Hello Ladies,
Here is a brand new thread for a brand new year!
Here is the list of babies::
THE MAY 2010 (OR THEREABOUTS!) BABIES
11 April LuckyC, GIRL, MATILDA, 14.47
15 April ForcesSweetheart, GIRL, MOLLY, 10.27, 7lbs 6ozs
16 April Littleowls, BOY, JOEL, 14.40, 4lb 8oz
16 April Memorylapse, GIRL, OLIVIA GRACE, 6.17pm, 6lbs 11.5ozs
23 April Sophie2008, BOY, COREY DREW 7lbs 2.5oz and GIRL, MIRIAM ELIZABETH 7lbs 4oz
27 April Brightredballoon, GIRL, 10am, 7lb 12oz
27 April Pagen, BOY, JACK JOHN, 7.30am, 9lbs 2ozs
29 April littleonemum, GIRL, LUX EMILIE, 9.40pm, 7lbs 7 ozs
29 April mummymunchkins, BOY, ZAKARIYA IDRIS, 7lbs 4oz
04 May fiveisanawfullybignumber, GIRL, FLORENCE MARGARET GRACE, 6.14pm,
04 May hormonalmum, GIRL
05 May sweetkitty, BOY, JACOB DAVID JOHN, 4.52am, 8lbs 5ozs
05 May Mustbemadno3 GIRL, LILLIA VICTORIA SOFIA, 05.05am 6lbs 8ozs
06 May Alle, BOY, OSCAR, 12.20pm 6lbs 8ozs
06 May alexw, GIRL, JULIA MAUD, 7lbs2oz
07 May TwentiethCenturyHeffa, BOY, CORIN, 7lbs1oz
07 May sheepgomeep, GIRL, JESSICA, 9lbs 12.5oz
08 May Lizzie9442, GIRL, LOUISE, 9.01pm, 10lbs
10 May Hobnobfanatic, GIRL
11 May 30ish, BOY, OLIVER JAMES, 10:05am, 9lbs 7oz.
11 May millingtonsmummy, BOY, HARRY EDWIN, 1.17am, 8lb
12 May kateyjane, BOY, THOMAS EDWARD, 11.29am, 7lbs 12ozs
13 May MarquiseDeMerteuil, BOY, FELIX BENJAMIN, 5lbs 15oz
14 May itshappenedagain, GIRL, FLORENCE ELEANOR, 5.22am, 8lb 6oz
14 May TomlinTowers, GIRL, SOPHIE MAE, 8.43am, 9lbs 7oz
15 May pigleychez, GIRL, LUCY OLIVIA, 9.30am 7lbs 12oz
15 May slipperthief, BOY, DANIEL HENRY, 7.28pm, 8lbs 4oz
16 May Wibblela, GIRL, REFAELLA, 12.22am, 8lbs 4oz
17 May pamelat, BOY, ALEXANDER, 12.14pm, 7lbs 8oz
17 May Morph2, BOY, JACOB ANTHONY, 7.50pm, 6lbs 11ozs
18 May squirtsmum, GIRL, REBECCA LOUISE, 1.37am, 9lbs 14.5oz
18 May MinnieMummy, GIRL, 8.31am, 10lbs 11oz
18 May KatnKankles, GIRL, AVA ROSE, 8lbs 14oz
19 May TinyVeins, GIRL, VERITY RUTH ELLEN, 00.41am, 6lbs 2oz
19 May Sweetpeasmum, GIRL, SOPHIE ELIZABETH, 6.38am
20 May Sassles, BOY, SAMUEL, 9lbs 4oz
20 May KaffaCakes, BOY, ALBERT STANLEY, 1.09am, 7lbs 8.5oz
20 May Den26, BOY, RIAN ALEXANDER, 7lbs 13oz
21 May Carikube, GIRL, ALICE JANE, 2.17am, 8lbs 5oz
21 May peaky, BOY, FINN, 2.47am, 7lbs 12oz
21 May Gils, GIRL, MELISSA ANNE, 3.38am, 8lbs 10oz
21 May Rachelfruitloop, BOY, ERIC DAVID, 3.48am, 11lbs 2oz
22 May Fumble, GIRL, ISABELLA ROSE, AKA BETTY, 6.10pm, 4lbs
23 May newmomma, GIRL, 6.34am, 8lbs 12.5oz
24 May Mollycuddles, GIRL, MOLLY LETITIA ROSE, 2.24am, 8lbs 3oz
24 May LuckyMiller, BOY, IRA JACOB, 8lbs 2oz
25 May Hollyoaks, GIRL, GRACE ANNABEL, 6lb 110z, 00:07
25 May JamesandtheGiantBanana, GIRL, 7lbs
25 May Nimk, GIRL, 6lbs 8oz
26 May myfirstbump, GIRL, DARCEY ELIZABETH, 2.18am 8lbs 15oz
27 May first1, GIRL, CHLOE GRACE, 8lbs 3oz
28 May AnAngelWithin, GIRL, WILLOW, 00.34, 8lbs 15oz
29 May schipo, BOY, HUXLEY, 4.40am, 7lbs 13oz
03 Jun RacquelWelsh, BOY, GEORGE, 6.20am, 7lbs 9oz
03 Jun Moggmum, BOY, DYLAN ASHLEY, 7.34am, 7lbs 10oz
03 Jun AliMouse, BOY, CALEB LLOYD, 2.31pm, 8lbs 1oz
04 Jun Yorky, BOY, DAVID LUKE, 2.05am, 9lbs 1oz
05 Jun cupcakefairy, BOY, JUDE, 3.11am, 8lbs
05 Jun Booboomonster, GIRL, ARIEL INDIA, 3.25am, 10lbs 4oz
05 Jun Ande, BOY, 09.54am, 6lbs 12oz
07 Jun Homebirthmummy4, GIRL, VIRGINIA NIAMH, 23.42, 10lbs
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May 2010: The little ones may start to crawl, and we're returning business calls!
