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April 2004.... count down to the second birthday!

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Yorkiegirl · 27/01/2006 18:35

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hewlettsdaughter · 06/02/2006 16:54

Hey all - hope the drugs are working lunavix and you are feeling better too MrsD. Fennel - I bet you breathed a sigh of relief when you saw that it was a family that had come to view the house!

DD had the sickness bug that is going round last Thurs then I had it on Friday. We seem to be house of illness at the moment. Roll on spring...

hewlettsdaughter · 06/02/2006 18:05

lunavix - an afterthought - have you seen this website ? (and how are you coping with the minding?)

dolbear48 · 06/02/2006 21:20

hello just re-surfacing after the dolbear household also surcumed to the lurgy ooo nasty one short but v long to recover
so my absolute sympathies with you lunavix !!
ds ok now though just me and dh sufferng he seems to have leanrnt the word MINE

tracyk · 07/02/2006 09:52

ds favourite saying at the mo is 'Ah doo' as in I do - won't let me do anything for him now - everything is taking ages till he gives up in frustration and lets 'mum do'.

hewlettsdaughter · 07/02/2006 20:27

tracyk - dd likes to say "no me" (all run together) which I think means the same thing.

lunavix · 07/02/2006 20:41

ds says 'pleeeeees' for everything which is cute. He likes 'three little men' song does all the moves and fingers!

Morning sickness pills no go, a friend's sil has just miscarried and it's been put down to them. So not touching them with a bargepole.

tracyk · 08/02/2006 08:41

Our babies are just soooooo cute at the moment aren't they??

Bethron · 08/02/2006 10:07

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tracyk · 08/02/2006 10:21

Welcome Bethron - glad you are feeling better about things. It's a double edged sword having a baby that seems to progress quickly through the stages - proud on one hand, but sad that babyhood flies past. If only time could stand still I could enjoy the baby parts for longer.
It is nice to chat on here as it is much easier going than some of the main threads that can be quite confrontational.

hewlettsdaughter · 09/02/2006 22:10

Hi Bethron, and welcome. It's good to hear your ds is making you proud . Tell us more about him.

Who can tell me about how to deal with tantrums? DD has started to have them - about getting dressed, for example, or having to leave somewhere before she's ready. DS had his moments but was never really a 'terrible two'. Am wondering if dd is going to be one...

dolbear48 · 10/02/2006 09:34

hello bethron nice to hear from you
HLD tants mmm v tricky i tend to go for the naught corner until he stops and ignore it , but I know that does not work fro all as it is noisy amd can be upsetting but it did put a stop to the biggies after only two weeks am my own worst enamy thought as watch too many of the help progs i e house of tiny tearaways etc

Bethron · 11/02/2006 16:06

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LucyJones · 11/02/2006 16:08

Hi everyone and welcome to Bethron. Any news on MrsDoolittle?!!

hewlettsdaughter · 11/02/2006 17:50

I have just found this thread LJ - have you seen it?

Re tantrums. We did 'time out' with ds a few times (when he was older) but I wasn't sure dd would understand/comply at this age. The warning thing is good though. Used to do this with ds but haven't got into the habit with dd yet.

fennel · 12/02/2006 12:32

very exciting about mrs d being in labour

hello bethron, lovely to hear about your children.

am very pleased. been in Exeter this week, got a new job there 3 days a week, DP has a job transfer too so we're going to live in Devon! off to the sun and sea....
now just got the little matters of selling, renting, buying houses, finding schools and nursery, and moving. and finishing old job hampered by increasingly hysterical boss. stressed, me, never....

tantrums. would say i know lots about them but am clearly rubbish at dealing with them as dd2 still fairly tantrummy at 4.5. dd3 is mellow and not tantrumming but this week for the first time i am SURE she knows that when she bangs the door and i say no, i want her to stop. can see that she's definitely "testing boundaries." i found Toddler Taming quite a useful book at this age. and these days i just worship Supernanny and do what she does.

Dottydot · 12/02/2006 13:43

On a day like this in Manchester I'm sooooooo of you, Fennel!!

Ds2 has some spectacular tantrums that can last a good hour - pure screaming and flinging himself around, and there's pretty much nothing that will get him out of it, so I'm used to just ignoring him now. They can start out of nowhere, about nothing, so I don't really stress about it 'cos I know they're just bizarre temper things that none of us have any control over!! This drives dp mad as she gets really wound up about them and can't understand how I can be so calm!

hewlettsdaughter · 12/02/2006 19:42

Congrats to MrsD and welcome to Rhuaridh

Devon sounds great Fennel - well done on getting jobs and good luck with the rest of it! (keep us posted).

Am reading an NCT book on tantrums now - will let you know if I get any good tips...

MrsDoolittle · 12/02/2006 19:46

Hi Ladies
Thanks for all your good wishes. Dh and I will put up a picture tonight. I'm undecided whether to put one up of just ds or one of us in the pool?

hewlettsdaughter · 12/02/2006 20:46

The pic you have chosen is lovely, MrsD - he looks so alert! (as others have said).

mummytosteven · 12/02/2006 20:47

Evening all! Hope you don't mind me adding myself to your thread... DS was a March 04 baby, but there doesn't seem to be an active thread for March 04. Congratulations Mrs. D!

dolbear48 · 12/02/2006 20:57

congrats mrs d hope , all went the way you hoped and wished for ! I also got me a job - well done fennel , dh and I are swapping to make family life a little lest stressy - famous last words !
its all happeningon thsis thread - welcome mummytosteven , my b-friend has also popped - c sec as tried to exit bum 1st - mmm don't think that works
ds is learning how to be diff @ the mo asking for stuff then not wanting it , pulling faces - general sulking etc angelic child tunring inmto teenager - goody

lunavix · 12/02/2006 21:54

congrats Mrs D! That's such a great birth story, I really felt for the start of your thread, especially as it's second time round, everyone I know keeps saying I'll be a pro second time round but it's still scary!

are we the oldest postnatal club? can't see any for 2003 babies (is this pre-MN?)
I'm so dreading this week, half term argh. Have 12 kids in the hosue tomorrow, 6 the rest of the week. Want to cry.

Good luck with the move fennel, dh has job interview in newcastle this week which is a little far away for my liking.. he had one in crewe too but we've heard nothing...

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Yorkiegirl · 12/02/2006 21:57

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hewlettsdaughter · 13/02/2006 08:14

Well if you're boring YG then so am I

tracyk · 13/02/2006 08:20

poor ds has had sickness bug since Friday. bloody well trashed his nice new White Company pjs! Seems a bit better today after throwing up all weekend.
Tantrums not too bad here - I just walk away and leave him - and we don't really go out and about in the afternoons anyway - so no witnesses! Don't know what he gets up to at nursery - so he may be a terror there!