March 08:Happy Birthday!!! We made it through a whole year!

[turtle23]

new thread.

While I remember, any of the rest of you on Twitter apart from MB?

I can't afford a twitter habit DP... MN and FB are all I have the mental and temporal capacity to cope with!

My first birth client (well, second, but the first ended up with a CS)is due today. Cue overwhelming morning sickness. Oh shit.

littleducks I hope that you are ok...you lurking? Am planning on seeing a friend in Sunningdale after this lady has her baby...would you like to meet up?

Merryberry How are you feeling today?

i've been outed havent i, how did you know i was lurking?

ds climbed the stairs yesterday....the whole lot, he has only ever pulled himself up one then yesterday climbed the lot so i expect that he will just stand up and walk across the room basded on that

meeting up sounds good turtle how are you doing? bet you get all emotional when this baby is born as your pg, i was with sil when she had dn when i was pg and i was so happy for her and a tad jealous as i was about about 5 months pg and still had ages to go and there she was cuddling her baby

timmy nice to see you back , its been ages!

Turtle, don't worry, if she's anything like this lot it'll be another 10 days before the baby decides to put in an appearance!

Now, better go get mine out of bed (lazy boy!) if he's to be in a fit state to meet FfFf in a couple of hours!

May have to leave early though to take a detour past a local church for more Tennant spotting, they're filming still

i've been ok thanks turtle, mum here to help us, tis lovely

Latest reason I love my son: Bedtime comes, I sat "Do you want to go to bed?" DS says "yeah!" and toddles off, opens door to room and stands in front of bed with arms up.
Also, was sitting on lap yesterday at naptime when he pointed at a blanket. Gave it to him and he pulled it up over himself and waved at me, then fell asleep.
So sweet!

Turtle, are you sure your DS is only 1? ?

Mine indicates he wants to go to bed by falling asleep in random locations & positions, he doesn't ask

DP- He may ask to go to bed but he still wakes up to be breastfed at 430.

she's started! (overexcited? Me?)

Hello all, hope everyone has had a relaxing Easter.

It was lovely to meet you, Dontpanic, and E is adorable. Sorry about my boisterous child trying to wrestle with him... How is your preparation for next wekend going?

Turtle, that is really exciting! Good luck!

We're back in the shire now, after an Easter in south Wales. Ff slept in the car all the way home, so I have kept her up a bit later than usual...just waiting for Iggle Piggle to finish before milk then bed. I'm hoping she'll be exhausted from being passed round all five grandparents and great-grandparent today, so I can get on with sorting out the mountain of stuff we've brought back. (SEVEN Easter eggs! She is a year old!)

Enjoy the sunshine.

urgh, have changed clothes completely, washed all relevant bare skin and STIll hum of baby poo. where IS IT????? urgh. hope you're working now T!

LOL mb- last night after bath DD was allowed to run around 'al fresco' and managed to deposit a deposit just beside DS's bed. Took me 10 minutes of wandering around going 'WHY can I smell poo???' and accusing all and sundry of major wind before I spotted it. At least it was beside DS's bed not on it, we had a good 15 minutes of 'EWWWWWW' from him as it was.

Hi Merryberry, how are you? It is probably gone. I get like this with dog poo - I smell it even when it isn't there. The hours I have spent digging around inside perfectly clean paws, convinced they are hiding poo...

Put something delicious in the oven, the smell will mask the phantom baby poo.

Toys were 3for2 at Tesco over the weekend. Picked up some stacking rings and a nice wooden alphabet puzzle, and then a plastic football to make up the 3, thinking that even if the baby hated it, the dogs could chase it round until one of them popped it. Well...since I handed it to her Ff has hardly let it out of her site. She LOVES it, with a devotion previously only shown to Iggle Piggle. She is currently sat on the living room floor, wrapping it in a blanket and hugging it, and has been for the last ten minutes.

Literally hundreds of pounds worth of plastic shite toys and she only wants the free football...

can still smell the smell, oh well...
just off out to share it with friends...

doing OK thanks Ff, yet another consultant appt tomorrow, hoping for some interesting insights/prescriptions and to avoid (look away now if needle-squemish) an injection into my painful right jaw [horror of horrors emoticon]

MB hope you find the poo before you friends do... And hope tomorrow is pain free.

Ff, yes, lovely to meet you both 2, hope little Ff's eyes haven't started showing signs of Incredible Hulk mankygreenness, I can't believe how much gunge E's produced in 2 days...thanks to my thoughtful and sharing DH.

