July Chit Chat for Ladies due in Sept/Oct/Nov

Pinkin love it, but i would :bigsmile: we often shorten Oliver to Olly. Great name :D x

I have one friend with an Oliver and they call him Ollie too. He is lovely so I think it's a great name. Pinkin, sounds like you've had a rough day. They sound really excited as it is their first. Remember that feeling when you were so absorbed with every tiny change during your first pregnancy?! And you are not busy with another child so you can just focus on yourself. It would be so nice if none of us ever felt a desire to have a particular gender and we could just enjoy the excitement no matter the outcome. I know once you meet your little Oliver everything will be alright. Hope you have a better day tomorrow.

I have been so emotional the past few days. No doubt a combination of my hormones going wild and a tiring week with DH away and DS1 sick. I have been fine this pregnancy until now, so I hope it is not a sign of things to come.
Loving watching some of the Olympics. Amazing athletes.

Have been meaning to ask (and keep forgetting)...Hobber, did you get your rings off? And HappyLea, how is your back holding up?
DS1 is on another antibiotic so FX this one works. 10 days with a sick boy has not been fun...though I have been amazed how good he has been and doesn't even complain.

This weekend was kind of crappy...
DS2 was into everything and I kept getting frustrated and then my DH would say "see what I got to put up with during the week?"

I guess we are just nervous about adding another baby to the mix since DS2 has been so nuts. According to everyone else though, this is what a normal toddler does, and that scares me! DS1 was nothing like that, he was always so peaceful to play with his toys and he spoiled my husband and I rotten.

I feel so bad about the amount of frustration DS2 gives me; I love him of course, but he is always so into every little thing, that it's very disheartening when you cannot sit in peace in your house for longer than 5 minutes without scolding him away from some kind of electornic and something, and yes we got a baby gate to gate off the dining room/ kitchen (which is still undone)

I guess I am just weary. I am tired and hot all the time, and chasing after a 15 month old is so hard. When we got pregnant, DS2 was 8 months old and he wasn't even crawling yet!! It seemed so easy then in hindsight, lol.

Then money problems are still on my mind: we've been having to eat out all the time since our kitchen is gone, and my DH keeps getting things that are higher end, the insurance said they'd cover eating out, but he's being so excessive about it, I'm afraid they'll laugh at us, and not cover it. I'll need to talk to the insurance agent today to reassure my mind.

And he's being so standoffish again about ge3tting work. He applied for this one part time job he really wants to get, but refuses to apply for any others until this one tells him yes or no. I don't think they are going to hire him, and he keeps saying he's going to work part time on his terms not anyone else terms. But yet, my parents have now come to the conculsion that if he worked part time they'd be more than likiely to buy us a new car, but he says he won't be "bought or sold" and he won't work part time unless it's soemthing he really wants to do, meanwhile our bills are piling up....

Grrrr...I am just still endlessly frustrated.

Just can't wait till our kitchen is fixed and we can meet the new baby.

Hi ladies! Sorry I've been a little AWOL, but I was out of town visiting my Mom and helping her with funeral arrangements. I have a wedding to go to here in my city this weekend, then back to my hometown for my Dad's wake and funeral. I have to find two maternity dresses suitable for the wake and funeral, but I don't want to spend a lot of money and I have no free time this week to go looking, so I have no idea what's going to happen there.

I've been having lots of BH contractions lately, which are starting to get a little uncomfortable, but my pelvic pain is gone for the moment which is a HUUUUGE relief. I've been taking advantage of the brief period of relative comfort and am doing lots of nesting - moving things from DH's office into our bedroom (which will now be a bedroom/office) and washing and hanging clothes up in the baby's new room. I'm also starting to organise some of my baby boy clothes to sell at the big used clothing sale in the Fall. I figure I won't have a lot of time on my hands then to sort and label the clothes, so I want to get what I can done now.

I have my growth check u/s tomorrow, but I probably won't get the results until my mw appt next week, unless there's a major problem. It'll be nice to see Sadie again, though, and I'll probably ask them to confirm for the 4th time she's a girl :oops:.

Sorry for everyone who's feeling down for various reasons. auroara - I know how stressful money problems can be - I hope things get sorted out for you soon. I also know how hard it is to deal with a busy toddler while pregnant - my twins were 2 when I was pregnant with ds, and you can just imagine the trouble they can get up to when there's 2 of them!

Pinkin - I totally understand your feelings too - when I was starting to sort out my GD feelings with ds3, it seemed like everyone around me was having girls without even trying. Oh, and I love the name Oliver!

What are everyone's plans for where baby will sleep in the first few months. We've always had our babies in our room, and since our first babies were twins, we had an Original Arms Reach Co-Sleeper we used that attached right to the bed and was big enough for both of them. We used it for ds3 too, though it seemed a little excessive since it's the size of a regular playpen and there was only one of him. Since we're rearranging all our furniture and making our bedroom into a bedroom/office, space will be at a premium. I'm thinking of getting a bassinet or Moses basket to use instead, since it won't take up as much room. Believe it or not, we've never had a bassinet, because they just aren't practical with twins. I like the idea of a basket in particular because it will be easy to bring with us when we visit relatives (we'll be travelling to a family wedding when the baby's one month old), rather than the big, bulky pack n' play we normally haul around with us, even in the early days after birth.

I've started looking at options online and am overwhelmed by the choice out there. Does anyone have any recommendations or advice?

I've always used a bassiset for the boys when they were babies. We had DS1 in bassinet for the first 6 weeks, and let him nap in his crib to get him used to it, DS2 hated his bassiset tho and went to the crib at I think about 3-4 weeks.....

I was worried about DS2 being attached to his crib since he'll need to leave it soon so it can be the new baby's room but I shoudln't have worried. He's 15 mos old now and crib hopping all the time. So the time for him and his brother to be together in DS1's room is quickly coming up....

Pinkin, I think Ollie is such a cute name! I think Oliver is perfect for your DS2 if you name him that

auroara - I just realised we're a new fruit - honeydew! Is this the last one before watermelon?

Yeah I just noticed that earlier too...though I feel like a watermelon already!!! I *think* we got maybe two more fruits left before watermelon?

And, geez, anyone else battling heartburn? Yikes!