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November '05 - babies getting bigger, mummies getting smaller!

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novadandypowder · 29/03/2006 08:57

A nice new thread for us all - I know someone mentioned it a few days ago Grin

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Londoner · 18/04/2006 20:55

Oh, Bob, so sorry you had a crap daySad.

All those who didn't come, you were missed....

browniechick · 18/04/2006 20:56

Evening All. Hope you all had a lovely day and enjoyed meeting each other. Sorry I couldn't be there, i really feel like I've missed out on something! Please don'texclude me from things cos I couldn't make it! Sad I know it's those horrible childhood playground feelings coming out again! Grin)
Diege, when you have got yourself settled and got over the journey, please don't forget to text me with the gossip!!!!
Can't believe I go back to work next week. Have got our first session at nursery tomorrow - this one is accompanied, so I stay with him - Friday I leave him for an hour or so.
Bear - was it you that was mentioning something about sterilsing toys at nursery? When I went to look round ours, they made a point of saying that they change the toys in the baby room, to keep the bubs stimulated, and they pack all toys in a large red crate and sterilise them ready for use next time. It would be impossible to sterilise between kids, so once or twice a day is what they do I think.

Will wait for goss with baited breath!!!!! Grin

Brownie & Thomas

BEKsmum · 18/04/2006 20:59

Tex I had Toby's party bag packed too - minus the cake of course. You poor thing if you need any help while your dh is away just yell, we've had so many bugs too that a few more won't do us any harm! Beks

Londoner · 18/04/2006 21:01

Oh, Bob, so sorry you had a crap daySad.

Rodeo - sorry I didn't say good-bye, I didn't know where you'd gone and was cutting it v.fine for the school pick-up...

All those who didn't come, you were missed....

ChaCha · 18/04/2006 21:32

Hi all,

Sounds like a great day out :)

Karma - Yeah. But we're one man down. What has happened to KristinaM? How are you feeling today? Hopefully sacrificing the meet up to be on DP's time has been well worth it.

BoB - What happened at the baby clinic? What had made you so late? Don't feel bad, it's unfortunate, but just think, there will be another soon! Keep smiling :) Hope you're in your lounging attire having a good rest!

Have managed to fill two days a week with baby group nearby and one in nearby town. Hard at home with LO demanding attn all day, hours seem to pass so slowly.

Well that's it for me with my exciting news! DH is making a steak special, yum! Talk later.

p.s. How is all the dieting going? I am a sad case. Too much home time!

Diege · 18/04/2006 21:39

Hi everyone Grin. Just got back home, so of course had to log on straight away and say a big hello, and to say what a lovely time I had today Smile. You are all lovely, and the babies too cute for words, will def. do it again Smile. Funny, was thinking, well def. worth it, but next time I'd bring some help along (ie. DH), or we could all come by car, but LIbby actually slept most of journey back, so buoyed up now and ready for next trip south! Grin.
BOB: so sorry you were upset; see what you mean, though it was pretty late and everyone was making a move for travelling back. Doesn't take away from what you felt of course Sad.
Well, pretty shattered, but have some lovely memories to think back over Smile. Thanks again for a lovely day,
Diege and Liberty Smile

ChaCha · 18/04/2006 21:51

My friend's DS, not even 2 weeks old has been admitted to hossie :( Same thing LO had at 4 weeks. Babysitting the 3yr old tonight...eeeeeek!
Can hear it now...'But my mummy says...'

Nighty night all x

p.s. Hiya Diege. Glad you had super time.

novadandypowder · 18/04/2006 22:07

I feel very bouyed up too Diege, I've never known Nat to be so well behaved during a whole day out Grin. Not counting my chickens too soon, but feel more optimistic about trying it again.

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novadandypowder · 18/04/2006 22:08

Your poor friend Chacha Sad What an experience having a 3 year old and a baby in the house will be! Good practice...Wink

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beartime · 18/04/2006 22:09

Hi, it was so nice to meet everyone, now I am going to be picturing them when I write! It's funny how much more self-conscious I am in RL though. I don't worry too much online, but in RL I wonder if people don't like me etc. Blush I think a lot of it goes back to being bullied at school which made me automatically think people didn't like me Sad So silly though really, who cares anyway, just be yourself is what I should tell myself!

Londoner - thanks so much for meeting me and helping me navigate the streets of London! And it was nice to chat on the way too!

Karma - I haven't seen Biddulph's book but maybe I'll try and look at it in a bookshop or something - it sounds interesting but I don't know if I'd get it cos it sounds like it might be quite subjective - is it? Talking abt hair loss, a guest at our house just found one of my long hairs in her curry tonight Blush

Golden - Agree with Londoner about how you make it look so easy, and you're so full of 'joy' too! Smile

Beks - thanks for babysitting while I went to the loo too! It was such fun trying to amuse our two babies at the same time!

