August 2007- Happy Birthday babies!

[JamesAndTheGiantBanana]

New thread. Happy birthday to all our gorgeous girls and beautiful boys!!

Lol conker with the duck toy! It's like meeting for a blind date! Glad you had a good time with your friends.

DH is off work today and has taken Joseph to toddler group while I supposidly get some house work done. So far I've eaten some lunch and lurked on mumsnet!!

We are decorating our bedroom at the moment and we really should get on with taking the old wallpaper off. How the hell are you meant to decorate with a 14 month old who wants to 'help' with everything???!

Joe is fine again now. Eating really well. DH jokes that he must have worms cos he's eating about 6 meals a day and about 3 snacks! I think he's just making up for last week when he ate next to nothing.

Suppose I'd better get off and get something done!

Hi All

glad to hear we are all wellish.

conker - i think you hit the nail on the head with the age gaps thing, we all obsess about it, and in the end whatever gap just works.

james- hopw you are OK, are you getting out much, I found the first 1.5 years of life with baby such a change in terms of social stuff, i get quite down without intelligent and philosophical adult conversation.

leif- yes also had that feeling, of how is it possible to create another perfect child, it does happen though, although my 2 couldn't be any more different in looks or personality.

I got back from my week away of work, about 2 weeks ago, and have just been buried in family and work since. i missed the dc's heaps and arriving at the airport to see them and dh was so emotional. I also had a very intresting time being away though, even had a bit of a mental affair with an older man , more on his side than mine ( I wasn't intrested), but I did talk alot and found out a lot about myself through it. Told dh all, and we are now stronger, that probably sounds bad but i had my own little crisis about missing my creativity and work, so i think i needed a big emotional trip to find myself again. I'm so happy now though and love dh and family more from being away.

Enough about me, but i totally think we all need a break sometimes, mothering is so demanding. does anyone agree or am just waffling?

BTW I am very scared of dh becoming middle aged, i.e crisis men can be such 's they only think of themselves.

Hi Uki! good to hear from you. glad your work trip went ok and it sounds quite eventful. glad all for the good and you're not waffling - can totally empathise with you. still have periods of time when i just wish i could focus totally on work and beng me again, usually coincides when i have bad PMT!

hope everyone has had good weekend. dd's sleeping still bizarre. last night held strong and let her carry on crying when she woke at 1am. lasted about 30 mins so not too bad. then she woke again at 2.30 and this time was only 15 mins. she then slept until nearly eight and woke up perfectly happy. i just felt terrinle doing it. will have to see what happens tonight!

Don't feel bad leifmum, we have to so what it takes to survive! I was dead against any leaving to cry but lately ds is waking earlier and earlier. He has taken to starting the day at 4:30am which is ridicullous and I am sure at some point I am going to have to bite the bullet and just leave him for a bit. When he sleeps in til 6 he is so much happier in the day and I'm sire his grumpiness is caused by over tiredness. i keep telling myself that it'll work itself out but I'm not sure.

Hello. We had a good weekend. Went to a party on Saturday night. We only knew 2 people there. A couple dh knows got married but didn't want an Indian wedding so they had a party instead (plus a registry office marriage). It was good but very loud. Had to promise mum that I wouldn't ask her to babysit for a few months. She likes her sleep!

I'm starting to feel a bit about ds becoming a nanny's boy. In itself that's not such a bad thing but he often prefers to go to her, even when he's upset. I know it's my own fault for working so much but it still makes me feel bad I'm sure I'd be complaining if he never wanted her and it helps me out quite often because dd is such a mummy's girl and won't have anyone else. I suppose every cloud has a silver lining.

Hi Uki. Glad you had a good trip. It's good to have some time to yourself but great to get back your family. It can get you down when everything you do revolves around the children, especially when dh gets to do things on his own a lot! I book time off work specifically to spend time with the children but dh's days off are for him to do things that he wants to do on his own or with his friends.

leifmum - hope you manage to sort dd's sleep out. The key is to be consistent so if you want to carry on with sleep training then make sure you don't give in or it will be much worse next time. The crying should get less each night until she either doesn't wake in the night or can get herself back to sleep without getting upset. Good luck.

meandmyjoe - 4:30 is a ridiculous time to wake up! Dd had us up at 1:30 saying she was hungry. She'd had a big dinner so I'm not sure why. We're both shattered today.

GillL

DD2 is all over nanny (round the corner) when she see her at the weekend, which this weekend has been a blessing as Lexie now has very bad chicken pox so i was able to have a break.

