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you have a browse online on baby shower cakes you see these amazing beautifully decorated cakes with all different themes and i completely loved the concept of having a themed baby shower cake then i started looking into prices on ordering such a cake and the cheapest caked i could find was starting at around 200 i just couldn t fathom spending that much money on a cake which i knew wasn t going to be completely consumed and at some point thrown out i was quite upset because i really thought the themed cake would have been great so i decided on getting cupcakes instead and lucky for me around the corner from where i live there is a fantastic cupcake store called the cupcake factory i looked online and decided to order their mini cupcakes as per below in blue and pink then i continued browsing the other items they sell and stumbled across their maxi cupcake baby shower theme and not only did i love the way it looked but loved the price this gorgeous cake for only 55 what a bargain i immediately ordered both the cake and mini cupcakes and was so happy with the way it turned out on the day i had tons of comments on how cute the cake was and not only was it cute but the taste i don t know what they put in their icing but we couldn t get enough of it 8 thank you gifts as is customary at baby showers i knew all my guests would bring along gifts or purchase something off my gift registry so i wanted to put together a small thank you gift for each of them i purchased plastic little milk bottles from the reject shop and proceeded to fill them up with lollies and chocolates i then also purchased tea lights in baby pink and baby blue and put them in a lolly bag along with the milk bottles and attached a sweet poem to the tea lights for my guests to light up when baby is born everyone appreciated the little gifts and they were quick and easy to put together 9 gift registry so i really struggled with deciding on whether or not i should put a gift registry together and my biggest dilemma was that the sex of our baby was not known and i didn t want to be given yellow and green clothes for the baby as clothes is what people usually buy babies i spoke to a couple of my friends about this and they all suggested i put together a gift registry because they would rather buy me things that i would use and need i went ahead and put one together and thank goodness i did because we ended up getting so many things that we actually needed for the baby as opposed to ending up with so much clothes which babies grow out of very quickly after researching the various baby store gift registry set up i came across baby village based in bondi junction and their gift registry by far was the easiest and most practical for both the guests and the person registering the gifts first off you can do your baby registry online and continuously add or subtract items as you go along this is so handy all their products from the store are online which means you don t have to go to the store at all to set it up your guests can search your registry by your name no passwords needed next great feature is as people purchase gifts off your registry you get an email telling you what has been purchased again i found this a fantastic tool to know what is getting bought and lastly and i think this is the best feature for your guests is that you have the option of picking up all the gifts saving your guests from going to the store or paying postage to have the gifts sent out my guests were more than happy to purchase gifts online and not have to be hit with postage fees and me and my partner were more than happy to go to the store and pick up all our gifts baby village then give you a list of all the items purchased and by whom and guests were able to leave a message as well there is also no issues in exchanging or getting a credit on items you have changed your mind about which we did once we received all the gifts there was a couple of gifts which we thought we really didn t need and baby village was more than happy to give us a credit note to use towards other things which we would need for the baby i can t highly recommend this store more the staff is so lovely and take the time out to explain products and make suggestions and were thoroughly helpful throughout my whole gift registry and there you have it that was my baby shower and we had such a great time and i am so glad i put it together it was a great opportunity to spend time with my friends before baby arrived and i have to say the gifts received was a huge help in getting the things we needed for baby what was your baby shower like or what has been your experience in attending other baby showers baby gift registry baby shower baby shower decorations baby shower invitations cupcake first time mum ftm 2 comments 25 jun 2014 is it worth attending antenatal classes posted in uncategorized by ftmguide so this is the question i asked myself reason being the time it would consume mine and my partner s time to attend and was it really worth it the cost involved to attend those classes and again was it worth it i was astonished to find that most antenatal classes were charging 300 for attendance i mean how can people with not a lot of money afford to pay this and justify spending 300 to learn how to give birth and i really didn t want to watch a birthing video i ve gone 31 years without watching one and the thought of watching one horrified me and i know that they would show this at the antenatal classes but given that fact that me and my partner had zero clue about labour neither of us have had friends who have been through labour so we literally had no clue about the process and the stages of labour so i decided that it was best that we both attend antenatal classes i decided to see if we could find a free class somewhere as i couldn t justify spending 300 on top of all the money we have spent on things for the baby so far i managed to find free antenatal classes at the rpa but the only catch was it was on during the day and during the week me and my partner were both working but thought we could try to fit it in during our work day we signed up for a 6 x 2hr per week class and a separate 2 hour breastfeeding class we began my antenatal classes when i was 28 weeks within the first 10 minutes of our first class they put a birthing video on and i just sat there trying not to cry i wanted to cry not because it was beautiful or amazing i wanted to cry because of the pain that i could see the woman go through and knowing that its something that i would need to go through just scared the hell out of me and as i looked around the class i also saw the same horrified faces of the other pregnant women my partner looked at me and held my hand he could see i was shocked and scared as hell i walked away from the first class thinking that was so unnecessary to do to put a birthing video within the first 10 minutes of your first antenatal class anyway we had signed up and proceeded to push ahead i found each class to be quite repetitive they would go over the same things at some classes and i found it to be a time waster at times they also spent time on doing group activities which i think was also a time waster one group activity was listing the things a support partner should do and say i just think those things are quite obvious they are there to support but we wasted 30 mins going over that another class that i think was a time waster was post baby care they go