August 2007- More boys than girls? Our beautiful summer babies are arriving at last!

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Thought I'd start a thread to give somewhere for Jem, Washersaurus and Bresha to discuss their little ones and make all those of us waiting impatiently jealous!

Who will be next??????

Oh tasha, do what you need to do, love! You have enough to cope with, really. If it's easier just give him the dummy, but if you're feeling strong just try guiding his hand to his mouth a few times and see if he'll have it?

Don't get stressed, it's not worth it.

Sagpuss we don't wake James, we just stuff him with as much milk as he'll take before bed (he has two bottles in quick succession, lil piglet) and he goes to sleep around 9pm ish, and we don't hear from him til 5 or 6am usually.

He's fallen asleep at 8pm tonight on one bottle though after a long play, so he'll probably be woken up by his tummy about 3am.

Oh GOD, my kingdom for a lemsip... we haven't got any in, need to persuade dp to go to the shop but he's acting moody for some reason, and now he's asleep on the sofa so I have no chance. I feel so bleehhhhh

all your babies are doing really well lo never goes longer than 3 hours u could time him
thanks james i tried guiding hes hand but his arms tense up and his hands are still jammed shut. i just rocked him until he eventually gave up, im really gonna have to nip it in the bud cause he wont be aloud one when he is getting his first op in jan and that will just make it harder for him.
was having a panic attack there my step dad came down to fix my cooker and my dad is due but phew he has just gone would have been soo awkward hes never met my dad and has been a dad to me from i was 6.

I should send lo in a wee parcel to you james for a couple of nights that would sort him out

You must be kidding, I can't handle the one I've got, nevermind two! I'd just give him loads of cuddles and hand him back when he poos...

James faffed about last night after me thinking he'd dropped off at 8pm. Not feeling very well I decided I would just let him do what he wanted to do until he was tired. So he played for a while, then sat and watched "Have I Got News For You" (yes, the whole programme, weird child) in his bouncy chair, then he looked sleepy so I gave him another bottle and put him in his cot and he went straight off, no quibbles! Lovely calm evening- now we just need to work on getting him to sleep like that earlier (it was 10.30pm before he was in his cot in the end)

His door bouncer arrived yesterday and I couldnt resist trying him in it. He enjoyed it, he didn't exactly bounce but instead took one foot off the floor and experimented with wiggling about and slowly turning, using the other foot for stability. He cried when Daddy took him out of it- he'd obviously had a taste for independence and liked it!

Well so far its beena stressful day BooHoo!

Amy Baby was put to bed at 9pm last night, after her sleeping for 9 hours the night before we were hoping for a full nights sleep! Unfortunately it was not to be sigh she woke at 2:30am ravenous for a feed. Ah well at least the early night allowed me and DP to be erm very naughty

At 5:30 alas my DP's other daughter C (nearly 5yo's from DP's previous relationship) was knocking at our bedroom door. DP asked her to go back to bed as it was still night and not time to get up. Things were quiet for an hour or so when I heard crying, it didnt sound like Amy so I turned the volume up on the baby monitor-therw wasnt a sound from the nursery, the crying was C. I woke DP up and we jumped out of bed C was in her bedroom crying nearly hysterically that she had a sore finger. I quickly went downstairs and got some Calpol and Calprofen for her. DP calmed C down, gave her medicine and went downstairs to give her brekkie.
We were then both up before 7 and by 10 we had bought C back to her mums house. We were both feeling pretty shattered by then.

We could have done with Amy being a good baby for the rest of the day but alas she has been bad baby Blofeld sigh Shes not settled all day and has been really demanding and grumpy.

Oh and shes just pooed her nappy for the 2nd time today! I have told her 2 pooie nappys a day is unreasonable!

Ah well, onwards and all that

Hope you guys have had a better day

Sounds awful Elenor. I had 3 dirty nappies from ds today and one of them completely covered his back so I had to bath him euuurrrghhhhh.

