June mummies '05 thread 14 - the one where some become siblings and all of them grow.

[katzg]

new thread

hope you all like the title

congratulations Uki and family, welcome little Levi

waves to everyone else.

in the sfx household we are still trying for baby number 2, dd wants a sisterlet's see what we can do.
our big news is mini sfx has mastered the potty at home, minus pulling pants down but hey we will get there

Excellent news on the potty front,Sfx.I'm not even thinking about it yet as I have the delights of weaning to contend with,starting on Monday.
Best of luck with the baby sister.

AWWWW Thanks everyone

I can't believe how small they are, it's weird having newborn again, but more natural 2nd time. DS has accepted LL really well, he is a bit of a daddy's boy at the mo, but we knew that would help. he seems to love having soemeome else in the house, especially one that brings him presents

You can now read the gory details on birth announcements.

Bubb - Jasper is dh's name, but always loved the name too.

Our potty training is not that great either, but I'm sure he'll get it one day!

SFX- sorry to hear you are still trying. A friend recently got pg after 2 years it was funny coz the month before she gave me her baby capsule, which i felt bad/strange about, but thought maybe it was also her relaxing up about the whole idea. she also got a puppy, which i think got some mothering hormones going or something, i was tempted to steal that puppy he was so cute IYKWIM. Now i can't remember the third thing, but it was all a bit uncanny. I'll have to remember it (which was importnant). Hope that doesn't seem trival. Good luck though I'm sure it will happen soon.

Hello one and all! My goodness, we've had this thread on the go since February

Uki - congratulations on your new arrival and hope all is still going well.

EYM, nice to see you again! Ah - just realised you are probably in Rotherham right now, poss a bit short notice to get a meet-up organised for the bank holiday weekend. Hope all's well with your family and congrats on your sister's pregnancy.

katz - we didn't seem to manage to get together last week either. I had the MIL staying (ds has grown out of the fire engine wellies at last, so she bought him a pair of Dora ones instead ). This meant I could actually go to work at a proper time in the morning for once so I was flying along, until on Wednesday she texted to say she had to go home as her dh had been hospitalised with a suspected heart attack, arrgghh. Anyway, thankfully he is fine, was let out on Friday and they think was just anxiety, not to mention the fact he is 92.

We've been to see Thomas at the Bolton Abbey railway today, very popular that was. Ds is making me laugh at the moment with his language skills. He's learning about pronouns (not that he knows that) and so sometimes we'll get a perfect "I get it for you, mummy" (his football, I might add ) and other time it'll be "where's teddy? Where is him?". Most amusing. Well, it is for me - language graduate!

What's everyone else up to over the bank holiday weekend?

sfx, also struggling to conceive here too. Weight no doubt a factor (I didn't have any problems last time, incidentally) but I also seem to be ovulating late in the cycle as well, sigh. Plus god knows if dh is still fertile after being on morphine/methadone for so long.

hi all

guess we're just not as chattyn now, but then we have our little 2 years olds to chat to us!

trib - never mind about the meet-up sure we'll make it soon! if not then i might bring dd2 on the train one thursday whilst dd1 is at school.

fingers crosed for all those trying for another

does anyone feel like laughing when you look at the thread - june mummies want a flat tummy
oh lordy how i laughed

Flat tummy??????

LOL SFX and 2 Happy, couldn't agree more, I'd just be happy with rounded rather than excessively bulging

flat tummy's are for teenagers not mummy's of junies!

hope everyone is keeping well.

Hi all. Am also amused by the flat tummies thread. Am more likely to have a long bath uninterrupted than get a flat tummy any time soon.

Big congratulations to Uki. Hope it is going well.

All good here.

Daytime potty training seems to be cracked - this is our first totally accident free week. 'Tis good as you need to be trained to go to pre-school here, and we wanted ds1 to start in January.

ds2 is 8 months and just getting his top teeth - I had forgotten the way they spend the whole time from 6 months to 1 teething.

Hope everyone else is well. We need something to liven us up. TRIB - has your mil not bought anything nice for little trib recently?

Hello lummox! Well, MIL did buy ds Dora wellies and a pink watering can with his name on, so I dunno if she's trying to tell me something or encourage me to try and have a girl next time around In fairness to her, she has been really helpful recently and ds loves spending time with her.

Teething - heh. Ds started at 4 months and still hasn't stopped. He has the front two teeth (top and bottom, so four in all), two canines and two molars. And that's still it.

Good news on the potty training. I think ds is going to start pre-school in January (btw, is anyone else appalled that our little Junies are nearly preschoolers? How did that happen?!).

Ooh - something a bit exciting in the Trib household; I'm in line for two promotions at work. Keep your fingers crossed! I'm also hoping a promotion will kick-start pregnancy number 2 in that "oh god, what crap timing" kinda way!

Alas my hopes may be short-lived as dh has suspected hypogonadism, which isn't great. It can be treated but I'm not sure if his fertility might not be permanently up the creek as a result. His next endocrinology appointment was brought forward because of this so we were hoping to get some answers in November, only to get a letter saying "we're implementing a new booking system to give you LOTS OF CHOICE [apparently a good thing] about when you have your appointment. In order to do this we've cancelled all the existing appointments. We will probably phone you nearer the time (what time?) if we don't forget".

Guess which trust is going to be in receipt of a frosty letter from me. Admittedly it may actually be my 'fault' that they are having to put the new system in but they don't need to know that!

