Dear Mumsnet please could we have a 'Larger Families' section?

Juuules........am sorry if I missed you off the list I made.

the very first one I put together was in the midst of sicky bug and my PMT, so I knew I would miss a few. I seem to have missed you completely too on the few revised lists!!!!.

will try n amend

Juule you, if anyone, qualifies to be on 'ere.

is it ok if i join? i have 4 and no 5 on the way.....pretty please with a cherry on top

Well I keep being missed off the list so I wasn't sure that I was allowed

Juuule, I can't believe you didn't get in there fisrt and start the 1st thread.

Its a huge honour, you know

New section has arrived - Larger Families

i AM ABOUT[GRIN]!!!!
(SORRY FOR CAPS)

has been a busy day here......

had friend and her DH round with her 4, and we sooked for the kiddies and ordereed chinese for the adults.................plus did a trerasure hunt and an egg hunt for everyone including the DH's.

kiddies got all their clues, DH's needed help[evil]

me and friend had far too much a lovely amount of wine!!

I metoined MN about 2/3 times, so now all think I am defective

all now full of chocolate/me full of wine/DH full of all the left-overs....and this post has take me 10mins as I am too drunk to write properly!

Ok so it seems you have all gone to bed . So I am going to do the same and come and join you all tommorrow if I get a chance. Night night and sleep well . x

thankyou kittywise. I thought everyone had gone to bed. Just reading through some of your birth storys on here. Wow. x

hello gingeme, welcome

Oh Ill add my birth storys too if thats ok
ds1 age 13 Very long 13 hour labour. Had 18 stitches.
ds2 age 12 7 hour labour with just g&a and no stitches or anything.
ds3 6hour labour hospital water birth. Only 3 stitches.
ds4 age 17 months. 6ish hour labour. Planned home birth with just a 'graze'.
ds5 age 9 weeks. Born at home in the bathroom delivered by dh no stitches.
There thats us

Hi am I too late to join? I have 5 boys. Though 2 do live with their Dad. Is that ok? Or shall I just close the 'Owl' door behind me ?

I never got pics of me pg with the other 4 so I wanted to really remember this one as I am sure it's my last

Unless we win the lottery and get a bigger house

Or Lth

Everyone calls me LTH

Lth, (can we call you that?) As mothers we worry, of course, that's our job, but you just feel sick, when they are ill don't you. Little Annie is like your ds, so contented, and the most adorable baby, I dunno, we are blessed, I shouldn't let the dark thoughts cloud our happiness.

Cp can be scary when they are covered, and ill. My eldest boy got quite poorly with it, and complications can set in. I'm glad he is ok. You know where to come, when you feel things are getting on top of you.

"To be honest, i still feel mild panic sometimes, and have a kind of feeling that we only have her on loan. It's not at all rational, just something i can't shake off"

Liaghen, I know exactly what you mean there.

Once Ds4 was born the morbid scary feelings mostly disappeared. I would still have a niggling fear ticking away but I was able to think more rationally.
Then a few weeks ago he had chicken pox, he was sooooo ill and it all came rushing back. I cried on teh phone to NHS direct because I was so scared. He was literally covered in them, I couldn't even pick him up without hurting him because his blisters were everywhere. We ended up at the hospital it was so bad.
I'd seen a report a few month ago where a mum had lost one of her twins to CP and it was all I could think about when Ds4 was so ill....The fear all came rushing back.

Good evenig all, seems I have missed out on all the chat today. I've been to Museum of Kent life with my lot, bil, and his 3, and my great nephew, who I have staying from Up North. He's 5 and he's never been anywhere away from his parents before. He's doing really well.

Took me ages to read from page 10, the sock goblin doe indeed live in my house too, and as long ago as I can remember, we have always worn odd socks, didn't think anyone bought matching these days.

