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lizziemun · 28/01/2008 09:42

Welcome kinki

I have 2 dd's. Am also an 'old' mum to (38yrs).

DD1 was 4 yesterday (already ). DD2 was born on 7/9/07 was due on the 30/8/7.

My2weegirls have you got a old fashioned chemist near you. You my be able to get a dummy which you can put ab's in.

loler · 28/01/2008 10:10

Hello Kinki - My ds2 was born 28/8 - he's also very laid back and just enjoys watching and laughing at everyone. He's no. 3 and my last - haven't started weaning him and was wondering to myself if it was because I wanted to put off the next stage and keep him a baby.

tasha - ds looks really good already even with all the bruising and swelling. has he been able to feed ok?

GP has referred DS1 to hospital to see if he has a food intolerance - so thought might be a good idea to postpone weaning for that reason too.

dh is back from a week in eygpt tomorrow - am meant to be cleaning house today (it is a tip!) - can't see it happening!

Pinkranger · 28/01/2008 10:24

it seems ok now, perhaps it was just me on a Monday morning
Tasha - ds looks so cute, hope he is feeling a little better xx
Welcome to the new ladies! Kinki, my ds2 was also born on the 27th, great day for a birthday! he will also be my last , i have a ds who is 5,.

I have been busy arranging ds2 Welcoming day celebration! We had one doe ds1 and it was great, we are having it at a lovley place called the archbishops palace which is a registry office but it such a fantastic building!
www.historylearningsite.co.uk/fileadmin/historyLearningSite/mediev8.jpg
then on to a local pub which should be great! Am of down the gym in an hour or so, which im really looking forward to, beginning to see some rewards from the dieting and exercise now, i lost 3 1/2 pound at WW last week so its coming off!
Have a good day everyone!
Who said about a meet up?

JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 28/01/2008 11:07

Morning folks,

Welcome to the thread, kinki! They do say that you really start to realise how fast they grow up when you have subsequent babies. I already miss my tiny light-as-kitten newborn with his screwed up hands and blinking slate blue eyes, but wouldn't swap him for my hilarious giggling little buddha, even if he is KILLING mummy's back! Anyone else got arms a navvy would envy?

Pink I like the idea of a welcoming day. I have to say after seeing my great newphew being christened -the pomp and ceremony, the mention of the devil (catholic church) and the expense- we were quite put off the thought of a christening! We probably won't do either as we're supposed to be saving up for our wedding sometime in 2009 but I doubt it'll happen!

My2weegirls, I checked with this job and there is no outlay from me at any point. It's not a scheme (there wasn't a sales pitch) it's just working for a smallish website. We'll see how I get on anyway, the bloke is calling me later to explain the job.

Can't seem to do anything with my art which would make any significant amount of mony. I was charging abot £15 for an A4 drawing but they take the best part of a day, so it worked out at about £1 an hour, and not very fun for James while I've got my snout in a sketchbook all day.

Oh well, need to go change an ominous looking bulging nappy....

tasha22 · 28/01/2008 11:33

leifmum- i was just asking cause i have had quite a few different jobs and some of them were really flexible like when i worked in the bar/night club very flexible and a brilliant laugh, working in a care home was also flexible and very rewarding, dental nursing was interesting although not as flexible as the other 2, i also done cleaning and usually its from 7am-9am every morning. back soon lo crying

tasha22 · 28/01/2008 12:15

the reason i was saying is because i know how much dp hates tesco and cant wait to get out, but everyone is different
kinki-welcome, i have 3 ds's, 3years, 1year, and 5months, lo was born on the 30th august 7 weeks prem, im going to start weaning in a couple of weeks
i know everyone it really is amazing ive always known he is georgous and didnt think it was possible for him to be anymore beautiful, ive seen before and after pics of other babies but i was still amazed.
helibee-from i found out on my 21 week scan that he had a cleft lip and palate ive noticed that quite alot of people are born with it and you wouldn't know.
my2weegirls-yeah he charmed all the nurses and was loving the attention from them,so was dp, men! lol last night was a very long night but i can see him starting to get back to his old self
james let us know how you get on with the testing and we might all be doing it, let me get this right, you get given free stuff to try and get paid 4 it? sounds good!
pink- think it was gill asking about a meet up. well done on the weight loss!

