Postgraduate brookers - Brooking No Argument for happy, healthy and sleeping DCs..

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New thread time!

Oh men and their 'important' jobs - pah!

We have the same thing when we have days at home. So we agrees that we'd plan days out for the long weekend so we didn't waste it. Have we planned owt? Of course not. Is DH now working at least one day of the three? Of course.

I really must apply my brain to make sure we do something for the other two days. Any ideas?

Is it wrong that I'm currently making a list of boy's names for a baby that isn't even conceived yet?

Not at all .

Will you share your list? I kinda feel a teeny bit that we won't do that fun planning bit again so I'll need to do it vicariously through the other brookers who are still expanding their broods

my stuff to do is always less important too - what's the deal with that?

i dropped my phone last night and never got it back so I'm way behind here. DS2's new pattern seems to be sleep for a few hours at 10ish then be up and down every hour or so.

i guess it's that 4 month thing. he does seem v hungry and is almost considering rolling over a bit. he's also become quite keen on grabbing and studying things, my hair included. ouch! busy baby.

Logan
Archibald/Archie
Rex
Patrick
Griffin
Connor
Finn
Kit/Christopher
Jasper
Matteus
Thane

I LOVE the name Kit for a boy. DH wouldn't even consider it but I guess it doesn't matter now anyway. Please call your DS Kit (if you have a DS)

I am convinced that my next child will be a boy. Anyway, ttc isn't going to be until at least next year, possibly not until next October after I turn 30.

Am sitting here with M asleep on me. Really need a pee. DH is bringing me home a rented carpet cleaner - ooh, the glamour of my life! Am actually weirdly excited about cleaning the rug and carpet and getting any residual dog pee out of them.

Wow your DH knows how to spoil you Too . DH told me I could have a washing machine for Christmas WTF? I mean to be fair he meant as a joint Christmas present but still.....

I had a rented carpet cleaner instead of an Easter Egg. WTF indeed?! Yes, I was also 37 weeks pg . Yes I did threaten divorce. Yes DH did then end up doing it himself.

I would demand an EXTRA Easter egg if I was expected to do extra carpet cleaning. Plus one for being 37 weeks pregnant, and an extra extra one for the two things together.

Can I make a confession? I came across one of DS's Easter eggs at the back of a cupboard the other day that we'd all forgotten about and I ate it

Biscuits Is that the only chocolate you've had since you gave the rest of it away to DH's colleagues? If so then I'm mightily impressed!

I just worked out that I was actually 38 weeks pg Easter weekend. Tell you what though, them Rug Doctors are ace. If I had have done it myself I'd have gone over and over it. It looked quite satisfying seeing the water turn black (if a bit on the grim side)

Erm, sadly not Scarlet . Although I am eating less chocolate. I've also polished off a bag of mini Reece's peanut butter cups in the last 24 hours....

Is it wrong that I want a rug doctor now just to make the water go black? Not for Christmas though (just in case DH reads this )

Sadly I am having to wait til tomorrow for the rug doctor - clearly everyone else wants one too, as they were all out already. We're to call Homebase after 9.30 and a couple should have been returned.

Biscuits, the Easter Egg thing is totally understandable. After all, chocolate is bad for you. Therefore, you were saving your child from unhealthy chocolate by eating it yourself. What a selfless act of kindness on your part! I bow to such wonderful mothering.

Scarlet, definitely grounds for divorce. A Rug Doctor AND an Easter Egg, though - might even have sff for that!

I didn't get an Easter Egg from DH because he 'couldn't find one nice enough'! DS was one week old. I'd bought a nice one for DH a few weeks before. I said, all bemused, that I'd rather have a blummin buttons egg than none at all! Luckily DH gave me a few packets of little caramel eggs and the like so I ate handfuls of them every morning instead.

too, I'm loving kit for Christopher, Finn (but I'd have finnian, I LOVE that, Dh wouldn't agree for Ben to be Finn but if i could persuade him today I would change it!!!) . Also jealous of the rug doctor... biscuits I found a foot of dds chocolate bunny from Thorntons left over from Easter a few weeks ago and guzzled sampled it. Understandable I'd have done the same

I'm not going to go down the baby walker route but I would look into a jumperoo- so expensive but there must be some knocking around second hand. Forgotten what else was said- need to post this and scroll back . I did read it all

Oh yes, no lie in here, really to keep the peace & stop the neighbours thinking we're boiling them in oil or something with our brood we both need to be up. Sometimes Dh will do from 6am so I get an extra 30-60 minutes in bed before B and DD are up (its always S first of course)

And S prefers to start the day somewhere in the hour of 5... Luckily today it was 5:45 though- the right side of 5 at least!!

We picked up a secondhand jumpwroo for 40 pounds and I'm ptetty sure we'll be able to sell it on shortly as well

What's the difference in a jumperoo and a baby walker?

Dream S sounds utterly delicious apart from the not sleeping and I think you're doing a great job with 3. Just wanted to throw that into the conversation. :) And surely, surely he'll learn how to sleep soon?

The trouble with Finn, Dream, is that SIL's brother is a Finn and DH knows him reasonably well so it might smack of naming the baby after him. I do like it though.

Looks like there are lots of Jumperoos on Ebay but mostly collection only.

Oh, and Dream, why avoid a baby walker? Can they be dangerous?

Biscuits, Jumperoos stand in one spot and the baby bounces up and down. Baby walkers have wheels so the baby can walk around in it. Example

Apparently I can't drink wine slowly any more. I can just neck a glass and then look longingly at the forbidden bottle

We don't have a jumperoo or a babywalker but we do have this type thing but not that exact one. Had loads of use with DS so hopefully DD will also enjoy.

Can't remember who was asking about DC sitting up before weaning but DS was nowhere near sitting up by himself. We weaned at 26 weeks and he was able to sit properly in his high chair around 8/9 months. Until then he was fed in his bouncy chair.

Our eating pattern is the same as Biscuits. I have breakfast and lunch with DS, but DH comes home from work too late for us all to eat together so DS has his (while I sit with him) but I eat with DH usually 8-8.30ish. I cook for myself and DH and DS usually has the same thing warmed up the next day. Unless DH and I are having fajitas or curry in which case DS has a fishfinger/sausage/pizza day. If we're home on a Sunday I make an effort to do a roast dinner for about 4.30/5ish and we all eat together then, but that's generally the only time. I like to enjoy my evening meal and it's nice for DH and I to sit together for it.

I'm a paediatric physio pet so spend my days telling people not to use babywalkers. They are considered dangerous as they give very young children access to things they shouldn't be able to reach, but the main one as a physio is they put the baby in a wierd position for walking- they're in a sling bit to hold them up so in slight hip flexion and they push off from their toes to scoot about. It's not a normal walking pattern and they've been linked to toe walking. I've seen some idiopathic (ie. no known cause, like cerebral palsy or a muscular dystrophy) toe walkers who were big baby walker users and they're of no benefit to a baby bar to the parents sanity . That said there will be loads of babies who use them with no problem. We discourage door bpuncers etc too for the same reason but i think they're not so bad as they're not learning to do something- like walk- in a wierd way. I'm probably going to get a door bouncer or jumperoo for the boys- hopefully S will like it- anyway and hide it if any of my work colleagues come round, of course