May 2010: The little ones may start to crawl, and we're returning business calls!

[rachelfruitloop]

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

Hi everyone,

Loving the nice weather! Really enjoying being out and about with the girls. We had a great time with friends on Monday at the farm and been lots of time in the local park feeding the ducks. DH had yesterday off so we headed to the beach. Brilliant day and DD1 got her first ride on a rollercoaster which she was thrilled by... def an adrenialine junky! The girls have been so cute together lately and its such a pleasure to spend time with them. Spent today in the garden in our new massive paddling pool which is a big hit too... with Lucy especially!

Lucy is shocking us even more with her speech and in the past week or so have had 'Gandad' , 'Nanna' and 'NighNight'

Seeks wow... 1st birthday and christening all in one weekend! What a very busy but Fab weekend
Love the little dress. I just stocked up on lovely little summer dresses for the girls.

Alma- Our 2 love thier little wooden playhouse. Im sure they will have great fun in it :)
Hope they both feel better soon.
We are planning a Gruffalo party for DD1's 3rd birthday. She loves the book and I too was planning on making a Gruffalo cake. Have you seen the Gruffalo website? They have a recipie and fact sheet on how to make a cake : www.gruffalo.com/upload/gruffalo_cake_sheet1.pdf

Lucy is will be having a Number 1 shaped cake for her birthday. Still cant beleive she will be 1 soon! The time is just flying by! I have a big box of 1st birthday themed decorations and partyware that I ordered and have gifts hidden away but still cant seem to get my head around it yet.

Rachel- Great to hear from you. Eric sounds like he's doing great.
Sounds like you have alot to look forward to what with starting work again, holiday etc.

hollyoaks- Hope the CC is going ok and not too stressful for you. Bless those dummy fairies too!

Den - Im another one whos terrible at giving presents early!

Hope everyone is enjoying the Easter break. DH has 5 days off now which is just fab. So nice to have some much needed family time together. [busmile]
xx

Pigley - the Christening is on the same day as her party! It got to the point that it just made sense to have them in one... one cake, one buffet, one invitation, two -dresses-- (you get the picture) I love the sound of the Gruffalo cake though. I hope Darcey gets into that when she's older!

I love that Lucy is so vocal!! It's fantastic!

My mum bought Darcey's Christening gown today. When we tried it on her in the shop I got this funny tingly feeling, I felt all emotional. Mum said that's how she felt when I tried 'the' wedding dress on, which made me feel even more emotional. It's a really plain, quite traditional one, with a little collar - and bonnet!!! I couldn't believe it! It was the last thing I thought I'd choose! But the pretty, frilly ones just didn't look right at all.

And I've decided to get a cake professionally done. I had a friend of a friend do our wedding cake to save some money, and I've never really got over it not being 'perfect'. I know that makes me sound really precious, and I'm embarrassed to feel that way, but I just want to have a stunning cake once. We even saved the top tier of our wedding cake, but I can't bring myself to look at it I was that disappointed. God, how shallow is that?

Alma - 5 days into CC and it took about 10 mins for her to go down tonight. She's a bit hit and miss really, but at least now when she's asleep she stays like it for a lot longer, and needs less fuss to get back to sleep.

Hollyoaks - glad Grace is doing so much better now.

Oh, and I went to the doc about the no periods/might be pg thing. I'm definitely not, but apparently I have some sort of kidney infection. There was a bit of blood, protein and white cells in my sample (twas like being pg again with all the dipsticks he put in there ) so I've got some antibiotics (which are ok with bfing) and have to take another sample in a week or so. I was a bit tbh, I haven't even felt ill. Oh well, I'm sure it will all work out fine.

Very jealous of all the barbies and beach trips But on the plus side we have had a couple of viewings on the flat, for rental, so we've started making a shortlist of places to move to once we've got a tenant for our place. Sad to be leaving Darcey's first home behind, but so excited about being able to have a barbecue!!

