefully I won't need them, but just in case.:)

Triangle

Just popping in to say :hello: - hope everyone is well.

We smashed our terramundi saving pot yesterday - we've has it since May last year. Very happy - £863! :j

We've already bought a new one to smash this time next year - we've called it 'first family holiday'. If we get the same sort of amount, we'll use it to go abroad next summer with little man

MrsH...2B

Just to jump in on the when an what to buy we went by the theory if it's something we think we will need at some point to get it when we find what we want at the right price. It's ment that now with just over 4 weeks to go!!! Eeeeek!!!! We don't feel all rushed an hassled to get anything. (sure we have forgotten something but all the essential are done) Must admit we are very lucky that we started a bump fund when we first started trying for a baby so had the money there whenever we saw what we wanted/needed we just brought it.
As for antenatal classes my area don't book you in for them till your 34 weeks. We have our last one next week an as much as alot of the info they give you is what you can get online or books I must admit its nice to hear it from an actual person (in our case it's one of the midwives who works on the ward) an having it do late on makes it feel like it might stick!

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rjh090384

Help. I'm now brave enough to join big girls thread! I'm 24+4 due 15/8 with a baby boy. Already have a nearly 4 year old girl from previous marriage. I'm a full time Uni student in my final year. Hope everyone is well

dizziblonde

silly_moo wrote: »

gtothec and twinklie - I've noticed you both bought bottles and sterilisers. I was looking at bottles and then decided not to buy them before the baby is born. If it turns out I do need them I can always tell dh to pop into the shop and get some. Or am I wrong, should I have a couple ready?

As far as baby cosmetics are concerned, both my Pregnancy Bible and BBC Health website advise to use just water for bathing in the first few weeks. I did buy a bottle of Simple Baby All-in-One wash but am planning to use it when the LO is a few weeks old.

I bought a bottle/pump/steriliser/cool bag set - even though I planned to breastfeed... glad I did really since events overtook us and she came out too early to be able to latch well (she still can't even though she'd be 37 weeks gestation next Tuesday)... meant I could at least come home fully set up to pump and feed.

Make sure the steriliser fits your microwave easily though - Avent ones don't fit the smaller new-style microwaves well at all (have to take the glass plate out of ours) - and in the end we gave up and went trekking everywhere for the old fashioned bucket and Milton system which suits us much more since I'm constantly hoiking breast pump parts out of it. To be honest - I think I'll probably crack and go over to formula feeding sooner rather than later - but I know I at least tried to get some breast milk into her however I could (but this is an internal battle of conscience/guilt/fear of being judged by some very nasty militant breastfeeding people that I'm still working through in my mind and many many tears have been shed over this)

Clothes... oh how naive we were - I didn't buy much newborn size at all... thinking she'd go into 0-3 really fast! Thankfully we had grannies on hand to send out for tiny/early baby clothes when she was born so soon - but then I felt vile that she had nothing to wear that *I* had chosen for her and that upset me more than I thought it would to be honest.

Baby baths - I was anti getting one of these and was just going to get a bath support - but we borrowed one and, having seen how the "bath guru" in the hospital does it with much more water than you'd expect and just letting them "float" while supported in there with the hand under neck/arm grab thing going on... she LOVES it - splats herself out like a little starfish with a blissed out look on her face like some hard working exec after a week at work. It's hilarious to watch and much better than the bathtime screaming!

Nappies - I hadn't stocked up much - I'd got a few packs of size 1 and 2.... course she came out needing size 0!

I was very organised very very early though - I think I had the entire baby shopping list, bar one sling, cleared off by about 30 weeks and hospital bags packed just after that (did I "know" I was going to go early?)... not sure I would have bought a moses basket personally - while she'd be ridiculously small to sleep in a cot, she HATES the moses and has taken days to get used to settling in it - during the day she sleeps much better in our carrycot part of the pram downstairs.

