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MyLifeIsFeelingFestive · 26/12/2010 20:21

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As you were Grin

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CakeandRoses · 07/01/2011 22:18

yy, i meant the turnip. was surprised that he'd be so keen on eating turnip but raw makes more sense!

chulita how did he react to that?! Grin

Needle · 08/01/2011 00:16

Hi ladies.

Please excuse my prolonged abscence, we've been going through hell here. At 23 weeks Gween has been screaming for the last four days and has yet to take a breath and this morning I sliced the top of my finger off with the breadknife. Not cool.

What have I missed? xxx

WinterChillita · 08/01/2011 07:34

cakes he panicked and did that arms-wide open-mouthed wobbling that babies do...probably not the best course of action Grin

needle ouch! Breadknives are dangerous things, hope it all got stuck back together alright. Is G teething?

Grr...this will get better...one of these days my children will sleep!

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memphis83 · 08/01/2011 08:58

mlic a lot of people around me say i act like a mum on her second baby as i just get on with everything as it needs to be done! yesterday i cleaned out all my kitchen cupboards cleaned the doors etc and i just moved L from bumco, bouncer and hight chair! at one point gave hhim toast, rice cakes and bits of veg and he sat there for ages just making a mess! if he winges i just talk in silly voices as im scrubbing!

Needle · 08/01/2011 09:30

Gwen is going through teathing hell, but no actual teeth yet. She's 24 weeks on monday so we'll start weaning in a few weeks.
I snapped the handle off my breast pump last night, so i've got to run to the supermarket this morning to get a new one as dh and I are supposed to be going out tonight. I've not expressed one side for 12hrs so I look like someone who ought to sue their plastic surgeon.

Wrt to more babies, we still want at least 4.

wonderstuff · 08/01/2011 09:55

Well Dylan was up most of the night! Thank god its the weekend, dh took both kids for a couple of hours this morning so i am semi-human. We have people coming over this evening so another late night tonight - I miss sleep so much!

Dylan also has a tooth, cut it over crimbo - he is still teething though, so expecting tooth number 2 at any time.

We started a bit of blw style offering a few bits, I had planned on blw, but I don't think I have the patience tbh, he is staring longingly at us eating at meal times, but really not getting that the food in front of him needs to be picked up - so going to start some purees this weekend - off to mothercare shortly for all the weaning stuff we chucked out/lost with dd. I broke my blender a couple of years ago as well - I don't really want to fork out on a new one, should be fine mashing stuff right?

Anyway he has arisen from his power nap (daytime sleeps are never more than 30 mins, how rubbish is that?)

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CakeandRoses · 08/01/2011 11:11

oh my god

aurelia just fell off the table onto a stone floor in her bouncy chair, face first.

we think she must have overbalanced it with her weight leaning out over the side but don't know for sure as no-one was looking at her at the time Sad

i saw the chair going over out of the corner of my eye and shouted to dh who had his back turned, right next to her but couldn't move in time.

picking up the face-down chair to see her was one of the worst moments of my life altho i was almost blacking out so couldn't really see what was happening, could just hear dh shouting at me to put her down (he was worried i might injure her more)

after us all (apart from dh) crying our eyes out, she thankfully seems completely ok. just having a bf now.

I keep reliving it and thinking how much worse it could have been. how could we have been so fucking careless?

i'm sure you're all far more sensible but just in case - make sure your babies are miles away from the edge of a surface when you've got them in their bumbos/bouncy chairs.

she's now asleep in my arms. she doesn't seem to have any head injuries so presume concussion isn't a risk.

we've never had any accidents with either of them until this as i'm usually so cautious and over-protective. what a fucking idiot.

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CakeandRoses · 08/01/2011 11:21

god that's so awful too. i guess with things like this we have to be thankful to have had a warning rather than an awful ending to it.

i just feel so guilty for making so an obvious mistake and taking a risk with my precious daughter.