Sorry that turned into a spoutathon.

Happy Easter weekend folks - hope your all enjoying yourselves :)

Holly - i know i can't believe that from thinking he had a funny shaped head lead to the later events! You must be relieved too, looking back on it all and how well Grace has done. I was also glad the feeding nightmares have gone!! Glad the dummy fairy was successful!

Alma - good luck with the gruffalo cake! Will check out the site pigley!

Seeks - gown sounds lovely and don't think your being precious about the cake, hope the infection clears soon

Rian got his first settling in day at nursery tomorrow :(

Just popping by to say hello to everyone.
I started a discussion on fb about first birthdays as I rarely get chance to catch up here. Not many takers yet though...
I have got dd a slide for her bday. Having some friends round for lunch one day and then a small tea party next weekend with few friends and family.

Have read the last page only will do some personals when I get chance.
DD2 is doing more and more steps every day. She is very proud of herself and gives herself a clap when she stands for ages on her own!
DD2 only got half a tooth through yet,she seems to be struggling this weekend as she is really grumpy, pulling her ears and generally unhappy.

Her sleep is rubbish - was going to try and be little harsher this holiday but we have all been ill so not top of my list.

Hi to all

Just a quick read to catch up with everyone's news, although I think I keep up with most things on facebook these days! Lovely to hear about everyone's 1st birthday parties/plans and to hear all about our little ones moving from babies to toddlers. I can't believe the past year has gone so quickly!

We are all good here. I go back to work on Monday, and had a trial run today as I am going to work early and DH is going later so he can drop DS off at playgroup and take DD to my Mum's, then I am finishing earlier to pick them up, whilst DH works late. Can't help but thinking DH has got the easiest end of the day! However, have to hand it to him he got DS to playgroup early today (rather than at the last second like me), DD was settled all day with my Mum which is a relief, and when I got home after DS' swimming lesson, the house was clean and tidy and ready for me to do tea. Hope it stays like that, and it was just first day brilliance! Needless to say, when DH came home after I had done tea/bath/bed on my own with two tired littles the house looked like a hurricane had hit it....must try harder to keep my end of the bargain!

Not really looking forward to going back to work, and if I could afford to stay at home then I would do, but we moved house last year on the basis that I would go back to work because we decided that we needed more space and a bigger garden, so I must start to just resign myself to it happening and then enjoy my last few days. Also, if I gave up work my professional qualifications would no longer be valid, and I do want to work once the children are at school and my current career would then be closed off to me, so I will just have to suck it up for now. I am extremely lucky that work have been very flexible with my PT request, and actually having the children looked after by my Mum is the next best thing to doing it myself. In fact, for the kids, being looked after by Grandma is better than Mum because Grandma doesn't do jobs/tidying/go and see friends and do boring chatting! I'll just have to persuade DH that we need another child to complete the family....

Hope everyone is doing well, and thinking of kateyjane x

Tomlin - good luck going back to work, I'm sure it will go great once you get into it.

Hormonalmum - it's DS's first birthday on Saturday. We've all clubbed together and bought him a wooden playhouse that DH is going to build tomorrow afternoon and I've spent the week painting. We're having family all over on his birthday for a possible BBQ lunch. We always do a little day out with them as well just us so we'll be going to Dartmoor Zoo on Sunday because I've been wanting to go there to see it for a while.

Den26 - hope Rian's settling in day at nursery went well :)

Seeksnewname - hope you're getting a bit more sleep now and feeling better.

Pigley - I was just winging it with the cake, although have got a template for the shape. I have a yummy choc fudge cake recipe to use. For DD's 3rd birthday she's requested a shark cake which looks altogether harder, depending on whether I try a 3D one or not.

Everything pretty good here, two lovely long weekends with DH doing things around the area. Next week I get to go and see my friend's lovely new baby - he was born 4 weeks early and we haven't been able to go and see them yet. Looking very forward to a snuggly new baby cuddle! We're then going to Centerparcs with PILs, which should be great although I'm not sure how well it will work being on holiday with them .