So yeah - I bought the bottle set not anticipating using it but have done - the other thing I'd bought "just in case" that has been a life saver were dummies - don't get me wrong - I hate the look of them with a passion, and spent ages desperately trying to find a clear one that wasn't dayglo pink or blue - but they've been a sanity saver getting her to settle on a night when she just wants to comfort suck... yes, ideally she'd get to do this on the breast - but since she just falls straight off that, she gets cross really fast, I get flustered and no one in the neighbourhood gets any sleep.

I was one of the longest to go to due date people at our ante-natal classes at 30 weeks... then ended up being one of the first to pop! To be honest - they were an utter waste of time - the birth choices thing went out of the window with me (my birth choice was forceps with no pain relief or forceps with pain relief), I wasn't allowed to be active and mobile during the birth and use all the nice birth positions they had on the sheet still mouldering in my handbag, even the breastfeeding stuff - was all geared toward term-infants, when it's a different kettle of fish trying to manouver something in extra-small into a latch... and there was never going to be anything about safe formula feeding was there?! Even the section about birth interventions consisted of "let's all freak out at the pair of forceps"... and the stuff about tearing was "don't worry and we can't cut you without your consent" (they did).

Hospital are very much into the cotton wool and water only thing where toiletries are concerned... thankfully with her being in neo-natal I got off having to do all the sticky meconium poos (not a technique to be recommended)!

rjh090384

I bought bottles with my first and all the shebang cos I was planning to express so I could have some freedom
As to involve other half. Ende up she couldn't latch cos she was tongue tied and was noticed too late. Out came bottles and she was a happier. Any and I was a happier my so this time hoping to breast feed but have everything on standby as I'm worried I won't get hospital support as its my second it appears they chuck you out as soon as you can move after birth

emsbet

EDD

1. Charli82 - 15th April 2012 ?
2. Bianx - 20th April 2012 ?
3. natwesty - 21st April 2012 (induction)?
4. AmySquash - 23rd April 2012 ?
5. jennynoo - 28th April 2012
6. amymo - 28th April 2012 :female:
7. alizee - 3rd May 2012 :female:
8. jem2 - 5th May 2012 :female:
9. gtothec - 12th May 2012 ?
10. Magicboo-18th May 2012 (twins!) ? ?
11. Kabie - 18th May 2012 ?
12. Doodlebug86-19th May 2012 ?
13. Teerah - 20th May 2012 ?
14. Princess Fairy Sparkle - 21st May 2012 ?
15. Miss_Money - 21st May 2012 :female:
16. LegalBlonde - 22nd May 2012 ?
17. Wiccanlou - 26th May 2012 ?(waiting for dating scan)
18. Pistachio - 26th May 2012 ?
19. MrsH...2B - 29th May 2012 ?
20. Norabatty - 2nd June 2012 ?
21. choclover - 5th June 2012?
22. MrsManda - 8th June 2012 :male:
23. kelda_shelton - 10th June 2012 :male:
24. monks - 10th June 2012 :male:
25. Jovichick123 - 13th June 2012 :male:
26. Thrifty-gal26 - 13th June 2012 :male:
27. BB1984 - 14th June 2012 ?
28. Ladylegs -14th June 2012 :male:
29. AmyP1985 - 14th June 2012 ?
30. Weekendpants - 14th June 2012 ?
31. SallyCinnamon - 15th June 2012 :female:
32. Lixi - 20th June 2012 :male:
33. Triangle - 22nd June 2012 :male:
34. museumworker - 22nd June 2012 ? Going for a surprise
35. fluffnutter - 27th June 2011?
36. nikkikayj - 28th June 2012 ?
37. MrsBryan - 28th June 2012 :male:
38. whowants2brich- 3rd July 2012 ? Going for a suprise
39. rakkibeth - 8th July 2012 ? Going for a suprise
40. silly moo - 12th July 2012 :male:
41. Robyn - 20th July 2012 :male:
42. Clarissa62 - 20th July 2012 :male:
43. Rebekah - 23rd July 2012 :female:
44. stephimoon - 27th July 2012
45. jediquigley - 30th July 2012 ?
46. MrsExcited - 3rd August 2012 ?
47. Agscully-11th August 2012 ?
48. GemmaE-11th August 2012 ?
49. jen77 - 14th August 2012 ?
50. rjh090384 - 15th August 2012 :male:
51. Student_Mrs - 22nd August 2012 :male:
52. happy8178 - 27th August 2012 :female:
53. Bellola - 7th September 2012 ?
54. Elelyn - 8th September 2012 :male:
55. twinklie - 10th September 2012 :male:
56. emsbet - 11th September 2012 ?
57. The Next Verse - 12th September 2012 ?
58. MissMonkeyMoo - 12th September 2012 ?
59. Little miss moneysaver - 14th September 2012 :male:
60. kittycat1977 - 16th September 2012 ?
61. MummyOfTwo - 17th September 2012
62. Mishkanorman - 19th September 2012 :male:
63. sexymouse - 23rd September 2012 ?
64. tigerwhite - 26th September 2012 ?
65. fozpot - 27th September 2012 ?

