April 2004 Toddlers Part 2!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Oh YG hope that she starts to improve a bit more quickly now, it must have been terrifying.
Life here just continues to fly by, was told at the library lap session by an old guy are you sure you should be out and I informed him I had 7wks to go and I should hope I could be out. He said he worked for the ambulance service and sees a few women who are out who 'shouldn't' be?
Oh well I know I look and feel quite huge but it is very different from dd where people kept telling me I was tiny. I'm still 4kg less than I was at full term with her so who knows?

err chuffed why IS it people feel the need to comment particularly when we r @ the 'big' stage its like because u r obvious it has to to spoken of be complete strangers oooo it makes me MAD !
must admit starting 2 think about the 'next' but v nervous cod ds was so big ! i did't think i was , but must have been !!

wow Chuffed only 7 weeks to go!! We've starting ttc no 2 - it's a bit difficult though as my last cycle was 46 days so no idea when I should be bd'ing!! Hope dd is feeling better YG

LJ I had accupuncture in the end as I only had 2 cycles in 7mths once it all returned after dd. I think it helped balance out my system again...worth a thought anyway.

must admit if i was ttc , i aould have no idea , fairly on time as on pill but my symtoms for want of a better word are completely diff
less pain - good - more moody not so good
the whole thing is v odd !!

Ladies you've been chatty!!
We have moved, hence the lack of posts from me. I am without broadband, I can't believe it takes soooo long to connect - I'm lost without it. This is a slow dial up connection and it is so sloooooowww.
Anyway, call me naive but I really never expected the move to be so stressful. I'm so tired. I think I'm something like 27ish weeks and I'm finding pregnancy extremely limiting. I am sitting here now looking at the sofa thinking I want to put it somewhere else but I can't blinkin lift it! I can't lift anything, it seems everything is too heavy, including poor dd lately. She is well able to crawl down the stairs herself but she always wants carrying and sometimes I just have to let her cry at the top of the stairs because I'm just too tired to lift her.
I'm sure I'm not as fit as I was this time last time with dd. I just get so tired. And there are boxes everywhere that need moving. And I have such alot of work to do before I leave for maternity leave, it's starting to worry me. My boss has told me to relax and enjoy my pregnancy but I have decided I just don't like being pregnant.

Whinge whinge whinge. I'm sorry, I should be grateful.

So sorry you have had such a hard time YG, now that must be stressful.

Dot - I think you must have a child prodigy. Dd is noowhere near anything like that development but she's much the same as her chums at nursery. She's a little mother, they tell me. Her favourite toys are dollies, which I know, she carries two around at home all the time. Two small babies have started at nursery and poor dd she has trouble trying to divide her attention between the two of them!

aw how sweet MrsD Sounds like you need to lie down on the sofa and have a rest rather than think about moving it!!

Mrs D - you have my absolute sympathy... We moved to Manchester when I was 16 weeks pregnant, which wasn't too bad, but then moved into our home when I was 36 weeks!! The move date was my first day of maternity leave! I'm usually the one doing the lifting and shifting and I just had to watch it all happen around me, and then get completely frustrated that I couldn't really do anything! 2 years later I'm just getting the energy back to think about decorating! . Not sure about ds being a prodigy - just a chatterbox like his Mummy..!

Mrs D, it sounds like hard work. you will have to sink back on the sofa and shut your eyes and ignore the mess.

dot1's ds2 is indeed a sociable chatterbox! and also a very good walker.

Thought we hadn't heard from you for a while MrsD. Totally understand the move thing we haven't actually done the move thing yet as house is uninhabitable but it is so frustrating not being able to do too much. Remember it could just be a bit of a growth spurt with the bub that is making you sooo tired, either that or are you short on iron? Have a drink of OJ and a handful of dried apricots each morning for a week and see how you feel.
dd also does the two dollies in arms walking around the house baby baby must come in car with us etc not sure how she is going to react when the real one comes.

We've been at a friend's house this weekend and ds2 fell completely in love with a dolly + little pushchair that one of their kids had! It was sooooo sweet watching him talking to dolly (non stop!) and pushing her around. So that's what he's getting for Christmas! I remember us buying a doll for ds1 when he was a similar age - because he was going through a pushing/hitting stage and we wanted to teach him how to be nice to things (!!) but it didn't work and he was never interested. So funny how different they are.

