Jan '07 part 6: PCF's hoping for a different sort of Easter egg than the rest of us!

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Like a lovely, plump, fertilised one

Sorry to hear about your night laughalot, DS's room was 24 degrees last night according to the thermometer but luckily doesn't seem to affect his sleep . He's just in a pj top and a lightweight sleeping bag.

EAH - like the 'standing on my head' answer . DD was just asking what else she could have for breakfast (has only had a bowl of rice krispies, piece of bread with philly and a bowl of strawberries so far!) so I offered her toast, more ceral or cabbage jelly (Angelina Ballerina for those without DD's!) and guess what she asked for? Yes, cabbage jelly!

And btw Wilkie - a likely story about the sandals, we know you too well to beleive that

Hattie - do you think that 'shop' will have posters of wilkie up in their staff room with 'banned' due to shoplifting????

Over the years have done that a few times mainly small things like sticking a box of nappy bags on pushcair hood (39p ) and forgtting but did once have 2 of those large packs of pampers hanging on the pushchair handles, paid for rest of shopping forgot they were on there and didnt realise till I got back to car ooops didnt go back either!!

Laughalot- sorry about the crap night, Ethan still wakes 2-3 times every night. Past 2 nights he's woken to feed then gone back to sleep but mostly he wakes for an hour or 2 in the night.

EAH - I get the questions from dd and ds1, gets very annoying at times but I try and stay patient and answer them lol. The day was lovely, really enjoyed it.

Rgee - glad you're getting some sleep then Hope the cost wasn't too much for your landscaping.

Wilkie - lol, don't think I'd have bothered going back either! Ethan just has a sleepsuit on a night and is covered loosly with a blanket. During the day I put him in a legless babygro with short sleeves in this weather and he's fine. When we go out I've been putting light clothes on him.

Watch this space later as I'm taking Ethan to get weighed, he's such a fatty I'm sure he'll be huuuuuggee! Hehe. Caitlin is at school and Morgan has pre school at 12.30 so I might pop to the shops with Ethan and see if I like any summer clothes, getting so warm out now that I need to get some more. Might just laze in the garden instead though will have to see how I feel after.

WWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO am going to celebrate as Chloe only woke up once last night so from 10-8am she only woke at 4am for a feed...this is cause for celebration here as she usually wakes about 4 times a night...also double bonus as neither of the other two woke up either until 6.30am

morning all, well i think Zac had the best night out of all of us here last night. DH has got a really bad throat - he lost his voice this morning but has still gone into work he's mental! he said he would just go in to deal with his emails then bring some work home but we shall see.

i had a crappy night too - felt really achey and crappy last night so had a bath before bedtime. have got one very very sore boob and i'm paranoid about mastitis. but i didn't have a temperature when i went to bed, although DH said i was very hot in the night and brought me some paracetamol. i woke up soaked in sweat (thought i had wet the bed at first! ) but feel a bit better now. still quite achey but my boob isn't so sore and i don't feel as shivery and pathetic as i did last night.

Zac on the other hand, slept from half 7 till 5 ish, then woke for a feed (i was awake anyway so he didn't even cry, just sort of gurgled a bit and i hauled him into bed with me!) then slept till half 7. am very jealous of him. he did do a massive poo though, and then put his feet in it while i was changing his nappy, there was poo everywhere!! so i just put us both in the bath which was really lovely!

DH is sad at the moment cause of his godfather - they were quite close, and DH is actually named after him - but he was starting to lose it a bit (he was in his mid-80's) and suffered a massive heart attack and died on the way to the hospital. MIL was with him when he died, and she has been ok with us. i'm not going with DH to the cremation, as i hate cremations and it's quite a way to drag Zac, so i'm wondering if she's going to get the arse about that, but i don't really care. there'll be a memorial service later and we'll probably all go to that. i'm just hoping that's not going to be in Scotland as that's where he was from originally.

is anyone else a bit freaked out by this weather? i mean, it's lovely to have the sunshine and everything, but it's only April and the temperature is in the 20's!! we've been spending a lot of time in the garden, but i need to get Zac some sun cream (he's been in the shade, before you all jump on me!) so we can go to the park and stuff. i got him some little baby sunglasses, they're soooooo cute!!

UD - if you think it might be mastitis then take 2 ibuprofen every 4 hours. this helps with the inflammation as well as fever and pain, worked for me when i thought i was getting it again and avoided a second course of ab's

I had mastitis early on and needed anti biotics as I felt really fluey and sick with it and the dr said I needed it before it got wores. I'd rather take the anti biotic (and I avoid all medicine like the plague) than end up getting worse. Some good info here

Ethan is 13 weeks and now weighs 16lb 4oz lol, little fatty.

Wow Jodie, that is a good weight.

UD - sending you all get well vibes. At least Z is being well behaved for you both. Me, I'm loving the weather (although bit overcast at the mo). I hate being cold (but being pg over winter was a right Brucie bonus as for once I didn't have to plead with DH to turn the heating on in September )

PCF - fingers crossed for you.

Nemo - great news!! Do you think it's because me and EAH bored her to sleep on MSN last night

Carrot - 9 days and counting...

Hey 2Happy - is it not time for a new thread?

Shimmer - have a good time in HK btw. Send us all a postcard!

Hi chatty ladies

UD - hope you're feeling better not nice feeling shite although there is a cold/bug type thing going round that I have had for the past weel - just about managed to shift it now although throat is still a bit sore.

