April 2004 Babies - eight is great!!!

[Yorkiegirl]

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[TracyK]

i was 'working' this morning - not much work being done as I was trailing the mmr thread most of the time!

I'll be 39 in Oct - bloody hell I almost put 38 - oh no just lost another year!

My pg, labour and birth with ds was plain sailing and v. easy - I am just too scared to tempt fate not to deal me a terrible 2nd pg etc. Plus all the health implications being a geriatric mother.

[handlemecarefully]

So we can both be ancient together.

My sister had a baby bouncing with vim and vigour at 42!

I probably won't have a third baby, but I haven't ruled this out on age grounds. Had previously planned on number 3 at around age 39. Changing my mind for other reasons not age....

Don't rule it out!

[TracyK]

I keep saying 'no chance for a 2nd' - but why then am I keeping all the old baby stuff in the garage??

[LucyJones]

Afternoon you talkative lot Congrats Susi if you are still lurking! Ds seems much better - he has been sleeping a lot today so hopefully he is reneregizing himself!

[TracyK]

Don't want to jinx anything but ds is still sleeping - 1.5 hrs so far - and have I put the new bed linen on the spare bed and cleared it of ironing for the in laws visiting tomorrow?? have I buggery!

[handlemecarefully]

lucyjones

I shall not be quite so talkative after today (last day at work until next Monday). Mumsnetting tends to be a strictly office activity only

Glad to hear that your ds is doing better

[TracyK]

I am so impressed with ds - he has a little car from elc with a removable little man. He was playing with the car at one end of the room, left it to come and play with some other toys at the other side of the room. He picked out the little man, realised it went with the car, looked round for the car and crawled over to it and popped the man in the seat! I think he's a child genius!! but maybe I'm biased!

[Yorkiegirl]

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[fimblesfan]

Hi all, haven't been around for a couple of days as I have been workingbut never mind Im not in again until next tuesday)

{{{{hugs}}}} to those who have sick babies at the mo, hope they get better soon.

Just a quick question DS was born on the 3rd April & still only has one tooth. He keeps waking in the night screaming like he is in alot of pain, do you think he is just going to wake one morning with a mouth full of teeth/

[Yorkiegirl]

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[Fennel]

fimblesfan - at risk of sounding jaded, if he's anything like my sprogs it will mean he wakes one morning with ONE more tooth. and then after a few more weeks of weeping and wailing he might eventually have another. etc.

it's been a grim week in the fennel house. teething, lots of diarroeah (ugh, thank god one at least is still in nappies but even she pooed in the bath yesterday), and we've had 2 year old semi-toilet-trained niece staying for 3 days too. my life feels bounded by crap, literally [tired emoticon]

[MrsDoolittle]

Morning Ladies,
YG I saw you in the Guardian yesterday!!
How do you cope with the fame?

[MrsDoolittle]

Lunavix, I try not to go on and on about nappies on this thread (because I could) but I noticed you have poo problems. John Lewis fleece is expensive and unnecessary. I would ring round a few material shops and ask for white baby fleece. Mine was £4 a square metre and you can make it as big as you like!!
YG, I think you have already been given loads of advice about totsbots and you don't need me to add any more. I am a great advocate of them, I love mine ( sad nappy bore alert )If you have any specific questions just ask. I would never go back !

I can't keep up with the rest of this thread. Dolbear - Congratulations!!
HMC - I hope your family is getting better. Dd had an ear infection last week. I have a sinus head cold again.
The snip Fennel? I think eventually that's the way dh will be going. I loved your comment about childbirth wrecking your body, implying it's the least dp can do. I'll remember that

Work is busy. I guess you must be too HD?

[LucyJones]

Morning. Ds is much better thanks but sleeping loads even in the day! I went out with work last night and he threw his dinner up all over dh - he he he, dh hates sick

[dot1]

Hello! Blimey this thread is busy!! Can I ask - how's everyone doing with solid food (the babies I mean...!). Ds2 is OK with crunchy things like breadsticks, but chokes like mad with things like rice, pasta etc. I can't remember how we got ds1 onto solids but I'm sure it wasn't this traumatic!! ds2 is fine with pureed stuff - just not sure how we'll ever get him eating anything other than breadsticks and pizza!

[LucyJones]

Hi Dot. Ds is still on pureed stuff moslty. He does have jars with lumps like pasta in and he also chokes a lot! He will knaw n a crust of bread but that's about all the finger food he does atm. I find spooning purees into his mouth much easier but I am a bit lazy!!

[lunavix]

Ds is eating cucumber, breadsticks, those orange flavoured rusks (for 12 months I know but he loves them ) ummm quavers ( @ MIL ) brocoli... anything really. Scrunches his face up when something lumpy is in his mouth and he has to swallow, then blinks loudly and coughs! Very cute, and I feel slightly put on too!

After the recent first tooth, he went right off his food and we regressed to apple puree and similar, yogurt, those tiny heinz weaning tins as well! Trying to move him back onto lumpy, not going so well as I think we have another tooth coming.

His favourite game is moving/rolling (still no crawling, although he is starting to commando crawl, and also lunges forwards) to the tv cabinet or cd stand, and pulling them all off, one by one, in a methodic way! Just enthralled with it completely. Strange!

MrsD - do you actually ask for 'baby' fleece? We went into our local fabric land, only had hideous colours and ones covered in cows and spiders!

[Yorkiegirl]

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[Fennel]

I also enjoyed reading about yorkiegirl in the guardian but sadly it was the online version so didn't get to see the photo taken 2 weeks after giving birth - yorkiegirl I can't believe you sent a national newspaper a photo of you then - if you look anything like me after the birth anyway!

dd3 eats all sorts of lumps. all mine did due to me being a lazy mother and never bothering to puree properly when weaning so they had to like it or lump it . She doesn't like pureed bought jars though, only home-made food! (which can be a bit of a pain)

dp is getting anxious about the snip. he has a choice of general or local anaesthetic. I am scathing about how wimpy this is compared to me giving birth (a far worse "procedure") without such a choice..... I am just not interested in his anxieties on this - I just can't be sympathetic at all.

[hewlettsdaughter]

Seems reasonable to me that the menfolk get the snip after all we've been through, as you say Fennel. Also, isn't female sterilisation a more complicated procedure?
Can we have a link to Yorkiegirl in the Guardian please? I didn't see this.
I'm pretty busy at the mo but I still manage to lurk even when I don't post MrsD

[hewlettsdaughter]

Ah found you YG! (shame no pic)

[SusiS]

thanks hd

[Yorkiegirl]

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[fimblesfan]

Fennel & Yorkie thanks for your teething stories & there are definately signs that no.2 is on its way.

Can anyone recommend a teething remedy that actually works.


Dot 1-have you tried cow & gate 7 month powdered food, it has a few lumps in but not as much as the jars & also if you add a bit more water than required it makes makes it a little easier for them to swallow, it worked for my ds & now he eats absolutely anything, I picked up a jar of hipp 15 mths by accident a couple of weeks ago so when i ran out of everything else i gave it to him & he polished off the lot.

[goreousgirl]

Can I PRETEND my ds was born in April and not May? a) I think he's a month behind anyway -seems to be at exactly the same stage as all yours +b) you lot seem lovely!