August 2007- Happy Birthday babies!

[JamesAndTheGiantBanana]

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

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aww knickers, hope you're tucked up fast asleep in bed by now. urrrrgh i do sympathise, must be bloody knackering. get dp to do all baby related things tonight, shut yourself away and rest!!!

had a lovely day with joseph today. took him swimming which he adores, dh took him in the showers afterwards and i could here him through the walls in the ladies showers laughing so hard. think the warm water must tickle him or something, he sounded like he was going to burst. i love it when he laughs like that, it's so loud and completely infectious, his little face goes bright red and he gets tears in his eyes and his nose all wrinkles up. (i just want to eat him!).

he was even very good whilst getting dried and dressed, which normally utterly cheeses him off. he's eaten well and even slept in til 7am this morning, normally up at 6, sometimes before.

i know tomorrow will be a hard day for me . i am thinking that keeping busy is best thing to do so will probably do food shopping in the morning and take ds swimming again in the afternoon. anything just to get out and about really. hope everyone is having a good start to the new year and everyone is well.

p.s knickers you'd better be asleep girl!

Lizzie - really sorry to hear about your dad. Must be hard to have such a mixture of emotions, takes the shine off the new baby which must be all you want to be thinking about. How is your mum? Hopefully the new baby will help everyone start healing.

Knickers - No sleep stinks! Just keep positive and think that in the great scheme of things it lasts such a short time. In other few years we won't be able to get the dc out of their pits!

Talking of sleep - yet again I'm up giving dc their breakfast while dh wins the lie in. grrrr!

Thanks Loler.

Mum and dad have been deviorced for the last 17yrs, but she is still upset because she has known my dad since she was 14. So she has known him for 44yrs.

It also hasn't helped that we don't know when we can hold the funeral as we need to have an autopsy done and an inquest opened and adjurned before they will release his body . Also it's dd1 5th birthday on the 27th so i'm trying to get myself organised to do her a teaparty and hoping the funeral won't be that day.

lizzie - hope they can get everything done asap. You must feel like you're in limbo. How's Lizzie? Is she old enough to understand what's happened to grandad?

Dh surprised me on Saturday. He told me that we need to start thinking about ttc number 3. We'd previously talked about having a similar age gap so that would mean that I'd need to conceive in June. But I said that it would be better if number 3's birthday wasn't in the same month as dd's and he agreed to try earlier. So we agreed to start ttc in April

I've applied for an appointment at the Migraine Clinic in London. My sister had the same problem as me with daily headaches. Hers were much worse and she almost lost her job for having too much time off sick. They put her on a medication just before Christmas to enable her body to deal with pain again and she has hardly any headaches now. So fingers crossed they can do the same for me.

Thanks Gill

We heard today that his body been released and the 'humanist' funeral will be on the 29th jan. Lizzie seems to be ok anf left it that i answer any questions she has although she seems to more concerned about who will look after his cats.

Her school also has a bereavement (sp) Counselling service who will help her if needed.

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morning all, knickers hope you are having better nights. how's everything going?

lizzie, how are you doing? stupid question i suppose. thinking of you and hoping everything goes ok on 29th. hope dd is coping alright, it's such a lot for a little one to deal with.

gill, good luck with the ttc!! all very exciting for you! i'll soon be the only one on here who's not pg (and has no intention of becomming pg may i add!!!)

anyway, joe fusing better go. x

lol fussing, not fusing, that ewould be strange!

Hello all......belated birth announcement !!!!!

Imogen Margaret Anais arrived VERY unexpectedly on Monday 5th January at 7.19am weighing 6lb 9oz !!!

Have had a quick skim and thanks to you all for thinking of me, and Hersetta - that was a really, really sweet idea about the card xxxxx

Basically, the little madam decided she couldn't wait until Wednesday for a nice (??), calm, planned birth and decided to start spontaneous labour in the middle of Sunday night. I was too shocked to believe it was really happening at first as I went straight from zero to strong contractions every 5 mins, but realised I needed to act and woke DH to mention that I didn't think he'd be going to work that day...

Looked out the window and saw it was snowing which was also pretty typical. Managed to stop for a photo of me in the hospital car park in the snow on the way in which I was pleased with {wink}. Ended up that as I was definitely dilating (which is what didn't happen with Patrick) they couldn't give me anything for the pain until they'd sorted out when I was going for the caesarean which was a nightmare as I got to incredibly painful contractions every two minutes. Still, ended up getting whisked in as it became obviously a problem and hey presto, my lovely little girl arrived.

All's brilliant and we were home Wednesday afternoon. DH has been typically amazing and done EVERYTHING. Washing, cooking, cleaning, you name it. That and getting up with BOTH of the children in the night (Paddy's been croupy) so am extremely, extremely blessed and completely dreading his return to work.

Must dash now but will be back on here Friday I should think so big fingers crossed I'll bump into some of you then xxx

(oh, will try and download some pics for then too xx)

What's a humanist funeral like lizzie? Glad Lizzie is taking it in her stride. It must be difficult to comprehend at such a young age.

