Jan 09' Dribbling, drooling, swaying and babbling...thats just the mamas....

[stripeywoollenhat]

New thread

[treedelivery]

Bless you Lenni!

My HEeeeellllp thread is going thick and fast - I love mn. Though I have a bad time sometimes too. Hard place to be a midwife - I keep feeling I have to go into threads an apologise for people's crap deliveries!!

[moosemama]

Red book is the standard child health record book in the UK. Sorry Stripey, keep forgetting we're not all UK based.

Calculation is:

(a) = fathers height
(b) = mothers height
(c) = sum of (a) and (b)
(d) = (c) divided by 2
(e) = (d) - 7 cm MPH (Mid-Parent corrected Height)

eg
(a) Dad = 186 cm
(b) Mum = 156 cm
(c) (a+b) = 342 cm
(d) (c/2) = 171 cm
(e) (d-7cm) = 164 cm (predicted height as adult)

[tinkhaseatentoomanyeastereggs]

bracken is in 6-9 month poppy vests, 3-6 month sleepsuits and 3-6 month outfits.
she weighed 10lbs10 last wed and is long roughly 62 cms.

[treedelivery]

Lenni - got tears here! It a combo of the red hat, the black hair and how happy you all look!

possibly a leeeeeeetle at your house but fighting it as it's Easter.

You got a lot of books lady. Wish we all lived near, be ace to have a cuppa

[moosemama]

Stripey she is beautiful, and am so of all that lovely hair. (DD is a baldy with a light covering of dark brown hair and a lovely little baldy patch at the back where she rubs her head whilst constantly eyeballing whatever is going on around her.)

Can anyone remember roughly when eye colour changes from newborn blue? Am dying to know what colour DDs will be as I have brown, DH has green, DS1 has green and DS2 has lovely piercing blue.

[treedelivery]

Stripey. Whats the matter with me?
That last post meant to say stripey. Dear me!

[moosemama]

Just looked it up. Looks like I will just have to be patient, as apparently can be any time in the first three years and varies widely from child to child.

She had newborn blue at first but now they are a beautiful shade of grey. My Grandad had grey eyes and so does my Uncle. I always think blue eyes and dark hair is such a stunning combination.

I'm also wondering if she will remain brunette as I am very dark brunette but DH and the boys are all dark blonde with golden highlights.

[stripeywoollenhat]

moose - thank you. looks like c is going to be even shorter than me going by that... although my dad was 5'6" and my mum is 4'11" and my sister is 5'7" so i'm not really sure i trust the formula... her hair is getting thinner and she has a charming bald patch on the back of her head now too i think the eye colour thing is anything from 6 to 18 months. that's what my mum says, anyway.

tree - dp is an academic. lots of the books are not interesting . and that was my first beer with dp since c was born - i think i downed it in about two minutes... had a look at your help thread, sorry it's so shit, would buy you a beer if it weren't for the intervening sea (and children)

[stripeywoollenhat]

moose - c's eyes are currently grey with a dark blue outer iris. they are a gorgeous colour, it's almost a shame that they'll change. i think the hair colour will be a stayer though. your boys might be darker when they grow up, i think i had a blondish phase when i was small and and am quite a dark brown now

[chefswife]

holy crap! DD laid down at 10 pm last night and slept through till 6am! it was so awesome. then she had a feed like a mad woman and was back asleep half hour later till 9:30. we got up, changed diaper, made coffee, grabbed magazine and laptop and crawled back in bed. DD had breakfast, DH checked his football, (manu supporter), and hockey (toronto, then vancouver) and i read and it was a lovely morning, even without chocolate... i'm living on my baked goods lately so the last thing my ever widening back side needs is a one pound chocolate bunny. mmm... chocolate bunny [drooling emoticon here]

thanks stripey for new thread. each time, i try to come up with something, but the pressure...

[chefswife]

another good one for predicting height: multiply height at three years of age by three. eg: 2feet x 3 = 6feet. i read a few years ago this was pretty close.

[LenniEd]

Stripey - pics are lovely and C is so beautiful, her hair ! DD's was the same, thick and dark, makes for stunning babies.

Chefswife - Know what you mean about living on baked goods - I'm the same lately. Whatever I can grab quickly with least amount of fuss... not making for a good diet though. I keep resolving to do better but of course the next meal is the same rush of toddler taming and breastfeeding and I get the munchies and dig into the sweet stuff again.

