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October 2011 - Learning to accept our babies are toddlers

(488 Posts)
ClimbingPenguin Mon 18-Feb-13 12:51:17

New thread

I've hired someone to get all our babies to sleep while we go get sloshed in the corner

<hands out wine>

grin pen my living carpet is gross I really need to give it a proper clean hoovering just isn't making it look any better!
As far as hb goes I liked the drugs too much! (Not that I had a choice with W he had to be a hospital birth because of his head and my gd and any hypothetical 2nd will have to be too because I would get gd again)

PenelopeLane Wed 22-May-13 10:39:36

I don't like the idea of a home birth because my carpet has enough stains as it is grin

MummyDuckAndDuckling Wed 22-May-13 04:19:25

Evening all smile

Fingers crossed all goes to plan this time around cheshire! It's something I'd consider more next time around. S birth was very 'medical' if that's the right word to use, esp after I was very for minimal drugs etc. but at end of the day, she got here safe which is the main thing.

Holiday going well. I think I may move... winkgrin

CheshireDing Tue 21-May-13 20:50:42

Ips how did mw appointment go, did you get a scan date?

Why would you want to look are stretched lady bits all day though Sassy ? grin

P should have been a hb Strawbs, she was until fully dilated then contractions stopped for over 2 hours and never came back so we had to go to hospital to get them re-started. DH blames the lovely warm pool so we have no pool this time - just the house bath and shower. I have booked a re-fresher with our Hypnobirthing Teacher too for September.

Fx for MrsH joining the minibus too soon smile

sassy34264 Mon 20-May-13 17:59:10

Yah pebble

Don't joke cheshire I had hold of a newborn today, and i seriously didn't want to give her back. I think i should just retrain as a midwife, that way i could hold babies all day long and go home without the hard work of looking after them! <hmm strokes chin>

Eva can count to 7 but she has no idea of what it means.

MrsHende Sat 18-May-13 21:31:07

That's exciting pebble! Race you!

I like the phrase 'big toe' chesh, L is very fond of 'Ma-jay Daw', which is from See Saw, Marjory Daw. She's a chatterbox to. It's so intriguing isn't when they babble away, I can't wait to find out what she's thinking!

MummyDuckAndDuckling Sat 18-May-13 18:50:56

Brilliant pebble. Hope it happens fast for you!!!

Ooh exciting pebble smile

A hb chesh that's brave! Was P a hb too?

CheshireDing Sat 18-May-13 09:26:08

Good luck Pebble, fx

CheshireDing Sat 18-May-13 09:25:33

Sassy iPhone says No2 is due 26th Nov, scan says 6 Dec (which could make it a very close Christmas Baby if it went fully overdue) and we have to go back on 28th for NT Scan and they may re-calculate again. It was like that with P though. I was talking about it with friends last night as I said the only dates I am bothered about really are passing 24 weeks and then 37 weeks so it can be hb. Friend said last night the 24 weeks is now based on weight instead - which I think makes more sense.

Pebble imagine if if was TRIPLETS shock like Ducks friend ! You could 1 each to Sassy and Mama for their commune and have them back at working age grin

Aww Pene congratulations on a baby girl. We won't find out Mummy, we can't agree on names anyway.

Loving the random words (and full sentances in L's case MrsH and P's case Pene) grin. P has loads of single words, we got told at Parents Evening she is usually the last one to go to sleep as she is talking (doesn't bode well for the rest of her school life!) the most she seems to do though is 2 words - Big Toe.

P can't count either Pebble but we have focused much more on words and actions now I think about it, although not consciously.

PenelopeLane Sat 18-May-13 08:14:39

Pebble that's exciting! And no, A can't count. He thinks that if it's more than one, it's two. Which sometimes is describing many more things than two! No need to panic smile

LittlePebble Sat 18-May-13 07:09:53

Took my last pill yesterday gringrin DH finally onboard now I just have to WAIT! Argh...

LittlePebble Sat 18-May-13 07:09:04

Pen can Atai count?!! <panics>

grin at A pen that's awesome!

PenelopeLane Thu 16-May-13 21:01:08

A's new charming sentence was, after passing wind twice, yelling "Atai two fart!"

Glad the flight went well to Canada duck

strawberry shock re your FIL! Hope it works out ok

I was putting W to bed while they had that particular chat pebble so I don't know exactly what was said. DH is being quite stoic and saying its between his parents but I think is quite worried about MIL who has some health issues that are only going to get worse. Long term we would like her to move closer to us (SIL nearby too) but it will have to be her choice she's a proud lady but practical so I think once she's come to terms with things she might. It's hard to know what to say to her because she won't want sympathy.

LittlePebble Thu 16-May-13 13:14:29

Ooh I missed the post about a girl! Yay pen how lovely.

Strawberry shock what did your DH say?

Duck lol at naked! Very envy of you in the sun.

MummyDuckAndDuckling Thu 16-May-13 12:47:43

shock Strawberry!!

Glad flight went ok duck enjoy your holiday smile

FIL came for a visit yesterday and dropped off boxes of some of DH's old toys do us to sort through for W. While he was here he also announced that he is leaving MIL to go and live in Wales with another woman shock

Took W to soft play with a bouncy castle for the first time yesterday and he loved it! Spent most of his time on the castle saying 'bounce bounce' and grinning.

MummyDuckAndDuckling Wed 15-May-13 21:14:05

Yay, congrats on the news of baby girl! How lovely smile

ips, chesh are you planning on finding out the sex?

Hope you had a lovely trip engels

We arrived in Canada in one piece grin. Plane wasn't toooo bad wink. Flight was full so no chance of an extra seat but we made do! It's bloody roasting but im not complaining . S has been in and out of paddling pool all day and is now having a nap in just her nappy. Going from to many layers a few days ago in Scotland to stripping off!

Yay for all the words!! S said 'naked' clear as day yesterday! Most random hmm

MrsHende Wed 15-May-13 17:26:22

Hello!

Talking about talking, DH just said to me that he thinks L said this morning "I have two shoes"!!

The man's deluded!

(She can say shoes "soos", and can count to 8, but she's only reciting the numbers, not actually counting!)

It's nice he has such faith in her though!

LittlePebble Wed 15-May-13 16:40:59

Hi Tally wine To strawberries!

TallyBear Wed 15-May-13 14:20:44

Hello? Anyone there?

I think Seb said strawberries! Well, 'bawbee' but he was pointing to them at the time.

It passed! Only needed an oil top up and new wiper blades. Apparently they used pliars to pull the bonnet release and it opened so that's good enough. Can't quite believe it, only cost £84 in total I was expecting hundreds!

tally W says beebee for beep beep too I think the 'p' sound must be difficult he calls his key worker 'age' (she's Paige).

TallyBear Mon 13-May-13 14:15:24

Glad scans went well Cheshire and Pen. How exciting.

Enjoy your hols Duck and Duckling Where are you going again?

Straw hope the car passed.

Seb's words are really coming on, although his pronunciation has something to be desired!! His favourite words at the moment are beep beep (pronounced beebee), neenaw, uh-oh, dup dair ('Up stairs), tick tock (when he sees a clock) and car. He also says gog-geee when he sees or hears a dog. He copies us with words sometimes, when he feels like it!

The other day at lunch he pointed to dh and said 'daddee' and then pointed to me and said 'mummee'. He's called us that before but not like that. Cue proud parents...

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