Jan '07 Part 9: Bald Babies Rule The World......(and ones with a thatch aren't bad either)

[Wilkie]

Still feeling a tad bitter about yesterday.

But hey......I'm the first one on the brand shiny new thread

....every cloud....

Ooh George is the 6th youngest on that list and Ethan the 6th oldest, hehe

Rgee 31/12/06 Pippa Holly 6lb 150z
Nemo 05/01/07 Chloe Alexandra
Elliandhattie 5/1/07 Hattie Alice 6lb 13oz
Dragonhart 5/1/07 Ruth 6lb 3oz
UrbanDryad 5/1/07 Zachary Oliver 6lb 8oz
Jodieg1 11/1/07 Ethan 8lb 2oz
Galmum 11/1/07 Jemima Rose 10lb 8oz
Wilkie 12/1/07 Jacob Allan 7lbs
vinorouge 13/1/07 Ellen Dorothy 8lb 4oz
laughalot 14/1/07 Lauren Mackenzie 6lb 15oz
Shimmer 15/1/07 Freddie Christopher 7lb 10oz
Hattie2 15/1/07 Jacob Oliver 10lb 2oz
Canmummy 15/1/07 Abigail Eve 7lb 9oz
LadyTophamHatt 16/1/07 George Frasier 8lb 11oz
pinkcandyfloss 18/1/07 Max David 7lb 8.5oz
Lizzzombie 20/1/07 Dylan Jack Peter Thompson 8.5lb
MrsCarrot 21/1/07 Felix Sebastian
Annieapple7 24/1/07 Girl 6lb 11oz
2Happy 2/2/07 Matthew John 7lb 14oz

I disappear for an afternoon, and you all come out of the woodwork. Am starting to get paranoid . Is it because I am a northern gal?

Good title Wilkie. Pippa is a balding thatch, but she has contradicting genes. DH is a baldie, and I have the most amount of hair in the world which always needs taming. Was convinced our baby would have the worst of both worlds and end up having hair like Bill Bailey.

UD - can you cope without the car? Will you be able to get it next month?

Hi Jodie. Long time no hear - all ok? Not weaning yet, like Shimmer am waiting for a 'sign', but have just started reading about it all. Like the idea of BLW, but I reckon I'll quite enjoy the pureeing lark and making my own recipes, so probably go down the traditional route. Also another excuse for me to buy new kitchen gadgets

Nemo - haven't heard from you for a while either. Why have you been stuck in for a few days? Is there illness in the Nemo house?

PCF - have a lovely meal tonight! I'm off out for a meal tomorrow (with my family) but am gutted as it's Eurovision. However, table is booked early and have already told them I'm off home at the earliest opportunity

EAH - how many photos are you going to have in your house!! I hope you are going to be able to post them on here so we can admire!

Wilkie - good to have a list of the usual posters. Amused to see not only am I the oldest, but Pippa is too. Are you going to send me to the December thread. She is going to be 2 next year!!!!!

Talking about old (again) (UD - bear with me. I know you 14 year olds find it hard to keep up with the oldeies ) pmsl at the new Bingo addiction PCF. For my 30th birthday all those years ago, a few of us went to the bingo on Saturday afternoon (before heading off to the pub I hasten to add) to celebrate my old age. We were so scared - we were all bingo virgins, and everyone else there had blue rinses. Only one of us won, but couldn't keep up so realised he'd got a full house too late.

Added myself! Hi everyone I seem to have missed loads on here. Hope I'm welcome on this thread as all my girls have been born with loads of hair!

UD - sorry about the car. Can you try and knock them down a bit? When I bought my car my dh gave me a budget which was a lot less than the car was up for and he refused to let me pay an extra £500 for it (even though the money was in the account). In the end he let me have it although I must have looked pretty desperate with 2 small kids and a large bump trying to part-x a fiat punto

Jodie - hi there! I'm still fully breastfeeding and plan to do it until she's one. As for weaning I'm aiming for the 6-month mark but we'll see (guidelines were 4 months with last 2 so never aimed that far before)

PCF think I can see a scaly scalp as well - bit tricky under all that hair

Can't remember what you were all on about on the other thread and my memory is apalling! I'm really tired today for some reason - lo slept through so not that, think I've been running around to playgyms/mums and tots groups/ the gym etc over the last few days and need to put my feet up. But then there's the ironing.....

