The 9th Broadly Gemini Bus - the one with first birthdays!

[Lorelei353]

Ooh Inge to start a new thread. So if the last one was the one where they don't sleep, then they'll start to sleep now, yes?

I go back to work next Weds Kitty. DS started properly today. Full day today, tomorrow and Friday. I've just done a lovely yoga class and am using the next few days to have lunches, get hair cut etc. miss DS though.

pear definitely want to hear all TTC details! I'm beginning to accept that I will do it all again but not yet!

Oh pear. Dr. Google is never the answer, darling.

Well it's just reading other peoples experiences and more people talk about AF returning before the BFP of dC2 or having to stop Bf in order to get a result. It does all make sense...I just don't want to have to choose Oh well, time will tell.

pear ask about on the breast/bottle feeding board - there are women who breastfeed throughout their pregnancy & go on to tandem-feed their DC. I met someone a little while ago at a group who had her 18mo & 3yo both popping on & off every 5 minutes! She kept having to remove one when the other fell over! It's entirely possible for that to happen for you too. Tbh, I should probably have waited longer before having Runt. His pregnancy was so much worse & I suspect that's at least in part due to my body not being ready. Give yourself a break, I'm sure it'll happen in time!

Hey Frus Been thinking about you. How are things going at home?

Agreed agnu. I really believe our bodies have more wisdom than we give them credit for. Some women's bodies just hold out longer before conceiving another baby so that it can fully heal or so that it can make sure it gets enough stores for the next pregnancy. Maybe this can be the time to really make sure that you start eating really healthy and getting yourself prepared for the next time around. It's frustrating when you want it to happen right now and you've got the two hippies of the group say you should give it time (Agnu, I had to ). It's totally up to you. It's a process to start weaning as you have to take it slow to make sure you don't get mastitis and so that baby pear has time to adjust to new ways of being soothed. Keep us updated. Several of us have weaned off little ones before so if you have any questions, we're happy to help.

Thanks bring. I've weaned him off the afternoon feed and now my next hurdle is to wean him off the two habit feeds he's having before naps. This would actually be very good for him because then DH has no excuse not to put him down at nap times. I was thinking about booking a spa day as I know the nap weaning is going to involve more CIO training...not as much though. Thought if I had a treat for myself it would make it easier

Hope everyone is well and looking forward to the weekend?!

Oh and I agree. I need to restore healthy eating, exercise and focus on my relationship with DH whilst not TTC but trying

frus that sounds adorable. My ds doesn't sit and stare at me like that but that's mostly because he can't sit still for anything, no matter how much he loves me!

Kitten doesn't give me the look of love as such but if she sees me she has to get to me straight away,won't sit with anyone else even if she was quite happy before I walked In and she has to be on me which is unlike how she is with anyone else, like litterally in my arms and crawls to get herself on my lap, she rubs her face between my boobs and snuggles as though to say this is the only thing to make me happy! She makes me feel very loved! Totally different to dd1

Oh yeah. God forbid you leave DS in his playpen or stop him doing what he wants. Screaming ensues.

Yes however quite excited by all the talking at the minute! She chatters all the time but has just started saying things quite clearly, or clearish anyway lol we had duck yesterday at the park and dog slough it's more like da and uck but my dad said she said dd2's name really clear when he said where are they and this morning she been saying "whats that" and "that" pointing at what she want, although pronounced tha, it's very clear what she's and though
Still no bloody walking though !!! She'll do one handed now when forced and drops to her knees when she's had enough

Kitty that is amazing. I didn't even realise they could say so many words at this age. I know a 1 year old who can say "car". Thought that was impressive until I read what kitten can say! We just have "ga ga" "ba ba" and "da da" on a loop

Tantrums r us in this house! We've learnt to manage it with distraction or swapping an item he can have with the one we want him to drop...it's basically like having a chatty puppy

distraction is definitely key.

All that chatter is impressive. My D niece talked really early too. Lots of words very young. She's a real chatterbox now aged 4.

Some babies do really early, tiger was aswell and even clearer, once she said the word it was as clear asit is now right from the begining so it wasn't "at" like kitten says for cat it was "cat" or "Pepsi" the cats name big show off
My mum said I was really quick though, I could talk fluently at 18months, when my brother was born she remembers I said to the hv "mummy's in there giving baby the boob" I'd have been just 19months then
What she also does that's cute is when she cuddles you she says ahhhhhh lol she does it everytime as I guess we did

M is throwing a couple of "words" around, although her words make her sound like she's speaking Icelandic.

MIL is really sick again. We are going to come over at the end of the summer, early autumn. It's just so stressful over here right now.

I'm really sorry to hear that bring, I hope she's on the mend x

Calf spoke really clearly right from his second or third word but has since lost that clarity a little. Runt so far just has 'mamama' and today started with 'dadad' when he saw DH! He can now also sign more, drink and... umm... horse riding! Thanks for that one Mr Tumble! I'm counting those as non-verbal words!

bring so sorry about MIL & the stress! Will you be over for long? I've just been looking at a map & worked out that we're between 2-3 hours drive from everyone & rather conveniently centrally located between you all...

I would love to meet you gals in RL!

It's the lymphoma and there are lymph nodes located around her kidneys and in her pelvis that are affected. They did a bone marrow biopsy yesterday and will be doing a PET scan tomorrow then she can go home and wait for the results. We won't know about what the treatment plan will be until July 9th. It's going to be a long couple of weeks.

I think we will be there at least 2 weeks it takes a full bloody week to recover from the jetlag!

A meet up would be amazing.

Sorry to hear about your MiL bring All sounds very scary.

I think I've finished breastfeeding. Last night I had plans with friends so instead of feeding him after bath as usual and then going out, I just went out and left DH with a sippy cup of cows milk and let him settle him. He didn't take much dope the milk but didn't take too long to fall asleep - although not in his crib, but in DH's arms. Still haven't cracked self settling. We're trying it again as we speak. We'd a terrible night with DS but I don't know if it was related as he's been teething on and off for weeks now and has the odd night where phew just won't sleep.

Feel a but sad about it but mostly I'm ready to stop and kind of glad. The intimacy was gorgeous but I still get plenty of cuddles and obviously we're well bonded by now. Fortunately DS is also very close with DH so will settle for him, often better than with me!

Not sure if I should be giving DS much milk to drink during the day. He eats a lot of dairy - milk on his weetabix, yoghurts, babybel almost every day, other cheese...

Still think it's advised the have quite abit lor, a couple of glasses, I do g think they can have too much but bring would know better then me, kitten has around 14oz of milk a day ontop of her diet