April 2008 - The One Where Our Babies Are All Turning Into Toddlers!

[KnitterInTheNW]

07 March: Ashton, a fourth child for gemprincess, 5lb 13oz @ 34+6
09 March: Ted, a second DS for Daftmoo, 7lb 14oz @ 36+0
21 March: George William, a first baby for KnitterintheNW, 7lb 2.5oz @ 37+3
25 March: Olivia, a second baby for TheMaskedPoster, 7lb 2oz @ 38+4
28 March: Pablo, a third baby and first DS for vacaloca, 7lb 14oz @ 39+4
28 March: Matteo Alexander, a first baby for Gangle @ 38+0 (?)
30 March: A baby girl, a second child for PortAndLemon, 8lb 15oz @ 39+5
02 April: Jak, a baby boy for rainbowdays, 9lb @ 39+1
02 April: A baby boy, a second child for bunyanvillas, 6lb 14oz @ 37+5
02April: Struan, a baby boy for Donnabels, 6lbs 15oz
02 April: A baby boy for mummyofaprincess @39 weeks
03 April: A baby girl for PippiCalzelunghe @38+2weeks
03 April: Aeryn Daisy, a baby girl for Denny185, 9lb 8oz @ 39+3
03 April: Benjamin, a baby boy for Micegg, 8lb 3oz @ 39+4
03 April: Roelof Grové, a first DS for SalLikesCoffee, 7lb 5oz @ 38+5
03 April: A baby boy for siikibam, 6lb 8.5oz @39+1wks
04 April: Matilda, a baby girl for AprilsFoolsBaby 7lb @
05 April: Ellis, a baby girl for MadameOvary, 9lb 12oz @ 40+6
06 April: Henry Peter, a baby boy for Sheds, 7lb 130z @ 40+4
07 April: Sebastian George, a fourth DS for Peachy, 8lb 4oz @ 41+1
07 April: Jack, a first baby for ThePFJ, 7lb 5.5oz @ 41+1
07 April: Lexie Bea, a fourth baby for babywhiting, 8lb 1oz @ 39+4
08 April: Alasdair, a second DS for bunnyrabbit, 8lb 5.5oz @ 40+3
08 April: James Samuel, a third baby for honeybee10, 6lb 7oz @ 37+2
09 April: Zara Mia Martin, a first baby for V1KK1M, 7lb 10oz @ 41+0
09 April: Jasmine, a baby gilr for Niceychops
11 April: Kyran for rdk, 7lb 13oz @ 38+3weeks
11 April: Sebastian James, a second baby for Fleecy, 10lb 2oz @ 40+4
11 April: A baby girl, a first baby for CeylonSapphire, 7lb 12oz @ 41+1
11th April: Florence, a baby girl for LouMoose
12 April: Maya Alice, a first baby for egyptianprincess, 8lb 15.5oz @ 40+3
12 April: Sophia Viviana, a second DD for AussieDivaonaBreak, 6lb 12oz @ 39+3
15 April: Alexander Oliver, a third baby for VictorianSqualor, 10lb 3oz @ 41+0
16 April: Ailish, a first baby for Mollyfloss, 6lb 11oz @ 40+3
16 April: A baby girl, a second baby for elfsmummy, 7lb 13oz @ 41+1
16 April: Zoe, a baby girl, a first baby for ToastAddict, 6lb 10oz @ 39+3
16 April: Jasmin, a baby girl, a first baby for Eggandketchup, 9lb 3oz @ 41+4
17 April: A baby boy for paranoidmumy, 8lb 9oz @ 41+4
17 April: A baby boy, a second son for lorisparkle, 7lb 12.5oz @ 41+6
17 April: Benedict, first baby for LadyBee 9 lb 3oz @ 41 +2
18 April: Millie Grace Jessamy, a baby girl for scorpio1 8lb 9oz @ 41
18 April: Cameron, a second baby for munchkinmum @ 39+5
19 April: Oliver Michael, first baby for bashboid, 7 lb 4 oz at 41 +3
20 April: Samuel, a first baby for Velbels. 8lb15oz at 41+1weeks.
20 April: Angharad Mai, 8lb 4oz, 40+6, first for 7monthsplus
20 April: Emilia, 7lb15oz, a first baby for SuzeM, 40+6
20 April: A baby girl for SushiMama
21 April: Eve, a second baby for OMaLittle, 8lb 4oz @ 39+3
21 April: A second DD for Monmoo
22 April: Sam, a second son for Soph73 @ 40+0
22 April: Molly, a first baby for EllieG, 8lb 8oz? @ 40+5
22 April: Daisy, second baby for AttilaTheHan @ 40 +3
22 April: Zoe Olivia, second daughter for Piccallilli2 7lb 1oz @42+1
22 April: A second DD for blinks.
23 April: Jessica Elizabeth, first baby for BabyBratt @ 40+1 7lb 12oz.
24 April: A baby girl, a second daughter for christmaspixie, 9lb 2oz @ 40+6/41+5
24 April: Miya Jade, baby girl for ShelleySare at 39+4
25 April: Amelie, a first baby for Dondons, 9lb, 41+3 (i think!)
25 April: Aisha, a second baby for Jaq39 7lb 14oz @ 41+4
26 April: Hope Olivia, a second dd for northeastmummy, 7lb 11oz at 41 .
26 April: Gabriel, a third child for Bainmarie @ 41+5
26 April: Eli Michael, a baby boy for LittleMissTurquoise, 7lb 15.5oz @ 40+5
27 April: a baby girl for Ayomi, 6lb 1oz @ 41+0
28 April: Jacob Andrew, a 2nd DS for Kaybeeand2boys, 8lb 4oz @ 41+5
29 April: Thomas Henry, a 2nd DS for TLSM, 7lb 8oz 40+3
30 April: Harry Samuel, a fourth ds for Chipmonkey, 9lb 5oz @ 39+2
30 April: Ellie, a baby girl for Annamama
30 April: A second DD for luckymummy74
01 May: Sophie May, a baby grl for Annieroo, 6lb 5oz @ 41+4
01 May: Euan George, a baby boy for Jenniejennie, 8lb @ 40+4
02 May: Robyn Olivia, a baby girl for soph28, 8lb 1oz @ 42+1
05 May: Nora Martina, a first baby for Eva07, 7lb 8oz @ 41+2
05 May: A baby boy for Beeper, 8lb 10oz @ 41+0
05 May: Gabriella Summer, a first baby for MommyHasAHeadache, 8lb 4oz @ 40+6
06 May: Wilf, 8lb 60z for bigbadmom @ 41+6
07 May: James Andrew, a second ds for Moominsmummy, 8lb 13oz @ 41+5
08 May: Ellie Isabella, a first baby for Carey87, 7 lb 8oz @ 42+1
08 May: Robin David, a 2nd baby for Woollymummy, 8lb 11 oz @ 41+3
09 May: 4 kittens for scorpio's cat!
10 May: Astrid Mary, a second dd for TheShipsCat, 8lb 8oz @ 42+0

