April 2010 - Growing and Changing Every Day

[sayitwithme]

Starting us a new thread so we don't get cut off.

blardy hell bettymum! bet you're cream crackered! i'm sick of job searching :( had to move from scotland to stinky wolverhampton, and there are just a ridiculous number of people going for every job. and i work in photography and photoshop which only normally have a handful of applicant per job, getting ridiculous now! ah well, keep on keeping on...

today i have been a human climbing frame. sorry, i mean a dribble-soaked, nose being yanked, human climbing frame. oh joy!

Welcome back rumpleteaser and congratulations! It's good to hear from you. Your right about the babies developing at different rates, they are all so different. I always used to worry about it.

I have been busy organising Eilidh's christening this week. Have picked her a gorgeous Sarah Louise dress. She looks like a princess in it I could have cried! I sent out the invites out today and have booked the church and restaurant for afterwards. Just my outfit to get now which will be a nightmare. I am still a size 20 and feel so bad about my size I was actually thinner after having Eilidh than I am now.

I have a girls night out on Saturday which I'm looking forward to. Expressing is a pain though and I have a massive 2 oz so far!

princess hope you are well.

sayitwithme fab news about the tooth! Hope the others come through without any problems. Eilidh's first two weren't too bad...she seemed to be teething for ages but it wasn't too bad, but the third tooth gave her a lot of bother.

porcelina oooh retail therapy would be nice! However, my DH has warned me about shopping...I am not getting any pay and money is tight! So these is a plus side to going back to work after all!

Oops bettymum I didn't see your post...your work sounds tough. Hope you find something soon. My core hours are 8.45-4.45 which isn't too bad but I work in a very unpredictable job so its difficult to balance. I also used to work far longer days, usually ten hours and my work was never done. I used to waken at 4am worrying and not get back to sleep. I need to be strong when I go back.

porcelina where in Scotland were you from? I am from Scotland too!

Hey Porcelina, stop taking my name in vain!

Hi all, and welcome to the newcomers! Congratulations Rumple! Love the name ILCE!

I have been a tad busy lately, what with working full time with two small children. It is not that bad, honest - you get into a routine and make the best of the time you are home.

Billie is fab - 2 bottom teeth, crawling, waving, saying Mama and Dada and Rara (big Sis). She has a horrid cough too, and more teeth are on the way so I am lacking sleep at the moment.

Biggest news is that my promotion is soon to be a demotion due to 'service redesign' God Bless the NHS! And my exhaust fell of yesterday, so need to scrap the old heap as just not worth fixing.

I am having Billie Christened at Easter, a couple of days after her 1st Birthday. She will need a new outfit as DD1 was 'done' at 12 weeks.

Good to be back - I have missed you, especially the joy that is Princess!

I am Scotland (Stirling area), and weigh more than I did when I had Billie! I am still feeding too.

Just thought I'd mention that I'm in Scotland too - Highlands

we were a couple of miles up from gretna, so only over the border, and was only for just over a year. DD was born up there though, which DP was pleased about as he's scottish too but yeah, i'm english really, got the hideous black country accent to prove it!

Oh no..I have just eaten 2 kiwi fruits and my lips are tingly and feel swollen...I feel like I've got a trout pout!!! Maybe I could have made the most of it while it lasted, but I have a patch of excema at the side of my mouth, plus they are chapped, so it's not quite the Angelina feel/look lol
I'm going to look up allergy reactions in a mo..I've never been like this before after kiwi!!!
Jude's two top teeth are now fully through..he has really struggled with them. His gums went so sore and tender, and he would scream if you even touched the gum. He's perfectly fine now tho. He had his before 1 year development check on Tuesday, they were happy with him and he now weighs 21lb something. He dances too, it's so cute. He has just started to whisper the tuhtuh sound...when I heard him do it I remembered that Makenzi used to do teh same. It makes me think back to what she was like as a baby, where now she just seems so grown up. I waited in the car while DP picked her up from nursery the other day, and she walked out holding her little friends hand :)
To all the working mummies..I have the utmost respect for you. The only deadlines and targets I contend with are having enough clothes to last the kids for a week, getting dd ready for nursery on time and making sure meals are done...and if I was on a points system for all that I would be bottom of the table!! My ironing pile is ridiculous!!!! You working mummies have super strength.I'd be a complete pile of mush in the workplace xx
Congratulations rumpleteaser Good luck convincing your new DH. There is a lot of organisation and idea throwing isn't there...DP leaves all ideas to me...but thay are just remaining as ideas too :)
Ilovecreameggs I hate the way I look...it's not my weight, it's my face, and the truth is it holds me back in everyday life (that's why I like coming on here!!)...but I try and remind myself that the people that matter most truly do see past 'flaws' that I see...and they love me because I'm their mummy not cuz I look the 'part'. That doesn't always help me in real life tho!!! I hope you don't feel too hung up about it xxxx
Rumple, Ilovecreameggs, stinky and bettymum...thanks for saying you like reading my posts :) I have a very big coathanger smile right now and I'm feeing quite chuffed ;) I don't get out much hehe