Thanks Joe. We're lucky that we've never had any problems and conceived the same month we started trying with both dcs.

Congratulations TT. Glad everything went well. Was it good not to have too much time to worry about the cs? Your dh sounds great. You're a lucky lady

I got a call from the Migraine Clinic yesterday and they had a cancellation for today (the wait is normally 2 months for an appointment). The doctor has suggested I take some medication for 6 weeks which will help me stop taking so much paracetamol. He said that I get 'medication overuse' headaches. I'll have to stop taking pain killers completely and my headaches are likely to get much worse for a while but once my body has stopped craving the paracetamol I should be much better. I really hope it works. He's got to write to my doctor to ask him to prescribe the medication for me.

Gill

I glad you got a very quick appointment and you get some solution for your headaches soon.

As for what a 'humanist' funeral i have no idea, dad was just so anti religen that there is to be no mention of god. I let you know after his funeral on the 29th. Or perhaps i should ask the question.

TT - Congratulations. Glad to hear you're being pampered. Take full advantage!

Gill - glad the headaches sound like they are on their way out!

Joe - you won't be the only non-pg one. I have absolutely no intention of ever ever ever having anymore DC. Much as I love being pg and newborns I just could not have another toddler/preschooler/schoolchild in my life (would guess I will feel the same about teenagers!).

My friend's dad had a humanist funeral. She said it was lovely (well as lovely as a funeral can be) - his was a celebration of his life rather than talking about god.

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congratulations tt! pleased you are getting looked after by dh, he sounds amazing . can't wait to see the pics of dd.

gill hope the headaches get sorted out soon. at least you know they are looking for a solution now which is a small comfort hopefully.

anyway lizzie, still thinking of you all and really hoping all goes well on 29th xxx

Huge congratulations on your early arrival TT, glad everything went Ok in the end.

Love the name by the way - goes beautifully with Patrick.

Please let me know if you ever pop in to I* with Imogen - would love to have a peek and a cuddle.

congratulations tt - very exciting, and i love the name - very pretty.

echo the others that its good to hear things might get sorted gill and hope things go ok on 29th lizzie.

not got much to say today so i wont waffle on about nothing. am bored as usual at work but only another 6 weeks to go after tomorrow and then i can concentrate on kilts for a few weeks before the next lo comes along.

hope you're all doing fine.

damn it, i really shouted at joseph earlier. he was just doing ridicullous things and then screeching/ crying for no reason and i really snapped at him which made him cry, then i cried which made him cry even more so i feel like the worst mummy in the world now . i have given him big cuddles but i can't believe i was such a nasty bitch to him. i feel so sad now cos i normally just leave him to it or distract him, he hates people shouting too so it really upset him

Have you got PMT? I turn into hell mummy then. Everyone does it sometimes - I tend to mutter under my breathe completely inappriate language - they don't hear and makes me feel better.

However have shouted often - ds1 told me off for shouting at ds2. He said "don't shout at ds2, he's only a baby" - made me feel really realy bad!

Don't know if that will make you feel better or just make me sound like a cow!

lol, thank you. bless your ds1 for saying that! i just feel terrible that i am capable of doing that to him. i feel like he feels i don't love him now and he can't trust me, maybe i'm overreacting but i do feel sad. he's in bed now and i just want to go cuddle him but he'd get mad at me if i woke him up then!

sure he will have totally forgotten by the morning meandmyjoe - he will wake up happy and ready to play with his mummy.

you cant possibly spend all day every day with a toddler and never get to the point where they frustate the hell out of you.

you are right conker, thank you. he woke up this morning and is full of smiles and cuddles for his mummy. hopefully he has forgotten all about it. bless him. we are not really shouty people so it's rare he ever hears us raise our voice, normally i just mutter 'ffs' under my breath and leave him to it so it must have been a real shock to him .

Don't worry, we've all done it. I shouted at Caitlin a couple of week ago when she went and tipped over a basket of toys I'd just spent 10 mins tidying up before bed. Felt bad but she didn't bat an eyelid.

She seems to be learning new words all the time now. On Wednesday she was cuddling one of her teddies and I said to her say hello to teddy and was just expecting her to say hello but she chirped 'hello teddy' and yesterday she said hello girafe to her toy girafe. She now also loves to sing and spends all day walking around la la la'ing. DH was really pleased on Wednesday that as he left to go to football she waveed at him said bye bye daddad.

Conker can't beleive you only got 6 more weeks at work. The time seems to have flown by.

I seem to have picked up a cold and cough. I don't know how I managed to escape it this long. It's typical because we've got friends coming round tomorrow night so just my luck that I'm going to feel like crap.

meandjoe - agree with the others. I do it, especially when I'm tired or stressed. Mine tend to forgive me and be smiling within 5 minutes.

conker - how are you feeling now? Looking forward to maternity leave? I have a friend who is due at the end of Feb and she was at the 'get it out of me' stage before xmas.

Hersetta - Caitlin is so clever! Ds is copying more sounds now and tries to say his sister's name which comes out as daydin (Katelyn). I think he said moo this morning.