March 2011 mums, entering our 2nd year with our 'Babies'!!

[Purplefan]

Hi all,
Thought I'd take the plunge and set up a new thread for us...never done it before so hope it works.

Will be back later to update properly, have busy day as DH is off on a track day on his motorbike and DD1 has already been driving me insane, it has only just gone 9am!!! xx

Hello all!!

no post from me for a while I'm afraid, just been busy visiting family and friends and just back from a fab music festival on the isle of Tiree :) Angus didn't stop smiling all weekend, we were 7 adults with 6 kids and had a lot of fun (although weather was shockingly bad!), made up for the abandoned camper trip last month!

Not much news from here, teething seems to be easing off (for now) so have my happy chappy back. Still no walking, in fact nowhere near walking, doesn't even stand by himself!
And is A the only one who hasn't had his mmr yet?? We need to organise that, how did your LO's react to it, was it awful??

Halo sorry to hear that H's sleeping still not great, but at least you're managing to catch up on sleep in the daytime, she will get there eventually I'm sure!
Everso 4 months to go, wow!! How are you managing with bump and S?? Is it difficult to lug her about everywhere?? A insists on being carried almost constantly, and at 2 stone he's starting to knacker my back!
Purple I wouldn't bother with the 50 shades books, I read the first and it was shockingly bad, even the saucy bits were quite dull and repetitive, to sum it up she says 'oh my' and blushes lots, and has earth shattering moments about every 10 minutes. Think I will go for the other book reccomendation by Lozario next! Slightly embarrassed that I even read the whole book but I hate to not know what everyone is on about, wish I hadn't bothered now!

Hope everyone is good and enjoying the nice weather I hear you're having down south, its midge hell here so we are stuck indoors today :(

everso which Sarah Waters should I read next?

highlander that festival sounds like loads of fun! Don't be scared about MMR. DS had what I thought was an immediate reaction but it turned out to be an ear infection. He was fine with is booster and Lara has been fine with original and booster the week before last.

haloflo did I see on another thread you are biting the bullet with the sleep? How's it going?

teeth well Lara has cut 4 molars in 2 weeks!!!! It's not been too bad considering; her sleep is up the spout but as she is now walking everywhere, that is distracting her nicely during the day. Can't wait until they are all done and dusted though.

I'm going to be 32 on Monday. Do you think my kids will sleep until 9am for me and then bring me breakfast in bed...?

Lozario The Night Watch is probably my second favourite of her books after Fingersmith. Tipping the Velvet is really good too -- and much more sexually explicit ... but not in a horrible Fifty Shade way, LOL. (FTR, I am staying well clear of that one!)

Glad the teething hasn't been too horrible. Sabine finally has a fifth tooth coming in, but she doesn't seem to be suffering much. Hers take soooo long to come in. We noticed the first signs of this one about 3 weeks ago and it's just pushing through now. The top front teeth started coming in months ago and still seem only halfway in. Is this normal?

Happy birthday next week. I turn 40 on Thursday. I would love to sleep through the night (even when S does, I don't) and would love a nice long lie-in on top of that. We can dream, can't we?

Highland S was fine with her MMR. I think she got a very faint, slight rash around her neck a day or two afterwards, but no other problems or side-effects.

Just about 3 months to go now. The bump is huge and DS has been very wriggly lately, but I don't really have any trouble carrying S around. I do get tired out more easily, though.

In other news, I think we are finally done breastfeeding here. S was very gradually cutting back on her feeds and for the past week or so has hardly fed for more than a few seconds. It's been days since she showed any interest. I posted a few weeks ago on a BFing board about her seeming to be self-weaning and I got lots of "Oh, that rarely happens before two years, keep trying" ... while I felt chuffed that we had been able to go for 16 months. Plus, I knew it wasn't a nursing strike or anything. I wouldn't have minded continuing, but I'm really happy we went as long as we did and that we could stop when she was ready and without any drama.

