November 09 - Autumnal times are drawing near, soon our babes will be one year!

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Hello ladies, hope no one minds me taking the liberty of creating a new thread and approves of the name choice. We've been moving a bit slower than antenatal so though we'd most certainly have some year-olds by the time we finished this one!

Hi ursi, welcome back! Glad you had a good trip. We've done a good bit of no nappy time this evening and the cream seems to be helping the rash to clear up. Thanks for all your well -wishes.

scarlotti, good luck with the pub quiz! I'd be there like a shot if I was in Brighton, I love pub quizzes, used to go every week with my teaching buddy in London.

helips hooray and fingers crossed for good sleep tonight too. We've had a few 4/5am wake ups but then getting herself back to sleep til 6ish recently. We're getting there. Sorry to hear not such good news for you in that respect fruit. My sympathies , hope things improve soon. Thinking of your big boy DS1 too. So much going on for you fruit!

DWB fingers crossed job situation works out. Naughty interviewer asking you about your family plans! Very naughty! He (?) must have known you wouldn't fob him off or be worried about looking shifty so got you to tell him your real plans. Crafty.

DWB fingers crossed it works out ok for you.

ursi sounds like a lovely trip, would not worry about the physical development, some babies are much more 'thinkers'!

fruit this was us, the lack of sleep. Well still is really, but the bear cub is in his own room as of this evening, we shall see how that pans out, as i am very much waking him up. But he has like 4 teeth at least bursting, they are taking their time, but must be giving him some trouble. At least this way DH can feed him at 11pm ish without it disturbing me (she says hopefully).

Pav Were you back at work today? Are you looking and feeling ok? x

not today DWB i go back tomorrow. I look, well, like i have been in a fight ! i have a black/purple eye, and a bit blue/black stripe across my nose! the cut is not too bad, and my glasses hide most of it apart from the nose bit, but its only bad on one side, i think i can cover it enough with some benefit paste (industrial paste for bags under the eyes!) so that it will only notice if you look closely. or if i take my glasses off, then it looks obvious!

How are you doing today Pav? Hope you were ok at work.

pavlov, I hope it went ok today back at work. Oh, and I'm not worried about Paula's physical development, I found it just interesting. She has been in fact really early with everything, was crawling at 7 months but seems to want to focus on other things now and has therefore no time to learn walking. Actually, my dad thought said she will be a late walker as she is really good at crawling (and fast!), and therefore doesn't need to walk. That does sound reasonable to me.

skorpion, I forgot to add last time that Paula sleeps as well in our bed from about 11 or even earlier on. Sometimes she wakes up for the first time even earlier and then I try to get her back but as soon as I'm in bed as well, I usually take her with me the first time she wakes up. I did and still do try to put her back (when I'm not too tired) but she usually wakes up again very quickly. Usually she sleeps fine-ish with me. I'm used to it and sleep fine but I wonder sometimes how to get her back eventually. My "plan" is, that she will suddenly start sleeping through and that I do not even have to take her into bed anymore :)

all is fine here thank you juicey ! nose is looking much better, as is the eye, and some of it is even starting to go yellow round the outside. used the paste, worked a treat! still quite ugly without my glasses on, but they hide it really well. work were at it all, made for some good gossiping, luckily my group either did not notice or felt it not appropriate to say in the first group. thank you for asking .

Glad to hear that your doing ok!

Got a big remnant of carpet for the lounge yesterday as Annabelle keeps pulling herself up on the furniture and we just had a hard floor so we were worrying every time she wobbled so am much happier now we have it down. Plus its a bit nicer for us too. Am worrying as Annabelle still has not even a hint of a tooth here.

Hi all

Pav glad to hear you're healing, hope the rainbow fades soon

MsI shame you're not nearer!

Ursi I agree with your Dad! None of mine were early walkers and they both caught up and are bright as buttons.

Fruit DS1 here started school this week too. Monday was the first day. He cried today because he didn't want to leave after school club! He also hasn't 'been' whilst at school, and seems to think he doesn't need to practice wiping his own bottom as he will just go at home!!

Sleep - we seem to now go until at least 5am and sometimes 6 (rarely!) I think for us, him moving into his own room helped and also getting through the 9 month sleep hell regression. I've seriously upped his food intake though, he now has a weetabix at 6pm on top of 3 meals and 2 snacks, then has a feed before bed although I think my milk is dropping as sometimes he'll cry for more and take a bottle. He then takes around 5 or 6oz at 10pm of night time milk - all this will keep him going until 6am! What a gannet!!
I still take him in from when he wakes in the night, but as he now goes longer I can get through to 5 or 6 without him coming in so ursi take heart!

