April 2009 Episode 15 Bebe & BB have babies n stuff

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Ta da

I was about to post and say B52's little one had the same but here you are.

BB we will be keeping everything crossed for the best possible outcome. Give the gorgeous little baldy a cuddle from me.

Buggered up the apostrophe. Oh the shame.

Thanks both - b52 that's really reassuring, he did say there was a chance it would heal itself but seemed perplexed that they hadn't identified it at birth which scared me a bit as in my mind that makes it a noticeable enough one iyswim. But then I could be making a mountain out of a molehill and just over analysing every comment x

Baldy is getting lots of cuddles today - in fact all three kids are (well when ds lets me) which technically she doesn't deserve as she kept me up all night!

Ha! I missed off a letter! Double shame x

Yes BB3 don't worry. H had a heart murmur as well which they found at her 6 wk check up and then had an ultrasound scan at the hospital a few weeks later and I was told she was perfectly fine. The murmur may or may not still be there but even if it is the consultant said it was benign. Fingers crossed it's the same for Ayse-Rose.

Hives from top to toe! Any idea what it was?

schultes no idea thought it was the leaves / sap on trampoline but dr doesn't think so as it cones and goes throughout the day he thinks it's something I've ingested. The only thing I've had different was one of those takeaway Indian meals from tesco on monday evening and rash appeared within half an hour but thought that might be too soon for it to show but maybe not! Yes literally from my neck to feet!! It's attractive!!

Dh is coming home tonight, there was a chance he would stay another 10 days but work things changed and he managed to get a flight the same day x I'm not looking forward to the 2am pick up but I am looking forward to a hug and handing him his kids for an hour so I can sleep!

BB3 you can take Piriton/Zirtek while bf.

PooPoo on the Potty!

Well done meg! Think k will be the last April baby out of nappies. We are no where near ready yet x

Thats great for Meg. Bb3 - I think we can use the babies as an excuse (especially you). I think Angus might be ready if I was, but i'm not that keen to add to the chaos at the moment, although given the size of his poo today, maybe it would be in my interests to give it a shot.

I just remember that ds1 was so so easy when he decided that he wanted to be potty trained. Not a single accident (at least for the first several months) - but he was just over three at the time, so I'm slightly tempted to wait till it happens without much effort from me [lazy emoticon].

Dont worry about it BB3 we haven't started with Violet yet so Kara may not be the last as she is a stubborn opinionated little madam so it wont happen until she is good and ready and willing to give it a go, she has already made it clear a potty is not acceptable, it is upstairs to the toilet or nothing at all xXx

conker yes let's blame the babies . I think he's almost ready as he stops and holds his nappy when weeing and comes and leans on you when he wants a poo. But he doesn't say enough to tell us he needs to go so I'll work on that first x

frog mine too he will march you to bathroom make you go to toilet give you the toilet roll and flush the chain but you try get him on there and it's like telling a cow to neigh! He just looks at you as if to say, 'don't be stupid!'. He just chews the potty and throws it in the air!!!

BB3 Orbit isn't ready yet either, and DS1 was over three when he trained so plenty of time for K! No point doing it before they're ready (and girls are often ready before boys for some reason).

Feel for you on the heart murmur - paed in hospital picked up a heart murmur on Orbit which given our previous history scared the living daylights out of me. Bless the cardiac team there, they sent their registrar over and he did a full scan of Orbit's heart, took over an hour (given how tiny the heart is at that age, must have been VERY thorough) and pronounced him totally fit and well. He said a huge percentage of newborns have murmurs and the vast majority are nothing at all to worry about.

I remember the letter they wrote us about Orbit after the scan, it had the immortal line:

"Baby WhatFreshHellIsThis is pink and well perfused with warm extremities."

And he has remained so ever since

Well done Moo on potty!

And Puzzle I am impressed at Hallowe'en creativity - we are watching telly in our pjs......

Hopefully all is well with A-R BB3, I had a heart murmur when was a babes. I'm fine. :) Let's hope it's the same with her. Fingers crossed and lots of love and support for you.

Moo is only potty trained in the house and with no lower clothes on. I wasn't keen on starting but thought we could ease into it all. Moo is very particular abt pressure and 'rightness' so we thought we'd just get her used to the idea. So, A couple of weeks ago we went to a few stores to especially by a potty chair. She did not want to use the potty we had, 'too small beebeeJems!' and the toilet is 'too BIG!' so out we went... she chose it after sitting on a few and we brought it home. We started just having her out of nappies after a bath for a bit. Then slowly increased our time out. Now when she gets up in the morning we take the night time nappy off and she sits around un-nappied until we need to go out. The poo on the potty was a surprise as I've told her a number of times it was ok to go, but she always refused so I always just put a nappy back on her. This time... she went right to the potty chair and went. :) Felt so proud. :) trying to get her used to the knickers now... we'll see how that goes. Otherwise she's going to have to go commando the rest of her life...

