..last night & it was so real. in the dream i was feeling really woozy & nausea like i was gonna pass out & my boyfriend had already been saying that i was pregnant so he took me to the emergency room to see if i was. in the room there was him, & his wholeeee family like waiting anxiously lol. we all were hoping that i was.. so the doctor came in & did a ultra sound.. he found a heart beat that wasn’t mine & located the baby. he told all of us congratulations.. we were so happy. & dreams are always weird so it skipped to when i had already the baby out of the hospital & i went to my boyfriend’s grandmother’s house, she was the most excited one lol. i had the baby in a covered in a car seat, sat it on the bed & when i took the blanket off it was a girl she was really pretty & healthy looking. could this mean something? i’m only a week late for my period but this dream just really opened my eyes a bit.

..last night & it was so real. in the dream i was feeling really woozy & nausea like i was gonna pass out & my boyfriend had already been saying that i was pregnant so he took me to the emergency room to see if i was. in the room there was him, & his wholeeee family like waiting anxiously lol. we all were hoping that i was.. so the doctor came in & did a ultra sound.. he found a heart beat that wasn’t mine & located the baby. he told all of us congratulations.. we were so happy. & dreams are always weird so it skipped to when i had already the baby out of the hospital & i went to my boyfriend’s grandmother’s house, she was the most excited one lol. i had the baby in a covered in a car seat, sat it on the bed & when i took the blanket off it was a girl she was really pretty & healthy looking. could this mean something? i’m only a week late for my period but this dream just really opened my eyes a bit.

Hiya ladies… So, I have been trying to get our hospital bags together…. I am 35 weeks today and just trying to figure out if I’m missing anything that might be helpful for when I’m in the hospital. Here is a list of what I have so far, please let me know if I’m missing anything that you might think is important, or helped you out when you were in the hospital!

I also want to add, that I would like to pack some-what light, I just dont want to bring a bunch of unnecessary items… During my hospital tour, the nurse made it clear I didnt need to bring any diapers, wipes, or bottles (unless I plan to bottle feed, in which I dont, I’m breast feeding) because they provide all that. Thanks!!!

For the little guy:

take home outfit (including a little hat and socks)
1 newborn, and one 0-3 onesies (depending on how big he is at birth)
1 swaddle blanket/outfit
2 newborn pacifiers (sterilized and in a plastic bag)
car seat and car base
1 blanket
wipes (you never know when you’ll need extra!)

For me:

the general toiletries (hair brush, tooth brush and paste, contact solution and case, glasses, mini bottle of shampoo and conditioner, hair bands, soap)
going home outfit (PJ pants, t-shirt and a hoodie)
2-3 pair of underwear
1-2 bra’s
pink fuzzy house slippers! haha
flip flops
1-2 pairs of socks
pillow from home
obviously, my purse with my insurance info, ID, credit cards
cell phone charger
camera and digital camera

the hubster:

PSP and charger (first thing on his list!)
change of clothes
toiletries
cell phone, wallet, keys
cash and change for vending machines

I think I have it pretty much covered.. I’ve never had a baby before, so I dont know if there are any items I’m missing…. Also, I know a lot of people say to bring some sort of laptop, or something to entertain yourself, and I just cant imagine needing anything like that. Please correct me if I’m wrong though! Thanks!

That I would need for my baby on the way? I wanna make sure I don’t forget something

Crib
crib set
sheets
blankets (for outings.february baby)
recieving blankets
matress
pack n play
high chair
car seat
stroller frame
puj tub (infant tub)
hooded towels
wash cloths
lotion
body wash
nail clippers
thermometer
sling carrier moby wrap
bouncer
diaper bag
boppy pillow/slipcover
bottles/cleaner/formula (just in case breastfeeding doesn’t work out)
pacifiers (not sure if I’m using them this time around either)
teether toys
play mat
burp cloths
keepsake box
memory book
photo frames
diy art work nursery decor
finger puppets and other simple toys
and of course the wardrobe.

checklists aren’t fool proof.
thanks!

and I don’t pump btw. So no nursing supplies and already have a nursing cover
Ohhh yeah and a swing and possibly a moses basket or cocoon swing
diapers and wipes are a "duh" to me lol.
Definitely forgot a crib soother!
I still prefer clippers. I used them with my first.
And I’m still splurging on clothes.Didn’t on the first. Wish I did.
Also a wipee warmer.’
Hmm…
I use my wrist as a bathwater tester… but they’re cute anyways.
Already have the house baby proofed.
Already have humidifier.

