MSE pregnancy club II

traveller

Does anyone think a midwife would frown if a had a washing up bowl (new) instead of a baby bath at my homebirth?It'ws just that I used one with my youngest and found these much more convinient than baby baths!

chocaholic110

traveller wrote: »

Congratulations to everyone who's given birth and to those that have found out they are expecting!!! Asda have that tommee tippee nappy disposal system for a tenner, if anyone needs one.They have some good finds and their sale ends on the 27th of this month.

Just as a note on this. We got a voucher in our Bounty pack at hospital this week to get one of these from Argos for free. We weren't planning on getting one but don't mind when it's free (not that we've picked it up yet!). I presume all Bounty packs are the same so it might be worth waiting to see.

honeybe21

i had my bounty pack for mum to be a while back and didnt have that choc was urs the same one the mum to be one?

mandy2383

Congratulations Ella_ella_ella :T and congratulations to all newbies

Hope everyone is feeling well today

SeptemberBaby_2

Congratulations to all the newbies! And to all those new mummies! (I so miss this thread!). Can't believe that foreversomeday is already due around my EDD last year! :eek:

honey, I think choc is talking about her Bounty pack from the hospital after giving birth although I certainly didn't get that voucher in October :rolleyes:;).

Just a quick reminder for everyone - make sure you join all the clubs, such as Boots parenting club, Tesco, huggies, pampers, cow & gate, aptamil, hipp, etc, etc, etc! They send lots of vouchers and samples :j

Take care everyone

x

(PS - DH and I were last night discussing having more babies very soon! :eek: :cool:)

Chutzpah

If I may be so bold as to add to this list, my wife if pregnant with "Pip", about eight weeks in. I've never known anything go so slowly - it seems like an age since she took the pregnancy test on the 2nd January and we found out!

Look forward to maybe talking on here as all the pregnancy forums on the internet seem to be very female-orientated with men only mentioned when women are moaning about how lazy their bloke is!

We're paying £50 for a private scan on the 13th February as Hampshire doesn't do them on the NHS, can't wait.


EDD

Phatmouse - 12th January 2008
Sunny Angel- 14th January 2008 (I think!!)
curly_em - 14 January 2008
tbourne - 20 Jan 08
Ciara111-22 Jan 08
pinkmilkplease - 26th Jan 08
Cathie - 7th February 08
Marvalous - 12th 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
Girl And The City - 5 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
PinkPrincess 21st April 2008
machairs - 24th April 2008 (may change after scan)
cluuuuur - 25th April 2008
debecca - 26th April 2008
Kelsi-Blu - 27th April 08
Katgoddess - 29th April 2008
lostbuckaroos - 2 May 2008 (although doc thinks that could be 2 weeks out!)
rjh090384 -3rd May 2008 (changed at 12 week scan)
Traveller -May 3rd 2008 (but probably 10th as always a week late!!!
Knotty29 - 16th May 2008
magan- 18th May 2008
destiny_star2006 - 22 May 2008 (or could be 2 June!)
clarkey1000 - May 31st 2008
honeybe21 - june 2nd/3rd 2008
Harding 1985 - 9 June
nik2108 - 11th June 2008
sunday_girl - 6th July 2008
skyeandeviesmummy - 13th July 2008
I love my Pomeranian - 15th July 2008
Jak - 18th July 2008
bethom - 20th July 2008
skintnutta - 21st 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!
foreversomeday - 27 September 2008 (May change after scan)
Chutzpah - 8th September 2008 (we haven't had a dating scan yet)

TTC LIST
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Pooky
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Miss_pink & Mr Pink
Boobylou
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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 30th Dec, 6lb 10oz
Shelvis - Baby Alexander Robert born 2:45am 6th January 7lb 7 1/2oz
nicola1982 - Baby Stephen Andrew born 12.37am 7th Jan 7lb 4oz
flis21 - Tomas at 7.42pm on 7th January (13 days late!!) weighing 7lb7.
Strawberry laces - Girl 7 January 2008, emergency c-section
Slapps - Charlie Allen born 12.02pm on the 9th Jan weighing 7lb 10oz
Yorkshirechick - Taylor James Quarmby born 12:32am on 12 January weighing 8lb 12oz
chocaholic110 - Thomas Jacob born 4.08pm 18th January by emergency c-section weighing 5lb 8oz
cazscoob - Charlie Morrison born 08:41 on 19th Jan weighing 8lb 8oz
Ella_ella_ella - Baby Natasha Grace Hughes born 22nd January at 22.40 weighing 7lb 7oz

PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST
Usually allow 2 weeks after EDD before transferring to this list...
All January 2008 births appear to be accounted for!

3KIDSNOMONEY

Can't believe all these newbies - i feel like one of the old ones now. Really fed up with being pregnant now and i still have nearly 5 weeks to go - just want baby here to see that he is OK. Going to do a countdown calendar for the kids so that they can see how many days it is until baby is 'supposed' to come.

Traveller - can't see any reason why you shouldn't use a washing up bowl - sounds ideal really - not too big to fill or carry and fits baby in well - if i hadn't already bought a blow up bath really cheap i think i would do the same. Baby baths are such a waste of money really. The midwife should applaud you for your money saving and ingenious idea.

Nice to see that you haven't gone far Septemberbaby. The list might need sorting out every now and again.

I've been joining all the baby clubs - if anyone knows any of the more obscure ones, ie not boots, tesco, etc. then i would love to know about them.

Welcome mr Chutzpah and congratulations to you and your wife. Seems a bit unfair that you have to pay for a scan.

Would be great if the bounty pack you are given in hospital has a voucher for a nappy wrapper. Was tempted by the one in Asda but only because it was so cheap - never really seen the point in them really, but hey ho if they are free then who cares.

lunastar

hello!! can I join in this thread please, been TTC for our first baby since mid dec and got a positive result just over a week ago. I think my EDD will be the 27th Sep (same as foreversomeday) but have not been to docs yet - appointment on wednesday!!
what will happen at the docs appt??

Nic

chocaholic110

honeybe21 wrote: »

i had my bounty pack for mum to be a while back and didnt have that choc was urs the same one the mum to be one?

I got two packs in the hospital, a mum's overnight one and a baby one, and the voucher was in one of those although I'm not sure which one as by the time I got home OH had unpacked both and put all the bits away and just gave me a huge pile of vouchers / leaflets to look through. I was imprtessed with the Bounty packs though - full size Comfort and Johnsons baby wipes, lots of nappies and washing tablets. when I had DS and DD you only got tiny sample sizes of everything.

chocaholic110

Welcome to the new people.

Mr Chutzpah, do you not get a scan at all? That's seems highly unfair. Hopefully you still get an anomlay scan at 20 weeks though, do you?

ThreeKids - I think the way to get your baby early is to be quite happy to wait. I remember Shelvis being due on the 8th but wanting to wait until the 15th and she had him a couple of days early. I was happy to wait until today or even after but decisions were taken out of my hands and I had him on the 18th. All the people who seem to be waiting impatiently seem to go overdue! I think we have a lot of awkward babies!

And after spending my whole pregnancy telling people I wasn't going to be in labour long and how I was planning a quick birth I actually had him in less than 25 minutes from the hospital deciding a caesarian was in order (6 minutes from receiving a general anaesthetic). My new motto is "Be careful what you wish for!!"

Oh, BTW, I don't have to leave here now, do I? After so long ttc and then the pregnancy I don't feel I can leave yet! Have the other no-longer-pregnant people progressed to the Parents' Board (I haven't looked there yet)