BR - I worry about things like that ALL the time! To be fair one time when i was worried... about 6 years ago... 3 very light periods, felt dodgy, i thought xp had given me something nasty! He hadn't, well not something nasty anyway... I was 15 weeks pregnant!!! So you never know hope i haven't scared you now!

scorps don't be silly! I think it can be really common with milk to take longer with c sections, i just had two guzzlers! Plus I've always felt quite proud of hte fact that even if my body is shit at getting the babies out at least it knows how to feed them once they're here!

I haven't been on mn like this is yonks and I think the baby knows I'm talking about her!!! Since I started she has wriggled like a mental and when i just stood up she suddenly dropped down about a foot and I now feel very uncomfortable like I have a baby falling out of my lady parts! That would make it lovely and easy I just hope she bucks up her ideads and moves back to where she was cos I am not spending the next 3 weeks walking around like this!!!

Oh no BR! Sounds like you wanted that trapped wind to be a baby? Maybe next time!

I've finished making the living room curtains for the new house, and have made a start on the ones for George's room. It's this fabric. I can't believe that after only almost a year and a half of him being here, I can finally 'do' him his very own bedroom!

KITN that's lovely meterial and you are just so bloody clever!! I am so not arty and crafty. I'd like to be but I am crap a tthat sort of thing. I can mend clothes but that's about it.

pm, don't say thing like that, you only feed my insanity! The test was negative so I'm pretty sure it's all my imagination, but at least I can now say to DH that you had periods and you were pregnant so I'm not quite as dulally as he thinks.

My Sister had a CS and it took a while for her milk to come in too. Quite common with CS she tells me.

I spent the last 7 weeks of my 2nd pregnancy with DS2 engaged ( "the baby usually doesn't engage until very late in 2nd pregnancies" my arese) and a hacking cough for the last 2 weeks. I know exactly how it feels and am urging her to swim up as it ain't pleasant!

BR

and I don't really want it to be a baby as logistically that would be a nightmare and I am to old, but it would be nice to have another I suppose.......

pm, I didn't mean I'd tell DH about your personal habits !

