Feb 08 - Never mind my wrinkly tum, look what's come out of my baby's bum!

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done it

Angry - I had suspected that she won't sleep through till I stop breastfeeding two of my sisters said as much with their little ones.

Gill - LOL at your small horizons! I totaly know what you mean. Does sound like Malc might be teething - I suspect that the worsened sleepless nights here are down to teething too! I managed a sneaky peek into Serens mouth today to see the top two front teeth through her gums! no wonder she's been wakefull and off her food!

Seren already has her bottom two front teeth - got them a couple of months ago. But she is still showing no signs of crawling! she wails whenever she is on her tummy for more than 1 minute! She does however LOVE to stand up. My byceps are sore from supporting her all the time! Got her weighed today and she is a mahoosive 24lb 12oz! (thats 11.2Kg to all you metric fans!) she's off the top of the graph for her age now (36 weeks). No idea where she is height wise tho' as she has never been measured. I asked the HV ages ago about her height and was informed that they don't bother measuring them anymore as it is too difficult to get an accurate measurement! However my mate who lives in the next county has her son measured every visit

Missnat - congrats on Henleys first steps!! you must be soooo proud!! I'm glad to hear he recovered from his virus so quickly! it's a real worry when they're poorly.

Egg - poor little DS1! I hope he's okay! and I hope the puke fest ends soon! must be a nightmare!

Leesmum - your boys are too cute! enough to make anyone broody! I am a bit broody by the way - but the prospect of having another LO so soon is terrifying!

Rozzy - 2 hours getting Andrew back to sleep! bloody hell you must be shattered! your comment re both legs in one leg of the sleepsuit had me checking my LO! she has already stirred twice tonight - and she has a new sleepsuit on (kind of thermal / fluffy thing instead of sleeping bag) It's a size 12 to 18 months, so a bit big for her - but her sleeping bag is on the airer drying after being washed today from a leaky nappy incident last night.

Right - gotta stop now - this post has taken me ages and is far too long!!

Hopefully speak again soon!

4th night of not feeding Andrew - he slept right through from 6.45pm to 6.30am! Hope it wasn't a one-off!!!

Bovril not sure how you cope with such frequent feeds in the night. I think the only way to stop it is just to stop feeding her. But I think thats not too bad when they're only waking once or twice - any more then I can't see you getting much sleep if you refuse to feed her - it's so difficult.

I did write a longer post earlier but stupid laptop shut down to do an update and have to go and get ds2 now.

Hi Everyone!!

Had a lovely bonfire party. Henley loved all the bright flashes in the sky but was terrified of the banging ones. I made burgers and hot dogs etc for everyone so i was less than impressed when DPs friends all turned up with Pizza Hut pizza . They did buy me the toffee apple crumble desert with ice cream so i wasnt mad for too long lol .

rozzyraspberry Hooty's it a bargin superstore in Willenhall / Wolverhampton. They sell loads of good stuff for the house, toys, make up etc at really cheap prices. They also sell alot of crap too.

Egg hows DS1 today, any better?

leesmum your pics are lovely. I must remember to put some new ones on mine too.

alker Henley had a viral infection last week and he too came out in a rash. It only lasted about 48hrs but that was ba enough. Hope your LO gets over it soon.

angrypixie im a little broody but definatly not planning anymore before this time next year.

sarahmikeharryand rosie i agree Hooty's is fab. Just as long as you go before 4pm during the week and not at all at weekends. When i went yesterday it was mad!! So many people pushing and shoving. I was sick of saying "excuse me can i pass you". Everyone ignored me so i ended up raming the pram into them. They soom moved then .

Thanks everyone for the congrats on Henley's 1st steps. He hasnt done is since though. He going through a phase of constantly having his tongue poking out of his mouth. He fell yesterday and his top teeth cut into his tongue. He was really upset but soon stopped crying when he heared the new boots xmas advert on the tele. He loves music. When im watching the soaps and the break comes on, he stands up and bounces to the theme tunes. Its really cute. Looks like ive got a musical baby on my hands .

Very quite on here today / tonight. Where is everyone

hi all- i have been hit with the tummy bug!!!!! i weent to bed when dh got in from work at about 6-45 woke this morning, but g#feel like i hve been hit by a bus!!!!!!!!! lol

hope u guys r all ok

Hi all, will try to read all the posts i've missed over the weekend.

