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

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MummyDuckAndDuckling · 21/09/2013 11:37

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 Smile
Ill try copy over all the stats again when I'm next on the laptop.

Hope everyone is well :)

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strawberrypenguin · 24/11/2013 19:03

Congratulations Thanks love his name! Hope you are all well and enjoying those new baby snuggles.

PenelopeLane · 24/11/2013 22:32

Congrats cheshire and I love the name. Smile

MrsHende · 24/11/2013 22:36

Fantastic news chesh. Hope all is well with all four of you, especially you and Monty.

Well done!

ipswichwitch · 25/11/2013 10:38

Congratulations chesh!!! Thanks Cake Wine
Fabulous name too.

Trying to muster the energy to go to asda - failing miserably at the minute. Already decided to treat me and DS to lunch out since I can't be bothered cooking these days!

MummyDuckAndDuckling · 25/11/2013 19:57

Huge congratulations chesh!! I think I really want to consider a home birth next time. How lovely!!!

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CallingAllEngels · 25/11/2013 20:36

M has been tantrumming and refusing to go to sleep for the last 2 and a half hours Sad Looks like he'll be in with us tonight

CallingAllEngels · 25/11/2013 21:11

He's finally asleep! Sssh!

TallulahPumpkin · 25/11/2013 21:41

Chesh Congratulations! Thanks Did P comes home from the park to a brand new baby brother? Grin I bet she was wondering where he came from!!

Ipswich I hear you. I hate planning/cooking meals.

Engles good luck for M sleeping tonight.

PenelopeLane · 26/11/2013 09:10

A came into our bed last night and was thrashing about with nightmares and yelling something about his pram. Tired today! I didn't expect that the 2 year old would keep me up more than the 8 week old.

I am not a great cook either and pretty much do the same every week. Oh well. Lucky DH isn't a massive foodie Grin

ipswichwitch · 26/11/2013 09:32

Must be something going around - N has been sleeping very badly lately. Not so much a problem getting him to bed, it's the number of night wakings. We've started with the gradual withdrawal method to get him to sleep since for some time he'd only drop off holding my/DHs hand. He'll not go to sleep with us sat in the middle of the room. That is progress but he's waiting umpteen times a night just screaming his little head off and needs a cuddle before getting back to bed. Last night was awful and I feel ill I'm that tired.

ipswichwitch · 26/11/2013 10:14

He'll now go to sleep that should say.

CallingAllEngels · 26/11/2013 16:22

Well, he fell asleep at 10 with me sitting in the cahir next to his bed and then slept through till 6.28. Crawled into our bed w minutes before the alarm went off!

DH's turn tonight Grin

strawberrypenguin · 26/11/2013 19:47

Hope everyone has a better sleep tonight. Touch wood W is sleeping ok at the moment I think the darker nights/better sleeping temperature suits him.

Felt so sad for him today, he went to nursery really looking forward to seeing his 'best' friend B and she wasn't there. All he kept saying in the car on the way home when we were talking about his day was 'B gone, B poorly' and he seemed so sad. When we got home we sat together and drew her a get well picture and that seemed to cheer him up a bit as he happily announced 'B no poorly now, picture' I hope she's back on Thursday! But I'll send him in with the picture too just incase she's not.

CallingAllEngels · 29/11/2013 08:20

strawb that's so sweet!

How's sleep for everyone? Hit and miss here. Killer when I have to work the next day but it's weekend for me now

Watching Bambi and may pop into town to finished off Christmas shopping later.

Had another hcg check yesterday and has fallen but still not at 0 yet so back in 2 weeks.

MrsHende · 29/11/2013 20:27

Hello everyone! I hope all is well with the babies and the mummies.

We're beginning to feel more settled now in our new place, we moved in two weeks ago. Have now cleared out ikea and spent days making flat packs. So happy that L has her own room now.

Totally not organised for Christmas, my plan is to get off mn now and get shopping online...wish me luck I'm going in...!

CallingAllEngels · 29/11/2013 21:29

Good luck mrsh. I did an order this afternoon and ended up ringing up to finish it as the shopping rush had slowed the online banking down so much!

CheshireDing · 30/11/2013 19:57

Glad you got the HV to understand re your appointment Strawbs. TBF nursery have done the majority of potty training (as she is there 5 days a week) but we have been doing EC since last year, I just don't think she had the awareness properly of bowel movement to know she needed to go on the potty herself before now though. Am very proud of her she seemed to pick it up really quickly.

Although tonight she is driving me CRAZY with not going to bed :( :(

Ah that makes sense now about Hong Kong then Tallulah, I thought he had been doing some serious map reading Grin. I think there was a thread the other week about Miss Rabbit probably being a tax dodger Grin

P seems pretty pleased with Baby M, she asks every day for cuddles and kisses with him, hope the love lasts !

Glad you are in your new home for Christmas now MrsH

Fx for your next appointment Engels.

Anyone any suggestions as to what to do/say when you can't get them to bed ? P gives every excuse and is VERY whingy :(

CallingAllEngels · 30/11/2013 21:22

A few times the last 2 weeks I have sat in the chair next to M's bed with my eyes closed and pretended to go to sleep I didn't nearly fall asleep last night oh no

This evening was DH's turn and it turned into a drama. M was screaming blue murder for half an hour and in the end I went up (DH was on the phone). M was really shouting for me. I spent 30 mins calming him down, then got stroppy and came downstairs, M kicked off again, DH managed to get him to sleep at 9pm.

