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Due April 2009 - Tralalaboomdiay, our bumps grow every day!!

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BabyBolat · 06/01/2009 17:27

Place your bets on how long this thread will last, my guess is two weeks!!

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mathsmummy27 · 06/01/2009 20:33

I know...we are a gassy lot.

How is everyone this evening? I went to Ikea today and has a field day...and bonus DD is now big enough to go in the creche

I love my job. They have paid Fit Australian Man (hereafter known as FAM) to follow me around in case I go in to labour/decide to stop work/want a cup of tea. Was worried he might be annoying, in which case work would be tricky for the next few months..but turns out he is really quite nice.

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PuzzleRocks · 06/01/2009 20:47

Hi all. I have just tried to catch up on everyone's posts but after 30 minutes I lost the will to live . I hope you are only well?

I have brought the list over and added Bleuravin and Schulte.

Mar
25 Mar : Jumbs: DS 15 months
28 Mar : AlexandraPeppernose: DC no 3
29 Mar : Gemzooks: DS 1.9 then 2 m/cs, age 32, live in Holland
29 Mar : WhatFreshHell, DS 2.4 born on Easter Sunday
30 Mar : BabyBolat: 1st timer
31 Mar : Cosmogirl: 1st timer

Apr
01 Apr : Rachelinscotland: DD 2 years 10 months, and DS 18 months
01 Apr : Chickenbalti: DS 4 years DD 17 months
02 Apr : BoffinMum: BOY! dd(21) ds(10) ds(7)
02 Apr : MathsMummy27: GIRL! DD 3 years
03 Apr : skiingone: DC1
03 Apr : nzbabies: DS 21 months
03 Apr : purlease: 1 m/c, 1 DD 3 years
03 Apr : Kalikaroo: SURPRISE! (28), 1st timer, lives in Scandinavia (but too shy to say where!)
04 Apr : mizzannie: first timer
04 Apr : Bleuravin
04 Apr : Bumpalump: DS 2.2
04 Apr : babypringle: 1 DS 2yrs 1 month
06 Apr : ToastnHoney: first timer
06 Apr : Diddle: DS1 2yrs, DS2 10months 2mc's
06 Apr : PintofStella: DS 5.4
07 Apr : Bethdivine: DS 18mo
08 Apr : LuLuBai: 1 DD born 02 Apr 07
08 Apr : Pinkdolly: (age 27) dd 6, dd 5, dd 2, 1 m/c January 08
09 Apr : Oddeyes (30): GIRL! DS 17 mths, 1 mc. London
09 Apr : Nigeltuffnell
09 Apr : Soundbites(30): DD aged 18 months
09 Apr : Barbarella: 1st timer, TRIPLETS
10 Apr : hopeful1
10 Apr : BinkyB(30): TWINS 1st timer, lives London
11 Apr : BellaMummy
11 Apr : Teeheelaydee
11 Apr : mrsfossil: 1 DS 6.5
11 Apr : Dungungirl(30): BOY! 1 m/c, DS 3.5 years
11 Apr : Bubbaluv: 1 DS 1yo
11 Apr : SpringySunshine: BOY! 1st timer.
12 Apr : daisycat01: DS 6yrs, DS 3yrs
12 Apr : Salstars (34), 1st timer
12 Apr : Brettgirl, 1st timer
13 Apr : April2009Baby:
14 Apr : girlylala0807:
14 Apr : AuldAlliance: DS3.8 BOY!
15 Apr : claireykitten: GIRL! DS 12 months
15 Apr : VixterB: first timer
15 Apr : electra
15 Apr : Sarahmum: DS 10yrs
16 Apr : tristaleejac(25): 1 ds, 3 years
17 Apr : lou031205(28): DD age 2.8, DD age 1
17 Apr : Glaskhamhasoneintheoven: DC3, have one of each already.
18 Apr : mumsoon: DC1 GIRL!
18 Apr : minouminou(37): due April 18-19 (i think). 1 DS, 22 months
18 Apr : salbysea: (28) 1st timer
18 Apr : loobee: DS 22mths
19 Apr : gingersarah: 1st baby
19 Apr : Kittycat8 (29) 1st timer
20 Apr : v1kk1m: BOY! 1DD 5 months
20 Apr : MegBusset: DS 18mo
21 Apr : B52s: DS will be 2 and a quarter
21 Apr : Festivedollyx: DD9yrs DD7yrs GIRL!
21 Apr : Staryeyed
21 Apr : Schulte
23 Apr : chloemegjess
23 Apr : katiepotatie
23 Apr : Reesie : DD 20 months
24 Apr : Surprisenumber3(32): DS1 9 DSS 9 DS2 4
24 Apr : PuzzleRocks: DD 19mths GIRL!
24 Apr : conkertree (26): DS 12 months
24 Apr : Bronze (Gawain) - 4th DC
24 Apr : Frekkles
24 Apr : EsmeWeatherwax (36) DD 17 months
24 Apr : SnoozyVic: first timer and semolina-monster
25 Apr : Swaliswan: DD 17 months
25 Apr : ReallyTired
27 Apr : Bicnod
27 Apr : Carameli
27 Apr : longlegted
27 Apr : SatHereSitting
27 Apr : purplemonkeydishwasher DS 3yo
28 Apr : Laulau27
29 Apr : lauralou1 1st DC
30 Apr : Nutty Taff 2nd DC GIRL!