Meandmyjoe i found Lexie was waking at 4/4.30am because she was cold so i have put her into a fleecy sleepsuit over her PJ's and now she goes through to about 6am. I also found giving her a dreamfeed at about 11pm before i go to bed.

Is everyone else dreading the clocks going back an hour at the weekend. So instead of 6/6.30am it will be 5/5.30am .

morning everyone. Gill - the weekend was with all the kids too - its just the girls got Saturday afternoon and evening away on their own, while the males ahd the children (they got a night out on the Friday) so didnt really have a chance to miss Struan as it went by so quick.

You seemed to have a hectic week last week - hope its calmer now.

meandmyjoe - how did the decorating go - i dont seem able to get a proper lot of housework done with ds around so no idea how you do decorating.

uki - dont envy you having to be away for a week, but good that its over now - sounds like you had an emotional time of it, but great that you and dh have been able to have a really good talk about it all and clear the air. I always remind myself that in the bigger scheme of things, these years where the babies are so demanding wont last forever and you will get to a point where you can be an adult again at some point (i hope).

leifmum - ds wakes at about 5am most nights too and i take him into bed - but not if he wakes earlier. some people would call that a bad habit - but i dont mind it just now (although i will think about changing it before the new baby comes along, so really should probably start quite soon). Agree with gill that whatever you do needs to be consistent which is maybe why i havent tackled it properly yet. but also 5am after 13 odd months of 4 times a night was a total blessing to us.

lizziemum - cant believe lexie having chickepox - you seem to spend your life looking after sick people. hope she gets over it quickly and it isnt too itchy.

our meetup was good - helibee couldnt make it which was a shame but my2, purplerabbit and I had a fun morning at the soft play - I left the duck in dh's bag, so we had to draw one instead and art is not one of my or purplerabbits talents, so as my2 said - it looked a bit like a dinosaur. was very nice to put a face to the messages. My2s girls are very grown up, and both very pretty girls.

when we first arrived, before my2 got there, ds and purplerabbits ds2 were in the small soft play, and two older (4 and 5) girls wanted to play with them. their characters are becoming apparent already - pr's ds2 gave them a look and went off on his own to explore. ds sat while they stroked his face and hair and loved every minute (until they kept trying to stop him crawling and then he got a bit cross, but seeing him sit there soaking up the cuddles and stroking was very funny).

I am definitely dreading the clocks changing at the weekend Lizzie. Of course it will be muggins here who has to get up with ds.

This week has started off quite well thanks conker. I was on time for work, which was a miracle considering dd didn't get up til 7:15. I asked dh to get her up while I was in the bathroom. I should have asked him to get her dressed as well. He doesn't think of these things by himself. I can't wait for him to start his new job. His new boss told him he can work from home every day if he wants to. If he thinks that means he can get up later then he has another thing coming!

Glad you had a good meetup. Did you take any pictures?

Conkertree

I know i can honestly say i fed up with sick children as it has now been 3 weeks of various colds/chicken pox and manflu (notice i include dh in with the children ).

hi all

can't believe it's time to change the clocks already - where has 2008 gone? i used to love the clock changing pre dd's (either clubs staying open for an extra hour or getting an extra hour in bed).

gill - that's good about dh working from home everyday if he wants - make sure he does more round the house and not doesn't sleep longer in the mornings!

glad your night out was good.

lizziemum - has lizzie had chicken pox too? how's lexie coping with it? put the calomine lotion in the fridge - extra cooling!

leifmum - i've got a bizzare sleeper here too - last up at 1am, then up at 5.45. i hate doing the leave to cry thing - but might need to. main reason for not doing it just now is that i worry that it will wake dd1.

conker - how was your tv show? both my2 fell fast asleep on the way home on friday. was very good to put faces to names and they all played nicely - no fighting, though they were all off doing their own thing.

helibee - how's the sleep/teething?

oooops battery is about to go...better post this quick

Hi all haven't had chance to catch up yet, hope everyone is well. Put new pics of Joseph on my profile including a pic of him doing that wierd puckering up face we were all talking about! Catch up soon. Abby x

My2

Lizzie had it not last but the week before, but she was ok the worst bit for her was that she couldn't go to school.

Hi All

I feel sorry for you all going into winter. We all just had the WORST flu and cold season ever, it was horrible. most of the viruses are only now just going away finally.
if you have older family members i'd recommend the flu shot for sure, i was not a big believer in that, but this year my mum, dad and FIL got it and it really hit them.

