Crawling, sitting, standing..... any Olympians in the midst? ;)

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Our spanking new thread ladies!

ok ok ok! you all love work- i get it!

well, im just glad its not me. i only left them for a morning the other day while i had my stupid gtt ahlgain and i practically slobbered over them and smothered them with kisses when i got back. i cant bear the thought of leaving them. although i could probably do it for a run, swim or bike ride. suppose thats it- if its somerhing you wsnt to do its different.
well you career women you, this boring increasingly fat sahm needs sleep. ngt. x

me to cinnamon just seen yours banana and dixies. will comment tomorrow. x

Need to do a monster catch up! Very of some of the food talk. Jack still tries to swallow everything whole and so doesn't chew... therefore gagging a lot still but if you try to take fruit away from him the whole street knows it!
He's been a real sweety today. Took his helmet off as we're having it adjusted tomorrow and I'd forgotten a bit what it's like to schnaffle in the back of his neck and cuddle his scrummy head
need more non helmet moments I think.

RE: the egg allergy....... can you believe we are still waiting for Jack to have blood tests???

I would happily be a sahm sassy34274, just meant the I loved my job but having ds1 changed that! Being a Childminder is the next best thing, can't afford not to work and it allows me to be with them. It's very restrictive with time and has meant I've had to miss a lot of ds1's school things and he's only at preschool! I enjoy what I do but I'd like to be just at home with them (and one more but don't tell dh )

ha. i wasnt meaning to start a sahm versus work mum debate, just meant i would hate it, but if you love your job- thats good.

going to my best friends house today. she has 2 dd's age 10 + 7. who chloe loves and has known all her life so she is excited. we live further away now and cos of the babies and my loss of car since i stoppd working we dont see them as much as we did. she is pregnant again after having 2 miscarriges in the last year. she is further along this time though and has had an early scan and seen the heartbeat, so we are more hopeful.

chelle i leave water about in a cup for mine as well.
dixie laughing at your frozen pizza. im such a bad cook that my dp would prefer the frozen pizza. chloe is used to me scaping the burnt patch off her toast most mornings.
beadit i experienced myself how frustrating the nhs is when you need something urgently. hope he gets seen soon.

Sassy I don't like work either, I would much rather be raising my kids at home then being told what to do all day then taking home a paltry sum of money. Saying that I am going to train to be a midwife when Lucy turns 3 but that is more a case of having to work then wanting to work.

I am hung up on salt as well and I never cook with it. I need to learn to cook with some seasoning though so am learning to use herbs instead. Lucy has oatibix bites as a portion only has 0.09 gram of salt in it and she only has 6 little pieces. I buy plain greek yogurt and mix fruit in so that stops some of the sugar.

If you say Jacob is biting through teething then it will be harder for him to stop so stock up on some good teethers that he likes so you can offer them to him to distract him

debs i have loads of teethers, i shove them in his mouth and say here bite this! but he doesnt seem interested. visited my dad yesterday and jacob decided the coasters were appetising! decided to buy him some- see if that works. rolling eyes, spend a fortune on stuff and they like bloody cheap coasters. ha.
my friend has just finished her midwifey course a few days ago. shes wanted to do it for years but shes found it hard. the studying and financially with 2 kids and she has recently spilt with her husband. but shes done it now, so she can breathe a sigh of relief. not sure if she has a job lined up.

debs i have loads of teethers, i shove them in his mouth and say here bite this! but he doesnt seem interested. visited my dad yesterday and jacob decided the coasters were appetising! decided to buy him some- see if that works. rolling eyes, spend a fortune on stuff and they like bloody cheap coasters. ha.
my friend has just finished her midwifey course a few days ago. shes wanted to do it for years but shes found it hard. the studying and financially with 2 kids and she has recently spilt with her husband. but shes done it now, so she can breathe a sigh of relief. not sure if she has a job lined up.

Chelle, Grace has very diluted baby juice as she won't have plain water and i leave it lying around so she can have it whenever she wants. She also does an adorable lip smaking thing when she's thirsty and can't find her cup!

Sassy, i'm really torn about work. I'm not going back to my old job cause my boss is an arse but financially i really do need to work. The thought of leaving Grace makes me feel sick though. She's all about mummy and won't take bottles off anyone other than me. If DP tries and she knows i'm in the house she point blank refuses until i come and give it to her. She is very clingy with me and i know she'll get used to being in nursery but i'm not sure i'd get used to it. Then i have days where i feel like all i do is cook and clean etc and think "i'm 26 what the fuck am i doing with my life this isn't me" if we can afford it i'll probably wait till she's 1 before i get a job but i don't think i could be a sahm forever!

