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alicet · 17/11/2008 21:54

Thought this was appropriate given latest discussion and thought I would start a new thread before this expires!!!!

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Mine · 17/11/2008 21:59

hurrahh!!!!!!!!

J2O · 17/11/2008 22:04

Loving the thread title!

nothing to report from here except Shannon gave me a nose bleed earlier the bully! and me and Rich are on a 2 week break for various reasons-mainly through my instigation-will explain at some point when not so tired.

gotta go read stuff for college, got a 4 hour simulation(exam) a week tomorrow.

Love to all xx

inzidoodle · 17/11/2008 22:15

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J2O · 17/11/2008 22:20

Inzi-hmmm yeah, a few hiccups, he probably takes the brunt of what other arseholes men have done to me tbh ie not trusting a word he says to me.....we'll see, i'm not good with making rational decisions when i'm tired.

Well done Jane to eating with a spoon, Shannon screas when i even suggest giving her the spoon but loves finger food wating.

Can't believe how many of you are veggies!

J2O · 17/11/2008 22:21

duh crap spelling

screamseating

alicet · 17/11/2008 22:31

J2O hope you're OK honey? Sorry to hear you're on a break as I know he's been good news until now... Fingers crossed you sort it out either to stay together or to separate depending on what you need / want xxx

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FloriaTosca · 17/11/2008 22:42

posting to find you...love the title...utterly knackered exhausted, will catch up tomorrow

FloriaTosca · 17/11/2008 22:42

posting to find you...love the title...utterly knackered exhausted, will catch up tomorrow

FloriaTosca · 17/11/2008 22:42

posting to find you...love the title...utterly knackered exhausted, will catch up tomorrow

FloriaTosca · 17/11/2008 22:42

posting to find you...love the title...utterly knackered exhausted, will catch up tomorrow

FloriaTosca · 17/11/2008 22:43

omg...dont know what happened there..sorry

TheLadyEvenstar · 18/11/2008 08:29

good morning peeps.
well not much to report here, Zachary is asleep after waking every hour through the night and me resettling him...very unusual!!!

He has his top 2 teeth coming through at last....that will make a grand total of....4 lol..like Karl he is slow with his teeth.

He has a new word which he says whenever i go out the room.......Baunda he can't say Vaunda but he says it with a B lol grrrrr why do all kids say my name with a B lmao

Karl is off school with a cough and cold, i have a cough and Zachary has a cold so Grant has taken to bed because he also had to get up once in the night now everyone say ahhhhhh......(won't repeat what I said!)

But we have had a row...maybe I am destined to be on my own or maybe I am expecting too much.....

Hope everyone is ok and all LO's are well too...

When will i get email about Secret Santa?

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Stefka · 18/11/2008 10:43

Found you!

LES your night sounds like mine! I don't know why though - might be teeth or he has just got into the habit of feeding in the night again. He's passed out now after our trip to Tesco.

J20 - sorry to hear about the break. I hope that it does you some good and that it leads to a happy outcome.

Dareh just wants to play when he eats. I think he suffers a bit because we don't eat together as a family often because of the hours that DH keeps. I tend to wait until he has gone to bed to have my tea.

Dalrymps · 18/11/2008 11:27

Hey everyone, just posting to find you.

Inzi - Your morning routine is a lot more energetic than mine!!!

J20 - ((hugs)) hope everything is ok

Les - hope you catch up on some sleep

Back later x

WhiteWineAndJaffaCakes · 18/11/2008 14:49

Love the thread title. Anya eats yoghurt on her own unless she's really tired. She also tries to stab other things with a fork but she still finds that a bit difficult yet. She hates being helped though - has to do everything on her own.

Yay to Erin on walking her first steps.

J2O -hugs to you hun - hope you work things out. How was the exam?

FT - so that's how we go through threads so quickly!

Anya calls... back later...

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alicet · 18/11/2008 16:21

LES Adam only has 4 teeth too and until about a week ago only had 2!!! He has 3 on the bottom and 1 on the top.

Inzi I think you should decide about reins depending on whether they will make you feel safer taking Jane out or not. I don't have anything against them as such but having watched friends with older children I decided I wasn't going to use them with Sam unless I was scared he was going to run in the road or somethig else dangerous. He was lateish walking (15 months) which helped though as he was able to understand some stuff by then. Basically though I found that children who didn't have then were better at doing as they were told when out and about whereas those who had reins took longer to learn this. Not a scientific study or anything but Sam is only 2.9 and already pretty sensible around roads and cars. I might do differently with Adam as clearly it will be harder with 2 but I would like to avoid if poss...

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alicet · 18/11/2008 16:23

I do have one of those 'little life' backpacks with reins though in case i ever needed them (apparently chldren take better to these as they don't see them as reins) but so far haven't

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TheLadyEvenstar · 18/11/2008 16:31

Alice,

Zachary has 2 on top and 2 on bottom. looks soooo cute!! but until last week he only had bottom 2 teeth. He like karl is getting them through in 2's grrrr.

Inzi,

Zachary walked to the hairdressers the other day and yes I agree they look so grown up lol.

Personally I don't like reins, I never used them with ds1 and I doubt I will use them with Zachary...who knows he may be in need of them as he might be a total sod outside lol....At the moment whenever we open the door he scarpers and heads for the hairdressers which is about 5 doors away from where we live..

WWAJC, Lucky you Zachary still likes to eat with his hands...and be fed...I still can't get him to drink out of a cup either he loves his bottle too much me thinks...any ideas?

