Get ready , a birth soon to be announced

I’m a bit confused too . Are you suggesting babies should sleep in mangers and wear swaddling clothes Absent or was the “Jesus Christ” meant as something else ?

I think those baby boxes are a brilliant idea Granny23 how forward thinking of the Scottish government . Nothing like that around here sadly .

Not really that interested in Kate and Williams new baby. Lovely for them but I cannot see why we should all be making a fuss about it.

I am much more interested in my second DGD which will be born Friday 20th April or earlier by c section. My DD is in hospital at the moment with pre eclampsia and will be 37 weeks Friday so doctors have said it will be then or earlier if her condition gets worse.

All be best to your DGD cornishclio. Hope it all.goes well.

but I did think "Jesus Christ"!
That was 25thDecember absent, you missed the announcement
Poor Jesus could have done with a nice cellular blanket, long-sleeved vest and sleepsuit to protect him from all that scratchy straw in the manger.
And the fleece jacket and joggers as it can get very cold there in winter, although some would argue that he was born in May.

Baby boxes sound a good idea.

Baby boxes are a lovely idea. As I posted earlier, though, the evidence doesn't show them to be of any benefit to outcomes.

Gillybob- swaddling clothes (they are very fashionable now actually).

We were driving to the dry ski slope at Swadlincote- and as we arrived to the town, DD2, five at the time asked 'is that where Jesus was born' - surprised I asked her why she thought so. And she replied, well they told us at school that Jesus was born in swaddling clothes. Had a good giggle.

Cornishclio- I am not anti-Royal- but I so agree, can't get excited about this at all- hope all goes well for them.

Swadlincote


I always thought it was in Staffordshire but apparently it's in Derbyshire

"The name "Swadlincote" derives from the Anglo-Saxon "Swartlings Cotta's", Swartling being an Anglo-Saxon mans name and Cotta's meaning cottages".

It must have featured in my family history because I remember the name from my childhood (never been there though).

I thought it was till in Leicestershire actually, interesting.
It was one of the earliest dry ski slope in the UK and the nearest to us in Leicester (later Tamworth where I used to take kids from school in the minibus every week).

Perhaps it moves around from county to county.

The Staffordshire and Derbyshire border criss crosses several towns and villages Jalima . If you manage to visit the area, and your in the NT, Calke Abbey is a very interesting place to see.

My GM was born in Swadlincote. My GGF was in the Derbyshire Police Force , he was born in 1826.
I was born in Derbyshire ,we were brought up saying Derbyshire born and Derbyshire bred
Strong in the arm and weak in the head.
Probably true and totally irrelevant to this thread ?

By heck Ann your GGF born in 1826! That’s going back a bit.
My GGF 1 was born in 1870 and GGF 2 in 1864.

Perhaps the royal baby will have to sleep in a drawer ( I was told that was my first little bed!)

annsixty, we used to say that about Berkshire born and Berkshire bred etc etc!!
My GGrandfather was born in 1856 in Oxford, my grandmother, his daughter was born in 1893, my mother 1918, me ???

My GGF was born in 1827; when I told someone that my Great Aunt was born in 1852 they said that that was impossible.
But it is true.
And there was another child born in 1851 (another Great Aunt) but she died aged one.

I am going to have to go through family history now to find out why Swadlincote seems familiar to me.
I should have taken more notice of my mother and the aunts when they were chatting.

I somehow can’t see baby Windsor the 3rd sleeping in a drawer lemon . If he/she did would the chest be in mummy and daddy’s room or in the night nursery with the nanny ? So many questions ... who cares about the answers

You do Gilly or you wouldn't ask ? ??

Well I think we all know the answers anyway Annie

Lemongrove we are an "old family" my father was born in January 1900, my mother in 1904, she died in 2006.
My paternal GM died aged 97 and my father's 4 sisters all live until their 80"s, one died at 98.
My father died at 49, when I was 11.
Totally off subject of course.?

Why ask if you already know the answers gilly?!

I recently met a very distinguished French gentleman of 93 who had been in the French Resistance. His father had fought at Verdun (and survived) and his paternal grandmother had seen Napoleon!

Gilly, firsts thoughts of that 2.00am feed and I would have a night nursery with a nanny, then second thoughts, the cuddling, stroking the little cheek , singing Myfanwy whilst the world was asleep , no night nursery and nanny