Hello to everyone and Happy first birthdays to all those gone and all those coming.

I am going to make more of an effort to post on here, have been keeping up (too much!!) with fb but mumsnet use has slipped.

We're really good. Alex started sleeping though at almost 11 months, 4 weeks ago and consistently sleeps 12-13 hours a night now. We still do a sneaky 10pm mini milk feed as I am so scared he'll wake up otherwise!!

I feel so much happier, I think I always do after the first year (9 months with DD), I dont function well on the lack of sleep/breasfeeding demands of early months etc.

I go back to work in 4 weeks, mixed feelings, mainly negative! We have 2 weeks in Greece before that though

I love how Alex and DD (3.4) now interact, they are best buddies and it makes me want a third . Not sure if we will as really I need to be given a 9 month old baby!!

No walking yet but can stand unsupported for a few seconds (mainly when he forgets to hold on!!) and he is constantly on the go. DD wasnt like this!! Hes in to everthing.

Weight coming off, 7lbs to go but fitting in to some clothes. Its been very difficiult this time, had to start running to shift it.

I am so proud of both of my children at the moment. DD seems to have come out of the worst of her tantrums and Alex, whilst very active/independent, is a happy chap.

How many of 'us' are having another/are pregnant?

I got pregnant with Alex when DD was 18 months, felt a nice gap, scarily thatts not long away!! I can't do that again as work will not be impressed but will have a think around his second birthday .

Best wishes to all of you, I do think of the other little ones a lot. Will properly catch up/read through posts later

Hi everyone, not much new happening here. Just pulling together the last bits for Darcey's Christening/birthday do next week.

We've finally cracked the sleep. It's still reasonably hard to get her off, she doesn't want to go at all! But once she's asleep she's there all night

Also, we've got a tenant for the flat At last! So that means we've been househunting. Bloody annoying though, as the fewandfarbetween good places go, in the short time between booking a viewing and actually getting to see it.

Saw two places today though and I'm so torn. One is a pretty country cottage, but it hasn't got much garden, and the little it has isn't fenced in. But it's the only house in the grounds of a larger house so it's relatively private. Plus it's where the princes stayed when they were training and how amazing would that tale be when I'm old? I lived in the same house as royalty!

But the other one we've seen has a fab garden, massive drive, garage, 3 bedrooms, big downstairs rooms. In fact, it's a perfect house to buy and do up, which we obviously can't do if we're renting. And it's near a good school which will be handy in a few years. I'm a bit sad not to get my 'heart' house, but my head knows that the other house is the only really viable option.

Den - how's Rian doing at nursery now?

Alma - v jealous of your new baby cuddle!

I was feeling all nostalgic and such for this time last year, and I spotted the May 2011 board. For those who remember katnkankles/perpetuallypregnant - she had another little girl. Hope she's doing well with her new bundle

Hello, just spent 15 mins searching our old threads for perpetuallypregnant and due to my poor IT skills (!!) I can't find her. Congrats to her, did she have a May 2010 baby too then? I remember the sad losses early on that people had, would like to know how they are now. Can you search people?

She came onto the thread before this to let us know she was pregnant again, would have been about Sep/Oct time.

If you go to advanced search, you can search by poster.

Hi everybody (c:

I've just popped in quickly to say thank you (c:

Refaella turned one today (c: We have had four days of celebrations - we didn't want her to be overwhelmed by lots of people (and presents ), so split it all up. All culminated in having her birthday today with just her, DH and me. We had a very quiet relaxed day and had her birthday cake today - which was a cheeky monkey courtesy of a well-known store, a pertinant cake seeing as that is what she is called (c:

Refaella is a calm, cheeky, inquisitive, very mobile girl (c: God has indeed blessed us through entrusting her to our care.

