Dec 06 - a new one for Indith and her rubbish dial up!

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New thread for our incessant chatter!

Lovely kids, Lowfat.

BP, wrote a great long eulogy to Scotland and it vanished. Probably a good thing!

LF, lovely pictures.

DD2 is 9 months tomorrow It seems to have gone so fast but at the same time, I can't seem to remember much from 9 months ago ...

So, is anyone else going to have another one? I keep having dreams about it but I really really really am not going there!

Dh says absolutely positively no more. i think he's right although I would love to adopt a little girl from China. HAve always wanted to do that. There is a woman with two at ds1's school and they are so completely adorable!

DH says absolutely positively 3 more I love the idea of adopting as well.

I'm sticking at 2. Although the thought of never being preggers again saddens me, i don't know why as I have had 2 horrible pregnancies.

Hi all,
Glad to see you're all chatting away. Got back from our lovely 2 week holiday in North Wales (I just so wish there was work available up there) and house has been sold. Months ago, I wrote about maybe having some free time in September - well it doesn't look that way now! House hunting and cv writing are top of the pops at the mo (or stuff I am procrastinating on). Maybe in January I'll have some down time.......[Ha Ha Ha emoticon]
Am also considering baby modelling - we will be about an hour on the train from Kings Cross in the new location and of course biased me thinks he would be great - but I'm his mummy!
DS is currently removing all of Daddy's PS2 games from the shelf - now how long until he learns to open the cases and shove the CDs places they shouldn't be?

Like Lucy5 - I will stick at 2 but feel sad that I will not have any more children.

I too will stop at 2, but what a waste of a womb! I would love to have more, but financially and practically it's not really going to happen -

Do you remember when I had that scare I was PG a few weeks agao. I completely missed a period - boy were we sweating . However Having just had 18 days of period (and counting) I am now completely reassured I am not PG.

We are due of on holiday in 3 days and just found out that DH's Grandad has been told he has to have his leg amputated as a procdure to improve his circulation failed. DH and I are not sure what to do now. Do we cancel holiday, but if so what can we do. Not to mention all GD GGC's birthday coming up which he will hate missing, dont know what we can do to help him

I'm on the fence re more babies. As I've mentioned before I have occasional issues with not having given birth "properly" so sometimes I feel it'd be nice to have another and get the chance second time around, but DP says that although he always pictured us with a FAMILY, there was only ever 1 child. Charlie is so great (except for the odd mega-puke), really smiley and contented that if I could guarantee we would get another one with the same temperament I'm sure I could persuade him!!!!

Talking about Charlie's smile, I spotted another tooth today. That makes 3, but all on the bottom! From what I've read that's quite unusual, maybe he'll be gumsy forever on top!!

Gloria - did you do anything about how you felt about giving birth? Did it work?

I read a lot of things here and on other sites, and spoke to friends, but in the end I think I just managed to count my blessings and appreciate what I have. I still regret that I had to have a c-section rather than a natural birth, but it doesn't hang over me all the time like it used to.

I'm glad to hear that.

Just taking a break from mopping up sick. Yuk. DD1 has been vomiting all night, apart from 2 hours when we all fell into a deep sleep, and she has just nodded off again. DD2 is, of course, completely fine, full of beans and wanting to play.
I just want to crawl into a deep, dark hole and sleeeeeeeeep

When I read the posts briefly yesterday, I thought perhaps I might one day have more. Today, I think definitely NOT

Definately planning on a 2nd - I've always imagined my family as having 2 kids.
LFM, 18 days? Are you having two together do you think? (well, straight after each other). Hope everything is well. No advice for you re your dh's GD I'm afraid - do you think he would rather have you around for support or see you after your holiday when (hopefully) you will be refreshed and he won't be in an operation haze?

18 days!!!!! The horror! Poor you LF (but yay for not pg). I hope you find the best option for all for GD.

I hope the camping is going well for Magnolia. Ds slept like a log last time we went camping so there is hope for her Am hoping for more of the same this weekend as off on Guide camp again tomorrow. Joy of joys.

BP, DS is very determined to move too. He is far too stubborn for his own good and won't give up so he lies there on his tummy, doing press-ups and grunting away tis he makes himself sick with the effort. Not to mention the occasions when he does manage to push forwards a bit and his head thuds down!

I want at least 4, always have. Love the idea of fostering a bit later in life. A big rambling house with a big rambling family. And a few cats obviously Anyone want to start a lottery syndicate

Hi all thanks for the kind thoughts -

GD has rallied a bit, although could be the blood transfusion and antibiotics he;s on. DH aunt (who knows GD best) has told us to go on holiday as not much planned yet. But we have promised the weekend after we will go see him, and the weekend after we are that way for GN birthday so will go see him again then too.

In the meantime DD will be making a special card for him tomorrow to keep him smiling!

Period has just about stopped! 19 days I do hope this wont be regular. Before DS I was a 28 day cylce to the hour serioslu 3pm every 4th Friday and I knew just where I was. I dont like it now - not knowing etc.

