'd'ya ever wonder how many times you will be asked if they are twins?'

[MarsLady]

C'mon girls. Got bored of waiting and started the new thread!

Wow!! I didn't realise just how bad the weather was, across the pond.

My heart goes out to those affected, as I lived through some nasty flooding in 1993. Our city was without water for a week.

HM!!!!!!!!!! I was so pleased that that couple offered you somewhere to sleep and moved their mother for you. Then I was shocked that you all ended up practically on the roof! Glad you are safe and well though.

Estar... hmmmmmmm much like lg&t except that I get the big kids to make packed lunches and ordinary lunch when we are home. As they grow I give them more to do so that it's not just me. Still manage to be late for school most mornings! Holidays we mooch. TV might or might not be on. The big kids vanish with their mates or they come here. The DTs watch telly, play in the garden, trash their older siblings rooms.... etc.

Chops... how you doing babe?

WHERE IS OVERRUN??????????????????????? Missing FG... it's a long month. Also WHERE IS PIXIMON??????????????????

Good to see you custy my lovely!

HM what a nightmare...but how lucky you were to find such a lovely couple, although it sounds like they were just as lucky that you were there in the end! Did you actually make it to Bristol and did you have a good time?!

Mars - isn't piximon now kneehighinnappies? In which case she posted a way down about her DT having some serious tummy pains...might be in need of your wisdom.

Kneehigh, sounds horrid for you and your little girl. Have you tried cranial osteopathy? It has worked wonders for my lot, particuarly with digestive problems. Whereabouts are you? Seem to recall you're somewhere in London, in which case the Osteopathic Centre for Children in Clerkenwell is great - a charity so you just give what you can afford. Otherwise a friend is studying to be an osteopath at the London School of Osteopathy (think it's in Whitechapel) and they do clinics as well. Alternatively, I would highly recommend the chap I see in Kentish Town.

We're finally pox-free here. DT2 suffered really badly, with spots in her mouth, on her tongue and gums and high temperatures a couple of nights. She was the last to get it and I had heard that it got worse as it travelled through the family, but I'm sure that's just an urban myth. So finally getting back to normal (whatever that is in the holidays!). Am feeling sooo down about this weather. Still forecast for tomorrow looks good...if it stays dry I am off to Willows Farm near St Albans with a friend. Anyone else been - it's really great, can highly recommend and with twins, you only pay for one!

Must get on with dinner now...hope everyone is well.

xx

kneehighinnappies was 1becomes3

muckyfuddle - good luck with the room change, let us know what happened

I can't remember anything else

room change has gone well so far, they were very excited by it all when they got back from nursery, but v tired so fell asleep quite quickly. It was their request for sep rooms, DT2 really was complaining that DT1 keeps her awake! I'm not convinced they really want to be separated and will happily move them again if they want, we'll see how the night goes...

Hi all....wishing i had the choice to let dts sleep in separate bedrooms! Hope they like it though, it will probably mean either bedtimes are quieter or more noisy as they run through to each other's rooms!!

oh dear, memory not my strong point any more . Have lost track of who used to be who!

So kneehigh, those osteopaths probably won't be of much use, but if you want to search for one in your area try here.

Hi all!

Sounds like you've all had really bad weekends...
chopster, I hope you get better from your virus soon, they're really annoying coz nothing you do ever seems to clear them up.
HM...that sounds awful, I'm so glad you found such a nice couple to take you in! We ended up not going to London on Friday coz we were nervous about getting caught in floods.
InaMuckingFuddle, hope everything is still going alright with your twins in separate rooms!

I was just wondering how you can tell the difference between braxton hicks contractions and the real thing - I've been having something for the last hour, and my parents are out, so I don't want to give them a false alarm if it's not the real thing - they're quite painful though...

Just rang my parents and the midwife and my friend, coz my waters are breaking and the contractions have become stronger and more frequent not agonizing of over-long yet though! I think I'm going to be sick... I'm sooooooo scared . Just preparing to go to the hospital, hopefully it will all go alright...

My friend has said that she'll keep you updated!

slowly getting better, thanks everyone. I think today is supposed to be the only sunny day for us this week, so I need to make the most of it and get the kids out.

I think it sounds so sweet have inseperable dts. Shay liked to climb into Rav's cot, but he would scream the place down until someone came to move him again. Even as newborns they wouldn't sleep together! Hope it went ok for you fuddle.

good luck, elsa.

How are all these mums getting time to read HP?? Those books are huge! Mommalove, I'll take that off your hands and you can have the dts in return. I've yet to read one all the way through!

