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April 2004 Babies - eight is great!!!

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Yorkiegirl · 31/01/2005 18:51

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MrsDoolittle · 22/02/2005 20:53

Oh God yes!! With some trepidation of course

spagblog · 22/02/2005 20:54

Secretly worried that urge has packed up and gone never to return. Maybe now that I have had my kids and there are no biological reasons to sh@g, the urge will never return and I will become a miserable nagging dried up old hag?

MrsDoolittle · 22/02/2005 20:56

Urgggghhhh, Spagblog dont!!! And you are younger than me

hewlettsdaughter · 22/02/2005 20:56

ooh don't say that spagblog!

LucyJones · 22/02/2005 20:56

don't worry spagbol my urge has dried up too and we've only got one ds. could make ttc no. 2 tricky!! dh is still adamant he only wants one child tho

KristinaM · 22/02/2005 20:58

LOL!!! If my Dh finds out he will be encouraging me to Bf til Ds starts school . oh well i guess thats what happens when you marry a much older man...sigh...
Are you the only April mum thinking of the next one yet Mrs D? Or is Udar TTC too?

MrsDoolittle · 22/02/2005 20:58

Even with your wiley, womanly ways LJ?

MrsDoolittle · 22/02/2005 20:59

Naaaa... Chuffed/Udar is way out there ahead of me yet

KristinaM · 22/02/2005 20:59

And Spag - I am already a miserable nagging dried up old hag. But i still like lots of sex

KristinaM · 22/02/2005 21:00

Oh do tell Lucy - what wiley womanly ways???

spagblog · 22/02/2005 21:00

LOL!

LucyJones · 22/02/2005 21:01

I think I lost them when I got pregnant. MrsD - remind me!!!

KristinaM · 22/02/2005 21:06

oooh dear, seems like the tone of this thread is deteriorating and i've only been back for 5 minutes. in RL I am a respectable middle aged woman...honest ( but not a QC)
[evil emoticon]

MrsDoolittle · 22/02/2005 21:09

Love it when you're here Kristina

lunavix · 22/02/2005 21:31

Kristina - thoughts of no2 are here too

My plans are ttc may/june (wedding is in june!!! need to fit in dress!) dp's plans are tcc may/june 2006 - but like I remind him, if I offer him some action, he'll never say no

We have commando crawling (very hilarious!) also second tooth came through very suddenly sunday morning, so explained the extreme feeling sorry for himself midst ear infection. All is well again, but he is SUCH a clingy baby now. If someone (anyone!) leaves the room he bursts into fits of tears - even if others are still in the room! If I leave him on his own for a second - bursts into tears. And when I'm in the room, he has to have his hand on his knee (probably from my attempts to sneak off when he isn't looking )

He can also babble mamamamamama (VERY proud emoticon!) people are quite surprised - first babble/word is meant to be dada! My training is working here!

Is everyone counting the first proper babble as their first word, or the first time they say something and it has a meaning? ie dada - meaning daddy?

MrsDoolittle · 22/02/2005 21:33

No notall Lunavix, dadadadad is very much still babbling!

sacha3taylor · 22/02/2005 21:52

Hello, hope you don't mind me looking at your thread, my DS was born in may 04 so is slightly younger. He can walk with a baby walker and crawls everywhere! He can say a few word [mama, dada, baba] but i am sure he said bye bye today as my friend was leaving our house, probebly a pure coincidence!!!!!!

Fennel · 23/02/2005 08:23

hi KristinaM, back to lower the tone I see

my sex drive did return eventually the other 2 times, with my energy levels and my original body shape. but none of that while still bf. am thoroughly fed up with it now, the biting, the tedium of expressing, my supply seems low, etc. but am pinning my hopes on a 2 week easter holiday in the Spanish sun, followed by stopping the bf, followed by the UK spring/summer will suddenly turn me into an energetic randy slim and sorted super-mum

dp is desperate for sex but he's always had a rather high sex drive. I do still consider an au-pair to help me out here....

handlemecarefully · 23/02/2005 08:33

On the dried up all hag thing, I gave up breastfeeding when ds was 5 months old but still no sex drive. Mind you my libido never really fully recovered after dd - I think ds must have been an immaculate conception! Quite honestly I would rather clean the loo than have sex

Lunavix - we have separation anxiety too. Ds very definitely does not like it when I leave the room....

Ds is babbling mamama and dadada like the other April babies, and he also says something a bit like "that" whilst pointing at various things. He crawls well and stands but doesn't cruise - just pulls himself upright whilst holding onto something.

Lucyjones - good for you on quitting work.

Fennel · 23/02/2005 08:38

lunavix - dd3 also panics when I leave the room. but luckily is ok if someone else she knows is still there like her sisters so it's only a problem when I'm alone with her in the house.

it's bizarre that people are feeling guilty for not working and staying home with their baby. I thought the working mothers were supposed to be the guilty ones?

TracyK · 23/02/2005 08:46

Have moved ds onto a cup for all his milk except bed time one and he's drinking much less now and as a consequence - eating a lot more solids.
Woke at 2.30 am last night and gave him 1oz milk in 3oz water - ha! that'll teach him for waking me up!
Have just had planning permission for an extension - so have to decide on the layout (will maybe start another thread).

Fennel · 23/02/2005 08:52

tracyk that confirms my feeling about milk in a cup rather than a bottle

but still don't know whether to encourage milk consumption or not.

TracyK · 23/02/2005 09:08

I think ds was drinking it from his bottle more as a comfort. The fact that he doesn't drink as much from his cup means he's not that bothered about it.
Although until his eating solids is 100% (he sometimes doesn't eat a full meal if he is too tired at nursery) I still feel that if he drinks enough formula that will make up for any missed nutrients.

Chuffed · 23/02/2005 09:29

Wow what a busy morning. I'll make up for my lack of posts during the morning now...

LJ leaving work sounds like the right thing to do and sometimes things happen for a reason so maybe you'll be so happy at home that your dh will say time for another...
I think I'm the keenest for another and have been having unprotected sex since September 04 but no sign of a bfp yet. Have finally got my af 2 wks ago.

DD is walking by herself more and more but still returns to crawling to really get herself somewhere and her favourite thing is emptying anything, all the drawers in the kitchen and the bedroom ones now too as she is so good at opening them. Our house is therefore a tip.

I think she says something like 'that' too HMC and points at things and she also gets really excited about dogs even though we don't have one she sees them on the street when we go walking. Lots of babbling but she understands lots even if she can't say things. She keeps standing up in the bath and I say please sit down and she sits down. (could be a coincidence), also this morning walking to nursery I said look and she sat up straighter and tried to see what I was pointing at.

dd is also now back to her milk as she was drinking about 4oz a day last week but she is back to about 5oz a 4x a day now which is good from a cup and her eating is getting better again. ooh she fed herself yoghurt last night dh held the yoghurt pot so that she could get some yoghurt on the spoon but she was definately putting it from the pot to mouth the right way up. Probably won't happen again for a couple of months now.

Have a good day everybody!!!

TracyK · 23/02/2005 10:20

ds can also 'scoop' stuff from the plate using a spoon - maybe once during a meal - then he resorts to hitting the food around the table with it.