OK, a million things to try to accomplish before I pass out for the night and this has turned into a book. Hope you all have lovely weekends.

Congrats Stealth!! I am catching up on MN tonight as I'm feeling poorly and as astonishingly both dd's are asleep, I thought I'd have a very early night. DH is on a stag weekend and gets back tomorrow.

I'm also very excited as we have tickets to watch the swimming on Friday morning. I feel bad that we are not taking the girls but dd1 might just manage to sit still for a bit but dd2 would be trying to run off too much. However we will take them to watch the marathon.

I hope you are all well .

highland H was fine with her mmr and she was bad for the 8, 12 and 16 week ones. I had to ring my surgery as we hadn't heard by 15 months.

everso I can't believe how quickly your pregnancy is progressing. Glad you are still feeling ok but sorry to hear about S weaning. I thought it was pretty normal for them to wean during pregnancy as thats what I'm counting on. Hs teeth do take an age to come through but I think for her the worst bit is when they break the gum.

lozario I let H sleep at her Nanna's a couple of weeks ago (my mil) and since then she doesn't always need/want milk at night. Last week she slept through (9 hours) without any help and did another hour and a half after a dummy run. We haven't reached those heights again and this week she has been awful (canines are not helping) but we have progress and I know my mil can give me break every now and again. Happy birthday for Monday, did you get a lie in at least??

kagey enjoy the swimming, I just saw our first goldin rowing (only on tv though!)

12 (11) week scan Friday, am nervous that everything is ok but also excited to see my baby. If all is well I'm getting my mat clothes out again as I seem to be popping buttons open on my work trousers and jeans!

Everyone back in doors for the rain again? We are off on our first camping trip this weekend - the forcast says thunder and lightning!

Arthur is normally a pretty good sleeper, apart from when he is sharing a room with us, in his travel cot, away from home. He normally has at least one good screaming session and then gets up extra early. Maybe I should put a sign on my tent advising other campers to keep clear?????

Well done Halo on a bit of break through with sleep, but also for sending H to your mil. I haven't quite managed to leave A yet but I'm desperate for me and DH to have a night (and morning!) off from "life" - no one having to put A to bed or get up early with him - bliss! Good luck with the scan

Hi all,
Just a quick one to say that Bethan has finally taken her first unaided step! x

hooray for Bethan that's fab news Purple , I don't think A will ever stand unaided or walk!!! We're going to talk to HV if he's nowhere nearer by 18 months.....

Petty how was your camping trip??? We took A camping for the second time last weekend, was great fun! He tired himslef out so much on the beach he was asleep by 6.30!!! (and awake by 4.30am but you can't win them all!)

Halo hope your scan went well!

Small bit of news from here too, a BFP due in April, VERY excited!

Congratulations highland!!!!!!

I'm getting very broody with all these bfp's going around must wait til March-ish though as DH is on an internship until Feb and we need to wait until his job is permanent so that a) we have money and b) he has paternity leave. He didn't have any when A was born so I was on my on with him from about 36 hours onwards. Can't face a newborn and toddler on my own!

Camping was fab, A also wore himself out in the sea - he's a bugger for just running in fully clothed! He was also eager to start his days camping but let us lie in until 5.30am. It was better on the 2nd day tho as dsis-in law was there with her boys and the youngest is only 3 months older than A and he was also up very early too! I can't wait to go again!

Also congrats to Purple and Bethan on walking!

Me and A are on our own all weekend until Monday night as DH away visiting friends and then working in London. Its quite nice but I don't know what to do about tea dh usually sorts that out!

Well done, Bethan! :)

And BIG congratulations, Highland!!!

Petty, you are a strong one doing the single parenting for a few days and not minding! I'm in a panic regarding a potential 2 day trip DH may make to Brazil, though don't know why as he's at work for 13 hrs a day anyway!

