Feb '06 - Sausage roll anyone?

[CantSleepWontSleep]

Right ladies - the race is on to see which of our DCs can self feed a sausage roll first!

Oh, and some of you don't seem to have aged since we got pregnant, so if you've got closer to your telegrams from the queen then please let me know!

CAMERON, Birthdate 6th Jan, Due 28th Jan, Weight 5lbs 13oz, Born to Teuch, Baby no 1, Lives Inner Hebridean Island, Gas & air and morphine
PEYIA, Birthdate 23rd Jan, Due 4th Feb, Weight 6lbs 12.5oz, Born to TicTac, Baby no 1, Lives Horwich, Lancs, Gas & air only
ALEXANDER, Birthdate 24th Jan, Due 4th Feb, Weight ??, Born to Yeahbut, Baby no 3, Lives Holland, Elective c-section
CAITLIN ERIN MONICA, Birthdate 25th Jan, Due 10th Feb, Weight 8lbs 10.5oz, Born to Womba1, Baby no 3 (1 stillborn), Lives Eastbourne, Elective c-section
MAISIE, Birthdate 26th Jan, Due 7th Feb, Weight 8lbs 5.5oz, Born to ellenrose, Baby no 3, Lives Bristol, Induction due to SPD
JESSICA HELEN, Birthdate 30th Jan, Due 9th Feb, Weight 5lbs 11oz, Born to JuA, Baby no 2, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Elective c-section. Twin 1.
EMILY ROSE, Birthdate 30th Jan, Due 9th Feb, Weight 6lbs, Born to JuA, Baby no 2, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Elective c-section. Twin 2.
ELIZABETH GRACE, Birthdate 3rd Feb, Due 3rd Feb, Weight 8lbs 5oz, Born to Kando, Baby no 3, Lives Holland,
PETER, Birthdate 6th Feb, Due 12th Feb, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to popmum, Baby no 2, Lives Herts,
LAUREN EMMA, Birthdate 6th Feb, Due 22nd Feb, Weight 6lbs 14oz, Born to Morgan, Baby no 2, Lives Dubai,
PHILIPPA ROSE, Birthdate 8th Feb, Due 2nd Feb, Weight 9lbs, Born to CantSleepWontSleep (Tabs), Baby no 1, Lives North Herts, TENS and gas & air
LEWIS JAMES, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 31st Jan, Weight 9lbs 2oz, Born to lewsmummy (Cuffyj1), Baby no 1, Lives Barnsley, emerg c-section
SETH PETER, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 1st March, Weight 7lbs, Born to angedemarche (Jangus), Baby no 2, Lives NI, Elective c-secion
EVIE HARRIET, Birthdate 10th Feb, Due 29th Jan, Weight 9lbs, Born to Hotmama, Baby no 2, Lives Nottingham, emerg c-section
RHUARIDH GEORGE, Birthdate 11th Feb, Due 20th Feb, Weight ??, Born to MrsDoolittle, Baby no 2, Lives Newbury, Water birth
BEN, Birthdate 12th Feb, Due 2nd Feb, Weight 8lbs 4oz, Born to 3K, Baby no 1, Lives Gravesend, Kent, c-sec after failure to dilate sufficiently
OSCAR, Birthdate 12th Feb, Due 13th Feb, Weight 9lbs 10oz, Born to Chloe55, Baby no 1, Lives West Yorkshire, Pethidine, epi & lots of stitches!
LUTHER, Birthdate 14th Feb, Due 6th Feb, Weight 8lbs 8oz, Born to NotAnOtter (4blue1pink), Baby no 5, Lives ??,
ANYA OLIVE CATRIONA, Birthdate 20th Feb, Due 8th Feb, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to Popadopalis, Baby no 1, Lives Bedford,
BRAM THOMAS, Birthdate 21st Feb, Due 11th Feb, Weight 9lbs 15oz, Born to mustrunmore (Ixel), Baby no 2, Lives N London, c-sec
IMOGEN ROSAMOND, Birthdate 23rd Feb, Due 2nd March, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to Ags, Baby no 2, Lives Kent, Elective c-section
EMRYS JOHN, Birthdate 24th Feb, Due 24th Feb, Weight 8lbs 5oz, Born to Flamesparrow, Baby no 2, Lives Bournemouth, Home birth
ISABEL ERIKA, Birthdate 24th Feb, Due 3rd March, Weight 7lbs 5.5oz, Born to Amiable, Baby no 1, Lives North London, Gas & air and epidural. DH German
LEON JASON, Birthdate 26th Feb, Due 18th Feb, Weight 7lbs 13oz, Born to Jasnem, Baby no 3, Lives Waltham Abbey, Rapid labour, ventouse and episiotomy
SALLY ANIELA, Birthdate 28th Feb, Due 28th Feb, Weight 8lbs 13oz, Born to Thell, Baby no 1, Lives London, Water birth at home
RORY JOHN, Birthdate 25th Feb, Due 23rd Feb, Weight 10lb 2oz, Born to dewmeadow, Baby no 2, Lives County Tyrone, Ireland, emerg c-section
NEVE, Birthdate 4th March, Due 27th Feb, Weight 8lbs 11oz, Born to Frizbe, Baby no 2, Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Water birth
ALFRED WILLIAM, Birthdate 4th March, Due 27th Feb, Weight 9lbs 15oz, Born to damewashalot (Helen38), Baby no 3, Lives Warwickshire,