Grace seems to think that 5.30 is an acceptable time to get up. She has always been an early riser (usually 6am) which is fine but 5.30 feels so much earlier than 6. Yesterday she woke up at 4.45!!! I was horrified, brought her into my bed where she messed about till 5.45 then slept till 7.20.

Also very pissed off with my mothercare highchair, i needed something that folded up quite flat as we haven't got much room and i got their jungle friends one which seemed perfect but after only 4 months use the tray will not stay on the frame i just have to balance it on there but grace has figured out that it moves and thinks its hilarious to bang it on the frame rather than eat! I haven't got the reciept so we're going to have to buy a new one!

Finally (this is a loooong post) we are in teething hell!!! I can't figure out which ones are coming through but i think it might be the back ones and she is in so much pain. Dribbling like mad and chewing like a lunatic but she's so grumpy she's driving me insane! I could quite possibly be an alcoholic by the end of the week!

I would write to them newmum001, even without a receipt 4months is not good enough!! Usually the first molars come after the incisors and canines next then 2nd molars so could well be back ones as she's got 8 already! One of my mums said her oldest now 10, had all 20 first teeth by 9 months!!!!!!!

Luke likes to bite but I'm aware of it now so keep my eye on him, his favourite is my upper arm when I'm carrying him. He was chomping his way through my leather jacket yesterday!! Not sure how to stop a baby so little, they don't really understand. I say no and he just smiles at me!

Anyone live near Ilfracombe Devon? I'll be there for a week from Saturday.... just thinking of possible mini meet up if it's on someone's doorstep?
Forgotten how far and wide we're all spread.

argh. fell asleep with babies on couch at 9.30 and ive just had to wake them up. jacob can always be relied on to only have 30-40mins. bloody typical when i have somewhere to go! it was a lovely sleep though. god i love my babies.

Just a quick advice request - what do the rest of you do about mild head bumps? Aphra's so much more mobile now that she does try things that lead to her toppling over and bumping her head on the mat! It's when she's already on the floor, sitting, so it's not from a great height, and it's onto the carpet & her quilt that I put for her to play on, so it's not straight onto a hard surface, but she does make a bit of a thunk. Should I worry? She did it just now and I fed her to comfort her - all fine except that it is also about time for a nap, so after she'd fed for a bit she went to sleep. Keep an eye on her today and make sure she doesn't seem unusually sleepy, or something more than that?

comix Orlaith bangs her head all the time. She's kind of cruising round the furniture now and much prefers to be standing than sitting. The only problem is she thinks she can do more than she can, often evening letting go of things completely, so she's falling over loads. I think she's a bit of a toughy though because she might cry but only for maybe 30 seconds. I don't do anything else for her because she always seems fine afterwards.

sassy I don't want to go back to work, but mostly because I don't like working for DP. I'd probably be ok if I had a different job, but I still wouldn't want to go back yet. I've been doing DP's book-keeping once a month for a year and that's more than enough. With that and my exams and assignments I've spent quite a lot of time away from Orlaith. I don't like doing it but I tell myself that this is important for our future so I can get a better job so it's better in the long run.

I sprained my ankle yesterday. I stepped out the back door with the washing basket forgetting DP's been doing new paving out there and it's all uneven ATM. I couldn't walk for an hour and had to crawl everywhere. I ended up calling my mum to come round (she was luckily at a client's house a mile away) so she called her office to say she wasn't coming back and looked after Orlaith for me. I felt like a child !

We found out yesterday that SIL and her DP are going to "announce" today that they're having IVF (although we all know because SIL couldn't keep her mouth shut!). Apparently SIL's DP had the fertilised eggs implanted yesterday. I'm really excited and I hope it works. I have a theory that they'll have twins. My thinking is that most women who have IVF have fertility problems and they don't, they're just both women. So I'm thinking that having several fertilised eggs implanted means she's more likely to have more than one stick. Am I an idiot?

comix Jack topples all the time but more often than not has his helmet on o it protects him although I think the thud inside it must deafen him sometimes.
If he falls without it (since he's now got a false sense of security with it on) he does cry a bit but I just don't move him suddenly..... cuddles on the floor rather than pick up and let him settle out of it. He's always fine very shortly afterward.
Unless she falls really hard and cries and cries or the opposite and goes really quiet, i'd guess she's fine and it's gonna happen more often than us Mums would like.
You'll know if she's not herself after a nap so if you're worried and you know she's gone down really hard I wouldn't think twice about going to the Dr or a&e but landing from sitting and onto a duvet i'd think is pretty safe.

Does anyone use an aquapod in the bath? My back is slowly breaking at bath times..... what do you all do???