I have an op scheduled for Friday afternoon to sort out my carpal tunnel. It's my right hand, so I might not be posting for a while over the weekend! My Mum is coming to stay so at least I'll have help with the dc's

Pav nooo what a horrid accident!!!!

I have been really busy at work as I have a deadline for Oct 1st that I have to hit and my crew all seem to be at each others throats... so to top that off yesterday when I was due to be filming an interview with a criminal psychologist I get a call from DS1's school to say he has had an accident and to come and get him!

He had fallen down the stairs. Luckily dp was home with ds2 but he can't drive so had to get ds put into a taxi and delivered back home.

I arrived home with a migraine and being sick and had to go straight to bed. DS1 seemed ok but appeared to have sprained his ankle.

DP couldn't get DS1 and DS2 to the doctors so si 9pm my mother and brother arrived and drove DS1 to casualty where it turns out ...

He has broken his ankle and will be in cast up to the knee for four weeks

I have another shoot day today so have no choice but to go to work whilst DP deals with a ds who cant get out and a baby who hates to stay in. Poor things.

Any way sorry for the long me me me post. Just feeling sorry for myself [although maybe I should be feeling more sorry for ds1]

ninja what a nightmare!! DH will cope just fine and you obviously need to be at your work. Try not to worry too much. I know I might be telling you something you know already but if the hospital have given you pain relief for DS, give him it around the clock even if he doesn't seem to be in pain. My nephew broke his leg just before his second birthday and his parents were quite reluctant to give him too much medication but it backfired and they really struggled for a day or two until the gp checked they were giving the pain relief every 6hrs or so. x

oh ninja what a horrible time for you too! your poor DS! and dp! and you! very big un-mn but very much november ladies hug

bear cub is refusing to have a bath in the bathroom. He was terrified, and shook, never seen him like that before, and when i held him, he clung to me so hard, so we took the bucket (he has a flexi tub in the bath!) into the kitchen, and he went in it fine. It is just the bathroom. We tried it twice, to get him in it, and he would not even stand in it, he lifted his legs up, shaking like a leave and screaming the place down

Oh pav, poor Reuben! Thank your lucky stars that it is only a fright he has had. And gently ease him into liking the bath again. That's amazing, I didn't think at their age the babies would remember something like that. How are you feeling? Better I hope x

ninja your poor DS, hope he's better soon.

Poorly baby and DD here Up for most of last night so heading to bed now in the hope I might get more sleep tonight! Op scheduled for tomorrow afternoon

Oh Pav, you poor thing - and your poor worried little baby! He must be a bright thing to associate the bathroom with potential disaster now.

Ninja, your poor kid - time to beg, borrow or steal new DVDs which he hasn't seen yet?! I can't imagine trying to keep an energetic boy off his feet for that long.

I have finally managed to pass my driver's licence test (at the tender age of thirty, mind you) and oh, I wish I'd learnt as a teenager so I didn't have to try and concentrate on merging on the highway while my cross children yell their heads off in the back. (There was just no point to driving in Oxford, it took me eleven minutes to cycle in via the towpath in the morning or half an hour by car with nowhere to park at the other end.) Anybody else's baby absolutely loathe their carseat? He can houdini out of his pushchair now, and wiggle out of most harnesses, but he's well and truly trapped in there.

Hope all the poorly children are better soon.

Pav The poor little thing. Hope it doesn't last too long and I'm sure he'll forget with a little time. Hope you are starting to feel a bit better too.

I think my period is on it's way. Have felt rubbish this week. I'm tired, tearful, snappy. I guess I've made it to nearly 11 months without one - shouldn't complain. Me thinks I need to start the pill. We have been careful so far. I didn't want to be on the pill whilst my hormones felt good. Has anyone opted for the contraceptive implant? I'm rubbish at taking the pill and surprised that both my children were planned!

Tamlin Congrats!! I passed my test when I turned 30. Wish I had done it a lot sooner. C is resisting the pushchair and quite diffiult to strap in.

Hi all

Had my carpal tunnel op yesterday so typing one handed hand is quite sore but should heal quite quickly I'm told. It's like having a newborn again, doing everything one handed and being woken a lot at night!
Luckily mum is here as dh being a bit rubbish tbh, am up this morning with the 2 ds' whilst he sleeps in

Ok this end for pushchairs and car seats, am grateful daily that he's such a placid boy - DS1 not so much, so I think I'd have gone mad with 2 monkeys!