Diege - finally got to see what you looked like - and def. different from my original picture of you with spectacles and grey hair Grin And it was soooooooooooo funny Nova asking you if Libby ever cried, and you saying 'no she doesn't cry' with her wailing in the background! I'll be laughing at that for a while Grin

Rodeo - sorry I didn't get to talk to you much, I wanted to but my baby brain can't think of much to say when its already overloaded with looking after a baby and lots of people around!
Tessasmum - the same with you too - I wanted to talk but couldn't get my brain in gear to figure out how!

Agree with Nova about difficulty getting a proper conversation - cos at least one of you only has half their concentration on the conversation and the rest on the baby! And like I told Londoner I'm terrible at doing two things at once. You should have seen me at my six-week checkup trying to change Caleb's clothes and answer the doctor's twenty questions at the same time - I was so flustered! So apologies to anyone who didn't get my full undivided attention (that would probably be everyone!). And I've always been terrible at goodbyes - I tend to walk out of places without even saying goodbye cos I don't like them!

BoB so sorry about your day, you looked quite upset when we saw you Sad and I really felt for you. I hope you don't mind me saying this but I used to be totally anti Health visitors and weighing and everything, but then read some threads where babies actually were seriously in trouble and weren't taken to clinic so they didn't know etc. so I can now see more the point in them. But I was wondering, you said that he's dropped a whole formula feed for an apple. I don't have any experience but from the reading I've done, I think they say that milk should still be the main form of calorie intake for a while, so maybe he should still have his formula feed but with the apple in between, and maybe a reduced amount of milk? And that way he would still be taking in more calories. However I haven't even started weaning yet so have no first-hand knowledge whatsoever so I may be completely wrong! I hope it sorts itself out - and I think as long as they don't go below the 4th centile and are still giving out wet nappies and playing and smiling they are s'posed to be OK anyway. Maybe you could start a thread on the feeding section to see if anyone else has any experience of weight dropping when weaning starts etc.?

Jen - so long as you make the quilt Grin

Nova - sorry I didn't say thanks properly for the wraps and liners - are you sure you don't want some money for them? I could give you half the original cost of the wraps - I know they are quite expensive? It's great tho' cos I had been wanting to try out a velcro wrap.

Brownie - yes that was me with the toys - that's interesting that they do it twice a day even. I think the same - it would be impossible to do it between kids - idon't know where they get that idea from.

Rodeo · 18/04/2006 22:13

I'm home too :) My feet hurt!

Today was really brill - I cannot wait to see you all next time, agree with Nova, I don't feel like I had a proper talk with any of you! Sorry I ever really got down your end of the table Golden & Londoner, I will try harder next time (although I was enviously eyeing your excellent handling of the lovely boys GO!),
Londoner E is beautiful, those socks were fab!
Jen, you are so funny, you do make me laugh, and F is gorge.
Diege, enjoyed our afternoon, Laura was crippled getting off the train, walking all pigeon-toed! Hilarious!
Beks, Thomas & Ben are really handsome and very well behaved - model children!
LilJ's Nate is such a smiler and so like his daddy!
And if Nova's Nat is like her daddy like you say Nova he must be handsome because she's beautiful.
Bear, didn't say bye to you, nice to have met you and little Caleb
Tessa, I'll get you the name of that website, lovely to meet you, Ash is fab
Bob really really sorry you felt so awful :( Hope it won't put you off meeting up again. Oskar is lovely, my sis loved is little tweed trews

Right, think I've mentioned everyone, I can't believe how lovely you all were! Well I can Wink I do read all of the posts every single day!

Karma, sorry you couldn't make it down, hope things are getting better at home,
Chacha, glad you had a good weekend,
And Brownie, I'll text you the JK goss, Diege still hasn't worked her way round her mobile yet Grin

J is zonked out on our bed in her day clothes, hmmm, do I wake her or just put her in her cot?!

JenJam · 18/04/2006 22:54

right a bit more time to myself
LONDONER - you are one chilled out mother..
RODEO - you too, in fact RODEO, LONDONER, GOLDEN and DIEGE combined make dangerous company for anyone with a baby making itch.

BEKSMUM - lovely to meet BEN - hope F grows up to be an easy going little boy like him! and those eyelashes - it's just not fair. BTW nice photo of you and your thomas!
TEX, BROWNIE, KARMA - don't be sad you didn't come - hope to see you in the summer? Didn't take nearly as many photos as i hoped to...but there's four on yahoo site under meet ups for you to peruse and think TESSASMUM has some to put up too. hope no-one minds the photo i have put up of them!!! Let me know if you do and i'll take it off, or take it off yourself if you can. I wish i got someone to take a formal one of us all standing together school photo style
BEARTIME and TESSASMUM - thanks for taking the effort to come into London with your cute eyed boys. I realise when i said thanks to the northerners that just because someone comes from somewhere other than london it does not mean they come from the North. although Luton could countGrin, Oxford? does not.