Jodie - WOW!! What a weight - little chub-meister (are you sure you're not slipping him fish and chips on the side LOL). J is 13lb 9oz at 13 weeks.

2Happy - defo time for a new thread

PCF - keep my fingers crossed for you

EAH/Hattie - I DID NOT steal the shoes intentionally - how dare you cast aspertions on my good character Must admit though, I am scared to return to the scene of the crime wearing said sandals
Laughalot - at the crap night. It was 27 degrees in the nursery when I put J down last night Just put him down in a sleepsuit and nothing else, no blankets etc with the window wide open.

Shimmer - have a great holiday

Nemo - have sent my donation to Macmillan.

Well laydeez - J slept from 9.30pm-5.15am fed then back off to 8am. Whoooo!!!!!!!!

I have bought him a fab sun tent from Argos (£20) here it is SPF 50+, is a pop up and comes in a tiny carry bag. UD, that would be great for the park.

Right must go, plumbers just arrived...

Shimmer - have a great holiday

pcf - good luck, hope you get good news

wilkie - lol he certainly is a big boy and it's all milk hehe, wonder how much he'll weigh at 6 months. He really is hard to carry about all the time though, breaks my arms and back, I'll end up with huge muscles lol. That tent looks great, we had something similar when the first 2 were younger, have to see if I can find it in the garage.

we had one of those tents for hols last year was great (nightmare to fold till we perfected the tehnique)

Had my front door fitted today looks lovely just got to phone the man who is going to block pave the drive and book him in and I'll have the best house in the street

Yey wilkie sleeping through

Jodie what a little chubster

Havent had Hattie weighed since 13 weeks she was 12lb then must take her this week

Eah check you out with your posh house

Well my dd is being a right little tinker today she is full of wind I never knew a little lady could trump so much she takes after her daddy .

Jodie that is a cracking weight for your little man my ds was always like that he is a tall lad now though someone said to me the other day when is he 4 I laughed as he isnt even 3 until july.

Now now wilks I told you that you shouldnt give j a roast dinner yet but hay if its made him sleep through then what the hell

Hi girls
Just managed to catch up, I should be working but keep getting dstracted and shopping online....

The hungry baby aptamil has worked a treat and Rose has slept through the last 4 nights with a dream feed at 11pm. Hurrah! I feel like a human being again.

Wilkie - I always buy the shortie suits for sleeping when warm - I think they might be called rompers - short sleeves and legs, but they are nice and loose unlike vests, and then just a sheet over the top if they need it. My nursery was 24oC on Sat night - I was in and out putting blankets on and off in fear of cot death. (anxious emoticon)

Wilkie, you have also stumbled upon the mum's secret money-saving device...how easy it is to pop things into the basket under the pram when shopping and forget to pay for them, like a mascara or a lipstick....it is mummy dementia at first, but I warn you, can become a habit....not me, of course, other people I have talked to...

Hope you are feeling better UD - I had that bug when Rose was a few weeks old and woke up in soaking wet sheets every morning, eugh.

Not much tummy time in this house either...with DS1 and 2 around baby would get trampled on, and when I do it on the table under supervision, she doesn't like it at all. The result is a big bald patch on the back of her head where all the hair has rubbed away! A great look!

EAH - you will be like Hyacinth Bouquet with your posh house - I hope you have bought some Aloe Vera loo paper

Annieapple - don't suggest that you steal things (on purpose) heh heh heh

Being nosy now, what does everyone's DH/DPs do?

No I just have a terrible memory...honest

...sound a bit like me great excuse

my DH does PR for toy and nursery companies, which is great as it meant we got loads of free stuff when Zac was born!!

what did everyone do before you had dc's? i used to be an optical dispenser...EAH worked in a bank (i'm not a crazy stalker, honest, i just remembered!) how about the rest of us??

just had Zac weighed - he's 14.5lbs, which means he's only put on 1lb in 3 weeks. oh well....he's happy enough....

My dh is a senior systems anylyst and it's been a while since I worked. I stopped working when I was pregnant with dd. My last perm job before that was as an administrator but I left there to do some temping as I needed to have a change. I temped for a while and then got pregnant and stopped.

Dh - personal account manager- tsb bank
Me - senior sales consultant - travel agents- Ilkeston co-op travel do you know it wilks the one in lincoln ?

I was (and will be again in 6 weeks - yikes!) an IT systems designer for a well known high street retailer!

DH is also in IT, but in banking. But he is going to be a SAHD when I go back to work. We looked at the figures for employing a nanny and they just didn't add up and despite the fact that we do similar jobs I earn practically twice as much as him so sort of made sense for us to try it out and see if it works with him at home.

Monday seems to be a popular day for weighing babies! J is now 15lbs 4oz (13 weeks today).

Well done UD 10/10 I do work p/t for a bank
DH is a security driver (carries around quite a few million quid in his truck) shame you can't bring leftovers home from our jobs

Wilkie of course we have Tesco finest aloe vera loo roll (us have 'bog' standard loo roll never ) actually reminds me at the mo we get through a loo roll every 2 days may start rationing soon

Hattie be interesting to see how DH copes as SAHD therewas one at the toddler group I went to and all the kids loved him as he would run around with them and be really silly (think they found a 'daddy' there a novelty) my dh would never cope he'd be ok ish with the kids but no washing/cleaning etc would get done and he cant cook so not sure what they would get fed.