Born Oct/Nov 2015

Hellloooooooooo Everybody! How was your weekend? Mine was super, Hubby and I did the 8km Walk the Talk this weekend, went much better than expected. Had a few braxton hicks that made me stop for a while, but other than that, it was fun. We usually do the 15km each year, but I told him I am not up for that far. As you know you need to keep your heart rate low, so it is a slow walk, and a slow walk on 15km would have taken us days. So 8 was just perfect.

We will be painting our entire house in August, but we finally started moving all the crap out of baby's room in order to start prepping and get it ready for painting etc... We are doing the wood, white and creme colour scheme... getting really excited now. Bought the cutest baby grows at Game, white with either gray dots or stars...

Booked my 4D for the 4th of August, we will be 29 weeks then. (Can't believe we are 28 today), feels like just yesterday when I started this topic, I think I was only 12 weeks then. MediClinic doesn't give a 4D scan for free anymore, neither does my Medical aid, we did however receive a R200 discount voucher from Kloof on the scan. The scan will be done at the Medical Center in Parkview, so we need to pay R650.

We have also decided to have like a family and friends baby shower, everybody invited with hubby and kids and we are going to do it as a picnic at Rietvlei dam in September. That way we do not take mommies away from their families over a weekend, in other words, there are no excuses of, "oh I can not come or stay as Hubby is looking after the kids and there is a World Cup Rugby game on etc.... it will be on a Sunday after church... so looking forward to it.

Good morning ladies,

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend. Nothing new on my side other than I went to go watch Sister Act and my little man didnt stop kicking or moving throughout the second half - either he was enjoying it or wanted it to stop

So since I have nothing more to say here's how im looking at 23 weeks.




Have a lovely week all

Hi mommies!

Brrrrrrrrrr... I hope you're keeping warm in this cold weather.

I'm soooo super excited! I ordered my first batch of cotton diapers Now I just need to shop around for various inserts, booster pads as well as liner to see which ones work best. But luckily the most important part of the nappy is sorted

I also bought a few of the snappi cloth nappy fastners to give the good ol' sqaure nappy a go. I'm getting a bit obsessed with giving this natural nappy a try. Not to mention how chuffed my mom is! I think this is the first thing (except the pregnancy itself) she is overjoyed with...

Also got the cutest Tatty Teddy cotton sleepsack!!! I wanted to get the babygrows, but they didn't have other sizes in pink except newborn - and I can't buy more newborn than what I already have.

Also got the most gorgeous bibs @ Baby City as well as Larissa's "taking home" outfit, which big sister helped to pick out

Will post some pics later.

Hope you're all supporting our boys in green & gold!!!

Happy shopping juanita
Just got back from my son's pre school teachers babyshower, somehow it made it more real that am also having a baby seeing all her stuff, worse is that i was also forced to face the baby shopping thing cause i had to get her gift yesterday. Ohhh and i loved the food

Oh my goodness Juanita!!! You are SO lucky!!! #GreenWithEnvy

Jip... I thik it's a BIG sister thing. Will talk to the gynae next week and hear what she says and how she feels. With her breaking her arm earlier this year, she's very familiar with the theatre.

I think DH is more squeemish than our 5 year old

Besides - there wont be a #3, so this is our final chance to make it special as a family.

OMW Louise, my daughter is the exact same!!! She loves going to the dr when someone else goes, even if they have to get a shot, it doesnt bug her one bit. Ive told hubby that it really wouldnt amaze me if she becomes a doctor I know Leandi would love going in with me but i just wouldnt be comfortable, i would worry about her too much, but i suppose with you getting a csec it will be diff. I do know that she will be extremely upset if her dad picked her up from school and her sister was born while she was in school. that would be the end of her little world, so i think i will have to ask my mom to stay with her in the waiting room once i go into the delivery room. or something like that.

When i gave birth to her (had a induction) we didnt tell ANYONE that we were going in on the day. we just didnt want any distractions, and i would prefer it to be that way again, but having my mom there would be ok, and having her looking after L would just be a bonus

@Lauz, glad your feeling better. This flu, be it swine or just plain flu is really no joke!! We all need to be extra carefull! Yesterday i had to go to police station for work stuff and it was so crowded and people coughing all over the place i felt like going to chemist and buying myself a mask to wear!!! luckily i was in and out.

on another note, something happened to my hubby. im not sure if he got bitten by something or what he gave me his card yesterday and said, go order all the baby furniture YOU WANT!! this is unknown for him!! he likes to be part of everything (which also has its downs) Im sure he woke up and suddenly realized that time is running out Well i dont mind him not going with, and i love that he trusts my choices!! Feeling a bit giddy about starting on the room now!!

Good Morning Ladies,

I am finally feeling better and actually have the time to get back and respond to everyone's post properly

@Pillpusher Im so glad you finally came to a decision on your baby shower and I hope all things go smoothly! I also dont mind the whole game thing and dress up, I was dressed up as a bee lol and mine was held at a restaurant but was lots of fun! Lets hope DH gets it right with the family

@CandyPops - I totally understand what you talking about and even my weekends are jam packed with events or my daughters extra murals lol
Regarding when i went into labour I was 38 weeks due the 12 October, plug came out on the 1 October had baby 2 October, so lets hope your gynae is still around the week before but maybe confirm with him, my gynae only came back the day I went to the hospital to tell them my plug came out so confirm with him what the plan is if incase your water does happen to break or anything happens in that week, rather keep your mind at ease knowing what the plan is than get there and be frazzled.

Regarding SIDs, I knew about it and read up about it and to be honest I didnt want to go para and listen out for the alarm to go off. I had friends who had the pad and their baby was prem and was a seriously wriggler, she used to wriggle her way off of the pad which use to sound the alarm. I have a monitor that with my LG I could actually hear her breathing - Im a terribly light sleeper so I was more than happy with just that monitor - however im not too sure if its still as good as it was and with all this loadshedding im really thinking of getting one that is at least not reliant on electricity. I also saw an app that you can apparently download, and can watch your baby with a ipad in the room etc - technology is insane.

HVDB - I know exactly what you are talking about with those programs, watched 3 episodes while I was off and i didnt even know about half those issues, I too cry when the baby cries, funny I was chatting to my mom last night as we were talking about the one mom who had Cholestatis (never in my entire life have I heard of this until now) and according to all studies babies born to moms with this problem need to be born before 37 weeks or else they could die as they land up producing the meconium into the amniotic fluid and could swallow it during labour!

Watching the shows I had to be reminded how my labour was and asked my mom who said I actually was doing pretty well and went all the way to 7cm without getting the epidural, I thought I got the epi at 5cm, its insane how you forget, I kinda wish I was part of these shows just so I can remember in detail how my labour went!

Congrats LouiseM on all the good news lets hope its stays high up there!

And may all you mommies enjoy your babymoons, unfortunately we just have too much happening over the next few months to even consider a break

LouiseM regarding your daughter, watching a show is nothing compared to the real deal, (well so my husband says) maybe take her for the walk around the labour ward and that and get a feel of how she reacts when you show her the theatre and where you will be having her sister. If the gynae allows it, I cant see it being a problem if she is sitting by your head, you just have to take all scenarios into consideration and chat to your gynae

Anyway ladies, may you all have a warm weekend!