MSE Pregnancy Club 26

Toothfairy4

Congrats lao cat and sarahevie! The babies are all deciding to make their entrances this week!

Went out with girls from work last night for a meal, then up for work this morning resulting in about 4 hours sleep. Just went for a 'nap' which ended up being 3.5 hours oops!

Bangton, if you've got to stop buying blankets feel free to enable me instead i'm looking for some nice ones. Where have you got all your's?

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lozza1985

Congrats sarahevie

Metranil_Vavin

Congratulations sarahevie.Love the name!

Giz how are things with you?

jessimacalucy87

Congrats sarahevie, such a gorgeous name, although im sure your arrival puts me in the top 10 which is scary stuff! though as im on day 10 of early labour id give just about anything to skip some places!

neneromanova

Congrats sarahevie

1. Courgette- 15th August 2013 :male:
2. yumyums - 21st August 2013 :male:
3. justonemorepairofshoes - 1st September 2013 :female:
4. NoAngel - 2nd September 2013 ?
5. butler_helen - 5th September 2013 ?
6. Welsh_cosmic - 9th September 2013 ?
7. littleskintdragon - 10th September 2013 ?
8. bella2121 - 17th September 2013 :female:
9. nikki2804 - 17th September 2013 ?
10. jessimacalucy87 - 19th September 2013 :male:
11. bride2be2012 - 20th September :female:
12. Luciferswench - 28th September 2013 ?
13. Kanichen - 29th September :female:
14. nessie216 - 3rd October 2013 ?
15. BeNiceToMySelf - 4th October 2013 ?
16. an9i77 - 4th October 2013 :female: (Section Due 1 week Before)
17. amus - 5th October 2013 ?
18. Kayalana99 - 8th October 2013 ?
19. Tiny_courageous - 8th October 2013 :male:
20. myangels - 9th October 2013 ?
21. Hopelass - 11th October 2013 ?
22. cleofish - 13th October 2013 :female:
23. fluffysox - 15th October 2013 :male:
24. lobey - 15th October 2013 ?
25. Toothfairy4 - 17th October 2013 :male:
26. Clearing_out_my_pockets - 17th October 2013 ?
27. neneromanova - 21st October 2013 :male:
28. Poppy27 - 21st October 2013 ?
29. MiffyMoo - 22nd October 2013 ?
30. TTC40 - 22nd October 2013 ?
31. maire1 - 24th October 2013 ?
32. AngelMommy - 27th October 2013 :male:
33. cloudy11 - 27th October 2013 ?
34. Trina2010 - 1st November 2013 ?
35. lozza1985 - 2nd November 2013 :female:
36. Flower08 - 5th November 2013 ?
37. onetreehillgrrl - 14th November 2013 ?
38. amy85 - 17th November 2013 :female:
39. Lola888 - 21st November 2013 :female:
40. Finch7 - 26th November 2013 ?
41. vic3 - 27th November 2013 :male:
42. KScarlet - 29th November 2013 :female:
43. iceicebaby - 9th December 2013 ?
44. LilyMay - 28th December 2013 :female: - C-Section at 37 weeks
45. Kerri_dwf - 1st January 2014 :female:
46. bigzippy - 8th January 2014 ?
    

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BIRTH LIST - Within the last month

:male: Sam1984 - 27th July 2013 03:26 9lb 11oz
:female: anderson8 - 28th July 2013 Izzy Elizabeth 9lbs 8oz
:male: Girlzmum - 26th July 2013 20.56 James Daniel 8lb 7 1/2oz
:female: Oscar_the_pug - 7th August 2013 Eleanor Grace 8lb 1oz
:female: nutshell82 - 7th August 2013 Sophie Grace 7lb 7oz
:female: PigPen - 9th August 2013 Delilah Gabrielles 7lb 2oz
:female: kandfs mam - 13th August 2013 17.40 Eve Violet 7lb 5oz
:male: gizmodo - 12th August 2013 8lb 2oz
:female: Claree__x - 17th August 2013 14:11 8lb 4.5oz
:female: baleb - 18th August 2013 Hazel 12:29 9lbs
:female: Metranil Vavin - 19th August 2013 Lola Ann 15:04 7lbs 2oz
:male: Lao_cat - 23rd August 2013 7lbs 13oz
:female: sarahevie - 24th August 2013 Ruby Violet 6lbs 3oz

