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,

Hellooooooooooooooo!

Sat opposite Tabs ignoring her (as she probably types about me)... she is a monster of a woman, holding me here against my will and plying me with wine... tis pure hell

3K -

Soupy - @ the googly eyes... where do you store the things?!?!

Erm... forgotten what I was going to say! Good journey here... a bit lost, but we got there in the end.

Long night last night, little man has started having interesting erection issues at 2am, and his nappy hurts!! Take it off for it to all settle down, he's happy and go back to sleep

He's spent most of his time here playing with (and breaking) a laptop Clearly his father's child!

Very sorry (and surprised) to hear that 3K. Having a baby is such a big life changing thing that it's bound to put a strain on any relationship, but hope that you can work through it.

Well it seems that dd isn't actually better yet, but we're managing to keep her temp down by administering calpol and nurofen together, and she's happy for as long as she's cool for. She ate some lunch (and taught Emrys how to throw food on the floor ) so that's a good sign.

lol at more googley eyes - think you need to give her slices of licorice allsorts instead, as they will look similar, but be more edible!
We use pure here, so if I need to make a cake myself, I will indeed use that, thanks.

Pippa eating is more than Lewis has done today. He had a few baked beans and a yogurt for lunch and for dinner 2 spoons of scrambled egg and wouldn't have anything we tried near his mouth so i attempted a slice of fruit loaf and he ate that. I just made him some porridge just to try get something more down him and he won't entertain more than 1 spoonful.

Does anyone else find that their lo like something 1 day then won't have it the next?

He's so tired now cos he's only had 2 small naps when he normally has 1-2 hours at each nap. Only 1hr 50mins til bed (although i might take him earlier yet) He's just here now rolling all over floor crying not knowing what to do with himself. He won't let either of us pick him up he doesn't want to be on the floor.

Well afer my last post i bathed him and got him dressed for bed and he put his head down on me and went tp sleep before i got chance to get his bottle or his medicine down him so i dream fed and dream drugged him and carried him up to bed at 6. So that'll prob mean he'll be up early.

3K hope you can work things out between you, we're here for you hon

Flame and CSWS bet your both very drunk by now then eh

PMSL Phoenix we've fed our kids the same thing today, dd2 has had scrambled egg for one meal (breakfast with toast) and wasn't fussed about lunch much (cause she did a drive by on dd1's banana snack when she put it down for a second, lol) so she then went until tea when she had beans too with baked tatty wedges, which she threw mainly on the floor

Had lovely walk out at Rufford today, giggled at some prat who had tried to drive their new Vauxhall thru the obviously too deep ford,(you could see the meltwater steaming down the overflow from the lake next to it) and thus there was the RAC trying to tow the now knackered car out, with a large crowd watching ran into some friends there too have decided it will be great for summer picnics there.

It's been a loooong day! Got in at 1.30, Luca woke at about 1.45. I lay on the floor next to him with my arm in his cot, everytime I tried to get away he woke. At 5am I crawled into my bed (except it wasn't my bed, it was ds1's. At 7.30 he woke cying his eyes out, refused breakfast and just lay on the sofa. I couldn't take him to the birthday party like that so I just took ds2. I'm knackered. Too much to drink, 2 hours sleep and a very grizzly little boy.

I need to strip our bed clothes before I can crawl into it but I just cannot be bothered, I'm too tired. Have a long drive ahead of me tom, so I'm gonna just have to call it a night.

If I don't manage to get on tomorrow, have a great meet up on Tuesday. Wanna see the photos.

Hope you get a good night sleep tonight macca.

I think I have put some pics on my profile. Can someone let me know if they work. The snowman and supersize baby will be there for a few days only

Not drunk Frizbe, but could do with it after doing bedtime with 3 of them - can see we're going to be in for lots of fun this week . B and Emrys fast asleep and setting a good example, but Pippa still shouting her head off at the moment. Routine totally to pot today, and I guess she's not as tired as normal after spending the morning asleep.

