I have had a 'flexi day' off today. And very nice it was too. It started with a long swim- observing the baby swimming classes at my local pool which i hope to get involved in at some point! Then a supermarket shop. Boy was it busy. BUt I had my list and was v efficient so that made me feel that I had been productive on my day off. Then sat on the car park that was the M25 to go to where i grew up to see a friend for lunch. She had a baby in December so you can imagine what much of the talk was about. Very interesting. She also uses towelling nappies (but uses a laundry service so didnt have much advice for me!). Her baby girl is called Lara and is gorgeous. And I managed to get her to stop crying not once but twice and got her off to sleep! how wonderful did I feel? Then went to a maternity shop called 'blooming marvellous'. and believe me it is. i have been after a swimming costume and a skirt for ages and the selection in there was fantastic- i had to restrain myself from buying much more than i needed/ could justify. which was nice- most of the mat stuff i have seen recently has been minging. sat on the car park again on way home and then simon and i went back out to get the tiles for our kitchen. that is the project for the weekend (well not good friday and easter sunday but the other two days). they are stone and lovely. am supposed to be ironing now but am too tired. swimming seems to make my back ache lots. what else? just went onto ebay to check out the baby monitors i have had my eye on and an auction was ending in 1 minute's time! so i made my bid and won! so that is 3 auctions i have won in a month. i think i had better not go on again. it really is v addictive. i think i have now got everything from it that we want though so there shouldnt be a real need to go on again.... (until i think of more i suppose!). it is the trill of the chase that makes shopping so much more interesting than it normally would be to someone that hates shopping!
Lots of comments on the size of my bump now. and getting stared at quite a lot when out in public (tho much less so when with mum and baby!!).
I saw Nikki last night (old flatmate) who had a baby (boy- Alex) in September last year and she was giving me lots of tips too.
Anyone got views on a baby seat/bath/bucket for bathing a baby? have had all three recommended/ not recommended so am suitably confused as normal!