I quite often pop in to read the thread but by the time I have read everything it is time for me to sleep to make sure I have enough sleep to function the next day. I would like to say a big thanks to you guys. It has done me no end of good to read your stories and to catch up on what is going on outside of my house!

Ok, time to go - bed calls and I have washing to sort out first, oh the joys!

Wibblela
xxx

Just popping on to say happy 1st birthday to all of our gorgeous May 2010 bundles. :)

Grace is doing well, nearly walking completely independently (when she's brave enough) and becoming more and more intereactive every day. I'm at work on her actual birthday :( so dh is taking the day off to get a small buffet/bbq sorted for a little family tea.

Pamelat - we're undecided on a third, some days it sounds like a great idea and others it seems crazy. Not sure I want to go back to the early stages, but sil pg and I know when lo arrives I'm going to get soooo broody again. Good job we're giving her all of our baby stuff.

wibbela happy birthday to Refaella, it was Alex's too yesterday. We had a party on Saturday (pics on fb) and tried to keep it small but it grew on us a little,thats the problem with 3 year old siblings, they invite their friends!!

Yesterday, Dh took the afternoon off work and we had plans to go to a soft play centre but I had been at one all morning and was played out. DD was in nursery, we were meant to take her out but instead we took Alex shopping, bad parents!! We never get the chance to go, it was very nice, just an hour in town, mainly me returning things!!

We go to Corfu on Friday morning for 2 weeks, very excited. We fly at 650am so check in 450am, which is not so exciting!

After that, I have a week and then return to work, 3 days a week. Am in denial

As of Christmas time, we dont think DH's company (he works for it, not owns it!) will exist so he'll be the one off with them, so I definately have to go back!!

hollyoaks I am exactly the same. My friend is pregnant with her 3rd and I am not too envious yet because her gaps are tiny, 3, 1 and baby coming with youngest being 18 months. I know I need a bit longer this time but you never want too long as you get used to sleep

Hi All!

Happy 1st birthday to all our wee stars! Its lovely reading of all thebirthday celebrations, Rian will be 1 on friday and we're having a wee party for him on saturday so hoping the weather is nice.

So jealous of those of you with holidays lined up, we're not really going anywhere this year, looking forward to a long weekend in a chalet with all of the family in july though.

Pamelat - think we'll start thinking again when Rian around 18months if i can wait that long!!! Well done on the weight loss :)

Seeks - how is the house hunting going?

Back to work going ok although Rian is not taking to nursery very well which makes it very hard to leave him, he'll get there though. We had his 7 week post op check up yesterday - the surgeons are absolutely delighted and he is their star patient this year!! Has anyone been watching the cranio prog on BBC 2? I can't believe our wee boy has been through that!!

Oops meant to say, for those of you interested, we are having a charity gig with 6 local bands playing in our village hall to raise money for the neuro unit at alder hey and ronald macdonald house. Its gonna be on the 30th july. I remember some of u saying you wanted to donate, we're gonna have a raffle so donations or raffle prizes all welcome. Please don't feel you have to though :-) but if u do private message me on facebook or here :-) thanks x

I've got some prizes I can donate - some gift sets of bath smellies, if they're any use? We're clearing out the flat of any extraneous stuff, because guess what...

WE'RE FINALLY MOOOOOOOVVVVIIIIIIIIIINNNNNGGG!!!!!

It was the second house we looked at, the 50's semi avec garden, big drive, plenty of space etc. It's going to take every penny we have for the time being, but it feels so good to finally be on the move! We'll be renting, but it's worth it just to have a garden for Darcey to play in safely.

Den, I haven't been able to watch that programme. It makes me cry every time, and I'm embarrassed to say I'm not even brave enough to watch what those families go through. You are so strong, I'm in awe!

