August 2007- Happy Birthday babies!

[JamesAndTheGiantBanana]

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

gill-i feel for you with the teething-i have 2 wisdom teeth coming through too

ds sounds so so cute about going to bed

Hi All

Helibee- LL still has 3 bottles a day, I'm probably a bit unlike others not too fussed, about him moving on to a cup> I think they find bottles quite soothing.
Hope the PCOS is better too, you never know sometimes things can improve after babies.

Gill -that is a bit sad that pre-school made her feel bad, about an accident. i think accidents still happen very easily when they are distracted and out of their own environment.

Tothrottleabird- can i have a hint, i've forgotten who you are?

Monkey_ your job does sound intresting, although I'm not sure who you are either. i feel lost in more ways than one today.

Conker- that flat thing sounds complicted, i can't even work it out right now as I'm feeling ultra tired, but good luck.

Mytwo -very cute pics, and so much hair, my goodness

Thanks everyone re: finger crossing for me, I feel really daft though, probably shouldn't of said i was trying. not sure i have any symptoms now and feel very deflated about the whole thing, just felt like i might be lucky for a change. need to focus on other things i guess... I'll have to log on more

hi uki - to throttleablackbird is Knickers, and monkey is leifmum - (hope thats right now)

the house buying has fallen through - our neighbours have decided to buy a piece of land off her parents and build their own house in the long term so since things were taking so long to sell - they decided not to buy ours anymore incase they cant sell it again.

Was very disappointed, but the more we thought about it, the more it makes financial sense not to increase our mortgage at the moment - might do up the bathroom or something since we will be there for a while.

Gill - that is really horrible of the teacher to make your dd feel bad - its the sort of thing that can knock a child's confidence for ages - poor thing. Hope the head can apologise properly.

Read everyone elses last night but didnt have a chance to reply - but hope everyone is fine, and I'll chat more later.

Conker about your house. I think you have the right idea about thinking positively and doing up your own house instead. It's frustrating when you find a house you love though.

Gill, that's terrible that the school made your dd feel bad. Poor little girl, I can't believe they said she was naughty ! Hope she's OK.

So glad that Joseph isn't the only one who loves running around naked. I do think he's turning into a bit of a deviant though! He strips at the drop of a hat and ALWAYS resists getting dressed! He hasn't got any more teeth yet and his gums have settled, he seems to take ages to get a tooth through.

Uki ds used to have 3 bottles a day til about 6 weeks ago when he just wasn't interested in the afternoon feed at all. He seems to guzzle both his morning and his bedtime bottle though so I don't want to cut him down and he sleeps so well that I don't want to rock the boat too much. I tried again to swap the morning bottle to a cup this morning but the boy was having none of it! I think you are right, he loves his cup for water but not milk. He obviously gets comfort from it and I won't force the issue.

Anyway, dh is off work today so he's upstairs finishing off the decorating, horray!!!

hey all! sorry about the house conker. you may be right about not increasing yoour mortgage though. we're really ushed with ours but luckily we're on a tracker so hopefully we'll see our repayments falling slightly!

good news about your nephew gill - fingers crossed all gos well from now. another of my friends at work has announced she's pregnant and due end of april so that's three babes within 3 weeks i'll be waiting for!!

i am very lucky to have the job i do. sadly i couldn't do my old job part tim because i was deputy head keeper so no longer working with my beloved gorillas. the only animal contact i have now is when i host keeper for a day. that's kind of cool because i meet new people and we get to play with the friendly animals etc. and i don't have any stress. if i'm not doing that i am working in the office so it's nice to have bit of both.

have just been swimming with dd, sis and her little one who's nearly 2. had a lovely time. dd went mental splashing and kept making herself laugh by dunking her face in the water! really pleased she's not fazed by water at all, must be the daily bath i had when pregnant! now waiting for a friend of our to visit.

hope all is well with the babes and mums!

Mum spoke to the head at dd's pre-school yesterday and apparently she was horrified when she found out what had happened. She said she is going to talk to all of the teachers to make sure it doesn't happen again.

