I'm due to become an Aunty

In Lonesome Dove

I'm due to become an Aunty very soon from a sibling who emigrated to Australia and settled there. I am delighted.

While wandering around tk max the other day, I browsed the baby section and I found a nice outfit that I think would be suitable as a gift. A light weight t-shirt with matching leggings and matching light weight blanket. All fancy and a beautiful colour too. Am hoping to put other bits with it too like a teddy.

I brought it home and was very happy with it but all my mother did was critise it. Everything about it. The size (it's for 0-3 months) and everything else.

My mother is telling me I should be considering grobags for a gift. Grobags are sleeping bags for babies that come various tog weight. Even the lightest I think may be too much for the australian climate.

I have a friend who had a baby some months ago and she ranted at me one day about oldie neighbours coming to visit with gifts of clothing, clothes months too big in size.

Sir Arthur Daley

Are you related to greyfox?

endacl

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Are you related to greyfox?

Roger Hassenforder

You're grand. Most people buy pressies for babies for when the sprog is a bit older so the new parents end up with not a whole lot for earlier.
And tell your ma "feck off"

Lapin

Seriously OP

You came to After Hours with this.




Try here to get some less than frigged up replies to your query.

Hotfail.com

In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

I have a friend who had a baby some months ago and she ranted at me one day about oldie neighbours coming to visit with gifts of clothing, clothes months too big in size.

Isn't the whole whole point of that that big babies sometimes don't fit into 0-3 months clothes? They'd fit them anyway later on if that isn't the case.

She sounds like a bit of a b*tch complaining that neighbours came around giving her gifts that she wasn't happy with.

Lucifer MorningStar

What's with all these shiote threads in AH of late ?

Fingers!

UrbanBaby
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Client
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UrbanBaby
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Client
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UrbanBaby
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what city to be used in? and how old is baby

Client
baby isn't born yet
city is unknown
just wondering if too warm for one in Oz
do you sell them?

UrbanBaby
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Client
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UrbanBaby
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Client
Will OPs Mammy like it?

UrbanBaby
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Ciderswigger

Start a blog OP, not a thread.




Seriously, I expected more from AH.

Bafucin

In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

I'm due to become an Aunty very soon from a sibling who emigrated to Australia and settled there. I am delighted.

While wandering around tk max the other day, I browsed the baby section and I found a nice outfit that I think would be suitable as a gift. A light weight t-shirt with matching leggings and matching light weight blanket. All fancy and a beautiful colour too. Am hoping to put other bits with it too like a teddy.

I brought it home and was very happy with it but all my mother did was critise it. Everything about it. The size (it's for 0-3 months) and everything else.

My mother is telling me I should be considering grobags for a gift. Grobags are sleeping bags for babies that come various tog weight. Even the lightest I think may be too much for the australian climate.

I have a friend who had a baby some months ago and she ranted at me one day about oldie neighbours coming to visit with gifts of clothing, clothes months too big in size.

Congrats! I became an Uncle a while ago!

KungPao

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

What's with all these shiote threads in AH of late ?

Well screw you, Lucifer. I'll have you know that I, yes I, have become a very proud God Father recently. Obviously just saying this on my nauseating facebook page is not quite sufficient, so I felt it was necessary to post this on a public and anonymous forum.

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Am I in the parenting forum?

Lucifer MorningStar

KungPao wrote: »

Well screw you, Lucifer. I'll have you know that I, yes I, have become a very proud God Father recently. Obviously just saying this on my nauseating facebook page is not quite sufficient, so I felt it was necessary to post this on a public and anonymous forum.

Go start a thread about it so

Sir Arthur Daley

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Am I in the parenting forum?

One could be forgiven for thinking it. All we need now is a music thread.

Lapin

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

What's with all these shiote threads in AH of late ?

There's a few?


Maybe its an indication of an upturn in people logging on here for the first time and letting off steam annonomously before they do things.

There are some who feel they have nothing left to contribute.

Some of us in After Hours have seen them all come and go over the years and we can be cheeky with it. (Me more than most).

But for anyone who logs onto boards for the first time and feeling vulnerable in any way - Please don't.

Give as good as you get.

We pull the living piss out of each other, tear each other apart, and threaten all sorts of yuk to one another.

But in truth - We're a good bunch.

I write this with tears in my own eyes as a friend of mine took his own life yesterday.

He did it his way and I can take that.







I Dunno

Sorry.


Just be wary of AH OP

Sir Arthur Daley

Lapin wrote: »

There's a few?
He did it his way and I can take that.
I Dunno

I get all musical reading your posts tonight.

KungPao

Lucifer MorningStar wrote: »

Go start a thread about it so

I wouldn't bore people with such blandness. I was just being sarcastic.

WilyCoyote

Your mother sounds like a bit of a shrew/cnut/whatever, OP. If you are still single ........ go out and get pregnant - just to show her.

FullblownRose

Lapin wrote: »

There's a few?


Maybe its an indication of an upturn in people logging on here for the first time and letting off steam annonomously before they do things.

There are some who feel they have nothing left to contribute.

Some of us in After Hours have seen them all come and go over the years and we can be cheeky with it. (Me more than most).

But for anyone who logs onto boards for the first time and feeling vulnerable in any way - Please don't.

Give as good as you get.

We pull the living piss out of each other, tear each other apart, and threaten all sorts of yuk to one another.

But in truth - We're a good bunch.

I write this with tears in my own eyes as a friend of mine took his own life yesterday.

He did it his way and I can take that.







I Dunno

Sorry.


