DECEMBER 2012: The start of crawling and the end of maternity leave

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Best of luck spotty!

Good luck Spotty. With both!

Good luck spotty
hales

2nd wake up here. R took ages to go to sleep last night, hoping he's down for another hour now.

Good luck spotty, fx! Good night hear. H was fine yesterday after the mammoth spew incident. In bed at 7 then woke at 5:30 this morn! Think he was hungry as he's done 7oz without taking a breath and gone back to bed. He didn't eat a lot for dinner, too hot maybe but lots of water.

My friend also on FB told everyone she was having twins, she's 6 months along now and her dd is 9 months....she got told she was crazy to

Spotty, I haven't had a day without H since he was born (apart from when DH took him out for 4 hrs so I could sleep when I was iIl). Have your interview and take a slow walk home (past some shops maybe)

I have only left ds with dp for a max of three hours! It's a forty minute drive away so no time for looking round the shops unfortunately.... Also I love the warm but it's going to be really hot and I don't want to melt

Good luck Spotty!

Emily- 3 babies under 1?! Your friend is going to be very stressed busy

I would say she is

Good Luck Spotty, sending some positive thoughts your way.

Emily awww twins i hope her DP isn't as useless as mine haha.

Best of luck Spotty - with both things! Busy day.

Feel industrious - finally got around to starting planning our US roadtrip. Are we mad to be driving around the US with a 10 month old? So far the trip is 2.5 weeks and will probably end up being a month.

What's the longest you can drive with a baby do you think? I know to break up a longer drive into sections of around 2-3 hours. But could we drive 6 hours in a day with such a young baby?

Hmm mama as a one off maybe but I wouldn't want to do it frequently. I'd be happy doing two lots of two hours in a day. Could you do some of the driving in the evening? Say after 7pm?

Maybe. We'll be doing a day of driving every 3-4 days, so definitely not every day. Most driving days will be 2x2 hours, but there might be 1-2 longer ones in there.

Mama We did a roadtrip around NZ when C was 3 months, we found he was usually fine for hours on end but was best to start off early morning and afternoons were the most difficult. Stop for a feed and a play every few hours. I think the most we did in a day was 5 hours though.

Good luck spotty

hales saw your video - H can really move!

Mama that sounds fine to me. I'm just thinking ds has two two hour naps on a good day so if your dd sleeps in the car it would work well

Prunella - I've sent you a PM. Also - NZ roadtrip, nice! I love NZ, can't wait to go back.

Finally got dd some summer sandals £30 later....

Mama i think you will be fine especially if C likes the car. Of your trip i would love to do that my sister lived in America for a year when she was at uni and loves it over there.

Prunella, thank you she is very quick in it. We were out the front in it the other day and there were some little kids sat on blankets with Teddies sewn into the top of the blanket. H went over to have a look at the little girls and one of the girls picked up her blanket H grabbed it and ran haha. She was quite upset when we took the blanket off her

The dentist said he's very pleased with dd's teeth she sat in the chair and opened her mouth for him. And I don't have to go back for six months!!

I'm starting to feel nervous....wish I still smoked

Spotty how do you get DD to let the dentist look? I've got to go with DD next month and last time she wouldn't open her mouth at all, just clung to me and cried.

People have asked if we're having more DC, and are ammused by my emphatic no. Last time I knew I wanted another and just said thar DH didn't want to because he was so traumatised.

I've got a Dr appointment for this afternoon with my eye. They've been really dry for days now, and my vision in the worse eye is blurry. It's as though I haven't got my glasses on, even though I have. Of course, now I've booked the appointment my eyes are suddenly watering. Sadly I'm seeing the useless Dr who, when I was getting SPD, told me it's just something women must bear for the sake of having children. I font hold out much hope of anything useful!

Oh Barbeasty hopefully it's something simple he will be able to sort...

I'm afraid it's nothing I've done dd was just very excited about the dentist. I think due to a mixture of watching the peppa pig episode and me telling her I'm going to the dentist whilst she's at nursery so she felt she was missing out on something. Dd's quite timid so if a dr/dentist/nurse asks her to do something she does tend to do it

Well she's seen that episode a few times, so fingers crossed. She is even more timid so clings and tries to hide behind my legs.... I might see if she can "show A what he'll have to do when he's older". Or bribery.

It's silly. She's really, really good at the Dr, just hates the dentist.

The first time I took dd1 to the dentist I bribed her with chocolate buttons (shhh don't tell the dentist! That and that I said its ok to suck your thumb).

How was the interview spotty?

DH has been h

Oops! DH has been h