All's well here. F still very opinionated, which makes 3 stubborn people in our household, but fortunately he's eating and drinking better these days (today he skipped his morning milk for the 3rd day in a row and went right for brekkie!) The days of his 3 hour naps are now history. We're happy if he goes down for 2, and when it doesn't take him 2 hours to go down (like today)!

Between the Olympics hype and a friend from Middlesbrough visiting this weekend I'm missing London terribly...

Hope everyone is enjoying the daily surprises our LO's are giving us each day!

ck it was fine and I made the most of it being just the 2 of us - we went for lunch in John Lewis on Saturday and then after the carboot sale on Sunday we went for a mid morning coffee/hot chocolate in starbucks. Monday was a bit of a killer though as I was hungover/tired after the closing ceremony (friends came over for the evening). A didnt seem to notice daddy was missing until Monday night (which is when dh usually puts him to bed).... Couldn't do it all the time though!

We usually only get a 1.5 hour nap in the day time now. Depending on our plans I either try to get A down early so we can squeeze another nap in the afternoon or drag it out as late as possible. Luckily, A can go for a nap 4-5 and still want to be back in bed by 7 .

I've sent A to cm today and working from home - its weird being in the house, on my own, quietly!

Hey everyone! We've been reading but not posted for a little while so thought it would be good to check in, even though I don't have a great deal to say! Lara is very confident on her feet now, I have to say it's a lot easier now I can take them both to the park and they can both run around and wear themselves out. Plus things are easier now she's comfortably on one nap a day. Part of me thinks, how did we get here so quickly?! Nearly one and a half already!!! Her talking is really coming on too, mainly to communicate naughtiness: "NO BRUVER! MINE!"

We're getting crazy antics at bedtime though, as she and DS share a room. They are bouncing for about an hour before sleeping!!! At least it has made them sleep in until around 7 though which feels heavenly. The downside is that DS still therefore needs a nap during the day (he was 3 in June) so he's never ready to go to sleep at 7, hence the bouncing; it's a vicious circle. It's not too disruptive yet though, unless he bounces off the bed!

petty glad it was ok going solo with A. When my DH has to look after my two on his own he always takes them out for dinner!! He has done bath and bedtime a grand total of 3 times now. He's working pretty much 6 days a week at the moment as we're hoping for a bonus to get a loft conversion and I want another baby

highland CONGRATS, that's such good news! How are you feeling? We need to start a list of all the next due dates - can everyone post their due dates who is preggo again (obviously!) and I'll try to collate them in my next post? Then we can all get proper excited with the countdown

Purple well done Bethan with the first step!

everso how is the teething now? Lara's stopped and started a bit too, and her 4 molars are now almost through but have taken forever! I hope you're feeling well, can't be long now huh? Hope you had a great birthday :)

halo how did the scan go?

Right my two have watched rather more Peppa than they should now I think (Lara also seems to think that Daddy Pig is her Daddy?!), hope all is well with everyone and you're all surviving the summer hols!

Vv quick one. Scan went well, such a relief. Due 19 Feb. I am 13 weeks now and showing. Clearly I have no stomach muscles left.

highland congrats! You were speedy!

And H is sleeping through once or twice a week at the moment, a miracle. Just need it to become a bit more frequent in the next few months.

Hope all are well and will post soon xx

Woohoo! Great news about Bethan, Purple.

So glad the scan went well, Halo and congratulations, Highland. Hope you're both feeling well.

I'm now 28+2; due 7th November -- about 2.5 months to go! Will know on 1st Oct whether hospital advises another c-section or if I should try for a VBAC. Has anyone on the list had a successful VBAC? I don't really mind either way, as long as I don't have to go through induction again, which was a miserable experience.

Sabine has the chicken pox. Unbelievably cheerful and sleeping really well despite being covered in spots (though she has had her fussy moments). We were supposed to leave for Wales this morning for a week; now hoping to be able to go on Monday for a few days at least. Fingers crossed she's better by then.