Ds has been in hosptial since sunday (home today) with bronchialitis. It's been very stressful and am shattered will fill you in later when i feel up to it. he's ok-ish now, very tired and grizzly though.

Hope all ok

Ginger - must have been awful. Glad Toby is on the mend now and you have a restful weekend. xx

God ginger my old boss's DS had that when he was a similar age and he was very seriously ill. So sorry you had to go through it but glad he is on the mend now.

Will post more tomorrow but love to everyone!

Hello all - strawb - sounds like real stress with work at the mo - it is hard to balance all the balls isn't it? I either feel like I am winning at home or at work - never both! Leila sleeps through mostly but as she is around a partition we can hear her if she peeps so we usually have a broken night even if she doesn't wake up! - eventually we will get doors between he room and ours! When she has a bad night I find it very hard to function properly at work - though I did have some lovely feed back from my students this week so I must be doing something right!

Bovril - I had to stop bf with my first 2 in order to get a night's sleep but I have been tougher from the start with this one - i only bf at night if she is ill - then we have to 'break' her again when she gets better - ie my husband goes in if she cries a lot and offers water! cruel hey! (to both husband and baby!)

Yay Rozzy on a good night's sleep! Bet you woke though when you expected him to wake!

Naatalie - how nice to have a bonfire party - i thought of it too late to organise but I love standing around a warm fire in the cold. You don't even need your own fireworks there are so many around here to watch for free!

Guess what! I got pulled over by the cops today - I was gosmacked - duh 'what did I do officer..' apparently I went through a red light! sheeet - totally oblivious. I was let off with a caution - in fact one of the officers was trying not to laugh! My friend who was in the car told me the light was amber - so maybe I am not going mad after all - you'd think the cops had better things to do!

Ginger - poor Toby! You must have been so worried. xx

Yep omy - he slept through again last night and I lay for around 2 hours wide awake - think I need to sleep through as well!

hiya all. ginger so sorry to hear about toby poor little thing. and poor you. hope you are drinking wine and being brought nice stuff to eat. let us know how he is when you get a moment.

omy - i remember your dh building that partition when you were preg... back in the days when you diudnt have a telly ... .

wd on second night in a row rozzy. can i suggest medised as a sleeping solution ?? after three awful tossy and turny nights i started rummaging around dd's medicines in an attempt to drug myself ... and it worked! still feel really tired today.

RIGHT - just a quickie, i'm sick of y'all claiming that x factor rules your weekend and then not engaging in my predicitions. when i check in tomo i want at least a little bit of speculation please

and angry pixie, no hating a hormonal woman please! i couldnt take it. currently reduced to a crying heap if someone so much as looks at me the wrong way

SwottyBetty - promise not to hate you and your scrummy bump in psycho broody moments as long as you remind me from time to time that being pregnant can be hellish

hello all!

at Henley walking. DS is nowhere near. He is just about thinking about cruising, but is a bit nervous of it yet. Long may this last.

strawb - so sorry that work is so stressful. feel free to moan about it on here as much as you want - it's important to vent your frustrations anonymously! I find myself venting to co-workers which is MOST unprofessional but I can't help it. I just miss my LO so much... mind you as I am the main breadwinner I do not really have a choice in going back to work and I can always console myself that going out to work will keep LO in short trousers and hot dinners etc!

and hi to angry - I did not think I was broody until I went all gooey over my co-worker's 2mo LO. I read something somewhere about prolactin (the breastfeeding hormone) messing with one's brain and making mothers all calm and chilled out. Whaaaaaaat? It seems to have the opposite effect on me, for sure.

sympathy to all those with night waking LOs. DS goes to sleep at 7-8pm (not bad going as he only gets back from nursery at 6pm!) and then tends to wake for a BF at 10.30pm, 1.30am, 2.30am, 3.30am, 4.10am and then would sleep forever, except we have to wake him at 6.30-7am ish because it takes ages to get everyone breakfasted and changed and out of the house in the morning

don't want to cut down night time BF because I think he is reverse cycling due to my only pumping 8oz milk for him to last a whole 8am-6pm day at nursery.

the night thing is not too bad actually because I have my coping strategies: (1) go to bed at 9pm, or 10pm latest (2) have LO in bed with me.

for both these reasons contraception is not really an issue

Ginger, So sorry Toby has been in hospital, glad he is home now and on the mend, hope you and the rest of the family are ok too,

Get some rest xxx

Swotty- what are ur xfactor preditcions then? i rekon Danjel wil be heading home today, the sypathy vote cannot go on forever,

dont know who i want to win, tbh i dont think its as good as previous series.

hi to everyone else,

Thanks for the medised recommendation swotty - I went for the wine option last night - seemed to do the trick! I agree with Sarah - Daniel might be out soon. Have to say that I find Rachel a bit full of herself so wouldn't be sorry to see her go.

