October 2011 - weaning here we come!

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MrsH and Ed We have dh's b and sil and Seb's cousin coming to stay for Mothers day weekend - two new mums together. I'm hoping the boys (dhs not babies!) will remember... Ed at least he used his imagination! And to be fair I guess there wasn't the marketing hype in Egypt to remind him.

Strawberry Yey for the new house. How exciting.... And well done to W for ninja gymnastics skills. At least he didn't hurt himself. I have a nasty habit of putting the car seat on the sofa - will need to stop that soon!

Cheshire/Bubalie our nct group also still meets at least once a week, either at a house, a pub/cafe or an 'activity'. But the amount of biscuits and cakes consumed is alarming. I still need to lose a stone of post baby/Christmas weight!

Fuzzzy I checked out Jo Jingles. There are several here, but I don't think it's free under 6mo. I will email to find out but I also think you need to sign up for a set period and I'm back to work in 8 weeks just as things are getting interesting with Seb... Passing over to dh for 3 months.

Did Baby Gym with Seb this morning and he loved it. This wears all the other babies out - not Seb, he was full of beans for hours after and I really had to persuade him to sleep - he kept grinning up at me !!

mama , maybe it's just their way to deal with things. Shame though
strawberry yay for new house!
mrsh my mum have me an Easter egg last year from thorntons that said 'mum' on it, made my day!!

Well we had a busy wee day. S loved Jo Jingles!! I was worried with the time (10.45 till 11.30) she would be tired and grumpy as she usually naps around then but she had 10 mins in car there which seemed to be enough! Was great though and she really enjoyed it. That's our Friday morning sorted

Hope everyone's having a good evening

Oh good grief, when is mothers day over there? I always forget because here its in may and I miss sending my mum anything.

mama that is sad, they might regret it too

Sorry for being so absent here, I feel so down and don't feel I have much to contribute. But I do enjoy keeping up (am here but lurking a bit ).

Mama did she actually give birth to a 28 week baby then? Can't imagine not wanting to see it - but tbh I don't know if I would have been the same before I had P. When we had our mc (at about 9 weeks) we were perfectly fine and match-of-fact about it at the hospital when we had the scan as we knew it had happened but it wasn't until about a week later when it hit us. I guess it was hormones for me by then. Maybe that couple will feel different in a few days, I suppose it depends as well what they have decided will happen to the baby now :(

The story in the news yesterday about the Doctor performing abortions on female babies made me really sad when I think of P. She is so funny and bonkers I could not imagine wanting to be without her just because she is not a boy.

Anyway boys pee straight up in the air and have "boy bits", I wouldn't know where to start

Jnice it's 18th March. I had to look it up because I didn't know either.

Lots to catch up on, but just wanted to reply to Cheshire. Boys do not per straight up in the air, they pre straight at you Cyrus has remarkably good aim!

cheshire I would assume so as shes out of hospital already, but didn't ask as just been there more as a support to friend. I agree, we all handle things differently. Hope the hospital gives them aftercare support. at gender choice terminations. Wouldn't be without any of mine. Boys and girls are equally precious.

J has been awake for ages singing away. Happy girl . Swimming lesson today for ds2 and ds1 off to see his dad.

I've made enquiries about training to be a health visitor. Am not keen on going back to mental health solely and being able to incorporate it into health visiting would suit me.

strawberry yay re house. How exciting, have you already decided on theme for w room.

jnice sorry you've been feeling low. x

I ahve exactly the same problem with Mother's Day jnice. It's in May here as well. I'm not holding my breath that DH will think to send me a card from M though i did drop some not so subtle hints last night by reading him your DH's comments Mrs H!

Sorry you're feeling low jnice. Sending you some and hoping you've been managing to get some sleep.

Pee**!

mama that so :( I can't imagine not wanting to see my baby. I hope they get a lot of support. re W's room we are going for a space theme blue walls with glow in the dark stars and a good friend of ours is rather artistic and is going to come and paint a variety of 'space' themed things like the tardis, enterprise, r2d2 etc (spot the geek parents

jnice and hope you feel better soon

fuzzzy yay for Jo jingles :) we go to Rhyme Time at the local library

Mama, I think it's hard to understand how others process grief and while I know personally I would want to see/hold baby etc I can see why for some doing that would be just too hard. I just feel for them having to go through it all. I can't imagine anything worse xxx

Strawberry - yay for new house!!! Xxx

Sche????!