HI all so last night I had a dream that I had a baby boy he was a newborn and very small maybe 6 pounds he looked just like me he was so beautiful but i would never put him down i was always holding him i didn’t let anyone hold him then the strangest things happened like we saw a huge snake and I was trying to protect my baby by taking him away from the snake and putting him in his car seat with his binky in his mouth and i covered him up with his blanket then he fell asleep and I was right there beside him just me and him during the whole dream my boyfriend which would of been his dad was no where to be found in the whole dream we didn’t see him once. What could this mean??

Ok, so i have found my fiance to be a real pain up the butt this pregnancy. He thinks because its my second that its pretty much no big deal and just a nice leisurly stroll in the park. Yeah, i wish.

Im 30 weeks at the moment and we have a 13 (almost 14) month old son. Im a stay at home mum also. So i stay home all day and look after him and try and rest. I do the house work, make sure there is a cooked meal waiting for him when he gets home. Make his lunch for work the night before and have breakfast ready for him when he gets up. I vacuum daily as our son is crawling still and we have dogs, so things get a bit hectic and messy. LOL. But if he ever comes home and i havnt done the dishes, or hung out the load of washing i put on (but forgot about) its like world war 3 breaks out! He says thing like "i go to work all day and all you have to do is sit on your ass and watch kyuss (son)"

Also some of the things regarding this pregnancy have been really hurtful to me. He said the other day to our son "look at mummies fat tummy" and i responded "im not fat, im pregnant" and you know what he said back "well thats what it looks like". GRRRRR! It may be a tad bit true as im only just starting to get obviously pregnant (and i thought you were supposed to show more with your first, yeah right), but he doesnt have to rub it in my face.

He also seems to think we have like millions of time before this baby comes, so there is no hurry to buy anything. We have most of the basic clothes like vests and boring AIO’s because we didnt find out the sex of our son, so everything is in neutral colours. Still id like a couple of pink/purple things so people dont keep going "is that a boy or a girl". Also i went into our storage room (where all our old baby stuff is) and everything was mouldy . Well except the clothes. Change table, car seat, bassinet (lucky i have 2 and the nice one was at my mums), bouncer. So we need to buy all that sort of crap again. I mean the change table and bouncer arent a big deal, but id like to get a car seat asap as you never know when the baby will arrive. Also we are going to need a double pushchair and have agreed we will buy the brand i want, but will get it second hand to save money. Not that we dont have the money to buy it brand new but he is such a tight ass if the money is not for him.

I NEED maternity clothes right now, im still squeezing into my pre pregnancy jeans but i wear them with the button and zip undone and i wear a singlet (tank top) which doesnt even cover my belly and i have to wear one of his t shirts, or one of my "when i was really fat" t shirts just so my belly isnt hanging out everywhere. And you know what he says when i ask to buy a pair of jeans and a t shirt (which wouldnt cost more than like 30-50 bucks), he says we dont have the money. Yet, he has just bought several cd’s/dvd’s off ebay for atleast each, this week he has bought a tattoo machine (dont even ask, neither of us can draw so its an absolute waste of money, if i knew he was bidding on it i would have hit the roof) which is costing us 0, which pretty much pays for the pushchair that i want. Also he has placed bids on music t shirts, shoes and more cd’s/dvd’s.

I get nothing! Yeah i dont work, but i think i deserve something! I just feel so unprepared for this baby and he seems to think we have endless time before we have to do anything. How can i make him grow up and realise?

So i was checking out at wal-mart early this a.m.
I had my 5m/o in her car seat on top of the shopping cart.
So, i’m putting my bags in the cart and i see this woman behind me dive for the car seat, reach her hands inside and pull my babies blanket down.
I’m looking at her like what the hell? She said "the blanket was covering her face, that’s just wrong" i said it wasen’t covering her face, she likes to snuggle deep between her blanky (bear in mind ya’ll it was about 50o in there) This woman leaned in again because my baby was babbling and i pulled the cart infront of me and of course she got offended, she said "babies die from blankets being on their face" i said, my daughter pulls the blanket up herself, she’s not smothered, it’s a light blanket – thank you very much!"
In all honesty, you know you, what would you have done. This is the 1st time this has ever happened and i hate strangers touching my kids. My baby was just fine, i have 3 kids, this ain’t my first rodeo lol

This is my 2nd pregnancy, and the first time around was a boy and a little over 2 years ago. I’m now pregnant with a girl, and I’m wondering if I should register for all new stuff ( play yard, swing, rocker, stroller/car seat) or if her and her brother should share the play yard, and she should use all his boy things ( everything was blue or Winny the pooh, but a lot of the pooh items were CRAPPY quality and have tears in it) ? I don’t know etiquette on the matter, but I don’t want to ask people to buy me all new things if I do in fact still have some of it.

