October 2011 - our happy, chatty babies!

[GroovyRach]

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My Nan-nan was a grandparent at 36, she was 18, and my uncle was 18 when he had his first son. I'm the youngest of all my cousins, 18 years younger than the eldest.
I'm 34 and still don't feel old enough to be a parent even after being one for 4 years.

Remember a while back there was a 14 year old who had triplets? She's from the same town as me. I often wonder what happened to her.

Can't imagine a 14 yr old pg with triplets they're little bodies aren't meant to have one baby inside them at that age never mind 3. I ouldnt cope with triplets now forget when I was 13!

head in the gas oven probably bilblio

i'm 37 and waaaaayyyyy to young to be a gran!!!!

I'm a poncey Southerner but I don't take DD2 to any classes so I hope I'm forgiven. In fact I do very little with her, I subscribe to the sassy view that they should learn to amuse themselves. Some of DD2's friends have to be entertained all the time, it would drive me nuts.

So long as DD2 isn't screaming I leave her be! Usually in her bouncy chair or under her gym.

sassy how awful for you. Very pleased that your do saw the light.

chloe is under strict instruction that there be no babies until she is 30. that would make me 55. still too young in my opinion.

dp not do

My mum is 56 and says she still feels to young to be a gran lol!!

i'm not scones i wanted to reek havoc on the single men out there, by telling them i have 4 kids!!!! such fun to see their faces- hehehe

wasnt criticising southerners scones just saying us northerners are a bit sceptical/cynical etc

i made my mum a nan at 47!

Lol my mum was a gran at 40 but she had me at 17!

Well fecking typical I planned on watching eclipse then blitzing a bit of housework before going to bed this is the one week dh comes home early from poker to find me sitting in squalor drooling over Edward Cullen and surrounded in biscuit wrappers oh well I've had a good evening
Just gonna hang up the we clothes now and bed the rest of the housework can wait till morning since I'm on early shif anyway :-)

shift

I don't feel like a grown up either, just regular old me with a baby!

After feeling a bit and that I'm a bit of an intruder here (homonal mad woman emocion) I've decided that I'm just going to lurk and post when I can. Been stressing trying to keep up and I simply can't and RL so busy as it is. I think because I've not been able to be regular and uptodate I almost "interrupt". I'll still keep fb group if that's ok and feel a bit as would dearly have liked to have made strong bonds as I did with ds2's group but I haven't or the brain function to manage to keep up with it all.

Hope it's ok for me to lurk and see how babies are all doing. Nite all x

Oh mama don't feel . It's been very fast paced in here tonight. Read and post when you can

oh mama dont feel like that! i kept losing track and then feeling like i had to read everything before i could post, but i'll let you into a secret- the last time, i just read the last 5 pages ish and then started posting again.

you are definately not an intruder. however cos you have name changed, im a little confused and the circumstances in which made you change as stopped me from asking, in case i out you. i think i know though , but others may not. ( or they do and its just me thats a bit dumb)
i didnt post for over a month last time. its a very friendly group and i dont think its made strong bonds yet anyway. i have my sept 10 group too and we' ve had meet ups and are planning another soon. dont think this thread is quite there yet, but it prob will be eventually and to be truthful , you must know from your other thread that people drop off and or post less, esp after they go back to work.
anyway, hope you will reconsider and continue posting.

Ah Mama, come back in to the fold.

It only went a bit mad tonight because I created a monster by checking P was not bored .It's not usually that busy, everyone must have been home tonight. No-one will have time to post anything when they are at Baby Chemistry anyway!

You need to stick around to put your twopenneth in for us newbies.

Oh no Mama don't you dare stop posting or feel an intruder. I know who you are despite name change. I'm gobsmacked how busy the thread is tonight, I started writing a post earlier bit didn't finish it and when I looked just now there were 2 pages to catch up on!! But doesn't matter if you post daily or once every ten weeks it's still lovely to hear from you.

I would proudly like to say I am a southerner (devon no less!) and am being fabulously PFB mum by taking Eli to baby massage and baby French (but my mate Biblio says it will improve his language skills )

However I don't do much else I subscribe to the leaving baby to entertain themselves brigade so I figure a walk with dog/ lying on play gym while I eat cake do housework or sitting in bouncer watching me cook is enough entertainment for him normally. X

but not bit

Oh I feel exactly the same as you Mama - I try and catch up when I can and have a few days when I post and then I miss a few days and it feels like everyone else has been much better at keeping up and posting. So please don't stop or I'll have to too!

Trying to remember everyone's news - glad for return of car bilblio. We aren't doing any classes this time round although she comes with ds to his music class once a week and seems to enjoy it. May start doing rhyme time at the library soon as it is free!
Can't believe anyone has the motivation to do housework or exercise! I'm doing very little of either (but we do have a cleaner- lazy emoticon?!) though chasing round ds1 is quite tiring.

Our routine has gone wrong - argh! After 6 weeks of sleeping 11 or 12 hours every night dd has now woken at 5, 4 and now 3am for the past 5 days. Not sure what's going on - tried not feeding her but that didn't work (even though she's now about 15 lbs and 16 weeks). So back at night posting! At least it will be easier to keep up with the thread!

I've been lurking, trying and failing to catch up and not posting at all. I lost the thread for a bit (that says a lot about my state of mind too!).

I'm a newbie and I wish I'd found you all at the beginning of my pregnancy.

Oh well, you're all lovely ladies and I will do my best to keep up and join in.

Lo is 11 weeks an we are currently trying to get evenings sorted. Right now it's not working. He sttn a couple of days ago but then back to 2 wakings last night. I try to think of the full night as a gift rather than a trend, it makes it all easier to deal with!

Southerner here too! No classes for us yet though I keep meaning to go and investigate the local children's centre and I really must get round to swimming.

Hi Jnice, my DS is 11 weeks as well and he still wakes in the night so you are not alone. We have bedtime sorted he now knows bath = bed but not sleeping through yet.

Re the doing classes vs babies doing their own thing - I really don't think it's one or the other, you can do the odd class and activity and have one on one play, and still leave them to their own devices the rest of the time. Maybe I am just being defensive though because I was one of the original posters who has a lot going on with my baby! I do enjoy the support I get from other mums at the groups though, it's nice meeting others in the same boat

strawberry - we are trying for the routine, it's a bit broken as we're trying to juggle getting our other 2 to bed. It definitely what lo wants though, he's crying for sleep but is just over tired. He went down tonight by 9.20 which is early for him so good progress

Regarding sttn, I'm not concerned. I believe he will be wanting at least 1 feed in the night until at least 6 months. I don't have to drop other kids off yet, DH is doing that so I'm not rushed with an early start.

penelope I agree about classes, at this age I think it's for the parent as much as for baby. Either to meet other mums or to just get out and do something.

I am not doing anything with this one but we go to mum & baby fit. I have to ferry other 2 to football, swimming and piano/music so not keen to do many activities with youngest. Story time at the library might be good though.

cheeky - it's common for them to sttn then stop for a bit, then sttn again, then stop - try to see the full nights as a gift