rachelfruitloop · 15/01/2011 21:34
Dancing still no AF here either though I am still doing 6 feeds every 24 hours. I'm assuming that DD2 is taking a bit less these days given the amount that she eats but given the number of people who have described her as 'solid' 
in the last few days, maybe she's just a pig. I'm quite pleased in some ways that AF's not back as that takes the decision on DC3 a bit out of my hands at the moment...
Our trip away last week seems to have really mucked things up sleep wise and DD2 is back to waking once a night which is a bit of a pain, especially as DD1 has started doing her random waking-up-and-screaming thing recently. DH has been pretty absent this week as work is manic (I've just asked him whether this will stand him in good stead for when they decide who is getting made redundant and his response was 'will it f*&%!') so I've been doing bath and bedtime on my own.
Though as pamelat says, I'm really enjoying being with both of them as on the whole they are absolutely wonderful; it will be a real wrench when it is time to go back to work 
Thanks for the lovely comments ladies
After some more 'discussions' its been decided that Mum can deal with all the roganisations now. To which shes moaning about! - I seriously cant win!
Carikube- Glad you enjoyed your break :)
Hope things go ok with DH's job.
Getoff-
Yay on the tooth.
Angel- tooth 8 
we are only on one.
Dancing- My mum too has never understood/choosen to understand BLW either.
Tomlin- Glad to hear your all doing well.
Pamlet- Woohooo!!! on the sleep. How refreshing for you :) Lucy has the odd night where she sleeps through. Ive been trying to work out any correlation but it seems so very random.
I too am enjoying 2 now. Lovely seeing them interact with each other, although DD1 has a hard lesson to learn in sharing!!
Well after a few weeks of being so very close, Lucy is now on the move! God help me now!
Had a fab day today. My SIL visited with my little 4.5 mth old neice. They travelled a fair distance to visit us for the day which was lovely and nice to see the cousins playing together. She was also the very first person ever to visit me and then insist on making me a cuppa!! 
Sleep went wrong last night but both children sick today, DD been sick 10 or 12 times, poor sausage, and then Alex has been sick just before bed time.
hi all
took oscar to first visit to the dentist, and she was a bit , all is well and as it should be, nice to get him use to it, she said. are you taking los to the dentist or will wait till when?
all good and normal at work, starting to become routine now... but always have amussing costumers with silly requests...
oscar is loving the nursery, big smiles for his carer when he arrives at 8 in the morning so can't be too bad...does him good to play with other children and share toys, i guess...
pam don't worry, everything will be back to normal and they will sleep through, they are just little...
pigley wonderful sister to visit you, dd1 will learn to share, she will. you can apply to your mum the confucio proverb me and sil apply to dil:
if you have a problem and you know the solution, you have no problem, just something to do
if you have a problem and it has no solution, why you worry?
good luck everyone!
Hi All! Its very quiet in here! I thought i'd have loads to catch up on cos not been in in a while, glad to see things are plodding along!
Getoffme - love that proverb too!
Pamelat - hope the kids are feeling better now and you're getting back to 'sleepful' nights! Rian still not sleeping through here either, wakes for a bottle anytime between 11 & 4am. Tried upping his calories during the day but he doesn't want to take much more.
Rian doing well here, looks like he may not crawl and just go for standing, not interested in lying on his front and wants on his feet all of the time! I'm with you guys and love spending time with him, he makes me laugh everyday!