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Supplement list and dosage here

BIRTH LIST

:male: Serendisglair - 1st March 2012 - Iaon David - 8lb 6oz
:male: Emmylou - 3rd March 2012 - Flynn Craig - 8lb 14oz - 11.40pm
:female: Darkphaery - 9th March 2012 - Ava Louise - 6.21am
:female: Icey77 - 16th March 2012, 18:58 - Caitlin Isabel Anna 8lbs 11oz
:female: Ravenlady - 17th March 2012 - Matilda
:male: Sammie - 20th March 2012 - Noah, 7lb 9oz
:female: VikkiKawaii - 22nd March 2012, 11:20am - Tehya
:female: Lola888 - 25th March 2012 - Isabella 8lb 5oz - 13.48pm
:female: Dinah93 - 26th March 2012, 12:45 - Grace Nancy Alison 1lb 15oz
:female: Lovecrafting - 30th March 2012- Isla Allison 4lb 8oz
:male: camNolliesMUMMY - 3rd April 2012, 1:59pm - Oliver 8lb 8.5oz
:female: Snoopytweety - 4th April 2012, 10:02pm - Isabella Harriet Clarice 6lbs 5.5oz
:female: Goppers - 6th April 2012, 6:25pm - 5lbs 5oz
:female: flutterby_lil - 7th April 2012, 13:07 - Maisie Elizabeth 8lbs 9oz
:female: Dizziblonde - 9th April 2012, 22:41 - Erin 4.99lbs
:male: happydays77 - 11th April 2012, 15:05 - Tristan Leonard 8lbs 7oz
:male: Safesound - 11th April 2012 - Jake 10lbs
:male: glimmerofhope - 14th April 2012 3pm - Leo
:male: 2522laura - 19th April 2012, 11:05am - Charlie Eric 6lbs 4oz
:female: lisa26 - 19th April 2012 3.39pm - Katie Elizabeth - 4lb 7oz
:female::female: (twins) Dashikii - 21st April 2012, 5:55 & 5:56am - Names TBD, 5lb 10oz and 5lb 2oz
:male: :female: (twins) ginvzt - 24th April 2012, 9:35 & 9:55am - Emilio (4lbs 5 oz) and Maya (4lbs 1 oz)

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BargainAholic - 14th February 2012 - TWINS ??
Moneyhoney1 - 16th February 2012 :male:
RLV-88 - 23rd February 2012
xcurlyluciex - 11th March 2012
emmigrant-immigrant - 20th March 2012 (date tbc at scan)
Phunkles - 27th March 2012 ?
Henry_Hoover - 28th March 2012 :male:
emilyxxx8 - 14th April 2012 ?

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