DS is'nt crawling, he has the sit to crawl position, but somehow manages just to teleport round the room when my back is turned - the little monkey! have never seen him crawl or even shuffle, he just waits till I'm not looking and does whatever it is he does to move.

Lowfat - sorry to hear about GD. Fwiw I think you are right to go on holiday. I imagine he actually wouldnt want your DCs to miss out iykwim.

Periods suck. I just had my 2nd. Thankfully light but when not in pregnancy/post-pregnancy cycle mine last about 10 days about every 6 weeks or so

BP - I hope your DD is a bit better today.

DD2 was up at 5 this monring

She is crawling everywhere like lightening. Pulling herself up to and trying to shuffle a bit but she keeps misjudging things so is bumping herself all the time. She has 2 big bruises on her forehead and it makes you feel terrible but short of holding her every minute of the day I'm not sure how to stop it.

Short-tempers between DH and I this morning because DD woke. She wont settle for him. He's been away a lot and I've been feeding her to sleep so she goes down quicker (she rarely wakes in the night) - it's backfiring now though

LFM, glad you've made up your mind to go on hols.

DD1 is much better today, its like she's never been ill. How do children do that?

DD2 still isn't crawling, but is starting to master the bum-shuffle basics. Part of me wishes she'd get moving so that I don't have to worry about her developmentally. The rest of me is incredibly grateful that she's lazy

And no teeth yet, either!

Hiya Girlies
Well camping was ok but not really spectacular Very noisy site at nite till about 2am Our tent went up but not perfectly and it needs fixing in a few places
The kids loved it and ds1 did sleep better but I didn't!!!!! The self inflating mattresses we bought are crap and so sleep was very uncomfortable. I am sooooo looking forward to my bed tonight.

Gloria and bp I hope your little ones are better now xx

Lfm, sorry to hear about your dh's grandad hope you can still enjoy your hols. I went to Butlins Minehead when I was 11 and it is the most memorable holiday I have ever had

welcome back, Magnolia. Glad the trip went OK - enjoy your bed tonight!

I got a call today from the lovely childminder I'd lined up for when I go back to work. She's retiring. B*llocks. There are no other childminders in town, so now I'll have to see if there are any places at the nursery. Just when I thought it was all sorted

LFM, sorry to hear about dh's GD. It sounds like you are doing the right thing as far as not cancelling your trip. I'm sure he wouldn't want that.

magnolia - I am so amazed that you went camping We have gone on one road trip so far and were patting ourselves on the back for surviving - and that's only with 2 kids!

bp - Arranging childcare is the pits, isn't it? I never appreciated how difficult it was until now.

Okay so my two bits of news are:
I got an offer for some p-t work at a lovely office starting in January so I get some time off until after Christmas and I still have my other p-t office so we shouldn't get hauled off to the poor house (my parents were acting a bit concerned

And ds2 can now proudly flush the toilet and turn the light switch on/off that is set really low in ds1's old nursery room.

jabber, ds2 can flush the toilet? how is that possible great news about the job! You know it would all work out!! Must email you again about you know what, I'm thinking of getting a paeds referral, we're getting nowhere.

am v.sorry to be out of touch, I've been trying to read but failing to post. DS2 has had fever on and off for a week or so, after fake chicken pox. Plus teething, so he's not happy boy. Lots of night screaming, poor thing.

mag1, you are v.v.v.brave woman camping with 5 children in the first place!!!!!!

bp, hope you can find alt.childcare, when are you schedule to return?

lf, nice to see you back again, hope you're able to enjoy the holiday despite the situation

He surprised us all with the whole flushing thing. I can't remember when ds1 did it, but ds2 just crawled into the bathroom pulled himself up, grabbed the handle and....kerwhoosh!

Oh, and now it's his favorite game

Hullo! Haven't posted for ages, keep reading then running out of time to post! glad everyone's mainly doing well, bar sicky babies - hope they're better soon.

DS2 is speed crawling everywhere as ds1 calls it and pulling himself to standing on anything that stays still (or doesn't, hence the big bruises!).

BIG news is that he seems to have sussed out what sleeping is and for the last week has been going 6pm until midnight, 10 minute feed then sleep again until somewhere between 5 and 7am, depending on how much daytime sleep he's had.

Last night we were late getting back from Bristol and he didn't go to bed until 9pm because he'd had a late sleep in the car. He wke at 1am, 5am then woke up at 9:20am . I really hope he keeps it up but he's still toothless so I suspect it will all go to pot again shortly.

I was thinking about having more children yesterday and I just don't know. I saw a friend in Bristol on Friday with her 3 week old and it did make me all gooey but I don't think I could handle another ds2. The sleep deprivation would be the end of me, I think. I also look at my 3 and our family feels 'finished' iykwim. OTOH, I love being pg, I love giving birth and I am really sad that I'll never do it again. Maybe I'll have to become a surrogate .