Dec 2011 - Do that again, and you're getting sold on Ebay.....

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Just a quick one as shattered DH poorly with chest infection and DD2 still not 100% but seems better.

Xiao - about your mum. Hopefully she'll be happy for you by the end.

Jiggle well done for you DH mumming up!

Aethel hope the next few days goes smoothly.

Hope everyone else feels better and we can lock the hazmat suits away again for the week for a while.

DD2 is walking all the time now yay! Just in time to start Mini Movers tomorrow

Although DH is poorly managed to dtd tonight now AF has buggered off gone. So fx for nov baby as DH is away in London for last 3 days of week I'm due to be ov in!

Night all.

Thank you all. I really do credit you lot on this thread since the transformation has really come about since I got pregnant with DS and started posting here. The shock and outrage and haddocks you have all exhibited over the years on my behalf have actually been really helpful - if internet strangers with no axes to grind think she is nuts and I should ignore her, then I probably should. I'm actually really pleased it is working and I honestly am not too bothered anymore. I love the ideas to wind her up though, you lot are terribly evil And yes jiggle I read about the tiger mother book and it all sounded ominously familiar. I can't wait to hear DS say he loves me - I think my dad has said it once or twice a bit stiffly at tough moments. Never from my mother. So I've never said it back.

Mumsnet: cheaper than therapy and with extra tips on nappy rash!!

aethel the move will be brilliant. You will channel the power of the force and become a packing whirlwind and all of a sudden it will be the weekend and you will be all moved in and it will be wonderful and neat and tidy with everything in its place and all junk heaved either on packing or unpacking. (The tip has been DH's favourite place since we moved - I think there's one really close to the station.)

And then I will show up on your doorstep with oatmeal cookies and lemonade like the creepy neighbour you never knew you needed!

Imma break out the pompoms ladies. I think we deserve them. Just watch out for dust bunnies...

aethel hope it all goes smoothly

northern I can't believe you're still ill!

queen we only managed to DTD once during my fertile time on the cycle I conceived, good luck!

xiao tbh your mum sounds crackers, glad you're finally getting some perspective on the situation and are clearly learning by her mistakes...on how to be a rubbish mother and therefore avoiding making the same ones.

Aye, as it's now been ten days seven (plus I woke up feeling like death this morning, full on fever/sweats) I have now been to the Doc's. I'm very much of the ignore it and it'll go away school of thought, mainly because it does!, but after ten days you know you need help.
I now have drugs and the rest of the day off work, which I will spend in bed.

I agree wholeheartedly with your summary of MN Xiao; I know it's made me a more confident parent, and the top tips we receive from some of the old hands on the thread are brilliant. I hope you continue to feel liberated from your mother and her bizarre parenting.

Good luck aethel! We'll hear from you on the other side... if you've not been freaked by your friendly neighbourhood stalker

Good Luck Aethel hope all goes smoothly

Northern feel better soon 10 days is a long time to persevere but good on you for getting to the DR, my dr would probably have me waiting 10 days before i could get appointment anyway.

I didnt see DS this morning however i had text from DH staying that when he finally did wake up he did a poo so gargantuan it exploded everywhere out of his nappy........what a shame i missed it lol. He also said that monster climbed on the sofa and managed to get the remote controls to switch the tv on with his toy story dvd which was in the machine......i think we need to cut down the tv consumption.

I weighed him yesterday evening he was 2 stone 1lb means he is still between the 98th and 99th centile where he has been since about 4 months, i wish he was a bit less as sometimes he still looking portly but what can you do when he eats everything in sight??

bout time Northern. hope you feel better soon!

aethel hope backing going well.

I'm out of bed today.still feeling grotty enough but on the mend ..

Haha figgy I must admit I do get a lot of pleasure when DH tells me about the giant poosplosions that always seem to happen on his watch!

mopsy and northern really hope this is the start of lots of good health for you both.

LMF is right and pompoms are needed all round I think

I've come over all pram hun and spent an hour or so researching tandem buggies. The one I like best is also the cheapest one I've found, but it's £528 (the Babystyle Oyster Max) - the others are all well over £600 or more I guess we were just spoiled by how cheap our Baby Jogger was.