I wonder if I should introduce ds to dollies. He has 2 sharks that he likes to carry around just now - hmmm.
I had 3 viewers lined up for Sat. morning when dh was away overnight. I had to try and amuse ds to keep the house tidy till the viewers had been. Ok till he found the biggest box of plastic animals (about 150) and tipped them all over the lounge floor to play with.
Good thing about viewers is that they sometimes bring their toddlers - immediate playmates for ds!

dd3 also loves dolls and buggies. she borrows her sisters' but will be getting her own for christmas.

dd1 was never into dolls, just toy mooses, dogs etc. and she is very nurturing to earwigs, woodlice, anything small and living.

Mrs D are you in Newbury now? renting or buying?

Renting. Still to expensive for us to buy yet, although the market has been stagnant for over a year now - we need it to drop. We have moved into a lovely little house; alot older and colder but we have so much more space.
I think I might have finally cracked yesterday, I started crying in the morning at home on my own and couldn't stop. Blubbed on for about an hour. Then I went into town but it was not until I was in the toilet in a department store did I look in a mirror and realise I really should have put some make up on before I went out
Anyway, I'm feeling better for it.
Can you beleive I have less than 12 weeks of pregnancy left? Shocked me.

Oh MrsD you probably just looked a bit puffy - I'm sure it was fine. How quickly has this one gone...it certainly seems it for me as I feel like I missed almost a trimester with the travelling in a way.
Looks like we are unlikely to be in our own house by the time the baby is born so will be camped out with the inlaws now probably until about Feb. Soooo lucky that they are lovely. Feeling a bit aprehensive of dd sleeping through baby's wake ups in the middle of the night as we will all be in one bedroom until we move.
So I almost sat down and had a good ball about it the other day, dh and I have been quite stressed which I know isn't good for the baby etc so am trying hard to think of the positives like the fact that I won't be by myself in a house without being able to drive after a section etc etc and dd will get lots of attention. There are more but I'm rambling now.
Take care all and chat soon.

Chuffed, it will be helpful having people around to make a fuss of dd. when dd2 was born we were living with my sister and her dp and it was very useful really. It was a bit different i know as it was our own home and we'd chosen to live with them, but it's probably ideal from dd's point of view.

[an aside for Dot1]

Dot1 please come to the manchester meetup and keep me company! yorkiegirl might be coming too. otherwise i will have to talk to people I don't know

I didn't know there was one! Will try and find the thread!

Found it! Am checking with 'er indoors tonight and will see if we can get rid of the kids for a few hours!

Omigod - is it just me or is anyone elses lo sleeping crap just now?
Don't know if daytime nap needs to be dropped/shortened. But ds woke yesterday at 4.30 am and today was 4.50am. I bring him in with me and he goes back to sleep an hour later but then we both sleep in for nursery/school. He's then knackered by lunchtime and sleeps for 2.5hrs to make up for it!
Do I bite the bullet and get him up early from his nap and endure a grumpy afternoon?

tracyk, dd3's sleeping was crap last week. see another thread running about people with early waking toddlers - can't remember the thread title.

consensus is it's the cold weather waking them.

we were firm, wrapped her up more warmly in fleecy pyjamas, kept settling her back and she's slept through properly the last 3 nights again.

I gave him the benefit of the dount that it was cold. But he's in a babygro and a 2 tog with long sleeves attached.

cold plus at this age they get opinions about where they want to be. my dd3 wants to be snuggled up in bed with me. as do all my dds if given a free choice. unfortunately i don't want them all every night as they wriggle and keep me awake. hence battle of wills.

Dd was waking up too. She has alwasy slept in the datk but I wondered if she needed a night light? So I have put one in her room and she has slept through.
She can't be cold now. Besides her huge boosted bumble nappy and thick fleece wrap she is wearing a vest, a cotton sleepsuit and a fleecy one over the top. Covered by a baby blanket, a fleece blanket and a wool one. So she is toasty warm!!