August 2005 babies enter a new year!

[Miaou]

A new thread for the new year!

Here is a link to the old one.

thanks pookey i got the application today, will get it done over the weekend and let nature take its course!!! do you have a service centre for your council???

Not sure if it is a service centre but we have a big reception that deals with everything for the borough, so if anybody wants to discuss something face to face rather than on the phone they would speak to someone (basically an administrator/receptionist) at the 'contact centre' - the person doesn't really work in say a social services or housing team but they have basic information on various services that they relay. Not entirely sure how it works because this is a new thing that has been setup since I was on maternity leave. What does the job you are applying for involve? Good luck with the application.

it sounds quite similar though its a call centre that takes all the service point phone calls to leave the service point free for face to face. Will be calls on C/tax,housing,benefits,applications for blue badges, planning appications, arranging bulky uplifts blah blah. think it could be ok and when i phoned to enquire there were quite interested as i have benefits/council tax background which is also on a different system to what they use so no one really has a clue how to use it. I have worked in a call centre before so have that also, wait and see im just nervous cause know if apply and dont get it life in other job will be made hell. Its weird cause when i had DS i stopped work in call centre and when he was 7moths old i got this job here i go again!!

Does sound like a tricky situation, but if they told you about the job surely they can't hold it against you for applying? If you live in a quiet area it would probably be a nice job.

well spoke to the boss and as im quite out right i asked him what was the score did he tell me to be nice he was thinking of me? or did he have to tell me or was it a case of get rid!!! i know him well and he is a friend of my mums so can get away with it he said he was thinking of me and he has to let everyone know anyway, i have applied spend all day inbetween things filling out the form, i libe in highland so its not too bad probably the biggest but quietest you can get, a friend of mine who i worked with before works there and that would be nice she is also going to help prep me for interview if i get one that is, fingers crossed!!!

Hi all, DS2 had has 7 month check and came through it fine, he's average or above for everything, especially his height and weight!! He's still on the 98th centile for his weight, but he's also on the the 91st for his height, so he isn't fat, just big all over. He had trouble folowing things to the floor as he was too busy smiling at the health visitor, who thought he was gorgeous and wanted to take him home, She's right of course he is gorgeous

I'm glad that your night out went well queenrollo, hope that you feel better next time, if I recall it does get easier each time. The first time I left ds1 was to go to the bank and I ran there and back and was gone all of 15 minutes

DS2 has a nap morning and afternoon most days,but if he misses the morning he has longer in the afternoon, he also has black out curtains as did ds1 and he has no trouble sleeping, I could march a brass band through his room and he wouldn't wake.

Good luck with the job Josey, sounds like it will be better for you if you can get it.

Hi all and welcome to Champagneandnapies - apologies inadvance if any of this post is a)poorly spelt and b) doesn't make a lot of sense, as I should really be in bed but grabbing a quick 5 min on here over my final cuppa.

DD will be 6 months old on tuesday. This weekend we've started on solids and moved her into her own room. Hadn't intended for her to be in with us quite so long but with the move, then visitors and then not being well it all got delayed. We're following Annabell Karmal's book - really just coz it looked resonably straight fwd on a meal planner front and it's got lots of good puree ideas. I was just going to use the recipes but the planners fit into dd's feeding pattern pretty well and as this is the first time for us it's reassuring to have something concrete to follow. Dd is loving the food thing so far, we've just had baby rice and carrot so far but both have been hits - she's always loved her grub!

We're now going to be in Dumfries for the year instead of 6 months due to a shuffle of jobs etc - bit of a shock and a few tears initially but getting used to the idea. have found a nice mum and tots group here and starting to feel more settled. Been fairly under the weather, had a nasty bout of mastitus which didn't clear with one lot of anti-b's so needed a second lot and now thanks to being on anti-b's for over a fortnight I've got thrush on my nipples so hoping to see GP tomorrow to get treatment for that - all in all as much as I love bf it's not been much fun recently. All three of us have got colds just now so feeling sorry for ourselves .

We had over a foot of snow fall overnight here so were stuck in today - would have needed to dig the car out to go anywhere and the roads were very slippy and horrible. We did however have a lovely cosey morning watching a dvd in bed along with breakfast and then this afternoon introduced dd to the joys of snowman building in the back garden - ours is over 6' tall - dd got a snow shower when dh tried taking branches off a bush for arms. Got some great pics and captured some of it on camcorder - we're putting together a dvd of dd's first year - hoping to sit and look back on things on her first birthday and will be nice to give to her in the future.