I love our boba sling and use that at least as often as the pushchair, so I've been wondering if I should just do the sling + single buggy combo. DS is a confident walker already and likes walking down the street to the store and back with me, so I'm thinking by the time he is 22 months when the next kid is here, maybe a buggyboard would be a better solution and I could put him on my back if he got too tired even for a buggyboard.

xiao I also love my baby jogger what about the tandem one? I know it's ridiculously wide but personally I'm not a fan of the ones where 1 child is practically sat on top of the other.

xiao - for what its worth everyone I know with a gap of less than 2 and a half/three years has felt a double buggy was definitely necessary. We used a buggy board but the gap was bigger. Everyone I know seems to have gone for the Phil and Teds and they do hold their value second hand quite well but agree with figgy about the child underneath, though it looksvery cosy when they are a baby.

xiao we've got an out and about double and its very good, but not good for buses and cars so I used to do the carry and single pushchair, it worked well. I wouldn't recommend the buggyboard at that age as im not convinced they have the balance, plus my dd1 got very jealous at the idea her baby sister would be in 'her' pushchair.

Feeling pretty miserable at the moment as I seem to have got a skin infection andam super itchy- i feel like a member of the cast from cabin fever.

Sky has a chest infection :( what is it with my girls and their lungs! He now has anti biotics and topped up with more calpol bless my little lady. Darcie has taken herself off to bed early with a headache too. So quiet night Chez Queen.

Xiao I plan to sling/wrap newborn and buggy for Sky.

Evening. Can I just say: booking people to do some of the packing was the Best Idea Ever. See you all on the other side! Am on phone for a while til we get cable etc sorted.

PS I had a phil n teds e3 before they hit the mainstream suppliers and for the first 18 months it was an absolute godsend. By the time they started to fight about which seat went to whom, I sold it on and went back to my Maclaren for DD2. plus its not as wide as the "true" tandems so you can get in most shop doors/aisles fairly easily.

Good luck demented meerkat! Like the idea of people packing for you, how much was it? I'm still looking at moving us closer to my work this year; mentioned to DP as well that if we have no.2 whilst I'm in this job, which is looking likely, there is no way I would be hauling my pregnant arse on a walk-train-walk-bus and return every day.

All your talk of double buggies is making me broooooody. Oh, and we watched Up this afternoon as we lay slumped on the sofa and I sobbed at the beginning

Sorry your girls aren't well Queenie, hope they're on the mend soon.

Let's be 'get well' buddies mopsy, and recover together, as it sounds like we have something pretty similar. Please Bob the anti-b's will sort my throat out, and glad to hear you're out of bed. Is Mr Mopsy OK now?

Curry for dinner, and then because DP is off work for a few days- DS had his ear consultation today, MMR tomorrow and dentist Thursday- I'm going to get him to drive me to and from the station to go to work.

Onwards and upwards....

Yes northern, Mr. Mopsy is all better thanks. I'm on the mend too thanks to the antibiotics. Still not managed to leave house but will do tomorrow... hope they kick in for you soon too and you recover fast!

Queen poor Sky and poor Darcy! I suffered from migraines and headaches as a child from about aged seven I think. It is horrid.

xiao, your mum needs therapy, not you! You are amazing!

aethel keep going, nearly there!

Northern up is the work of the devil!! I sob every time

Oh I meant to say northern, 'Up' makes me BAWL the first ten minutes. Proper snotty, red nose, red spots face crying. Glamour is, as we all know, my middle name!

Xiao, sorry about your mum.
My mum gave up on me when I decided I no longer wanted to model/act/be famous, one of my younger sisters is an actress so she's the golden child now.

Talking of double buggies, we're hoping to sling it for 6 months and then shove them both in a Joovy caboose , can't fit the side-by-side through hallway, those one under another ones look shite (and overpriced).

Up; since having the DS I start sobbing from the scene when Ellie has her head in her hands at the Dr's
But then again Artex in the Swamp of Sadness (from Neverending Story) makes me cry just thinking about it....why doesn't he fight it??

Figgy, DS has a broken Sky remote as a toy (£3 on eBay!) and he points it at the tv when it's not on, so with you on the too much tv.

Hope DD's are well again soon Queenie

Bee, hope you're better soon & it's nothing too nasty.

