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mixedmamameansbusiness · 03/03/2011 12:59

It was getting desperate and since MrsMCJnr suggestion came in last and I was being lazy I just went for that - hope that is ok.

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madmouse · 16/04/2011 16:33

JKS don't wory big news like that is yours to announce and no-one elses. Post when you're ready or not at all if it so suits.

JustKeepSwimming · 16/04/2011 16:59

Well DH is i/c ringing grandparents when baby finally arrives.

But I meant it I said on here, ooh think things are starting.

BTW internet back up, yey!

madmouse · 16/04/2011 17:29

JKS I must say that for me your contractions starting counts as big news too Grin - I'm so wanting you to have the hbac that I'm nervous on your behalf of you going overdue Blush

latrucha · 16/04/2011 18:35

shivers dwon my spine. So exciting. Hope this is it for you JKS. Smile

madmouse · 16/04/2011 19:01

LaTrucha I don't think JKS meant that things have actually started?

latrucha · 16/04/2011 19:28

(withdraws shivers)

JustKeepSwimming · 16/04/2011 19:31

Haha you lot - you're making me laugh at least.

My fault - a typo earlier:

if i post on here that things have started, sorry to get hopes up!!

Decided that this one doesn't want to share the number 16 - T's birthday - so may come tomorrow instead!

madmouse · 16/04/2011 19:33

Hey JKS you have a fanclub support network - be at least a bit grateful will ya Wink

JustKeepSwimming · 18/04/2011 17:32

Still no news here

Off for a waddle round the block in the sunshine in the vain hope it does something...

AngeChica · 18/04/2011 22:11

JKS saga is making me smile, as is mixedmama - E has such a lovely mop of hair :). And crikey a bouncy castle at a wake Shock :) !

Spent a slightly harrowing yet lovely week with my folks last week. I have friends in cambridge putting me & mum up next week while dad has his op ... unfortunately this means leaving A for a couple of days again and he really is not my friend after leaving him for a week already. Bless my DH he did a sterling job at single dad-dom and DS has gone v daddy-centric as a result. All being well we will still be able to go camping for a couple of days as planned in the Lakes at end of school hols (which are later than down South), Dad still wants us to go.

Realistically I fear the docs verdict after the op / biopsy so I need to be around to support my mum. I'm not sleeping :(.

madmouse · 19/04/2011 08:30

big hug Ange - pray the result will be better than you fear xx

JustKeepSwimming · 19/04/2011 09:03

Ditto from me Ange.

And no, no baby news...40+2 & counting...

madmouse · 19/04/2011 11:34

Oh JKS can't believe you're overdue now - I thought you were about 39 w! Hurry baby - it's nice out here!!

mixedmamameansbusiness · 21/04/2011 09:09

Ange - thinking of you all.

Madmouse - been meaning to ask. I have no real idea how the Church works so was just wondering why you need to be confirmed? Are you not already confirmed as a Christian and is there a difference between being confirmed CofE and anything else, are you not confirmed in the Dutch Church and is that different? Sorry I sound so ignorant.

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madmouse · 21/04/2011 10:10

Hi Mixedmama I do not need to be confirmed - no one has told me too and I'm perfectly allowed to take communion etc.

DH had to be re-confirmed before he could be ordained as the law for priests states that you must be confirmed through the laying on of hands through a bishop, but that's not such a problem for ordinary lay people like me.

I feel that I want to be confirmed because I was confirmed too soon after becoming a Christian and in a church where the Holy Spirit was hardly acknowledged - plus I've been through rather a lot in the last few years and came very close to losing my faith (where was God when I was 7, why did He let Nathan get so ill etc) - I resolved those questions and decided to move forward with God and my faith is now stronger than ever and that is what I want to mark with standing up and re-confirming my faith in front of a congregation, family and friends.

Does that make any sense?

madmouse · 21/04/2011 10:13

oops missing some essential info there - dh and I were confirmed together in the Dutch Reformed tradition (one of the many many many dutch protestant denominations...) where confirmation means standing up in front of the congregation and reciting the creed confirming your faith. Very different from the CofE

mixedmamameansbusiness · 21/04/2011 11:02

Ahhh I see. I hope you didnt mind me asking I just had no idea really and wanted to understand. Thanks for taking the time to explain.