GillL · 28/01/2008 12:38

Wow - can't believe how chatty the weekend was. Saturday was awful for me. Dh was throwing up all morning and then spent the rest of the day in bed. Meanwhile ds decided this was the perfect time to start cutting his first tooth and spent the entire day screaming. You can't see the tooth yet but the gum is split. Poor little thing. It's a good job dd behaved like an angel. I thought I was going to have real trouble getting both dcs to bed by myself. I had to take ds with me when I put dd to bed. She got 1 story and I told her I wouldn't be able to come back up to see her. Ds was also amazingly easy to get to sleep. Then, at 9:30pm I started the washing up which had been building for a couple of days, the cleaning (the living room looked like a bomb had been dropped on it) and I had to sort out 2 loads of wet washing. I finally got into bed at 5 past midnight. Then at 5:15am ds decided he was hungry. He never feeds before 6! Fortunately he went back to sleep and I got another hour or so before dd woke me up. Consequently I am shattered and glad to be back at work.

Hi Tasha - what a transformation! It looks like they've done such a good job. Did they repair the palate at the same time?

Welcome Kinki and helibee. I've got a dd 2.10 yrs and ds who was born on 15th August. He loves sleeping on his front and settles much better like that. He gets a bit frustrated that he can't lift his body up so I hope having him on the floor lots will build up his arm muscles enough for him to move around (not that I want him to grow up too quickly). He can pull his knees up underneath him but he's a big boy so doesn't really get anywhere

I'm looking forward to starting weetabix too. Mainly so I don't have to keep buying expensive baby breakfast.

pink - yes, it was me who suggested a meet up. I'm off work 11th - 15th Feb and wondered if anyone was around then. Kinki - where abouts in the south east are you? Anywhere near Bluewater?

kinki · 28/01/2008 12:42

Thanks for the friendly welcome. It's nice to be part of something but didn't want to be gatecrashing in iyswim. I've been posting on the sept thread, ds3 was due in Sept and I had been on the sept antenatal threads too. But somehow I never got round to introducing myself here.

Been trying to get up to speed. My2weegirls, your little dd2 is on abs? I hope for nothing too serious. Liam had them recently for whooping cough but I was lucky in that he took it ok with the syringe. Leifmum, a tooth? Gee, you're right all these milestones do mark the passage of time all right.

Tasha, hats off to you with 3 los at 3 and under. Bet you don't sit down much! I'm guessing ds has just had some surgery on his cleft lip?? He's looking great in your photo. And those big round eyes will steal some hearts one day, that's for sure.

Pinkranger, yes the 27th was a good day to be born! Mind you, I did have other things planned for the bank holiday. I only went into hosp that day for a quick scan and check-up (monitoring my leaking waters) and ended up having a section, a month before he was due. Also Pinkranger, I wonder if we're close - there's an 'archbishops palace' suspiciously identical to your pic in my town too! (I'm outside the town by a couple of miles). I didn't know whether to say anything - I know some people like the anonymity of mn. I remember reading about the welcoming celebrations when registering ds, it sounded lovely. And in beautiful surroundings too. Do you remember when the registry office was on top of the multi-storey? Talk about one extreme to the other! It's much nicer where it is now.

I better go before you all think that I waffle on too much, and get blackballed.

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JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 28/01/2008 12:57

I'm the resident waffler round here, kinki. Why use a sentence when you can prattle on for three paragraphs instead, I say!

Tasha, I'm not doing product testing yet, but I might look into it, sounds like fun. How's lo doing today?

Gill, sounds like that tooth will be through shortly! James's tooth still isn't through, his gum has been white for ages now, I keep feeling it and it's so hard I think it's through but no. Sorry you had a bad day on saturday, I've been quite sleep deprived too so haven't done any housework for days.

