December 2012: Everyone loves nap time.

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Started a new thread for us before we run out of room.

Hi custard and FoD welcome back.

WL - custard is eggs and the other is WeeJo!

Good solid 9 hours sleep last night! I'm loving the reverse jetlag this way!

So, who is pregnant on this thread now? I am 27 weeks pregnant.

fod hello! I've been on the antenatal thread a couple of times but can't keep up and it's sort of cosy here
I think stacks is next up - no pressure stacks! And the little one that just arrived.... I can't remember the MN NN it's on the Facebook group. I'm 30 weeks. I'm not sure who else there is.

We're in Munich visiting DP's middle brother. We came down by train which was good but I'm so tired & I slept really badly. I thought BIL lived close to our hotel, so agreed to breakfast at his today - I was starving when we got there! Plus I seem to be having (what I hope are) braxton hicks contractions if I try and walk any distance at all it started to get really uncomfortable. I'm now chilling in our hotel room which feels like such a waste because Munich is sooooo cool and I wish we had more time to shop explore.
This baby is so mean to me!
And DS spent an hour-ish shouting at us this morning. These canines are no fun at all!

Nutella I had horrendous Braxton hicks from 16 weeks with ds. Any time I walked or tried to cook dinner etc I'd get them every two minutes. Mw was always really shocked when I went on the monitor.

I've really struggled getting on Mumsnet recently

Willyou how is J does he have chicken pox?

WL is T feeling any better?

Welcome back FoD and Custard

Nutella, those Braxton Hicks sound horrendous.

Utopian i am so excited for you to move in. It will be good for all your hard work to pay off.

Stacks i hope your feeling ok. Not long left now and hopefully your SPD will clear up instantly.

We have paid the letting agency fees and deposit on the house we now just have to wait for all their checks to come back and hopefully we'll have a house. I am so excited but terrified something will go wrong. We where lucky that my friend who works in the letting agency gave us 1st dibs as every couple who viewed the house wanted it.

Ooh good news Hales, well sometimes it's who you know!

No chicken pox here. J is stupidly hungry again. Cannot fill him at all.

Sorry to confuse you WL my DH found me so changed my name (pointless act as I left myself logged on on the screen!)

I had shocking BHs, if I ate too much or needed to pee was the worse. I think that's how I managed to sleep through labour, I was used to the pain!

I'm planning another alcohol fuelled/goats cheese sponsored December before number two, plus best friend is getting married in April and don't want swollen ankles!

How exciting hales!

WillYou glad it's not pox. There's never a good time for it really but it would be nice for you to know it's over and done with.

Dd's just had a meltdown because dp is going out. It makes me annoyed with him, even though I know it's not his fault, as I feel bad for her! He's dropping me back an Indian first though

Congrats fod!
Super news hales. Fx for you that you'll soon be having a glass of bubbly in your new home - you too utopoan
Well jel of the sleep willyou T was up 4 times last night. Not feeling to rotten though which was good, just a bit hungry I expect. And once when she was shouting 'uck' as she had her legs stuck in the cot bars!

spotty my dds never care when DH goes out but cry and make me feel awful when I do - even going to work.

We have it the other way WL, DS sobs his eyes out when XP leaves but just toddles over for a kiss and waves bye bye when I say I'm going. I know it's cos he knows I'm coming back.

Yeah I'm surprised he's not got pox as his cousin was with him (and they were hugging, kissing, licking each other) the whole day the day before his spots came out - the most contagious time. We'll see anyway.

Tonight I have sorted my wardrobes ready for the move. All my heels are now in clear plastic boxes and I have 6 bin bags for the charity shop and 4 for the bin!

Appalling night again, 3 wake ups at 12:45, 1:45 and 2:45

His language is coming on apace so I'm assuming growth spurt. Yesterday:

Me: It's hot in the car isn't it. Shall I open some windows, R?
R Nu Noo

So I opened the sun roof :o

We still have almost no words and it's starting to really bother me. Identifiable words are: there, that, no, dada and that's basically it. He uses loads of signs, including abstract ideas like please and thank you and can identify things when we use the words, including stuff we haven't taught him but he's just heard being used, so I don't think he's thick. Physically he's fine too - was helping his father undo nuts and bolts with an alun key this morning - so why are there so few words? Should I ask a specialist? I saw spotty was wondering too...

