October 04 - New Year Toddlers

[maisiemog]

Hi All, I thought I'd start a new 2006 thread for the October 2004 Mummies and Babies.

yippee... its snowed overnite and baba was in awe as she never seen snow before.. i let her play out in the back garden this morning and throwing snowballs too - had to drag her back in though!

maisie - is it bad where u are in scotland? as all teh schools closed yesterday and now its Wales turn today

Hi Biglips, there is no snow here.
I think it's been very heavy in the North of Scotland, like Aberdeen. We had a teeny bit of snow, but it never settles in Edinburgh. It's rubbish. I think we're too near the sea or something. We have a kind of microclimate here because we're sheltered by the hills all the way round.
It's lovely today though isn't it. Just the most gorgeous day.
I'm glad Baba likes the snow. Is she soaking?
I took Alf into the garden the other day when I was hanging out his nappies, and he was ok for about 5 minutes then he got all rubbish and collapsed and started wailing about his red hands.
Does baba do fake falling over to get sympathy?

yeah she got abit wet this morning but this afternoon it really heavily snowed but baba was fast asleep in her pram with the waterproof cover over her... i ended up soaked instead

about the tantrum... yeah thats about normal as sometimes baba throws a tantrum for nothing but usually when she is teething badly!

Meant to say biglips, I'm usually tucked up around 10pm. Cant believe in pre-moley days that was the time we used to go out! As the other 3 are a quite a bit older we still used to still have a social life.

Hello Ladies - sorry not to be around much mind you bet I haven't been mised much :(. I am all depressed - 1st (really unimportant) I can rouse 1 person to come out for my now non-excistant hen night I feel really popular and 2nd I had a miscarriage last week - I am not really that upset about it because I wasn't even really sure I was pregnant but as I was (and oh yes I could tell) I must have been about 7-8 weeks!

Anyway also have the wedding to stress for - but right now all I want to do is eat lots of crap and hide under my duvet which is not going to help me fit into my dress!

anyway as this shouldn't be a caroline wallowing in self pity - Grace is doing really well. She is juts so much of a chacter - for example when she burps she puts her hand over her mouth and laughs!

I hope you are are well! Much love!

cazzy - oh no about your miscarriage ... hope you are really ok? ... have you had any support from your family/friends?

im surely that there will be loads coming out our hen nite... as its unmissable to miss out.. why cant others come?.... just try and relax about it pls

Cazzybabs - am so sorry, really dumb question but how are you feeling? I'm all for hiding under duvets & eating crap but think of your frock! Do you want to talk about it or will that be worse? If you want to chat then we're here for you.

You are all very lovely ladies.

I alternate between being sad, hormonal and then not thinking about it due to wedding things etc and a friend of mine is just pregnant but might have serious complications. TBH as I didn't know I was pregnant - just a slight suspicion until it became very very clear that I was not simply having a period. There is no-one I would want to tell apart from dp who just said oh well you shoud have been more careful! But he is a bloke and doesn't understand these things and has made it perfectly clear that it is my reponsibility to ensrue no more tiny feet yet - so at least he is not cross. So apart from a few tears I am ok - but it is amixture of a realisation of how few real friends I have, hormones and a baby that wasn't meant to be.

Aaaah Cazzy, you poor thing. You are having a rough time. I'm really sorry for your loss. You do sound philosophical about the baby, are you sure you don't need to speak to a counsellor, you could probably be referred by your GP.
If it's any consolation, I had the most rubbish 18th birthday party, about 13 people came to a room for 100, one couple just sat on a sofa and the bloke read a newspaper.
On a more positive note, you are marrying a man you love, you have a lovely dress and they can always take it out. You have a gorgeous little burping daughter and some day you will have a lovely little burping son (I can tell).
I reckon you are allowed one more day under the duvet - get out Steel Magnolias or something like that and eat icecream. Then you just have to get on with the wedding.
If it's a small hen night, could you go and book into a beauty salon instead, that's more doable with a small group. Then have a fabulous meal.
I hope it all looks better in the morning.