Ds is cutting 2 teeth. Not the front two at the top but the two either side. I can feel them under his gums. He was crying earlier so I felt his gums (as he'd been dribbling recently) and he stopped crying. Good job I bought the teething gel yesterday.

Cutting teeth? wooo, that's young to be cutting teeth, thank god you're not breastfeeding, eh gill?

Well James is in his cot but not asleep, I'm watching on the cctv baby monitor thingy as daddy is putting him to bed as I have done my back in. Yep, not content with a cold, sore throat and bad eczema, I thought I simply wasn't taking enough medicines and pills so I threw my back out putting my jeans on.

Hoping James will settle so I can get a hot bath, it's so bad I couldn't get in the car earlier and cried my eyes out like a pillock (well, it hurt!) and dp had to come round and put my leg in and shut the door for me.

Anyway, hope everyone else is having a nice weekend, sorry to hear about explosive poos and sleep deprivation! James is the master of the inconvenient poo. The poo which happens approximately 30 seconds after you put a clean nappy on him, do up his vest and babygrow, put all the changing gear away and put him back in his cot to sleep. Just as your head touches the pillow you hear THRRRRRRRRRP!

Anyone recognise that one?

Ok so looking back to the beginning of this ginormous thread, we seem to be missing a hell of a lot of people now!

Apologies if anyone has namechanged and are present and correct, but we appear to have lost:

Sweetydarling
Jem1969
MrsBadger (but she's around and hopefully well)
Washersaurus
Mum2George/Ineedsomesleep
bresha
babymad/buggymad2blue1pink
trinaj
uki
tre acletart
paperdoll
augustbride/augustmum
divamum2two
katybird
boobooma
bambi06
lizziemun
kit eflying

FOLKS, IF YOU'RE OUT THERE LURKING OR YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO CATCH UP ON ALL THE POSTS, JUST GIVE US A SHOUT AND LET US KNOW HOW YOU'RE DOING!

I think it must be in the genes. My nephew got his first teeth at the same age. Yeah, bf would be interesting.

I chatted with MrsBadger and Washersaurus on a thread I started in another section. I invited them to join us but they declined saying that they just didn't have time and had trouble keeping up. I think boobooma is now stigofthedump.

Yesterday wasn't much fun. Dd was in a foul mood in the afternoon even after a sleep (induced by going out in the car to find where my interview will be). When we got home she complained of having a sore mouth and sore bum. Fortunately she went to sleep easily. She woke up at 4am but we all got back to sleep after she had a quick drink of milk. Ds woke up at 6am but I managed to get him to sleep another hour by giving him his dummy.

I've got some preparation to do for my job interview tomorrow. I'm a slow thinker so I need to come up with some answers to questions I may be asked. I also need to fill in forms for security clearance (as it's MOD). Hopefully my trousers still fit me. I tried them on a few weeks ago and they were ok but I have lost weight since then. I'm hoping I look reasonably presentable. Dd is going to stay at mum's tonight so I have a chance at 8 hours unbroken sleep. Isn't in ironic that I send away the older child and keep the young baby to get more sleep!

I'm still here, sorry. I have had trouble with the new format. I have only NOW managed to change it back I had tried twice before. i just wanted it back as i couldn't keep up with new format felt like i missed something every time i flipped pages and couldn't find where i was TBH.

I did read about how we were all discovering we were pg at this time last year, and i thought isn't mn great as I HAD been thinking just that

LL looks like a 6 month old now he is just so big and alert. i just can't believe he is only 3 months, ds is talking loads now too, so feeling very proud of my rapidly developing children.

going to try and catch up now, in the old style yay!!!!!

glad to see you back, Uki, and pleased to hear your baby is doing so well! Hope your dh's aunt's funeral went ok and things are back to normal for you.

Hey Gill, I have my fingers crossed for you tomorrow! I'm sure you'll be fine.

I have olbas oil in my eye this morning. It ain't pleasant.

