MSE Pregnancy Club 25

savageHK

Cotton wool - I think the pads are fine, we are planning on using those only. We do have some pleated stuff around the house too but not bought specially, and will be using Cheeky Wipes asap as well.

martafdz

Lol, QueenB, I am not sure what it is, I have avoided buying stuff for ages, I cannot really afford a shopping spree, yet this last few days I bought: stretchy maternity trousers/ joggers, pyjama bottoms, nightie/long t-shirt, slippers, maternity bras, arnica bath soak, baby towel/robes, baby bouncing chair, cotton pads, cellular blanket, 2 fitted sheets, 2 flat sheets, Palmer's cream, wellies, gel insoles, mittens, ps3 game and a pacifier. Most of it is for the hospital bag or afterwards. The wellies were only £20, but I have not got any flat boots and if it rains/snows I do not want to risk a fall with the baby. I do not know why I suddenly became obsessed with the need to buy some wellies! I had been looking for some on offer for quite a while! DH also felt the urge to do stuff, and has put together the bouncing chair, the rocking stand for the moses and wanted to get the nursery ready asap.

He is convinced the baby will be early! I keep feeling her more and more around the cervix, like she is engaging, plus she does not stop moving, which DH thinks is a sign she wants to be out and see the world I have started to feel very light period-like cramps this week, but no obvious BH or any breast leaking. Unless I have not identified any of those. Idk, I think she will be late, he thinks she will be early, let's see!!

LittleMoog

1. Babynumber4 - 2nd November 2012 :female: (scheduled c-section)
2. Dribblekitten - 5th November 2012 ?
3. Maddie - 12th November 2012 :male:
4. catbag - 12th November 2012 ??(twins)
5. LittleMoog - 13th November 2012 ?
6. Kimmilew - 14th November 2012 ?
7. spudthedog - 15th November 2012 :female:
8. dizsiebubba - 17th November 2012 :male:
9. kavics17 - 23rd November 2012 :female:
10. savageHK - 26th November 2012 ?
11. missbunbury - 26th November 2012 ?
12. Sa-ra-ra-ra - 30th November 2012 :female:
13. Myatt - 1st December 2012 ?
14. jonno7 - 1st December 2012 ?
15. cazza1973 - 3rd December 2012 :male:
16. LadyMorticia - 3rd December 2012 :male: (scheduled C-Section)
17. CL - 4th December 2012 ?(scheduled C-Section)
18. DayDreamBeliever - 4th December 2012 :female:
19. got-it-spend-it - 6th December 2012 ?
20. martafdz - 8th December 2012 :female:
21. mlbarrett - 10th December 2012 :male:
22. Cupcake88 - 19th December 2012 ?
23. MissKeith - 21st December 2012 :male:
24. Bamama - 22nd December 2012 ?
25. Rups32 - 24th December 2012 ?
26. lozzy88 - 24th December 2012 :male:
27. bezzyk - 26th December 2012 :male:
28. Aida - 26th December 2012 :female:
29. welshgirl78 - 1st January 2013 ?
30. Canucksfan - 3rd January 2013 ?
31. mayforher - 4th January 2013 :male:
32. maddnessandmayhem- 10th January 2013 ?
33. hngrymummy - 10th January 2013 ?
34. Jenjenf21 - 13th January 2013 ?
35. Missus Aka- 15th January 2013 ?
36. walby1993- 15th January 2013 ?
37. mountainmum - 16th January 2013?
38. cali77 - 19th January 2013 ?
39. Elisabeth854 - 22nd January 2013 ?
40. BikerChick - 22nd January 2013 :female:
41. mintedby30 - 24th January 2013 ?
42. Nephthys - 25th January 2013 ?
43. mrs_B - 29th January 2013 ?
44. zcrat41 - 30th January 2013 :male:
45. ellionic - 30th January 2013 ?
46. babymonster2 - 30th January 2013?
47. morocha - 1st February 2013 ?
48. b_girl - 11th February 2013?
49. countrybum - 12th February 2013?
50. tattoo - 13th February 2013 ?
51. earring - 17th February 2013 :female:
52. jwil - 20th February 2013 ?
53. Queen_B - 22nd February 2013 ?
54. JT100 - 28th February 2013 :female:
55. ellie1788 - 1st March 2013 ?
56. Sarahs999 - 12th March 2013 ?
57. MrsHaworth2b - 13th March 2013 ?
58. findingmyownway - 15th March 2013 ?
59. lkmc01 - 15th March 2013 ?
60. 2ba3c -17th March 2013 :female:
61. SpiderWestCider - 30th March 2013 ?

