May Babies... part 2!

[GeorginaA]

... just because we can't stop yammering on

awww egypt, my dd lives in egypt land too if that's any consolation, and she was born MID may.

but still after prufrock!

were in egypt land too!!

spots im going to have to try the sling thing. My left arms dont half ache when im on the pc. Ive got the wilkinet sling but it takes me about 1 hour to figure out how to get it on and by then ive woken dd up fuss arsing about. Ill keep trying hopefully ill get it down to at least hmm..20 mins
well after another 120 quid phone bill ive joined anytime. Now i can surf to my hearts content.
Now where shall i start about the wedding. Well, ive been with dp for 10 years, i fancied him ever since i delivered newspapers as a mear 14 year old and he worked in the newspaper shop however despite my best flirting he didnt notice me until I was 17. We went to new york this january as a last childfree holiday where he popped the question in central park. All very romantic. It was about time mind!!
After lots of umming and arring weve decided to go to Mexico and get married next Febuary and then have a big do when we get back. My parents will be coming with us to babysit. Hopefully all will be well with his job and I can start planning how to lose a stone and tone up a jelly belly ready to go dress shopping.
Cat the pictures were gorgeous, ill have to have a go at attempting to get ours on here. DD will probbaly be one by the time ive figured it out mind.
im thinking of moving dd to her room. She is such a light sleeper, she wriggles all the time so im awake half the night feeling her face in the dark for sick and making sure the blankets havent risen up.
Ok, were off now to roath park in Cardiff to soak up the sun and feed the duckies and probably get chased by geese.

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Another 4am wakeup last night - three nights in a row make it a pattern, yes? (I hope so!)

Unfortunately ds1 woke up at 2, 3 and 4 am so didn't get to make full use of our rest. One thing I noticed though was that each time ds1 got up, ds2 stirred, but managed to get himself back to sleep without intervention which is a good sign in itself, I think.

I've booked a Mirena insertion for tomorrow afternoon - gulp ... wish me luck!

Kbaby love th newspaper story, and mexico sounds like a really exciiting one. Now I want to know everyone else's how-we-met stories. I met my dh when I moved into a flat he already lived in. My room was next door to his and I used to hear him gargling when he brushed his teeh ah. That was 8 years ago but we only married last year: we had a humanist wedding in a gorgeous big house on a sunny day, then a big party afterwards. It was so wonderful that I am now quite soppy about weddings. Anniversary is next month - what a year!

Twiglett, all the rabbits who log onto Mumsnet will be thinking what a great rabbit babysitter you are. 3am! what devotion to the cause...

and who's got a babybjorn sling and what's the best way to get dd into it? she HATES the fussing, but loves it once it's in....bit like our sex life at the mo...sorry!

dh and i met in 1997 at a wedding in telford. he was with his ex girlfriend/friend and i was with my ex boyf/friend! he persuaded me eventually for my no. even though i lived in norwich and he in blackburn. i wasnt keen! he came to see me a week later and we spent the next 2 years travelling 4 hours on a friday night to see one another......lurrrve. he got a job in riyadh, saudi, in 1999 and we got married in 2000 so i could go out there with him. (not JUST so i could - but it brought it forward!) spent 2 years there, came home, bought house, had baby....lalalala

its sooooooooooo hot today

Ok, so which one of you took a day trip from egyptland to come and swap my angelbaby for yours? Her wake and fed last night at 11, 12, 1.30, 3.30 and 6.30. I'm hoping it was a side effect of the jabs (we hadhib, menc and polio yesterday), but he's been quite unsettled today as well.

Love the pictures cat - dd looks so adult.

Dh and I met in pub 7 of a 17pub monopoly bard pub crawl. (The two chairmen in Trafalgar square) I thought his mate was quite cute. He kissed me in pub 11 (Bentleys vodka bar) and after pub 17 we went on to his club (Us and about 20 others) When I woke up the next morning I looked over at him and knew I was going to marry him. 2 years and 4 days later he proposed in Edinburgh, and 2 years after that we married.

