March 2008:A new thread before they start crawling!

[turtle23]

Thought it was about time....

very grrr....

have just posted new pics taken last week in the park...would love to see updated pics of our gang!

beautiful pic in regents park!

MNFM I am so of your cheekbones and your highlights. I have chubster cheeks and 3-month grow out. I am going to have to start wearing hats. But will post a fairly recent pic of us on MN. Loads on Facebook.

littleducks the Sanctuary was nice, but very expensive. I think if you go for the whole day (as that's the idea) then it's better value, but I found myself rushing to treatments and then having a quick sit down for lunch and that's about it. Great if you have the time and treatments were pretty good. Probably more than I'd pay for same treatments elsewhere, but then again it's an "experience", dah-ling.

clock change was not good
Woken up at 4.30 in new money, back to sleep for 2 hrs then up again before 7. DH out at NFL game in Wembley didn't get home until just before midnight so had late night waiting up for him, v. difficult to stay awake in work today!

Time to go sort out the central heating timer now, think we'll be needing it lots for the next few months. LO's room is still warm even with heating turned off in there completely. It's never gone below 19c according to his grobag egg thingy. Tonight it was 20.7 without the heating on anywhere in the house . He's quite a hot-bod baby anyway though, so I'm more concerned with him overheating than getting too cold. Must be all the exercise!

Still loving being called mama. And baba. He has a husky voice now with his latest snuffles

Lovely pics MNFM, I uploaded some on my MN profile recently and also have thousands on Facebook. Are you on our facebook group MNFM?

Did anyone sort out a London meet up?

I got promoted at work this week so thrilled as I didn't think it was going to happen for ages due to me taking mat leave but I am now an executive consultant It's only two grades until Account Director now!

I love Mama but DD prefers Dada and Baba

My house is freezing and damp and I hate it and want to move out, see my thread in chat for the full moan!! It's miserable.

Ewe- Congratulations!!! Yur dd looks cute, and i just remembered the cakes you ordered from cov were on her profile a little while ago and i was very of those!

fnf1-whatever you do dont put the time backwards, i did in a rush once and busted the timer, it has to go 25 hours forwards instead

I did chase a bit on the London meet up but nobody seems to be able to commit with dates

Just posted on meet up thread suggesting 5th or 8th Nov. Let's do it!

I am in for the 8th!

Cheekbones have nothing to do with anything I've done, can thank German ancestors I think. The hair requires an afternoon which I stole when my dh was on gardening leave but before that my hair was a fright and we deleted all pics of me! Poor dd she'll have no pics with me until 8 month mark.

ps I am on facebook but find if I have a few extra moments, my loyalties lie with mnet!

Congrats Ewe!
Am feeling very foolish this evening. DH, as some of you may remember, is not the most..."hands-on" Dad ever. For the next three days he has P from 830-530 and I am sh*tting myself. He has never had him for more than an hour or two and thanks to teething P isn't taking bottles. He has never fed him his food or even put the pushchair up by himself and has only changed about five nappies. Am resisting the urge to make extensive lists and I know I will worry all day. Am really hoping that he will cope ok and that I wont feel bad for NOT suggesting that DS goes elsewhere for the days... gawd I'm a terrible wife....
(please note, I have tried to make him do these things in the past!)

hi girls,

just got in from a lovely dinner at a friend's house- not a peep from dd says wonderful-friend-babysitter

iwaso- being left with daddy is not going to do p any harm and I think it's great that your dh has the chance to see what it's like for you. I bet it will be the toughest day he's ever had...

iwaso...good for dh to sink or swim - and he'll swim, just likely in his own way as my dh does. not done how i would but perfectly fine....

iwaso - in these situations i think "don't ask, don't tell" is the best policy. Just let DH get on with it then smile serenely when he says how exhausted he is. Also P will never have been happier to see you in his life when you walk through that door at 5.30 to 'rescue' him

My DH has DS all day on Saturday. My DH is pretty hands on, but I'll have to try really hard not to write out a list of what needs to happen when! I'm going to my pilates class, then have a massage and facial booked and then am heading off to the hairdressers for highlights and a new hair style - I'm so excited!. I probably won't look as glam as MNFM and her cheekbones, but I might start to feel a bit more like me than just a mum JFly - how did you cope a whole day without breastfeeding? I'm missing two feeds and am a bit nervous about being out and about without my breastpump. Should I take it just in case?

I'm heading into work tomorrow for half a day to meet with my boss and mat cover. I'm not due back until March but HR bureaucracy is such that my application for part time hours has to be in very soon. I'm hoping for 3 days a week but I don't think they'll agree to it. Wish me luck! Now I just need to find a work outfit that fits...