We took dd off bottles when she was 2.5 yrs. She was only using them for comfort. She would quite happily drink 6 bottles a day and eat nothing. That's why we eventually took them away. I can't see any problem with a 15 month old still having bottles. I was glad ds gave up his bottles because I hated washing them up but I wouldn't have made him give them up at this age. I want to keep him a baby for a while longer

conker - sorry to hear about the house falling through. I think you're right to be cautious at the moment though, especially as you don't know what's happening with your job. Have you had any updates yet?

meandmyjoe - Which room are you doing? How do you get your dh to finish the decorating? We've done up 4 of our rooms so far and there are bits that have just been left like a missing tile or unpainted doors.

monkeys - glad you enjoyed your swim. I haven't taken ds yet. I was going to take him on my week off in May but it didn't work out because dh hurt his back. I'm hoping to take him just before Christmas. I think he's going to love it!

glad to hear she will do something about it Gill.

one person got made redundant last week, and they said probably no more till January but they cant guarantee that. They are talking about my mat leave though so I dont think that I'm high up the list (fingers crossed).

havent felt the baby move much in the last few days though - I'm 17 weeks so not quite at the feel it all the time stage, but I had had quite a few kicks and now its gone quiet. will lie on the sofa tonight and try and encourage it to have a jump around.

my dh is exactly the same with decorating - starts out all enthusiastic, but there is always something left to do.

Gill, we are doing up our bedroom at the minute. We bought this house last September under the illusion that it was 'perfect' but since then we've done nothing but alter it and redecorate which has been a little tricky since Joe got mobile!

My dh is pretty good at finishing jobs once he's started them actually, things never get left undone as he is a perfectionist but he does take his time actually GETTING started! I have to just go and pick the wallpapers/ paints, buy it all, bring it home and just dump it in the hallway until he finally gets fed up of tripping over it all and gets on with it!

meandmyjoe-our house is the same, we thought it was perfect but now i have a list as long as my arm of things i want done and we're hoping to extend. Our fixed rate is up now so hopefuuly we'll be able to find something.

C slept for 4 hours last night and i'm a zombie-these premolars better come through soon!!!

Yes i agree about the bottles and Gill ds is like your dd and if we let him he'd happily just have milk (he's a milk addict like his daddy) It's just frustrating cos C can't have cows milk he is on a semi formula and he needs that from a bottle but the ready made stuff he'll happily take from a cup unless he's very tired-I'm just fed up of washing 3-4 bottles a day sometimes.

Gill-hope all the teachers listen to the head and hope dd is ok now

I'm so excited we're of to Aviemore on sun and it's going to be heavy snow

Hope you have a lovely time in Aviemore helibee. of the snow. Did C sleep better last night?

conker - glad to hear you're ok work-wise at the moment. We're still in limbo waiting to find out what's happening with our jobs (did I mention we're at risk). They told us that the work we were going to get is going overseas and they can't confirm what, if anything, we will be doing. Everyone is very demoralised and quite angry at the lack of information. Our office used to be buzzing but now you could hear a pin drop. One good thing is that our company doesn't like redundancies. They will do everything to find you an equivalent job somewhere else. Might mean I have to travel a lot further though. If I leave the company before April then I'll have to pay back some of my 'return to work incentive' allowance that I've been getting for the last year. I have it saved but I want to keep it.

I had a really bad headache last night. I was going to go to bed before 9 but then dd woke up when I tried to put a nappy on her (she fell asleep in the car) and she only wants mummy. I also had some washing to sort out. Lord knows what would happen if I left it to dh to do. It's the one job I like to do all myself.

Gill, hope everything goes OK with your job. It must be a worry. DH works as a shift manager for a steel company and the future of the steel works in our town looks a little rocky. Thankfully he is a special constable with the police too (the crazy ones that have done all the months of training and exams but don't even get paid for it!) so hopefully if things go tits up then he should get accepted as a full time police officer but it's not definite. Scary times. Hope your headache's better too.

