May 2007 babies. Shoes needed? Surely not...

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Here we go ladies.

glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humour with your sickness lg&t... lol at stab um!

Ginger? anygood? sure you've tried it before but I reckoned it was good for me. When is your next doings appt/scan?

9 children? Lordy. I only watched that programme the other night as I had Sky +ed, '13 kids and wanting more'.

7 weeks to go before hols for the Pink household. L is very excited, as you can imagine. I plan to be pished quite a lot of the time.

I too was wondering about the MMR but didn't really like to bring it up. I never had any problems with the DDs so why am I even thinking about it?

Re: the Men C and Hib booster - apparently we might not get it round here. I went to book him in (hadn't been called) and she said the next jab he was due was his MMR in August. I booked him in anyway for 9 June and told her what it was for - it will be intereting to find out. My friend was also told by her surgery that things had changed and they may not do it.

We do love you Pink and you really help me because I think I would be far too laid back if you didn't give me things to think about

OK, now I feel awful. I didn't realise I was actually breeding paranoia!

L is booked for her booster on 24th June.

You sound normal as they come PJ. I watched that program and the radical feminist in me wanted to go and castrate that Mohammed for having so little respect for his wife! If his wife's body telling her not to have more children can't be interpreted as a sign that it isn't God's will to have more then I don't know what is. Grr rant over.

I know, poor woman looked absolutely blardy knackered. It was interesting that one of the men said, 'We just keep having them, I'm not sure what void we're trying to fill'. I bet his wife went mad when she saw that!

Don't feel bad PJ - I'm not paranoid but sometimes do need a little memory jog that C is DPs PFB and I should treat him as such .

Must talk about MMR tonight - that should get him in a tiz - he hates the thought of anyone hurting him. He didn't come to early jabs thank god but was there when the midwife did the Guthrie test - I thought he was going to punch her

L was absolutely hysterical at the first jabs, so dh came with me to the second ones and she just took them in her stride. I can't even remember the third lot, so they can't have been bad.

May I ask my fellow working mothers? What do you feed your babas? L is still preferring the godforsaken jars, and eats a lot more of them than she will 'normal' food. Although she likes oven chips and dairylea.

Anyone got any ideas for me? Nursery are forever telling me that she only ate 'two spoonfuls of her home cooked meal, but ate her jar'.

She can't live on Dairylea!

And BTW, I'm not worrying about it, just asking!!!

I can't help on that one PJ as I am still in the same boat as you.

He will eat home cooked fish pie and chicken dinner but I am sure he gets bored with it so he eats lots of jars!

I am ashamed to say we don't eat particularly healthily as a family so saying he can have whatever we eat just doesn't work!

do you supply the jar? Sounds mean but i would say to them not to offer a jar and she will then be so hungry that she will eat the food, then every day she will take more until she has forgotten all about the jars at nursery........

Jack had jars for a long while but was happy to have those as well as home cooked food. I didnt and still dont have the time to prepare home cooked meals for J&E so they tend to have ready meals for kids or really easy food. I dont mind so much as they are at nursery for the majority of the week and have healthy home cooked food there.

Also, i am always a bit when they say that they only ate so much as they dont have all day to try and get the food in them and they have other babas to feed. I always think 'did you really try to get the food in her?'

I know that E will turn her head but if you give her a minute then she will take it again....

SOH, was it that discussion of weaning that was going on last night?

PJ immunise immunise immunise. MY experience is when the whole MMR thing kicked off yras ago I was nannying for 2 young children their parents decided to immunise and thank god they did there was an outbreak at the nursey put down soley to parents refusing any sort of immunisations it was awful seeing all these poorly children who hadnt been immunised because of a report which I think was based on not many children. Might be totally wrong which is why I am not saying this on the other thread But I think the risk of measels mumps or rubella far outweighs the dare I say it scaremongering.

Hows everyone else today, am sooo bored of my MIL I really did make it clear that they were not to just pop over when we moved they have just been here again 3 time this week, GAH. I really cannot make polite convo with a woman whose sole interest in life is how many poos archie has done today and how brilliant her son is little does she know what he is really like. [fed up] [unreasonable]and every other ungrateful cow comment about me you can think of.

Right tea time again I swear all I do is make food and clean up after everyone has eaten it.

Jars?? What are they? J actually refused something this week, cauliflower cheese, actually I don't blame him coz it was absolutely disgusting, but strangely dd ate it all and asked for more

I think the Hib and Men c are being phased out because happily like the smallpox virus, immunisation has meant that they are practically wiped out and no longer such a viscious childhood disease. Out here Men A is a greater risk than Men C which is more specific to Europe. You see, that is the long term value to immunisation, if you think about the effect on not just your child but on the greater good. (Former Lefty here obviously ) Poor J needs a Hep B booster, not to mention that he should be having a Yellow Fever vaccination soon too.

Jam, my life is one whole round of food, preparing it, cooking it, cleaning up after it, shopping for it and the school run. And here was me imagining as a SAHM i would be making playdough creations and fairy castles in the garden...

ok perhaps I don't do the cleaning up after it bit

Jam.... you just couldn't resist could you You are right IMO FWIW, in true lg&t stylie..... stab um! vacinate.

Yes elkie, the weaning thread. [scowl]

Anyway, onwards and upwards...

