November 2012 - In which the babies start to reach their first birthdays

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Hiya brockle

Hiya Brockle!

Pup has been asleep since 9pm after taking herself off to her cage..... fingers crossed! Was going to leave the radio on for her but I don't think she needs it.

GT I think hypnobirthing needs quite a bit of practice to get familiar with the technique? Might be a bit late to practice the visualisations and breathing? I'd recommended any book by Ina May Gaskin though if you want to feel more relaxed about the birthing process?

I wish! I never used hypno birthing techniques until my placenta was being removed. the mw suggested it and I wish I had known about it earlier so I certainly don't think its too late.

Thanks for all the hellos I know I'm not being deliberately ignored - I wasn't complaining, honest.

'Mundane' is a pretty good word to describe life at the moment. Like eliza said, its knowing that the exact same thing is going to happen at the exact same time each day that gets a bit waring. That and not being able to just pick up your phone and keys and go out. And on the rare occasions when you can do that you spend the whole time feeling like you've lost something.

I just shared a bath with a daddy-long-legs. Sadly, I didn't realise til I got out! The house seems to be full of them. And spiders, but I try not to think about that.

GT Order the book. You might be right about Sod's law - but that's not a bad thing, right?!

Haha kirrin I do exactly that. Leave the house with bloody everything but the kitchen sink and spend the whole time fretting that I've forgotten something. It's ridiculous!

I went to Penshurst Place today and had a lovely day but there were absolutly hundreds of daddy long legs sitting on the grass, wafting up as soon as you got near them. I hate them with a passion. Those and wasps are things I can't deal with.

Hello to brockle and fatima

fatima I always look for your posts, I think it's because I've 'known' you longest from being on the ticket threads.

Well Dh is back from Newcastle eventually. He visited a strip club for the first time in his life, the rest of the boys slagged him as he'd never been before. He seems to have had a great time, not as great as some thankfully!

DS still being a complete nightmare unfortunately. He's just so reluctant to sleep it's ridiculous. I think I may call HV and see of she has any advice. He's still awake now and has had one nap today, granted it was an hour in his car seat.

I'm getting concerned about my surgery as my MIL is still reluctant to mind DD after hurting her back a month or so ago. This leaves me mum who doesn't drive, twelve weeks is a lot to ask of anyone! Dh will be taking 3 week unpaid leave, we can't afford it but needs must. DDs nursery have suggested asking HV if DS could get a funded nursery place for and emergency placement. We've been allocated 5hrs a week for him just now to allow me to rest and him to get better at eating. He will start next week and do 2.5hours on two days. He has two 1hr settling sessions this week. I'm kinda scared! But really looking forward to a guaranteed nap!

Em... Not much else to say. Except welcome to betsy!

I've listed a bunch of stuff on Gumtree after not selling much at the market. Can't see it selling either :-(

I've just managed to put James in a sleeping bag into the cot.

Plan for tomorrow.... Read the bloody sleep book I've bought!!

And that should have read ttc threads, not ticket threads fatima stupid autocorrect!

So wondering how to start my birth thread...

Oh fuck? (Remember that's how you found out I was pregnant again. Lol)

Cough cough. Ladies and gentleman I have an announcement.

Arghhhhh panic it's happening.

Must think of something funny to open with.

Fatima and kirrin - it is funny I always really enjoy both of your posts. I am a proper goldfish though so always forget what I wanted to say when it comes to posting.

Mundanity - can relate to that... Think that is partly why I got a real rising swell of panic when I left work. I used to be quite spontaneous with just dd but it is harder to be with 2. Hopefully that will ease as they get older.

Hiya brockle :-)

Gt - the visualisation I found best was rings of colour like a rainbow spreading our like ripples on a pond (to help the cervix open). I would live a live birth thread - but whether you get to post or not know that we all are willing you on.

Any more news on your horse kirrin?

I read the posts but have no energy to reply to anyone really. It's madness here with friends visiting, studying for exam and just being a lone parent. The next two weeks will be hectic and I really don't want to miss a live birth thread.

My baby is 10 months old (I know most of our babies are), how did that happen??

Thanks again for all the replies. It's really helped perk me up. Don't feel you have to specifically name check me everytime I post now though, just so I don't feel ignored I know you're all reading.

I feel shit this morning, don't know if it's a dodgy tummy or nervous energy. It feels like when I used to be on ADs and had had an awful night with my head full of crap. Will see how i feel when I get to work and are distracted. Also have period pains I bet that's contributing to my mood.

Will read everyone's posts on shoes and birthday parties and catch up later.