Joe has a really chesty sounding cough at the moment. He keeps coughing and getting out of breath but it scares him so he sometimes cries and gets even more out of breath . I phoned my dad the day before yesterday and he has it too, so does my sister so he must have got it from there at the weekend, poor baby. He's all wrapped up in his dressing gown asleep on my lap at the minute. I posted on the general health section about it as I was unsure what to do.

Anyway, hope everyone is OK.

Hi Ladies

WELL all your good vibes and finger crossing worked..........

because i am pregnant I'm in total shock in a good way, as i had worked myself up into a tizzy about it, the extra stress came from seing miscarriage management specialist and spending alot of money anyway, my rather large risk is now a lot lot lower....but it will all still feel much better at 12 weeks. another little august baby is cooking.

meandmyjoe- we have a cough here too, no other symptoms, but doesn't quite sound as bad a little joes, poor thing. if it's drt cough, a steamy bathroom can work wonders. also soa warm honey drink sometimes good

conker -your house thing sounds like mine yes, no, then back to where you began....arrrg, but sounds like it all worked out ok, feel free to ask me any bathroom reno questions, we are just about to do 4th bathroom renovation. (different houses)

right i'm off to bed this tiredness starts early although 10pm here.

Uki - congratulations!! That is fab news - another August baby. I am so happy (and slightly jealous) for you.

Sorry to hear of all the coughs around - I have one too and have been banished to the spare room at night as my coughing has been keeping my DH awake. I'm crossing all my fingers that Caitlin doesn't get it as well.

Have a good weekend all.

CONGRATULATIONS UKI!!!! Great news!!! Wahoo!!! I am happy for you. Am I the only one who is so not ready for another baby???!!! I mean I get broody thinking about it and looking at little babies but certainly haven't felt the overwhelming NEED to have another and practically and rationally I know it would be totally wrong timing for us. Although dh is still rather keen.

Fingers crossed that Caitlin stays cough free hersetta!

Just want to post and check to see if my old profile has attached to my shortened name, ignore this! lol

CONGRATULATIONS UKI - hope your no.3 is as much of a pleasure as mine has been right from the start (that includes a completely trouble free pg!)

I'm feeling very sorry for myself - completely hormonal, dh away this week back tonight and then away again tomorrow lunchtime. Just feel like I need to have a break from the kids. As much as I love them I can't face another tea-bath-bed! Has been nearly 2 years since had a childfree day and night and am feeling very of those people with close family!

Right enough of my whining - will be better tomorrow - kids are killing each other so better get off here!.......

Hi all. I'm supposed to be having a lay in this morning but my body clock has other ideas. It's annoying because ds is still asleep. I'm never able to take advantage of when he sleeps later than usual.

It's been a busy weekend. It was my niece's 4th birthday party yesterday and then I had to go into town. I was supposed to be picking up my new glasses but I didn't know that the opticians closes early on a Saturday. This afternoon I'm taking dd and her cousin to one of their pre-school friend's birthday party. They've forecast rain, sleet and snow. I'm hoping they're wrong.

meandjoe - thanks. It's affecting so many people with all these businesses closing. My dad works for Glaxo Smithkline in Dartford which you may have heard is closing. It's been there since 1889. He's nearing retirement age so is hoping they'll keep him on til the end. We're supposed to be hearing some news about our work very soon. The project team really need to get themselves into gear because everyone is getting jobs elsewhere and they'll end up losing all the good people that they were counting on to do the new work (whatever that may be).

Uki - congratulations!! I'm so pleased for you. Sounds like you had a tough time ttc. Everyone (esp my sister) tells me I'm mad for wanting 3 dcs but I think it will be great.

Hope the coughs get better soon Hersetta a joe. It's worrying when it's the little ones. Hope joe is still sleeping well.

meandjoe - you're not the only one who's not ready for another baby. I went through a really broody period when all my friends and family were announcing pgs. That was around the time that I had my pg scare. It made me realise that now is not the right time. I don't get 5 minutes to myself anyway so having a newborn would be really difficult when my 2 are still so dependent on me. Plus another set of maternity leave would probably bankrupt us.

loler - sorry to hear you're feeling down. I find it hard when dh is away and he never goes away for more than 2 nights so hats off to you for coping so well. Definitely try and arrange at least an evening out with your friends when dh is back at home. It can do wonders. I'm never away from my dcs and dh always makes me feel bad for leaving them with him on the odd occasions when I do go out

I was supposed to be having a lay in but my dh had other ideas (like rolling over ignoring a stinking nappy and dc moaning for breakfast!).