Btw, my friend had her first baby (a little girl) 13 days ago, she seems to be doing some kind of modified Gina Ford (are we allowed to say her name?) routine with her. Yesterday I got an email saying "the book says she's to have an hour of activity after her milk, but what kind of activity would she like?"

Ahhhh, we were all there once!

Hello All,

I?ve not been on here for ages. I?m a bad, neglectful Mner. (hangs head in shame)

Uki ? very late congratulations!!! Levi was one of the names on our list ? I love it!!

Trib ? that did make me snort with laughter ? an hour of activity with a 13 day old baby. If you can keep them awake for an hour, you?ve performed a miracle!!!

Alls very well in the jonah household. DS1 and DS2 are both doing fine. DS2, who?s 3½ months now, is sleeping beautifully. I didn?t think I?d be lucky twice with good sleepers, but it seems that someone up there was shining the ?sleeping through the night? light onto our house. You can cope with anything during the daytime, as long as the little angels put their head down at 7:15pm for the next 12 hours.

I hope you and all the junies are doing well. Still not done the nappy training. The latest trick from DS1 is to pull off all his clothes whenever and wherever the mood takes him. ALL of them. Sigh??

Take care, ladies?..

hello all

hi jonah and lummox

very funny the activity thing

dd seems to have sussed the potty training, she has also been sleeping without nappy and has asked to go to the toilet when out, managing to hold till she gets there. but she still wears a pull on when out.
we off course still expect accidents.

also keeping fingers crosses for a pregnancy soon,am giving self till the end of the year if nothing happens I think we will give up.

sfx, well done for sfxette's potty training! Dh has started insisting that if ds refuses to have a nappy on after a change, he has to sit on the potty. He's kind of doing this but I'm not sure what it's going to achieve. Fingers crossed for you, I'm in a similar "at some point we have to just give up" kind of mood.

Just heard from my bro with the two adopted kids. The birth mum went on to have another baby which was taken from her at birth but we had heard had been returned to her, poor little mite. Well, if he had, he's been taken away again and they were asked if they would like to have him too. After a lot of soul searching they decided not to. What a horrible decision to have to make, and I completely understand why they've done it. But it feels weird - like a kind of loss, esp with my difficulty in conceiving this time.

trib - that is so sadbut I can understand your brothers position, poor kid.

I think one of the reasons I hated working with children is that you see so much of the cruelty and sheer neglect that adults inflict on them, I was not even at the sharp end of child protection just in teams who dealt with the aftermath, as best we could, often it was really too late kids with severe attachment disorders.
Frankly it is one of the reasons I am in favour of abortion, in a world of bad choices at least no poor kid suffering

gosh sorry about rant, probably hormonal

Thanks sfx. Hopefully the baby (well, he's around 1 1/2) will be adopted by a nice family just as my dniece and dnephew have been. At least he is away from the bm, which is the main thing for him (although god knows how she, or her older children, are feeling). The bm has stated her intention to keep having children until Social Services let her keep one.

unfortunately that is quite typical, sad as it is, the intervention never seems to come early enough.
I remember the derision the government endured when they said they would identify problems in the womb. well I don't think it would work coming from government but that is the level to target intervention.

dh does similar work to you but with social services, he often gets upset to see the kids lost in the system, the backlog the info that gets lost the kids at risk that just drop out of sight

anyway quite cheerful today actually been jogging more or less every other day for the past month, hard as it is to leave the warm bed there is nothing quite like going out tin the crisp morning air

hi all , has been a while. life been hectic and not had comp etc etc etc.

life shit im now on my own. dp left me last weekend. feel like poo and so rejected and unloved. why me i keep asking what good can come from it.

bet none of you even remember me.

ps. still no potty training.
giddyyyyyy?????????? you there??

just a big thankyou to all that wished dd3 happy birthday !!! shows how long i havent been on here for !!

muma3, good to see you again. How are all the dds? Sorry to hear about dp, hopefully things will improve for you over time.

hi muma3 nice to see you around. I am sorry to hear and I hope you and your girls are keeping well.
take care

have just been quite upset all day one of our local mums lost her husband, quite suddenly she is only 30, it is just so sad.
apart from surviving my child losing dh is the worst thing I can imagine really

hi guys !!!!

im ok really just a bit shocked. not what i wanted but hye you cant make a horse drink etc etc

hope your all ok !!!. i know he will be there for kids but it is so painful i feel like something has died inside iykwim

ill catch up tmw with all thats been going on but it hs been a while it may take me a while

love to all and very big kisses xxxxx

ps. god i have missed some sane minded people to talk to xx

sfxmum girls have taking it so well , i beginning to think dd1 is used to it , makes me feel worsexx

Hi muma3, hugs to you, sorry to hear your news.

And yours too, sfx - totaly agree with what you said, your poor friend.

Trib - what a hard decision for your bro to have to make . My ds' dses dses's boys' CM is a fostermum, and some of the kids I've seen come and go since ds1 started going I don't know how people can do some things. But then, since having the boys I am so pathetic, I can't even read stories that involve a child being harmed or mistreated.

Got to tell you a funny story to cheer you up. ds1 was given a children's bible when he was born by ILs. He randomly found it at the weekend and insisted on having it read to him, listening to all the stories about loving God, and obeying God, and God said this etc etc.

That night, I asked him what bedtime book he wanted to read.

"The Gordon one" he said! D'you think God'd mind the name change?!