Hiya everyone, just got the kids to bed
yea my wee one poos every 3 hours hes liking the number 3. brought the kids to coco's today its like a huge play area with slides and ballpits ds1 tired himself out, ds2 got dumped in a ballpit that he couldnt get out of but looked like he was enjoying himself and ds3 was getting loads of cuddles as usual. then went for a walk/run along the beach (i need an extra pair of eyes) but i really enjoyed it started to see the good side of motherhood again but now my house has been abandoned, so gonna be busy busy tonight.
Good liuck again GillL for tomorrow

hi, i am here but barely able to catch up. Isabel is the perfect baby. We are heading off to Australia in three weeks to introduce her to her family so I am hoping her good sleeping and eating patterns keep up til then. she has outgrown the colic and reflux already and is still breastfeeding beautifully and is already 12 pounds at eleven weeks old so she is brilliant. lovely little smile and so patient even when she is tired. miss you all.

Hi, Gill's right, its boobooma in disguise, James. I was wondering just the other day what had happened to some of the others.

I'm starting to enjoy having 2 children recently, now that Cait can sit and watch us do stuff she's a lot more chilled out. Was dying to get a photo today of her as ds had generously given her all his wooden trains and carriages piled up on her in her carseat, you could just see her eyes over the top. Also she laughed at us making christmas pudding with ds who was enjoying eating raw suet & brown sugar, yeeerggghh.

Gill good luck for interveiw tomorrow. Have you been watching spooks to gen up on security issues .

JamesAndTheGiantBanana

I did post the other day. It just i read the thread to catch up the someone wants something then i forget what i was doing .

As for cutting teeth dd2 just 9 weeks is cutting her top front tooth, and she has her first set of vaccinations on wednesday when i have my post natal check up.

I do need to have a name change as i am no longer just 'lizziemum' although i can not think of one.

I hope father christmas get my letter about getting a new memory for christmas

Thanks for the good luck messages. It's more than I've got from dh - he (in not so many words) told me he didn't care whether I got the job or not. He's been a complete arse today. I needed to spend time filling in forms and preparing answers to potential interview questions. All I kept getting was 'are you going to be much longer'. When I went downstairs for some lunch I noticed he had done the washing up. Big deal, I do it all the time but he told me I hadn't thanked him. For what???? Doing his share of the chores. I replied saying that he never thanked me and his reply was that I never thanked him for going to work. What the hell? I couldn't believe what he was saying. Anyway, for the rest of the day so far he has hardly talked to me and then had the nerve to ask if we were having sex tonight (as he does every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night until he gets it). He must be kidding. Apart from needing to get a full nights sleep I am soooo not in the mood after the way he's treated me today. He's spent the last hour sighing and completely ignoring me.

Rant over, I just needed to get this off my chest so I can concentrate on thinking about my interview. I'll let you know how I get on tomorrow afternoon.

good luck gill!

hello to everyone else - i'm choked with the cold and feeling sorry for myself - off to stock up on drugs (that's one good thing about not beign pregnant you can take 'proper' drugs when you've got a cold none of this crappy paracetamol that does nothing!

dd2'sjust woken up - be back later

good luck gill - too late to read this but sending you good luck vibes!

had a go at xmas photo yesterday and got a pretty good result will try and put on profile.

I've been bickering with dh all weekend too - think it's partly because he's been away so much we all need to learn to get on with each other again. saying that he's gone away until thursday!

Thanks loler and m2weegirls. The interview went quite well I think. I almost missed my turning on the way there. I put the address in the sat nav in case I got lost but it couldn't find the route so luckily I remembered the way from Saturday when I did a practice run. I got there 30 minutes early and had to wait around in reception listening to the same health and safety video over and over again and getting more and more nervous. I'm glad I did lots of preparation thinking up stuff to talk about. I had to rack my brains yesterday to remember what I do at work as it's been so long. I should find out by early next week. I feel like I've just done an exam and keep thinking of things I should have said.