Lexi ?
That's lovely!!

Dp bought me a book when I was pregnant with dd1 - called Hot Mama - all about how to be one - ahem not quite there but living in hope!

Hope the kitten gets found soon - I have a cat and would be besides myself if anything happened to him.

Decided to go 'cold turkey' with night feeds with dd2 - so she had head stroking and a cuddle but no feeding - seemed to work as she slept through to 7 after waking at 3.30. She seemed to be doing most of her feeding during the night and was just snacking during the day - want to get this stopped! Seems to be going O.K as dd2 has had some big feeds today.

Got a bit chicken about doing BLW with dd2 - as she just licked a carrot and lobbed it. So I have tried to give her some baby rice - she isn't interested in the slightest - so think I may put off weaning until I come back off holiday in September. Do you reckon this is because she is bf - dd1 was ff at this age and was weaned at 24 weeks?

I'm getting a bit stressed at the moment with the bf/weaning thing!

Thell; he only gets callled that as his name is Lex! ds2's nicknames are better: Bramble, BramJam, Brambleicious.

Thell - using Wambamboos (love them ) and have a selection of Bamboozles and Tots Bots Rainbows. Using Tots fleece wraps at night until my Woollywraps arrive (v excited emoticon needed) and either fleece or ME airflow during the day.

Maisie also saying DADADADADA but fairly randomly so I hold out hope for a MAMAMAMA soon.

My name, rather boringly, is my Nans so I really need to come up with something more interesting.

at bramblicious!! Oscar gets called Ozwald by my db for some obscure reason, I think it's quite endearing though I thought we would nickname him Oz but he is always Osc - similar but different.

Hotmama - sorry can't help you, I'm one of those really bad mums who ff and weaned at 17wks

No don't change, I like ellenrose.

i posted the cot bumper this morning. it was only £2.10.

Thanks mrm, I posted the cheque this am too, I don't want any change though.

Wow the weather is really stormy here - thundering a nd lightening mad! I think it is sending ds into a demon child had to put him in the bath early to give him time out in his swing chair before bed!

Oh and btw, I am soooooooo good, I went to the gym

well as I still can't think of anything better (and I've got used tobeing jas)I'll be staying me. Dp wanted to call her Jazz. Jasmine was our compromise.

I love your name Jasnem, even if it is child oriented.

Read the thread a couple of hours ago, now in complete daze and have forgotten the lot except for still missing Charlie

Soooooooooooo tired. 12 children under 12 is not fun!

hi everyone. love how people came up with their MN names - Amiable is based on my name, and was a nickname given to me from an unrequited love when I was a teenager (sigh! ). Isabel is known as Izzy, or sometimes Grizzabel (no prizes for guessing when!)

We have friends coming to stay tomorrow - a friend of mine from university, her DH, and two daughters - 1 aged 6 and the other 6 months. As we only have a little flat it'll be quite a squash. It'll be like we had a mad party with bodies everywhere - just some bodies a bit smaller than others!!

DD has her two front bottom teeth coming through at the same time She has been amazingly good considering, just a bit off her food some days and unsettled, but not too bad.

mind you, having said that, she has stuffed her face today! nearly 900 mls of milk altogether, carrot, swede and sweet potato at 11am, and apple, pear and rice at 3pm I got her weighed on Tuesday - she is now 7.89kg (17lbs 5oz) I'm surprised it isn't more to be honest!

she also said "mama" today!

quite an eventful day as you can see!

Just put him down for his second night in his grobag, he was fine in it last night but still woke up at 4.55am so i went and put his dummy back in and then slept til 7.15am in is cot too i didn't bring him in with us at all.

Both my brothers call ds LJ (Lewis James) and i call him Lew sometimes. Or Lewi pooey at nappy changes.

Chloe - well done for going to the gym.

Flame - have i missed something, why 12 children? R u mad?