Miaou, glad that things are coming together for the playgorup, sounds like a lot of hard work.

Hope everyone's wee ones are feeling brighter and that the next wee while is bug free all round.

Meant to add my tuppence on the toy front too, favs here at the moment:
Fisher price peek-a-blocks
Door bouncer
Fisherprice stacking rings with star top - plays tunes and makes sounds when rings stacked.
Waterfilled teethers straight from the fridge
Small soft toy giraffe with bell inside - generally gets sucked and chewed.
Wind up frog and ruber ducks (in the bath)

Argh, just been putting together a booklet of nursery rhymes (I'm the only person in the mums and tots group who is not a first-time mum, so I'm the only one that knows them all!) - and I can't get the pages to print in the right order! I'm going to leave it and do it in the morning.

I am on duty to set up tomorrow and provide the activity for the children - me and my friend are going to tell Goldilocks and the three bears with props! Then on Tuesday we are doing a sponsored toddle/prampush to raise money for toys and equipment - we reckon we will get over £300! Not bad for such a tiny place. We had a committee meeting on Friday night at the pub and had such fun that we decided we need a meeting every week!

Twiga, glad you are settling in well in Dumfries, and good luck josey on the job front. Hello to everyone!

Hello all. Hopefully we've turned the corner of DS2's sleep, although it's two steps forward, one step back at the moment. We've cut out the second nightly bottle, which really wasn't needed and last night was his best sleep to date - he woke up 12.30am for a bottle and then slept to 5am. I could do without the early starts, but then DS1 wakes up at 6.15am anyway. Argh, I've just dropped my bagel and have cream cheese on the keyboard - 5 minutes ago I broke a glass in the kitchen, so am obviously having a clumsy day. Apart from that I've started the seach for a nanny in earnest, although work still hasn't confirmed whether I can have Mondays off. Hope everyone else is well.

[whispers] That's brilliant Azure, long may it continue and improve

I think that my baby might be some kind of giant, last night I put him to bed in 12-18 month PJ's. Ds1 wore them on Christmas day when he was 17 months old!!! I can't belive how big he is, he isn't fat or anything, he's all in proportion, he's just big all over. I think he might be considering a bit of crawling soon. He can push himself backwards and in the last few days he has been getting himself up on his knees, but then can't hold himslef there. DS1 started to crawl on Easter Sunday, so maybe he will be crawling themm too. Ds1 was really funny, he'd get upon his hands and knees and then rock backwards and forwards like he was trying to get up enough momentum to get himslef going.

Congratulations Twiga on making it to 6 months, Hope that you feel better soon.

Quick hi all. Still selling things like mad on e-bay, trying to milk it for all it is worth. So far made about $800, but my supplies are quickly running out.

Caitlin got her 1st tooth (she cut it several months ago actually, but then the gum got all swollen around it and covered it back up) finally, and has another one that will pop out here in a day or 2, I think. She's not been sleeping too well because of it.

DS hurt himself pretty badly. All he was doing was jumping up and down on the floor, and he messed up his neck. Very painful, but fortunately nothing serious.

hello! only just realised there were threads for babies born each month - not too great at this chat business! Anyway, my gorgeous son, Charlie was born on the 9th making me a new mum. he's smiley and lovely and slightly crazy (currently sucking the side of my face as he wakes up!)
not sure this really is the thread for bragging but needed to do it somewhere!:)

Welcome Kipper

If we are bragging, my ds can stand holding the sofa {beams with pride}! However I did a stupid thing and left him sitting up without support at my M&B group while I got something from my bag and he fell back and hit his head - I had a false sense of security as he was surrounded by mums but obv they have their own babies to look after. Really don't know what I was thinking. BF him and he was ok

Azure, my ds slept well last night too, only one mid night waking then up at 6:00

is that really the silliest thing you've done to your poor ds pookey?! in that case i won't go into my bouncy chair + kitchen work surface = kitchen tiles and sore nose incident

hi all welcome kipper22

dont really have much news to be honest just thought would say hi.

have 2 teething children at the moment, there is a race on ds who is 6 has 2 wobbly teeth and one is starting to grow at the back so he is winning so far, dont think dd will ever get her teeth!!!

anyway hope all are well

Hello, just to report in really on dd2. She is huge - on the 92nd percentile and the HV says if she carries on, they will advise cutting down her food.....really silly. Don't think I'll take her again. Just wanted to thank AZURE, just had John Stiles as ds1 entertainer for 21 5 year olds and he was fab, so thumbs up for Azure and MN......