PROBABLY GIVEN BIRTH BUT TOO WORN OUT TO LOG ON LIST

Allow 2 weeks after EDD before transferring to this list (Max 6 weeks)

elliegibbo - 30th July 2013?
triangle - 27th July 2013 ?
princesspinky - 2nd August 2013 :female:

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Bangton

Congrats sarahevie!!!! Another baby! : )

Toothfairy - Not sure if this will help you in anyway as it depends what your after. I have bought mainly white blankets for baby that we will be using in his cot (it's an oak cot though, probably would have chose a different colour if the cot was white which seems to be the popular choice). Keeping it neutral as well so we can paint blue birds on the walls and have some curtains made without spending an utter bomb trying to match the bedding in.

Cot wise Boots are selling Clair De Lune cellular blankets for about £7 each so I bought 4.

John Lewis have white value ones for £6 (!) so I bought 2.

I have a couple from White Company too that I think were in the sale but not sure how much they were...less than £20 though I'm sure!

I got my fitted cot sheets from Babies R Us and they are lovely and soft but not sure what they cost..maybe £12 for 2.

Bought flat sheets from Mothercare as a thin extra layer if needed - £8.50 for 2 in the sale! They also have 3 for 2 on bedding.

We were given a Moses basket that is cream and wicker so I bought the Bear's Best Friends Moses basket set from Babies R Us - £20 for a coverlet, flat sheet and 2 fitted sheets. On top of that I got a blanket for £5.99 from H&M with little bears on in case he does mess on his sheets.

I bought what I thought were some nice pram blankets from Kiddicare with stars on. Thankfully they were £4 each as they got holes in them after one wash!

Then for hospital, pram, car seat, out and about I bought the blankets they have in Gap at the moment (having a boy so got the aeroplane one) and probably going to get the umbrella one as well! Then I have a monkey one from Next.

I have a farm themed one from a website online that I just cannot remember the name of and lastly one with Elephants on from modern baby online which is grey like our car seat so should tie in!

I should say some of the blankets have been cheap, some not so cheap but I have pretty much had a discount code every time. Sign up to Gap for example and it really won't be long before they send you loads and loads of offers by email. The blankets I got were £17 but I'm sure I had 20% off at the time (sorry I'm vague I've bought lots of things and I always try not to pay full price!)

I really am a sucker for blankets. It's probably been my biggest expense but I've saved/cut back in a lot of other areas and just thought 'sod it' when it came to spending on baby bedding! After all he'll spend a good deal of time asleep!

As I say it may not help if you want something more interesting than white though : )

Molly41

I still have my baby blankets (22 years old) and they are still as good as new. I always washed them in wool liquid on the wool wash. I'm waiting to use them for my grand children now x

Toothfairy4

Thanks Bangton! Off to have a browse. I'm the same, very reluctant to pay full price for anything, i suppose that's why we are all on MSE though lol.

fluffysox

Congratulations to laocat and sarahevie

Gosh we've all jumped up a fair bit on the list the past couple of weeks :O

Just trying to arrange DS's childcare for first two weeks of term. Childminder on hols. My mum will have him the days I'm work if needed but better to share the load so asking SILs to volunteer a day each. Quite exciting as after that I'm officially on mat leave

lobey

Congrats sarahevie! Two beautiful names. Thanks noangel for the info on the TENS machine. I was a bit confused by the ones on amazon which seemed to be ok for labour but then the same brand would have another especially for labour. If you have time post birth would love to hear any feedback.

Exhausted after a family reunion today, 9 kids running around with cabin fever in the rain... Ready for bed now!