Jan 09: New thread, new babies, new year...our tiny newborns turn two and are full of birthday cheer....

[hackneyzoo]

Hope no one minds....I took an executive decision

yeah, i'm not really sure about 'active labour.' 'crouching labour' more like.

the very ones, hkz. i was at art college in the late eighties - camper van beethoven featured, as did butthole surfers and bob marley when hanging out with the smokers...

I remember fondly floundering gracefully in the birthing pool whilst necking G&A... does that count as active? I think second time around it was all pretty mellow until transition and the mooing instinct took over!

Sounds good that C's dad is going to donate, pleased for you guys that that worked out.

Right, off for another bath, a bounce on the ball and some nipple tweeking (self administered..DH is working!)

i think clinics here are erring on the side of caution, since there's no such legal status as a known donor (here) and they don't want to be getting in the middle of disputes about parental status.

yep, i demand pics too, got and hkz

also off to bed. am getting up to run four of the 'couch to 5k' in the morning. it's no fun.

last night there were skinheads on the lawn - oh take the skinheads bowling take them bowling...

night all

Awww I'm at Butlins Minehead beginning of April. Would've been so nice. Maybe we should plan ahead and do a cheap deal in Autumn for a big group of us?

Stripey I thought C's dad didn't want to donate again, that' so great that he said yes.

Right busy day today, DD has her induction at nursery at the big school and I somehow have to keep my just turned 2 yr old quiet and behving in the hall for an hour for some sort of talk thing with loads of other new parents as well as DD, before she spends just an hour at nursery itself without us before we go back for her... Eeek! Then I somehow have to squeeze in a doctors appointment too which I booked before I realised about the whole induction thing If you know how I can keep a boisterous boy happy and quiet and sitting in the hall for an hour please give me your tips, he doesn't sit still...

lots of chats ladies

off to sing and sign in a a mo

stripey exciting

i have recorded one born every min

Tea....bring him lots of snacks and books etc. I had the same worries at DD's xmas thing at nursery and he was fine (and ate a lot of oaty bars)!

Dog LOL at capol syringe and sperm job!

DS kept trying to escape his buggy and shouting at DD's Christmas service thingy at Pre School But I'll do my best with snacks and books.

its really hard for them to sit still for that long at this age... have you got an ipod or iphone? Could you stick a cartoon on it or something? I think everyone will be pretty understanding at nursery and I am sure DS won't be the only boistrous toddler. Hope it goes well.

After your brilliant suggestion Ex H has downloaded some onto his ipod for him. Thanks for that, just packing up now ready to go.

tea, hope it goes okay: we took c along to a poetry thing just before christmas and she decided it was necessary to comment on the drinking: 'wine! wine! mummy's wine!' at the top of her voice at an entirely inappropriate moment... i think everybody thought it was sweet except for the poet who was reading at the time, who was totally thrown by it. absolutely mortifying. no more poetry for the toddler.

trying not to think about the whole ttc thing, really; i'm going in not expecting it to work as i think this is the least stressful way to go about it, and stress is just not helpful to the process, i know. i recall it as an absolute roller coaster with c, and don't want to spend another six months in that state.

hope good days all round.

Hello all.

Feel like shitola today, so naturally have posted on a depressing thread about benefits by way of a cheer me up.

Dd2 - no play school. Hey ho, she's a joy and if I was somewhere alse I'd want to be right here, watching her sleep next to me on the bed.

She ate some yogurt today. That's food today, half a banana and yogurt yesterday...wow! Maybe she'll start eating again. Had a very unsettled night, am expecting dh to be a shadow tonight.

Rofly at that story Stripey. Won't mention the other thing [as my nan calls all things remotely related to women] until you have a bfp.

Good luck Tea, it'll be fine. DD2 tried to get on the nativity play scene and actually managed to jump in the foam pit at dd1's gym display. We were told to keep her away from various things 3 times. Was very

Hope your run went well this morning, are you doing a series of 5k runs? No more poetry for the toddler made me chuckle.

Glad you've cheered yourself up with a bit of benefit banter tree . Loved today's 'We're all in it together' sound bite, doesn't feel much like it to me! Grr.

MW just been and have had a sweep, which didn't hurt at all. I have a soft cervix but still 2cm and posterior...ho hum. She's going to come again on Saturday or Sunday and do another sweep if still no baby.

hmmm. Think I might make a banana cake and some fudge.

We're all in it together. You see, even when I get passed my long term suspicion of anyone in power, they something like that to make me want to nut them.

Nut away tree, am right behind you.

Have not made fudge or cake yet, but have eaten half a large packet of mini eggs, so been quite productive.

That should be past shouldn't it? rofl. Been thinking about my 3 years at middle school due to free school meals thread, and feeling slightly unhinged. God I hated that place.

I have eaten half a box of chocs. Yay for us!

I can hear dd2 hiding behind the door, doing a poo. Lots of panting and humming.

Have read. Smiled to myself when tree called joss Josh and thought dog won't let that go... And sure enough 2 posts later, you lot are the best, you make me smile and laugh, and at the moment you're all making me broody, damn you.

Stripey - good luck, hope it goes well.

VLC player app on my iPhone with a few peppa pig episodes saved on it plus Toy Story saves me from many terrible situations with DS.

Have a lot on so must go but am reading. Pat, update us when you can. Thinking of you.

Oh, and I was pretty silent in labour with DS, in a kind of trance. Was amazing, such an incredible experience. DD's was very different, very traumatic and thankfully all but blanked from my memory now. I think I shouted a bit, mainly from frustration and because I thought I would help. It didn't. In fact the whole thing was a mess and the more I think on it as the years pass the more I regret not speaking up for myself during and after the event. It wasn't well managed at all, I was in delivery for 3 days, that in itself is crazy. And how we both ended up fine I still don't know, I think they made some very poor judgements and the lack of continuity in my care because of it being Christmas meant no one saw me for more than 8 hours in the 3 days so I had 9 different named primary midwives, although was seen by far more than that because I wasn't in 'active' labour for the first day after my waters broke. Plus lots of other doctors and juniors. And yet with all that collective brain power they took 2.5 days to decide to give me that drip thing that speeds things up.

I feel lke total crap tbh. Dd2 is never ever going to sleep properly. She was up loads last nght. DH is lying and saying he got 5 hrs sleep, I know he got 4 and then did a 13hr day. She just woke again and he is trying to settle her because she asks for him at night.

I don't know my arse from my elbow with money planning, uni planning for dh, worries about his studies, worrying about my own and some background nonsense about my health. So so so tired.

Facing more weekend long shifts. I know long shifts are better for clients, but these 12 hours shifts are killing me at the moment. It's meant to be great we have lots of days off, but I spend half of those recovering from the work. Like normal people do in the evening.

Feeling glum today, as you may have noticed.