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,

Over £250 for the MOT I had £150 saved for it... will have to borrow money from the children to cover the rest.

ABS light was on when FIL gave it to us - that is what has cost all the money. So far we have ended up with a car I don't like, that is costing us loads to repair, and I have to be eternally grateful and grovelling to them. Back in the situation where I know it sounds sooo ungrateful, but I would rather have had to spend a bit more and got a car on my terms, that I like, that I know is up together for at least 12 months.

hugs flame
I am hiding from my children as have turned into terrible shouting mother, why can't they just do one little thing that they are told??????? and as don't like the cross shouty me.

Not that it helps, but I don't really like what I have become either. I just find myself yelling all the time. If I ask nicely, I can ask 'til I'm blue in the face but shouting gets results, faster!

Flame. Sorry to hear about the car. Can sympathise, as car had first service on Wednesday, £180.00. How can they warrant that sort of price when there is nothing wrong with it?

I fell asleep on the sofa earlier on. I woke at 3.10 both boys were still snoring. I'm hoping they'll sleep longer in the morning.

Nice bottle of wine chilling in the fridge.

Where is everyone?

I'm here at last. Been out with dd most of day - to toddler group this am followed by lunch in town and then to b'day party of one of dd's friends. She didn't get her nap until 4:15!

Poor thing is really suffering with her teeth at the moment. Even whilst bf'ing she is ramming her hand in her mouth. Took her a loooong while to settle tonight, even with calpol.

for car flame, and for shouty grumpy mummies. Sometimes it's just hard to avoid.

Yay for holiday plans. Still no nearer to deciding what to do for hols here.

Got anything exciting planned for the weekend?

CSWS have you tried ambersol on her gums as well, my friends ds was really, really teethy and she swore by it.

Flame for the MOT costs and for the nappy order falling thru, princes trust also do business loans for under 30's, worth looking into

Dame and Macca, I know what you mean, poor dd1 got a right mouthful just before we had to go and get ss this afternoon, mind you she had in the two seconds I left her alone in the kitchen coloured in my lino (luckily in wipeable pen!) good job we're changing it for tiles soon tho.......naughty step central today, and for the last few days really, I can tell its pre school half term

We're going out tomorrow night, after we've put dd to bed. Going to see Music & Lyrics at the cinema. The cost of this is to have the in-laws to dinner first and have them stay over!

We've also got a Christening to go to on Sunday morning, and I've forgotten to get a present so far, so will have to go and find something tomorrow.

How about you?

Friz - had forgotten you'd recommended that. Not entirely sure how I'd get it onto her gums, as she never lets me put my finger in her mouth, but will try and get some tomorrow and then worry about that!

Hellooooooooo

How are we all?

Lew is sleeping through again now after his few days of been sniffly and coughy, he's still got it a bit but sleeping which is fine by me

Flame - you've added the tots wraps now after i've put my order in Oh well i might have to look at ordering more nappies dh will kill me but i aren't bothered. I'm getting the urge to buy another pushchair but he's having none of it so i've told him i have to feed one addiction so what would he prefer nappies or pushchairs

Sorry PG - I did it as soon as I could... you got too enthusiastic. You only have 5 liners in your first parcel, the second one is going out today with 7 in it... I forgot to put the 6th one in the bundle after doing the photos ... Blame Jas

I found a site that lists a whole load of grants and loans, so I need to get on to that. At the moment I'd like to try and avoid a loan - we have so many debts already I can't face it right now. I'm at this torn stage of knowing I need to take a few risks to make this a success, but also not wanting to completely wreck our finances if it all falls through.

Did people get the newsletter? I was playin...

CSWS - hope Pippa is feeling a little happier. I found a little tiny pair of girls socks in my washing yesterday, and I know I didn't shrink em I remember picking them up and meaning to check who's they were... now I know!

I woke at 6.30 all pleased that it was the first time DS had woken... turns out he was up for an hour at 3am but I slept through the lot .

for your service costs Macca - I was enough at spending £100 for a service last summer!

We decided to accept the settlement money from Barclays (not as much as we wanted, but it is easier than court filing etc, and it is now iyswim), so at least we can use that for the car... just means we still can't pay a chunk off debts.

This weekend - My friend's DS's 1st birthday party today... its a late one - kids in afternoon then a glass of wine or 5 in the evening - not taking DH so I think I'll walk em there and he can collect us Tomorrow - playin at my dad's - which I think I will take DH to (or I'll give him the option of joining us later today - he is seeing us at some point!)

Forgotten everything else

Soupy's gone awol again. Oh, and not seen Dew for a little bit either.

3K - If you're lurking then just to let you know I hope everything is improving

lol at not shrinking the socks. I also gained a bright pink shower scrungie!

Soupy was on the rather long blw thread the other day, where she did actually say that she was supposed to be on an MN break.

More night waking here, but it didn't quash her appetite for breakfast at least.

Oh bum!

I stuck my head in there to tell her to step away from the thread, but at that stage she hadn't made it on

DS refused all breakfast, so you're one up on me.

Morning.

We had a lovely day out at Madame Tussauds yesterday. Glad I took my parents though, as I didn't know you can't take buggy round. It would have been awful carrying ds on my own all day.
DD1 learnt loads as we went round (she is a 7 year old knowledge sponge, and my mother is a teascher/history buff), while dd1 wandered round stroking all the costumes and copying the poses!
The card will be posted this morning mrm Thankyou again

Dew has posted on her antenatal thread this month (I did a search) but not recently. We are being abandoned for the pregnant talk!

I got the newsletter Flame.
Very professional.

Our car is due its mot soon, and it needs new tyres. They are very expensive new, so I'm hoping dp can find some second hand ones. I'd love to sell the car, but no one wants to buy it

No plans for the weekend here. We've been very busy all week and need a bit of quiet time before school starts on Tuesday.

DS cried himself to sleep last night After an hour of being wide awake but happy in his cot, I left him to make a cup of tea and he started to scream. By the time I was done he was calming down. I can't leave him to cry at all, but dp can, so I went to the corner shop for milk, and when I got back he had just stopped and was asleep. No idea what we will do tonight if he dosn't go off early.

Thank god we didn't go there as well then!! That would have been a nightmare! Did you see my Cap'n?

Of course
The pics of him aren't that good though Well, tbh, he looks great, it's just me and the dds that don't look good!

The Cap'n is buying a house and looking at schools in Lymington I can be a fully fledged stalker!!

Don't worry about the tots wraps flame i think i've bought enough to be going on with for now My first parcel hasn't come today so they might both come together on Monday so i'll have loads to play with all at once . Very impressed that the second one has been sent already

Oh yeah and i got a newsletter thanks

Glad you enjoyed your day out Jelley

Tryin to make up for the appalling delay on the last one

You'll learn...

lol u weren't home it couldn't be helped

I still haven't told dh i've spent another £40 on them i ordered yesterday and he probably won't even know cos he aint gota clue wot i ordered first time and he's working earlys next week so will never know they came as 2 separate parcels

I love the fact that men can be so oblivious to the obvious, and then I also find it so frustrating too

Glad you got use of the card Jas; now we can get it topped back up to 40!

Survived ds2's birthday open day!!!

Might post a pic on here later.

here's a couple of pics of posh boy in his suit!

BTW, did anyone see that thread about getting a £40 Verbaudet ready bed for £4.44? I've done it, so lets see if it gets delivered unnoticed by them!!

yes i saw it mrm but dh works for them so i can't run the catalogue anyway