There were loads of teeny babies at the bf support group I go to today. I was so broody it was unreal. But still no AF, so it's got to wait. I'm starting to think it's going to take stopping bf completely before anything happens. And we can't afford another round of ML just yet. I'm probably going to apply for another job before baby #2 which will also push it back. I've seen one that is way better pay for a very similar job to what I'm doing now, but officially a manager role, which I'm not at the moment. Fingers crossed!

Happy birthday to all those already celebrating. Still a week to go here, but it's her Christening/bday party on Sunday so I'm just putting the finishing touches on all those plans!

Haven't been on here for ages, but celebrating DD2's birthday on Saturday made me think that it was about time I posted here. We didn't do anything too energetic for her birthday, just things that we knew she enjoyed. She's still not moving though is showing signs of thinking about skipping the crawling stage and going straight to walking as she loves standing up.

She had her first settling in session at nursery today; she has another 2 to go this week before starting properly next week. I go back to work next Thursday (eek!) and whilst I'm supposed to then be doing 3 days a week, the following week I'll be doing a full five day week as I have to go to Germany for three days. I'm looking forward to is as it will be a good way of getting up to speed on my new role at work but it will be the first time that I will have been away for that long from the girls so I'm a bit nervous too. I had a night away last week so I suppose that was good practice and it all seemed to go well; I'd dropped the final breastfeed a few days previously so that DD2 would settle without me.

Life here is still a bit strange as DH is very down about his impending redundancy. I'm trying to buoy him up and keep him positive but it is very hard. There don't seem to be too many jobs out there that he can apply for and he has just been rejected from one (in New Zealand!) that he had his heart set on. I just hope he finds something soon (especially as although I'm heading back to work, I'm thinking about DC3 more and more at the moment , mainly because AF has just come back so I know we could start trying if we wanted to).

Hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the LOs first birthdays - doesn't time fly?!

Hello everyone. Apologise for not keeping up lately. Its been crazy manic here lately!

Will try and catch up with you all.

Tomlin- Hope the transition back to work goes smoothly for you.

Alma- Hope the holiday with the in-laws wasn't too stressfull! :)

Pamlet- Hope you have a fab holiday. I dont feel brave enough to take both girls on a plane just yet!
another one..ooohhh.. It was just afer DD1 turned 1 that we conceived Lucy. I keep thinking we should be doing the same soon but cant quite make my mind up on that one yet.

Seeks- Hope the christening went well :) Great news on the move! It sounds lovely and im sure Darcey will love the outside space.

Wibblea- Great to hear your all doing well. Do pop in more often :)

Carikube- Fingers crossed your DH finds something soon.

Ive been reading reguarly but what with birthday parties etc the days just fly by!

Happy Birthday to all our georgous little May babies!!
Lucy had a fab birthday. She had a little friends party on the Friday, then a family party on her actual birthday the Sunday then we headed off to Butlins on the Mon- wed then she had her jabs on Thursday and we finished off the week with a trip to Peppa Pig World. Peppa has been a fav of DD1's for a long time but Lucy has stated becoming a fan too and she loved seeing all the characters. Life has been pretty manic the past few weeks!

Lucy has been spoilt rotten with toys! We bought her a smart trike (amoungst a zillion other things! ) which she loves. She had all the family taking it in turns to push her round the garden in it!

She really seems to have changed alot in the past few weeks too. Shes now starting to walk everywhere and improving with that daily. Today Ive caught her starting to climb up on everything and recently she seems to understand to repsond to everything you say and her vocab is growing daily! Its so amazing to watch her grow up.

:)

Happy birthday to all our gorgeous May babies. I can't believe that they have gone from tiny little sleep-breakers to vocal, mobile characters. Well done us! Survived Year 1!

Obviously, I am never here, and so I am sorry for no personals, but I hope all is well with everyone.

We have just completed on our first (tiny) house - picked up the keys today!

Hey seeks, thanks for the offer of the smellies, any donations welcome, not sure if it would cost too much to post them to me though? Hows the moving going?

