June 2013; Toddling into our second year!

[BeanCalledPickle]

New thread ladies:-) I think we filled about ten threads when pregnant and this is only our fourth post natally!

[BeanCalledPickle]

Yeah I've told him. He obviously thinks he's sodding superman for managing to knock me up without trying. His exact words were 'I'd better get snipped after this'. Due 7th may, which makes DD exactly 23 months but section at 39 weeks so a bit under. The booze I guess is the same for virtually everyone. The lack of folic acid and presence of sleeping pills is not ideal!

[HungryHorace]

As long as you get on the folic acid now it'll be fine! :-)

And you weren't trying? It's obviously meant to be then.

I wouldn't trust a vasectomy if his sperm are that eager!

[cuphat]

You all abandoned the thread too early! Clue: I was spiky.

When I was pregnant with DD, I had a silver filling removed. I told the dentist that I might be pregnant but she went ahead anyway . Cue panic when I found out I was pregnant a few days later and I'm still not happy about it (though hopefully it was too early to affect DD).

[RueDeWakening]

Congratulations Bean! :o

Bloody hell, no wonder M has been grumpy - while hunting the still not through 4th premolar tooth, I discovered he's been and gone and cut a canine.

Whose HV is it that will like to know that he currently has 3 premolars and 1 canine tooth? I'd take a photo, only he'd bite the camera/my finger/etc so you'll have to take my word for it :o

[HungryHorace]

Ah, I know now, cup! :-)

Rue, DD bites us when we look for teeth. I think there's 2 molars and 2 incisors coming through at the moment. Nights are crap as both of them are getting / keeping us up. Yawn

[SunnyL]

I was in a very quiet portrait gallery last week when I startled a group of Italians with "don't bite! don't bite!"

little madam just gets the idea into her head and will sink her teeth into anyone in the vicinity always me

[Mrs81]

Heehee Sunny They must have got a shock!

I managed to get a finger into DS's mouth yesterday and can feel molar #4 ready to start poking through He'll be done teething by Christmas at this rate!!!

[cuphat]

It is hard looking at DD's teeth too, she really doesn't like it. Having said that, she doesn't bite, which I am grateful for! We have a nephew the same age and he bit me on the arm once. It hurt.

[Sunbeam18]

Wow, bean! Congrats! How are you feeling now its sunk in a bit? I still feel like DS has just been born a couple of months ago! Are your our third to be pregnant again?

[BeanCalledPickle]

I think so unless anyone else is keeping it secret. I obviously am incapable of that and am less driven to secrecy this time around. Though I'm going to try and make it quite a bit further before telling work etc.

Feel ok ish. Tired and a bit sick but it's really early days at the moment!

[Mrs81]

Ha, I know what you mean Sunbeam! It doesn't always seem that long ago since June last year!

DS is poorly in a nondescript way a bit of a fever, but he's had worse in the past. Really lethargic though and has had 4 naps today!!! Poor wee thing, he's just wanted cuddles all day long. Which is lovely but a pity this is how they come about...

[AlohaMama]

Congrats Bean. That's great news, hope you perk up a bit soon.

[Mrs81]

How have your babies coped with the mmr? I think we had ours quite late, relatively speaking (last wk). DS is sleepy, floppy and clingy again today - but maybe this is bog standard mmr response?

[HungryHorace]

DD took it in her stride, thankfully. Maybe a touch grumpy for a short while, but wasn't unwell at all.

[MaryWestmacott]

Oh I've found you all again! Sorry about that.

MMR, dd was fine with it, although a bit sleepy and angry about the whole situation (absolute face like thunder for the drive home, this was no acceptable behaviour from mummy)

[cuphat]

DD was fine, apart from getting a rash 10 days or so afterwards.

[Mrs81]

Glad it has been faff free on the whole for you all. Today is the first day in a while that ds has eaten lunch, and not been falling asleep every 2hrs. His temp yesterday was 39.5 and his lethargy has been so sad to see. Thankfully he seems to be turning a corner today otherwise it would be nhs24/doctor at the ready!

[MaryWestmacott]

oh and I meant to say, when DD had the MMR, we were a bit late with it so she had 3 jabs at the same time getting the other ones sorted, after the second, she started frantically doing the "all done" sign from baby sign language. I felt like such a meany.

[RueDeWakening]

Aw, Mary - cute though :) I was also a meany and M had 3 jabs together - 2 in one leg and one in the other. The nurse was hopeless, she was all "ooh, I hate doing this, the poor babies, sob sob, waily waily" and I was "just bloody get on with it, woman!" :o

I've really noticed that M is understanding much more of what we say recently - he will pick things up if I ask him (well, if he feels like it, otherwise he'll just point and grin at me!), help put things away, his favourite game is loading the washing machine - including with random objects if I'm not watching him! I wonder how long it'll be before we get a recognisable word out of him? I know a few of our babies are chattering away, mine is not one of them!

[cuphat]

I hope your DS is better, Mrs81.

DD had three jabs together too, but that's just the way they do it here.

DD was slow to start babbling, but once she started she developed quickly. She says mama/ mum mum (lots!), dada, hi/ hey (while putting toy phones to her ear!). She's said a couple of other things, but I think they were just one-offs. She makes lots of different sounds now though. I've mentioned before that she understands a lot - she has a really good memory (unlike me) which must help.

[HungryHorace]

DD understands loads; it amazes me how much she knows. She can be good at bringing me things, though sometimes wants to hold onto them instead of handing them over!

She has said quite a bit, though I think a lot is one-offs, like she said 'oh no' when she tripped and fell the other day. :-)

Generally she babbles all the time. It definitely means something to her and has rise and fall of intonation. Can't wait for her to talk more.

[Mrs81]

Thanks Cuphat. Alas not yet. He is still lethargic and has conjunctivitis too now. I've just resettled him and he could hardly open his eyes for all the stuff oozing from them. We have eyedrops now so hopefully things will improve soon. It's fair to say he's had a shitty week

[SunnyL]

I think I got my first mama on Sunday - even better there were 3 witnesses so DH had to admit defeat.
so far her vocabulary is limited to doh which means I want that, shakes head furiously which means no and the occasional yeah and hiya.

She's a little comedian though. If I ask for a kiss she'll lean in to give me a kiss then when I lean in she'll whip her head away shaking it furiously while giggling.

Everyone else gets kisses

[cuphat]

Aww, Sunny. I'm the only one who gets kisses here. Oh, and the teddies. They're full on mouth open wide ones but at least she's stopped trying to suck my lips! She does pucker her lips and make kiss noises too.

Poor baby, Mrs. Hope he gets back to normal soon.

DD likes giving me things so I say "thank you". And is still putting her hand up for yes, I want that - so cute.

DD was saying mama/ mum mum for a long time before she said dada, haha. She still says it much more - she's a real mummy's girl (though that could change).

She babbles a lot too, and has a sound she does when she wants us to tell her what something is (her question sound). I can't wait for her to be able to talk, however she is very inquisitive and sometimes stares at people a lot so I'm dreading some of the things I know she'll come out with!

[Mrs81]

DS is finally nearly better. And now he's started walking! Just taken him shoe shopping...size 2 feet...oh so tiny and cute. Mind you, at £26 a pop this shoe business is going to get jolly expensive over the coming months/years isn't it?

He's a babbler too. No idea what he's saying but he thinks it's bang on the money and gets quite animated about it all