June '04 babies

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Have noticed lots of other 04 months but not June so thought I would get it going DS was born on June 17th. He is totally different to how DD was so its like starting over again! He's growing fast but seems to get very bored and frustrated at not being able to do much. He's just starting jars of baby food but tends to have a bit of a sweet tooth!! He's also a gemini and definately seems to have two personalities in there - he can stare at you and go from wobbly bottom lip/about to burst into tear to huge grin in a second!! How are other the other June babies getting on?

Oh Didums Monkeygirl. Poor Alex !

DD1 got chickenpox at just under a year, had about 3 spots and was neither up nor down BUT she then got shingles a year later as her case had been so mild so there is a positive in somewhere I think??

Blimey what was the shingles like?? I never want to go through anything like this again (vain hope I know with 2 kids).

Bl**dy awful Monkeygirl - she had a sort of funny rash up the side of her body to start with and then all over - nothing like chicken pox thou' and was really quite poorly. Took her about 3/4 weeks to recover. Not that that helps you and Alex just now thou!

Asides from that how are things?

Gomez - Sounds awful - didn't know children could get shingles . Alex cried for another hour last night, hence disappearance, but he did sleep much better...before the pox he was doing ok, bum-shuffling, starting to like his food (although only sweet stuff still) and loving standing whilst holding on to my hands (think he's been trying to walk the little tike!) but the Pox has knocked everything out.

Anyway, being wrapped up in my own problems forgot to say good luck when you go back to work. I know you aren't looking forward to it but hopefully you will get some sort of joy out of it - not just being a Mummy and having another life?? (or is that just me who thinks she might be occasionally missing out??)

Ds is 7 months today - just cannot believe it (although he is actually in 9-12 months clothes!). He's almost back to his normal self but has been very clingy and tearful but not really knowing what he wants - don't know if this is still to do with his previous illness(es) or just a stage - or the new him! Anyone else finding this?

hi guys
all is ok here - I am a slack poster I know. My girls are driving me crazy. dd1 is having the whining phase (seems like its been forever) and dd2 is getting into EVERYTHING! She is crawling like a pro now and pulls herself up on everything ALL the time. It is hardwork trying to peel her off everything before she hits the edge of tables and the floor. Its even effecting her sleep now to as she won't just go to sleep nicely like she was - instead she just wants to stand up and even if I leave her for a bit she just won't lay down. i am finding it really frustrating.
Grace is also not overly interested in her solid food. But I don't worry about that as dd1 was the same and now eats really well.
I'm really sorry to hear so many of your babies have been sick . Chicken pox are even going around over here (Im a bit surprised to hear its busy over there too). Hope all your bubs are fighting fit again soon.
MG - It has really gone fast hasn't it! I've just been thinking I will have to book Grace for her 7 month check soon and it just seems wrong! I hope Alex is improving , Grace is getting a little bit clingy too now - but mostly only if I am out of sight or something else has bothered her - then only Mum will do.

Could be teething, MG?
Tristan is miles from crawling; good job, too, I don't like life with stairgates, anyway.

Hi all sorry to here that babies have been poorly. Scott has been ill today but have just been told that one of our friends 4year olds has come down with chicken pox so will have to wait and see.

Had a good time in UK but was glad to get back last week and back to normal. We bought a puppy last weekend we get her with in the next couple of weeks, we are just sectioning off part of the garden for her and securing everywhere else as she is going to be big. She is an American Akita. I had me reservations as to how she would be with Scott but the breeder has assuered me that they are fine with children both of huis children were brought up with all of his dogs. So we will just have to get them both aquainted early on and get her to undrstand that Scott is higher than her in the Family order!!. What have I done.

Last friday was my bday and DH threw a cocktail party on the friday night were everyone got merrily or thoroughly drunk then sat night the girls took me to a hotel in Ayia Napa were we all got pissed as farts and had a meal and hit the town. Good time was had by all. Big 30 next year!!

Take care all will have a proper look at the posts over next few days

Hi all!

Cathncait - how's your dh? Yes I too am going through a very frustrating stage and Alex is nowhere near as mobile as your dd2 yet (gulp emoticon). Was dd1 an early walker cos it sounds like dd2 will be.

Karen, welcome back - I wondered where you were. Glad you had a good break.

Zebra - yes, it could be teething but I blame everything on teething, rightly or wrongly.

Tbh I am finding it very difficult atm. Alex was an easier baby but much harder at this age. He still screams with frustration the whole time (has even started doing it in the car again ), as is very difficult to keep entertained, especially with dd1 demanding my attention and I do feel she gets a raw deal out of it all. Ds has stopped sleeping through since illness and he also seems to have forgotten about his bottom-shuffling which I am quietly glad about. Still hates being on his front so I don't think he's ever going to crawl either. But he still loves standing and is attempting to do steps now.

