April 2007 - It's one year on, how life has changed! Happy Anniversary!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mammyjoMcGonagall]

Well its one year exactly (hopefully ) since I started the first Due April 2007 ante natal thread. How life has changed in that year, for the better on the whole!

It makes me quite nostalgic to be doing this, as it means it is a full year since finding out I was pregnant with Ffion.

I would like to thank all the ladies on the April 2007 thread for all your support, laughter and general madness which has kept me going on many a rubbish day!! You are an amazing bunch of people and I am really pleased to have shared this journey with you all.

Here's to another fun filled year!!!!!!!

Oh God. Now I´m really worried, he´s fallen deeply asleep after eating relatively little for his last feed. He didn´t even wake up when I put him in his cot, which he normally does. Oh no.. now I´m almost sure he´ll wake up.. and that he´ll be hungry. I didn´t even THINK to get disposable nappies so if sis needs to change him she´ll have to use my real nappies.

and how will she know what he needs? aaaaaaaaaaaargh. this will be a relaxing night...

Try not to worry Maveta...if the worst comes to the worst she'll ring you and you'll come home. I'm sure it will be fine.

Evening all

No more news re MIL.

Maveta - enjoy your night out - we are going out on saturday night to the New Angel in Dartmouth as an anniv treat - very excited but concerned as have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to wear

Off to watch rearenders - back later

yuk - we have 4 black bins down the side of the house for recycling....... decided to do a bit of outdoor tidying as the place covered in leaves, moved the first bin and there is a hedgehog asleep in the corner.

All I could do is quickly put the bin back and come inside. What a wimp

I tried to post earlier but it didn't go through as I'd had a long spell away from the computer.

Pesha, what was the house like?

maveta, I can only say I was as clueless as your sister until recently, and I'm a lot older than her or you. You must have already gone out this evening and it might put her off agreeing to babysit again, but I think you might have to show her that changing a nappy's really not as hard or yukky as she might think. As mammyjo says, warming up milk. Advise her to try taking him for a little walk if he cries and nappy/food don't work.

excuse any cross posts as I was interrupted by crying baby, feeding him and tea on the table courtesy of dp.

Evening all

Mammyjo - what a lovely opening post. I joined the April ladies pretty late (March) but can't imagine life without you all now

Octo - sorry to hear about MIL. Hope DH and rest of family are okay.

JoMa - Good luck for Monday. Enjoy your adventures in Dippyland!

Maveta - Enjoy Dh's birthday meal. I'm sure your sis will manage. She probably knows more than she lets on about looking after babies.

On conception and finding out when pg. No idea when I conceived -I was on honeymoon IYSWIM Found out first week in August DH made me go and buy a second test to be sure. we hadn't expected it to happen so fast.

The DMSA scan went well today. Feel yucky after 6 hours in/around hospital. The good news is that a lovely nurse managed to cannulate G first go. He hardly cried at all.Also didn't grumble when they injected the isotope into his hand. They kind of anchored his midsection with sandbags for the scan. He was so good and lay still so well they took all 3 pics in 20 mins instead of 30mins. Proud of my boy - even if he didn't have a clue what was going on
Just the nasty cystourethrogram to go now (catheter, dye into bladder, xrays) The lovely nurse told me it'd be upsetting for G today. Not going to think about it too much until it happens in 2 weeks.

if you want to be nosy i have pics of eddas dd and ds on my profile

lovely photos eandh

hey eddas, 2nd photo on eandh profile - you could have twins too!!!!!!!!!

except my dd2 is 3 months older than eddas ds

Hiya ladies, I have skimmed the thread and am appropriately and at the various messages. No time at all these days, I think when DS breaks up from school tomorrow it will take the pressure off as he has had so many school events going on and after school invites to reciprocate.