Hospital Bag list here

Supplement list and dosage here

BIRTH LIST

:male: emsaint - 14th September 2012, 12:02am - Noah Michael, 7lb 13oz
:male: emsbet - 16th September 2012, 8:17pm - Connor Stephen, 7lb 14.5oz
:male: milliebob - 17th September 2012, 10:20am - Oliver Jack Albie, 7lb
:male: Mishkanorman - 20th September 2012
:male: twinklie - 21st September 2012, 9.49am - Archie James
:male: Shery - 24th September 2012 - Jude 5lb 5oz
:female: MissMonkeyMoo - 25th September 2012, 12.40am - Gracie, 7lb 10.5oz
:female: SamW - 26th September 2012, 00.00am - Elizabeth Jane
:male: sexymouse - 26th September 2012, 9.32pm - Jonathan Ian 9lb 7oz
:male: MummyOfTwo - 28th September 2012, 6.59pm - Elijah Ruairi 9lb 1oz
:female: KatyLiz - 28th September 2012, 8.49pm - Eliza Grace 5lb 6.5oz
:female: Carrie80- 29th September, 7.40pm - Lara-Rae 6lb 15 oz
:female: Snowyz81 - 30th September 2012 - Daisie Mei 7lb 9oz
:female: bikelesschick - 3rd October 2012 - Sophia 3kg
:female: toni_ - 3rd October 2012 - Maisie 7lb 10oz
:female: punkpink - 6th October 2012 - Tylah 4 lb 10 oz
:female: Candycane - 6th October2012
:female: snowbean - 6th October 2012
:male: ikkle87 - 15th October 2012 1:29pm - Jacob Anthony - 9lb
:male: moneypuddle - 16th October 2012 6.38am - 8lb
:male: Twinkle - 17th October 2012 - 7lb 1.5oz
:male: CherryDrop - 28th October 2012 9.47pm - Kai Thomas Harry - 8lb 12oz
:female::female:Cake4brains - 1st November 2012 13.01 and 13.02 - Amelia (7lb) & Mollie (5lb14)
:male: izzydogsam - 31st October 2012 - Daniel - 8lb 2oz
:male: Alamaya - 5th November 2012 10.45am - Matthew Stuart - 6lb 13oz
:male: scottishchick27 - 5th November 2012 03.00am - Brodie Graham - 9lb 4oz
:female: Taadaa - 5th November 2012 12:02pm -Violet Autumn
:male: colli - 10th November 2012

PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST

Allow 2 weeks after EDD before transferring to this list

tigerwhite - 26th September 2012 ?
fozpot - 27th September 2012 ?
will-be-debt-free - 1st October 2012 ?

CONTRACTION MASTER TIMER

Please post your birth stories here when you have time/energy

LittleMoog

Morning ladies

Happy due date Maddie and catbag! Can't believe it's me tomorrow! :eek:

Got to get up in a few mins as I have a friend coming for lunch, so I need to nip to Tesco and have a tidy round. Had a rubbish night's sleep though, so currently enjoying a lie in with the Today programme on the radio.

4th baby from our NCT group was born yesterday only 3 left now, think I'll end up being last, as the other 2 were due last Thursday. Hope it's not too much longer, I'm getting very impatient to meet our baby!

got-it-spend-it

Morning, I've got the MW again today. Have been feeling yucky the past few days- not sure if it's a bit of a bug or just lovely pregnancy symptoms.

Hope everyone had a good weekend- it was lovely here but we are back to it being grey and rainy today which is a shame.

sexymouse

Cotton wool: From experience, we found the pads in the huggies newborn packs didn't last 5 minutes! They don't absorb water very well, so we couldn't wipe with them that easily. The large cotton wool pads are definitely the way to go rather than balls (too small to deal with poo) or pleats (the cotton wool ends up sticking to them). Waitrose do some really good square ones that are sometimes on offer, and Asda Little Angels round ones are quite good too (I stockpiled a load of these when they were on offer). The Waitrose ones are softer than the Asda ones. I've also used the cotton wool pads from the makeup section in Tesco (large ones) as they were cheaper than the ones in the baby section.

DayDreamBeliever_2

Morning ladies, hope everyone had a good weekend and managed to ensure the limited sunshine we had!
Been to my new doctors to register today, have appointments tomorrow with the doctor & the new midwife team, was worried about it taking some time as my old team kind of cut me adrift when I had my moving date which isn't ideal as I'm 37 weeks tomorrow!

Babys room has been painted and looks lovely, today we're going to put together the furniture & I'll start to unpack & wash so we have somethings ready should my lil lady decide to show up a little early - packing a hospital bag at some point as well would probably be a good idea now.

Re: cotton wool I've stocked up on the large pads following advice from friends, bought about 20 packs of the Asda little angel ones when they were on offer so hopefully they'll last a little while.

ikkle87

We have pads and cotton wool balls as we use the balls for bathing his eyes with sterile water and you have to only use each piece of cotton wool once in that instance so balls really help x

elisabeth854

Morning all,

Had a terrible sleep last night... Up 3 times for a wee and an uncomfortable pain in my lower back and down 1 leg- mum thinks it could be sciatica.

Our roast dinner yesterday was lush, and I managed to do 2 loads of washing at mums and cook off a chilli and a bolognaise (we still have no kitchen!)

I'm off to aquanatal in a bit.. Hope the gentle exercise might help my back, then round to a friends for lunch.

Thanks for the advice on the cotton wool, think my mum has got me balls do I will use those for babies eyes, I've got some of the huggies sheets, but will invest in cotton wool pads too.

As for bras... I have 2 soft cup bras from m&s I bought not long after I found out I was pregnant- my boobs grew straight away.. Went from a 32B ( well just about a B with padding) to a 34D... Pushing a DD! I've also got 2 maternity bras from m&s.
I will try and get properly measured for nursing bras but have no clue where to go if m&s and mothercare are not that good. Anyone know of anywhere in Southampton or Portsmouth or surrounding areas??

Hugs to all who need them and labour vibes to the boldies...

Me (29+6) x x

Rups32

morning all. How are you all?

Hope everyone had a good weekend. sorry have been awol for a while. i can see no one missed me though hehe

Happy due date Maddie and catbag! And a huge congrats to you Colli. Looking forward to reading your birth story.

littlemoog, i want your energy lol. That is one thing i have not had this pregnancy, and have always been tired.

hope all is well. I have been sleeping so badly still so feel yuck. plus work is mega hard now esp with training the new girl so hardly have a few mins to breathe as well. sigh. two weeks will be like this now.:(

anyway with bras. i think i need a new one as mine is tight and i always go to Bravissimo. never ever again to mothercare. i got such an ugly one and also fit badly from there!! with regards to weight, i have gained a lot, but as people have told me, it seems to go on my belly but i have seen my legs, and face go bigger too. i have gained loads. wont stress about it now.lol.

missed you girls. better back to training. sigh. xx