Sorry you are feeling so down cazzy.
Maisey i'm not hiding baby geog just my computer is so ancient (older than all my children) its not compatable with my camera!
Biglips I have 3 kids and although not working now I did until baby geog was born. Don't think I could manage full time but did 3 days a week. Baba will get used to the sleeping in a group thing all of mine slept better in the day at nursery than at home, make sure you have a nursery where they get out lots, mine loved it as they were in the garden 2 or 3 times a day where as they were lucky to get into mine that often in a month. I second going to bed at 10 and try and get up an showered etc before baba wakes up, its easier for you if they have breakfast at nursey but mine always wanted it at home too. As far as i'm concerned the huge bonus of nursery was that they potty trained my elder 2, some how sitting on a pot with your mates is so much better than doing it at home! Good luck
DS2 has been sick the past 3 days so it is very quiet as he has spent loads of time in bed

Oh no! OK can you describe Baby Geog then?!
Does he have hair/teeth?

Piles of both - already had 2 haircuts. Yes I feel I can boast in this area as the lazy git still ain't walking - but he is poorly at the moment so i'll let him off!

Yes, but he's talking whereas Alf is too busy balancing things to bother saying much. He just babbles a load of rubbish.
I was wondering what all the babies' favourite toys are?

my mobile phone - does that count?

Kath, Alfie has broken dp's phone, by sooking on it and dribbling on it, until dp couldn't hear anyone who phoned and couldn't use half of the keypad.
So dp now has another phone.
How is your phone working?

3 times i had to put mobile phone on the radiator to "dry out" cos of baba was dribbling all over it

She signs to me this morning "snow" - awww so cute

plus she got a new boyfriend too he is 21 mths old (my friend's son) and they looks so cute together...always hugging and giving kissys together.. but they so have a tiff now and again!! aww sounds like a old married couple!!! he he he!!!!

A wet dribbly phone, it's not very nice is it.
It did snow here on Friday morning, but that has been it. Poo. I was hoping I would get a day off, but it's all but gone now.
What's the sign for snow biglips?

Biglips, do you do BSL with baba?
It must be great knowing so many signs.

face your palms towards the person, wiggle your fingers and move your hand in circles (dont move in circles together)

its snowed here since thurs but only sticks abit now allll gone and dry too

yea i do abit of baby signs and mostly adult signs as if the adult sign is too hard for her to do, ill use the baby signs

she can do - mummy, bath, milk, foods, cow, sweet, sleep/bed, snow, look, where, all gone... cant think of anymore for now

DS1 bust DH mobile phone when he put it down the toilet in a hotel when he was about DS2's age! DS2 currently likes to pick up the phone or remote control, hold it to his ear and say 'ello' whilst looking very pleased with himself. He also likes to load toy cars onto the back of a car transporter which is quite a relief as DS1 has never had any interest in toy cars but people think it is what you buy boys so we've got loads.

How are all the babies with exczema getting on? Alfie still has a bit of rough skin on his back, it's not bad enough to act upon, but I'm putting on a non-steroidal cream when I remember.
I react to a lot of products, and can only use t-gel on my hair, so I have pretty much avoided most baby stuff, like baby wash, bath etc.. I do use baby oil for massaging, but only simple and little me.
I tried the oats in a sock in the bath a few times, not sure if it does much, but is very interesting.

How much sleep are the babies getting? I was trying to find out more about what Alf should get and the guidlines seem to very widely. Also at 16 month olds are lumped in with 3 year olds quite often.
One guide suggested 10-12 hours in total another suggested up to 13 hours it also mentioned 1 or 2 naps of between 1 and 2 hours duration, surely they can't mean ON TOP of the 13 hours?
I find Alfie is going down between 7-8pm then normally wakes at 1am for a feed. Up until recently he was then sleeping until between 6:30 and 7am, but he has started waking at about 5:30am and just wanting to get up and play, so I've been giving in and getting up - breakfast at 5:45 anyone?
He gets tired and ends up back in bed at around 11am and sleeps for up to 2 hours.
He gets tired again around 4-5pm and sometimes has another sleep, but I try to limit that, as he can sleep for another hour at least.
It's hard to make him stay up during the day, as he gets mumpy, but I'm not loving the 5:30.
He is knackered by 7:30pm Tries to sleep on the floor.

7-7 most nights and 2 hours in the afternoon.
Been sick again today so i'm taking him to the dr, very strange sick every other day for a week.

maisie - its depends on teh child of how many hours she/he sleeps without being grumpy as baba is in bed @ 7.30 till 7..sometimes she is in bed 8.30 till 7 and always have a afternoon nap - depending what time as atm she is awake adn in bed waiting for her to go to sleep for her nap for 2 hours