MSE Pregnancy Club 24

fluffnutter

rjh090384 wrote: »

I never noticed the iris thing I just said it out loud lol. My oh makes fun of me cos apparently when I say wheels and Wales it sounds identical. Sound totally different to me. Baby is gonna have an odd accent lol

Ha ha! I'm saying wheels and Wales now in a NI accent! They sound the same to me! Just like cur and care, although my work mate insisted they were different (they weren't).

And it's not odd. It's lovely. Probably my favourite accent.

fluffnutter

Gillyx wrote: »

When my OH says "Bear" it sounds like "Brrrr"

I'm not too fond of the N.I accent, even worse is a Belfast accent. :eek: hideous

Southern Irish though, I love. Yumyum.

Opposite to me then! I don't go much on the Irish accent, especially Dublin with all those 't's' instead of 'th's', i.e turd instead of third! I can't help thinking of leprechauns every time someone from Eire opens their gob.

Give me an NI one any day...

rjh090384

My accent is actually reasonably soft. I'm about ten miles outside Belfast and went to a decent school. So it's not too bad. I still hate it tho!!!

Ps my ex boyfriend was from Dublin. One of the sexiest accents ever!!!

dizziblonde

*Nutella* wrote: »

:mad: Don't get me started on this one! The worst offender on the high street has to be Peacocks; if it wasn't for their truly amazing maternity yoga pants (I have two pairs and I live in them) I'd say they deserved to go into administration! Some shops are better than others though - H&M has quite a lot of neutral stuff, as do Mothercare, Debenhams and a few others, but I don't want to have to spend my life searching for non-pink clothes. Celebrity baby icon: Harper Beckham. No pink in sight. If only I had the Beckhams' shopping budget too!...

I'd carefully screened clothes for minimal pink-ness... course when she came out premature and small and I had to send grans out on clothes-buying expeditions - the pink came along anyway!

Debenhams are really really nice for some non-pink stuff, Asda were fantastic the other season but have gone a bit off the boil this season, Mothercare I tend to find usually a sea of pink but at the moment they're not bad... I've got a lot of cerisey pink, red pinafores and dungarees and denim pinafores, which tends to drown out the baby pink stuff lots of people bought us. Although having said that - some of the pink stuff she got bought is utterly adorable on her and even daddy's softened his line on the subject since she came.

jediquigley

Taadaa wrote: »

I got some vouchers through from Boots Parenting Club this morning. I got a changing bag for buying a pack of Pampers Newborn, an Avent microwave steriliser with a BPA free bottle and 2 BPA free anti colic feeding bottles for 22.80, a saving of 46 quid, along with double points. Most baby stuff is 3 for 2 at the moment. I got some other vouchers too but they are valid til the end of July and I think DH was a bit horrified at first sight of nipple covers and breast pumps so thought it best not to push him too far on the first baby buying outing...

is the boots changing bag worth buying the nappies? just wondered as was thinking of going for this offer

Laura

Taadaa

It's a pretty basic bag, just black but it has lots of sections inside and some pockets on the front and side - I will probably 'taadaa' it up a bit with some colourful ribbon . I bought a pack of 27 for 3.78ish, and that was enough to get the bag. I intend to use real so only want a few disposables in reserve for the hospital and trips out. I was intending to make my own bag after seeing the price of them :eek: so this has saved me a job.

Gillyx

fluffnutter wrote: »

Opposite to me then! I don't go much on the Irish accent, especially Dublin with all those 't's' instead of 'th's', i.e turd instead of third! I can't help thinking of leprechauns every time someone from Eire opens their gob.

Give me an NI one any day...

I think it depends. Christine Bleakley for example goes right through me, infact I'd love to rip her vocal chords out but some N.I are not bad, I find the further west you go, it's a bit nicer. My OH isn't too bad, but he's had jobs where he's had to speak on the phone etc so I think that's softened his.

rjh090384 wrote: »

My accent is actually reasonably soft. I'm about ten miles outside Belfast and went to a decent school. So it's not too bad. I still hate it tho!!!

Ps my ex boyfriend was from Dublin. One of the sexiest accents ever!!!

Probably would depend on school actually. I think the scrubbers you see around Belfast put me off the accent, which is sad really

and yum to the Dublin accent.

jediquigley wrote: »

is the boots changing bag worth buying the nappies? just wondered as was thinking of going for this offer

Laura

I wouldn't say so, mines is almost double the siz.e and full to bursting constantly. The nappies are only £3 odds though so be aswell it's almost free and you'l use the nappies anyway

jediquigley

rjh - i have had rib pain under my left breast since week 20, now 28 weeks and its still there now and again. prevents me from leaning over and eating dinner, so end up with it down my tops lol

pink clothes - i have said to people if i have a girl dont buy me anything which is more than 20% pink. i know some people wont listen to this but you can only try.

i had my 28 week midwife appt today and she said baby is in breach position - this has worried me a bit - as although logically i know there is plenty of time for baby to move the midwife was not very reassuring. this is the 3rd different midwife i have seen in 4 appts, crap hey.

re hospital/labour wear - i am gong to primark at the weekend so will buy a cheap nightie for labouring - i read in a book somewhere that women become primal in second stage of labour and want to take all their clothes off lol

car seat and reusable nappies are the only things we need to buy now. feels like we are almost ready:)

Laura

fluffnutter

I find the whole pink issue difficult too. The thing is.. I don't mind a bit of pink, particularly dusky pink. What gets me is that it's the only thing that seems to be on offer. I feel frustrated at how limiting it feels, it's as if little girls don't look lovely in anything else. You don't see this level of narrow choice with boys' clothes.

And I think it allows people to look knowingly at you (particularly mothers of girls) and say 'aah, but you wait until your little girl is old enough to make her own choices. Then it will be pink everything. They choose it you know'.

Yeah! Of course they do! Because that's the only bloody thing they see! Grrrr!

rjh090384

I went to asda and all the boys stuff was über blue. Not impressed at all. Want bright funky clothese purple orange red green

I have a major habit of buying bit clothes for my three year old. Cords and the like