Yep..my lips are definitely swollen..the tingling has stopped now but I think I'll stay away from kiwi for a little while!!
I forgot to say that I had my 12 week scan on Friday :) I had to empty my bladder halfway through the scan though as it was too full!!! I was worried i would wee too much, but I think I did ok They still didn't get a clear picture of the scan though, but I saw my lil baby bouncing away on the screen. It was lovely...for some horrible reason, I was half expecting tehm to tell me something was wrong. I had slight spotting around week 8, but nothing major at all, then I took my lil girl to Hatton during halfterm to see the baby animals...not even thinking about lambing season. Then all through the week I kept telliung myself that I was an absolute idiot for putting number3 at risk. Luckily everything is perfectly fine, I think as a pregnant mummy you just feel the responsibility and can easily over analyse everything we do. So I am very much looking forward to my 20 week scan...and hoping that I will be strong enough not to look at the screen..as I am going to try and keep it a surprise...but I'm not very good at keeping surprises!
I have midwife on 8th, so will be hearing the heartbeat for the first time too. It's no less exciting being number 3 as it was for Makenzi and Jude, I can't wait until I can start to feel the movements and actually 'feel' pregnant...although the the dreaded heartburn has started to creep in on me now x

Ooh exciting news about the scan Princess!!! And re working, quite honestly my deadlines involving large spreadsheets and international phonecalls are getting less and less important, and the deadlines invoving DD's "homework" from nursery drawing a picture of the book she's been reading that week, or getting up every morning and cuddling Alex in his sleeping bag and giving him his milk are getting more and more important. The world would fall apart if it wasn't for mummies (and a few daddies I'm sure) just not my DDDH and their domestic deadlines!
Porecelina I am laughing at your post, we have a gym in our swanky new offices and I was up there on Monday (trying to lose some weight and regain some tummy muscles!), I took off my smart clean trousers in the changing rooms and realised I had baby bogey all over the knee of one leg. DD always used to give me leg cuddles, A is doing the same now which is lovely but I'd failed to notice he'd wiped his nose on me that morning .

I am impressed by those of you who work as well! And I only have the one baby!
princess pineapples do that to me too. Maybe lay off the kiwi's until you're planning a night out and want sexy pouty lips?!
I haven't really shifted any 'baby weight' since giving birth, and since I no longer need to get into wedding dress I have been eating like a pig!
I'm hoping when Valentin starts toddling I'll be running round and lose the weight without even trying!
If not - then back on the Wii Fit!

aw thanks princess sleepy and ilce

congratulations rumple

i too am bigger now than after having Kacie. of course the fact that it is half 7 in the morning and im sat at the computer stuffing pringles cant be helping that! they're just too yummy though, im going to have to stop buying them.

we are three days into sleep training now and Kacie settled after 5 mins last night when i put her in her cot at 7 and didnt wake til 6. yay. hope that carries on now and wasnt just a fluke. the first two days she woke at 10.40 and had to give her a beaker of water then she took a while to settle.
she drinks her milk in a beaker by herself now though which is great, no more washing and sterilising bottles for me.

princess cant believe we're going to have to wait the whole pregnancy to find out what your having im already desperate to know now ha ha.

Kacie will walk about now but we still have to follow her everywhere so we can catch her when she falls.

she's learnt how to brrrrrrrr her bottom lip now if you know what i mean and loves doing it.
she says hiya all the time too.

a top tooth has finally cut through so thats 4 all together now and another two on the way. the first bottom two really bothered her but these last 2 havent seemed to have affected her. although she doesnt like you trying to feel them.

i agree with princess about all you who are working mummies. i dont know how you do it. i am constantly behind with washing, but then the computer and telly are probably at fault for that rather than Kacie ha. oh and this at the weekends!

right, forcing myself to put the lid on the pringles now half the tub have gone and check to see if Ajay is ready for school yet. hope everyone is well.

oh rumple beautiful wedding pic, and Valentin looks gorgeous in his little suit.

