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We finally got the baby's bedroom finished when she was about 6 months old :lol: By finished, I mean that when she was born it looked like this :shock: You can cope with most stuff if you need to. Apart from the car seat which you need to get the baby home from hospital you can buy the...

I remember sitting in a barn at 39 wks - my OH was playing at a charity gig there and I sat behind the speakers and amps. I really wouldn't have been wanting to be standing up. Everyone thought I was mad, but I was hoping that the excitement might kick things off - it didn't. We had my hospital...

Here's something I carried round with me from the moment I found out I was pregnant, and am still carrying around with me now, 2 years later - it's a thought process. The thing I can't do without is THE IDEA that there is nothing out there I need so much that I couldn't do without it. Don't set...

Root canal surgery hurt more, as did being run over by a Liverpudlian taxi. I wouldn't recommend getting run over though just so that you can say there is something out there more painful than giving birth :?

I can't remember who told me it, but I was once told first babies are more likely to share their month of birth with their mother than be born in any other month. I was born in August, as was my mum. I went into labour on my birthday - 10 days late! My sister had her baby 15 days late - was due...

The first time you put them on your back you think 'this will never work!' I did it sitting on the floor (too scared to stand up in case she fell) in front of a mirror. Baby finds it all hilarious. Now she actually helps me by hanging on - as soon as she sees me getting a mei tai out she...

My mum remembers when I walked and what I first said, and she didn't have a book for it. She remembers about my brother and sister too - all stored in her memory. I won't remember a date, but I will remember an age my baby did things at, and how. How could I forget her first word was my horse's...

All the advice is good. Cabin crew mostly love babies and will be happy to get you whatever you need. Feed them on take off and babies will usually sleep throughout a flight. On a short flight it is unlikely you will get a travel bassinet, even with a bulkhead seat. They are usually only found...

The Ikea Antilop high chairs are an absolute design classic. I've used various high chairs and no other model has come close to the wipe clean simplicity you need when weaning. You don't need one of the high chairs with a little sling thingie under it to catch food. I just use a piece of...

I had an emergency c-section with a spinal block. I had complications and was open on the operating table for long enough for the spinal block to wear off. It felt odd but not painful.

Until recently my baby has slept happily in her pram while I get on a do stuff. I would watch for her showing signs she was tired, and as soon as I saw them, pop her in the pram, walk her up the lane and off she'd go. Just these last few days though she won't go off for a nap. I can walk her...

I've been having a little read up on VBACs for my next time round (which won't be for a while - the idea of changing 2 lots of nappies...... :shakehead: ) It is generally considered that the potential complications of even an elective caesarean outweigh the benefits of a VBAC. I had a...

I work as an airline pilot and when I went back to work I was still breastfeeding my baby. My first trip away was to Accra in Ghana, and I took my breast pump with me. I anticipated going back to work and froze EBM, expressing surplus after breastfeeding. When I was away at work I just made the...

I have a job you can't do when you are pregnant, so had to be assigned to an alternative job or take unpaid leave while I was pregnant. In the job I do you get paid a basic wage and an hourly rate. The way they calculated what I should be paid whilst pregnant mean that I took home £700 a month...

I have 2 Babyhawks. My baby was adamant I was trying to kill her by putting her in one when she was smaller. But for the last few months (probably from when she was about 6 months old,) she has loved it. Now she even gets it out for me to put on and carry her in! I was convinced I would never be...