Dh still wasn't talking to me this morning. The only thing he said was bye and that's probably only because I said it to him. I'll definitely be talking to him tonight to find out what's wrong. I didn't want to do it yesterday cos I didn't want a possible argument to be affecting my mood this morning. I managed to get a full 8 hours sleep last night as ds didn't wake til 6am. I needed mum to have dd so she didn't wake me up. Apparently she woke up twice.

Hope you start to feel better soon my2weegirls.

Hi guys, sorry to lizzie and stig who I thought hadn't posted in a while, I mustn't have been paying enough attention by the time I got near the most recent end of the thread!

Gill, glad it went well, do you know when you'll hear about it? Your dh sounds like he's feeling sorry for himself. Dp and I have had that exact same row you did about the washing up. Don't you love the way they come in and announce that they've put a load of washing in, or put the rubbish out or whatever, like they're waiting for a medal to be pinned on?

I've grudgingly thanked dp in the past as encouragement to do it in the future, but it is VERY irritating when you think that you cook, clean, do the washing, look after the baby etc and you never get thanked for any of that! I bet you never got thanked for working before you went on maternity leave either, did you? So why should he? oooh, they get on my nerves.

The trouble is, they're in that mindset of "I'm helping out with the house/baby" rather than accepting it's their house/baby too and just mucking in. (Case in point: A couple of weeks ago I took J's dirty babygrow off then handed him to dp while I went off to make dinner. I came back in almost an hour later and baby was still in his little sleeveless vest. I asked why dp hadn't put another babygrow on him, he said "you didn't tell me to")

I can guarantee you though that when I go back to work I'll still have to do 95% of the cooking, cleaning and childcare. It didn't help that when we were at dp's mothers I told her he never does any of the night feeds and she said (in front of him) "oooh no, well his father didn't either" as if to say "well obviously not, he's a man, they don't have to!" as if I was introducing a crazy new idea that he might be of any actual use around the house...

My2weegirls, I can totally sympathise about the cold, I'm absolutely full of one at the moment and so is James. I don't know what to do with him, we had a terrible night, he was up at 3am, had a feed but cried everytime he was put on his back because he could barely breathe so I put cans of beans under the legs of the head end of his cot, didn't much help, propped him p with pillows but he just slid down them and lay there chewing them and squeaking angrily, so I ended up lying there holding him upright all night, with him waking every few minutes batting at his stuffy nose.

Tried the nose drops, the sucky bulb thing, karvol, olbas oil- nothing seems to work. I don't know what else I can do to help him, I've given him some infant paracetamol and wrapped him up warm but there's no shifting all the mucus so he just keeps snuffling and gagging and crying.

Still feeling too tired/fluey to do anything with the house and the jobs are piling up along with the washing. I wish someone could look after James so I could get some rest and then tackle it all but there's only one me and I'm out of action for today.

Thanks banana. I sent dh an email earlier just to tell him that the interview went well and asked him if we could talk tonight. He replied to say that he's been feeling rubbish lately and stressed with work and he felt rejected when I said we couldn't have an "early night". I obviously don't understand the way mens' minds work cos all I want to do is sleep at the moment.

Ds has had a cold on and off since he was 2 weeks old. I just don't know how to shift it and I've given up. I've tried everything you've mentioned and it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference. Hope you feel better soon. I can't imagine the washing piling up any more than it does now. I could do a full load every day if you include towels.

im starting to fall behind a bit. Hope you get it gill. im loaded with the cold now to after me saying i never get sick, shouldnt have opened my mouth.

really cracking up with dp feels like im a lone parent sometimes, no actually it feels worse as ive experienced the lone parent thing. huge arguement at 3.00 o clock thismorning just want him to help out a bit more without pretending hes just doing me a favour.

have to go lo looking me

Men are crap. We should then them all onto 'Mum's on strike' and see how they get on without us for a few days. Then they might see that it's not such an easy life after all being a mother.