PuzzleRocks · 06/01/2009 20:50

Only??? I meant ALL.

PuzzleRocks · 06/01/2009 20:51

Nutty, she sounds like a right control freak. How odd.

Schulte · 06/01/2009 20:53

Ah, right, I just posted this on the old thread...

NuttyTaff... wanted to ask you something and all the other second timers out there... do you ever panic about how you'll cope with 2 children? First time round I couldn't wait for the baby to arrive and this time I think the longer it stays inside, the better! Just not feeling ready yet... I mean, how on earth do you do bedtime with 2? What do you do with your toddler while you're breastfeeding? How do you survive a day of running around after a two year old on no sleep????? And son on...

babypringle · 06/01/2009 21:00

Schulte - can you tell me more about the TEDS scheme you mentioned on the old thread? Anything that reduces nursery fees would be great
And I'm terrified at the thought of two. But people keep telling me that toddler and a newborn is easier than toddler and being pregnant. I'm not sure why exactly?

Schulte · 06/01/2009 21:11

TEDS have a pretty useless website www.teds.uk.com but are very helpful when you phone them. But your employer and the nursery both need to take part in this scheme. My nursery told me about it - I haven't found any more information anywhere else. HTH

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BoffinMum · 06/01/2009 21:14

I posted on the old thread about that. It gets easier the more you have!

MW brought a very graphic, if beautifully illustrated book, on home birth over for the boys to read today. We are all shocked. The mum was stripped stark bollock naked in the middle of the living room with umpteen older offspring all around her helping with the deed. I mean. I know this happens in real life and all that, but books are supposed to have a tubby mummy in dungarees holding a hospital bag being helped into a car by a solicitous daddy, whilst being waved off by two helpful grandparents who have come to look after the children whilst mummy is away. This was different. This was Birthing with a Capital B. This was being Woman and being Empowered.

The Au Pair has gone for a lie down saying she is not planning any babies for a very long time after seeing that.

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Schulte · 06/01/2009 21:43

Hi Boffinmum saw your advice on the other thread... 'once the younger one was 2.5' - gosh that's AGES away! Panic...

Claireykitten · 06/01/2009 21:46

Have just been looking at the list as brought over by Puzzle and is it just me or are there an AWFUL lot of people on there that we dont hear from anymore or are they just lurking like I tend to do?

Regarding coping with 2 I am absolutely terrified and have no idea how I can possibly cope. In some ways though I think I tend to fret more about the fact that ds wont be my special baby anymore I sometimes get really upset when I think about having to share myself out and cant really imagine being able to love someone else as much as I love my little man and find myself resenting the fact that I am going to have another little person taking up valuable ds snuggling time! I am rational enough to know that this will all completely change the minute I hold her in my arms and I do already love her to pieces but when ds is being especially cute it tends to bring out all these irrational thoughts.

I am quite normal and sane really I promise!!!!

Claire xXx

BoffinMum · 06/01/2009 21:52

The boys thought it was very interesting indeed but laughed at the graphic moment of birth illustration (I think it constitutes the birth equivalent of the Money Shot in porn), and the umbilical cord, but otherwise they were quite impressed. It was actually a really beautiful book, and I was touched she brought it over for us. It was hilarious seeing the AP's reaction.

BoffinMum · 06/01/2009 21:54

Clairey, don't worry, the lurve just multiplies. It's magic like that.

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PuzzleRocks · 07/01/2009 08:48

How are you ths morning Nutty?

Clairey - I worry about others loving this little one as much as DD. Everybody is so besotted with DD that I panic about the baby having a really tough act to follow. I accused DH of not talking to this bump as much as he did with DD and now the poor soul is glued to my belly.

Schulte · 07/01/2009 09:30

Yes - DH never talks to my bump either and he used to sing to it every evening first time round. Oh well, I guess this baby will just have to learn to take a back seat. DD suffers from febrile convulsions (they seem to happen every time she has a fever, and sometimes twice in a row, scary stuff) so at the moment I feel she needs my undivided attention. It's probably only because the last fit was just before Christmas and hopefully I'll relax again but at the moment feel a bit tense!

BabyBolat · 07/01/2009 09:57

Sorry all - seems I confused people with the early thread setting-up!!! What can I say other than work-avoidance is to blame!!! Will put a note on the end of that thread directing all new people to this thread!!!

