Due July 2012 Thread

Tinkerbell4484 wrote: »

I've actually the opposite problem here no one calls to see the boys at all.. Mil will call if one is sick but other then that we dont see many. Pil and Sil live 6 doors away and never do we get offered help. Now I'm not complaining, cause Id hate to have people interfering but once in a while would be nice. We haven't gotten a congrats on this pregnancy from dhs side at all,all I keep getting is"how are you going to cope with 5" ?? I know in going to cope,I don't need their remarks.

When ds4 was born we got no cards or presents.even for his christening we got nothing sorry rant over !!

That's terrible, don't blame you for ranting! I don't know if we're going to have people calling in but highly doubtful as we're a little farther from everyone else and we've never been a "ah sure call over whenever" type couple as we're not at home much (that'll change now).

I'm going to limit the visitations after baby arrives to probably the one day and just enjoy the rest of the two weeks with OH being there. I don't want people showing up unannounced or everyday, that would drive me nuts. Aside from the fact that I'm sure I'll look like a banshee/dragon for the first while til I get my act together.

Then when OH goes back to work, my sisters are coming over from UK to stay for guts of a week (overlapping each other a bit) so they can help. I was initially really against this as I want to do everything on my own but then I realised that I'll probably enjoy getting the help. Plus one of them I was her birth partner for her baby and she lived with me after he was born and I helped her for ages so she owes me haha. My mother-in-law is 20mins up the road if I get really stuck for help as well.

Hi ladies
my first time posting on this thread
im nearly 20 weeks now (due July 29th) and starting to worry. This is my second pregnancy and am terrified ill get pre-eclampsia again like i did with my first child back in 2001. Just wondering if it will happen again or if anyone has had a similar experience ?

Jaysus a lot of us were busy last October lol!

Welcome Jenny and congrats! I had my last baby in 2001 too!

Oh and regards to visitors I would imagine there will be loads and my mum will be over every day which is actually ok with me even though I don't really get on with her. I've said my sis can stay as long as she wants as she's really easy going and has her own car etc etc.....I'd be afraid my mum would stay and never leave. She's already hinting about moving into my fiancee's granny flat......which is now not a granny flat as he's made it part of the house.

I'm living with my Dad at the moment so she doesn't just drop in there.

jennytightlips wrote: »

we must be mad silly! toddlers and teenagers at the same time lol

I know! My daughter will be 11 in 2 weeks.
She was all questions yesterday, " did you buy maternity clothes when you were having me? Did you buy pregnancy books? Did you go to antenatal classes? Cos if you didn't do those things with me then i'll be very upset because you are doing them now"

javagal wrote: »

Aww Silly that's so funny!!!

I have the worse god awful cough ever the past week, i cannot shift it, going doctors today to see is there anything she recommends...

I think lemon/honey and hot water is what I was told a while back by my dr.

Same here - lemon and honey was all I should take (but not the fancy stuff, as it can contain harmful something or other).

If it's phlegmmy, then covering your head with a towel and breathing in steam is great for helping you get rid of it.

silly wrote: »

Girls, I just read the first page of the breastfeeding support thread over in newborns and toddlers. And to say I'm terrified is an understatement. They seemed to be all in pain, one girl thought she was going to die!!!
I'm not sure if I can do it now.

Course we can! We just come on here and complain to each other!
Not lookin forward to it either but the benefits are too important to baby, and good for your health too!

Ya that thread scares me too... abit like the hospital bag one! We'll be fine though honestly: and breastfeeding not for everyone either...

Argos have a up to half price sale on baby and nursery stuff for anyone buying things: they have starter bottle sets, monitors at half price (video ones and the anglecare mat one too), toys and things (and a competition to win a €1000 worth of baby stuff!).

kildareash wrote: »

I feel bad because I have firmly decided that I'm only going to Bfeed for the first six weeks, but I just don't want to be one of those people who is stuck to the baby for months on end.

oh if I can do it for a month I'll be happy with that! I wouldn't be very comfortable breastfeeding in public, not that I mind others doing it, just I wouldn't be able for it myself. And when I already have one child, who will be off for the summer holidays I need to be able to get out and about.

Another boy... Yayyy congrats glider

mamaheidi wrote: »

Congrats theg81der! Fantastic news! And you've done your bit to balance up the boy / girl ratio

Congrats !

I keep writing everyone's name wrong coz of the stupid autocorrect on my iPhone sorry girls.
Today's name Caitlin.. What yas think of it ?

Tinkerbell4484 wrote: »

I keep writing everyone's name wrong coz of the stupid autocorrect on my iPhone sorry girls.
Today's name Caitlin.. What yas think of it ?

Beautiful name Tinkerbell. I really like Irish ones aswell, my sis is gonna give me the name books she used to see if there's anything we can agree on