Strawberry - ds2 is space mad, we got the solar system hanging from his ceiling I'll get a link

bb3 totally agree

www.google.co.uk/m/products/detail?oe=UTF-8&near=Southampton,+UK&client=safari&q=3d+solar+system&hl=en-gb&cid=8724918223489834332

Oooh, that looks fun mama I've got him the 'moon in my room' light but have to have a solar system too!

DD has learned the phrase 'physics rocks'

thanks for the wise comment although scones will tell you otherwise. I think of wise as older and content, not the insecure person I am. I grew up around children and babies so the practical side of things that bother other people I have been fine with, it's other stuff I stress about. Since my profession is a researcher then it's fair to say I am fairly read about parenting, it may not be science but I hope it keeps me in some kinda game. Speaking of which I need to send my CV off to someone.

Think DS is growth spurting, feeding every hour today and two hourly last night

bb3 my phone wrote 'per' instead of 'pee'!

Dh is on daddy duty tonight for first time since M was born I'm goin to a hen night. But I have really been struggling to find time/energy to express so she's got a cartoon of formula really hope she takes it!

Oh enjoy your hen night ed

I'm at my parents for the evening about to enjoy a takeaway. Naughty but nice. Def back at gym next week

Hi all, am finally feeling better although still limping a lot! Have been reading but couldn't get myself together to post as it would have been too depressing to write read.

Jnice hope you're ok x
Strawberry so exciting about the house
Mama so sad about friends SIL I cannot begin to imagine what it's like
Edward hope hen do goes well (good luck Mredwardoreric)
FuZzy you put my social life to shame can't remember the last time I was out on a Saturday night

We've had a tough couple of weeks but hoping that we've turned a corner now so fingers crossed for a good night tonight

J keeps screaming in pain she was asleep and suddenly screaming again, just resettled her but I'm baffled. Any ideas?

Wind? Nightmare? Something sticking into her? (I've read that unexplained crying can be because of a hair wrapping tightly round a finger or toe!) I hope she doesn't scream again mama, it's horrible when you can't work out what's wrong.

What time do you all put your babies to bed? I've been putting L down between 8-8.30pm with a massage, a bath and feed beforehand. But I feel like I'm forcing her to stay awake for the last hour of the evening so beginning to think that I should put her down earlier.

The thing is, if I start my massage, bath, feed routine an hour earlier, with the aim of getting her into bed around 7pm then DH will not see her at all during the week.

We put her down earlier tonight, she fell asleep straight away. I'll see how we do with waking through the night and how early she wakes in the morning.

Glad you're feeling a bit better lp .

Ed I'm so jealous! L still won't take a bottle - fingers crossed M has a great night with MrEd!

Fuzzzy I'm also jealous of the takeaway! Enjoy it!

She's been doing it on and off today, then singing away happily. She's sleeping now, phew.

I recently started settling her with ds2 so 6.30 ish but if she doesn't settle dh takes her downstairs.

Ah scheh now I get it, was a bit confused and thought you might be just very proud of yourself or mr man for performing

Lp - glad you're feeling a bit better.

Mama - sounds like wind or gripey pain to me - could you raise her upright to sleep and see if it still wakes her up?

Mrsh - girls are bathed and dressed for 7 o'clock bottle and normally go down straight away in their baskets by 7.30. But Edie is awake at 5am! I've pushed them later tonight and they've just zonked so hoping we get an extra hour tomorrow morning.

We FINALLY have a roller. Just the one mind. Ayse-Rose is now rolling away but staring away at me like I'm a freak for clapping like a loon when she does it . Edie hates any floor related activity so is still a while off but she's so interested in toys and stimulus. I clearly have very different personalities - lord help me!!!

Had a lovely day today - took the kids up for a stomp around the field this morning and then this afternoon went shopping with my mum and got them all a whole bunch of summer stuff (and some new sleeping bags for the girls!) spent a small fortune buying two of everything . Lovely takeaway for tea and now sat on the sofa with a cup of tea whist the girls sleep in their baskets and ds is reading (well gabbling through) his books with dh

Hope you're all having lovely weekends xx