Lizzie _ LOL manflu

Conker - i look forward to having a little life back, but as they get older don't we just become chaufers

we may have a house again, our offer accepted, lets hope it works this time

wheres tash?

yes thats probably true uki - although it could work both ways. was having a lazy moment on the sofa yesterday and said to ds - could you go and get the remote control for mummy please, so he toddled over to the other side of the room, picked it up and brought it back to me - I was quite surprised but i guess it means we watch too much tv if he knows what the remote control is .

could be nice when they are old enough to make breakfast in bed on mothers day etc.

didnt take any pictures on our meetup - that was silly. will remember a camera next time.

my2 - they overbooked the show (which they apparently always do to ensure its full) so we didnt get to see the full thing - they let us have 10 mins in the wings of the studio - which was fantastic, and then gave us guaranteed tickets for this friday - so very kindly purplerabbit has agreed to have ds again this week and i'll get to go to the full thing. cant wait - the ten mins we saw was great fun.

uki - cant remember from before - have you sold your own house. good luck with this one.

so little movement on houses round here that we are resigned to the fact that we wont be moving this year - just hope it'll be next year though.

oh my god i'm soooo booorrrreeeddd.

I dont want to be made redundant, but i have very little to do. I need to get some motivation, cause there are silly wee things i could be getting on with, but instead i have spent most of the afternoon on mn - and i'm even getting bored with that.

on the plus side, i can feel little bubbly movements that i remember from last time round so thats pretty cool.

anyone else at work bored? please? anyone?

Awww Conker, the little bubbly fluttery movements!!! I loved feeling them but at first I was never sure if I was imagining it. Are you getting very excited?? I must admit I still get the odd broody feeling, especially when I read about your bubbly tummy!!! Have you had loads of people telling you what sex they think the baby is? I got loads of people saying I was going to have a girl it was such a shock when I found out he was a boy!

i am getting more excited this week than before - i think cause i'm nearly 14 weeks, and suddenly feel absolutely fine, and not tired any more - got loads of energy again which is nice, and the movements make it all real too.

havent told work yet cause dh wanted to wait to tell other people till after his parents came home from a round the world trip (this weekend) - but i've told my family and a lot of my friends. I was absolutely convinced it was a girl when i first found out, but now have less conviction about it - and dont mind either way.

glad i can tell work on monday though cause i'm starting to feel pretty fat in my normal suit.

Wow Conker, I cant believe you are 14weeks already

and i cant believe you are overdue already - how are you feeling? frustrated or not too bad?

good luck with the birth if you dont get back on before it happens - sure you will be great.

look forward to hearing how it all goes.

I'm a bit lonely. Everyone's asleep, including dh. The dcs fell asleep in the car and have stayed asleep and dh went to bed when he got in from work because he was feeling sick and very cold. I hope we don't all come down with what he's got.

I'm off work tomorrow because dd's got a sponsored nature trail at pre-school. I'm so glad as it's been a stressful week and I'm sure that's why my headaches have been so bad in the last few days.

uki - fingers crossed for the house sale. Hope it goes through this time. Tasha's at college now so probably doesn't have much time to come on mn anymore unfortunately.

conker - that's so exciting to feel the early movements It must be difficult not being able to talk about it at work. Glad you've got more energy now.

hi Gill - you should do something you dont get a chance to - like a bath or something.

do you have friday off too? hope you have a nice time tomorrow.

Good luck with everything Knickers, hope it goes well .

Hope your dh feels better soon gill and that your headaches are gone. Enjoy your days off!

Hi all,

how exciting on your bubbles Conker. You make me feel very broody, but DH has banned talk of a second so I'll have to bide my time.

Knickers, good luck in the next couple of weeks - was your DD late as well?

Wonder if i could ask for some advice as I'm really not sure what to do about DD as for the most part she's fine - not eating as much as usual (on about 2/3rds of her normal levels having only been eating between 25-50% a few days ago), but the problem is with no warning and for no aparant reason she keeps being sick. It started last Wednesday, then twice on Saturday, once on Sunday, then Tuesday and finally last night at 12.30am. When she has calmed down from being sick and is all cleaned up, she is back to her happy self and chirping away. Spoke to the health visitor yesterday who wasn't concerned and just recommended we give her vitamin drops. What would you do - trip to the drs?

Hersetta, I would take her to the doctors, it wont hurt and will put your mind at ease. Sorry, I have no advice.

Oh yes, dd was 11 days late.