Egypt. I put teh back bit opn, attach teh front bit by the bottom two clips, then lift ds onto my tummy and hold him with onearm, whilstI pull the front bit arround him with the other. Then holding ds aginst me ith my arm around him and the front bit of teh sling, I bend to us all to the left and clip the blue (right hand) bit in, then bend to the right and clip in the red bit. Then support his head pressed against my chest with one hand and do up the buttons with the other

Hope someone can say that's a bit like THEIR sex life at the moment.

(not me i don't have one right now)

(sadly)

(my fault)

I LOVE the how-we-mets. moremoremore!

oh i obviously have a different sling to yours! thanks anyway.....was secondhand, must be old.

love the pubcrawl story!

prufrock, lets hope it was the jabs. you cant do a u-turn on us now, you're our inspiration!

Hello, one brave little bubs has just come back with his first jabs done and dusted. Mother was the more weepy of the two, he just fell asleep after a few seconds of yelling.

My meeting DP story is bitter sweet. DP and I met at work and I knew straight away that he was the one. Sadly I was married to someone else and so we stuck to being friends - then I got another job and thought it was probably just as well. At my leaving party DP told me he felt the same and the rest is history. Thankfully ex-DH knew that the marriage wasn't working (even without outside interference) and so he dealt with the break up reasonably well and I am now lucky to have him as one of my dearest friends, he is lovely and I even get to vet his girlfriends . . . (and for those who might be wondering, DP and I remained strictly friends until after the split - I wouldn't or couldn't have betrayed extobeDH like that!)

Needless to say I wouldn't go through that again for love or money! A litte while later DS was conceived and so it has been non-stop for all of us. I wouldn't recommend it! Phew! Hopefully we can all just settle down into a sensible pace of life?

Egypt, how long did you live in Norwich? I know it very well and my family can still be found skulking around the streets . . . hmm, I mean that in a non prostitute way by the way!

lived in norwich from birth until i was 25.

Hello,
It is nice to read everyone's "how we met" stories! I met DH at university by sheer fluke because I'm 6 years older than him. Luckily I had 3 years out before I went and then did a 4 year degree so when he started I was in Italy doing my year abroad. Met him the year later back in England and got together. He moved to Oxford for a job and I, never managing to have a career, just a series of jobs , followed him down there. Then we got married and moved back up north where we could afford a house - yay! Six year anniversary this year........
Goergina, I think our DS's share a birthday and we are waking around 4.30am so it must be about right. I'm SO impatient for more sleep though! I am enjoying the 10.30pm feed though because I can do it with one eye on Big Brother and so time passes quite happily for both of us! We've decided to go sans swaddle tonight as he is getting out so frequently - dunno what effect that will have on the whole night time proceedings....
What other questions can we ask each other?

Phew! I've spent ALL day doing houswork, i think it's the first time i've actualy managed to get more than one room done at a time since DD was born. She has her moments but today she was a total angel, she's back to loving her playmat, and reaching to touch the animals hanging from it while making cooing noises- melts me every time i hear them!
We had another 12 hours last night
2 days in a row- god i hope it's not a fluke!!!
Thanks for all the compliments on the pics
Spots- you are the first EVER person to say she looks like me, you so made my day
Egypt- no probs feel free to mail and I'll get dp to sort out a kind of "how to" manual.
Libb- hope your little one is okay after his jabs, i cried more than dd when she went for hers as well!

I met dp in a pub in cambridge 4 years ago, i was on my own having a drink after work, and he was on his works Christmas party. I was just nipping to the loo when suddenly a mobile phone literaly dropped at my feet, i just picked it up and handed it back to the owner without a second thought, but when i came back from the loo and went to get another drink i felt a tap on my shoulder, lokked into a pair of the most gorgeous blue eyes i'd ever seen, and it turned out to be him that had dropped his phone. He bought me a drink to say thanks, and we were just about to sit down and chat when this totaly mad. drunk irish woman neither of us had seen before in our lives attached herself to us ALL night, and was in such a state neither of us had the heart to tell her to ahem go away.
We finally got her in a taxi (when she remembered where she lived!?) and basicaly spent the rest of the night laughing in McDonalds. I moved in with him 2 days, yes 2 days, later and we've been together ever since. One of the nices things he ever wrote in a christmas card was "i dropped my phone and you picked up my heart"

Sorry to be gushy, but i still smile when i tell that story.

