Buy yourself, or wait for gifts?

[briggsy's girl]

well, i'm feeling pretty good about things today - i went back to work (didn't last all morning cos of MS, but that's beside the point!) - the girl i'm sitting beside is 12w, and has gotten rid of EVERYTHING from her other kids as this one was a big surprise. i have a box full of cot sheets SIL gave me that won't fit our cot, so i'm giving them to her. i was feeling guilty about buying a larger cot and having to buy stuff like sheets especially for it when i had stuff sitting there - but now i can pass them to someone else that will use and appreciate them so it works out great!

[DoubleK]

good on you for going bavk to work BG (have you not been bavck at all since falling pg?) and congrats on reaching 19 weeks! your ticker seems to count upwards very quickly!!!

[briggsy's girl]

Krystal - i've had such severe MS i haven't been to work since i was about 6 weeks - and only lasted 3 hours today it got too bad again - i was so ill my supervisor told me to go home cos i was green! thankfully my bosses are fantastic and let me go home early. today was an experiment - i think it will be a couple more weeks before we go again. DH is great and tells me to stay home, bosses are trying to find me some stuff to do at home. sooo ill! i hate it so badly - i couldn't even get home in one go - had to stop at my bro's...

[nelly]

BG we bought all of our big ticket items, clothes, linen - all the basics ourselves. My BF organised the baby shower and when I explained to her we had most things we needed she made it a "build baby's library" shower and if anyone wanted to bring a gift it was a book with a special message inside.

[NaeNae]

i have a box full of cot sheets SIL gave me that won't fit our cot, so i'm giving them to her. i was feeling guilty about buying a larger cot and having to buy stuff like sheets especially for it when i had stuff sitting there - but now i can pass them to someone else that will use and appreciate them so it works out great!

Thats really nice of you BG.

Have to say the Boori cot/toddler beds are awesome thats what I brought 3rd hand when I was preggy with niki but its a pain to find sheets etc that fit. I was also given a tonne of linen from someone and like you passed it on to someone who needed it as it didn't fit the cot. Kinda makes you feel good to help someone out too