As for teething, we're still at five and she still has her fingers in her mouth a lot. Hoping we'll just wake up one morning and she'll finally have a mouthful of teeth.

Lozario I like Lara's vocabulary. :) So far we haven't advanced much beyond animal sounds, "um" for "yum" and "up". I wonder how much having an older sibling around accelerates language acquisition, if at all. Sabine does use a lot of sign language, though, which is handy.

We just signed the lease on a great new place in West London (two blocks from what is meant to be a great primary school, too), so I've now got a house move to organize over the next six weeks. Really hope BabyXY doesn't come a month early! And I hope we find a name for him before then. DH and I are still struggling to find one we both love.

Hello

Congrats highland! Glad ur scan went well Halo and wow Everso cant believe u only have a few months left!

Im 22+5 now, due 17th dec, and feeling heavy & cumbersome. I suddenly have butterfingers & everything i eat ends up down my top. I prob look a right mess at the mo

R is doing really well. She has a mouthful of teeth & is soooo loud! She has a few words, yeah, bye, whats that (whasstha), she tries to say makka pakka but is coming out more like 'bugger bugger'

im so excited to meet the new baby but a bit apprehensive at how i will cope with two little ones

We're off to Cyprus on Weds for a week, cant wait to relax in the sun.

Hope you're all well & enjoying the weekend.

Thanks for all your congrats its nice being able to tell someone in the early stages, although we have told our parents and siblings. All being well I'll be due on 16th April. Still feeling pretty good just now, apart from tiredness, but that's probably more due to A's sleep completely having gone to pot recently, can only assume its his teeth, although he did have his mmr the other day as well, he's now sleeping in our bed again, have lost that ability to deal with anything in the middle of the night!
Good news in that he's FINALLY taken his first steps though, only one or two wobbly ones but we're getting there!!

Petty glad you enjoyed your camping trip, sounds lovely! And 2 naps a day am very about that, A seems to be dropping his naps now, when I'm needing them most!!!

ckny F sounds like a real character!! And 2 hour naps are still pretty great, 3 hour ones never happened in this house!

Lozario L's vocabulary wow that's advanced, must be so much less frustrating for them when they can tell you what they do / don't want! Sounds
like she's doing great, how's the bedtime going now??

halo yay on the scan, such a relief to get to that stage isn't it?? Does that mean you've 'announced' it now?

everso good luck with the move!!! And november isn't far off now! A's teeth are taking FOREVER to come through as well, its awful isn't it?

JoJo enjoy your holiday you lucky thing, I'm also apprehensive about coping with two but I figure that milions of other people do it, so I'm sure we'll manage!!!

Right, enjoy your sundays everyone, I'm still in my pj's but I suppose I better go and do something useful......

Hello all, been an age since I checked in! Slight name change but think it's obvious who I am!

Huge congratulations to highlandbird on the BFP and haloflo on the successful scan. Can't believe how close some of us are to having the next baby as well! You must be so excited everso.

Wonderful news about Bethan walking Purple.

Lozario are you going to go for number 3 then? G'wan.

ckny you'll be fine coping by yourself. My oh went away on a business trip and I made it through. Eating out definitely recommended!

Everything is mostly good here. We are attempting to move to a new, bigger house but the sale is going SO slowly. I really hope it starts speeding up soon. I did think we'd be in for summer, now I'm just hoping we're in for Christmas!

My girl is 18 months now, can't believe that! She's brilliant. Chasing around like a nutter, finally has some hair, a mouthful of teeth, and she's slowly picking up words. She says Mama now, which is lovely. Although less so when's she banging on my door in the morning while I attempt to have a lie in. Apparently daddy just isn't good enough in the morning!

But the really big news is that I am also pregnant again, due 4 April so we're pregnancy buddies again highlandbird! Had a scan on Friday which showed baby there and a heartbeat so very happy. But I really, really need to move now! I am sick again, currently seeing about having acupuncture to see if that helps. I will try anything! All day sickness + toddler = misery!

