March 2007 babies - a bottle of house white please

[kiwibella]

you choose - for you or for your bubba

I can't believe the May thread is so excited that their babies are arriving. That time in our lives seems like soooooo long ago .

Piffle - I do have a bugaboo cameleon and it is fantastic imho. you can steer with one hand, a skill I put into practice this very afternoon when I'd bought my ice cream - see below!!! I liked the extending handlebar because I found with lots of prams they hurt my back after a while cos I was crouching - I have it nearly fully extended. It's very light, the only "downside" is the fact you have to dismantle it to put it into the car, but again it's so light and user friendly, I don't find it a problem. I love the fact I can use it as a cot if I go anywhere. If you do get one though, what I've found is while in pram mode the parasol is of limited use, so suggest with this glorious weather getting a pull-down sunshade thingy. jordi seems to really like it in there.

There, I'll collect my commission from the manufacturers now...

Anytime you mention the word 'savoy' all I read is SAVALOY , I'm well sad.

Yes and all I can think of is cabbage.

shadeababes rock - unless of course like me you always forget to take them with you

em was a star today, we spent all day at old people's home visiting my gdad, and she was a gurgling smiley delight, all the old dears were clucking over her and someone gave her a pound - her first pocket money! gdad is not doing well and staff are some lovely lovely people and some who i suspect are real cows once all the visitors have gone - it's like a romanian orphanage but with old people. it's so sad to see how badly you get treated just cos you can't move much. mostly very casual stuff it's hard to put your finger on but I know I wouldn't be happy if nursery staff spoke to my kids that way, so it can't be right, iykwim??

piffle-x posts before.that muat have been scary for your x's oh.

morocco-my nan is in a home atm.she has terminal lung cancer.she was living in her own house but she broke her ankle a couple of weeks ago,and as there was nobody to care for her full time my mum and auntie had to put her in a nursing home.
my mum works in an old peoples home and they have trouble finding staff full stop,let alone decent,caring staff

kitty-i also kept reading 'saveloy'and thinking 'mmmmm saveloy'.cos i really do miss saveloys with them not being available up here.

have you seen the title of the latest june ante-natal thread?

Piffle, when my ex had another baby ds1 and I went to the christening. But he was in love with a different woman to the mum and it was all a bit of a mess. Thankfully we are good friends and it is great for ds1, but ex-dh is still single and I would love my him to settle down with a lovely woman.

Old peoples homes do seem horrible, though I think if it was a nice one I wouldn't mind ending up in one because I would enjoy the company. But you never hear of anyone being happy and comfortable in them.

I'm having a buggy crisis. I've managed to break the wheel fitment on my emmaljunga. My lightweight buggy has fallen apart. I have a m&p 3 wheeler which I hate...it's really bulky and hard to push/steer.....ooh I fancy a bugaboo or something light, colourfull, groovy and free (penniless at mo)
It's amazing how obsessed one can get about buggys but it is such an important piece of equipment at this stage.

Anyway, I am rambling and we are going to be late!

would love my him? oops

Well okay then I'll have a quick moan.

Dh and I getting a bit better actually...he is being far less of an arse; in fact he seems like he's back to his previous form. Still I find it hard to trust him 100% yet, memories of the last few weeks still pretty strong.

The prozac is kicking in. I am up all the time in the night and Bertie almost never sleeps during the day... he cries a lot... but I find it a bit easier to cope with now.

I'm going to another Mums and Babies group this afternoon, and then on Tuesday we are going to a baby signing class! Completely useless to him at this age of course except that we'll sing lots of nice nursery rhymes and he'll get to meet lots of other babies, so it'll be a laugh.

Pmsl at the June thread title! I wonder how long it'll be before someone starts a thread saying "isn't the June thread title awful and offensive and horrible etc. etc."

I'm really sorry and I don't want to be rude but I have very little time atm with Mr Cryalot to actually reply to people's messages... it seems like many of your lo's are settling down a bit... I look forward to that day myself.

Hope you all have good days and it's sunny for you!!

Mossie - don't forget that Bertie is the youngest baby on this thread. A lot of the others are a month or more older (stats here ) - and there's an awful lot of change taking place between Bertie at 9 weeks and (for example) Monti at 14 weeks.

Mossy, glad things are improving with your beloved. I was reading Passionate Marriage I think it's called at my sisters house which is meant to be brilliant but I was bored because I so don't give a fart at the moment!
All my other three babies cried loads, I'm not sure why Hasan is so different but I thank my lucky stars every day.
With ds1 he had awful colic and screamed for hours, my parents would be pacing the floor with him, his nappies were green and he was so hungry, he started on solids at 10 weeks (3 months was the norm then.) What I needed was someone like tiktok. Hindsight is a great thing!
Anyway at 3 months he turned into a dream baby.

Mossie, Ronnie must be Bertie's twin.
I call him laughing boy, he's miserable. He doesn't sleep during the day and when he's awake he wants to feed or else he screams.

rosy-my ds1 was much the same,except he started on solids at 8 weeks.i still dont have a bloody clue what im doing when it comes to bringing him up.not so bad with dd1,as i used to be a girl,but boys??

mossie-yes,do bear in mind that some of the babies on here are past 3 months already,it makes a difference.glad your dh is being more supportive now.

it seems strange for people to be on good terms with their ex's.ds and dd1 havent seen their father for almost a year now.its so much better without him still trying to control my life,but i cant help feeling he's hovering in the background,waiting to reappear.
as for ds2's father,well,hopefully he's dead.im still waiting to hear off my solicitor,am hoping to get a letter saying 'we tracked down your xh,he was serving time in HMP strangeways when he was killed by another inmate in a horrific way'or something like that.not that i have any ill feeling towards him,you understand

We took DD swimming for the first time yesterday. She wasn't sure what to make of it and just sat in the water (on laps) gnawing her fist.