[stripeywoollenhat]

chefswife, tree will have to claim credit for the title, i just cut and pasted it excellent to hear about sleeping daughter. and i think we all have an exemption from worrying about chocolate-bunny effects (she says hopefully)

[moosemama]

Stripey, I don't think the boys'll get much darker, they are pretty dark blonde now with a lovely golden shimmer when the light hits them and are 7 and 5 years old. DH was white blonde when he was tiny with gorgeous bright blue eyes. His hair got darker until he was the same colour the boys are now and his eyes only turned green in his twenties - which is really weird!

Apparently my eyes started changing about 4 months and were brown by 6 months. I was born with a reasonable amount of dark brown/black hair which then all fell out and I was still nearly bald when I started school!

[moosemama]

DS2 has a lindt chocolate bunny. I told him I saw it winking at me now he doesn't want to eat it! [bad bad mummy emoticon]

[chefswife]

DD's eyes are dark dark gray but in the light you can see light brown coming through. mine are hazel, DH is light brown but there is every colour on my side so DD's eyes couls go anyway. i kinda like them the way they are now.

[stripeywoollenhat]

lenni - thanks yes, it's all rapid biscuit ingestion around here, overwhelming waves of hunger and absolutely no time to organise anything proper - although dp likes to cook so there's always dinner, quite frequently with vegetables!

[chefswife]

moose nice! you just scored more choc for you

[stripeywoollenhat]

moose, you are wicked - are you going to relieve him of it, then...?

my eyes are grey-green-blue (not an actual colour, i mean) and c's dad's eyes are grey-green so i think it's quite likely she'll wind up with grey-green eyes, really. my family mostly have blue eyes, so maybe blue, though.

[moosemama]

Hmm, yes chef but I'd feel too guilty to eat it now. Actually, I have waaay too much chocolate to get through already, as am hoping to start my refined sugar detox Monday after next.

[LenniEd]

Tree - I just read your other thread you are deep in with things there and I didn't really think a message of support would be appropriate amongst it all but wanted to say something so have done here. You are doing an amazing job. The worst is over. and hugs and beer.

[EachPAQUESPearMum]

stripey dd is gorgeous! and looks so long.... I am surprised you say she will be short! So much hair too...

erm, am I the only one who didn't realise rray's DP was a real footballer? I thought his matches were sunday league stuff.... erm, I don't follow sports at all, sorry. I thought he was just keen, bless him!

elkiedee I have added you as my friend on ravelry... hadn't realised you were on there, but I'm in mumsknitters too (using fb name)

Lenni thanks for telling me about your dd. I am worried and sad tonight... ds is definitely getting worse. He has been sleeping on a sleepcurve mattress since 3 weeks (I think) and is always on goigoi pillow during day whenever he is on his back... but it doesn't seem to be helping. It doesn't help that he;s so big, as heavier babies have more plagio.

[LenniEd]

Is it central on his head or on one side EPPM? How does he get on being on his tummy or upright? We have one of those jumperoo things from DD and have started putting DS in it during the day and I use my sling as much as possible rather than the pram/car seat when we are out. I think DS's head is harder than DD's though as she had already got a flat patch by 8wks, and DS is 13wks and so far ok. If it is central I think there is more chance of it receovering iirc. Can you get him referred by HV?

Elkie - FB photos are lovely

[stripeywoollenhat]

eppm - i'm 5'2" and her dad is about 5'8" so she hasn't got that much to work with... as far as i can make out she's on about 50th centile so i guess there's no real reason to think she is going to be very short, though. perhaps she just seems tiny to me because she is a baby

it took me a while to work out that ray's dp was a proper footballer too, but the whole football thing is completely opaque to me, once watched about ten mins of a match on tv and fell asleep...

[EachPAQUESPearMum]

Its to the left side- he always sleeps with head to left, and was on that side in womb- engaged for 3 mo.
I think he is prob big enough for bumbo now- he is 15 or 16 lbs- and I put him in the sling quite a bit. - I never put him in car seat except in car, only done short journeys with him- 20 mins max, except my meet-up which was 2 hours each way. In the pram he has a pillow... which I'm sure has prevented worsening, but hasn't helped correct it any.
What would he be referred for? We had to go private with dd- our hospital were very dismissive.
He definitely doesn't have torticollis- the left side use is a preference not a necessity (as it was with dd)