October 2005 babies - what will happen in the next 6 months??

[Yokefleet]

I hope they are as good as the last 6!

Hi novadandypowder, we are in Ealing so not too far from you. Haven't ventured far into london with dd yet as dp works away, is quite a daunting prospect on your own. Esp as the tube stations all have steps and fel embarrassed asking for help. I do drive but find london driving quite stressful!
Oh and congrats on your news!! We are talking of having another soon but right on cue dd has started getting up in the night again and all the memories of newborn exhaustion are flooding back...have shelved that idea for the moment. When are you due? Is it as exciting as last time?

Novadandypowder ? wow the November thread has 4 pregnant ladies already!!! Amazing, and congrats to you.

Elf- - how ya doing, still working full-time?

Yorkefleete ? thanks for the welcome back!!! How you doing, am impressed you didn?t fall out over the bunkbeds! How many extra screws dd you have left over? Had a lovely couple of hours with mawbroon yesterday, her wee man is gorgeous. My digital camera is dead (waiting for new one to be delivered today) but Mawbroon took some lovely ones, which she is going to email me. But you?ll have to ask Mawbroon if I?m a hairy assed trucker or not!!!

Mummyloveus- did you used to be someone else?

01kiwicath ? hiya and welcome, if you go over to the meet-ups part of mumsnet you may find other people who live near you.

yeah we're poppin' em out on the Nov thread

I'm beginning to get excited now, looking forward to having two close together in age (dd should be about 18 months when this arrives), but the sickness with a little one has been a killer.

Daisy, think I've been to Ealing once, when my sister was thinking of moving to London. Are you on the West London thread? Think there are a few from your neck of the woods.

rtl mummylovesus used to be mummygow.

Yokefleet - ours is a big Tesco Extra too, and they also only have 2 car trolleys! The other day was just a case of 'right place, right time' (mind you, we were in there 5 minutes before school chuck-out time, so there were also loads of parent and toddler parking spaces free - another rarity usually)

Gonna have an early night tonight - just got back from driving all the way up to Norfolk and back in a day to finalise more wedding details NM x

Hi RTL. Still working full time and have just started night college too, well, I start a week tomorrow, two nights a week. Fingers crossed that I haven't bitten off more than I can chew.

01kiwicath -welcome to the thread

Elf -hope the AAT course goes ok.I did it a few years ago. It wasn't too bad. A bit of homework now and then but nothing horendous.

YF - lol at Thomas on the stairs.Ds does similar,he peers through the bannisters at daddy who is supposed to be working in the dining room and laughs.Of course daddy doesn't get much work done when ds is in stair-exploring-mode

Ds has gone through from 11pm to 6.30am 2 nights in a row. It's a bit of a breakthrough (and I'm bound tohave jinxed itnowlol)but hopefully itmeans we are finally making progress in the sleep department. Hurray

DontlookatmeImshy I hope that you have ahd another good nights sleep.

Hiya,

New to this thread but been posting on MN for ages. Previous nickname was bamik. Posted alot last year on the Antenatal Nov 05 thread, but baba showed up 4 weeks early (Oct 05!)

lovemybaba Hiya and welcome

Hi lovemybabe and welcome to the October thread.

YF - Sadly no. He was up at 4.30,then again at 5.30 at which point i caved in and took him into bed where we both slept till 7.00. Ho hum. Poor little fella is teething like mad though so not too suprised tbh.

Hi dontlookatmeimshy,

About 2 weeks ago my babs was going through the same thing He didn't eat for about 3 days. Hated the idea of the spoon going in his mouth. I took him to the gp on the 2nd day as his temperature was sky high and the calpol would only work up to the 4 hour mark and then it rocketed again But even though he was drinking his milk he was really weak and just slept all the time. I actually had to bring him in to sleep with me one morning. And he has never slept in my bed - poor thing.

I hated it - felt really helpless. But I gave him lots of cuddles which I loved as normally he won't sit on my lap for 5 seconds cuz he wants to play with his toys (or bash up daddy's playstation )!

Hi lmb,hope your little fella is feeling better now. Ds is a little better. I think a few coming all at once.