For the record RGee your older

Fking 'ell you lot can talk...I step away for 1 minute to do sum bakin & the like...(am talking in northern language so people understand!)

Have made nigella fairy cakes, they've come out perfik! I am domestic goddess with knobs on! And am in process of making cheeters chocolate mousse. Double cream whipped up, with melted choc folded in. Chill. Done. Am putting raspberries at the bottom but am being chavvy, tinned raspberries were a 5th, yes, 0.20% of the price of fresh ones...£2.99 for a punnet of raspberries...you're havin a larff mate! (sourthern language there)
DJ has scabby head syndrome too, to go with RECEEDING hair line (thank Wilks, major nappy head have lost half my vocablary) - and can't spell anymore either!

Jodie - I have no idea what to do with regards to feeding him solids. I just am putting off dealing with even worse shitty nappies than I am dealing with now! May keep him on milk only until he is potty trained?

ps - I went to bingo for a hen night once...up north (!) its really difficult.

Jodie- F is 15 weeks on Sunday and we're not weaning yet, although I have noticed him watching me put things in my mouth the last couple of days, not sure if that's a sign? He's not having anything anyway, ha ha, I fed dd till she was one, largely because she wouldn't take any other milk, I was desperate to stop by nine months but she was having none of it, refused anything else! In the end I thought well, she'll just have to have water then if she won't take it, and she still doesn't drink it! I'm expecting to feed F for as long as possible but no longer than a year. We'll see how it goes though.

Shimmer- No, I don't work in publishing but I thought of that as a possible career. I took a module in it on my writing MA, and we met loads of people from the big pub houses, and I was on the editorial team for the book UEA publishes and then I got pregnant again so couldn't take up any work placements after the degree. Most of them were in London.I had one lined up with a local magazine but I've put that on hold. I've only really had part time jobs around child rearing but hopefully after F is a bit bigger I can get some experience. I quite like the idea of freelance writing, again for magazines but it's hard to started if you haven't worked in house as a journalist. I took a course just before christmas. This is what I mean by permanent student! One day I will have a proper job, ha ha. There is a borders here, I was in it yesterday. I bought Love in the Time of Cholera, and Birth to Six months. There's a juxtaposition for you
I worked in Smiths for a bit too, I like the idea of book buying. I'm rambling now..

ooh, Lizz, I have that book. I think the clementine cake is actually Nigella's but I haven't got round to making it yet. I need a kitchen aid. Damn, why didn't we have a wedding list, cos there's so many people who would have spent £400 on us. Not!

I feel sick. Have just licked the bowl clean. The bowl of melted chocolate and double cream. I feel really really gross now. Wish LO was eating proper foods so he could have done it instead!
I've noticed him watching me intently when I eat too. Its making me paranoid. I can hear his thoughts..."Hmm, another flap jack mummy?! don't you think you've had enough already?"
Am about to post a before photo of my perfect fairy cakes. Then I will decorate them later and post an after photo. I'm supposed to chop the head of them off (to make them flat to ice) but havent worked out how to do this yet!

Lizz - it's pronounced oop North. When I used to work in my Dad's chippy in Cleethorpes, we used to have Yorkies (RGee pay attention) come in and say 'We've just comfort day tha noz' (translated for you southerners that is - 'We've come for the day you know'). And Rich used to get them coming into the pro shop and say 'We've comfort-two-f't-one' (We've come for the two for one offer')

There you are southerners, Northern language lesson over for today

Lizz - do you eat all of your baking??? You should be 25 stone!!!! Do you want me to come and live with you to help you eat all your home made snacks

Lizz, those look like fine fairy cakes, perfectly risen, but too many for you to eat alone. I recommend you send one to each of us for a taste test!

I really should shouldn't I!? It would be the done thing. I am too scared to chop the tops off in case I ruin their perfection!
I thought I may chuck a few out the window at PCF as she drives past my house to the Asda at Brighton Marina!
PCF - are you taking the A27 or the coast road? If you come along the coast road, I live above the Sussex Pub, look up and I'll chuck a couple of fairy cakes out the window at you! And maybe a piece of flapjack too!

Wilks - I'm not 25 stone yet...but I think I've turned into one of those feeders...you know, who feed their partners up to make them fat! I've even made him take stuff to work before, to get it out of my house and give it to his work mates!

Hello just had a look at the list - My big fat baby was left a big fat Momma - 12lbs10 and I'm 5ft 9". My stomach is in a terrible state . Keep trying to have good food days but failing.