DP's sister had a little girl on 1st Feb not seen her yet but we are travelling home next weekend so will see her then. She was forceps delivery at 9lbs 13!
Finally decided about work which has reduced my stress levels! Whats even better is that my manager has agreed leave until after Rian's op so hopefully don't have to worry about work until May woo hoo!! Rian's nursery being fantastic too and keeping our space open - so glad somethings going right!
Health visitor suggesting starting to reduce bottles now - any ideas for snacks guys?
Hope everyone has lovely weekend 
- loving the new smileys!!
Unfortunately no for me tonight and settling for a 
!!
hi den,
i give for snacks: banana pieces, apple puree, breadsticks, grapes, toast, pear, any fruit you like really and occasionally yogurt, being a bit more adventurous following the nursery lead...
hope everyone has a great weekend, i am still confined to my bed, but pain easing now... dh still went to work this morning, so oscar playing in this big rug we have him, with his trillion toys....
HI all, we managing. Alex a joy really, just terrible sleep just taken him to the docs to rule our ear infection as he was up hourly last night shouting. I cant believe he hd those 3 nights sleeping through, feels like never again.
I am hoping once he starts crawling he will sleep more. He is definately getting frustrated by not moving.
We are off to visit my friend and her 8 day old 
, taking both children, she had an emergency c-section and first time mum, trying to breastfeed etc so my 2 better behave?!! We wont stay long
Apart from sleep, everything feels more manageable.
A RL friend with an 11 month old has just announced she is 12 weeks pregnant, she has a 3 year old too and says she is happy but mainly stressed. She has a bump already, am not as jealous as I would have expected
Hello ladies...quick dash through from me.
Wanted to check on carikube- are you ok? has dh heard about his job yet? We're waiting to find out whether dh can be moved back to his old department, as his current contract ends in June...boo. HOpe you're ok.
Den I haven't cut any milk feeds out yet (still 6am, about 10am, about 3pm and bedtime) but just given slightly less milk at each one. Not sure which one to cut next 
but we give breadsticks and rice cakes for snacks. He won't eat banana :(
pam Jude's sleep has improved no end since he's been crawling around. he's slept through (to 5 or 6am) for the last couple of weeks so I'm just hoping it continues! Hope Alex gets on the move soon and tires himself out!
I think Jude has teeth finally coming through! He won't stop licking his bottom gum and I can see a lump...we'll see!
Big waves to everyone and hope you're all doing ok! perpetually are you still out there? Hope the pregnancy is going ok. :)
Den26 - congratulations on your new baby niece, great everything's working out so well for you with work and Rian's op :)
Re dentist - my dentist told me it was a good idea to start taking them young so they get used to it. I book them appointments alongside mine so we go together. Last time was the first time the dentist got a proper look inside DD's mouth but she was as good as gold and didn't seem bothered by it all. Haven't bothered with DS yet since he only just got teeth!
DS has been sleeping so badly, went through a long stage of being up pretty much all night so I was really on my knees :( Started blacking out with exhaustion last week so DH used annual leave to go in late so I could have a lie-in. Took DS to the GP and he's had an ear infection since September (not a really bad one though) so have medicine for that which will hopefully help. His first two teeth have finally put in an appearance so hopefully that will help too.
He's busy getting everywhere and DD is learning to shout 'MINE' a lot . She likes giving him his ear medicine too because she worries about him hurting.
heffa, how sweet she worries about him hurting...!, don't worry about the mine face, when the others start moving they realise they can get to their toys, their attention etc... my nephew (3), tells me it is better to put oscar in his cot to sleep, as we must play now
den, lovely that your niece and sister are ok, congrats!, glad work is understanding, we are all sending good wishes to rian...
i am feeling better now, and back to work tomorrow, just call the boss to let him now, he's happy
now my big moan, and might appreciate some opinions on it.
i went to the hv clinic yesterday, i told her that he had a bit of diarrhea and fever on sunday but he was well now, so she told me not to undress him and better take him again on thursday, said fine, bye, see you thursday, got home and read my red book, says that she could not weight him because he had diarrhea and vomit for 2 days, i write a correction on the book, not the first time, and i am going to refuse to see her and write a letter of complaint to her supervisor, it is not the first mistake, in the other few times i saw her she had:
- tell me off for not weanning at 20 weeks, besides he obviously been ready, wtf?
- tell me off for not buying baby food in supermarket, must find the balance between cook at home from scratch and manufacture food, you can imagine what i told her...
-tell me to cut feeds because oscar is going up the percentiles, changed her mind when i made her measure him, he happens to be upper 75th percentile too...
