Due in December 07 - that's next month!!

[buzzybee]

Thought I'd start a new thread

Here's the story... www.homebirth.org.uk/antonia.htm
It's made me feel a little queasy.

Or that could be the four shortbread biscuits I ate with lunch

Loucee - me too with the toddler, mine was 2 in September.

Claireyb - how old is your dd? Mine went through a really bad sleeping stage from about 15 - 21 months (on and off), much of which I put down to teething or illness (this was mainly last winter). I'm not sure what happened, I don't remember doing anything especially different but she did gradually get better and is now good as gold at night, goes to bed happily and rarely wakes up (I shouldn't sound so smug - usually when I say this she will immediately wake that night!).

Putting her into a bed, rather than a cot, helped us. But we are lucky in that she has never climbed out of her cot (oh stop being so smug claraq - we have plenty of other problems with her, like she is determined not to be potty trained!).

Suey2 - glad you managed to find a good night nanny, she sounds wonderful. I am v. jealous as dreading the nights. Especially as it is will so cold and dark, even for the early morning feed.

claraq - God it goes on a bit that birth story, doesn't it?

Very at your dd's sleep routine

loucee - I'm sure your DH will thank me for reminding you about the possibility of sex!

and yes we'll all be in the same boat with 2 year-old (ish) toddlers and newborns, eek

Yes sorry perhaps I should have warned of the length of the article - the relvant part (about the placenta) is a few paras in. But don't read it if you are eating!

I'll swap you a few good nights sleep for a few goes on the potty

err that's dd on the potty not me

Funny, I was thinking of having mine with some branston pickle

Yep it grossed me out too I'm afraid!

people are still havin sex? how? pls let me no!!!!

thank God for that I thought you were some kind of pervert

BTW, have any of you not started packing your hospital bag? Or is it just me?

sorry that last one was for claraq btw

bouncing - yep hospital bag packed

meme - don't know if haing sex once in about 3 weeks constitutes 'having sex'?

claraq - read most of birth story, then gave up. Was a bit of an epic. Placenta really doesnt appeal to me either.

its bin.. erm.. bout.. oh hang on..21 weeks now. i have needs !!

Well I'm off now to wash the kitchen floor and then it is nap time.

Bouncing - I finally packed my hospital bag last week, although have a list as long as my arm for "last minute things" to go in.

DH thinks I am being a bit over-the-top with how much I am taking in (someone here mentioned shopping trollies...) but I still think I may end up with a c/section so have packed for three nights.

bouncing i haven't packed my bag yet. Some things that need to go in are still in boxes.

Yep my DS is 2 at the end of February. Re: the sleep thing. If DS wakes in the night I normally just lie down next to him and he holds my hand, if i am really knackered which is more often then I just bring him to bed and do the same thing. He is also much better since being in a bed, but we have been lucky in that he has been quite a good sleeper. still trying to get him to actually fall asleep in his bed tho which is proving more difficult.

I did take the tablet on an empty stomach so that may well have something to do with it, am going to give it another day and if i dont feel better moving to spatone.

Re; sex. We are managing to average about once a week / week and a half difficult tho as altho I am still up for it by 8.30 I need to go to bed as i am knackered and in the morning DS1 comes running in so time is limited.

yuck at placenta with yogurt!

wow MM I think you win the prize for most impressive sex life - unless there are any other front runners?!

don't know if this is awful but I feel so much better that I am not the only one with a toddler who still wakes at nights - talking to people in real life I would never have imagined it was so common. Good old mumsnet yet again

Skid - my DH is abit incorigable (sp) doesnt give up. Even after he stood at the business end during labour seeing everything one of the first things he asked when we said hello to DS1 was when we could get it on again.

People are always reluctant in RL to share what they feel are their shortcomings (obv they are not acctually shortcomings). They all do different things at a different pace. My DS hardly has any words altho makes loads of noise and understands most things, but i see on here that most of the toddlers here are communicating, but he sleeps and eats really well, have to accpet that i cant have everything all at once, potty training has also not even begun in my house.

MM - competitive parenting is a nightmare. I had a look round a local school today (hence my post on the education threads about sending my dd to a CofE school - Skid, thanks for your reply, it really is quite a difficult one but I am probably coming down on the same side as you - will need to discuss with dh!) and I think it's going to get even worse when they are at school.

yeah you're right MM - I suppose I think of my dd's non-ideal sleeping being of my making because I let her sleep in our bed, fed her to sleep when she was a baby etc while things like walking, talking, potty training I see completely differently - it is the child who decides (if that is the right word) when these things happen and I would (I hope) just accept that as part of who the child is (i.e. would never expect a child to walk or talk or be potty trained by a certain age).

I suppose if I'm honest I feel like I haven't done very well as a mother when it comes to dd's sleeping but I would never think that about eg walking as I don't think that is down to me - do you know what I mean?

Loucee ? if I get a docs note I?ll lose out as I have 2 wks holiday booked before my mat leave kicks in on 17th Dec ? if I go sick mat leave will kick in earlier so think I?m a bit stuck. I have decided to get in an hour later now tho as that extra little time in bed is a bonus and we are trying to get ds to sleep till 7am not 6.30am (which sounds stupid but might make all the difference at Xmas!) I also get to drop him off at childminder but he cried again when I left this morning, really think he?s picking up on how stressed I am, only mummy will do which is frustrating for dh when he wants to help i.e. bathtime last night ds wouldn?t let dh wash his hair so I had to do it which was really uncomfortable
Only 5 working days left tho so not long really?..

On the sleep thing anyone have any ideas how to get them to wake happy? What ever time ds wakes he crys, he doesn?t want milk or anything just ?rescuing? am trying to encourage him to play in his cot with limited success at mo

Buzzy ? my baby is between 2/5 and 3/5 engaged and I don?t have any heart burn and bump is really low, I remember last time I had a ?drop? when ds engaged and I felt I could breath again and he got his foot out from under my rib cage?. All movements are v low though, think I can feel feet across my belly button

Haven?t caught up with rest of conversation ? placenta eating yuk! Although can kind of understand a mother doing it ? what ever floats your boat, its when people cook it and feed it to others that they?ve really over steped the mark

Anyone else got a really sore belly button? mine feels bruised ? my trousers sit on it and its make me wince every time I move?. I used to think I wanted 3 children but I?m not sure I could do this again!

Skid - i def think that altho some things are about them everything needs a certain amount of input from us as well. Ultimately you enjoy having her in bed and she enjoys being there, that is an acheivement in itself.

Skid I know exactly what you mean about sleeping-it doesn't help that most people say "oh if you do x then they'll sleep through"-seems that most other people assume sleep is down to the parents too.

Claraq-she is 17 months, so does fit into the right age band for when they are supposed go through sleep problems-except she was never a good sleeper to begin with so I doubt very much it is a blip! At 5 months she was waking on average 6 times a night and has gradually got better since then so I suppose she will start sleeping all night eventually...She does at least go to bed ok and puts herself to sleep then. Still, on the plus side, at least the broken nights with a newborn aren't going to come as a shock to my system!

I think I probably have the worst sex life of everyone . My libido has been shot since I got pregnant with dd- I honestly don't know how we managed to make this LO!

Think Insy also has a toddler about the same age as dd