Moan, moan, moan - oh well, he's asleep now so I have about half an hour break!

You try having 3 kids, MG. 2 of your children are always getting a raw deal out of it.

3 kids - NEVER!

There's pictures of my 2 youngest ones... along with me & DH in the Guardian today (health magazine supplement).

So come on now, girls; let's make predictions on when our babies will be walking? Not a competition, only in fun! Early walkers have parents with many more headaches...
I reckon CathnCait's Grace will be first, by 10, maybe even by 9 months. I think Tristan won't be far behind, though...

I reckon Tristan will be the last one talking, though!

OMG Zebra - very brave of you to let the world see your vital stats but then again you are obvious slim and fit . What lovely kids you got.

I think Cathncait's dd will actually be running the marathon soon at the rate she's going . Alex may possibly be an early walker as he is so frustrated at not being able to get around and he can 'walk' towards me if I hold his hands. Plus it runs in our family (and dd1 walked at 10 months - nightmare!).

As for talking...not sure...but last night at 5:30am when I was trying to get him back to sleep and he was wailing in his cot he did say 'mum' several times as if he was pleading with me to get him, but I can't swear he associates me with that sound. Still it made my hairs stand on end.

Hello. DH has been sent off to try and get a copy of yeserdays Guardian......

Lily has started bumping her way across the floor, not as sophisticated as bum shuffling but effective, cute and most importantly at this stage slow . I have seen with my own eyes (with open mouth) 6.5 month old boy from NCT class walking, nearly fell of my chair . He is super active, was rolling over at 3 weeks, of couse we are giving it the, must be a fluke, some reflex thing that he hasn't lost yet! He has been renamed Dash!

Lily will I think like her sister be bog standard average and start tottering at around 1 year. She is just too bl**dy big do manage it any earlier. Against the laws of physics and mechanics.

Hope all well. I am back at work tomorrow . Take care all.

6.5 months - poor parents! That is way to dangerous and stressful.

Good luck tomorrow Gomez - are you full or part time? Hope you get some pleasure out of it anyway.

Part-time 3 days and I expect nothing from it except some cash.... Right need to go and paint as we are getting house tarted up to put on the market.

Gomez I hope work goes well for you and you manage to enjoy something about it. Hope you have a good day. i can't believ that a 6.5 month old could walk!!! Thats scary. The earliest I have heard is about 8 months (i still consider that to be just plain wrong ). As for Grace ..well, I feel that she will be well and truly walking by 9 months. I don't like it but...og well. She is starting to try and move along the furniture now. I have taken the coffee table out as she keeps wacking her head on it and seems to always have marks on her head - not that its stop s her. Shes one determind little girl. dd1 walked by 10 months and she certainly didn't start crawling at 5 months .
DH is still not well and it drives me crazy some das. I feel awful for him being sick all the time cos its just crap. He can't do the things he wants to do. But I can't help but be annoyed when he sleeps till 11 most days and dos jack around the house. He tries hard to spend time with kids which is great but its always doing the easy things not all the crap that I have to do. i sound like the bitch from hell I know - I'm not angry at him for being sick - just frustrated. Oh well, what can you do? keep going.
MG - has alex settled down now - or sprouted more teeth? Cute about him saying mum.
Zebra - obviously we don't have the guardian over here so I've missed that one. What was the article for? I also can't imagine coping with 3 kids by the way ! 2 is defineately my limit. How do you manage? and is it getting easier now that Tristan is getting older?
And how are you going Karen? Are you getting settled back in after christmas now? Happy birthday for the other day. I will be 33 this year (not till July) God i feel old! You're still in your 20's!

It was a feature article of 'How Fit Are you' -- I was recruited via MN, actually. The VO2 max test was pretty grueling, I'm not as fit as I want to be, but it was a nice result....

3 kids... is, er, um... LOUD.
Here I am, a breastfeeding bigot, don't own a car, no telly, scruffy as they come...My best friend locally is a mother of 4 (she had them all in less than 3.5 yrs), who drives a 4-W-D, her kids wear v. expensive designer clothes, they have sky telly & the youngest in the brood, at least, was bottlefed from birth...
But we both know what it feels like to be completely frazzled by too many little people in our lives.
I think we won't start to feel on top of things until T. is 12-15 months old, really.

