Feb '06 - Tears n Tantrums before bedtime... teatime... naptime... bathtime... any time...

[Flamesparrow]

CAMERON, 6th Jan, , Born to Teuch, DC1
PEYIA, 23rd Jan, Born to TicTac, DC1
ALEXANDER, 24th Jan, Born to Yeahbut, DC3
MAISIE, 26th Jan, Born to ellenrose, DC3
JESSICA HELEN, Birthdate 30th Jan, Born to JuA, Twin 1, DC2.
EMILY ROSE, Birthdate 30th Jan, Born to JuA, Twin 2, DC3
T, Birthdate late Jan, Born to ChasingSquirrels, DC2
LAUREN EMMA, Birthdate 6th Feb, Born to Morgan, DC2
PIPPA, Birthdate 8th Feb, Born to CSWS , DC1
LEWIS, Birthdate 9th Feb, , Born to Phoenix , DC1
EVIE HARRIET, Birthdate 10th Feb, Born to Hotmama, DC2
RHUARIDH GEORGE, Birthdate 11th Feb, Born to MrsDoolittle, DC2
BEN, Birthdate 12th Feb, Born to Kelbelle, DC1
OSCAR, Birthdate 12th Feb, Born to Chloe55, DC1
LUTHER, Birthdate 14th Feb, Born to Otter, DC5
BRAM, Birthdate 21st Feb, Born to mustrunmore, DC2
LUCA, Birthdate 21st Feb, Born to 2boysmacca, DC2
EMRYS , Birthdate 24th Feb, Born to Flamesparrow, DC2
ISABEL ERIKA, Birthdate 24th Feb, Born to Amiable, DC1
RORY JOHN, Birthdate 25th Feb, Born to dewmeadow, DC2
BOY, Birthdate 26th Feb, Born to Jas, DC3
SALLY ANIELA, Birthdate 28th Feb, Born to Thell, DC1
NEVE, Birthdate 4th March, Born to Frizbe, DC2
ALFRED WILLIAM, Birthdate 4th March, Born to damewashalot, DC3

Still do milk with breakfast and at bedtime. Bedtime from a bottle but with squishy spout as never done teats.

You are just all going to have to wait

No chance of you joining me then jas?

Just wish I had RL freinds with 3 or 4 so I didn't seem such a freak

Oh don't worry about the shoes Jas. Dd's new boots are 5.5, but the shop also said that her 4.5 (although startrite, which I think come up slightly bigger than clarks) shoes still had a good 4 weeks room for growth in them.

I'm quite looking forward to the transition from 1 to 2 (if we ever get there!).

NO dame

I didn't show the shop assistant ds' old shoes

I know loads of people with 3 or 4 here. Not freaky at all.

I'm the freak here with just 2!

Psycho says that 1-2 is definately the hardest, 2-3 not too bad, and any after that just sort of blend in I didn't find 1-2 as hard as I expected though from the way she went on, but then she had been used to twins (nannying) so she had been thinking "Oooh I'm used to 2", not really absorbing the fact that 2 twin children are very different to a newborn and a toddler

I found 1 to 2 hard because I'd been a nanny before for twins! and had found 1 so much easier, then got used to 1 and 2 was a shock. Plus as a nanny I didn't have to do housework(I still don't do it but I should)

csws - you will probably find1-2 easier, as dd was such had work to sart with, your next one will be really easy.

Well, I only found 1-2 hard in retrospect. Like everything else in life, I only analyse it months after its happened! Can think of nothing worse than having a third

Having a third has been wonderful, I didn't think I'd have 3 never mind 4 but I've really enjoyed his baby stage and I think appreciated it more.

I could get a bit excited here, terrified too

So what if you're 1st is quite easy? Is the 2nd likely to be a nightmare?

2nd was harder work than 1st but 3rd easy

yes Pg, a bloody nightmare!

Sorry Phoenix, but I agree. DD2 was baby from Hell
Made ds seem like a dream child though

second children just have character that's all

Aaaah, charachter
I've often wondered how to describe it

Sorry about the stray h

That'll be me then! I knew I had something in common with ds2

Phoenix - don't let the old hands put you off. One of my friends had an easy first and an easy second.

Well dd seemingly had a whale of a time with the childminder. She had done 2 paintings which were hanging up to dry, had a big grin on her face, had been throwing all the pens/crayons around lots, had had 3 dirty nappies (pmsl - we haven't had that many in a day for quite a while!), and gave everyone a kiss and a hug before she left! Think she's now a bit overtired though, and consequently screaming and shouting in her cot, so goodness knows how she'll manage with no nap if she's this knackered with half an hour.

Yes csws. We all wait for people like your friend to have a third

She's lying csws. We say those things to convince others to have another so they may share in our misery A bit like telling ourselves childbirth didn't really hurt so we do it again and then realise just how fucking painful it is and why were we so stupid to attempt no.2 without pain relief too

I think she's stopping at 2, but not completely sure. Her second is only about 7 months, so there's time yet for it all to go pear shaped .

She's not lying. I see it with my own eyes. Friend is control freak though, so babies are probably scared to show a will of their own .

Oh, and you will consider my afternoon a waste Jas, because I mostly did housework.

Just don't do it every week csws, or it will be a waste.

I know people who have had two easy babies. They make you suffer when they get to be teenagers. None of us will get it easy all the way through.

LA la la la la not listening [fingers in ears smiley] childbirth does not hurt. Babies do not get bigger the more you have 9lb15oz hurt like hell what was i thinking!!!!!!

I'm sure there's this thing in your brain that makes you forget just how much it hurts that switches off as soon as you realise you could be pg again

Dame, ds was my smallest, despite also being the most overdue, so you could havea teeny tiny one that doesn't hurt at all

I'm banished in here as fil is back and is sleeping on the sofa in the other room, so it is this or go to bed. DP is at the pub avoiding him.

Talk to me.....

DH is in London and boys are in bed I should be tidyiing up but I'm lurking on here instead. Thinking of a really early night with my book.