July 2010: the "a ffffew more birthdays, a ffffew more walking but are they all sleeping? Are they ffffeck!" one

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Just to make it clear, I think that it is pure chance that we have a batch of advanced babies on this thread, I don't for one moment think anyone is exaggerating their baby's achievements!

J isn't going to be walking any time soon, he's really not very interested. He can walk holding our hands or pushing a trolley but he doesn't really see the point and only does it with lots of encouragement and because we make a big fuss of him when he does. Ditto standing on his own, which he can do for about 3-4 seconds before collapsing. I would imagine he'll be walking by Christmas but I have no idea when it will be between then and now.

It's odd now that I'm back at work but yet not working on Wednesdays - this is real life as a part time employee. It's so nice to have one clear day in the week to do whatever. Most stuff isn't on for the summer holidays. Today we've been to Sainsbury's and to the sorting office to collect a parcel. J is now napping and when he wakes up we've got a couple of friends coming over to play. I have finally got round to printing a new batch of photos so am putting them in albums. At some point I need to go and drop off the new baby present I bought for a friend who lives locally who had her baby last night - I was meant to be meeting her for coffee today but had a text saying she'd had the baby instead!

Sorted the washing machine - put it on for another spin cycle and it worked after that...

woodlands think there must be something to do with things going wrong in houses at the moment, out upstairs toilet has broken, ive gone to local plumber they are coming later, told me £30-40 to fix I would prefer to pay for it myself rather than have to wait in all day for landlords joker of a plumber, thought I was doing right, dh isnt happy and would prefer me wasting a day than pay out of my pocket (not his) im getting more and more disheartened with this man :(

tsc my nurse said a rash could come out after 10 days but L didnt get it, hope it is mmr rash and not measles.

mlic im sure it will be fine, he is really down on the job at the moment, being away more and more, weve talked, its fine, he said he does want a brother or sister for L and would have 6 kids if its really what I wanted, hmm no!! back to work tomorrow, then got landlord coming to hmm at our toilet before he considers calling a plumber, then im going out for tea with L and my mum!

tsc L got a rash, it looked like measles and we asked someone at the hospital while getting S's heartbeat checked and she said it's quite common. Like I've said before though, L had an awful reaction to the mmr and I'm quite scared about giving S his!

2.5 weeks til DH's course is over, can't fricking wait, I hate this one parent thing.

Yes, J had a rash on and off last week from Tuesday (6 days after MMR) onwards. Seems to be better now. Hope that's all F's is.

Memphis It's hard isn't it at least your dh hasn't said a definate no unlike my dh I have to admit that I have thought of leaving dh over him not wanting any more children but I have now come to terms with the fact that I'll never have another baby but its taken me a while and some days it still hits me hard. In reality though I don't think I could split up our family over my need for another baby.

When one person wants another baby and the other dosn't then one of you has to give in there isn't a happy comprise in between having a baby or not.

I think by the sounds of things your dh is just frightened of the pnd dh would of happily stopped at just having D if I hadn't wanted another due to my pnd. I think its hard for men because everything is so out of their control and they can't understand it or make things better.

Keep talking to your dh and listen to each other. I hope you manage to sort it out and come to a conclusion where everyone is happy. :)

Oops x-post Memphis I'm glad you've sorted things out. x

Had a call from the doctors today B is booked in for her jabs on Tuesday she's having the mmr, pcv and hib vaccine all at the same time it seems like a shit load to be giving a baby all in one go. Did everyone's babies have them all in one go?

I would like to foster but dh has said a big fat no to that to. He has joked about adopting but I think if I talked to him seriously about it he would most probably say no to that to. I have two beautiful children and for the moment I'm actually feeling quite content.