What did you do when it came to your 2nd baby of the opposite sex. Did you re use everything or did you register for new things? Of course items like receiving blankets, crib sheets, mattress covers, Monitors and what not can be re used, but on the big items, what did you do?
I’m not throwing my own shower, my sister wants to throw me one since she didn’t the first time around. I’ve never heard of it being ‘tacky’ or ‘rude’ to have a shower for each baby. I’ve been to several of my friends showers who have had more than one..
So, I can definitely live with her sharing a lot of Riyen’s things, but the things that have broken, should I re-register for them? My husband doesn’t even like the idea of other people buying us things, I just don’t know what is considered appropriate.

Someone asked a question about multi tasking and what your day consists of, and when I posted my answer, yahoo was taking a breather! And now I can’t even find the question, but I didn’t want to let this go to waste, what do your days consist of?

I work during the day, but my days are still hectic..

Get up and shower
Out of shower, pick out my son’s clothes for the day, and iron the hubby’s work clothes.
Get ready for work
Try to wake up husband and son, realize son has peed through his diaper during the night AGAIN, so change the diaper and put him in bed with daddy and take his sheets off the bed and throw them in the wash real quick.
Attempt to wake up husband again
Pack my lunch and my husbands lunch
Pull covers off the bed and turn on the light and force my husband out of bed.
Fix my son breakfast, feed him, then get him dressed.
Spend 10 minutes trying to find him socks and 20 minutes trying to find his other shoe.
Finally get me and my son ready to walk out the door, and then fight with him for 5 minutes trying to get him in his car seat.
Go to work, which is the least stressful time of the day.
Pick my son up form day care and spend 10 minutes talking to his teacher about his sharing problem, then leave to go home.
Get to the house, realize somebody forgot to let the dog out before they left this morning, and spend 30 minutes cleaning up piles of poop and pee and sanitizing each spot.
While I’m doing this, my son decides to unfold every piece of clothing I had folded the night before and left on the couch.
Time to start dinner.
Husband gets home, tracks mud all through the house because he forgot to take his dirty boots off before he came inside. Dinners ready and we eat. Finish dinner, and spend 15 minutes trying to get all the spaghetti out of my sons high chair, then put him in the bath. Get him out of the bath and lay him on the bed to grab a diaper, come back, and he’s peed on the bed.
Pull the sheets off our bed and put them in the wash, and put baby back in the tub.
Get him back out and dressed, read him a story and finally put him to bed.
Refold the clothes my son previously unfolded plus the other clothes I washed that day and sweep up all the dirt and dried mud my husband tracked through the house.
Clean the kitchen from dinner.
Get the sheets for our bed out of the dryer and remake the bed, and finally go to sleep.
Wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of my little on crying because he can’t find his pacy, wait about 10 mintues praying he finds it, then just get up, and go in his room and find it for him, then spend 20 minutes trying to get him back to sleep, because he has seen me and wants me to lay down with him.

Wake up and repeat.

What are your days like?

We are expecting our second child and all our stuff from our first has been away in our spare room which we hardly ever go into. Well we went in there over the weekend and everything (clothes, car seat, changing table, bassinet etc) is covered in mould.

Is there a way to 100% remove all the mould and make it safe for a newborn baby to use, or would i be better to throw it all away and start again? All the fabric/stuff that has mould on it is able to be taken off the frames and put into the washing machine

My sis is on a very tight budget(her husband is air force). So, when she got pregnant and found out it was a girl, I sent her ALL of Sophie’s old clothes. Now that I’m having a girl, she’s sent back what her 4 1/2 month old baby has outgrown.

The clothes are drap and dingy and don’t look anything like they looked when I sent them to her! They look faded and worn! I’m so disappointed. Now, bear in mind, the clothes were used when I got them, but DID NOT look dingy or worn. I kept them in great shape.

My sis throws all the clothes/towels into one load. She never separates dark clothes from colors. She will let stuff sit in the washing machine so long that it sours(at least 1-2 a week). She doesn’t hang anything up, it just sits in the laundry basket until she’s ready for it. Then, it’s all wrinkled.