-refuse to weight him because there aren't enough spaces in the chart...
also usually tells me that i take him too often, every 4-6 weeks, as guidelines, and this time she told me i took a long time because 8 weeks went by, is she trying to just cross me or what?
well, rant over, opinions please, i mean i am going to complain any way, but my feel better if someone agrees with me, besides dh obviously, can't rant to my mum, cos my brother has convinced her we have developing country style nhs with doctors without qualifications or any idea,
Hi All, thanks for advice re snacks.
Hope all ear infections clear soon girlies - i'm getting paranoid about taking Rian out now, don't want him catching anything that might postpone op!!
Pamelat - hope sleepful nights return soon, sounds like you're surrounded by babies too! I have 3 friends with bumps waiting...and i'm v jealous!!
Heffa - sorry to hear about blackouts - sounds like you are exhausted, glad to hear D able to help. Does your HV have family support workers attached to them? We have them and they can be used to give you an hour or two rest or whatever, you should look into it. I've not used one but have been offered for after Rian's op and they are available to be requested whenever.
Getoff - i think i'd feel same as you - how annoying. you need a HV that you can trust and rely on.
I started Rian on follow on milk last friday, he slept right through until 7.55am on sat!!! (with a few returns of the dummy!) He woke for a feed sat & sun but i let him cry and settled him - no bottle needed!! Usually he wouldn't settle until he had a bottle. Last night just faffed with the dummy again but no bottle. Hopefully we have turned a corner!
Hello all!!
Gosh no time to post lately!! So this one is a quick one again sorry!!
Sorry for all of you having bad nights
BRB I know what you mean. I have 23 months between first two, then 2 years 5 months, then 2 years, then biggest gap of 4 years. Small gaps are hard but lovely at the same time!!
Heffa hope the blackouts stop soon. Hope you get some help and are less exhausted.
Getoff you HV sounds a nightmare!!
All going on ok here. Willows hip appointment went ok. Her one hip is a slightly different shape, all the depth etc is great now so no worries. She also started stnding up a bit on monday. She's not crawling as such. She commandos round in circles and rolypolys everywhere. Generally things are going ok. Me and DH are talking more, about things in general and everything thats upsetting us. We haven't argued for a couple of weeks now. I still think about what happened most days, and there are days when I doubt everything, but I am dealing with it I suppose. I don't cry every day now, which is the biggest acheievement for me. I don't think things will ever be back to 'normal' but if we can learn, love, talk and move on, then I think there is some hope. DH certainly seems very remorseful and willing to do anything to make things 'right' so for now, I am going with that. The kids aren't as stressed either now we aren't arguing, and I am looking forward to half term with them. Though today is hard work as I stupidly decided to let them stay up late last night but they were still up at stupid o'clock and I now have 5 tired and grumpy children!! So I have just bathed them all and put the girls sheets in to wash. Just going to get the roast pork and veggies sorted for later when DH gets in from work then we might raid the 'making cupboard' for something good to make and chill with a dvd later.
Anyway I will shut up now!
See you all soon!!
Lots of love x x
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loooooooooooove the name change
angel, good to hear willow is going well and so do you, glad dh and you are working on it, take it easy
not much to report here, my inward growing nail is having treatment and now hurts like hell, got another app tomorrow to try to sort it out, if this works it should be fine within the month,...
oscar has a second tooth, one on the down gum, one on the up, one each side too, so looking funny at the moment, but think the missing two are coming through... and he has taken to wake up in the night, at 3 am, not for a bottle, for a poo , hope it won't last....
Alma- nice new name. My DD is another one who isnt keen on sharing her toys with her little sister. Cue lots of "Its mine Lucy, give it back, thats not good Lucy!" Totally agree with others in saying small age gaps are hard work but worth it seeing them both giggling with each :)
getoffme- re HV. She does sound annoying but she probably doesnt remember what she says to every person from one day to the next cause they see so many people.
Den- Hope the sleeping through has continued! :)
BRB- Glad to hear your all well :)
Angel- Glad the appointment went well. Willow sounds like shes doing just great. :)
Great to hear things are improving with DH too.
Been busy here last week with the decorators in and keeping the kids out of the hallway. Looks fab though! Lucy has developed quite a speedy crawl and has been following her sister around. Also discovered that at 9mths she can master the stairs! Started pulling herself to to standing on everything too!
Both girls are now doing swimming lessons. Lucy is loving it and a natural fish. DD1 is also loving it and having both lessons on a sunday makes it soooo much easier for me as DH is on hand to dress/undress one whilst im swimming with the other. I was attempting do it on my own on a monday which was a complete nightmare and very stressful!
Hope everyones well and those with older kids on Half term next survive! DD1 has no nursery, no monday swimming and no Ballet class next week, so ive been busy trying to find things to do to occupy her!
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