October 2011 - we can hardly believe its true, our babies are turning two!!

[MummyDuckAndDuckling]

Hi!

Hope you don't mind me starting a new thread as once again, birthday season has begun and the first of our October babies are turning 2! Would be lovely to hear from everyone past and present
Ill try copy over all the stats again when I'm next on the laptop.

Hope everyone is well :)

Glad you're feeling better eng

between us DH and I have managed to clean the whole house today - looked better than it has in months! It's just the three of us for Christmas too! I now feel ready for Christmas and I'm really excited about putting all the presents under the tree later!

Hope you all have a good one Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone!!!

I hope you all had a lovely, lovely time. It's been so nice watching L really understand and enjoy Christmas this year - even the fear of Santa and refusal to go in the living room on Christmas morning because she wanted her milk first!

Engels, I hope baby Engels is on it's way!!

M has really enjoyed it too MrsH . Now just trying to manage his expectations because it's been non-stop presents since the end of November because of Sinterklaas (though my mum and dad are arriving from UK NYE and they have a tonne more Christmas presents from family!).

No sign of baby. Went for a sweep today and mw couldn't do it as cervix still completely closed. Settling myself in for the long haul. Going to try and enjoy some free no strings attached babysitting with my parents over and hope baby decides to upset my plans.

Wish us luck for tonight - W is going to bed without a dummy for the first time! He happily 'posted' (they are in my desk at work after I took them to 'post' his dummies to Peso (octonauts) so he could give them to the poorly baby sea creatures but I'm not sure how happy he'll be once he's in bed!

Good luck strawb !

Oh and no baby here. Had mw appt and she was able to do a sweep so hoping things will get moving. Otherwise will have another on Monday and be booked in for induction at the end of next week. Looking like my parents are not going to meet baby before they head back to England on Sunday morning.

Hope the sweep works eng we seem ok here so far! He asked but we reminded him what we'd done with them and he was happy with that, went to sleep and hasn't woken looking for it yet!

Happy new year everyone!

Engels hope you're ok and not going mad waiting.

Strawberry hope operation lose the dummy has worked?

I am feeling slightly doolally atm killa - 40+9 and really uncomfortable!

Operation lose the dummy has gone very well killa I'm amazed quite honestly. He asked where his dummy was the first night when he got in bed and we reminded him that we'd sent them to Peso (he got a letter back and a cuddly Kwazii!) and he just said 'oh yes' snuggled down and that was the last time it's been mentioned!

Blinkin' eck Engels still in there ?! :( . Have you tried Baby Eviction ? [Grin]

Sorry not been on here, been a bit hideous and stressful at work. I resigned at Christmas with no new job (as it was so awful), started new job this week and all going fab so far.

Hope everyone is okay, will try and post more now I am in a better frame of mind .

Come on Baby Engels

Sorry to hear about job woes chesh . DH still hates his but won't walk away even though we could survive on one salary if we pulled M out of nursery (especially if I increased my hours next year). Glad to hear you've started something new.

Good to hear operation lose the dummy has gone well strawbs

Potty training has gone so well here. Occasional accident when out and about and still putting him in nappies at night, thought dry nearly every morning. worried he might regress a bit when baby arrives.

very glad christmas is over. M was a nightmare with all the presents and attention - right little terror. Back in his routine at nursery now and so much calmer.

40+10 and have hospital appointment tomorrow to assess state of cervix, check baby and make plan (either mw can break waters at home or if cervix not playing ball will make an appointment for induction in hospital). One way or another the baby WILL be here this weekend, Monday at the latest.

Just had potentially my last day ay home with just M..depends if we're able to evict baby on Friday or if we have to wait till the weekend.

Will keep you posted ladies!

Glad the new job is going well chesh sorry to hear the old one was so crap.

Good luck with baby eviction eng hope you get lovely newborn snuggles soon

Oh Cheshire sorry to hear work has been rubbish. Hope new job goes well and that you managed a good Christmas with P and M? Are you still thinking of number three or have you changed your mind? Having been adamant we would only have two I had a wobble firs while after J was born, but after two months of no sleep I'm currently confident this is it for us now!

Strawberry that's great about the dummy, I'm now frantically thinking about what Peso could do to get E to behave better

Engels fingers crossed it's not too much longer and wishing you a speedy and peaceful birth xx

Hello! And happy new year ;)
Hope your LO is on the way soon engels, I keep thinking I'd love another baby but after 3 years of no sleep another one would finish me off!

Glad the dummy withdrawal went so well strawb. Sounds bizarre, but we are trying to give N a comfort object, as he's using us too much. He's never wanted a teddy or any toy in fact in his bed - just throws them out. We did have a bit of success with his teddy the last few nights though.

Part of his sleep training is getting him used to being in his bed alone, and eventually settling by himself, so we're leaving te room for a few mins every bedtime, then the plan is to increase the time we leave him til he (hopefully!) falls asleep alone. We've had to resort to cc with D as nothing else worked. Now he's sleeping pretty well so fingers x he stays that way!

Hole the new job is going better than the old one chesh

Hello everyone and happy new year! Hope all is well ... I have been lurking around mn recently but keep losing this thread!

Congrats engels - and what a wait for the baby! Must have been frustrating. How is it going and M taking it?

Golly Cheshire your work must have been bad for you to just resign like that ... do you feel better now you're out?

