April 2009 Episode 15 Bebe & BB have babies n stuff

[PuzzleRocks]

Ta da

Great story BB. I can remember thinking how strange it must have been for DH to come and meet Holly, being that he wasn't at the birth, so arriving to meet two new daughters must have been quite something.
DH and I were both cooing over the girls last night, they look so adorable snuggled up together. You have a very beautiful family.

A LITTLE BOUNCE ON THE TRAMPOLINE?????

YOU WERE EXPECTING TWINS, WOMAN!

BB never ceases to amaze me.

Wow BB. if I was your anaesthetist I would have shit myself. And you make it sound like another day in the office. You are amazing . Enjoy your gorgeous family xx

BB, that is some story... you never cease to amaze me.

Just dashing in to say encouragingly to anyone potty training that, after his inauspicious start, A has really got it sussed now.
He goes off to the toilet all by himself, does his business and then calls me, "Mummy, me fais poo/pee in toilet!!", before saying, "Bravo, Aless, good boy, bye bye poo/pee" and flushing. He is so proud of himself, it's great. And he seems to have inherited a guid, Scots, pint-drinker's bladder, as he can go for ages w/o peeing. (TMI, sorry...!! CM mentioned his, erm, capacity today as she was v impressed.) Very few accidents indeed, even when visiting snooty French museums, which we rashly did yesterday.

Just goes to show, no point doing it till they're ready.

Ooh pretty

Pretty indeed. I am very jealous, Auld. I have put Felix back in pull ups. He will perform every time I put him on the potty and even uses the loo without a special toddler seat on it, but he can't take himself off to the loo by himself yet.

Ah Boff, it was a relatively easy bounce. We have been bouncing daily as DS adores it and won't let me not go on it but I was feeling tired so we only had a little one!

Haha Zulu, I think he wasn't expecting me to be quite so forthright in my desire not to have a general but i genuinely couldn't imagine not being awake when the babies arrived. The surgical team were amazing, considering how worried they were about the need for transfusions etc, they were in and out within an hour.

Auld, how are things going?

Puzz, I know bless him, I wouldn't tell him what we had until he got there so he as just so shocked.

Hope everyone is ok - we are all doing really well - tired but not too bad. Girls are above their birth weight so all discharged from mw team. Sorry to post and run, being pulled away from the computer by DS!!

Where the hell did I put my fattened calf?

I ate it already.

Good lord. I've seen it all now.

Helloooooooo!
I think of you every time I take drugs, but in a good way

Well, hello!!
I think of you every time I see squidgy French marshmallows. That sugary flavour shall now and forever be tinged with a slightly veal-y hint. Odd combo.

How are you?

BB, we had a calm, constructive conversation last weekend and things are improving. I am cautiously optimistic not quite as close as I was to legging it out the door with a Thelma and Louise style headscarf on my head in order drive through Paris in a sports car with the warm wind in my hair.

Hellooo!

Boff, I think of you every time....well, every time you pop up in my RSS feed! I'm working on my austerity, though I lack willpower. I liked your name change. He was Born to Rune (or was that The Dean?).

Auld, I think of you every time I see a Tunnock's Tea Cake. Or a Tunnock's Caramel Wafer. Or every time I talk to anyone about fanjo physio (just yesterday, for example)!

I have an eye that looks like chopped liver and a chest that appears to smoke 60 a day, but apart from that I am very well. I think I'm starting an MSc in just over a week .

So, how many additional babies have there been that I haven't detected through FB? I seem to recall Swali was pregnant again, but that was probably years ago now.

I want to be able to catch up with you all, but I don't ever seem to have the time (or energy)

If anyone knows of some really great bf links abt oversupply (already googled and read the obvious) and reflux please FB me....Gwen while she is eating and putting on weight has problems with the feeds and has only green poos now and is v v fussy. Ideas and thoughts also appreciated (the crying screams are getting to me a bit) but I'm not sure when I'm going to be able to be able to check back here.

Good to see you again Gui
Boff hope you're well.

Thinking of all the other babies and hope the mums and babes are doing well.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Express some of the foremilk and freeze it, and put her on a bit later on in the feed so she gets the richer stuff. That might help.

Morning all - tis babies (although my new name is hardly difficult to work out BUT it is short and very easy to type when trying to log in with one hand!)

Gui hello! Good luck with the Msc. How is Hugo?

Auld that sounds really positive - although I did have a very funny image of you legging it out the door in your headscarf and shades! Fingers crossed it continues to go well!

bebe it's a tough one - what has the midwife / HV said about it? I know the colour of their poo is one of their obsessions in the early days so does she have any advice to help you get more milk into G so it goes through more effectively and reaches that lovely pickled yellow colour? I think, if it were me, I would express one bottle and feed G that once a day so I could determine how much she is / isn't taking and it would also help relieve some of the pressure of oversupply.

Hope everyone is enjoying the sunshine. We have nutts and the girls over today for trampolining and picnics outside and then off to a work BBQ thing this evening. Ede decided to be a little madam last night and refuse to sleep from about 3am, then after finally going off on DH about 5, K decided 5.30 was wake up time. [falling asleep as I type emoticon!] YAWN!!!

Ooh enjoy your bbq. We are waiting for DH to come home after a week away. Has anyone else been watching Planet Dinosaur? I have recorded a few and the girls are watching it now with their eyes popping out.

My lot are watching Dr Who. There seems to be a extra child in there who also seems to be awaiting Wiener Schnitzel. Busy and hot here.

Hot here too. Has been 29° for about four months now. Gorgeous dawns and sunsets recently. Tractors taking grapes to the winery all day long, much to A's delight when they go by.

Enjoy the BBQ, the schnitzel, and the return of Mr Puzzle (Mr Rocks sounds somehow improper ).

Bebe, I have no real advice, but hope you find a solution that works soon.

I have a really dull and wanky article to translate, which will hopefully pay for me to buy some nice new winter boots, but I think I'll drink wine and watch DVDs of Desperate Housewives instead. I have decided after my (ungramamtical, I note) refs to headscarves and Lucy Jordan that I need to watch Thelma & Louise and relive my youth. £2.99 on amazon: would be rude not to, really.

I am planning a trip to London for Nov. Probably the week beginning the 14th. Anyone fancy a drink/meal out? I think Boff is game...

Yay auld, I'm in. X

I'm in too.

Auld - he once earned the nickname Machine. I won't explain why.

Was 31C here yesterday, 27C today. I was at the market yesterday buying huge figs and sun-ripened tomatoes and so on, and for a moment I wondered if I had had a Dr Who moment and ended up being transported to Auld's neck of the woods, it felt so like the South of France. Today we harvested grapes at the cottage, and I picked luscious blackberries and loads of pears. I shall be busy jamming and bottling tomorrow, I think. In fact I feel an austerity blog post coming on.

Here too, I was wearing a sundress more suited to a 10 year old. It's been years since I flashed so much flesh.

15 degrees and horizontal rain here. I had on a pair of very fetching waterproof trousers .