Carikube - good luck with return to work, hows the settling in at nursery going - rian had his best day ever at nursery on monday, think we're finally getting there! Sorry to hear your DH not having much luck with jobs, i really hope something comes along soon

hello all! just a very quick post...i havent ben on in ages! for all you stil breastfeeding...have your periods returned? i havent had a period since june 2009! so im now 2 years without a period...obviously i was pregnant for 9 months of that. also how long does your baby sleep for and what kind of intervals...we seem to have lost all routine recently and just wanted to know that i dont have the only baby who still wakes up 3-4 times a night.
love to all
xxx

Den, posting won't be a problem (I'll sneak it in the work post). Will PM you for details. I've got three box sets of stuff that I've found while I was packing up the bathroom. A perfume one, a men's shaving type one and a shampoo one.

Lucky - congrats on the house!

Our move out is happening this weekend, but the move in is off for a while. We've got tenants coming in next weekend, but the house we put a deposit in for has fallen through and they've decided to let to someone else. It obviously wasn't meant to be, and I'm sure something better will come up soon. I'm mildly disappointed but not devastated

itshappenedagain - still no period here either. I'm down to pretty much two feeds a day now (am/eve) while I try in vain to get some cow's milk in Darcey. She is terrible at falling asleep, but we've finally cracked the staying asleep part. About a month ago she got to the point of waking up 3/4 times after we'd gone to bed, and being back at work I couldn't cope with being the only one able to get her back off. At the time she was great at going to sleep, but not staying there. Now she's difficult to get off, but sleeps through when she's gone. I know which I prefer! Hope you get sleep sorted soon.

Pigley - Darcey's a bit of a climber this week too! Caught her on top of the box one of her presents came in, a cube that's as tall as her waist god knows how she managed that! And she climbed into the shelf in our tv unit. It was hilarious - she wriggled her way in and turned round and lay down. Pic on fb.

Den, I have things that may be of use, could you mail me your address, maybe on fb?

Sorry I meant to reply before. Just back from 2 weeks in Corfu, lovely holiday. Yep the flight was awful! but otherwise all good.

Alex walking competently now, can do 30 steps (I counted!) before sitting down, but he sort of chooses to sit down and can get up unaided!

I am back at work next week, 3 days a week, feel a bit sick about it. Alex was at a nursery trial yesterday and it was a disaster, hoping for better this afternoon. Hes become a mummys boy, was only interested in daddy until recently!

I change my mind about a 3rd everyday but I think we won't. I am so much happier once they are one and more robust, no feeding etc.

I have moved Alex to 2 bottles of milk a day, one in the morning and one in the evening but have moved to aptamil growing up milk. I did this with DD until she was about 2 (!) but wonder if it really has any value over cows milk?

Will read through/catch up soon x

hi all, i cant believe its been so long since i posted on here! i seem to try to keep up with most peoples news on fb, but obviously we dont all post all our news on there, and some arent on there so i just need to pull myself together.
virginia's birthday was the last of the may babies, so i guess now we are all heading towards if not already toddling. where did that year go???????
and what a year--so much has happened, both good and bad, to so many of us.
i hope this next year brings everyone what they are looking for, and we can all end it with smiley faces
please dont let this out onto fb as my daughters see my fb account and we dont want to tell them until it happens, but DH and I are in agreement about trying for another baby! yippee! just dont know how yet as virginia is still bf-ing (despite this i started AF when she was 3 months) and co-sleeping (which i like but where and when will we DTD?)

stuffthe oh wow, how exciting!! Wont mention on fb.

We talked last night about a 3rd child for an hour or so and was edging on "yes" but then we had the night from hell with DD awake for three hours sobbing/scared and ALex up all night (v unusual nowadays). Anyway, who knows ..

Good luck to you though. My friend got pregnant whilst bf and continued to bf until about 6 months in to her pregnancy