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

[CakeandRoses]

Happy birthday M!

We are hoping that by having a joint christening/birthday people will only feel the need to buy one present, hopefully toys/books/clothes rather than silver tat! My parents are buying him a child's bible, hopefully neither of the godparents will be doing the same (I think if I was a godparent I would buy a child's bible, it sounds like the traditional present to me!).

Happy birthday M!! hope she's enjoying her day!x
Mlic that was so nice what you said about the boys and your dh. made me !

Cakes yeah i know it happens and it doesn't really get to me that much but i just think she really looks like a girl and it's just bloody annoying! do i need to dress her in frills and bows for people to adknowlege that she's a girl?!!! your day sounds like bliss! you're so good to yourself. if i had the day to myself i'd probably just be really lazy and not budge off the couch!
Well E had her injections this morn. She didn't even cry for the first one and she screamed for about 45 seconds for the second one. But she was walking out the door waving and blowing kisses and saying day day to the nurse so i think she was forgiven! She woke from her nap with a but of a temperature but calpol has sorted it.
We got loads of silver stuff like that for E's christening and it's all sitting in her wardrobe! i keep meaning to put up a shelf in her room to put it on but keep forgetting! We didn't get any bibles though! Mostly money for her account which is far better imo.

Happy birthday M.

cake we will be taking B's dummy off her and making her go cold turkey in the next week or so

so pleased M has had a good day trudy. sounds like it was the day you needed too.

that's lovely mlic. made me go all gooey.

kk A and E sound so similar it's weird. A did exactly the same as E at her last jabs. Everyone says A is going to be a real charmer and heartbreaker - i bet people say that about E too.

i liked "you're so good to yourself" It's a skill I've acquired over years.

tsc that's because everyone doesn't want to get in the cross-fire as mlic someone has usually x-posted you saying that anyone whose child still has a dummy or is bf after 5 months is the scourge of mumsnet and deserves all the broken nights and bitten nips that they get

dylthan are you scared about doing it? i can't believe how hardcore i was binning F's at 6m

Yes people say she could work around anyone with her charm and how she's going to be such a funny little character!
I have no intentions of getting rid of the dummy anytime soon I don't think
I don't have a problem with them for sleep or if they're upset and i'm not just
strong enough to put up a fight! I do contemplate it but not just yet.
Off to cook dinner

Hiya ladies

Rileigh is now calling me my full name or nn mummy has been by-passed by the looks of it.

viks we're thinking of getting christmas out of the way first so I can loose more weight. I conceived R using only metformin and weight loss. I had 6 goes of clomid but my pcos is clomid resistant. At the moment the doc has given me metformin for the pcos so will probably just get it increased when we're ttc properly.

cakes* R still has a dummy but hoping to stop it during the day which she's generally fine with unless she sees it or finds one. I'm in no rush to stop it at night to be honest.

Wish people would pay more attention to the lo's intead of automatically calling them he/she. It happened to me at school when I was p5 short hair but wearing a skirt the woman called me son! I was gutted .

Happy birthday M hope your all having a nice day trudy

I saw needle on fb advertising something for the tearoom but it was a while ago. Hope she's ok.

We took D's dummy off him at this age as well. He screamed and didn't really sleep the first night I thought there is no way we can do this and was a complete wreck putting him down for his morning nap but he went down without one peep and that night he was fine. Never needed one again although he would look longingly at babies that had one :o

So this time around I'm not as scared but then D might of just lulled me into a false sense of security and she might scream for days

ignores tsc's post again :o

at R calling you your name stac. F has only done that a couple of times at nearly 3!

sorry i did just snort at you being called a boy whilst wearing a skirt

at mlic. Sorry!

kk and stac like you, i'm not that bothered about babies having them for sleeping and A literally only has hers for sleeping. it stays in her cot the rest of the time so no chance of her grabbing it during the day. the main reason i'm keen to get rid of it now is that i know a few toddlers who really struggled to give it up later and it affected their sleep for months after it was binned. Around 1yo is probably a good time to do it if you're feeling up to it as it'll probably only bother them for a few nights and then they'll be back to how good (or bad) they were sleeping with the dummy.

xpost dylthan pretty much saying the same thing about binning the dummy now!