I don't know whether it took a long time for milk to come in or not - it certainly felt like forever but I think it was about 2 1/2 days? Which I think is within the average - It happened at midnight and I do remember looking down after he'd fed and seeing white dribbling out and this very contented baby and thinking 'Thank F*&k for that'...my hefty DS seemed to be completely unsatisfied with the paltry amounts of colostrum, had a lousy latch and my right nipple seemed to not have a clue either - see I can about this now, but faced with a breastfeeding counsellor looking baffled and suggesting finger/cup/syringe feeding I was absolutely determined that I was going to BF and feeling like it wasn't going to work, parents starting to mutter and DP looking helpless...I was the most relieved lady on the street.

TBH, I think the hardest thing about BFing after a c-section is the very first night/day, when it's almost impossible to move in any direction, so twisting and picking up your baby, or adjusting position is hard.

Knitter, very cool fabric. I like that a lot. I would also like to be clever at things like that. I can sew (I mean, using a sewing machine) but have aspirations to knit (I have have needles, a book, even some wool...it's just everytime I try to cast on it goes terribly wrong and I get frustrated). I think my problem is that I think I should actually be quite good, and then reality hits and it turns out I'm shit.
A bit like my singing really.

BR - lol, no probs, you can tell him! People never really believe me when I tell them it to be honest! You can see on their face! But I SWEAR it is true, I knew that SOMETHING was up but I just didn't think it could be that cos of thye periods and being on the pill. Still though, it was a lovely surprise

pm, I bet it was! Very light AF again so far but am waiting for the flood (sorry if TMI).

Did the pregnancy test show possitive though, even though you were still having period? Mine was definitely negative so no more baby bunnies!!

TBH it would be a nightmare if a was PG. DH would have to give up work as out of school cover for DS1 + 2 lots of nursery would be more than he earns. I would have to make sure I don't get made redundant, and it would be awful to know that he was at home with DCs and I was at work.

Having said that, for a moment, my heart did flutter out of excitement. I know I'd have another boy, and 43 is getting a bit long in the tooth, but even so, wel.. ... ...

Ladybee, BF is great when it works no feeling like it IMHO.

BR

Actually I'd still be 42!!

That's fine then! DH is 44 and he copes fine (though says otherwise )

Well, I did a preg test at home when I would have been, hmmm about 12+4 and it was neg. I always wonder why, maybe I just did it wrong or something but I suppose false negs happen anyway. So about a week later I stormed off to the GU clinic thinking 'that filthyy bugger's given me something!' just cos I felt so shitty. My tummy and stuff was all so bloated I googled and thought he'd given me pelvic inflammatory or something! I can laugh about it now but I was proper cross at the time!!! By now preg really was last thing on my mind cos of the test and just the fact I had had periods albeit light ones which had been pretty regular, but then as I was on the pill they always were really I suppose. So, I got the full tests and NOTHING so when I went back the dr suggested a preg test which i kind of sighed about but did anyway. You can guess the rest! 4 days later I had an ultrasound and was nearly 15 weeks. I will never ever forget that moment I saw him on the screen, most emotional experience of my life! To see a proper baby kicking around in there when days before I didn't even know I was preg! I spent the next 6 monthys panicking I'd given him FAS tho as I hadn't known I was preg for the whole first trimester!!! Sorry to bore you, once I start writing at the moment I can't stop! I have found myself sitting at the computer every day for the past wk when ds2 has his nap just cos I have NO motivation or energy to do anything!

PM - that story has made me giggle

I never want anymore babies. My husband that bastard has ruined it for me now, and i feel so vulnerable when i'm pg. TBH i don't think we would be together if i wasn't pregnant now. It's made me consider the 'family' more than my own needs. I know it will be ok in time though.

Today i am 2x school shoes poorer - £68 .

Zac goes home first thing tuesday, hoping life gets easier by then. DH is totally stacked out with work; maybe a holiday with the extra £ would be good, instead of boring savings.

please carry on.. don't stop typing now, I'm in the midst of some very boring procedural documentation......

Must have been amazing to see him on the screen. But you were single by the time you found out, right?

YES! I had packed him off a couple of weeks before because I was so adamant he had infected me with something or other! Turned out the dirty runt had been sleeping with half the world anyway so I think it was by luck rather than anything else that he hadn't given me anything! But anyway that's a whole other story! And I feel very Jeremy Kyle now! I hasten to add that I met my dh when ds1 was just a few months old and we have not suffered any similar predicaments

scorps I can understand that, I always feel pretty shit when preggers as it is and am always super paranoid over dh at these times just cos I feel so frumpy so I can only imagine how you feel BUT please keep it clear in your head thyat HE has a problem not you and judging from pics I've seen of you on fb or here he must be bloody mad. He'll get his come uppance...

