MSE pregnancy club II

JoJoB

Congratulations beakerange!

I bought my first baby things today - 2 sweet little vests, 25p each from the charity shop. Then my friend came round with a moses basket, loads of blankets, sheets, clothes, a steriliser, bouncy chair, and mobile. She's giving me a cot too. Overwhelmed!

Violetta_2

cheeky_lil_monkey wrote: »

Might be a strange question to ask, but does anyone know if it's bad for a pregnant woman to be getting a load of static shocks. I'm just thinking I'm getting upwards of 15 per day (and some hurt!!!), never usually this bad, am guessing the air is dryer than ususal. Am hoping to be about 4.5 months along this time next year and am worried that the shocks wouldn't be good for the little-un.

Anyone else suffer from this or know anything about it??

Might sound daft but does your friend wear Crocs shoes by any chance? They are mega comfy but notorious for causing the wearer to have lot's of static shock's , not sure but don't think it would do your friends baby any harm.
If she doesn't wear Crocs it could be caused by another kind of footwear or yet another bizarre thing a pregnant body can do.

cheeky_lil_monkey

Violetta wrote: »

Might sound daft but does your friend wear Crocs shoes by any chance? They are mega comfy but notorious for causing the wearer to have lot's of static shock's , not sure but don't think it would do your friends baby any harm.
If she doesn't wear Crocs it could be caused by another kind of footwear or yet another bizarre thing a pregnant body can do.

Thanks Violetta, that's actually for me this time :j
Not that I'm pregnant as yet, but would like to be by this time next year and when I'm getting huge amounts of shocks a day, something made me wonder if it would be bad for an unborn baby and decided this was as good a place as any to ask :cool: It doesn't seem to matter what I wear on my feet or what material of clothing I wear either, but it's a lot worse when the air is very dry (funnily enough since that's what causes it!!!). Thanks though!

cheeky_lil_monkey

Oooh and good luck Shelvis!!

Violetta_2

Doh sorry cheeky_lil_monkey I'm tired/got a headache and think I read it all too fast,not sure why I even came on this thread I'm not even preganant:rotfl: my dd will be 2 and a half at the end of the month, my brain turned to mashed potatoe when I was pregnant and still hasn't improved.

Bun

Good luck Shelvis - you have to be empty by now!

cheeky_lil_monkey

Lol. Hope you feel better soon Violetta.

Blink_Blink

Hello everyone! Just adding myself to the EDD list - pregnant with first baby, really excited! :j

I think it would be cool though if it was 5 days late and born on 08/08/08! x

EDD LIST
Flis21 - 25th Decemeber (yes am now 9 days overdue!)
bumpybecky - 25th December
wilf55 (her daughter, Chelsea) - 29 December 2007
bairnpunter's wife - 29th December 2007
Strawberry laces - 29th December 2007
m77las - 30th Dec (baby no1)
Shelvis - 8 January 2008
Slapps - 10th Jan 2008 (queue jumping due to going for section @ 39 weeks)
Yorkshirechick - 12th January
Phatmouse - 12th January 2008
Sunny Angel- 14th January 2008 (I think!!)
cazscoob - 18 Jan 08
tbourne - 20 Jan 08
Ciara111-22 Jan 08
nicola1982 - 23rd Jan 08
pinkmilkplease - 26th Jan 08
chocaholic110 - 27th January 08
Ella_ella_ella - 27th January 08
Cathie - 7th February 08
Melly74 - 17th February 08
Liley9 - 18 February 2008
miss_be - 20th February 08
Loopy-loo73 - 21 Feb 08
Bailey - 22 February 08
alison6692 - 24 February 2008
PiscesPrincess - 24th February 2008
Bun - 25th February
Ella29 - 27th February 08
3KIDSNOMONEY - 28th February 08
Dougggie - 2 March 08
Doobees - 4th March 08
svmitche - 4th March 2008
Purplegirluk1 - 6th March 2008
Elliesmum - 8 March 08
mandy2383 - 9th march 2008
ukbBandit - 15 March 2008
Heavenleigh - 24th march 08
Melg1973 - 24th march 08
Newleafer - 27th march 08
Pink Princess 1 - 29th March 08
tranquil - 2 April 2008
redflame705 - 8th April 08
snugglepuss - 9th April 08
gemsygem (Sheel's daughter) 19th April 08
MonkeyLady - 20th April 08
JojoB - 20th April 2008
machairs - 24th April 2008 (may change after scan)
debecca - 26th April 2008
Kelsi-Blu - 27th April 08
Katgoddess - 29th April 2008
rjh090384 -3rd May 2008 (changed at 12 week scan)
Knotty29 - 16th May 2008
clarkey1000 - May 31st 2008
skyeandeviesmummy - 13th July 2008
I love my Pomeranian - 15th July 2008
Jak - 18th July 2008
Blink_Blink - 3rd August 2008
ParadiseKidd - 6th August 2008
grad_gal25 - August 11th (My Birthday This was so not planned!)
Carol9uk - 13 August 2008
Scottish-Diva- August 2008
LindseyandMatthew 23rd August!