Leo as cute as ever, so cute I do want another but am trying not to get carried away as if we do we will have to seriously think about it financially. With Leo we jsut wanted him so we had him and it has been fine but the next one would have an impact on the whole family, decisions, decisions...

eandh -looks no different to my twins as ds2 is 2.5lb heavier than dd!!!!!

maveta - hope your mealis / was lovely and the sis coped fine

GMM - have a fab time down south! charlie will no doubt be a hit - has he had a tour of anfield yet???

KHIN - hey to you. well doe on the bf so long. how is it goign with the two of them now? do they set each other off through teh day?

bmble - hope you made it out without the car seat and without nosy ole women accosting you over your carrier!! (i think it was you was stopped by someone??)

laith - glad the highlands went well. is the sun shining in edinburgh??

luce - hey to you! glad you got the thrush all sorted. a relief?????

leaky - glad it all wentwell today. you brave lady !! hope it goes oj for g at the next one.
pesha - hope th house swap viewing went well.
ooogs - did the hedgehog get sorted??
octo - hey to yu. woudl yo mind lettingme know if the cheque got there ok for the wraps. i cant get to my ntlworld - try base02 at gmail dot com? thanks missus

i have taken a step back from mn and really though that all i seem to post has been negative / problem laden of late. i dont think i have been that positive about how grat being a mum is and yep- bf has been a bloody nightmare but - i kinda feel i only post about the difficulties we have been having - not the belly aching laughing we have or the total overcoming pride i feel. just wanted to say that - to balance out the saddo weepy posts i do!!!
dont want to go about it - but had boob scans yesterday adn think we will soon be callng bf a day. ah well.

the sun is shining here is northen ireland - really lovely to thoughts are with all those with weather warnings and floods. we are off to meet up with my old work -team 2 morro. v v v excited to see them all. and just bought a hotsling and a meitai. ooooh
have a great evening folks!

I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO??????!!!!!!!!!!

Went to se the house this afternoon. It is terraced (but only row of 3 i think), mine is semi. I think it is slightly smaller than mine, upstairs - 1 small same as maias room, 1 medium - smaller than boys room, 1 big - bigger than my room. Downstairs - Lounge - bigger than mine, kitchen/diner - I have seperate kitchen and dining room, kitchen about the same, dining area much smaller than mine. Downstairs bathroom and seperate toilet about the same size as my upstairs but i also have downstairs wc. Has elec storage heaters but is due modernisation in year or 2 so new kitchen, bathroom and prob gas central heating. Mine was all done before i moved in 4 years ago. Decorating - upstairs - desperate, downstairs ok. Mine is half done half needs doing so about the same, mine maybe slightly better.

Garden is HUGE!! Really long, fully enclosed, fields at back, completely flat, fantastic for kids. Mine is prob less than half the size, all sloped and different levels and stones under etc. I hate my garden!

Is on fairly busy road with no drive although they park on the road but also parking just round corner at the rec and garages available to rent. We're on quieter road with drive at front.

Is in lovely countryside though with lots of fields and footpaths, fishing ponds,stables all around, park just round the corner. I am in town, a park nearby but have to cross busy road and there is always broken glass and older kids hanging out, have to drive to get to 'countryside'.

School has 'outstanding' ofsted report in every category. My local school is mostly good.

SOO basically it ticks alot of my boxes but not all. Thing is being in HA property I cant pick and choose. Somewhere better might not come up for months/years and even then they might not want to move to my house.

Good points - garden, bigger lounge, I like kitchen diner, countryside, school

Bad points - road, smaller upstairs, 1 toilet, needs bit more work.

Actually could take my new floor with us!

Would be good to move in summer hols so ds doesnt have to change schools at all and dd can go into a new year from the start and other woman is keen to try and move in hols too. Assuming she likes my house on friday!