Strawb that's good news re the dummy - I am inspired to try and do the same with A's bottle. Not this month though probably as we're just FINALLY getting somewhere with toilet training! I am so pleased that's going somewhere though, I was beginning to despair. Although we're not quite there yet I am never sure whether tomorrow will be the day he changes his mind and back to nappies it is.

Waves to everyone else!

We are good - 2014 was a bit of a strange year with going back to work to be made redundant, but am stoked to have gotten a new job starting mid-Feb that I am very excited about doing. Now I'm just winding down being at home - we're off for our summer holiday , then back for 2 weeks before starting work. I'm a little sad about not being with the kids as much as I've been, but after almost 18 months as a SAHM I am very ready!

Morning all!

DS2 was born about half an hour before your post ips ! Slowly adjusting.

M is being a bit of a nightmare. DH is off for the next 2 weeks so looking forward to some time together just the 4 of us. My parents are making a flying visit next weekend as DS2 was too late to see them when they were over a NY.

Good luck with new job pen

We had to do a similar thing with M with sleep training the other year ips - gradually moving further away till we were outside the door and then at the stage we could just close the door and walk away.

Congratulations Engels he looks gorgeous. What is M doing when he is being challenging? How is feeding / sleep going? I co slept for first six weeks with DS2 saved my sanity!

Hope you're settling into it, two are wonderful but exhausting. Very of your new baby cuddles x

M has been ridiculously hyperactive, racing round whenever anyone walks in the door, trying to grab everything he sees, jumping up and down on beds/sofas when I'm trying to feed Seth, everything is I want to do it/I want to watch TV/eat sweets.

He had a good day at nursery yesterday though and was exhausted - we had to wake him up today! He's there today as well so we have some peace. DH and I have have chatted about how to manage him when DH is home as well (he's off this week and next) while bf is still taking up a lot of my time and I'm still recovering.

Feeding is settling - usually every 3 hours but sometimes 2 or 4. At night he's often having one longer stretch of 5-6 hours and my boobs are settling down a bit now. Still sleeps for most of the day though.

That's good that your starting to get a routine eng W is saying 'I want' a lot at the moment to I think it's an age thing! The 'why's' have started up again too!

The job wasn't so bad (same work I always do and enjoy) but the Manager was newly recruited and and arse so it had been horrendous since October so I just needed to get out. She didn't even speak to me on my last day. My new company is much nicer so far so she did me a favour
You spend too long at work to hate it Engels, your DH should just get out if you can afford it, it's not worth being miserable.
Yes still thinking of No3 Killa and still craving sleep :( having a couple of months break though as only really just finished bf and would like to do a bit of socialising/drinking for a little bit
I think I had the best Christmas I have had for many years, I had all Christmas off and P was really excited, Christmas Elf spent December doing silly thins and hiding, even M thought Elf was funny. Father Christmas brought Chickens - which P has named after the nursery nurses !
How's the comfort objecf goinv Ips ? Have tried with M but he doesn't seem interested at bedtime
Anyone else having EPIC tantrums ? P has managed a full hour because M got out of the shower first :( full on screaming, clenched fists and went to nursery wit no trousers on ! This seems to be once a week tantrum now.
Waves to everyone else x

Yep chesh M has a tantrum at the stupidest things - the last one because dh put his drink in the lounge.

Hi girls, I hadn't realised I'd been away for so long; my last post was November I think .

Congrats Engles, I'm glad he made an appearance at last. Hope things are starting to settle down at bit.

We also did potty training (toilet training sounds too much like training a dog!) after Christmas and Seb is doing really well. We've had a few accidents but mainly OK. He's still in pull ups at night but they are mostly dry in the morning. The trouble is getting him to recognise and tell us he needs to go. I narrowly averted a poo disaster yesterday by spotting his face . Oh the joys of parenting!

Sounds like everyone had a great Christmas. Seb enjoyed himself - also got used to getting presents so it took a few days for him to realised this was not now a daily event! He still asks for his 'chocolate from yesterday' though (advent chocolate; we always forgot and so were behind!). His main present was a leappad which he loves. He calls it his iPad! I didn't even know he knew what that was!

Anyway, don't tell anyone (it's a secret) but I think I'm pg again. Not poas yet but 2 weeks late and given that we've been ttc..... Dh really wanted another, partly so Seb was not an only child. I took a bit of persuading as I wasn't sure but I do like the idea of him having someone else, even though it will be hard (I'm not a natural mum). So Engles no nightmare stories please . The only bummer is that we'd just booked a holiday to Italy (friends are getting married over there) in August. I will be about 33 weeks. I'm not sure how much fun it's going to be.

Exciting news tallulah !

DS2 is an angel. DS1 on the other hand is really pushing it! (sorry tallulah ). Really going to have to think about more positive strategies to deal with him as all the usual stuff is not working.

Still, he's at nursery today so peace reigns (S is sleeping upstairs and I am trying to keep my hand out of the biscuit tin!).

Congratulations Tallulah

33 weeks pg in Italy you will be treated like a princess the Italians are so lovely with pregnant women and babies. Seb will get entertained by various waiters and waitresses it'll be lovely. So exciting for you.

Engels, Eli is challenging at the moment I'm finding three harder than two, we didn't really get a terrible two but he's starting to tantrum/ push boundaries now. Hardest is when he bonks his brother on the head...poor J is going to end up very tough!