Utopian he says more than ds! They like them to have half a dozen words by 18 months so it sounds like he's fine. Does he do animal sounds? (I'm just repeating what dd's physio said) and does he have his own words for things? (I think the signing counts as this really)

Not noticed any own words - we thought dadum for milk but now seems to have been replaced by the sign. The only animal sound is moo but for literally every animal going; duck, horse, dog..

Do you have drop in speech therapy near you? They do round here (when I'm at work!). I wouldn't worry just yet, I'm not worried it's just the SALT waiting list is years... I do think if he's signing he probably doesn't feel the need to talk just yet and as pidj said it's more about understanding at this age ie if you ask him to get his shoes will he?

Feeling your pain pidj - crap night here too but she's still rotten with cold. I'm sure I'll have to a bit of a push in a few days to get back to one waking.
utopian I second everything spotty says. There's a massive variation in levels of speech until about age 4. It's also somewhat hereditary - were you and DH early/late talkers? Ime often the ones who make a slower start catch up by making leaps and bounds rather than the steady drip of the earlier ones. I know its hard but do try not to worry.

Dp refused to speak until he was four and my dad didn't speak until 2.5. I was an early talker like dd.

Utopian, if your really worried can you talk to your HV? They maybe able to put your mind at ease. I think he will start soon he's just a man of few words at the moment. No doubt when he starts you'll be begging him to stop haha.

H has been mega whingy the last few days and very violent i suspect we may finally see her last molars come through very soon.

They won't even refer to SALT unless there's still absolutely nothing at 2.5/3 ish iirc. Don't forget, R is a mid-November baby and has a good month at least on most here!

If they can hear ok, and follow instructions at least some of the time then there's absolutely nothing to worry about, it's all well within the range of "normal".

It's also worth remembering that boys are generally slower than girls at speech development, even at this age.

F has a couple of words, but he also died the odd sign and seems to understand a few well used sayings like "shall we go downstairs now?" (He runs to the stairgate at waits).

hales, how many teeth has your little one got?!

pidj, hope tonight is better for you, that sounded awful.

willyou you sound very organised. I love having massive clear ours, it's very satisfying!

I've handled dd being a pita so badly this afternoon she's ended up going to bed without any dinner. She wouldn't eat anything, stole my phone and threw it on the floor, threw two pieces of road from the toy garage at Ds, hit dp, pushed and hit ds repeatedly, screamed when she didn't get her own way and has just been pretty horrible in general

Just noticed all my typos... Please ignore

Oh dear spotty. Sometimes bed is the only option.
We're on day 3 of T obviously feeling shit - rotten cold and loads of tooth action. She's eaten virtually nothing again and just wanted to hang off the boob or cried desperately if I've put her down. I got cross with DH as it should be easier with him here and I should be able to get bits done (like cleaning our minging bathroom) but it's not. I just end up cleaning up after him too and always have to get involved with the kids - for example writing thank you letters - dd2 can cop words if you write them in clear print on a clean page (not dhs scrawl with other words nearby) and giving dd1 a novelty biro instead of a pencil so it's barely legible and I make her do it again. I'm so frustrated with him. He doesn't realise how emotionally (and physically) exhausting dealing with a crying clinging toddler day and night is.

WL I'm impressed with dd2's writing. Dd can hardly write her name, she's good at numbers and counting though I'd be annoyed too, can you get him to clean the bathroom?

Dd was asleep in about thirty seconds but I really could have handled it better.

Coffee, i think these are her last 4 molars but i maybe wrong. I am pretty sure no other teeth can fit in there.

WL i like Spotty's suggestion of asking your DH to clean the bathroom if he's not helping properly with the girls.

Spotty sometimes they know how to push all the right buttons so that you can't function. Tomorrow is a new day i always think.