Didn't mean to bring it up again and put a downer on things I just wanted Memphis to know I could understand how she felt. :)

Hold the press! D took 3 steps today! I really thought he wouldnt walk for a long time yet but he really wanted to get this lego car from me so I held it out his reach and not one, not two but THREEEE steps! Im excited

dylthan that was nice of you to share that with me, has made me feel better if he went back on agreeing with me, I understand my pnd was bad now im out of that cloud I cant believe I felt so low I wanted to be dead, im going to make the next year with L extra special as I feel we have both missed out by me having pnd, DH said he is just worried that our relationship couldnt survive another bout of pnd, oh and L had 3 injections at once 2 in one leg 1 in the other.
dh thats great news! there will be no stopping him now!
Ive just had a lovely bath, L only had half an ounce of milk before he zonked out the weekend teething hell must have really taken it out of him, think I need to get him some new bottles if anyone can suggest any, he is pushing the teat out of the bottle and pouring the milk over his cot, hope he doesnt do it tonight ive taken the waterproof sheet off to clean his nap milk off of it!

argh tsc, that doesn't sound good! I believe the post-MMR rash can present just like measles, fingers crossed it's just that.

Oh man tsc that sucks shit in a big way. Poor F and poor you! Lets hope hes getting all this shiteness out of the way and he will be the healthiest toddler there is!
Boring push chair question........cake mylife and chu why didnt any of u go for a tandem double? I liked the idea of being able to turn it into a single push chair when D is capable of walking quite a long way but the lady suggested that by that time i may not want such a big thing to push around. mylife Im going to sell the icandy cos i think its a rip off to turn it in to a double, u have to but a new carry cot and obviously an extra seat etc, i can sell it for £300 odd and buy something else almost outright. I have loved it but the fact that u cant even fix a bugy board onto it is stupid.

We already had the city mini single so didn't want to sell that and pay out for another (the convertible ones are so expensive!), and we either walk a short distance so L walks the whole way or 40 mins where she'll need the buggy at some point so having the double and the single is fine for us. I also didn't like the Phil&Ted because I saw one toddler with his hand resting on both wheels as he was going along thinking of the poo etc they'd pick up... and with a side by side they can both see what's going on rather than staring at their sibling's arse. When both were tiny I carried them because I don't really like my newborns in any pushchair tbh, I think they need to be carried and cuddled [soft emoticon]

dh that's great, once they realise they can walk it doesn't take them long before they're off!

tsc good thing you got a doctor to see him! poor Fongles, he gets everything doesn't he.

memphis I know you said you've sorted it but for me if DH had said he didn't want more than one I wouldn't have left him over it but would've ended up having another one anyway, not tricking him into it but he'd give in eventually. It's something we discussed very early on and he wanted 3, I wanted 6 but he was ready to have more depending on how things went. Now I'm thinking of stopping at 3 and he's trying to convince me to have 4...

Morning all

Sorry I haven't been about, DS started high school yesterday so been doing things with him and been shopping . He says its good but primary school was better, not surprising.
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memphis dp and I were quite similar to you and dh in that my dp didn't want anymore than his ds (although excepted my ds without question) and I told him early on that I wanted another child and if he didn't there was no point going on. He felt his feelings for me changed how he felt regarding having more. It ended up he talked me into having dd as I was petrified of getting pnd again. I know this is a bit late just thought I'd share it can work out.

I agree about the phil and ted chul I saw a toddler getting their fingers jammed in it. Are you eating yet?

tsc how did things go with F?

mlic video is so sweet.

trudy have you spoke to the doc about M?
woods I was getting a bit worried about R's development because all the lo's on here are so quick but they do things in their own time. My friends dd is 2mths younger than R and she keeps trying to compare them both its getting to the stage I'm avoiding seeing her.

How's everyone today? What you up to? I'm going to softplay.

Oh and I'd be interested in memphis's question about bottles that don't leak, we're still using dr browns and her cots been soaking a few times.

Quick nappy question. I bought pampers active fit yesterday put one on for bed and she was sodden, my friend says I should complain to pampers, would you? Also is everyone still using asda's own?

stac Ive never found that active fit nappies leak, in fact I find them the best so yes I would complain. The simply dry leak sometimes if hes had it on all day. Ive never used Asda's own, should give them a try.