over how to swaddle a baby with a doll how to bath a baby and certain ailments of a baby that are normal or not normal i e colour of their poop certain skin rashes etc the reason why i found this a complete time waster is because you don t remember any of that stuff when the baby arrives and when you are at the hospital the midwives teaches you how to swaddle a baby there are also various classes at the hospitals for mothers to attend they teach you how to bath a baby breastfeeding classes how to settle a baby and physio classes well these were the classes at my hospital not sure if this is the norm at other hospitals we also spent a good hour going over the various ailments a baby could have now looking back i don t remember a thing and if i found something strange on my baby i would be calling one of the 24 hour helplines to ensure whether its normal or not to think you would be able to remember what is normal or what is not is unrealistic and the reality is when you have your own baby in your hands you are going to want to check with the professionals as opposed to relying on what was taught to you months ago apart from that it was also very time consuming attending these classes 6 weeks for 2 hours each class it was exhausting and as i got more pregnant i just didn t have the energy to want to go but i did attend every class by the end of it i did learn things that we needed to know things like when to go to hospital the different pain relief available the tools of intervention and what to expect after the birth although i don t think it needed to take 6 weeks and 2 hour classes to learn all the vital things i did find the breastfeeding class very useful it goes over the signs a baby gives when they are hungry as well as showing you the various positions you can breastfeed i did remember this when my baby came along and watched for the signs to know when to feed her before she starts crying as well as trying the various positions to see which she liked best this by far was the most useful class and if i had paid 300 for these classes i would be mighty upset it s definitely not worth that amount of money so we finish the class and a couple of weeks after i finish the class i m at home on my ipad looking at pregnancy apps and come across a really interesting app that i proceed to download i download the babycenter birth class application this app is amazing i wish i came across it before i signed myself up to attend the antenatal classes because this app went through everything the antenatal class went through and for me in better detail i can t rave on about this app more first of all you have someone who talks you through the classes so you re not having to read i am so over reading i feel throughout this whole pregnancy there is just more and more stuff to read the app is broken up into sections so you can refer to areas that you really want to know about now or you can just go through the class in order the app is very thorough in covering all aspects of labour as well as post birth they also have a section where you can jot down notes there is also plenty of references to links for further information on certain topics what i also loved is that they did include various birthing videos of various mothers and their stories around labour so labour with pain relief labour without pain relief a c section and i watched all the birthing videos i guess it s because i was more prepared that i was about to watch a birthing video and i was intrigued to see the various labour stories the videos used in my antenatal classes was from the 90 s they were so old the other things i loved is that you can do the app at your own pace and also at a time that suits you and your partner the both of you can watch it at your own pace pause the video if you need to discuss something and when you close the app and open it again it starts where you left off if i had known about this app before signing up to the antenatal classes i would not have signed up to the classes and stuck to just using the app and the best thing the app is completely free to download and because its made by babycenter you know it s a reliable source of information and seriously the app has been put together amazingly i was really impressed so my suggestion if you and your partner are time poor don t want to spend hundreds of dollars and want the flexibility of learning at your own pace and time then i highly suggest downloading this app as it really has all the information you need the only suggestion would be to take a hospital tour which they usually do in the antenatal classes and if there is a breastfeeding class i would also suggest attending that only what are your thoughts on antenatal classes worth attending have you done any online ones such as the babycentre app antenatal classes babycentre app birth birthing video breastfeeding class first time mum ftm labour pregnancy pregnant 2 comments 23 jun 2014 entering the dreaded 3rd trimester posted in third trimester by ftmguide so i have to be completely upfront about this post and confess that the title is misleading when it comes to my own personal experience in regards to my third trimester and my pregnancy in general now that i have finished my pregnancy and have had my little one i would like to let all newbie mothers know that you don t have to expect the worse i entered my pregnancy expecting the worse i swore i was going to be a massive whale by the end of my pregnancy i had only put on 8 kgs please note i m not a skinny person i am a healthy size 12 pre pregnancy i thought i would vomit everyday i didn t vomit even once that i would suffer from heartburn and reflux didn t happen even once that my feet would swell up and i wouldn t fit in any of my shoes my feet remained the same size and no swelling up until delivery date that i wouldn t be able to sleep properly up until i began my contractions i was sleeping 8 9 hours a night but i was getting up several times a night to go to the bathroom and that every part of my body would be sore my back was the only sore area and this only happened in the last few weeks of my pregnancy my third trimester wasn t any of the bad things you hear about i was still sleeping great right up until the end i didn t have any swelling on my legs or feet and the only pains i was getting was on my back and that was because my baby was posterior and really it was only in the last few weeks of my pregnancy the one thing that i did notice in my last trimester is that i didn t have the energy that i had in the second trimester as the weeks went on i didn t have the will to do much going to work was such a hassle every morning and i was so looking forward to my maternity leave i was planning to work up until 3 weeks before my due date but i literally couldn t last at work during the day and found it so hard to wake up in the mornings that i ended up finishing up a week earlier luckily my work was really flexible and was ok when i asked to finish up a week earlier than planned another thing i would suggest you do in your third trimester is getting as much done as possible before baby arrives all those admin things you haven t had a chance to do things you still need to buy for the baby basically anything that needs to be done do them even if you don t feel up to it because trust me when i say this you don t get much time to do anything once baby arrives my little one is 19 days today and i struggle to get much 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