Yay for more lovely pregnancy news, congrats ladies!!

Well done Bethan!!

No news to report here, but usually I feel guilty about not checking in much on this thread, but everytime I do, I get lots of fabulous news to read all in one go .

Dd2 is nearly 17 months now and is starting to say the odd word, especially 'no' coupled with lots of over-the-top head shaking and shrieking! She is very cute though, so I let her off for now. She is hating the heat, and spends much of the time stripped down to her nappy in the house, whilst dd1 runs round pretty much in the nuddie .

everso I forgot to add that dd2 was a failed vbac, but my emcs was for different reasons from my first, and there was no reason for me not to try iyswim. At the hospital, there was a vbac coordinator who was very helpful.

Congratulations Muser!!!! ooh I really am getting v at all these lovely bfp's! DH won't even think about trying until March :(

Although I only have one child, I appear to have 6 pushchairs (inc a double!) so I'm trying to sell a couple now

How on earth did you get so many pushchairs, Petty?! Well, it seems this board may be the perfect outlet to find takers! :)

Congratulations, Muserli !!! I can't believe how many of you are expecting, and how soon we will become aunties again!

Our biggest news is not that big in comparison, but Franz's last 4 teeth seem to be popping through and he is drooling buckets! Back to wet shirts (and pants, and floor,...) He's finally holding my hand for our outings, and loves to walk to the book store and wave to all the people on the streets on our way. He already has his friends (the fruit vendor, the local panhandler, and the till clerks at our grocery store). He still only says "no" and "up", but has started to make more animal noises (moo, baaa, and woof) plus stomps his feet when he sees elephants.

We will definitely try the eating out thing and perhaps go to the yummy vegan place my DH won't go to with me!

Well Arthur is north wales staying with the GP's for a week and I'm in Cardiff

Ok to be fair, I left him last night and going back tomorrow night for the weekend then leaving him again for another 48 hours but its still very strange. House feels quiet and empty. I hope he's ok - he's never spent more than a couple of hours with my mum, roughly every 4-6 weeks! I hope he doesn't feel abandoned!

Making the most of this time (despite being in work - hence why he's with the GP's as CM on holiday) and me and DH going for meals, cinema, drinks etc... Somehow though we don't seem to have worked it so we get a lie in. Hmm something has gone wrong there

Hope everyone has nice plans for the bank holiday weekend :)

Oh petty that must be strange! I can't imagine being here and the kids somewhere else! Sometimes I fantasise about it of course...!

My two are ill at the moment, had a rough night with DS who had another croup attack. Luckily we always have steroids in the house as he is prone to it but all the same I think we will go back to the docs to see if it could be asthma as he was "meant" to grow out of it by now! We are going on a holiday with the outlaws tomorrow too, I have been cooking all day for it (self-catering and I'm cooking for the 12 of us on the first night! ) so after about 4 hours sleep last night I am KNACKERED. Back on Tuesday. I just hope they sleep!!!

Ok our due list so far is (am sure I've forgotten some):

Everso - Due 7 November
JoJo - Due 17 December
Halo - Due 19 Feb
Stealth - ? You must be here I think?
Muserli - Due 4 April
Highlandbird - Due 16 April

Wonder who is still lurking out there? Mixed? Me23? Hope you're all well. I have to go and stir rice now but hello all - pray for me this weekend!!

Hello, look at all those impending second babies, how lovely! I am not feeling at all broody, even when peers from first time round are getting pregnant, but making conversation with MrM last night over dinner, he admitted that he had a strong feeling of broodiness a couple of days ago!

We do finally have some walking here, not consistently, but if you point E between us, she'll take several steps until she reaches you, falls over, or gets bored and starts crawling!

Rescuing this from right down the bottom of the page. Lovely to hear about the walking Medee, is she getting more confident now?