MW appointment today; really low iron, blood pressure is lower than last time & my wee contains everything that shouldn't be there...so I'm back to doing a food & drink diary for DH to make sure I'm eating enough.

Hope all the ill are cured soon!

Good luck aethel

Get Well Soon to Mopsy, northern, the mini Queenies (princesses?), and anyone else I've failed to mention. DS sems to finally be on the mend from his D&V today. Fingers crossed DD doesn't get it.

Xiao I went for a Graco double buggy (it's a Mothercare only thing I think) because I wanted one behind the other rather than a wide one, and I don't like the one-child-in-the-luggage-compartment style things. It's pretty long and doesn't fold very small, but what I particularly liked was that you could click the carseat into it. It's also pretty cheap. I used it a lot initially, but now DD is almost 3 we do single buggy and buggy board most of the time. I couldn't have done without it when she was younger, but given it doesn't get much use now I'm glad I didn't spend much on it.

I just wrote all that out, went to look up the price, and it seems it no longer exists...sorry! You can have mine if you want

BOi doesn't need a fake remote control. He flicks his arm at you and makes a tsch noise to indicate you have been turned on or off. (Picked up at the GPS where the TV is on whenever grandad is in - 24 hrs if antique shite-ery and midsomer murderages).
Paid for packing - aethel I am proud of you! - I had a 2 bed terrace, it cost me £250 ish on top of the removal quote. 2 weeks after a cs, with a 2 wk old baby it was worth every penny!!! (For the second move, much of our stuff was still in boxes, and we still had all the boxes from move #1 plus the packing tissue and know-how.)
Hope the move is fun aethel! Remember it's just a day or two, shit happens, there's not a lot you can do. So deep breaths and a long lunch at a nice deli will see you through!
GBT - eat, lady! Hope you're ok.
Get well soon all you others! Hope the a.b.'s kick in soon, northern.
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I have a phil & teds and I really love it. Everyone's choice of buggy is personal though, I really don't like the proper one behind the other styles as they're far too long, side by side ones are great but most of the shops are very narrow here and it just wouldn't be possible to have one. Plus I think the phil & teds is great as a single buggy, handy to have that option when I take DD to playgroup and don't need a double.

gary make sure you're eating properly Mrs! My blood pressure has been quite low this pregnancy and I've been having dizzy spells. MW hasn't been interested concerned, but I have 26 week GP appointment tomorrow so will see if he says anything. I need to ask about weight gain too, I've only put on 3lbs despite masses of chocolate

aethel hope its going ok.

queen hope both your girls feel better soon.

Seems like ages since I last mentioned the garage conversion. It has a massive window and normal door, and is certainly no longer garage-like. They've been plastering today, and will be knocking through into the hallway by the end of the week.

The city select tandem/double is ace. Preloved ones are not as eyewateringly expensive and they're wonderful to push and good workhorses.

Wow thanks for all the recommendations! Ok so it sounds like we do need a double...I may wait until the baby is actually here to get one so I can see how big DS is though and which is most comfy for him. He sometimes looks a little squished in our BJCM if he's got a coat on.

Seven - Garage conversion - will you be exciting us with before and after pictures?
I'm going bonkers with my house plans. I want to do sooo much, I don't know where to start. And, I have a new "thang". I like a luxurious bath. The bath at this house is OK. It's normal. It's not overly disappointing. But it's not "DH and me with martinis on a Friday night wind down" material. Neither the ensuite nor the family bathroom is big enough for a lux bath. So, the only option as I see it is to get rid of the ensuite, and merge the two bathrooms into one lux bathroom. ...Just writingthis down - gettingthis out of my head has created the solution!) I thought that we would have to convert the attic to create a new master bedroom, with dressing room, bathroom and office/sitting room. Because in my head, I thought we HAD to have two bathrooms. We don't. We never shower at the same time. And there is a separete WC. Maybe later, when there are 2 kids and we're all getting ready in the mornings, then 2 showers would be helpful, but we're years away from that... So I should go ahead and create the lux bathroom. with the idea that in time, we'll develop the attic. ...Not sure what DH will make of this. Actually, I know exactly what DH will make of this, he'll smile and nod his head because in 2 days I'll change my mind again and want to do something different...
I just need a decent lottery win, then I can change everything all at once and be sorted. Dreamy dreamy dream...