well, with my notebook in hand i'm ready!!!!
had a mw appt today, v boring, heard baby but no measurements taken or anything. can't make appts in advance, can only ring up a week before and they don't do booked times, you just get the next avaiable one when you call so i end up having to go at really inconvenient times. when i had ds there was a group of 3 mw's, now my srgery has joined a different group so i get any one of 8, haven't seen the same one twice yet. hardly helps build confidence, and they want me to have a home birth!!!?????!!!
have found freecycling myself, looks like a great scheme, if you haven't searched for it yet then do!
SoL my ds is fab at amusing himself most of the time, but that makes me feel like a bad mum too, if i paid more attenton to him he wouldn't have learn to play on his own so well!
CD can't believe you found the energy to be out til 12!!!! maybe there's hope for me yet! tho maybe ths could explain why you're on your 3rd pg and still don't know the ropes! x
on the tampons stories, I normally use Tampax Compak, they used to have an advert where a guy thought they were sweets, well, ds has brought this to life, everytime he finds one he asks if he can have the sweetie please!
Smole at your consultant, give them an office and they think they know it all! I decided not to have the bloods done, i wouldn't terminate even if there was a high chance of downs so I decided to wait for scan. thankfully the hospital mw was totally supportive and said she wished more people put as much thought into it and really considered the outcome before blindly agreeing to the tests.
On the potty training front, I had potties in the house from before 18 months, I worked as a nursery nurse and was trained to put babies on the potty at every nappy change from a few months old so they learn to associate the potty with what goes on in the nappy. tried to start training ds at about 20 months, didn't get very far tho so stopped over the winter. started him again in earnest over the summer and still didn't seem to be sinking in, was fine so long as he had no clothes on and no distractions but otherwise, forget it! was doubly difficult as daddy isn't the most small child orientated person ever and everytime he went there daddy 'forgot' to leave his nappy off. had just got him to a point where we'd almost cracked it in september this yr (the week of his 3rd birthday), then he went on holiday with daddy for 8 days and because it was 'more convenient' he was in a nappy the whole time . expected him to come home 6 months behind where we were but suddenly it had clicked and he's only had odd accidents ever since!!!
twinkle i think you just have to put the potty etc there and just let ds take his own time, if every thing is there for him and he gets the right encouragement i'm sure he'll be fine, and if not, it's a boy thing!
runnyhabit go for it, don't think it's ever to early to start putting the idea there, just don't push it too much x
and for the record, ds had to wear nappy for poo for a month or so, banning it just made him hold it in so let him do it his way!
twinkle no news is usually good news on the blood test front, just keep waiting, i'm sure that letter will arrive soon x
pesha good for you, i'm in a very similar situation to you, dp has just moved out after 3 months cos after 3 years as a single mum, the financial strain of him living here became too much. I work but totally admire you for deciding to do so, I'd be slightly better off not working but am a firm believer that if you can get the same money off your own back rather than off benefits then you owe it to yourself and your children to give it a go, and if it doesn't work at least you can say you tried x so good luck, keep at it, and just think how good it will feel to stick your nose up in the air at that snotty cow that rang the dss!!!!!! on a practical note, you could try working as a temp, I am at the moment, if you are working before the birth, no matter how long for, you will get Maternity allowance (currently £108 per week) from the government (unfotunately dss again) and temping is easier to get into as they find you work for as long as you want it without having to commit to keeping you on after maternity leave.
wow, that's my super long entry over! don't often have the energy so is nice to catch up properly x
EllieK
(name change was cos I'm having a very bad week!)