God the recycling song on cbeebies is SHIT- Pui can't sing at all. And I still can't stand creepy Justin, he reminds me of some slimy estate agent type. Honestly, if it wasn't for In The Night Garden, Charlie and Lola and Lazy Town (only for perving on Sportacus, natch) I'd be thoroughly fed up of cbeebies!

My2Weegirls · 28/01/2008 13:12

i like justin (it's all the others i don't like espeically the new one ?andy? he really gives me the creeps).

i've got the lived in look too...

lizziemum - thanks that's an idea - will take a wander along to the chemists and see if they have (though dd2 doesn't have a dummy so not sure how she'll take to it).

gill - hope no-one else catches your DH's bug. that's the one thing that i'm looking forward to going back to work for is the rest that and being able to have an uninterupted cup of coffee/lunch/ being able to go to for a pee alone. apart from that not looking forward to it at all.

anyone else going to stop sterilizing soon? i know that there is varying advice don't start doing it/do it for 6 months/do it for a year etc. i don't sterilize the spoon/bowl etc but i'm still doing the bottles which seems a wee bit daft to me?

loler · 28/01/2008 13:41

My2 - I used to mix in AB with a yogurt - If you give dd yogurt thats any easy way of getting them down.

loler · 28/01/2008 13:46

doh - me again - can't remember anything! I like Justin too - he grows on you!

Banana - put the music channels on while you still can - the babies just like the sounds and moving pictures. You will have to live with kids TV for years to come! Can't say that this is a good way of developing taste in music as DS1 favourite song is rihanna (sp?) umbrella song - we have to have it on repeat...music these days, it's just noise (I'm getting my coat to find an old person to moan with!)

My2Weegirls · 28/01/2008 13:58

will try that too loler - she's due her next lot soon

she's curently having a marathon sleep since 11.30 - not been sure what to do with myself should have been tidying.

and we are still having to listen to frigging jingles bells 20 times a day. i even hid DD1s CD but she was heartbroken that it couldn't be found.

tasha22 · 28/01/2008 14:24

my2weegirls i musta missed the post that said your lo was ill, hope she gets beter soon, wats wrong with her? lol at hiding xmas songs, ds1 wakes up at 7am and starts singing as loud as he can HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.....or WE WISHU A MERRY CHRISTMAS, WE WISHU A MERRY CHRISTMAS and i get quite annoyed

kink= yea he was born with cleft lip and palate, had lip, nose and hard palate done. hes due another op in 3=6 months time on soft palate. have a look at the b4 pics on my profile.

i love justin too i havent seen him in a while though cause ds1 always wants sponge bob atm

JamesAndTheGiantBanana · 28/01/2008 15:08

My2weegirls I stopped sterilising about a month ago actually, (but I didn't tell dp so he's been sterilising everything when he does the bottles!) I am VERY thorough when it comes to washing up James's things and make sure I inspect the bottles for any trace of dried on milk.

He was constantly munching his festering clammy hairy fluffy hands anyway (what IS that blueish fudge that accumulates between their fingers?) so I decided just to scrub everything in hot soapy water instead and he's been fine.

Oh, for a blissfully hot uninterrupted unspilt coffee. I remember them. Gill, James is currently chomping on a bickipeg. Well, he alternates between that and waving it furiously at the tv. Perhaps that might help Alex's sore gums?

I do have the music channels on sometimes but I worry because he really does seem to follow what's going on onscreen (once while we were watching Mr Bean there was a sudden "boo!" moment which made James scream out loud) so I sometimes feel uncomfortable when scantily clad women are on tv grinding their various bodyparts into the camera lens!

My2Weegirls · 28/01/2008 15:14

she had a chest infection - is on the mend now but still got a couple of days worth of ABs to go.

DD1 loves to sing happy birthday too - another favourite at the moment is daisy, daisy give me your answer do.....

