Due in March 07 - Numbers starting to dwindle now - will anyone outlast this thread?

[LunarSea]

Yet another new thread, because just like all the remaining posters the old one is about to go pop.

diva @ 11 mth gap, i am same as Kitty, and have 14 mths tween my two now, have to say its harder than i thought, but then i think i just forgot how demanding a newborn can be. DD has taken to being very naughty just now, she walked over to Jensen today and smacked him on the head, god i was shocked. DH saw it and shouted at her.....she knew she had done wrong and burst into tears, sobbing her heart out. I felt bad that he had shouted at her but i guess she has to know she cant beat her new brother round the head when she wants to, at least not while he cant fight back!

Cant believe you guys are still waiting for babies......cmmmmmmmmmmon labour kick in NOW these ladies have babies that need to be delivered.. i will cast a spell tonight, for those that are waiting, am sure it will help kick start you all!

will look in again soon xxxxxxx

Morning all,

Chocpenny Ted is lovely!

Diva, Kitty, Jay, here I am moaning about being pregnant and I don't even have any other kids to look after, you're making me feel for going on about it!

Didn't get to bed until half one last night, and then woke up at seven this morning... goodness knows how many times I woke up in the night...

I'm practising clearly!!

Morning. Guess what - I'm still here!

Need to go and get ds ready for school now though - which means getting all the "have you still not had it" comments from the other mums. At least today I can tell them that I will definately have the baby in time for the next school run, as it's the last day of term today, so it will definately arrive before the Easter holiday os over!

Morning all

Mine have started Easter hols today so at least I got a lie in. I hadn't realised how exhausted I'd become.

Jay, younger sibs do really get bashed up. It is horrible to witness it happening, especially when they are still so little. I intend to put the baby in a chair IN the travel cot on order to protect him from dd3. She at just 15 months is so agile that I'm sure she will manage to construct a system of stacked chairs in order to climb in. It is a worry.

Lunar, at least we will get left alone during the hols. I actually find other adults' impatience THE most stressful thing to deal with.

Mossy, I'll give you some of my kids to look after. I gurantee that you'll sleep better come night time

Morning Kitty - you lucky thing - ours don't break up until next Thurs

Mossy - did you see Dt last night on TC chat show (that camp guy, whats 'is name..?)

Foxy no, I didn't know it was on, was it Graham Norton?

Kitty / Lunar I'm starting to get annoyed with my friends' impatience. I know I'm being a mardy cow but atm I get at least two or three texts every day asking me if I've had "any signs".

And yesterday... bil phoned for dh (Cardiff bil, not dh's other brother). Dh was still in work so he spent nearly half an hour on the phone to me during which he imparted the following pearls of wisdom:

1. I simply must follow the regimes of a certain childcare guru otherwise he will not sleep through the night, they did it with their ds, now nearly three, and he is perfect and sleeps like an angel etc. etc.

2. I simply mustn't even try for a natural childbirth, it's just silly and pointless and I should opt for an epidural immediately. Bil's dw had a difficult labour until she had her epidural and she was a fool for not doing it immediately.

So, er, thanks bil! Will be taking your advice on board of course!

mossie i've got 2 perfect sleepers, had 3 natural births. finn also sleeps well thus far
never followed any routine
one mans meat another mans poison

Yeah mossie ... I wonder how much of the chilcare your bil actually does himself too !!

Any April fools babies on their way ?

Well quite Laidback that is exactly what I thought! Bil's dw did most of the childcare before she became a sahm, and now does all of it, so obviously bil's advice is invaluable to me. Oh no, hang on, it isn't!

Piffle that is music to my ears as I don't really want to follow a routine, at least, nothing strict anyway.

Mil just came round, it's funny, she has had three children and I know some people get funny about advice from the older generation, but the majority of what she says seems spot on in comparison to bil's little chat last night!!

Right off for walkies, keep your fingers crossed it sparks something...!

Actually I do have a really weird feeling that Bertie could be born on April 1st.

Oh I meant to ask. I don't dare ask it on the "chat" section in case I get shot down in flames for such poncey name choices!!

Lo's going to be called Bertie, but we wanted to give him a longer form of the name for his birth certificate, for when he is older, in case he would prefer to be called something a bit more fancy than Bert when he is grown up.

I really like Bertram (German / Norse = bright raven), but dh likes Bertrand (French = bright shield).

