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My Due Date: April 16, 2013I am postpartum » My due date was more than 2 weeks ago
Age: 42 years old
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Ready Steady GOOOOOO!!!
By ladyrobynne » Posted Dec. 30, 2012 6:45am - 280 views - 1 comment
i'm getting a little bit obsessive about clothes and stuff for the baby.
I have a list of ALLLL the clothes we've bought for her that are in her bedroom. I have organised it all into age groups and we have SHED loads of stuff for her to wear. So over the next couple of months we just need some extra bits and peices like a jacket in some ages and socks. we seem to have like 5 pairs of socks to her name (which is yet undecided!). i did the list on friday and went to bed friday night and dreamt about buying her socks and tights to fill in those missing bits on my list! so yesterday neil and i went out and spent some money in the sales for baby clothes!
we got into a bit of a heated debate about a baby shower and antenatal classes. I would like a baby shower as it's an opportunity for us and our friends to get together and enjoy each others company because we probably wont see them all that much once the baby gets here. I'd be nice if they actually bought a present either for us or the baby, but it'll just be nice to see them. Especially as spend a lot of my time saying to neil that my friends don't actually like me cos they don't spend any time with me or see how i am. the last time i saw them was in november and i had to BOOK it with them months in advance. The baby shower is also a chance for me to get a wee bit creative and do something fun although i have to say if someone else was to organise it and look after everything on the day then i'd be over the moon with it cos i just don't feel like i have the energy or inclination to do it all, and i know that feeling will probably be here until the baby gets here. I wanted to have it at the beginning of Feb. but neil said we've a lot of spending going on in Feb and we probably can't afford to do it then. But by March I'll be one month away and i could go into labour at ANY time! lol and i don't want to have toleave the baby shower cos i go into labour or not have it at all cos i've gone into labour. And to have it in april just takes the piss quite honestly cos i'm due on the 16th.
I also want to do antenatal classes ASAP so i know what to expect and am prepared for what is to come during labour. my sister went into labour before her due date and before she'd been to her antenatal class so she had NOOOOO idea what to expect or what was going on and had three panic attacks one after the other when she went into labour. Granted she could have gone online and researched it, or picked up a book. but she didn't. I don't want to go into labour early and then freak our cos i don't know 100% what is going on. I heard that the NCT classes are really good, but are ones you have to pay for and when i spoke to neil about them i felt like he was making lots of excuses about not wanting to go. he said he did and he would like to do the NCT ones but also the NHS ones too so we can get as much info as possible. so once again i had made a mountain out of a molehill and we'd had 10 mins of arguments cos i was tired and didn't listen properly. but i've told neil he can phone them and arrange it all cos i just don't care. It's "don't care" syndrome! lol
the other thing i have an issue with that i need to get over or sort out is my baby bump. I don't have one. the two people who stroked my belly to stroke the baby missed my belly and were stroking my spare tyre. It was a bit awkward cos there's no baby in there! I look in the mirror and i don't see pregnant. i just see fat and wobbly. my clothes all stick to the spare tyre which over hangs my tummy where the baby actually is. my tummy is just saggy. it was saggy before we got pregnant in all honesty, but now it sags even more and looks soooo not like it's got a baby in it, just that i'm one of those women who eats KFC/Macdonalds every day. when in actual fact i've put on about 13lbs in total since getting pregnant and eat relativley healthily. I hope the baby belly appears, but i'm not holding my breath...
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Ready Steady GOOOOOO!!!
By ladyrobynne » Posted Dec. 30, 2012 6:45am - 280 views - 1 comment
i'm getting a little bit obsessive about clothes and stuff for the baby.
I have a list of ALLLL the clothes we've bought for her that are in her bedroom. I have organised it all into age groups and we have SHED loads of stuff for her to wear. So over the next couple of months we just need some extra bits and peices like a jacket in some ages and socks. we seem to have like 5 pairs of socks to her name (which is yet undecided!). i did the list on friday and went to bed friday night and dreamt about buying her socks and tights to fill in those missing bits on my list! so yesterday neil and i went out and spent some money in the sales for baby clothes!
we got into a bit of a heated debate about a baby shower and antenatal classes. I would like a baby shower as it's an opportunity for us and our friends to get together and enjoy each others company because we probably wont see them all that much once the baby gets here. I'd be nice if they actually bought a present either for us or the baby, but it'll just be nice to see them. Especially as spend a lot of my time saying to neil that my friends don't actually like me cos they don't spend any time with me or see how i am. the last time i saw them was in november and i had to BOOK it with them months in advance. The baby shower is also a chance for me to get a wee bit creative and do something fun although i have to say if someone else was to organise it and look after everything on the day then i'd be over the moon with it cos i just don't feel like i have the energy or inclination to do it all, and i know that feeling will probably be here until the baby gets here. I wanted to have it at the beginning of Feb. but neil said we've a lot of spending going on in Feb and we probably can't afford to do it then. But by March I'll be one month away and i could go into labour at ANY time! lol and i don't want to have toleave the baby shower cos i go into labour or not have it at all cos i've gone into labour. And to have it in april just takes the piss quite honestly cos i'm due on the 16th.
I also want to do antenatal classes ASAP so i know what to expect and am prepared for what is to come during labour. my sister went into labour before her due date and before she'd been to her antenatal class so she had NOOOOO idea what to expect or what was going on and had three panic attacks one after the other when she went into labour. Granted she could have gone online and researched it, or picked up a book. but she didn't. I don't want to go into labour early and then freak our cos i don't know 100% what is going on. I heard that the NCT classes are really good, but are ones you have to pay for and when i spoke to neil about them i felt like he was making lots of excuses about not wanting to go. he said he did and he would like to do the NCT ones but also the NHS ones too so we can get as much info as possible. so once again i had made a mountain out of a molehill and we'd had 10 mins of arguments cos i was tired and didn't listen properly. but i've told neil he can phone them and arrange it all cos i just don't care. It's "don't care" syndrome! lol
the other thing i have an issue with that i need to get over or sort out is my baby bump. I don't have one. the two people who stroked my belly to stroke the baby missed my belly and were stroking my spare tyre. It was a bit awkward cos there's no baby in there! I look in the mirror and i don't see pregnant. i just see fat and wobbly. my clothes all stick to the spare tyre which over hangs my tummy where the baby actually is. my tummy is just saggy. it was saggy before we got pregnant in all honesty, but now it sags even more and looks soooo not like it's got a baby in it, just that i'm one of those women who eats KFC/Macdonalds every day. when in actual fact i've put on about 13lbs in total since getting pregnant and eat relativley healthily. I hope the baby belly appears, but i'm not holding my breath...
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 | Comment from sunshinebear711 » Posted Dec. 30, 2012 8:54am You have no socks and we have an insane amount of socks. Seriously, a whole drawer full of them. Our classes were helpful in the sense that they gave us techniques to use to deal with pain and to get through contrations... but I have no idea what to expect as to... feeling wise. I *think* I have been having BH contractions... but there is little to no pain and just a very strange feeling that goes away. A lot of the class was me sitting and staring at the clock waiting for it to be over. And the whole not having a bump... I'm plus size and just about 38 weeks pregnant. I had a woman at work this past week tell me that she couldn't tell that I was pregnant and I just stared at her and wanted to go cry. I've only gained 8.5lbs the entire pregnancy, and it is depressing that people can't tell I have a baby in there. I think it was about 26 weeks that my "bump" got hard and a little higher... and I have a friend who is almost 39 weeks and not showing much... *hug* |