My2Weegirls · 28/01/2008 15:24

and between their toes and belly buttons - and why is it always that bluey/purpley colour?

kinki · 28/01/2008 16:08

When ds1 was a baby I remember dressing him one day and noticed lots of dried blood between his toes. Cue panic. I'm flapping around trying to work out what it is, meanwhile calling dh to come look. I'm thinking trauma, nasty skin infection, ebola that kind of thing (!). Dh comes in takes a quick look and points out it's red fluff from his socks.

I'm not good with belly button fluff. I have a belly button phobia.

lizziemun · 28/01/2008 17:07

I glad it just not dd2 who looks like she been digging the garden with her toes.

Pour dd1 has been stuck either playing in her bedroom or watching tv in daddies office as dd2 has done nothing but scream if i put her down.

Why do babies know when you want/have lots you need to dune they always have a screammy day.

How long to 7pm when i can put them to bed .

Pinkranger · 28/01/2008 17:47

yes Kinki - must be the same one, im also just out of Maidstone town centre, there is also someone else on this thread who is close by!
Meet up - GillL - Might be able to do the Monday or Tuesday, i find out and come back and let you know, have to get back by 3pm for school pick up!

helibee · 28/01/2008 22:51

hi all,

welcome kinki ( i feel a bit of a fraud welcoming you as i only joined the other day but hello anyway

ds tried carrot today and it was a so so success but then he grabbed one of my raw carrot sticks and he loved that (soothing for his poorly gums i think)

it's the 2nd anniversary of my mums death tomorrow (she had a brain tumour) so it's going to be a hard day! Also taking ds to docs about his eczema-it is so bad unless he has hydrocortisone cream on it!

As for tv, ds seems to like My family, keeping up appearances and everybody loves raymond strange son of mine!!!!

anyway off to bed
x x

leifmum · 29/01/2008 08:20

morning helibee! so sorry to hear about your mum, my thoughts are with you today x

i don't know if you had eczema as a child? i had it fairly badly but had pretty much grown out of it by age 5. my nephew was the same so hopefully your lo will be the same!

i have to make a conscious effort not to put the tv on in the morning now. dd loves jeremy kyle! she will just stare at whatever's on really so now i put the radio on first thing then tv after her lunchtime nap. makes me do more stuff too!

took me ages to get to sleep again last night.the guy that's building the new house we've seen came over to see our house to see if he's willing to do part exchange. he seemed fairly positive, asked how soon we could move and even offered us his van to move our stuff . have to wait now and see how much he'll offer. suddenly it's very scary. i really don't want to stretch ourselves too much but then sometimes you have to take risks? i know if we really start struggling our families will always help but i don't want it to come to that!

think that's one of the reasons i can't get to sleep though. maybe more wine is needed.

off to baby massage this morning, hoping dd will practice on me today, i think it's my turn

My2Weegirls · 29/01/2008 09:08

kinki - the inquistive person that i am (not nosey or anything) i've jsut read some of your posts on the sept thread - really hope all goes well with your bonchoscopy today [hug]

helibee - hope your day goes ok too - sorry to hear about your mum (mine died 23yrs ago when i was 12 and my dad 10 yrs ago) and i still find it hard sometimes especially now that i have DDs.

james have your allergies settled down again? do you take any antihistamines? i have to take one daily (plus nasal spray) for my allergic rhinitis.

leifmum - that sounds exciting about the house - fingers crossed for you

tasha - how's your boys today? hope the older 2 are behavng for you?

dd1 asked me on the way home last night 'mummy do you EVER wear make-up and wear anthing else apart from jeans?' a 3 yr old commenting on my appearance - suppose i shoudl start doing something about it

dd2 has spent 20min trying to pick up/chew the freckle on my arm

i'm starting to rival james's long posts

kinki · 29/01/2008 10:46

Thanks My2WeeGirls. Being new on this thread I didn't want to prattle on about it. Sorry to post and run, but I have to go get ready for it now.

Helibee, take care today. So sorry about your mum. I too lost my mum, but nearly 12 years ago, so it's less raw for me. (She had lung cancer).