Other than a fat happy baby, nothing to report. Have gone back to work, found super new English live in nanny and dd2 is sleeping through (as she always has) and just having either two or three naps a day. Two meals, breakfast and late lunch and four bottles.

So it is really quite easy.

Love to all

Hello everyone - well done on the ebaying c&c'smommy - that's quite a total! Good luck on the nanny front Azure.

Ds is obviously having a "let's reach some goals" week this week - yesterday he managed to bring his hands together in a kind of silent clap (and made a proper "clap" noise today), sucked his big toe (hilariously funny), and discovered that if he held on tight to a proffered hand he could pull himself up to sitting! I have also put him in the big bath this week as he is now confidently sitting by himself. He looks so diddy in there! Dh and I keep saying how he is growing up so fast - now he is sitting we really feel we have moved from little baby to "growing up baby" stage - exciting and sad at the same time

Still no teeth though!

Look at that beachy! No-one posts all day then we both post in the same minute!!!

Oh yes, we have one tooth too!!!!

hi all

beachyhead.......how tall is your dd? my ds is 91st centile just rising to the 92nd on his weight but is 99.6th (point six is a bit silly i think) for his height. i never see the same HV regularly but the male one (the one with common sense) says he looks fine. buddha belly and nice chubby thighs.....my son is a picture of health.
i took ds to be weighed for the first time in over a month this week and remembered why......HV are useless. they don't even look at ds. i strip him, i weigh him. all they do is put a little dot on his chart. and i was under the impression the HV was supposed to be interested in my welfare too, but if i mention i'm a bit down they just say how normal it is for me to feel that way.no reassurance at all.
ds has two bottom teeth and both top two are working through atm, he makes some very funny faces like Les Dawson used to when he dressed up as a woman. he's pushing himself around on the laminate floor, and if we put him on carpet/playrug he's starting to push up onto his knees. and in the last few days he has found a whole new (noisy) vocabulary.
lol yesterday at friends she gave him a white chocolate button (with my permission) and we think he had a sugar rush as he became very noisy and active.......we couldn't stop laughing. i really do have a little comedian!

totally agree on the hv thing queenrollo - does yours always seem to be far too busy speaking to the mums she already knows like mine or is that just me having an inferiority complex?!
DS is now pushing himself up on hands and knees too - rocks back and forward but doesn't really know what to do next! he can get anywhere with a combination of rolls and turns on his tummy though and loves to lie in the big bath and splash as much as possible!
Just wanted to share his trick from last night - i took off dirty nappy and left him for a naked roll on (cream) carpet with dh asleep on sofa while i went to fetch a clean nappy. next thing i knew dh was calling me - carpet now brown, ds with a handful of poo and a huge grin on his face ! I really shouldn't find this highly amusing should I?!

totally agree on the hv thing queenrollo - does yours always seem to be far too busy speaking to the mums she already knows like mine or is that just me having an inferiority complex?!
DS is now pushing himself up on hands and knees too - rocks back and forward but doesn't really know what to do next! he can get anywhere with a combination of rolls and turns on his tummy though and loves to lie in the big bath and splash as much as possible!
Just wanted to share his trick from last night - i took off dirty nappy and left him for a naked roll on (cream) carpet with dh asleep on sofa while i went to fetch a clean nappy. next thing i knew dh was calling me - carpet now brown, ds with a handful of poo and a huge grin on his face ! I really shouldn't find this highly amusing should I?!

Kipper22 yuck! Beachyhead, I glad to take the thanks but you must be thinking of someone else, as I haven't recommended a party entertainer. As I'll be having around 20 children to D's 5th birthday in the summer, maybe I'll take the recommendation!

DS2 has been very poorly with vomiting and diahorrea (however it's spelt) and I've been on the phone to the out-of-hours doctor 2 days in a row. He seems chirpier this afternoon so I'm hoping he's improving.

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