NOVA - TTC Shock!! we have only very recently RNBA
LILJ - be interested to hear what you make of Little Angels nursery....i haven't made my mind up + I think my view was coloured having just finished biddulph's book....went in with a touch of the 'all childcare is evil' it's sooo convenient to my house I kind of want it to be right for us!!!
GOLDEN - found a load of stuff on internet about nannies tonight so think i'm very well equipped for first initial meet on Thurs. but am now starting to wonder whether we can actually afford it once you add on the cost of tax and NI it can really mount up...might have to look into nannyshare next. sometimes I think you would need to be earning 6 figures to work and have kids!!
night night

JenJam · 18/04/2006 23:02

oh and something for the toys sterilisation discussion: I visited one nursery and asked about the toys being sterilised...the woman showing me around said when I asked "the toys are sterilsed on rotation, about once every two weeks!!" eeek

I'm getting slacker about the sterilising but I always sterilise toys after another little boy comes over; especially at this age when they dribble quite alot

btw the nursery was not Little Angels I might add LILJ, but another very honest community nursery who also said that the children had only been exposed to by 'flashers' only 'a couple of times' when i asked about the security in relation to the relatively low 'see through' fence area. nice. off the list me thinks!

browniechick · 19/04/2006 08:40

Morning All! Rodeo - thanks for text, will reply later (have a question about 1 bit!).

Have got Nursery appointment at 10, so only a quick post, then off to feed T and get stuff sorted for nursery! Feel quite nervous myself!

Thomas is really liking the baby rice at the moment. He has some with one meal a day. Have dropped his bottles down an ounce to compensate for the rice. He seems quite happy at the moment. So will carry on as am at the moment. Also started him on a drop of fennel tea in the afternoon, he seems to like that too! Think he will take after his daddy and grandpop and really love his food!!!!

Speak later

Brownie & Thomas
x

goldenoldie · 19/04/2006 08:41

Ops - thanks to Tess and beartime too for making the trek yesterday.

Like others, I felt I did not manage to have a proper conversation with everyone - next time.

Beks - get off that trampoline - I know you are having a secret bounce on it!

LilJ - lucky you off to the Indian Ocean on your hols.

Diege - when are you off on holiday with the SIX kids!

JenJam - sure the drive to France will be OK. Bet Finn will sleep for most of it.

Don't think we are going anywhere yet. Too much hassle unless it has built-in childcare, and then I feel guilty for handing them over to strangers!

Being a mum is all about dealing with guilt. Everything plays out in my mind as a constant debate - 'Is it good for the DTs?', 'Is it good for me?', 'Is there a compromise?'

Do men worry like this?.....................

novadandypowder · 19/04/2006 08:45

JenJam - sorry, I shouldn't laugh but 'flashing - only a couple of times' WTF!!!!

I don't steralise toys and neither do gymboree, I figure with cats around the house she's been exposed to a load of nasty stuff already Blush

Beartime - don't worry about the liners/wraps, I got them as part of a trial package when I was thinking about using re-usables so they didn't actually cost anywhere near full price.

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JenJam · 19/04/2006 09:15

Twins!

what would be a really useful pressie to buy a the proud new mother of twins.......she also has a 21 month old?

clothing just a bit boring?

Diege · 19/04/2006 09:20

Morning Smile. Libby quite unsettled last night, no doubt still having nightmares about travel cot in hotel Grin. Had e-mail from work saying they are ready to meet with me about my flexible work application on Monday, and said they (3 of them) would come to my house if easier. Hmm, not sure if this is the best option (ie, boss sitting in amongst toy piles with my knickers drying on raditars!!)There again, difficult if having to take LIbby to work/meet anywhere else!!!
Back in thick of things, with DDS driving me mad already!!!! Oh to be back in the calm of the museum...!!
PS: get that horrendous picture of me off yahoo!!! Wink Why does everyone else look great!! (stamps foot) Grin

goldenoldie · 19/04/2006 09:38

JenJam - Re: present, I'm tempted to say - 'contraception', but that might be a little rude! Try this:

www.twinsthings.co.uk/

Everyone loves the twins t-shirt I have. Found it on e-bay.

When are you seeing the Gower School?

Let us know how the nanny interview goes? Yes, you should do a nanny share - a lot cheaper. Another alternative to reduce costs is only putting a % of the salary through the books and paying cash in hand for the rest.