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madmouse · 21/04/2011 11:58

course I don't mind Smile

Anyone else in awe of JKS having a nearly 10lb baby at home?

More pics soon please JKS - well ok get yourself sorted out first - hope you have been stitched by now xx

mixedmamameansbusiness · 21/04/2011 12:52

I know I thought the same thing MM.

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latrucha · 22/04/2011 08:36

Congratulations to JKS and baby MAry. Hope you're home soon. How are the boys?

Been offline for a while. Just snatching a moment.

JustKeepSwimming · 22/04/2011 08:54

Hi & thanks :)

Tried to put a pic on here but seems tricky from a phone.

Have kind of kept the hosp stuff of FB as nit sure how to phrase the whole tear/stitches thing to wider circle offriends. So all pics since are obv hosp ones.

Boys are fine, Kirsty (nanny) looked after them first then pil came up. So T is being spoiled lol! (grandma never says no!)

Hoping to get home today, basically depends on me going to the toilet- not something I'm eagerly anticipating...

madmouse · 24/04/2011 08:47

Happy Easter everyone xx

How are you all? LaTrucha?

JustKeepSwimming · 24/04/2011 15:58

Happy Easter from me too :)

All feeling civilised here, had a shower & a nap, M having a nap too- seems I manage lovely long ones during the day but up every hour or less at night, hmm.

latrucha · 25/04/2011 21:04

I'm fine. We just went to visit my step mother which felt liek an important time. Visited both my parents graves for the first time and I feel like I've got something off my chest

We have been enjoying the sunshine. I can't remember an Easter so warm. Has it been the same with you? Sabela is delighted that she can, 'wear my legs' (as she calls not wearing tights). Daniel simply marches off across the beach by himself. I hope I'm wrong, but I can't imagine him beign a homebody. He doesn't really march, although almost (he climbed the stairs today) but he is such a determined thing that he looks like he is.

Sabela sings, mainly in Welsh, most of the time unless she is chanting the theme to Balamory, which she does in vedic style to relax herself, often very loudly. She does interrupt herself at times to comment on the facts of her life, like, 'I'm wearing a beautiful hat.' Not said to anyone other than herself really.

I got so sick of toys like the shop till we have that I have put them all in the loft. I used to sit there telling her to play with them, she wouldn't want to, I wouldn't want to and they made us both very miserable (Danny liked them) so I put them upstairs and now we play football in the front room and roll about. Much better.

Sabela starts a new nursery next week. She loved her old one but we can't get free time there and we can at another. She's very excited but hasn't realised it means no more old one. I smell trouble ahead and I'm heartbroken in anticipation. I'm nto makiung anything of it in the hopes it will all blow away without a whisper. Some chance!

We had roast beef today. Sabela liked it, 'all day long,' she said.

That's us.

How are you all?

simpson · 27/04/2011 21:43

bit of advice needed....

really struggling with M atm Sad

She lies on the floor screaming over every little thing, which she has been doing since she was a yr old so its getting a bit tiresome now

We were waiting in queue today in the bank to pay in a cheque and M was in buggy and she just leaned forward and slapped the lady in front of us on the leg for no reason Blush

Mornings seem to be bad atm with her screaming I have used wrong plate,cup etc and she takes sooo long to eat breakfast that we are running late. J has never been late for school (they get housepoints each wk for being on time, so don't want him to lose out because of her)

As soon as she sits down to eat a meal she will take one bite then say she needs a wee so she has to go upstairs to loo (I am not allowed to help her) which can take 10mins as she faffs around then she comes back down eats another bite and says she needs another wee

If I don't let her go to loo or say she has to wait till she has finished she screams then ends up a sobbing mess on naughty step which leaves me & her frazzled

TBH its really starting to affect our relationship Sad as everything is confrontation Sad

My mum has suggested a reward chart for good behaviour (had long chat with her tonight) The thing is she behaves really well for everyone else (playgroup, nursery, my mum when I was in Italy) just not me Sad