jan 2013- No, I will not have a new nappy

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Ta daaaaa new home feel at home already.

Tugs - how about Harriet? ( I love naming babies )

Welcome beans! Dd was actually born in December but I've stuck around here as the company is great

Hi beans welcome.

Have to say the 2 year old not too much trouble its the pre-teens giving me more grey hair :)

tugs I like Eliza too. Hope you are enjoying newborn snuggles am a little bit

meringue poor you. I couldn't function without a decent nights sleep, not surprised you are shattered!

I now have dps cold, passed on by ivy who keeps sneezing and coughing in my face! Can barely breathe for the coughing :(

Oooh in other news ds1 is now the proud owner of his own mobile phone (well my old phone) so I can track and stalk him when out with his mates for contact purposes :) He is very pleased with himself...I want to know where my baby went!!!

Hiya all! Thanks for the warm welcome!!

Some say brave, some say stupid with a 19 month age gap!! Anyone else got similar?!

Congrats tug! Fwiw I love Eliza :)

These are my two trouble makers

Congratulations tugs or
Ohhhh I love your name choices, my faves are Delilah and Eliza
I'm very jealous your having newborn snuggles

Welcome beans!

Not sure if you remember but dd had a terrible ear infection over Christmas that two doctors failed to notice until we went to OOH on Boxing Day, perforated ear drum anyhoo she's suffered with them since and she has a lot of thick dried blood / wax in her ears and now has to have them suctioned at the hospital.

Not sure that's going to go down too well with a 2 year old!

Oh Lolli how awful. Dan has had 2 perforated eardrums but no problems like that after, just a tendency not to enjoy putting his head underwater and he isn't comfortable round very loud high pitched sounds like whistles.

Delilah is really growing on me, the more I look at your list, Tugs, the more I like it.

Meringue only another 6 (8) weeks to go? When is your due date?

Beans lovely picture. My two boys are 2.4 years a part and thats close enough for me. I love them to bits but I do have to say I'm not broody in the slightest. No more for me thank you.

Morning all.

So, my period is a week late and after a few negative tests earlier in the week i got a vvv faint line this morning . Also had a bit of spotting this morning but I had that with dd so fingers crossed it doesn't mean anything bad.

Oh crap, forgot I was wearing another name . RatOnnaStick was a Terry Pratchett's name change.

Does this mean warm congratulations are in order MsBug?

Poor little thing lolli

juniper you might appreciate that E delights in saying 'don't eat his pies' regularly

better with ketchup.

Eeeekkkk Mrsbugs, keeping everything crossed for you

Her appointment is in May, it's not affecting her hearing, she can definitely hear me when I say no but I am concerned it's affecting her speech as surely everything must be muffled?
I made the mistake of YouTube-inh the procedure .... Vom ..

How did I miss that? Yay everything crossed mrsbugs

Thanks all, I've been feeling really tired for the last few days, not sure if that's a pregnancy symptom or just a symptom of looking after a poorly toddler! I'm not sure if dp totally believes it, he was the same when I was first pregnant with dd and I had to buy one of those expensive tests which says 'PREGNANT' in big letters .

Lolli your poor dd

Wowzers MsBug! Congrats to you

Poor dd Lolli, you've been through the mill. Hope it'll get sorted soon.

Meringue exciting! What's your due date? I really sympathise on the sleepless nights front. Are you still working?

Thanks for the feedback on the names. I think we're going for Delilah. It's our favourite and I've been overthinking and worrying about what other people think too much.

I'd forgotten the clocks go forward and just had a shock looking at the time. Sitting here watching Prison Break feeding Delilah and hoping she'll drop off soon.

Beautiful name tugs

Congratulations msbug! Wow!

Lovely name tugs.

Hello all, msbug here, fancied trying out a different name.

Got a darker line this morning so all looking good. Even dp could see it

Yay for darker lines!

Delilah is great and stuff what anyone else thinks except me. Someone will always dislike whatever you go for. Or you could do like we did and accidentally give your DD a name that sounds almost the same as your father's (Ellen/Alan). How did we not realise?!

Congrats MrsBug! How exciting :-)

Welcome Beans.

Hope Apples and Lolli's DD get better soon

Tugs I love the sound of Ottilie and Delilah. Congratulations. Hope you're managing at least some sleep! How has Ottilie taken it all?

My due date is 8th May but LO came at 37 weeks so we'll see! I am off work and have my hospital bag packed (though if I make it past 37 weeks the plan is to have a homebirth). Midwife came on Friday; head is down but not fully engaged yet.

Good luck meringue! I'd like to try for a home birth next time. I wanted one with dd but wasn't allowed as I didn't go to term. Let us know how it goes.

Will do. Let's hope this bloody wind pipes down tonight! It's pretty hard to sleep train a toddler when they are justifiably terrified that the house is about to blow down!

Congratulations Bug/Snozz! Still undecided about a DC 2 here. Can somebody just tell me what to do please?

Welcome Beans - beautiful picture!

How are your girls doing Tugs?

Do any of the other DCs seem to have verbal diarrhoea? DS just does not stop talking. Ever. And when he runs out of things to say he just repeats the same things over and over again. It's driving me barmy! I'm an only child and naturally very quiet so I need my peace - I can't think straight! Argh!

Cupcakes dd is a talker too. She wakes up in the morning talking to herself in her cot and goes to sleep at night doing the same thing. The only time she's quiet is when she's eating.

It's a hard decision to have more children or not. On the one hand I am enjoying just having dd and getting to spend lots of time just with her. However I have siblings and always imagined myself with two children and I think having a sibling would be nice for DD too. Plus I am getting broody!

I get "Yello mummee. What you doin' mummeeeeee?" fifty times an hour at the moment. If I ask him the same thing back I just get "Yeah!" . He knows his own mind, will only have his Thomas coat, his brown boots, the right train to take in the car. Dives down the slides head first, runs into doors, has bruises all over his little squidgy knees and generally now known as Dangerous Dan. The two of them fight lots but play very closely too. I always know what one is doing because the other comes and tells on them. They entertain each other nicely (in between the shouting).

Two is nice. Its fun. Bloody hard for a long time though. Its getting much much easier now.

I just get:
I like cars
I like trains
I like Daddy
I like Grandad Cat POPPY!!!
I like chickens
I like cars
I like trains
Over and over and over. How do you respond to that?