When we got out I realised that DH is well and truly on another planet. He held DD while I had a quick shower then I took her to the lockers. He comes round after his shower without the carseat. Did he think I could carry her and the seat?

We go into a family cubicle and I start to sort her out. Almost got her dry and I realise he is stood there still dripping wet just watching me. In a minute she will be dry and dressed and we will both be wet.. Told him to get dressed, so of course he's still faffing about when she's ready. I finally get chance to get dressed and he's put his sopping trunks on the bench, on top of my shoes. When I ask him what he's playing at his immediate retort is "it wasn't me" WTF??!!! It's bad enough with the DSs saying that but a man of 46 FFS

Evenhope, my dp is behaving in a way that makes me atm. I have decided to steer clear of him

Diva / Shrinky,

I was in the hairdressers the other day (finally got round to having my hair cut by a hairdresser rather than by myself or mil - it's only taken about a year) and talking about Bertie, one of the hairdressers said, "mine were the same until I weaned them at ten weeks," she said "it's meant to be twenty weeks now isn't it, but I think that's really cruel," I asked her what she meant, she said "it's cruel on their mums, 'cos they don't sleep until they're weaned"!

I think it's six months now... so if she's right I've a long way to go...

Kitty what is Ronnie like at night? Bertie has a four hour stretch some nights (and oh are they blissful) but then after that keeps waking almost every half hour to be fed or just to kerfuffle...

Lunar I can't open that link?

Evenhope I think men just don't appreciate the amount of organisation needed for a trip out with children (or even just a single baby!) and think they can just lay back and let it all happen.

Mil's taken Bertie for an hour or two so I can get some kip or at least rest and walk the dogs... (I know that doesn't sound like rest but I miss my long dog walks)... so I'd better go!

Mossie - try this one

mossie tis bullocks about weaning influencing sleep at least in my case
DS1 was nightmare from hell util 18 mths when I put GF to shame and off my bown bat though F* this for a bunch of bananas and tough loved him. It did work after 6 days the guilt lasted as long as it took me to count the first 5 hrs sleep in one stretch I had had in 18 mths

Am wondering how hard it is going to be to keep Finn from food, as he is already 15lbs... can see night feeds increasing sometime soon [gulp] I'll stay strong as don't believe in early weaning ie: not before 5 mths at the least.

Well dd back at pre school, so have a little mn time back PHEW!

Mossie PS what sling do you use? I've tried 5 and the last one was the one that did the job, Finn hated the others madly but this one (Coorie Fleece) is a sleep guaranteer...

Nah, mine still don't sleep through, well the 15 yo does and dd does most nights, ds2 is up once or twice, Hasan sleeps from 9 pm -6am and feeds about 11 and about 3am but feeds don't take long and we barely wake up, which makes it much easier.

With ds2 I used to be up at night for 2 hours trying to settle him. It went on for months and I was in pieces with desperation and exhaustion, I really felt as if I was losing my mind. Sleep deprivation is just horrific.

Finns feeds every hr ish 5 6 7 8 feeds take under 10 minutes, settles finally about 8-9 I sleep feed him when I go to bed about 11.30-12 he then either sleeps til 8 or wakes halfway at 4-5 for a feed (quick again under 10 mins), always resettles instantly infact does not appear to wake at all.
TRust me I count all my blessings and know truly how lucky I am.

Sleep deprivation... gah. Three nights in a row with him up every hour and a half. It's cause the poor little mite's still so bunged up. He can't breathe properly and wakes up in a panic .

Mossy: Jonny is 12+3 and at his weigh-in last Wednesday weighed 10lb 4oz. He's a healthy, active little chap! (In fact he's almost crawling. Moved forward a couple of inches yesterday. Think I'm in trouble...).

OTOH I realise that I'm lucky that he's so happy all the time. He was busy charming lots of Great Grandmas & Great Aunties yesterday with big, gummy grins and chuckles .

Piffle: I've got the Bugaboo Cameleon and it's great!

ds1 didnt sleep through the night regularly till he was 4(years,not months!),dd1 started sleeping through at 6 weeks(was weaned about 12 weeks i think)and dd2 slept through from 12 weeks(weaned about 17 weeks).ds2 started sleeping through at 7 months,but he was like Elsie is now,would just have one night feed at my bedtime(about 12am)then go straight back down till about 6.

somebody is hungry...

Mossie, Ronnie now goes down at about 8pm, I feed him lying down on my bed as that is where he sleeps. During the night now he only wakes once or twice, say 2.30 and 5.30. I know hw would wake a lot more if he wasn't sleeping with me. He'll sometimes stir and I think he wants feeding so I snuggle up to him and offer him the boob but just the fact that he's predded up against my stomach sends him off to sleep. he really needs the comfort of being held close when he's sleeping. He does not sleep well during the day unless he's carrieed round.
It'll change though once he gets to three/ four months.

I'm going to go against the grain here and say that weaning/ mixed feeding, did settle those children would were grisley. I don't think it's just coincidence that it has happened everytime, but it works for me.

Hi all... I am in the canary islands at the mo - just checking e mails in cafe, back to uk tomorrow and will read all news then. Hope all ok !

We wondered where you are! hope you're having a great time

Hey laidback, sounds like fun. Looking forward to hearing what you are up to now!