Congrats MrsRumple!

Another one here who is heavier now than after I'd had George. I think the breastfeeding lulls me into a false sense if security as initially I could carry on eating whatever I liked & was losing weight. But then as the feeding reduced & especiallt since he started solids, the weight has started to creep on. I've been on a healthy eating diet since Christmas & cut out all the rubbish I was eating (biscuits, choc, crisps) & only occassionally drinking & yet I'm not losing any weight!!!! Been doing more exercise too - Zumba, Wii Fit & a fitness DVD & it doesn't seem to be having any effect! After DS1 the weight fell off & my tummy firmed up a little of it's own accord & then I managed to lose the last half stone just before getting pregnant with George. Maybe it's because I'm a bit older this time around or maybe because it's the second time. I just wish I could get rid of my saggy belly & huge muffin top. Got my brother's wedding in July & really want to be looking good by then so that I can get a nice dress.

Enough about my weight issues!!

George seems to have stopped the teething than goodness. He's back to his happy self & is eating better. Had him weighed yesterday (22lb/10kg). He'd barely put on anything in 5 weeks as his appetite has been so affected with all the teeth coming through (3 in the last 5 weeks & another 2 almost through). Thankfully he's been sleeping through every night despite the teething. So glad we did the sleep training. Well done Nicnac and Kacie!

Better get on with breakfast...

Zeeky You are totally right...in the early days when Eilidh fed all the time I was eating what I wanted, usually junk, and the weight was dropping off. I kept eating rubbish, Eilidh has gradually fed less and less and now I am huge and finding it so hard to stop my poor eating habits. I am so greedy. I love vegetables and salads, its snacking that is the problem for me. I'm hoping that it will be easier once I'm back at work.

princess I can identify with your feelings. My weight has always been an issue and it really affects my confidence. Hope your ok. Scans are fab aren't they! I can't believe that it was Eilidh in the scan pics! Oh and I think kiwi is quite a common allergy, my mil has a reaction to them so I don't give them to Eilidh just in case.

nicnac you made of laugh...pringles for breakfast...I was out of control at Christmas on pringles!

Oh for all the Scottish mum's I am go the west in renfrewshire.

oh well I'll go now...was typing on my phone while feeding Eilidh and she has fallen asleep so will gently put her in her cot and go and see what holly and Phil are up to today!

Mmmmm...I love junky food for brekkie!!! :) My fave is left over chinese/indian/pizza lol I can quite happily walk downstairs, pop the kettle on and demolishe a packet of chocolate biscuits before the kids have even started theirs!! (Cereal tho, not a packet of chocolate biscuits!!)
Nicnac, Jude drinks from a beaker all the time now too...it is great not to have to worry about washing and sterilising numerous bottles isn't it :)
Well done you on the sleep training, and well done Kacie on walking around. You may not have to wait the whole pregnancy.....I may sneak a look, it depends on how strong willed I am on the 26th April lol :)
3 weeks today, and it's my lil man's 1st birthday!!! I can't believe the time, it's gone sooooo quickly When I look back at the very first pic of him, I can't believe it's the same child. Some of them look nothing like him, and some of them I can perfectly remember him at that stage. Aww..if I wasn't already pregnant I think I'd be making myself broody now Aww, I can't wait now til my lil Number3 is born. :)
Off to put my lil cherubs to bed, then I think it's pizza hut for dinner....and tomorrows breakfast!! ;) xx

So it looks like we are going to have a go at sleep training! The last few nights Eilidh has been up twice. Last night she kept crying out then going back to sleep. When I went in to check her she had her eyes closed but was rubbing her face so I think her gums were sore, poor girl.

I was out on Saturday night for a girls night. It was a late one so because of that and Eilidh not sleeping great I am sooo tired today! Luckily we have no plans, just lots of loudly housework and washing!

I bought Eilidh fish fingers yesterday that are free from milk and eggs. She has never had anything like that before and I feel a bit bad for not making my own! Have any of your babies tried anything like that yet?

Re. the beakers, Eilidh is great at drinking water herself from a sippy cup, but if I express milk she still has a bottle but I'll need to have a go at offering milk go a cup if I express.