It's not a huge decision, he'll be Bertie for a long time, but I just wondered if you thought one was better than the other? Also I chose the name Bertie really, so I wonder if it would be nice to let dh choose the longer form?

Or mossy, you could call him Robert for long!

Makes me think of my uncle Rob. Sound bloke, but spent most of the eighties looking like the spit of Ian Rush (he is a huge LFC fan) with the 'tache and everything!

Makes me think of "Achrin'ton Stanley? Oo are dey?"

Though I do like Bertram marginally better than Bertrand but think its a nice idea to let your dh chose. I think they are both lovely names and Bertie for short is lovely.

Yes and my dh has a friend called Rob and he calls him 'Rob the nob'

Pmsl! And is he a nob?

Right I'm going to get these dogs walked and the dishes washed. Ah, the excitement!

yes I think so.

Mossie - there are loads of extensions for Bert - Albert, Egbert, Robert, Norbert, Herbert, Hubert, Gilbert, Englebert! But I do prefer Bertram of your two choices - I think because Bertrand makes me think of Plastic Bertrand (of "Ca Plane Pour Moi" fame).

Chocpenny, Ted is just so scrummy!! Great piccies.

Your friends are excited Moss It's awful enough waiting yourself without the constant reminder. Your MIL sounds like such a gem. Hopefully the walk / housework triggers an April suprise.

I usually watch Graeme Norton (find him quite funny, very quick witted) but was bopping along with Elton last night - whoah, not bad for 60!!

don't torture me with your tales of newborns and toddlers!!! I want to do it again

Mossy, Betrand also reminds me of said plastic man, great song though!!

I worked out today that thereare many days in the 1st week of April that would be meanigful for our family.
3rd April is a friend of dd1's birthday

4th April is the 1st year anniversary of a dear aunts' sad and premature death.

7th April dp's nan's birthday
8th April my gran's birthday

There's also April 1st which would be cool anyway and it's Easter next weekend, so good Friday would be good as well.

I'm glad that's sorted then , he can come this Sunday onwards .
He'll probably turn up tomorrow now

ds2 is called robbie but gets called rob most of the time,well,i often call him nut-job rob and other such endearing things

mossy-lol at your bil.babies will sleep through the night when their tummies are big enough to hold enough milk to keep them going!dd1 was 6 weeks,dd2 was 12 weeks,ds2 was 7 months(he still eats like a horse)and ds1 was..erm..4 years,although i think that was more to do with habit than anything.
ive never read any childcare books,and i would never consider reading one that was written by somebody who didnt have kids.saying that,i do think that victoria stillwell(?)who does 'its me or the dog' on bbc2 should write a childcare book,some of her dog-training methods would be excellent for my lot

I had never heard of Plastic Bertrand... so I looked it up, it's the song off the car advert!

Great song though...

... and it did come out in 1977, year I was born...

So if Bertie's born on 4th April (date I was born) then Bertrand probably is appropriate!

Actually I think dh is thinking of Bertrand Russell, he is a bit of a philosophy geek.

Still prefer Bertram myself. But they're not exactly poles apart. We'll see how I feel when he's born I think!

Lunar I think Englebert's a bridge too far!!

Kitty I keep thinking of dates when he could be born, and what else has happened on those dates.

Well I am getting that weird "pressing down" feeling again after the dog walk so hopefully that's a good sign!

X posts Diva, pmsl at the dog training book for kids. I've loads of dog training books, I might not get a baby that sleeps through the night but I'll have one that sits, stays, walks to heel, fetches a ball and goes to his cushion when he's being too boisterous!!

Seriously, speaking to young children so that they do what they're told is very similar to giving orders to dogs. The instructions need to be simple, direct and clear.

It's raining, raining, raining here.

My mother is now making the baby copious amounts of knitwear. It's all very lovely stuff, but she has taken to knitting his initials into the designs in large letters. Well, that's GOT to be his name now!!! I can't work out why she's doing it, making some peverse point no doubt.

She's now had a jewel stuck to one of her front teeth

Kitty I know your mother tortures you at times but she does sound like an entertaining character.

Kitty that is a bit odd, knitting his initials into everything. Tooth jewel sounds like a mid life crisis though! Still it's easier to remove than a tattoo with "born to be wild" in Chinese on her buttock, or something like that!