Bebe - all that potty sizing, you should change her name to goldilocks . Its great though - hope it continues to go well.

Dh has taken the older two out so ds3 and I are cuddled up on the sofa. Lovely. Really need to clean the house, but a few more minutes will do no harm.

For those with older children, I wondered what you all looked for in a school? The one we are in the catchment area for requires a school bus, but there are others within walking distance that we are thinking of putting a placing request in for, as I'd really rather walk ds1 to school (and therefore have regular contact with them). He starts in Augst so we need to request in January I think.

Just dont really know what to look for in a visit (we have read the inspection reports and they have fairly similar ones).

Sam still in nappies, no chance of him getting out of them yet. I'd forgot about him having an ultrasound on his heart - how could I have forgotten that? It was so major at the time.
With the school thing, DS1 started Reception class 6 weeks ago - we chose between the 2 possible schools but how easy it was to get him there. Not where his friends were going, or by OFSTED reports, or which head we liked the best, but the pracicalities of it all, as we'll be doing that for the next 5 years. It turned out the OFSTED report was satisfactory, he had friends attending too and the Head is get onable with. His teacher is lovely too.

B52s (honestly, how hard a name is that?)

If you can get your DS into a school that is within walking distance, I'd do that. DD1's school is just that little bit too far to walk and I hate having to get in the car twice a day. Plus there is the fight with other parents over the parking spaces on a very narrow road... no fun.

I'd go for walking distance too as long as you like the school enough xx

Oh and conker, I would go and see them all and chances are you'll just know which one you think is right x

Thanks everyone - confirming what I was thinking about distance being important. We will set up some visits in the next month or so.

Hope everyone has had good weekends. X

You know today is one of those days where I realise how much my life has changed. Three years ago clocks going back meant result, extra hour in bed, longer day = more stuff I can get done. This year clocks going back means waking up at an ungodly hour, trying (and failing) to get your non-napping toddler to take a nap, wondering how on earth to fill that extra hour and going to bed at an embarrassingly early hour (15 minutes time if the kids play ball ). Ho hum. Lucky they're worth it hey!!!

I hear ya. I'm turning in shortly. Rock n roll sista.

It's lovely to see so many old friends .

BB if I had a pound for every patient I meet who had a benign heart murmur as a baby I'd be a rich woman. So keeping everything crossed for your beautiful girl.

Schulte sorry to hear about the allergy. It must be incredibly stressful. We visited friends at the weekend whose 2-year old DS has a nasty egg allergy. I blundered in with a box full of cupcakes .

We seem to have potty training mastered after about 3 weeks. We even watched S slide commando-like under his bedroom door stairgate last night to poo in his potty unaided .

The baby is doing great but is so different from her brother. She has pottered along on the 9th centile while he has always been about the 75th. Bicnod seems to be having a busy time of it according to her facebook updates. Teeth at 3 months. 3 months!.

Hope everyone is well xx

Good morning
The girls went trick or treating for the first time yesterday. It was great, so many people got into the spirit and one particular house was a masterclass is theatricality. The owner was sat in the shadows of her garden which had animatronics and smoke machines and scary music blaring out. Wonderful.

We did trick or treating as well. Felix was nervous at first, rejecting the cute spider costume with padded legs in favour for the pumpkin costume with little hat, on grounds of the latter being less scary. At the first few houses he stood cautiously behind my legs and only reluctantly took a tiny sweet from each proffered bowl when coaxed. By the end of the tour he was waiting as short a time as possible before diving into the bowl enthusiastically to grab sweeties along with the big boys. He got the idea.

Last night was also the first night in a big boy bed. Felix was doubtful about this. He kept getting up during story time as if to say, "OK, enough with the messing about, let's get the cot back in here now for the sleeping part of the evening". Once or twice he went in search of the cot and upon finding it, tried to drag it back into his room . However finally I lay down with him for 20 minutes in the big bed to settle him (conversation went like this: "Mummy, you go over your side! You do 'laxing now, go sleep" - sounded just like his father!) and finally was allowed to leave on the pretext that I needed to put my pyjamas on and have a wee. He then nodded off alone. Surprisingly there was no patter of little feet during the night and at 6.30 he called for me, so I went and laid with him again for a bit, which he liked (I got a lot of kisses!), and finally we got up for his morning bottle.

DH thinks I am mean putting him in a big boy bed and announced he wouldn't have done it like that. Well DH was gadding about in London and came home late, so too bad! I am not allowed to stop him using a bottle for the time being, and DH isn't that keen to have another go at toilet training with him either. I think he wants to keep him a baby.

DH has also been indicating he might like another one. He is so not getting any more children out of me.