That scarred me for life cakes . Iswym regarding nighttime dummy I'll maybe take it away once she goes to nursery as I reckon that will help tire her out.

Oh forgot my biggish news, scotts boss wants me to run his website for selling cars just a couple of afternoons work but will be able to do it while R is at nursery. Just hope it takes off as it would mean more work.

Go for it stac its nice to have some work that doesnt involve kids!

I'm so with you about the short hair MLIC and stac. fI still don't understand why my parents did this to me. They claim they thought I looked cute,f even though when I show friends fphotos of me as a kid they all fall about laughing, thinking I looked horrific. Why, why? fI swore never to have short hair again in my life, even though these days with my enormous pregnant boobies, I doubt that anyone would think I'm a boy

We had a lovely day. We planned it to be just the three of us but quite a few others showed up and M was really good and loved the cake. I think we may have created a little cake monster. 1 year of hardly any sugar went out of the window then today

fWe might be paying the price for that tonight though. DP is just in with her and she is laughing and shouting having been asleep for ages before. Very unusual for her to be wide awake once she's gone down. Oh well, it must have been very overwhelming for herf today, all the people and balloons and presentfs and cakes. And her real party is on Saturday

One year ago I've had her ffor seven minutes. So she was just cuddling on my chest. A tiny, tiny thing that made little snuffely noises. There we go, there come the waterworks, not for the first time today

M still has her dummy for naps and night time (or when tfhe evil wasp stung her). I'm being very strict about it but DP sometimes gives it to her when she is whiny and then hides it when I come in f. I don't think that's ffair as this will just confuse her. However, I'm not planning on giving up the sleep time dummy soon. Just have enough on at the moment.

Have a nice evening all.

Definitely cruel parenting mlic and trudy its stereotyping though isn't it? A boy I know had gorgeous long glossy hair he was thought of as a girls or gay but as an adult he still has lovely hair and before his wife no shortage of woman.

I've never even heard of curl/tooth holders and birth certificate holders, let alone been given one. Maybe they're a bit of a UK thing.

I got mistaken for a boy as a kid but I never minded because I was such a tomboy. I always had short hair and loved climbing trees, playing football etc so I thought it was quite cool to be mistaken for a boy.

cake being 40 has made me feel no different, dh was a bit more bothered about it than I was. If I had reached 40 without having kids I would have been devastated so I just think how happy I am to have my two. I didn't meet dh till mid-30s so I was starting to think "Hmm - what if I don't get the chance to have kids". So I'm very happy with where I am at 40 despite having fuck all career

that's a great attitude wss. i really ought to be counting my blessings rather than doing my own head in about turning 40.

what do the other 'slightly older' ones on the thread think about ageing?

i think i'd feel happier if dh was 40 too tho rather than 7 years younger than me

finally making my dinner as dh is out tonight and i got back with the children late.

can anyone recommend a decent monitor? we seem to have crap luck with them:

we have a tomy one which is non-digtal so v noisy with interference

the angelcare - which we still use for A but there's a dodgy connection so the sound keeps going which makes it worse than a normal monitor

and a BT 150 one which everyone but us raves about as it has loads of features except you can't bloody hear the baby over it properly which is surely the fucking point of the thing, not the torch or the music

we use the BT one for F as he can at least reach us by some other method if we can;t hear him over the crappy monitor but we really need to get a new one for A.

any thoughts please?

I've only ever known the Angelcare one and I think it's brilliant. I'm sure you know that but just double checking: if you have a dodgy connection, you can change channels to find a better one. I think ours has 8 diffferent channels, so whenever we get an intereference (not very often) we just switch to another channel. You can also use it as just the sound monitor once you have decided to switch of the breathing monitor which I will not do for another 5 years at least

fAs for the age issue, I sometimes feel down about it (I am 32 btw) but mostly I still think of myself as not yet grown up and able to make decisions, so I can't be that old. DP is 11 years older than me though, so whenever I moan, I just get a dirty look and have to shut up