Honestly, he used to be so EASY and now he's like the son of satan Confused

I am impressed at P's verbal ability at offering excuses though chesh M just says 'NO!' and throws his toys out of his bed Grin

Glad everything is going well with baby M.

M is just starting to get interested in the potty. When me or DH goes to the toilet he follows us, pulls his trousers down, sits on it then demands toilet paper (even though he's still got his nappy on!).

KillashandraRee · 03/12/2013 06:50

Morning everyone, we're back from a fabulous holiday and I feel like a new woman. Gran Canaria was lovely, warm sun, warm sea and nothing to do for two weeks it was bliss.

Cheshire congratulations on baby M (born on my birthday!) how's everything going? Love his name Thanks

We're just about to move E into a big bed but I'm going to out a stair gate on the door of his room as otherwise he'll never stay in. Fingers crossed he likes it. He's taken to calling out with lots of excuses during the holiday of why he can't sleep. Water, then cuddles, then blanket back on etc. he only settles when I get stern with him and tell him off but I don't want to have to do that every night I feel like a horrible mummy sigh

Suddenly realised how near to Christmas we are and feel a little panicked. Will be madly ordering things over next few nights to try and break the back of shopping.

Am now 16 weeks pg and feeling so much better, work know now so can relax and not hold tummy in.

Hoping everyone has been getting more sleep sounds like these two year olds are all being monkeys Wink

strawberrypenguin · 05/12/2013 12:59

Glad you had a good holiday killa how did the big bed move go?

Loving getting Christmassy with W this year! We made and decorated salt-dough stars yesterday that are going to be given to grandparents for Christmas Grin

PenelopeLane · 06/12/2013 00:55

Hope everyone is well this week

I am so tired today on account of A climbing into my bed at midnight then spending night alternating between hogging my pillow and kicking me in the head. Usually we put him back in his bed if he comes in at that time (we let him stay if it's later in the night usually as are too lazy to fight it) but didn't have the energy, and at some point DH escaped to sleep in A's bed instead of ours for comfort reasons! Yup, that rod has been made for my own back and sometimes it hurts!

A's had a lingo explosion too, it's amazing some days what he says, especially when bossing me around. This morning he was looking for a car and said "Mum look for car and mum find car for A!" in bossy tone. I am trying to get him to be less bossy, although still working on that. Am aware that cute bossy 2 year olds can turn into precocious brats fairly quickly, and was mortified when we had guests recently and A told them they couldn't sit in his fave chair at the table, or "his" corner of the couch, or touch the baby ("only mum!"). Although his bossiness does teach me to be consistent in what I say to him though and how I act, as he told me off yesterday after I was cleaning up his cars by throwing them in the basket and he said, word for word what I always say to him, that you musn't throw cars and hard toys, you can only throw soft toys, "NAUGHTY mum" etc. Blush Is anyone else being bossed by a toddler?

Hope all is well with M Cheshire

Strawb hopefully the BFF was back in creche! I never expected that they formed such attachments so young, we've recently decided to move A's nursery to a new one that his BFF will also be going to to make things easier on him (he had to change anyway as the current one is only for babies so went for the one she attends)

Killa your holiday sounds fab

Engels am imagining M on potty demanding toilet paper, is such a cute mental image

CallingAllEngels · 06/12/2013 17:20

Pen, this sounds like my sleeping experience over the last few weeks (min u s a baby and dh has nowhere to escape to yet!). Hope it gets better.

TallulahPumpkin · 06/12/2013 20:59

i've just eaten a whole bag of chocolate coins Xmas Blush.

CallingAllEngels · 06/12/2013 21:10

Good work!

ipswichwitch · 08/12/2013 09:19

Nice one tallulah, I had a whole Lindt chocolate reindeer to myself yesterday Grin
No baby yet -39+1 now - but been back and forth to hospital as my bp is up. No other pre-eclampsia type symptoms but I'm getting checked a lot to make sure it's not developing. Tbh I think it's stress related - N's poor sleep is due to sleep apnoea which I think is caused by his large tonsils and adenoids. He's always been a loud snorer but its getting so much worse then his breathing stops. Every time it starts again he wakes up terrified and screaming so no sleep for anyone here :( back to Gp tomorrow to demand a referral (ent) because something needs done and I'm not accepting the "he'll grow out of it" line any more.

MIL not helping matters either by completely stressing me out. She had N yesterday while we were at hospital and informed us we HAD to be home by 6 as she had a table booked Confused. I've another clinic appt tomorrow and she had a go at me because I said I'd rather she stay at home with N than drag him through hosp with us (not his favourite place!), and I would be fine on my own. She accused me of going in to have the baby and not telling her and refused to believe me and DH when we said its just a routine appt!

She keeps demanding to know why my bp is up and I said its probably stress and she says "well of course, N isn't sleeping so that's why" but no offer to help out - not that I should expect it but she had SILs DC to stay overnight several times and has never had N. poor DH is insisting in doing most if the night time stuff so I can rest but he's exhausted. I've sent him off to bed and we're having a pj day, which MIL will no doubt be all judgemental about when she appears later to interfere again

Sorry for the me rant! I'm quite irritable at the minute and she is really getting on my nerves. Don't know how much more I can stand before I snap and I really don't need this hassle now. I've not even finished Xmas shopping yet - Nobody can tell me what to get SILs so at this rate they're getting nowt! (That'll teach em for being all vague and unhelpful when I ask what they want, ha!)

Back to my coffee hopefully that'll sort me out - if not I have another Lindt reindeer upstairs :)