PS... BR just looked down thread and see you are in chelmsford? I'm only in colchester so maybe I should stop giving over my life story!

yes, PM, thats right, i always want to keep him extra close when pg, i do feel fat and like all my sex appeal has gone iyswim

Hey wow we're nearly neighbours.

No don't stop I've lead a really boring life so find other peoples romances and exploits unhealthily interestin. I don't watch soaps so perhaps that's why??

Scorps, I hate to be rude, but I've been too embarrassed to ask about Zac. Is he your son?

BR

No, Zac is my stepson. He is 8 this year.

DH & I have a son each with someone else, born the same year actually, lol. I knew DH when he was with Zac's mum too. DH left her when DSS was 6 months old; we got together a year later.

My children are Reilly (7) - not DH's. Jamie (4) DH's, Mimi is obv DH's too, lol. These 3 live with us, Zac lives in Gloucester with his Mum, who is having another baby this Nov. Zac stays with us in school holidays. I am evil stepmummy who actually finds it very hard....

Wow you are super mum actually...... and dd2 to come!!

lol, no, not supermum! More like mum muddling on, lol.

scorps you are not an evil stepmummy. Or not very

PM I thought you were talking about your current DH at first and my mouth was going like this O O O at you describing him as a 'dirty runt' etc and I was thinking oh gosh I thought she seemed very happy....but then I read it properly oops.

Ah scorps, I don't think you could be evil, even if you tried!

we're on our way to York now, am so excited! I have an eye infection that doesn't want to clear, so look a bit like I lost a bar fight... Will live in sunglasses!

Am feeling shitty again, so tired, DH has to work tomorrow, possibly Z home on Sunday, off Monday though. I want some peace, some space, i'm trying with DH but not getting very far, i'm not sure if i've reached my limit with him you know. I just want things to be normal, but they're not, are they?

Mimi napping and Z keeps shouting and has just woken her up

Why dont i ever get a break, an easy life, why do i deserve all this, what did i do?

No sweetheart it isn't 'normal' but is anything ever really normal?

Try not to force yourself to make any decisions or anything just yet, you need time and he needs to make sure you get it. Shite that he has to work tomorrow but if he sin't working sunday and monday tell him to take the kids out and let you get some breathing space.

Why is it only 'possibly' Z going home tomorrow? Surely you need to know one way or the other? Can he take the others with him when he drops him off give you a break there?

re 'possibly' - he keeps kicking up a stink, despite being fine with me all day, whenever he speaks to his mum he screeches at her that DH is working. Well at the moment he has to be on site or the (2!) jobs cant carry on....he also has big contractor on at him to start house building next week, so thats 3 jobs and not enough staff type people to fill in. We would lose hundreds (£), if not more, if he took this time off. His mother is suggesting 1-1 time in a house of 4dc. If i didn't know better, i would swear Z is well aware of being manipulative. He is not sharing with the others, everything is 'gay' (a HUGE pet hate of mine), AGAIN he has come here with ripped clothes, plastic shoes from a supermarket and apparently wants a pot noodle for tea, not a roast dinner or pasta or whatever i make. oh and wants to do his own food, cos 'my mummy is pregnant and doesnt get out of bed anymore' . He is also shcoked DH and I dont shout at each other every night

Sorry i just have 1000 things going on in my mind.

DH has said he will take boys with him to take Z home; no point taking mimi. I'm going out with friends and yoga next week, hoping for some 'down' time. DH has said whatever i need/want, he will do, its not his fault really, he is not available as work is mental at mo.

He laso seems to have a huge obsession with money - do we have enough, how much do we have, Stef is that paper money (when i pay in shops for example). Reilly/Jamie never ask - is that normal? (those who have older ones)

Mine think nothing about money tbh scorp. They are aware what money is and kind of how much things cost but have no worry about budget. It's one of those horrid situations isn't it? He's a product of Esmeralda's upbringing, that's for sure but you can't save everyone

Reminds me of my step-brother whose mum used him as a tool but my mum only had me so could feasibly do more for him than you can for Z. You know my thoughts on the step-parent thing, and I certainly don't think it is unreasonable to say "look Cruella, He's coming home, both he AND the other children are losing out on 1-1 time because K is busy, there is nothing we can do and you're bloody lucky I let you dictate to me when he is coming as it is but right now I'm pregnant, I'm tired, we're run off our feet and I have children about to go back to school so he is coming home." and pack his stuff.