Hope you all had a fab weekend

Good luck with the sleep training Ilce
Don't feel bad about the fishfingers...otherwise that makes me a terrible mummy!!!! ;) Jude is an absolute monster..he eats EVERYTHING!!!! He has hearty meals...meat, veg, fish etc...but definitely has 'freezer' food too. Even if I 've not made it for him, he finds a way to pinch off his big sister! He was picking up rice crispies this morning and munching on them...and she definitely gives her fair share of food away too lol. The other day she broke a bit of a chicken ball up from the chinese and gave him some of that. I had to gently remind her that she needs to check that Jude can eat things...as well as praise her for sharing so nicely. I would never dare do such a thing as share my chinese food!!

ooo i would never share my chinese either princess

i have just this past few weeks bought fish fingers for Kacie and tried her with them, she really likes them. i had tried her with the birdseye vegetable fingers before that which i had in, which gave me the idea to try fish fingers. they are nice and easy for them to eat. Kacie loves garlic bread too she always steals that off us and wolfs it down.

well the past two nights Kacie has gone down in her own cot without any fuss so fingers crossed thats it now and the sleep training has worked. (sleep training for us was getting her back into her cot in her room after having her in bed with us)

Quick wave to everyone, and confirmation that my two love fish fingers (and baked beans) :).

I'm afraid that when it comes to the evening meals, DS usually gets what DD is having, just blitzed up a bit. So, he has in the past enjoyed fish fingers, beans on toast (yes, blitzed up!!) and sausages with mashed potato and greens. Again, they usually eat very well and I don't see the harm in a little easy food every now and then - both for them and for me!

He's now waving and making better attempts at the clapping! He's also getting quite dextrous and knowledgeable with his toys, pressing buttons when you ask him to, getting the spinning top to spin without any help, holding toy phones up to his ear, knowing which things go down which shutes, etc. He seems to have developed loads in the last few weeks. That might account for our recent disturbed nights...

Oh thats good that I'm not alone with the fish fingers haha! We are trying to give Eilidh what we eat as much as possible but because she can't eat milk or eggs we feel a bit restricted sometimes. There is milk in so many things...cold meats, crisps (and not just cheesy ones!), sausages...loads and loads of things that are not obvious.

Nicnac, great news about Kacie sleeping in her own cot! We haven't done sleep training yet...as soon as I decide to do it, Eilidh's sleep seems to improve! We are still waiting on her second top tooth and its really hurting her

Eilidh is really embracing clapping! We started a new music class on Friday and there was lots of yays and clapping and she did it every time! I was over the moon (sad, I know!) and very proud . Now when I sing clap a' handy she claps and if I say "yay" she claps and tries to say "yay" too! sayitwithme, I feel the same with Eilidh...all of a sudden she can do things and every time she does something unexpected I can't believe it! She gets her dolly if I ask her for it and strokes its head and gives it a kiss. She is doing fab at the cruising too. Its all so exciting watching her progress.

I am still training to become a breastfeeding supporter and really enjoying it still. stinky, are you having an biting issues? We are! Its agony! Mostly when Eilidh is sleepy

Hi ILCE Still feeding, but Billie only bites at the end of a feed, and I can usually see it coming as she wrinkles her little nose first, and whip it out
She will not feed at all from one side now, but the other is still going strong, and seems to fill her up.

Billie is staying up later at night now, but sleeping in later - quite nice as it means I get cuddle time with her when DD1 is asleep. DH is not happy though, as he wants cuddle time too.

Someone has stolen my darling, happy, smiley, contented George & replaced him with his evil twin Egor, who won't nap & screams when put in his cot & gurns at us all day!!

Darned teeth!

stinky eilidh only bites at the end of a feed too! It's not toooo bad at the moment...bearable, and not causing cracking or anything, but also trying to "whip it out" like you when I suspect she is going to start! How are u finding work? I go back in 6 weeks. Have childcare arranged now...grannies 2 days and a childminder one day.

zeeky eilidh's naps are also all over the place. I have given up trying to put her down during the day unless she falls asleep on me. I was stressing out about it to start with. She is teething too its a shame. Can't wait for teething to be over!
We have been giving eilidh ibuprofen or call. I used to try and avoid it.

Eilidh has become a real mummy's girl...even if I give her to her daddy or team she cries to get back to me and cuddles in!