Feb 06 - 1 already - where did the last year go?!

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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 CSWS (Tabs), Baby no 1, Lives North Herts, TENS and gas & air
LEWIS JAMES, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 31st Jan, Weight 9lbs 2oz, Born to PhoenixGirl (Cuffyj1/lewsmummy), 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
LUCA, Birthdate 21st Feb, Due 18th Feb, Weight 8lbs 3oz, Born to 2boysmacca, Baby no 2, Lives N Essex, Home birth
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 Jelley (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,

Ah, I've got similar, but I'm making the dds carry their own drinks/snack and book/toy for on the train

DH is coughing away upstairs and intermittantly throwing up Ds is also in a very grumpy mood, hey ho.

Hope everyone meeting up today has a really lovely time.

Chloe, sorry to hear dh and ds are both on the rough side today

Hope the rest of you are having a great time

just pootling along here today, spot of cleaning done, spot of accounting done, been to twisting tots, dd now napping, will crack on with tea shortly I guess!

Bloody hell - you can tell the chatter boxes are out for the day, can't you?!

I'm back. So there

Me too

Good day, any casualties, funny stories? Flame, did you manage to get up or did your feet stay firmly on solid ground?

If the weather is OK tomorrow we're taking the kids to Twycross Zoo!!!!

Need a really realy early night. Ds2 woke at 2am, my mum took him at 4.45 as he was still not sleeping. She brought him back at 5.30 just as ds1 woke. I hissed at him to go back to sleep, then as soon as I heard my sisters kids were up, encouraged him to go downstairs and get Auntie macca to sort out breakfast. I think I managed about an hours sleep between 2 and 7.15 this morning. Yawwwwwn. G'night

She did it!

Has to be said, taking a toddler on a down escalator whilst pushing a buggy is a great way of getting a good looking man to help you

BTW ladies... dh came to meet me at the station (although couldnt help me up the steps as he've been charged to get through the barrier!!). He was a bit early, so looking in shop windows to kill time... and got questioned by the police, as they'd had reports of a dodgy character and though it was him They asked if he had a black wooly hat, which he does, but didnt have it with him. He reckons if he'd had the hat he'd have been arrested!!!

We're back. At last. Journey from hell.

You're only just getting back? It must have been a good day (unless u set off home hours ago)

mrm... did he bring coffee?

One of us will tell our story in a min... just eating dinner and drinking a lot of wine!!

Yep, he brought my coffee

Pgirl, I got in 6pm, and managed to stop ds1 falling asleep on the tube, so a job well done. And I was even told what 'lovely children' I had by a woman sitting opposite us If only she knew.

Well we got back about 7:45 maybe?

Were supposed to catch 6pm train from St Pancras, but they had some carriages break down, so there were 4 instead of 8, which surprise surprise got very full, and we couldn't fit on with our buggies (or even without them tbh!). Man who worked there tried to sort out something for us, but it would take them half an hour to organise taxi to Luton, plus prob another half hour if we wanted car seats, so would be no better off than with 7pm train. In the end we made him walk us to Kings Cross Thameslink carrying flame's bag, whilst she had Emrys in sling and B in pushchair, as she was very tired by then. No lift at Kings Cross, so he had to go up and down with us carrying all the pushchairs, and we got to platform just in time to jump on another very busy train.

We were side by side with buggies blocking door, and every one of the thousand stops was on our side, so flame kept getting out and we made people squeeze down the side of the buggies. Pippa screamed/shouted a lot of the way because she didn't want to be in buggy. I couldn't even get round the front of her to take her out or remove some clothing (it was v hot), but she was intermittently pacified with food (see, you took the piss about my sweetcorn patties, but they kept everyone going!). Emrys was similarly unhappy, as he was tired, but had been ousted from his pushchair slumber by B. So we had a chorus of screaming, which continued all the way home in the car as well.

Girls happy once home and free to walk about. Emrys bum all sore as had been ages since we'd been able to change his nappy, but flame washed that, bfed him and got him off to bed, whilst I bathed the girls.

All then went to sleep quickly, so then flame and I had to clear up from breakfast, make grown up dinner (had pasta sauce cooking in slow cooker all day!), and open wine!

Now chilling .

She was probably insane like you and thinking B is adorable

Ahhh - they are lovely mrm.

Going to see what pics I took now.

Just been through the bag - I love the stripey shirt!!!!

Going to a birthday party on Saturday... he will be wearing that !

I love it too - told flame we want pics of him in it, and she said that that will be no problem, as he'll be living in it!!

Glad you like it. There was no way I'd have ironed it for you though ds1 has one the same, by sheer fluke of being given to us, so they wore them on xmas eve together. I cant stand matching clothing (like anything else matching!), but it was quite funny as a one off. They also have matching hand knitted mustard coloured Val Doonican jumpers Thanks, MIL.

You poor things on the train. Can see you off to kings x though I thought it was bad enough getting help from the general public on the escalators. ds1 loved the man who helped too. In the space of one escalator, he'd told him we'd been on the big wheel with mummy's friends and 'those girls, you know' and had dinner in a cafe with ice cream and he couldnt manage the climbing frame but he just squeezed his body through and he'd been a good boy but it was hard work

Dh has just got home from work and he's poorly now too. Man flu. He always takes the dog for a walk when he gets home so just walked out of the door muttering something about getting pneumonia (sp?) (it's raining here)

Love you ds' description of the day mrm
Sorry you both had a nightmare journey home. We were back by 6.30, girls in bed by 7.30, and ds has been flat out since 8

We all had a lovely day out. Thankyou all (and your lovely children)
Even dp is coming round to the idea that maybe not everyone on the internet is a hairy handed trucker or pervert.
He had also chilled about the fact that I left the backdoor open when I left this morning, and didn't make a big fuss

I'm really tired, so I'm having one more cup of tea, then off to bed. We've got another day out tomorrow.

Oh, after carting their bags around all day, dd2 left hers either on the train, or in the taxi home, so I'm going to have to buy dd1 a Dr Who now to replace the Captain Jack that was in the bag.

Glad you all had a good day

You wanted a DrWho anyway

DD has announced that we will be seeing you again, but staying with Jelley next time

Good day even with the hellish journeying.... and the big wheel that you can feel move

Oh yes I forgot to say that it was a great day apart from the journeys. I described it to dh (or was it to flame ) as a fun sandwich, the journeys being the bread!

Which is exactly why I told ds1 he couldnt bring his own bag today...

Both boys in bed by 7.15, but ds2 took a while to settle, esp after the initial shock of being 6 inches lower thanks to dh while we were out (had to lower it, as he's nearly flung himself out a few times. ds2 that is, not dh).

Right, ideas for Thursday please. Not too far from me, but with friend with car... the magic word!!!

Lucky kids are having a trip to the supermarket tomorrow

And, csws, thank you so much for lunch. You really are so kind and thoughtful. And I'm so glad ds1 actually ate his for a change instead of ignoring it(albeit from under the table whilst playing giraffe!!)

Er, no one has told the others about how little flameboy was viciously strapped to the chair by his dungarees

hurrah for having a good day girls, even if the journey home was a mare for some, is the wine nice, I could really drink some at the mo

Phoenix boo for man flu, raining here also.
Which brings me to tomorrows forecast for Macca, tis rain...booo....so maybe no Twycross tomorrow?? would be a shame tho as its nice there one of the monkeys (I think it was a baboon??) had a baby when we were there last year, and my friends and I stood there cooing with our little ones as the mum swung above our heads with the little one clinging on