Still procrastinating on prep for Saturday, more concerned about having a tidy room for visitors since it's our living room and commonly mistaken for a bomb site/war zone. Cleaner will hopefully finish it off for me tomorrow, don't care about the upstairs stuff for now!

Pants you're brave with LO going commando - took all my nerve to let LO have a bath with me on Monday despite him never having accidents in there yet, sooooo chicken!

Turtle any news yet? How do you arrange babysitting with all the uncertainty over when you'll be unavailable? Hope it all goes brilliantly anyway!

Oooh turtle, let us know how it goes! Best of luck.

DD has poohed in the bath, it is not nice at all, I had to get DP to deal with it

Ff - I got a set of three mini footballs for DD and she loves them too! Not so caring with them though, she loves kicking them around the roof terrace and I was very impressed with how good she is at kicking and dribbling until she kicked it into all my strawberry plants! Like babies who are easily pleased anyway.

DD has her 12 month immunisations today has anyone MMR'd yet?

Turtle - oooh! hope all goes well - looking forward to hearing all about it.

Good luck with consultant today MB, and good luck on Sat DP.

Naturist DS here, so lots of crawling around naked in evenings - occasionally find little puddles (usually when stepping in them in socks - ugh!) but never anything worse than that!

Ewe - only just had 12mo jabs so no MMR for a few weeks. All the reading I've done has convinced me to do it, but all the controversy makes me nervous about that decision IYSWIM. Damn the media I say (see here) but then I do work for a drugs company, so I would probably say that, wouldn't I?

Am shuddering in horror. I can't believe I am about to admit this, but my DS seems to be a Marmite lover. Eeeeek!!!!

effing nora i had an mmr appt last week and now i've just realised i've missed it. i will be unpopular with that nurse (sigh)

DD was fine with her imms this morning, barely even noticed! I have MMR appointment on 13th May, I know what you mean HQ, I am sure it is the right thing to do for me/DD but there is always a niggling doubt with this sort of thing I think.

I am thinking of asking them to do the other jab they give at the same time seperately as I think MMR + another vax is an awful lot for a body to deal with! Pneumoccal booster I think?

I moved my appt for this morning 3 times MB I think the nurses are probably very used to it, they'll be grateful you're rearranging!

MMR tomorrow. Ff is pretty tough, so I am hoping it will be worse for me than for her... After the 12 month ones she cried a little, then glared at me all the way home. I can cope with anger, much better than actual distress.

No green gunk, DP. Touch wood, she's proving to be a hardy little thing, who has only really had one cold/conjunctivitis bout. Hope E is better soon.

We've had no puddles, despite much naked frolicking after bathtimes, but have had a few poos in the bath. It is at times like that when having two big dogs pays off - picking up poo doesn't bother me in the slightest!

Bloke has been away for a while month now...three more to go.

Finally got home last night. Ugh. Baby born after about a year by forceps as she was OP and stuck. Babysitting is the ultimate challenge. I now have to give it up as cant find anyone willing to have him for so long at short notice. DH had to do it and he said never again. Oh well, was bad plan for now anyway as am pg and it's very tough. Having said that, have to decide this morning whether to take on emergency last minute job for lady due on Monday...
MMR here first of May.

keep looking for help turtle, eventually you will find someone, its taken me couple of years but now have somebody i can at least ask! and i've seen on threads here that a lot of cm's are getting more vacancies and are getting more flexible as the recession bitesa and they are losing mindees (0

Turtle - congratulations on your first doula birth! Sorry the logistics are proving tough. Merry has a good idea re CM. What about your old nanny friends? I have a friend who was a nanny but is now a SAHM, and I bet she would do ad hoc work like that for a bit of extra money given she'd be looking after her DD anyway. It might be worth advertising on somewhere like gumtree as there are all sorts of people in odd situations who just might relish that sort of work.

Congratulations, Turtle. Am on your behalf that you are thinking of giving it up over babysitting though. Doesn't your DH realise that it isn't actually babysitting if it is HIS son he is looking after? I would have words if I were you, and also follow up the excellent suggestions by MB and HQ. You didn't do all that studying for 1 birth, did you?

MMR all over and one with now. Was all prepared with Iggle Piggle, beaker of water and a little pot of strawberries to calm her down, and she didn't even cry. Small but tough, clearly! She's chuckling away on the floor now, so I am crossing my fingers for no ill effects.