Oh Nutty, how you feeling this morning? As hard as it is, you just have to concentrate on the really good stuff - that is, if they keep you in for the op, the next two weeks will be horrendous but post that you won't rely on your MIL (yay), you can do everything for yourself and she will have to lump it!!

I think she truly believes she is being helpful and playing the dutiful role but she is clearly just over-stepping the mark. Would it go down well if DH had a little chat to her about it?

Could you give a note to DD to take in her bag and give to XX's mummy to say thank you and ask MIL to bring over the clothes so that you can have a look through them?

Re driving lessons etc - me and DH had numerous rows while he was learning etc - is such a frustrating process (am now so very thankful that I did it all 8 years ago!!!)

Re losing people - think there are a lot of lurkers and also people have set up other threads (there is one for first time spring babies etc) as this thread moves so bloomin fast!!!

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Bleuravin · 07/01/2009 10:17

Dealing with more than 1 child/ loving the subsequent pregnancies-- ancedotal (since this is only my first pregnancy)

My sisters expressed worries about their second pregnancies because people seemed a little less interested, but I can say that the family does not love any one of the children less. We all have our 'favorite' 'cute' stories of one of the 6 nieces and nephews and I think we secretly identitify with one or another better. And as Mom said, the 1st pregnancy everyone always coo's and babbles and offers advice up the wazoo; the second, thrid, fourth, fifth (I have 4 sisters),etc. they think you're an old hat and know how to handle things and so just (typically) let you get on with it.

My oldest sister who has 4 kids under 5 (5yr girl, 3yr twin boys, and 2yr boy) says that each demands what time they, the kids, need from her and her husband and they adapt to the situations around them very well, often searching each other out for additional attention. At first she said she really tried to 'schedule' alone time with each, but it was not practical and some needed a little extra (one of the twin boys is a clinger) while others do not (the other twin gets huffy and frustrated if you try to help him with anything). She has figured out, through trial and error, what works in her family. (Which she informs me is the only way you CAN do it; she's always reminding me that everyone's life is different mostly because our priorites are different)
And as the father of the children says, what time you think you don't/won't have you often find because you change yourself, and adapt and you give what you can and need to give to each kid, because you cannot help but love each one as much as they love you.

She has used flylady to help her get some organization in her household schedule. She has her 'set' things to do (only a very small amount in some ways like A load of washing, opening mail,paying bills, put dishes in dishwasher) which HAVE to get done each day or they build up and the house starts falling a part. (One of the things she always does is one fun thing with the kids, whether taking them out to the garden to dig, taking them to the zoo, making pictures, or going to the library) Then she has her list of things she'd 'like' to accomplish, but those things can slide (like doing A piece of mending, washing kitchen floor, etc).

Their house is not super organised or clean ever, but everyone is happy and they live in relative harmony even with the boys hanging from the curtains

Hope that helps a little with some of people's fears.

Bleuravin · 07/01/2009 10:27

I want to thank those who brought the other lay flat car seats to my attention. I'm in the middle of doing research to see which will work the best for us-if we choose to go that route.
Thanks again.

Schulte · 07/01/2009 11:01

Bleuravin, that sounds encouraging although 4 children under 5 - my god! Anyway the dead is done so I'd better roll with it and I am lucky in that I have already reduced all household tasks to an absolute minimum :-)

Schulte · 07/01/2009 11:07

Deed obviously, not dead, doh. Had to go outside for a fire drill in the middle of typing last message. How annoying. Anyway had better go and get some work done now!

Claireykitten · 07/01/2009 11:35

I have to say I have noticed that as well this time around. No body seems to be as excited and interested in this baby as they were last time (apart from sil who is absolutely besotted already)it seems to be very much a case of you've done it all before so you know what you are doing you've got everything you could possibly need and thats that. For example silly as it may sound as soon as we had told ILs last time mil went out and bought one of the new baby packs from Asda with a vest and a babygrow and bootees etc etc (not that we were allowed to have it straight away just in case) and it ended up being the first outfit that ds wore as soon as he was born and I suppose I kinda hoped she might do the same again especially once we knew we were having a girl so that it could be the first outfit she wore. You never know it may yet happen I still have 16 weeks to wait.

As for having everything yes most of it we do have but we need a double pushchair and a cot for her if nothing else. With ds my parents decided that they were going to contribute to or buy the pram which they very kindly did but this time round I am being made to feel as if I am unreasonable wanting to spend money on a decent pushchair and it just make me feel like they think this baby isnt as important or worth as much. Its not necessarily that I want them to buy the pushchair (although that would be nice as we have NO money at the moment)but I dont see why this child deserves anything less than ds.

I probably havent put any of this across very well but I know what I mean!!

Claire xXx

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