Today in the post Mathilda received two absolutely beautiful dresses. One was courtesy of the Queen of Nairobi (and it's beautiful, really unique and tie dyed) and the other is the most spectacular and bright thing I have ever seen from the delightful First Lady of Fleet. Do they have it in my size? She loved the letter from Jasper and says it tasted lovely thank you.

Thank you so much to both of you lovely ladies, you have very good taste and make me very happy.

In terms of food, Mathilda eats anything and everything apart from tomatoes and chillis. She never had jars/puree. Today she ate:

Breakfast: Weetabix, a banana, 3 million grapes

Lunch: Fish pie (made by my fair hand), sweetcorn, broccoli, peas and mashed potato + yoghurt and 78 grapes

Dinner: Pasta and veg in tomato sauce + fruit salad and 89 grapes

She has also had an orange, a pear and some raisins at various points and about 4x20 minute milk feeds.

She ain't called the Tank for nothing.

M'll have the MMR I think. Better than the alternative.

LG&T, look at our babies in the bath. Cute.

Hey all. On the food thread. Cruz will eat anything. He eats chiles, veg, fruit, meat, dirt, grass . . .he hasn't tried his own poop yet, but give him time he probably will. I call him Hoover.

On the shots front. There is nothing that definitively links them to anything it's just speculation. My kids will have them mainly because they can't go to school without them.

I need to book Alana's MMR, never doubted the fact that she will be having it, all my kids have had all their jabs as have all the children in my family and we are ok (although I have my doubts about some lol)

Alana eats anything and eberything too. She's not fussy, she will eat home cooked or jars. I think she may have even eaten a couple of ants last night lol. She was sat near our front door nice and quietly, didnt think anything of it until Ethan shouts out that theres lots of ants. I rush to look and find Alana sat in the middle of them, playing and laughing with them. Turns out we have a hole where they were coming in and emerging from a gap in our laminate (we've built a step to cover the radiator pipes but theres a small gap between the pipes and the wall) There were hundreds of the little buggers so we left jam round the gap (didnt realise you could use it to kill them, learn something new everyday!) until dh could rip the step up today. He filled in the hole they were coming through, put down lots of ant powder and then replaced the step, since then Ive not had a single ant indoors so hopefully its done the trick. Nearly had snails indoors though. My darling little Ethan decided he wanted some as pets, pinched one of my microwave dishes and filled it with grass and about 6 snails, he then thought he could bring them indoors for the night so they didnt get cold or escape

Havent told dh our news yet, he came home in a foul mood and was trying to start a fight so i left him to it and went to bed. Thought he would be ok in the morning but he was still being a prat, slagging me off and threatening to leave so I spent the day ignoring him. About 4pm he changed back into his usual self, it was as though someone had flicked a switch but by then I was too pissed off to talk to him

LG&T havent a clue what will happen to the coil. I'd figured it must have moved somehow to allow the sperm through but how, when or where i dont know I had thought a coil was the best thing I could have been using but I read earlier that sometimes its only as effective as the mini pill No one told me that!

Have just written a lovely long post and now M has come along, batted the keyboard and deleted it..

So suffice to say Morning all...

We are in bed watching Pingu..bad Mummy but I am knackered and cant be bothered to get up quite yet.L woke up at 5.30 this morning.I beg of you..

Beau eats anything too, especially fruit. He scoffs the entire apple, pips and all! I am lucky that he will eat a jar and anything else really, he normally gets what the kids eat. It is quite hard when they are away as dh and i eat late and i have to make something specially for him.

All mine have had the MMR and B will too, i know some of the things they vaccinate against can be harmless but they said that about Chicken Pox and look at poor J I would rather my baby had autism or whatever else they witter on about than be dead. Quite a simple argument when you cut out all the crap. Rant over.

Pebble i did not know that statistic when do you go back to the doctor to ask?

Scoot how is the pain? Quite like Pingu, especially the one where he eats his greens and throws them up down the toilet

Morning all. We too are watcjing tv, we have made it out of bed and progressed to downstairs but nobody is dressed!
On the food front, although I never though I would say this, R eats just about anything too. The only thing she is iffy with is fruit but she loves veg so I'm not bothered. She will not even entertain the idea of baby food jars, she never has. Both the kids eat what we eat really unless it's something really hot and spicy.
R has got her Hib and Men c jab in about a fornight I think and when i go I have to book her MMR for 4 weeks after that. There is no question about whether she will have it, the thought never crossed my mind this time or with C.
We're off to meet some friends at the park later so hopefully the weather will be ok. I won't be around this weekend. We're going to my sister's as it is my neice's 5 th birthday this weekend. She is ahving a disco tomorrow and C is sooo excited!

I am sadly devoid of that Friday feeling today. I have been up since 5am, stumbling bleary-eyed round the kitchen with a blocked milk duct. Endless rounds of compresses, breast massage and expressing had no effect. I finally resorted to sticking a needle into my nipple. It farking hurt but it worked. A spurt of milk shot out with such violence that it hit the ceiling.

It's official. I am a sideshow attraction at the funfair.

Am off to nurse my poor nipple.

Oh my god, SOH, I'm glad I've finished my breakfast!! That sounds nasty!
Just got a text from dh's cousins dh - she had a little boy yesterday called William. He's their first and we're so excited for them!