Just be wary of AH OP

Is that a serious post or an examle of what the OP should be wary of? I hate to have to ask, and do apologise if it is serious.

Hotfail.com

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

One could be forgiven for thinking it. All we need now is a music thread.

I f*cking lost it after reading that. :pac:

FullblownRose

In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

I'm due to become an Aunty very soon from a sibling who emigrated to Australia and settled there. I am delighted.

While wandering around tk max the other day, I browsed the baby section and I found a nice outfit that I think would be suitable as a gift. A light weight t-shirt with matching leggings and matching light weight blanket. All fancy and a beautiful colour too. Am hoping to put other bits with it too like a teddy.

I brought it home and was very happy with it but all my mother did was critise it. Everything about it. The size (it's for 0-3 months) and everything else.

My mother is telling me I should be considering grobags for a gift. Grobags are sleeping bags for babies that come various tog weight. Even the lightest I think may be too much for the australian climate.

I have a friend who had a baby some months ago and she ranted at me one day about oldie neighbours coming to visit with gifts of clothing, clothes months too big in size.

Your gift sounds really nice. Maybe your mum is in bad form for some reason so dont take her criticism to heart.
I am a mum of a young child myself and would be delighted with that as a baby gift. Im sure most new mums would be. Someone else in the family could provide the babygrobag instead! I associate grobags with tomatos so the name is making me giggle!

GerB40

In you're situation I'd send your (very thoughtful) present and start a savings fund for the kid. A few quid every now and again shouldn't break the bank and in 18 years your niece/nephew will have a a nice nest egg to go to college, do some travelling or whatever takes their fancy..
You'll definitely be the cool aunt for that and let's face it, that's priceless...

Lapin

FullblownRose wrote: »

Is that a serious post or an examle of what the OP should be wary of? I hate to have to ask, and do apologise if it is serious.

Perhaps posted in the wrong thread.

Don't want to introduce crap like - 'not thinking straight' etc.......

But the post was serious.

Sir Arthur Daley

Hotfail.com wrote: »

I f*cking lost it after reading that. :pac:

Is the car ok? you shouldnt be driving and boarding.

FullblownRose

Lapin wrote: »

Perhaps posted in the wrong thread.

Don't want to introduce crap like - 'not thinking straight' etc.......

But the post was serious.

Right, ok, this is weird, are you alright? If that was serious then I expect you aren't thinking straight at the moment.

Leogirl

Lapin wrote: »

There's a few?


Maybe its an indication of an upturn in people logging on here for the first time and letting off steam annonomously before they do things.

There are some who feel they have nothing left to contribute.

Some of us in After Hours have seen them all come and go over the years and we can be cheeky with it. (Me more than most).

But for anyone who logs onto boards for the first time and feeling vulnerable in any way - Please don't.

Give as good as you get.

We pull the living piss out of each other, tear each other apart, and threaten all sorts of yuk to one another.

But in truth - We're a good bunch.

I write this with tears in my own eyes as a friend of mine took his own life yesterday.

He did it his way and I can take that.







I Dunno

Sorry.


Just be wary of AH OP

I'm sorry to hear that.

In Lonesome Dove

In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

I'm due to become an Aunty very soon from a sibling who emigrated to Australia and settled there. I am delighted.

While wandering around tk max the other day, I browsed the baby section and I found a nice outfit that I think would be suitable as a gift. A light weight t-shirt with matching leggings and matching light weight blanket. All fancy and a beautiful colour too. Am hoping to put other bits with it too like a teddy.

I brought it home and was very happy with it but all my mother did was critise it. Everything about it. The size (it's for 0-3 months) and everything else.

My mother is telling me I should be considering grobags for a gift. Grobags are sleeping bags for babies that come various tog weight. Even the lightest I think may be too much for the australian climate.

I have a friend who had a baby some months ago and she ranted at me one day about oldie neighbours coming to visit with gifts of clothing, clothes months too big in size.

Firstly congrats.


Its better too big than too small. More often than not children grow. They dont shrink It would be a bigger waste if they were getting the children clothes that they barely get wear out of.

I dont think the growbags are practical given the Aussie climate. Id go with the clothes but perhaps get them with the future in mind. The sizes listed are always too small for the child listed so always best to get them a little bigger.

Lapin

FullblownRose wrote: »

Right, ok, this is weird, are you alright? If that was serious then I expect you aren't thinking straight at the moment.

I'm ok.
Had better days.

Genuinely thought I posted in a different thread earlier.
Really wouldn't be my style to open one here.

Tried looking for initial thread - No sign of it so feck it.

Adamantium

I'm about to become a lemon.

policarp

In Lonesome Dove wrote: »

I'm due to become an Aunty very soon from a sibling who emigrated to Australia and settled there. I am delighted.

While wandering around tk max the other day, I browsed the baby section and I found a nice outfit that I think would be suitable as a gift. A light weight t-shirt with matching leggings and matching light weight blanket. All fancy and a beautiful colour too. Am hoping to put other bits with it too like a teddy.

I brought it home and was very happy with it but all my mother did was critise it. Everything about it. The size (it's for 0-3 months) and everything else.

My mother is telling me I should be considering grobags for a gift. Grobags are sleeping bags for babies that come various tog weight. Even the lightest I think may be too much for the australian climate.

I have a friend who had a baby some months ago and she ranted at me one day about oldie neighbours coming to visit with gifts of clothing, clothes months too big in size.

That's going to cost you.
Congratulations anyway.

policarp

Adamantium wrote: »

I'm about to become a lemon.

Yellow belly. . .:o