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Baby shopping with Neil and photos
I had to write again, because a) I can't seem to stop thinking about baby stuff, and b) I have photos to post :) I realised it's been a while since I posted any photos of stuff I'm buying, and also I still haven't posted a photo of the pine swinging crib we got free last month. So yeah, I'll do that in a minute.
Neil and I are still reading about parenting and I feel so happy. Neil told me he had a dream last night that I had a baby and I called it Timber (?!) and he felt put out because I had just named it without asking him what he thought. He was very lighthearted about the dream but I am gonna try and keep checks on whether I'm involving Neil enough with all my obsession over having a baby! I don't want him feeling uninvolved in any way, since it's his baby as much as mine and we're totally in this together. On the other hand, the dream could have been played out of the fact that I am obsessing over baby names and I know which ones I like, but Neil doesn't seem that keen on many of them. I am soooo keen to pick a name that I like so maybe he is inwardly getting worried about that or something!!
I am having the nicest weekend. This should be in my normal diary, right? Oh well, it'll be relevant in a minute. Yesterday Neil and I went shopping together and we NEVER do that. We just hang out at home at the weekends, and if I ever go shopping it's in the week on my own. Neil only goes occasionally and he only gets the weekend to do that, which I hate because it's so much more crowded, so we never go together. But this weekend we had to buy something together and we shopped for 3 hours!!!!! We found a "today only" sale in Next and decided to buy a couple of things even though we are really low on money right now. I have grown out of a lot of my tops recently, my shoulders have gotten broader or something and I guess that's good because it means I'm getting fitter and my muscles are toning up. So I got a LOVELY fleecy top at half price. But then I looked at the baby clothes and saw some outfits that were half price and gorgeous, so I showed them to Neil and he loved them too. This is pretty much our first shopping expedition for baby stuff together and I am practically walking on air about it. We bought two unisex newborn outfits, although they actually look too big to be newborn, despite what the labels say. They are easily as big as some of the 3-month-old outfits I have, but hey ho. I have photos, I'll post them after I write the rest of this.
We went to Mothercare and spent ages in there, looking at car seats and travel systems and prams and stuff. I showed Neil the bits I have my eye on, and some maternity pillows, etc, and bedding ranges. We don't plan to need bedding for a baby because of the co-bedding thing, but we want to equip our crib with a bedding set and a new mattress because the crib's there after all, and it will be a back up incase family-bedding happens not to work out for us. We got stalked by shop assistants (twice) trying to sign us up for a Mothercare account card (it is SO annoying, I wish they wouldn't do that!). Account cards will just mean I'll spend more money, so I don't want one, no matter the "appealing" offers for when you set one up. But it was lovely when we were over by the carseats and Neil was getting picky over the padding bits for a newborn because of how comfy it would be for his baby - that was so so so lovely to see. I just love it when we are both into having a baby. It was wonderful when we had to ask a shop assistant for help over which carseat is the best for a new baby and what weight do they go up to, etc. Real questions about real plans for a real baby. Yay! But I did feel kind of unqualified to be there or something after a while, because there were three other couples doing the same as us, only they all had a big bump to show for it and we didn't :( Infact I felt embarrassingly slim and bumpless. Poo. One day..... Anyway, it was nice :) Neil went pretty gooey over the baby outfits in the shop. They ARE very cute!
I have a really big worry about something to do with sex during pregnancy. It's not one of the FAQs about sex in pregnancy and it's waaaay too personal to write here or to ask anyone. Hmmm. It's just I read something that worries me. I don't even feel right asking my midwife (when I have one) or doctor about it, because if they aren't clued up on what I read they'll simply tell me there's nothing to worry about and I won't trust that type of response from them incase it's because they are ignorant about what I read. Errk. I am gonna look for a place online where I can ask a question to a professional who knows about the stuff I read. I hope there's a place like that I can go to. I think that's the only way my mind can be put to rest about it. But aaaargh. Hate feeling funny about stuff like this. Maybe they will be able to help me at Babycentre actually? I didn't think about checking there. I'll try that first.
Did you know it's officially summer time?!! Yep, the clocks went forward last night, and thus it is the season I hope to get pregnant in!!!! This is so exciting. I have been so impatient for the summer to get here since December, and now it really is getting here! Tomorrow Neil has the day off work and we are driving to a shop that specialises in second-hand baby equipment and maternity stuff. We are also going swimming - at last!!!! Fitness for pregnancy, here I come! Haha, even though I'll probably swim two flappy strokes and haul myself gasping out of the pool and into the showers, and that'll be it. But hopefully I'll be a bit fitter than that! I hope.
Well that's all I have to say today. Photo time! Here is the photo of our lovely pine swinging crib. It has a few little marks on it but they aren't that noticable and you can't see them in the photo. It's set up in what was going to be "the baby's room" but what will probably be a permanent guest room now that we're planning to family-bed. If we use the crib it will be in our room, but it's prettier and more out of the way here for now. It doesn't have a mattress yet but I put some nappy-making fabric in it to look prettier, and the latest fleece I got for nappy-making on top - isn't it a pretty colour?! (and my cute teddy from Vikki in the corner!)
The next photo needs explaining! I have this really cute outfit that I got on eBay for �1 or something silly, plus another �1 post and packing. It's for a tiny baby (up to 7.5lbs) from Mothercare - the top is the softest fleece with a velvet doggie on it, and the trousers are soft needlecord with embroidery patches on one leg. They were only worn a few times and they look completely new so I'm really pleased with them. Anyway, they are so tiny that I wondered if a cloth nappy would even FIT in them (!!) so I stuffed one of my own design newborn nappies with fleece to fill it out "newborn size", and put a prorap round it. Then I put the whole thing in the outfit and it fitted beautifully. So yay, that will work. But then what happened was, Neil and I went gooey over the little filled-out outfit and spent an evening marvelling over how tiny it was and how it might be filled with our own child someday hopefully not too long away. When we went to bed (don't laugh!) we put it in the crib - we are such hopeless cases! - and it's been there ever since. I sometimes can't help putting my hands round the middle where it's firm with the filled nappy and just the feeling of the shape in the outfit makes me feel all tender inside. I know, I know, I am silly. But yeah anyway. I put the velour newborn soft-shoes that I bought at Mothercare recently on the end of the little legs too. *sigh* Well anyway, here's a photo of the lovely outfit complete with filled nappy in the crib:
This next photo is of one of the outfits we bought in the sale at Next yesterday. I laid it in the crib to take a photo because it won't all stay on a hanger. It is the SOFTEST white velour and allegedly for a newborn up to 10lb in weight. There are little trousers with a cute back pocket, a stripey T-shirt with a "Little Ted" emblem on the front and poppers on the shoulder, and a white velour jacket with Little Ted on the front. It's lovely.
This next photo is the other outfit we bought - beige dungarees with Little Ted on the front pocket. They are soooo soft but really lightweight, and they came with a matching stripey vest that has poppers under the crotch:
They were both half-price in the sale and we love them because they're cute and also unisex so we could use them for a girl or a boy. Anyway, that's the photos and I have rambled on enough about baby things for today (!) so I'll stop now. Back when I have more to say though! :)
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