TTC LIST
Daisykate124
Cookiesncream
witchyroo
sjm
Fishcake_random
Lesleydejager
jo_jo
picklesmum
durham_girl
likabu
Bun
jo101
Pooky
emptypocketz
Miss_pink & Mr Pink
Boobylou
lilmrsmullen
jiblets1
Lillian06
ginvzt
Uisge10
CHARLIE54
keelykat
jpwhittle
lwcus78
bloomin freezin

BIRTH LIST
tammyfshr - Hector - 6th December 2007. 5 days late and weighing 9lbs 15 oz
Ebony: Alexandra Louise - 6th December @ 3.55 weighed 6lbs 4oz
helend - Neve Sarah - 19th December - 7lbs9.5oz
Suzukibabe- Adam thomas - 15th December, 2 weeks early - 4lbs 2oz.
Sugarcubed - Baby Jenna born 23rd Dec @ 19.43 weighing 6lb 13. Cutey and starting to form a little personality
Beakerange - Luke Joshua - 24th December @ 22.26 weighing 5lbs 13.5oz. 6 days overdue but an absolute star.
Scruffy96uk - baby Ellie born 25/12/07 @ 10.03am weighing 7lb 8oz
Becky_Sleaf - Ruby Isabelle - Christmas Day 14.41 after 55 hours in labour & an emergency c section!
Anthillmob - baby Nathan born 31st Dec, 6lb 10oz

PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST
TATOO07 (MY WIFE) - 6th December 2007
Cel - 8th December (last posted on MSE april 2007)
kelticangel - 9th December 2007 (last posted on MSE april 2007)
jbbonce - 16th december (but hoping to keep my legs crossed til jan)
Nikstar - 23rd December!! unplanned i may add.

ParadiseKidd

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

Not sure about the ins and outs of this but the MG form has an 'are you waiting to hear' box to tick as well as 'in receipt of' box when applying so have a MG form all filled in and ready. Also, when you get your Bounty bag at the hospital, inside is the Child Benefit form (curently £18.10 per week - due to go up to £18.80 in April 2008) and also enclosed is a leaflet re Tax Credits. When you (or OH) feel up to it after the birth, call the number and they send you out the form. Return it as soon as you can and then you can tick the 'applied for' box on the MG form and send that in pronto :cool:. Just make sure it is sent in with 3 months. Best to apply and see what happens. They can only say no!

Hope I'm making sense! Only know about it as my neighbour asked for my help in completing hers.

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/advisers/claimforms/sf100_print.pdf

x

Thanks so much! This is a great help and very reassuring - I'm hoping to slowly buy everything we need as cheap as possible from local papers and ebay, but need to be sure I can cover the debt of the student overdraft I'll be using! :rolleyes:

Blink_Blink

ParadiseKidd wrote: »

Thanks so much! This is a great help and very reassuring - I'm hoping to slowly buy everything we need as cheap as possible from local papers and ebay, but need to be sure I can cover the debt of the student overdraft I'll be using! :rolleyes:

Do you have access to freecycle? I am waiting for my 3 month scan before I start to get anything but I have been on there recently and people are giving away things like baby monitors/baby gates etc for free x