I knew this was her normal washing routine, but I honestly thought she would take better care of my things!

She also has our infant carrier/car seat. She has let the baby spit up all over-something that can’t be helped, I know. But, she doesn’t clean it up. So there are spit up stains all over the car seat! Plus the baby pooped in it a few weeks ago and she just "wiped it out". She didn’t clean it with a cleaner or take the cover off and put it in the washing machine! She said "Oh, don’t worry, I will wash it before I give it back". Well, by the time she gives it back all that stuff is going to be stained!!!!!

Would you be mad? My husband said it’s our own fault because she treats all her things like this. And she does. I just thought she would take better care of MY stuff. I saved her Hundreds of dollars by letting her us, basically, everything she needed for her new baby!
Nope, she was more then aware I would need them back. After she was done and if this baby was NOT a girl, I was going to sale them at our church’s consignment sale!

I have read on many websites that it is not safe to put a baby in snowsuit then put them in carseat because the straps should be close. I live in a very cold and windy part of the country and a blanket alone isn’t enough. I tried the elastic covers you put over the car seat but it isn’t close enough for him and he gets too cold.

so my question is… do you know of a "carseat safe" snowsuit? If you haven’t would you find something like that helpful?

i asked this in laundry but got no answers, so im going to try here.

We are expecting our second child and all our stuff from our first has been away in our spare room which we hardly ever go into. Well we went in there over the weekend and everything (clothes, car seat, changing table, bassinet etc) is covered in mould.

Is there a way to 100% remove all the mould and make it safe for a newborn baby to use, or would i be better to throw it all away and start again? All the fabric/stuff that has mould on it is able to be taken off the frames and put into the washing machine
i guess il be tossing it then, bugger! some of the stuff was brand new

I’m currently 8 months pregnant and my husband and I have been fervently trying to pick out names. We don’t know the sex(it’s our first child and we want to be surprised) so we’ve picked out a veriety of both boy and girl names. For a girl we have: Louisa Emmeline, Gabriella Grace (we would call her Gigi for short), Olive Margret, and Eloise Jamison. For boys we have: Gaven Patrick, Emmerson Peter, and Brooks Palmer. The problem is my mother-in-law. We had a big family dinner at our house last week and we shared the names. Everyone seemed to like them, but my MIL hated them. She kept telling us how horrible they sounded and we would regret naming our child any of those names later. We let her vent for a while but my husband and I agreed that we would not change our names to please her. Throughout the whole week she’s been calling and "suggesting" new names for us. We’ve been trying to politely tell her that we don’t like the names she’s picked out but she won’t stop. My MIL is veeerrrryyyyy old fashioned and told us that if we have a daughter she shouldn’t have a middle name because traditionaly the girls maiden would become her middle name when she gets married. This crossed the line for me because not only is it sexist, it’s annoying that she thinks she has all this power over us. Throughout my whole pregnancy she’s been giving unwanted advice(no soda, no getting my hair done at salons, no painting my nails, no nuts of any kind, and lots of other "wives tales") but I’ve just been letting it go because it’s her first grandchild and she wants the best for him/her. But two days ago she unexpectedly came over with all these boxes. She opened them and it was towels, blankets, a changing table mat, car seat cover, diaper bag, and burp cloths all embroidered with -John Zachery- a name she suggested but we told her we didn’t like. This is making me so mad and I have no idea how to tell her to back off without ripping her head off! I’m sick of her butting in and I’m scared it’ll be worse when the baby here. At first I thought she just wanted the best for her grandbaby but now she’s just acting selfish. Sorry for ranting guys. Please tell me what to do. Thanks.

I have a couple questions. My baby is 5 weeks old and really tiny, shes only 7lbs right now. Anyway how do you bundle for winter with a baby this young? Did you buy a snowsuit? I can’t seem to find one that fits her good enough. And when she’s in a car seat you can’t swaddle because the belt goes between her legs. I have a cozy cover, do you also put a blanket over the baby?
And another question just about my car seat. In my truck the car seat tilts up alot because of the way the seat tilts. Her head hangs down really bad. I know its normal for their heads to hang but I’ve never seen a baby’s head hang this much. It’s almost going down straight into her chest. It’s like this on grocery carts too. I’ve tried using blnkets to prop it up but that doesn’t work. Should I worry about her head hanging too much? Thanks so much.
I have a car seat cover