Couple of photos of DS added to profile. None of me until my hair is done

we have two teeth fangs unfortunatly they are both in the mouth of one baby BUT its a start- my poor boobs

Carys has the razor sharp little blighters- she resolutly refuses to show anyone though- dh had to prise open her mouth to see them and apply teething gel last night- Amelia has obviously decided after seeing her sister in pain, not to bother with the whole teeth thing and is showing no signs whatsoever of ever being able to chew anything but as dh informs me how many kids go off to uni with no teeth

IWASO DH is the same, as you know. He looked after G on Saturday for about 7 hours. G was teething badly, I left him with 3oz of milk and an A4 sheet of "instructions" and off I went. I was a bit worried, as G was so unhappy and thought DH would be grumpy with G the whole day.

I came home and DH had only changed his nappy once and he was still wearing his PJs (but as FN41 pointed out, it was the weekend!). He put him down for naps so at least he slept a bit. DH had given him something to eat (probably not as much as normal, but hey ho) but he was hungry and had a big feed. Apart from that, everything was fine. I was pleasantly surprised.

DH said, I don't know what all the fuss is about - this is easy! SO, I told him he can do it again and again and again....

Oh, and HQ strangely no side effects from not feeding. I didn't feel fuller than usual, in fact. I did get my first period on Monday, though, so perhaps that triggered it. I think it's definitely a sign that milk production is waning. Or, that feeds are getting spaced out a bit more maybe.

I should point out that was the first time DH looked after G for more than an hour.

He survived. I came home to find P in the high chair, 2 inches thick in food. The house looked like a bomb had hit it and P screeched with delight and puty his arms out to me as I walked in. DH went to bed when I got in... heehee

put. not puty.

Am wondering how many dirty nappies it's possible for someone so small to produce in a day when they don't have a bug

Glad the other LOs survived Dadcare - it's so hard not to nag them

cheekbones don't feel v glam at 5:30 am, cursing time change! trying to slowly to work up to 6. funny how I used to yearn for 7 and now I would be praising the lord to get 6!

hq, when i sorted my hair it took me days to get used to it (had done nothing since before pregnant really), hard to get used to new me (which was really old me, hmmm.)

on a completely unrelated note, just called librarian in our local library a frenzied hamster. because she behaves like one, and noone pulls her up on it, being older, frenzied and close to deranged with jobsworthiness. i enjoyed watching the other librarians try not to cheer me as i marched past her.

its so old here atm, babies all snuggly and wrapped up is lovely though

although on a practical level a pita if you go in and out of shops as your whipping layers on and off

its 1/3 off baby stuff at sainsburys atm so stock up on nappies, wipes, teething gel and babyfood.

dd has been a star at swimming lessons today was day four and she was swimming with arm rings in a doggy paddle!

ds is sitting well now but still no signs of crawling

Do I need to use toothpaste on DS's one tiny tooth (came through 2 weeks ago, no sign of any others)? Not sure what the teeth cleaning etiquette is

I went into work yesterday and my boss verbally agreed that a 3 day week could work which is fab. I just need to get it agreed officially through HR and agree days etc. I had thought it would be a real battle to get it agreed and he was immediately fairly positive. I'm really pleased and it has cheered me up no end as my recent spell of feeling quite down has been a lot driven by worrying about having to go back full time.

Went to see a nursery this morning and it was awful. The bedroom had the look of a Romanian orphanage, the nappy room smelled and the children were deathly quiet while playing I expected it to be bad as although it is my most local nursery it is my least preferred as people have said it's a bit rubbish and its Ofsted report isn't very good. But there is now definitely no way that DS is going there - I'd pay for a nanny or quit my job rather than send him there. The other local nursery is fabulous, apparently, but I've probably left it way too late to get a place by March. I think childminders will be the way forward for us.

I would start getting him used to teeth cleaning and then introduce toothpaste, you can get silicone finger gloves which are good at cleaning but introduce a tooothbrush. I think we started properly brushing dd teeth when she had four or six, but had to do it in the bath at first.

Shame about the nursery, hope you find something suitable

when they come through at this age i use cut up pieces of clean muslins that have been stained beyond public use, wrapped over fingers to wipe the teeth clean. once they start biting me to buggery, i remove the maternal finger and replace with non-hurty mini tooth brush. don't think i used toothpaste until ds1 old enough to start having a go at brushing himself. made it part of the temptation ritual for him

today's blw hit, babiefied french toast:

beat an egg with half egg shell of milk and half egg shell of apple juice and some ground cinammon. soak slice of bread few minutes each side in the egg gloop. fry slow and low in sunflower oil and teaspoon of butter. cool, cut into chunks, feed to frenziedly happy baby for 45 minutes.

yesterday's hit was fresh blackberries smeared on toast. also chunks of squash boiled along with red lentils and a bay leaf, then stickied up a bit with grated cheese. hellish mess but very popular with teethcutting gloop refusing GG.