Thanks Cathncait.
I think Scott will be an average walker also baout a year. he is off in his baby walker now trying to escape from the front room. When on his belly he has started to try and reach out for things and his little legs kick 10 to the dozen behind him so he is trying to get the crawling motion. I can't believe he will be 7 months old on Wednesday. I have just ordered his 9-12 month clothes on line today. Went to have alook at the next sale here and bought him a few 6-9 things but was outraged when I got home and found similar clothes in there catalogue to be the same price out of the sale as they are in the sale here . I phoned Next up to be told that it is a franchise out here, needless to say I won't be shopping in the store anymore. So I will have to order things way in advance of needing them as the last order took 5-6 weeks!!.
We got all the wood delivered the other day to build the kennel for Storm but since it arrived it has done nothing but pour down, I have never seen rain or thunder/lighting like it!!. Just hoping for a dry day soon to dry the wood out so we cantreat it then DH can start building. Good job she doesn't need the kennel for a few months yet. i want her in the house as much as possible to start with so thatI can aquiant her and Scott it is going to be fun teaching her no to licking him, and pinching his toys and him no to pulling her fur and pinching her toys!!! What fun.

Anyway best go as just rambling.

Take care all.

Dd1 would love a cat but I don't know if I would want to cope with house-training one at the moment so hats off to you Karen. I am having difficulty enough coping with ds. Have had a really bad week or so with him and have been feeling over-whelmed but this week I have changed my attitude more I think and things are better. This does involve holding him in the standing position most of the time which is gruelling, and can't do anything else but have been repeating the mantra 'it's just a stage'. I also think things will improve when he's over a year old (well I hope). Atm he is still a frustrated, angry baby who is now suffering terribly from stranger and being away from mummy anxiety.

But he is eating some non-sweet things, thank the Lord - chickeny and lentil and cheese concoctions. Roll on being able to drop another milk feed...

We go and get the pup this afternoon. dh is going to have to tidy the garden up quickly before we go.

Got Scott weighed this morning he is 16lb 9oz, he is sitting up unsupported really well now just need to get him to start rolling or crawling as he is getting really frustated at not being able to reach things. He does however love the Tweenies and Teletubbies ( bad mummy I know!!!)

Going to sort out lunch.

Morning all. Ds1 is still blissfully asleep but, as is always the way these days, if one sleeps late the other one gets up early!

Poor old ds has yet another cold having only recently got over the Pox. He is sleeping much better but we are not cos he is so noisy!! We have another small box room which we use to store all our crap so have decided to try and convert it into a bedroom for him.

Still no rolling or crawling and even bottom-shuffling has been forgotten but he loves standing and 'walking' forward. And he definitely says 'mama' when I leave the room so does this count as his first word?? The jury's out still.

How do you all amuse your babies now?? Alex won't play much alone when I'm in the room and I can't devote my whole time to him as dd1 never gets any attention. Books are still for chewing atm, and other toys get about 30 seconds.

MG I would class that as his forst word.

Well we got the pup she is 3and a half months and already weighs 15kg. The breeders who have been nreeding for 20years say she is the biggest pup of this age they have ever had. She tried to take Scotts toy of him put he yelled at her and and pulled it back she legged it out of the room. Her Kennel is 90% done now. Have had ahousefull all weekend DD has had 2 friends staying friday and sat night, with another joining them today all playoing in the house, then DH invited two people over for Sunday lunch so I am now ready to sit back and relax.

i really must start my diet as I am starting to get really peed off and upset when I catch my reflection in the mirror!!!!

Hi everyone
I don't get much time on the pc at the moment. In fact I don't get much time to do anything at the moment . Three is lovely but sooooooooo much work! Not helped by the fact that J is the original bitty-addict and is not interested in any blooming solids at all, apart from the odd rice cake or piece of toast. Can't believe he's nearly 8 months and still feeding every 3 hours round the clock. I am knackered. Never mind, I'm sure it'll sort itself out in the end.

Other than that, he's crawling (laboriously) and sitting up, is still the most laid back and supersmiley baby and is such an advert for having more. I don't intend to think about it for a while yet - a night of sleep would be nice first - but we haven't ruled out no4 [insane smiley]. Off to catch up on everyone's news now...

Hello everyone (or anyone).

Skara - dh is quite keen on another - I can't quite believe it. Atm I couldn't contemplate it but am really confused about what to do. As I've said before I reckon I'd be best stopping at 2 but there is the tiniest little voice in me that is shouting 3 would be fun.

Well at least Alex is more fun the past week or so. He seems to have developed some patience and will sit in his buggy and/or car seat more happily than of late. He is also back to smiling at strangers and allowing himself to be held by others. He is still mostly suspicious of solids apart from Hipp porridge and AK's chicken purees, but he will try the odd bit of finger food. And he's desperate to walk but he still needs me to hold up his podgy body. I did actually try to go to baby clinic last week to get him weighed but it was so busy I turned tail as I decided life was too short!

Has anyone been for the next check-up then - isn't there an 7/8 month one?