Sorry this is so long but dp keeps saying its up to me and he doesnt mind so need someone to talk to and all family and friends are on hol or busy!

weeonion - hedgehog has moved a metre rang dh at work and he has said he will move it tomorrow

No idea Pesha, sounds 50%/50% hope someone helpful comes along soon

Hey oooggs. My friend who is blind rang me earlier cos her dog had gone nutty scraping at her drains and then run off up the garden possibly with something. As she had rats a while ago she was really paranoid so wanted me to go check it out for her! Luckily after some searching i found a dead slobbered over baby bird up the garden so think it must have been that, thank goodness!

Thank goodness it wasnt rats that is, not thank goodness there was a dead bird

yuk - don't do frogs, mice, rats or hedgehogs in the garden or house

yet spiders don't bother me at all

pesha - hmmmmmmmmmm
what is more important to you? i think it sounds good but - is the size of the inside/ rooms more important than the garden? it seems to tick alot of teh boxes as you say - and i suppose you dont know if there is anything else coming up for swop soon?

Pesha, that sounds a tricky one. Personally if there's enough space for you in the new house I'd go for that purely because of the space outside and the schools. It's difficult tho to judge whether it would be big enough tho before you're actually in.

Pesha - move to the countryside and good school - long term it would be better. Its not on a flood plain is it??

WO - no chq yet - will let you know - also don't have your address - email me. WO - don't worry about what you post on here - we all have ups and downs

Been watching waking the dead - sends shivers down my spine!

ellie - are you off to dippy's again?

Just fed ernie - he has been a grump all day and think we are in for a long night!

DH doesn;t have man flu - he has tonsilitis - so has been in bed all day.

are you all on msn????

No not on msn...just seems to be quiet tonight. and yes, Ellie's gone to dippy's!

pesha, it sounds like you are better off taking it. If you really don't like it then sign up for another swap. I assume you're moving to change areas?

Schools are important and you say this one looks better which is good. Also the kids will LOVE the bigger garden, mind you not with the current weather!

Parking could be a pain, but should be ok.

Also, if they don't like your house there's no problem anyway

Maybe wait til friday and keep having a think.

When we moved last year. I really wanted a drive or garage, but the house we bought has neither, but has a car park just for residents so that's ok. I also wanted a bigger garden than our old one but they are probably much the same.

The reason we had to compromise was cost. We just couldn't afford a house with everything we wanted so went with majority being ok. Sounds like your situation is similar and you are unlikely to get everything you want.

Does that help at all? sorry for rambling on, just typed as i thought, can you tell

octo - i am away on hols. iknow i sent the cheque last tuesday so should have got to you despite crappo glasgow post. hmmmmmmmm - will get dp to check it out and could you maybe post on here if it arrives as i cant get to my ntl emails??

Pesha, I wouldn't be sure from what you say that the exchange offered is enough of an improvement, given the bit about planned works, presumably quite disruptive for work that has already been done to your existing property. How important is it that you actually move rather than staying put? Sorry if you've gone into detail about the background to this and I just haven't remembered what the reason behind seeking an exchange is.

You may as well see how the other woman likes your home on Friday.

If you want your dp to take part in the decision, tell him so. It may be just me but I feel nervous if dp leaves really important decisions just to me, I want him to participate.

Was just checking in quickly before bed and you've all turned up!!

WO + NB - No idea what might be coming up but certainly nothing else available at the mo. I think I would like another look at the bedrooms, if we put the kids in the smaller rooms they would have enough room for their stuff but not much playing room, if we had middle room and gave boys big room we would have no room for our wardrobes and clothes etc unless we put one in kids room I think but that could be sorted but me throwing out some clothes!!
I think we would have to get rid of a bit of clutter and some furniture but that wouldnt necessarily be a bad thing. A bigger lounge would be very nice.
OCTO - Dont think its flood plain - will double check for local rivers!!
Eddas - it does help, thank you everybodys advice/opinion helps! And yes this area is nice and if i wanted to live in a town Id happly stay here and dont want to move far as i have friends here and so do dcs but have just decided id really like them to grow up in a village.