Quick birth rundown from me

dd1 18 days over, dragged out at 8cms, with large cut and ventouse, mil who was there, told me 2 yrs later, that she thought she was gonna be dead!! Was all a bit scary at the end, her heart stopped and the consultant who luckily was there, just snipped and pulled. 13 now. 23 hours

ds1 14 days over, induced cos that was protocol at west midd. Easy birth, 2 hours and 15 mins, Took us by surprise, epidural was sighted just in time for stitching 3rd degree tear!!

ds2 induced on due date as ws found to have Obstetric cholestasis, best birth yet, mobile epidural. Highly recommended

dd2, induced at 38+2 cos of OC again, and Polyhydramnios, (excess fluid) absolute nightmare of birth, had flashbacks for a long time after, and me and dh still can't talk about it properly.

dd3, went into labour 17 days early, 8 hour labour, she got stuck in birth canal for an hour cos she was off centre!!

Had antenatal depression to varying degrees with ds2 and dd3. Didn't bond with last baby at all until after her birth as I had convinced myself, I wouldn't be coming home with a baby. (background to this was attending birth of my great niece in 2006, who was born sleeping)Defence mechanism i think, If I didn't get attached, then It wouldn't hurt so much.
To be honest, i still feel mild panic sometimes, and have a kind of feeling that we only have her on loan. It's not at all rational, just something i can't shake off.
Actually, i've never told anyone that before!!

My eldest 2 kids are first husband, last 3 are my fab husband, who is my soul mate.

Think that's me, I'm 41, dh is 38, (my toy boy)

just reading about ante-natal depression.thats how i found this site,i needed some support when i was expecting no.5 as i was on the verge of insanity.i was bad with no.3 and 4 as well,because i didnt want to be pregnant at the start i thought the baby would be taken from me.in fact,when dd2 was taken into hospital with bronchiolitis at 11 days old i thought it was my fault because i'd been so eager to give birth as i felt so crap,and had been induced at 38 weeks(due to PIH,but i told myself the consultant ony agreed to it because i ushed her),so if i'd stayed pregnant she wouldnt have got so ill iyswim

a MW said to me when i was admitted with PIH at 36 weeks with no.5 that it was unusual to have had 5 pregnancies and no M/C,she said 'oh,youve probably had a couple of early ones and ot realised'

am still at all these demis!saying that,my body wasnt upto much before i had kids,so all i have exra now are a load of stretchmarks,a flap of belly skin and boobs that are 3" longer.

Magnolia your lovely pic is making me feel that I didn't have any photos taken properly when I was pregnant!

We have loads of photos of the kids, but as I take them all there is a hardly a photo of me around... DH is a bit slack on that front

LTH sad to hear how your morbid thoughts got out of control. I think they are pretty natural with all the extra responsibility of childrearing... I am constantly worried about what would happen to us if something happened to DH for example. But yours really sounds like it was outside the realms of 'normal'. Did the fear go away once he was born?

Magnolia i have a black staff too.

LTH I also know that feeling. Having had so many miscarriages I could never accept that the baby was ok until it was safely born .

My births go like this:
Ds1 emergency section

Ds2 planned section

dd1 vbac in hospital 17 days late

Dd2 vbac in hospital 14 days late

Dd3 vbac at home 17 days late

Ds3 vbac at home 18 days late

I also had the last 2 births filmed for those birth progs, "home births diaries" etc. on TV. I'm really glad I took part as it has been wonderful to watch them and I think wonderful also for the children to see their entrance into the world

Yep i remember that feeling only too well. I look back and can't believe that i thought all those thoughts really.

I used to say to DH that we couldn't be this lucky a 4th time and he used to laugh at me. He said we were good people and of course we should have a 4th and it would all be fine. He just didn't get it i don't think.

That's prob why we went ahead with the vasectomy when dd2 was only 5 months old actually. I would have gone mad torturing myself with awful imaginings if i'd had a 5th Doesn't mean i don't want a 5th tho lol

aGal, That feeling of my luck running out was the tip of the iceberg. Thats how it started out but really I was totally convinced he wouldn't make it by the end.

I'd even think of what I'd say to dh to make sure he got all the baby stuff out of the house before I came home. I just couldn't believe it was all going to end happily.

When I loook abck at myself during that time its like seeing a different person. Like i don't know who I was.
It was horrible.

DS4 was the easiest, most contented, happy baby I have even known, he still is. He's the light of our lives and as awful as the PG was I thankgod every day that we had that accident, he's the best accident we've ever had
I think he knew what a hard time I;d had and gave me a easy ride

Uber-babe more like!!