Blimey re-read yesterdays moan - I really was feeling sorry for myself! Feeling better this morning but have openned the curtains seen the weather and can't think what to do today - just can't have another day at home! I hate winter!!!!!

Having read banana/joe's other thread will do my best to dig out some books (those with other dc please tell me you don't read to your aug baby please!!!).

well better go and do breakfast....

Lol loler, I'm not sure I'd be able to read if I had 3 children either, don't forget me and James only have the one baby which makes a HUGE difference!!! Feel free to moan too, I sometimes long for a day off and wish I had family members that would just take Joe for an hour or 2 but it's not going to happen. I have huge respect for anyone who has more than one child cos I find it difficult enough as it is sometimes.

Gill, shame about the lay in. I always wake at 5am even though ds doesn't wake til 6 now, I just got so used to beoing up at 5am with him!!! Sorry about your dad's job, everything seems to be closing round here too but it looks like dh's job is safe for now. Hope you get good news about your job, it's such a scary time at the moment.

Got a very boring weekend here. DH works 4 days on/ 4 days off so is at work all weekend and it's snowing here so can't really go anywhere especially as ds has such a bad cold. He slept well last night but has done nothing but cough and moan/ cry since he woke up .

Sorry Loler, but yes i read to dd's everyday it just part of our bedtime routine. But i also have lots of picture books that they like looking at.

I also have books which Lizzie can make up her own stories to.

I did it! Spent 1/2 hour reading to ds2 - he did like it but particularly enjoyed rolling his car up and down the pages shouting brum brum!

LM - I do read to the other 2 every night so not too an awful mother! Seems to be taking longer and longer as have dds school reading book (which are taking about 1/2 now) and then a bedtime story. I tend to put ds2 to bed while doing that as he just trys to dive in constantly! It's quite nice having a limited amount of time with my big ones. Will make an early new years resolution to read to ds2 on his own before bed (just need to work out how to make him sit still now!)

congratulations uki- thats great news.

ds and I have spent the weekend vomitting (including me on the train on the way up to my parents which was unexpected and embarrassing) - have taken today off work which i feel guilty about but still dont feel great, and ds just wants to cuddle on the sofa so i think its reasonably justified.

poor dh has had to do everything this weekend and had been great - just waiting for him to get it now.

and loler - agree with the others - reading to one lo is much easier than when you have 3.

Morning. I'm feeling really sorry for myself today. I woke up at 4am in a lot of pain with my emerging wisdom tooth. It even hurts when I swallow. I took some ibuprofen and put some of ds' teething gel on but it took me ages to get back to sleep. I really understand now how these babies feel.

Yesterday, when I realised it was snowing I got us all dressed really quickly and went out into the garden. Ds absolutely loved it. He kept slipping on his bum but I'd put a pair of jeans over his jogging bottoms so he didn't get too cold. When his hands were freezing cold I took him back indoors but he screamed and screamed so I took him back out for a bit longer. Fortunately, we managed to escape the rain when I took dd and her cousin to their friend's party.

loler - I don't read to ds at bed time yet. If I try to put him on my lap he wants to get down and explore my bedroom. When I'm able to keep him still and he seems more interested then I'll start the bed time stories. I do read him stories at other times though, when I can get him to sit still for more than 5 seconds.

meandjoe - My dh used to work shifts too. There was one part of his shift pattern which was 3 12 hour days followed by 3 12 hour nights. After his day shifts he would go to bed straight after dinner. I got very lonely on maternity leave with dd.

conker - sorry to hear you've been unwell. Hope you're feeling better soon and that your dh doesn't get it.

Yay, congratulations Uki!!!!!!!

Hope all poorly people/babies are feeling better. DD has hf&m, is overed in spots and a rash