Needle · 08/01/2011 12:35

God, Cake, you must be so shaken. These things happen though, Gwen is always getting bumped and it always makes me feel awful. Sit and have a cup of tea and cuddle. I always put the bumbo on the table and never think about the possibility of her managing to squirm her way off.

How much expressed milk do you think is enough for an evening out? I've got 3x 4oz bottles but i've never left her before, so I don't know if it'll be enough.

Stac2011 · 08/01/2011 12:53

hi ladies, cakes you must have got a terrible fright but i'm sure A is fine. I fell down some steps carrying ds in a car chair apart from being upset he was fine. These things are sent to try us.

mlic i agree bout needing to feel it or i get bored. I went back to zumba today with added toning it was sore but brilliant, starting shredding on monday

Aw your poor finger needles were you off to tonight? Sil and bil are coming to us tonight and my sis is coming up to babysit yay

memphis you are probs very at ease with l because of your experience with younger siblings, i mean that in a good way. Hows your aunt and the baby?

chulita is your dh doing shred too? X

DesperateHousewife20 · 08/01/2011 13:21

cakes how horrible for you :( Dylan fell face first out his bouncy chair but it was on to carpet and not from a height. He was very shocked though.
Hope she is ok :)

Dylan has a god awful cold, really chesty cough. We bought some cough medicine but if its still bad by Mon Im taking him to the docs.

He slept really bad last night because of the cold, hoping he settles down when he feels better.

kkfairybrains · 08/01/2011 13:39

Dont havr much time to post but cakes you poor thing. Please dont beat yourself up about it. Things like this so easily happen and thank god she's ok. Can only imagine the fright you got. Be kind to yourself and sit and relax with her xx

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CakeandRoses · 08/01/2011 18:48

thank you so much everyone. you have made me feel a bit better about it.

happily, she's been fine since altho does a red mark on her cheek.

bouncy chair is now banned from table but we won't be allowed to forget it in a hurry as F has been regaling anyone who'll listen with: "Rella drop and bang da head" Blush

tsc thank you for sharing your accident stories. you do excel at tales which are both awful and embarrassing! i bet you felt like resigning when you dropped k in the scbu. best wishes to frankles and his little fingers.

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DesperateHousewife20 · 08/01/2011 19:06

stac a fellow zumba-er! here

kkfairybrains · 08/01/2011 20:31

Well i've had a shitter of a day since. Got news just before i left to come down to my mums that a guy i grew up with died today :(. epileptic fit. So bloody sad. Thats the second guy out of the group that has died. The other being the friend we lost to a car accident. And then i was driving home just me and ellie in the car and going along a straight stretch in 3rd gear as the roads are slippy and the car just started sliding from side to side and i couldnt control it and it kept happening and i was so scared with ellie in the car that i burst into tears and had to pull in and get my brother to come and drive ua the rest of the way. Im still shaking and it was over an hour ago. And when i was pulled in a was getting visions of a car coming sliding into us. Cant wait for this day to be over

CakeandRoses · 08/01/2011 22:30

oh kk that's so sad. What an awful day you've had.

Dr Cake's prescription is lots of hugs, a hot bath and tea or wine.

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WinterChillita · 09/01/2011 08:15

a yak face Grin

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MelissaM · 09/01/2011 09:13

Morning ladies. Have been trying to keep up, but you are a chatty lot.Wink

Lucas is 6mths on 19th so going to start weaning nxt weekend probably. Seems happy enough just bf, although going thru frustrating phase of only wanting to.feed in quiet room, or if v tired (and starving). He isn't really putting anything in his mouth other than fingers (anyone's) so not sure blw will work. Will probably do a mix as worked with dd.
Not planning on having any more, but wld do the birth for u (only cos I think I can do better than ds). Have pnd again so won't offer to do the nights.

KK hope ur ok and got over ur terrible day.

Hope everyone else is ok and that our pickles start sleeping thru soon

Right better go as happy to change and I really need some breakfast. Have a good day everyone x

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