3k - are you still coming on Tuesday? Sounds like you could use a good day out.

Is anyone around to remind us which station we need to get to quicker than we can search for the last time someone told us?!

Yes they work Jelley. How much has Leon grown up since I last saw him?!?!

Nite macca. Hope you get a better night tonight.

I feel sure B n Emrys won't be this good all night! B enjoyed bathtime though

PG - Yup, B is still hit n miss which foods she likes now!!!

Can see the pics jel.

Flame - u know they'll prove u wrong because u're at someone else's house

if he can show me up by sleeping through then that would be loooooooooovely

From the London Eye Website:

Directions
By tube
The Eye is approximately five minutes walking distance from Waterloo tube station (follow signs for the South Bank) and Westminster tube station (exit one, follow signs for Westminster pier).
By rail
The Eye is five minutes from Waterloo mainline train station. Take exit six for the South Bank and follow the signs. The London Eye is 15 minutes from Charing Cross mainline train and tube station, which is accessed via Golden Jubilee Bridges.

By bus
Buses to the London Eye include the 211, 77 and 381. We are on most London sightseeing bus tours and on the RV1 route that connects the London Eye to the Tate Modern and Covent Garden.

I'm thinking train to Liverpool Street, circle line to wesminster is best (for me, depends where your trains take you)

What time/place to meet?
Westminster, or the Eye?
10.30/11.00?

3k I really hope you decide to come still.

I'm thinking train to Liverpool Street, circle line to wesminster is best (for me, depends where your trains take you)

What time/place to meet?
Westminster, or the Eye?
10.30/11.00?

3k I really hope you decide to come still.

Looks like train from Luton to Blackfriars for us, then tube to Westminster. Depending which time train we get, we'd be due to get to Westminster at either 10:32 or 10:50. Happy to meet there if you like, so that we can annoy the other passengers with our mass of buggies and children.

There is apparently a 'reduced escalator service' at Westminster at the moment. Am assuming that means that there is still some escalator service, but has anyone been there recently who can confirm?

My sister is still toying with joining us for a bit - she's broken a rib, so it all depends on how she's feelign and if she thinks she is up to it before having to go to work at 12.30

you are organised re train times csws. I will just get out of the house as early as I can, wait an age for a bus, then get the next train I can (they go every 1/2 hour), so it depends on the buses for me (they run every 20 mins in theory but are often cancelled without notice).

I'll be hoping for 10.30, but may be best if I text you once I am on a train and have better eta.

Flame - get your sister to come. She can stand at the top and supervise all the big kids, while we ferry the buggies up the escalator/stairs

I will be carrying both baby and buggy until I'm sure I have finished with stairs.

you are organised re train times csws. I will just get out of the house as early as I can, wait an age for a bus, then get the next train I can (they go every 1/2 hour), so it depends on the buses for me (they run every 20 mins in theory but are often cancelled without notice).

I'll be hoping for 10.30, but may be best if I text you once I am on a train and have better eta.

Flame - get your sister to come. She can stand at the top and supervise all the big kids, while we ferry the buggies up the escalator/stairs

I will be carrying both baby and buggy until I'm sure I have finished with stairs.

Broken ribs seem to be all the rage

Thinking it might be easier to meet outside the Eye, as it'll be easy to miss each other at the station? Or is that just me?! Maybe by the big Dali sculpture outside County Hall? I will be going Westminster, just not decided whether to brave the tube yet. And whether to bring both ds's or not. If its only one, it will be ds1 though! Oh, opinions and a decision please!!! Just thinknig how much easier it'll be with one, and how ds2 wont enjoy being in a buggy all day anyway.

Part of me still thinks i should sling him, but its the whole issue of nappy bags etc

I have a buy one get one free or half price entry or something for MT that my sister emailed me... am i printing off that?

Ds just woke up so dh went up to him and he wouldn't settle back to sleep so i went up to try and he felt sooooooooooo warm so checked temp. it was 39.4 Its still high but going down slowly. He's come round a bit now ad sat on the floor in his nappy playing.