If she's a sleep just blow on her faces ad if she twitches scrunches it up then it's fine. With head injuries you are looking for uneven pupils, sleep they can't be woken from and vomitting more than 3 times. Sounds fine though, have been to a&e twice with ds1 and apart from steri strips his heads been fine. Don't know if you saw my post on Sunday but Luke fell out of his pushchair head first onto concrete, lots of tears, a bump and graze but he's fine.

Ds1 hated the seat thingy for the bath beaditAli so I just have it shallow and Luke lays in it, he used to turnhis head to the side but knows that that means his face goes in the water so stopped doing it. Know he's stable I usually put a flannel on the bottom (don't like bath mats but did have the splats from mothercare with ds1) and sit him on that until it comes to washing his bottom. We are going to ilfracombe tomorrow but only for the day, I think I am furthest south in suffolk or perhaps comixminx not exactly sure of the geography!!

Comix - Oliver has fallen over approx 1 billion times...and thats just today! Like Orlaith, he has absolutely no fear and much prefers standing to sitting and I must say we have had some spectacular tumbles! I try not to worry to much when he does it and I dont go to him immediately, I generally just call "uh-oh! up we get silly!" and if he hasn't started crying by the time I've said that then he is back up doing whatever made him fall in the first place. If he does cry then I just give him a hug and pop him back down ASAP so he doesn't get scared of doing things. I think I 've just resigned myself to the fact that I've got a bruiser and that he will learn, just have to be mindful!

Beadit, we haven't ever used anything like that in the bath. We just lie him down in the big bath initially to wash him, then sit him up and let him play with his bath toys for ten mins. We have a non slip mat thing, which is a good job as he uses the bath handles to try and stand up.....

Saoirse - you never know it could be triplets! Look at Pheobe in Friends....

Oh my god chelle can you imagine!

comix Maia bangs her head all the time, and unfortunatley no nice comfy carpets here. Like Chelle pick her up wipe off the tears and she´s off again. If it is a big bump I put on a cold compress like cinnamon did with Luke to stop any swelling. From experience the bangs and scraps only get worse as the grow and start running/climbing etc, occupational hazard of being a child I think

Beadit we use a non-slip bath mat (poundland cheapy) and works wonders for both Maia and DS. Still have to hold on to her arm as she just lunges forward at the water but she doesn´t slip away from me with the mat there. Also found out she loves the shower, have been showering with her for a while now, but this morning she just keep flinging her head back under the spray and squeling (happily).

Saoirse Hope your ankles feelihng better

sassy Holiday home in Spain!!!!!! I know a really lovely quite coastal area with a small (1) ex pat community . I dont want to go back to work either. My old boss came roiund the other day to say there´d be work if I want from Sept onwards but Im not going to take it. I do two private classes a week (3 hrs) and thats more than enough for me. I love being at home with the kids . Could be STAHM on the beach together!

Thanks everyone for the advice! I figured she'd be fine really, it was just the going to sleep so shortly after that had me slightly worried, but it was clearly just a normal nap and she looks fine now.

Am in the staff room of the nursery now as Aphra's on her second acclimatisation visit! She had a good time here yesterday for half an hour; today it's an hour's visit. I'm sure it'll all be fine, fingers crossed...

Beadit, DH uses the baby bath seat in the baby bath and that works well for him when bathing Aphra - though the seat's only supposed to be up to 6 months! Oh well.

Cinnamon, I'm definitely not as far south as Suffolk - we're in Oxford which is practically the midlands as far as I'm concerned (seeing as I'm originally from near Manchester!).

I knew Oxford was west comixminx but that's as far as it goes

Lots of posts! No juice here either but thats only cos olly seems to like throwing it everywhere & I'm too lazy to clean up. water just dries! cinnamon Im the same as ds1 would never drink. I forget to offer it!

Baths, we don't use anything either! not even a non slip mat! [bad mummy]

more simple things to look for with head injuries in babies are, if they cry straight away and stop pretty easily, don't stop them going to sleep if they want to a lot of babies fall when they're tired. but wake them after an hour. if the rouse easily they're ok! The number of bumps ds1 has, its a wonder he has a brain left (based on the childhood tale that you loose 200 brain cells every time you bump your head!)

Big news here today! I'm an auntie again! My db and sil have had a little girl. She was born at 11.55 last night so on the 31st May. Exactly 9 months younger than Olly. Just over 3 weeks early so officialy prem but 7lb 3oz & fine. No name yet!

congrats to your db and sil banana
that would be great patio unfortunately we have decided to stay away from spain after the way some have been treated over the demolishing of houses built on illegal land cos the local council was taking back handers. its disgraceful. sell yours and come to italy.