(24.1.06 13:22) if you have to wear the thing that ties up at the back and you're not wearing knickers... make them lift you onto the big high bed rather than clambering up onto it it's embarrassing

(24.1.06 13:25) Yes. God forbid anyone sees a flash of arse cheek when I go in to hospital. To give birth.

(24.1.06 13:27) If you don't have a moses basket how will you float it down the river to free the jews from slavery?

(24.1.06 13:29) Christ e_b - that's another thing to add to my list. * Paint the nursery * Order the buggy * Free the Jews

(24.1.06 13:29) A moses basket isn't essential - we had one, but I would recommend borrowing, rather than handing over dosh as you only use it for the first 3 or 4 months, depending on size of baby. Re nightshirt - I bought one of those 'old man' nightshirts with buttons down the front for breastfeeding. PJs are fine, but i was surprised how big I still was after giving birth - so again, you'd need pjs that are plenty sizes larger than your usual size, but then you shrink v fast. Slippers? pah - haven't owned a pair since I was a nipper, and if you have an epidural your feet swell up like balloons anyway. Depends on how clean the floor of your hospital is really - I just wore big socks.

(24.1.06 13:31) Oh and sleepsuit/bodysuit - one is a vest type thing and the other one has arms and legs. 3s good number because you don't know how long you'll be in hospital for.

(24.1.06 13:32) laundry basket - I'll lend you one. Somehow, I ended up with 2. (oh and I'd be less worried about flashing your arse and more worried about getting someone to scoop the poop....perhaps you and Dolly could go into some sort of role reversal for the occasion.)

(24.1.06 13:32) Last time I was in hospital I couldn't do up the gown myself so I asked a nurse to help me. She started laughing at me... I had forgotten to put on the stringy knickers they give you. She laughed even harder when I told her that I thought they were a hairnet... When I woke up after the op, she had shaved one of my legs. I had an operation on my ear, for godsakes... I guess she got the last laugh there...

(24.1.06 13:36) oh yes...sorry Mummy Norah

(24.1.06 14:12) I think thay might prefer you to wear a night dress rather than pyjamas as it's probably easier to... er... get at the bits they need to get at when you're giving birth.

(24.1.06 14:36) That picture is a bodysuit, a sleepsuit is more like this:-

(24.1.06 15:25) I have a pair of slippers you can borrow. They are in the shape of giant ladybirds. I'm sure they'll look delightful with one of your indecent nighties.

(24.1.06 16:22) I've got this 3m length of material that I wrap around me with baba in it. It stops them crying and you can get on with "house-wifie" stuff.

(24.1.06 16:23) There is FAR too much information here for the gentlemen of 20sox.

(24.1.06 18:10) (Beachhutman - better avert your eyes now!) Norah, PJs may be fine, but if your nurses are anything like mine were they will be checking out your ladybits regularly for things I won't go into detail about here - every two hours or so. It's simply to facilitate this as you may be too sore to be pulling on/off PJ bottoms. (this certainly applies for a c-section, which you may not be planning on but which may happen anyway)

(24.1.06 20:05) dear lord! children should be found under a gooseberry bush!

(24.1.06 21:42) I had visisons of wearing a foo fighters t-shirt but by the time I was ready to deliver I didn't have one big enough (read: tent-sized) to cover the bump and my nethers. I wore a fetching Primark number instead that was ultimately ripped (well, ok, CUT) off of me in the middle of a corridor on my way to emergency surgery post-delivery. Scared? You will be.

(24.1.06 22:24) I'm hoping you will be able to blog during the birth, looking forward to the waters breaking and a blow by blow account thereon in . . . perhaps a few action shots as the sprog emerges and falls into the moses basket . . .

(24.1.06 22:53) Sorry. I have to ask. I'm just off to bed. But "scoop the poop"???? Please. No. Really? No.

(25.1.06 10:24) 3 bodysuits and 3 sleepsuits! These aren't nearly enough. You need to carry this many around with you just for regular 'accidents'.

(25.1.06 10:28) By 'accidents' I obviously don't mean spilling tea or beer on the infant although obviously this can happen.

(25.1.06 10:56) When my sister was gravid (good word, ay - I looked it up specially) and I phoned her from where I was working abroad (on the "She's 6 months pregant and nobody thought to mention it to me??" principle, I asked if she'd starting sorting out all the stuff she needed. "Well, I've emptied a drawer ..she said vaguely. It was a good few minutes before I realised she meant that was for the baby clothes.

(25.1.06 11:34) Good luck with everything I'm sure it will work out fine - if you don't want to purchase anything this is a good website to find if there are any going spare - http://www.freecycle.org/ there is usually a local group for any town that you live in! It's also great to get rid of items you would normally throw out.

(25.1.06 11:47) I have an astoundingly bright, flowery kaftan (don't ask) that you can borrow. Functional AND fashionable. Well, you could make it fashionable, I spose.

(25.1.06 15:26) Every time I read Beso's comment, I think her slippers are in the shape of giant ladybits.

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