Hi ladies,

Forgot to say last night that Ben has been saying "yeah" for the past two weeks!!! Think it is because I say to him "lets go to nanny's yeah!" amongst other stuff!!!

My name 3k is because when I got together with DH years and years ago (in my youth ) I had this car sticker that said "Kinky, kissable Kelly in control" bloody embarrassing now but DH has called me 3K ever since!!!

Dewmeadow and chloe, my doggy is still here although she wont get any better. The cancer on her head is quite big and she has also done the other cruciate ligament in her other back leg (recovered from other one last year) so the vet has increased her metacam medicine to twice daily doses and it is keeping her comfy. He said as long as she can potter in and out of the garden he is happy and I walk her around the block every other night just to keep her spirit up. Not sure how long we have with her, it really gets me down sometimes. DM you will find that Charlie number 1 comes home now you watch sorry to hear he has not come back.

My name was a bit of a throw away thing.....

Jas I like your name stick with it

Phoenix it is then cuffy

Chloe, that storm was mad! got caught on M1 at Sheff in it, went on all the way back to Derby!
Managed to get dd1 a few bits in the sales tho (phew) including a new dress for next weeks wedding, hurrah we are equiped!

Hotmama was it you asking about weening, dd2 is nearly 6mths now, and is boobing and weaning ok? has breakfast n tea at the mo (cause tea is getting her to sleep thru better!)

Oh talking of talking, dd2 sounds like she's saying mummmy some times when she has a scream on but hasn't actually said anything at any other time

I'm so of these talking babies. Told dh this am that some of your los were saying mama/dada and before he left for work he was just pointing at himself saying daddy to ds over and over again - little does he know that when we are in the car I am always saying mummy to him

3k - At least your dog is on one of the best painkillers on the market at the mo so they are undoubtedly helping loads

Loving the fact that The Hoff is plastered down the side of the page

Oh and I have lost 3lb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Morning all!

Frizbe at your name being a throw away thing.

This LO has always sounded as if he is saying mum mum mum when really sad but no sign of really saying it yet. Does make a sound that could turn into hello quite easily ever since his godfather sat saying hello over and over to him causing much giggling untill his dp said will you please stop saying hello to that poor child, at which point Alfie grinned and said "he-ow" and has been saying it ever since but not at the right time IYSWIM so making the sound not saying hello

LOads of other stuff but I can't remember now, wiggly baby trying to help type best go and pack for my boys as they are off to in-laws till monday. It's odd, 1 baby first time was such hard work but now a weekend with just a baby sounds so easy hoping that will be able to feed him and go back to sleep tomorrow morning as he tends to do that but i have to get up with other 2

I am counting down the days til my girls go to my mums (week after next) for the exact same reasons, dame washalot.

Also had to lol at the Frizbe joke.

Boy has eaten melon for breakfast. He self fed half a slice. I also mushed some and thickened it with baby rice, which he rejected.

oh yes and re pets. We don't have any at the mo as dh gets all sneezy around cats and I am just not organised enough to have a dog, haven't had my own since my xh got to keep our cats as he stayed in the house that broke my heart. What I am saying in a round about way is I understand being emotional about pets but I waffled lots first

frizbe, that was a real groaner!

love hearing how everyone got their names. i quite like mine again now

i think dd is trying to kiss me!! she opens her mouth and plants it on me - on cheek or more usually on my chin... but she doesn't suck or anything. and i get a grin too

i'm listening to 'rubber folk' and it's brilliant - radio 2 got folkies to record all the songs on rubber soul. fab.

Still here as baby decided to feed so can't move. Weaning question, not that I am doing it before 6 mths of course (just in case the weaning police are around) Anyone ever had a problem with baby rice? I started with baby rice and moved on to mixing it with pear or banana, everytime he brought a bit back up, the banana a lot all over my nan at his christening anyway, I realised that when he had carrot anmd potato this didn't happen, so tried pear on it's own and was fine, have now fed for a week with out using baby rice and it all stays in. So, what do you think? sounds like the rice doesn't it? ever heard of that? I though that it was the easiest, best first food and all that.

Any words of advice here ? Or am I really just a bitch of a mum?

No you're not, but yes way too young, sorry.

Give it another year and he might start to get the idea

Don't apologise dame, new to all this so have no idea what to do at what stage. Just wanted him to learn as early as poss to be gentle with the animals as we have enough!

don't worry, chloe - i had a similar thing this week - i'm trying to discourage dd from shrieking in v earpiercing manner. am kind of ignoring shrieks or frowning, and smiling and encouraging mamamama instead. otherwise nightmare in confined public spaces. but yes, i think generally making child cry is counterproductive this young (not that you did it on purpose!!!! GOOD mummy)