Diege · 19/04/2006 10:31

Meant to say thanks to Rodeo for texting BROWNIE on my behalf Smile; hope you enjoyed it, and it didn't suffer from chinese whispers etc!!! AM looking at my iron now - surely one would have to take great care IYSWIM, but then that's what the pinny was for I think Grin.
LOL JENJAM at flashers Blush; oh dear, def. one to strike off your list! Makes you wonder if the other parents know? Meant to thank you for cake too; such a big wedge. Mmmm, could eat it again now with a nice cup of tea Grin.
Trying to 'do a LONDONER' this morning and keep really calm in face of adversity (ie, dds plus water plus wet tights, plus screaming baby) and not managing very well!! No wonder little Elizabeth is so calm - a little victorian china doll Smile
Right, best get Cbeebies on Grin.
Diege Smile

babyonboard · 19/04/2006 11:15

morning all..

damn..i know i'm not holding things together when I lt the dragon health visitor bother me....
i was going to take him to the clinic on friday but they got my g.p to call and insist we went yesterday..quite annoying!
they were concerned as O has lost a little weight..no doubt due to him dropping a feed now i've started weaning (i know thats not meant to happen but i can't force it on him)
i'm going togive him higher calerie stuff..avocado and yogurt maybe.
can babies have hummous at this stage?
lik londoner said..he's happy and healthy so I'm not concerned really..

jenjam- know what you mean about buggies and buses!
what a nightmare
i couldn't even get mine between the seats on the first bus i got ons o had to reverse and wait for another..heehee
diege - how do youmantainsuchperfect hair!? im in awe..lol..i'm lucky if i get to wash mine everyday.

sorry i missed the cake..and the JK gossip!someone should email it to me..need to know!

Does anyone else fel in a perpetualstate of disorganisation? everything seems to take forever so i sometimes avoid leaving the house which can't be good!
like yesterday..alone i could make the journey in half an hour, but it took us over 1 1/2 (with the bus incident and having to drag the pram upstairs inthe train station with O under on arm and no offers of help..grr)
and two hours to get home..but that did include a stop off at haagen daz..lol..yummy.
not sure i'll cope with two children!

we should have another meet up soon..maybe lunch at wagamamas or such? Love the pinic idea..

babyonboard · 19/04/2006 11:16

oh..and Shock and Grin at the flashers comment..

Diege · 19/04/2006 11:34

Hi BOB! Glad you're feeling a bit brighter Smile. Sounds a nightmare journey yesterday for you; babies and public transport should mix, but don't seem to when actually trying to get around, esp. when stairs involved.
Re: weaning, remember when I was first staring with dd1 the best book I actually read was the NHS one (0 to 5 or something?); it was free back then, and still given out here to pregnant women. LOts of great and easy recipes. You can give houmus I think - remember having it for dd1 as one of her first meals, with fingers of pitta bread Smile. Cottage chesse too, and lots of yogs.
Oh, and secret to so-called perfect hair is having other people's glued on to yours (ie. extensions), oh and GHD straightening irons GrinONly wash once a week Blush

Rodeo · 19/04/2006 11:36

Morning :)

I've woken up with a poorly baby - high temp & sore throat - hope she's not passed it on to anybody, must have been the reason she was so sleepy anyway.

Still basking in the glow of the London trip! Gave the children their pressies this morning :) Got Joe a London bus and Bella an Egyptian cat from the museum so they're both happy (They love their little letters too Diege :)) Got some goodies from L'Occtaine too which I can't stop smelling!

Think I missed the holiday conversations, when are LilJ and and Jen off on their travels?

Bella made me laugh earlier, she was singing something over and over while I was tidying, then caught the words 'World War 3'(?)
'Bella, what are you singing?'
and she sang at me 'Can Iran start World War 3, Can Iran start World War 3...' Shock She'd read it after seeing it in a mag!

Don't know ehat has happned to the weather but it's pouring!

Bob I'm always in a purpetual state of disorganisation - I'd like to say you used to it and get better at things but I haven't! Your journey/clinic combo sounds a nightmare :( Try to make sure he's still having a loads of milk, Bear's right in saying it's still the most important thing. Not sure about the hummous

x x x

ChaCha · 19/04/2006 12:17

I've just had a look at the meet-up pics. Loooovely!! :o

You all looked relaxed and happy. Diege, LilJ and Bear all look different from what I imagined - different hairstyle/colours etc. It's really great to picture you all now.

I haven't yet started weaning, but maybe next week. I've started the LO on some Organic Goats Milk now, it's v.heavy and he is taking half the amount of milk - seems to be filling up v.quickly and sleeping straight through the night now!! No feeds inbetween [wide eyed emoticon]. Had to keep checking on him last night, 8pm - 6.30am! Am chuffed, hope it continues. Seems the swap from normal to Organic and different brand has been worthwhile.

Tell me exactly how you do the ice cube tray thing? I don't do microwaves btw.

BAM - New pics are great. I have just taken one of LO with his Great Grandma of 80 years. Will post it tonight.

See ya later x