Jemima is 17 weeks and still totally bf (mainly because the little muppet can't seem to work out how to use a bottle) Have started to try to use a cup. I was planning to hold off weaning until she started to wake in the night again but I may have to start earlier as she's a big girl. She's not that interested in feeding and has dropped to around the 80th which I know sounds a lot but she's looking a bit long and thin and she started off above the top line.

Am I being argumentative but I don't see any difference in BLW - IMO it just used to be called giving them finger food and some control over what they eat. I don't really see a lot of difference.

Don't know where I fit in on the Northerner/Southerner divide. In my head I sound accentless but when I've heard recordings, I'm verging on posh!! Tried to talk with a Nottm accent for a while in my early teens, but it never came naturally! I now live in N.London - feel confused.

Sorry to end on a downer but can't get the little girl Maddie out of my head. It makes me think of our son and the immense physical pain and shock I felt when we found out he had cancer, but what they must be going through is beyond words. I just hope and pray that it will be a happy ending.

Oops - meant to say "has"

Galmum - LOL at calling Jemima a muppet.

I know what you mean about that poor little girl too. With the grace of god your DS had his mum and dad to love and care for him whilst he was poorly but she is all alone. It's terrible. The longer it goes on the less chance I think there is of finding her alive. I hope in someways they find her either way so at least the family will have closure, otherwise it will be like that Ben Needham who disappeared in Kos and has never been found

galmum - I have had several convos on here and in RL about Madeleine (I think because Ellie is nearly 3 its really 'hit home' normally I can switch off from the news sorties but I just cant stop thinking about this one)

I just keep thinking about her mum and what she must be thinking (which is probably what we are all thinking but to scared to say) and in a way I hope she isnt suffering although did you see ITV news tonight about a little boy who went missing for 56 days back in 1990 and was found alive and well.

It seems that there are some sightings etc which must be a relief in a way and like Wilkie either way I hope they find her so they wont't spend the rest of their lives wondering if shes alive and whats happening to her, I just hope and pray that if there is such a thing as a 'God' he is looking over her and protecting her and that she was taken because someone was desperate to have a child to love and protect. I understand that for you it probably brings up a whole other set of emotions but your DS had you and DH with him and he knew how much he was loved etc I just hope Madeliene realises that her Mummy and Daddy love her and didnt ask for this to happen and especially since its her 4th birthday tomorrow

Agree Wilkie - we take a lot of comfort from the fact that all our son knew was love, and despite the long and very tough end to his life, he always knew we were there for him.

The not knowing for that family must be terrible - my politics are pretty down the middle, but I'm right of Genghis Khan when it comes to child abuse.

On a lighter note - J has the biggest quiff you have ever seen -her hair defies gravity - she looks like a rockabilly!!

Just read your note EAH - I'm sure the closesness in age brings it closer to home. Going to do something positive - going to light a candle for her downstairs.

That's a lovely thought galmum, think I'll light a candle too

Me three

Right, have lit my candle, said a little prayer and asked my Grandad to watch over her wherever she is.

Feel the need to lighten the mood a little as I'm feeling very somber now.

QUESTION OF THE DAY: What was the inspiration behind your LO's name?

Jacob (cos it was the only name we could agree on for a boy and I think it is unusual)
Allan (named after DH's Uncle who died in the Flixborough disaster)

Have lit a candle in the playroom and sai a little prayer and hope

Hattie Alice - was never meant to be Hattie we had chosen Jessica or Charlotte from the start but randomly week before section had baby name book out and DH said Harriet we both said we preferred Hattie and then waited till she was given to us she definaltey wasnt a Charlotte and I just knew she was Hattie (although most people gave us this look and my mum still doenst like it but it really really suits her) and Alice is after Chris's nan who'll be 94 in September but sadly is detiorating (sp) in health and mind so I am so glad that she knows Hattie and that her middle name is after someone very very special (Nanny Alice had the biggest smile on her face at Hatties baptism when her whole name was read out that memory will be in my mind forever!)

Ellie Pippa - we were convinced we were having a boy so just chose Ellie or Isabelle for girls and then when she was born surgeon gave her to Chris and he named her Ellie straight away and Pippa is after my dad (his name is Pip) becuae I am such a Daddys girl and she is sucha grandaddys girl

On another note it was a year ago today I found out Hattie was on her way

LIzzz, are you busy tomorrow?

Fancy meeting a few Mners to do the mile for maude walk?