Sally - my lo only feeds first thing, around 2pm then 6.30pm so 8oz for during the day would be plenty for him - how much does everyone elses lo's drink? He's probably missing you more than the milk so stocking up on cuddles during the night.

Have a nice weekend everyone.

Betty - your memory astounds me - certainly no pregga-brain there! I wish we still had no telly - it sucks the life out of me - when I watch it i can't stop! so last night i sat down to watch x factor and didn;t move until after married to the mob at midnight - so VERY tired this morning and can't even blame the baby! Rachel will go out next - can't understand why Ricky Gervais is still there tho....?!

HI all. Toby much better today. was awful, he'd been ill for a few days, took him to see the nurse at the surgery who said basically he's ok (Thurs before last, was far worse by last sarurday so we took him to walk in clinic at hospital who sent him to paediatric dept who basically said, yes, he's ill but we've seen worse and sent him home after about 5 hours, about midnight how stupids that?). Next day he had a temp of 38 degrees, phoned ward he was on and they said bring him in. He ended up on oxygen and intravenous antibiotics, an inhaler and a nebuliser. They couldn't work out why he wasn't improving so did loads of test (thats when it got a bit scarey). they came to the conclusion that he has RSV (a respiritory virus) and a bacterial infection. There were loads of babies with it - they had a whole ward just for them!

anyway he's much much better, just a bit wheezey and out of breath and gets tired quite easily. Phew, i feel like i've lost a week of my life!

ginger - gosh that sounds awful! so sad when little babies are poorly and need scary things like drips and masks and stuff. so glad he is better now

my RL friend's baby had that same virus and also had to go to hosp - but did not have the bacterial infection on top of it so they were able to go home after just one day.

Poor toby. Its awful when they are in hospital, hope he gets better quickly.

oh Ginger, you must have been so worried and also annoyed that you were sent home twice and then he ended us very poorly, get well wishes comeing toby's way xxxx

i am SSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOO disapoined with the x factor, no way laura should have gone home imho- i think achel should have gone as she was terrible,. ho hom!!!!!! anyway i think its a fix.

We took ds (dd satyed home with my mom and dad)to a firework display last night, it started raining at about 7pm, the fireworks were at 7-45 but sadly due to terrential rain fall they had to cancel as they could not get them to work, we were soaked through tot he skin, DS was sad he didn't see them but was happy with his noisy light saber, we did get a full refund though which bought pizza on the way home !!!!!lol

have a good sunday everyone

Poor Toby - glad he's home now Ginger.

Sarah - sorry the fireworks were a wash out. I agree with you about the x-factor - Daniel and Rachel still being in and Laura out makes a complete mockery of the whole thing. Can't really complain I suppose since I never vote but couldn't believe that she went out last night!

Tried to give Andrew a bottle yesterday and it didn't go well. He had a bit of a chew on the teet and spat out the formula that did come out - any advice/tips? Never had any problems like this with my other 2.

My ds wont take a bottle rozzy, have you tried a cup?

Glad you enjoyed the pizza sarah. Agree with you both re the x factor feel a bit guilty for not voting, Laura only lives down the road but I never vote on these things!

DS woke up at 6 for a feed and had a dirty nappy so he woke up when I changed him. He's now on his swing in front of cbeebies which he loves, I've only recently discovered it! He'll be asleep again in an hour and I might go back to bed

ginger the idea of a baby with IV sends shivers down my spine. you sounds remarkably together about it all - did you have any scares with your girls that have toughened you up?

lol at rozzy and alkar feeling "guilty" about not voting for x factor contestants. i think daniel should do the decent trhing and quit next week. those poor kids getting sent home devastated. my money is on eeeoughhhhhhggghh to win, which i guess is great news for egg as her ds can keep her in luxury with income earned as a lookalike. my fave are def JLS. i have a crush on green.

sally i am with you on the early nights. only if dh is working til 11 do we stay up any later than 9pm. and x factor saturdays of course... tho this week we did contemplate watching the results show on sunday as 10.20pm finish seemed like insanity to us.

quiet on here again today where is everyone????