Oh as for me moving him into his own room....well I got as far as turning furniture round in Karls bedroom to put Zacharys cot in there and have decided it is too soon lolol I know I am a wuss

J2O · 18/11/2008 18:50

FT-Sorry you are so tired, is His Lordship not sleeping?

Sorry for thoughs whos los are not sleeping (apart from Vaunda-Ha, she's had it soooooo easy with sleepless nights, its about time only kidding)
Shannon has been pretty good lately in the night, although, i tend to ignore her a bit more lately as i'm so tired myself.

WWAJC-clever Anya! Shannon doesn't entertain using utensils yet, which is fine with me, less mess!
the exam is a week today, need to study though as i messed the mock up.

inzi-i've got pink reins but haven't tried them yet, i used them with Leonie, imo its easier to use them when they are tiny than trying to hold their hands as they are so far down it hurts your back, but Alice makes good points.

oh Shannon has just been sick and wiped it in my face...

TheLadyEvenstar · 18/11/2008 19:06

lmao Julie....thats not nice is it babes!!!!

You n Rich gotta sort it out woman!!!! we got holiday to sort!!!!

running sharpishly

J2O · 18/11/2008 19:42

Ha, cheers LES!

right i'll give the basic reasons for the 'break'
-after my brothers wedding, when he was very drunk, i caught him in a position where it looked like he was about to kiss my friend, altough theres a good chance it was innocent, he was very drunk, he swore that there was no intention there, but if he's like that when i'm on the house, what is he like when i'm not arouns at all.

-also around the same time, he had sent his exgf a text saying he thinks about her every day, but he said he didn't mean it like the way that i saw it, just that she was upset they didn't see each other as friends anymore and she didn't want the last 4 years to be wasted and he'd just forggotton about her and the good times bla bla bla.

-he claims he is not embarrassed about being part of my family and playing the father figure in Shannons life, yet he covered the car seat up in his car with a blanket after a work colleague took the piss out of him, because it was pink apparantly, which i can kind of understand but when i asked him about it, he said he had just threw the cover in the back and it landed on it, but he was lying, he had actually draped it on, which he later admitted.

-he is due to go on a clubbing weekend, which is kind of an extention to his week in faliraki, which he asked me if i wanted to go on, so i said check with all the others that its ok for me to tag along but then i saw a message on his facebook, where he basically said i was nagging him to go(which i wasn't!) so i said i wouldn't bother, as i don't want his mates thinking i'm a nag and he probably didn't want me to go anyway.

-I also found lots of messages on his facebook from women in between him breaking up with his ex and meeting me (he'd deleted the inbox, but not the sent box) which where pretty sexually explicit and he also called them stuff like darling, princess etc, so i can't stand him to call me them iyswim, I know he's bound to have had a life before me, i just wish i didn't have them imags in my head.

-I had to wait in at his house last week because he was working and someone was coming to buy his car, the internet wasn't working so i had a nosy at his pics, there was a floder of pics with someone he'd been sleeping with(which i find a bit weird, they're where only seeing each other for 6 weeks) and alos a half naked one of his ex, plus others that wheren't too bad. I don't expect him to delete holiday pics or whatever, but i think one in her bra is a bit much, also he'd deleted his history and emptied his recycle box, so i couldn't see anything, because he knew i was going round.

-last but not least, i went to his house on sunday daytime (he was at work) he lives near to where i was going(no toilets) and i was desperate, i sneaked a peek at his laptop and he had changed his password and created me an account.
Anyway, i didn't mention that i'd been round, and he later mentioned that he'd created me an acocount, and i said 'why bother, i hardly ever go to your house' he said he thought i'd appreciate it, i asked him twice if he'd changed his password for his own account and he said no twice, and then he said, yes i have actually i don't know why i lied, he then admitted he'd felt violated as i had looked at his pictures (which yes, i can understand that too)but he should have just said that instead of lying.

ha, that wasn't very basic was it!.. anyway-I realise that I am pretty paranoid, and these things haven't been discovered by accident, i've searched for them due to being lied to so many times previously. I know most of the things seem pretty pathetic, i just can't get rid of the sick feeling i have when i think about them. Also, i'm worried that he is taking too much on, with him being so young. He's excellent with the girls, really supportive about everything, pretty much the perfect man apart from all the reasons above-but as i say, i have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that just wont let me feel happy or trust him...so hopefully, i can clear my head in the next couple of weeks and choose the right path to take.

feel free to give your opinions....or just totally ignore me for being a fool

J2O · 18/11/2008 19:45

oops should so proof read before i post

TheLadyEvenstar · 18/11/2008 20:18

Jules, I know how you feel 100000% trust me!

This is something none of you ladies know on here, I was with Karls dad for 4 yrs and I spent everyday being beaten and being cheated on....needless to say we broke up. I then spent 4yrs on my own until I met my now ex husband who was Albanian and I fell for his charm hook line and sinker
He got his passport and leave to remain in the uk and 3 weeks later left me. I was then on my own again for 2yrs until I met Grant, who as Jules knows treats me well BUT because of my past I am always looking for something he may do wrong! I too checked his laptop, mobile, used to phone him when he was working far too many times.....but after 2, almost 3 yrs he is still here and i am beginning to trust him....

It has taken me a long time as i have been so hurt in the past BUT I remembered what someone told me when i was 18 and was badly attacked...."believe in yourself and one day you will believe in others" and it is helping me. I know we are all so different and us ladies have been together now for approx 21m ...You have ALL helped me to believe in myself. I have had days where I wanted to end it all, and I have come on here and something someone has typed made me laugh and I forgot my troubles.

I know that last bit is a bit off thread but I wanted to say You are like an extended family to me and when one of you are hurting so do I