I could murder a bit of lemon drizzle. Bloody diets! I have lost 6.5lbs though.

Well done on your weight loss chops! It's a lovely day here too but I've got to go see a client! Hmm........... would rather laze here today. I have a young man coming to chop back my garden on Thursday. I hope it's dry enough.

I sent in an assignment yesterday. I thought it was a couple of weeks late. It was 5 weeks late and the next one was due last week. So if you don't see much of me... that's where I am. Still the last one was 4,000 words and this one is only 2,000.

Right... gotta get up and at 'em! Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good luck elsa

Hello all,

I'm 'back', but not sure if I can manage to catch up with you all so I'll just jump back in.

Oh Elsa, I'm not sure we have met but I hope everything is going well darling. Thinking of you. Huge kisses!

Mommalove, how are you doing? How are the hips? I suffered really bad hip pains whild sleeping in both pregnancies. The only solution I could find was to rollover regularly, which when pg with the dts was quite an ordeal, I had to lift my belly over first and then roll the rest of me over to join it !

I have had a really tough four weeks with ds off nursery every day. I have huge respect for anyone that manages with baby dts and toddler at home everyday (although in my case the dts are not the problem, ds1 is a very demanding, difficult child).
He has gone back today though and I am going through loads of emotions of guilt, relief and missing him !

Oh, babies waking up..... I'll be back!

good luck elsa - keep us informed x

Oh my goodness Elsa! Last week your parents didn't know they were going to be grandparents - and a few days later your twins are coming!!! Hope everything's okay.

HM - what a story! Poor you, I was thinking of all those people abandoned on the motorway, not realising one of them was you! We are travelling to Cornwall a week on Monday (6th) and am beginning to get worried. Although we're staying in a motorhome, it is on a campsite so I hope its not a bog when we get there. Already wondering if I've been foolish to agree to go when I'm in agony with my pelvis at the end of every day. Ooo er.....

Oh, but we finally got our house in Morecambe! On the last day before the mortgage offer expired it finally all came through. So we are currently rounding up every young person we have ever worked with to organise stripping parties (oh yes, we know how to sell the idea) to try and get it ready to move into before the end of summer. It needs a LOT of work! But its ours! Hooray!

hey estar please bring some nice weather down with you. Where abouts are you staying?

Hiya, I?m Elsa?s best friend. Just got back from the hospital, and sat down, about to go to bed finally. Thought I?d come on to let you know that she gave birth by c-section last night (4:23am, 4:25am) to her twins, and they?re both perfectly healthy - just a bit small. Daughter no.1 weighed 5lbs 2, and daughter no.2 weighed in at 4lbs 10. Though I?m bias, the twins are absolutely beautiful. She decided to call daughter no.1 Holly Ebony and daughter no.2 Lily Sorrel. (The middle names were her mother and fathers choice).

(Hope I haven't made a hash of posting this, it's the first time I've tried)

hurrah well done elsa and best friend

hope all is well and look forward to chatting to you about it soon. Lovely names - well done x

Hoorah Elsa/Best Friend....they are great weights for early babies! I think mine were that weight when they let them home, so god knows what they would have been if you'd gone full term! Welcome Holly and Lily (my sister is called Holly so I love it!)

congrats elsa - great weights! Mine were less than that at 35 weeks so well done

tkb DT2 had pox after dt1 and was much worse with it, ended up on ABs and many others I've spoken to have found the same, glad they're finally over it though

will try and catch up and post later, but DH and I are going out for lunch on our own today as its DTs last day in the ir current nursery til Sept

tkb - my two had pox 2 weeks apart and dt2 had it MUCH MUCH worse (not sure how to post pictures on here, but he was awful). They were 8 months old.

This is just a gentle warning as DT2 ended up in hosp about a month later after he developed a lump on his chest. Was red and warm to touch. he stopped sitting up was really floppy and dead whingy and would not roll onto his tummy. We took him three times to emerg docs who said 1) he has a sensitive sternum so we should stop pressing it, go home

2. It's a bruise (cos i punch my son in the chest all the time)

3. oh shit he needs an xray lets admit him now.

It was his own paed that admitted him, we were there for a routine check up and i happened to mention it. He needed IV AB for 2 days and he was right as rain.

It was all caused by the Pox, had we known we would have mentioned the chicken pox to the first emerg doc, but we thought once he's had it thats it and this must be something new.

anyway, glad all is well, just keep an eye on them!