Hope your hand heals quickly scarlotti. Are you off work for a while?

Thanks. I don't work mondays so will see how I am on tues - don't get paid unless I'm there so need to be able to go really!

How are you finding being back? Is C enjoying having your mindees around?

scarlotti I'm tired and finding the school and pre-school runs hard going with both babies nap times. Mind you, my mood is not helped with my hormones this week. If C was more consistent with sleep at night and with naps it would make life a lot easier. He loves having the company of the older baby. DS1 and my older mindee were together from an early age and they have a close bond. Both the girls I care for are great and I get on well with the parents. It will get easier in time. Has I settled well with his cm? Any news on your DH finding a flat?

scarlotti, I hope you'll be better soon.

pavlov, how are you?

Tamlin, congratulations! I passed my licence when I was 24 but never practised and now I would be unable to drive. It's such a shame and I really have to lern it again. But at the moment here in London we do not even have a car.

Can I ask how many naps those november babies have at the moment? Paula's sleeping is shifting. She sleeps more than an hour longer in the morning (very nice), and then I'm confused about her naps. She used to have 2 but it seems as if she suddenly can go longer stretches. And if I try to keep the two, it gets really late for the second one and then she just isn't tired in the evening. So I wonder if it is already time for her to move to only one nap in the middle of the day. I thought they normally keep two naps for quite a while so maybe it is just a strange period after the irregular timings during our holiday.

thanks everyone for the good wishes. Face is much better, have had a migraine over the last few days, threw up yesterday. I think I did not realise fully the scale of smacking your head so hard! I think I was just looking at the bruising and the swollen nose and thinking it looked better, rather than that bruising on my head (including the skull at the top) is going to have an impact on how i feel. Dh said yesterday 'well, a head injury is concussion isn't it, i am surprised you had brushed it off so dismissively!' Just thought as I felt better than I had expected that I was 'over' it. A quick google told me otherwise, even that headaches could last for a month or more and that is normal!. Bruising is much more yellow/red rather than blue/purple as it was before. Work have been great, my boss has been checking on me to make sure I have been ok to work.

tamlin I passed my driving test at 29, so not much behind you. I had failed it 3 times, for various reasons,. 3rd time was 2.5 weeks before my due date. Driving instructor told me no time to do it before baby was born. I ignored him. I called the appt number for cancellations twice every day til i got one. I took and passed it 5 days before DD was actually born . With only 2 minors (one for speeding . I lived in London so never needed a car, then moved to Uni and could not afford it, then could not afford it after finishing. Now, have no idea how I survived so long without it. I love driving. I rely on it too much .

Bear cub is in his own room. First night this week he slept 7:30pm-10:30pm-5am-6:30am. Bloody marvellous. Then it went downhill and now he won't settle at night for a while. Last night was 8pm-9:50pm-11:30pm-2:30am-4:45am-6:30am. not so great but certainly better than two weeks ago!

He is such a happy little boy. He loves life, is very chilled, nothing really phases him much (apart from the bath, but that seems ok atm too), he is less hectic than DD was/is, happy to sit playing with toys/eating his food as much as he enjoys moving around. And boy does he love to bounce. He quite happily, literally bounces on his bottom across the floor, arms in the air, and almost takes flight! Squealing with delight as he goes along!

oh meant to say ursi you can take refresher lessons whenever you are ready to drive again. You don't to start again. My friend passed about 10 years before she actually drove and she had 6x2 hour lessons which covered all roundabouts, reversing and also took her onto the motorway to practice too. It was a course designed for drivers who had passed but wanted to build confidence.

Scarlotti I hope the road to recovery is smooth and swift for you.

Well done Tamlin I would love to be able to drive, and had started to learn before I found out I was pregnant with ds, but now I have children I am terrified at the thought of driving them about, or causing an accident. My mum did actually say she thought Id been pretty good at driving when we were discussing me driving when I was with her a few days ago which made me feel good but I still cant get the thought of me hurting them by driving out of my head. Its not just my driving Im worried about, I wont let my sister drive us either (she doesn't know this, I just avoid going in her car by suggesting doing other stuff at home or closer to home)She's only been driving for a year but is still pretty scary and not very observant. horrible to say really but true.

Ursi Annabelle only has one nap in the morning most days, but if we do a lot she may have half an hour in the playpen. With ds they fell away but picked up again as a toddler.