M is 10 months today!! Happy 10 months detective and pikz

Testing testing using the app to post for the first time

Fatima I felt a bit ignored too, so I stopped posting but I still do read every now and again.
It's my first day back at work today. I don't want to go. I love being at home with this little one. I really wish I could be a stay at home mum. I feel like I'm abandoning the boy.

Two weeks until my little one is 1 but he's not the oldest is he?

Ummm is GT in labour??

Morning all, good luck today chick I bet it will fly by and you will be back with LO before you know it. gt isn't in labour yet! just trying out funny openings for the live birth thread

I read every post too, I just always forget what I've read I might start doing what kyz does and have 2 windows open, bit more hassle on the ipad though. Speaking of which, where is kyz ?

I'm off shopping today, dragging dp with me, his back permitting. We need to get S's next size up clothes, lovely winter stuff, I can't wait, I luffs winter! I get so excited to buy her new clothes, much more so than buying for myself, I loathe shopping for me.

Urrrhhhh, gt did we miss something? Is it happening or is that how you will start your birth thread?

Sorry fatima and. kirrin like the others said I think we all have days where we feel like that. If is any consolation probably not I read everyone's posts and think of loads to say but when it comes to responding it;

A.) has gone out of my brain, and;
B.) someone starts
1. Crying
2. Shouting
3. Behaving like a reprobate and thus needs dealing with
4. Pooing
5. Banging the glass door

Which has actually just happened now but I have just plonked in front of CBeebies.

The other thing that happens is I have more opportunity around nowish to post, everyone has just woken up and thus they are happy to entertain them selves for a bit and it is fairly quiet. Through the day things ramp up and more attention is required and I don't get time. And these days, tbh I am too bloody knackered to do anything once they have gone to bed. So I read but don't post and by the time I post I. The morning the conversation has moved on.

Ok so. O has moved to a beaker for the morning and afternoon feed, but he has cut his milk right back. So I just tip his milk on his cereal in the morning so he gets it. And if he doesn't drink it at night I just tip it onto cereal again for supper so he gets it. Is that ok?

gt if you do start a separate thread remember to link us too it!!

I too luff winter clothes fruit. Mainly for me though.

Looking for a nice smart casual shirt dress that doesn't cost the earth anyone seen one?

I think Y has some inbuilt detector for the days I work. I have been awake since 4 30 with him. sleeps for wimps don't you know.

good luck chick, it gets easier

gt you got me excited then!

on train, only time in the day I have to myself. wolf hall and a coffee. have a good day ladies xx

Ohhhh that's the other thing. I go my last pay from real employment in September. Yesterday me and DH went through our finances and we worked out how much he would give me every month. SCARY BEANS.

So he has upped the joint account and given me a lump of money,which is nearly what I would have ended up with before after I had dealt with all my financial commitments.

I had been worrying about it for ages, becoming dependant, I never really have been before. But I had better start doing what I am told sort of feel ok about it. I made him extra nice chilli sweet corn soup to take for his lunch.

Good luck chick it will be ok! I am sure you will enjoy some adult conversation and the odds are you are less likely to be pulling your hair out by 5 pm!

Good news pennie I have to admit I would love to watch a storm like that from a distance. I love those shows about twister chasers in the US.

Good luck chick I'm sure it won't be as bad as you think it will. Will be thinking of you today.

GT is this for real? I'm guessing not.

I keep thinking about those people in the shopping mall in Kenya. Apparently there were loads of families as the was some kind of children's event going on. Bastarding sodding terrorists :(

sophia that would freak me out a little too to be honest. I have always been so independent but the way things are going might have to rethink that.

Hope you feel better soon fatima I was a little ill last night with tummy troubles. I think stress related.

How are you enjoying Wolf Hall brockle ?

Right, off to update FB.

Sry was just thinking about. That wasn't the start.

Wrote that. Went off to bore myself to sleep in active. And didn't check my phone the 6times I woke.

You'll know when it's the start. I won't be funny. It will be shear panic.

Dreamt about sex this morning. Only dtd 4times this year! Record low.

Morning all and happy 10 months to the babies that are.

chick best of luck today.

sophia I can relate to how you feel. I was always financially independent until I got made redundant when I was preggers with DD1. Sounds like you have a similar arrangement to us. It works well and you'll get used to it.

yw hope Betsy had a good night. Love her name btw. A photo is needed on fb!

Going to do some online shopping at m&s now thanks to fatimas code.

Have the dreaded weigh in later. I really feel like E has put on weight over the last couple of weeks so we shall see. Fingers crossed. Would be nice if the threat of the tube returning could be completely removed.