Prufrock- i hope tonight is better for you!
xxx

Egypt my DS was in your world of night wakings so I know how you feel! I seem to be second time lucky.

When I got back from America (spent a year au pairing) I went out clubbing with a group of my school friends and one of my friends boyfriend was there and basically they set my up with DH which I was quite happy to go along with (this was 1995 btw). I got quite drunk and forgot all about it until my Mum took a phone call a few days later. Spent a bit of time playing hard to get but didn't really work because all my friends knew DH (had got to know him while I was in USA) and kept reporting back/telling me off. Six weeks later got job in London. So did the commuting London to Yorkshire at weekends thing until got transferred north. Engaged 1996, married 1998, DS 2001, DD 2004. Oh and the friends who introduced us got married in 2001 and are DS's godparents.

These are such sweet stories, we really are a soppy bunch!

Egypt, are you still near to Norwich or have you moved further afield? I grew up for a while in a village 15 miles from Norwich and found that the majority of kids couldn't wait to get away from Norfolk! I don't really mind it myself and it always good to go home and get some clean air!

Cat, which pub was it? I bet it was one of nicer ones off Mill Road . . . like the Live and Let Live.

DS was quite content for a while and then screamed the house down - I gave him a dose of Calpol and his usual feed and he is now out for the count. Bless him.

Egypt we're working on that step by step guide
Libb, yeah that was exactly what happened with DD,sleep, content, scream the house down. Calpol did seem to do the trick though, and we had a peaceful night. I hope it's the same for you.
Dp and i met in All Bar One on Regent Street. I still really like that pub!
xx

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Hey everyone

Glad to hear that you're all doing well. dd2 is doing ok but seems to have shifted her pattern. Last night was interesting, her day time feeds have been a bit of all over the place. Last night she had her last bottle at 6pm, usually has it at 8pm. She went to bed at 10pm and I fully expected her to get up almost straight away for a feed but she didn't she slept right through until 5am this morning. Poor little mite must have been starving but she had her bottle then went back to sleep and got up again at 8am. She now has a routine of getting up at 8am then going back to sleep and sleeping until around 11am.
Today was a bit better with the feeds though she had her last bottle at 8pm as usual but didn't go to sleep until 10 so we'll see how she gets on through the night.

I love all these stories about how you met your other half. want to hear mine? oh ok then.

When I was 14 I used to go Ice skating with my friends, there was a big group of us all different ages that used to all sit together between skating sessions, we would be at the rink all day saturday and sunday. In this group was dh's brother. Apparently dh was also there most weekends but try as I might I cannot remember him at all and he doesn't remember me either, obviously we didn't make a big impression on each other, lol. Skip forward to when I was 17 (1994) and started work, didn't go ice skating by then we'd all gone off to do our own thing. Anyway I'm at work and every week we used to go out to the local nightclub, whilst there one night I met dh's brother who was out with his girlfriend and dh was also there. We would see each other every week at the nightclub him with his brother and me with my friends and eventually we got together. Dd1 arrived in 1997, We got married in Canada in 2002 and dd2 arrived 2004. Been together 10 years this year and my dad said it wouldn't last pah!

if anyone I know reads that they will know straight away that it's me, oh well.

I should be in bed but I've been reading about the mercury free immunisations. Was going to ask HV about this tomorrow anyway but I do have a couple of questions for Twiglett and Georgina.

Do you need to have a reason for wanting the DTaP as opposed to the DTwP like an auto immune disease in the family? or can you just ask for it?

Also does the DTaP include the hib vaccination or do you have to get the hib seperately? My HV told me that the DTwp or DTP as she called it was given with the Hib in one injection, is it the same if you DTap and hib will it be one injection?

Thank you for any advice on this. Going to bed now.

Linnet I didn't have a special reason.