I had 2 babydan playpens delivered thismorning. I really should have got themsooner. I can get stuff done without having to retrieve ds from places he shouldn't be in every 5 seconds.

Howiseveryone.It'svery quiet here

Had a lovely afternoon with Mawbroon, her wee boy is such a cutey. She should be safe and sound back in Scotland by now, proof that I'm not a hairy trucker

Been reminiscing by looking on here Can't believe it's nearly a year!!! I should print it out and put it in dd's Babay book, if she ahd one well actually she does have one, but I've not put anything in it. Poor wee soul. DS1 has a book that's full to the brim, ds2 had 1 page written on.

Anybody just as bad [hangs head in shame]

elf amazed at you and your AAT course, good for you!

I know what you mean RTL - Joey will be 1 year old in 10 days time!!!!!!! This time last year, i was waiting his for impending birth. Now he's crawling, almost-walking, sprouting teeth left, right, and centre - it just doesn't seem possible

And i don't know about anyone else, but he only seemed to be a 'tiny' baby for such a short space of time. We had someone view the house yesterday, and she bought her 2 month old with her. I looked and thought, 'i don't remember Joey being that small and helpless', but he obviously was! Funny how the mind blanks things (especially the bits about the sleepless nights!)

Have a good weekend everybody, NM x

nervousmum - should you not be changing your name soon......surely not nervousmum now

it's less than 3 weeks for Evelyn's birthday, it's a shock! I still cant believe it. She looks so grown up - walking, babbling, saying the odd word (yesterday it was "keys" while playing with a set and "hello daddy" when DH got her out the car which DH thought was wicked). Climbing the stairs, playing peekaboo by hiding behind the sofa and peeing herself laughing. She's so big as well! Cant imagine her like she was when first born - sleeping for 23hrs of the day and such a teeny tiny helpless thing!

RTL - I was looking at those the other day! Some of the stuff I wrote really made me laugh. As for the AAT course - start it on Wed and Thurs, so no doubt I'll be on her Fri complaining!!

As requested, RTL- my updated name (i deliberately didn't go too radical, as it's part of me now!)

Hello all
I haven't managed to get a minute to catch up on the thread yet. Hope you are all doing well.
We had a lovely break away and made my first ever trip to Wales! Johnny is almost as well travelled as me and he's not even a year yet! I can confirm that RTL is not a hairy trucker. We had a lovely afternoon. Johnny and Scarlett did that baby thing where they sit together nicking the toys that the other one has, and poking each other in the eyes! Both Scarlett and RTL's ds2 are real cutie pies.
So, I don't know how often I am going to be able to post. As of tomorrow, I am a childminder and will have my hands full with a full time 4yo, his 8 yo sister, a part time 1yo as well as Johnny, the housework, the shopping, the cooking and a new gig in an Edinburgh pub every fortnight. I feel a few 8pm bedtimes coming on soon!!

However, I'm not going to confirm that MawBroon is not a hairy trucker!!!

The meeting wnet well yesterday with the new mindees then? I didn't know you were a singer!

Is anyone going to the Mumsnet Xmas meet-up?

Not a singer RTL, they would employ me to sing at chucking out time!! No, I play the fiddle and play traditional music semi professionally now, although I did do if for a living many moons ago.
I have been trying to get a booster cushion this afternoon for my new 4 yo mindee and everywhere is sold out! Seeing as they only signed up yesterday, I couldn't have exactly known beforehand what to get by way of cushions so I am involved in the last minute rush. What a carry on!

Good luck with the childminding Mawbroon

Good luck for today Mawbroon

mawbroon good luck for today!!

NSNM - on your new name!!!

wow what a lot of posts here.

I am mum to a dd born last October and it has flown past. She walks now, climbs on to everything and plays with power rangers thanks to her two big brothers 5 and 3. She was born exactly on due date...both brothers were prem babies so she had been expected from August and in the end I was induced to get her out.

She laughs a lot and is saying a few words like Hello, baby and mama and dada. She doesn't like the dog we are looking after at the moment and crys when it walks anywhere near her. But apart from that its great despite the pile of pink clothes she has.