April 2009 - Chapter 4 - Rollin, rollin, rollin............and they are over but the arm is stuck

[PuzzleRocks]

12 Feb: Skiingone: MARIANNA 4lb 4oz
20 Feb: Glaskham: RUBY MARIE 4lb 3oz
04 Mar: Barbarella: ESTELLA, ROSANNA, OTIS
05 Mar: Kazkiss: ISABELLE FLORENCE 4lb 6oz & OLIVER THOMAS 3lb 7oz
15 Mar: Babypringle: OSCAR WILLIAM 7lb 2oz
28 Mar: Claireykitten: VIOLET ROSE 7lb 9oz
31 Mar: Mumblemum: ORSON XERXES
02 Apr: Oddeyes: ELEANOR 9lb 8oz
03 Apr: Bleuravin: MEGAN LILLIAN CONSTANCE
03 Apr: Bumpalump: JACOB 8lb
04 Apr: BabyBolat: KARAHAN 6lb 5oz
05 Apr: Mrsfossil: ISLA LILIAN 7lb 10oz
05 Apr: JumeirahJane: MILLICENT ROSE 5lb 15oz
06 Apr: BoffinMum: FELIX DAVID GORDON 7lb 9oz
08 Apr: girlylala0807 JAMES EUAN
11 Apr: SpringySunshine: GEORGE NATHAN 8lb 15oz
11 Apr: RachelinScotland: CLEMENT JAMES 8lb 14oz
11 Apr: Lou031205: ISLA SOPHIA 7lb 9oz
11 Apr: Electra: ISABELLA CAROLINE 6lb 3oz
11 Apr: AuldAlliance: ALEXANDRE 7lb 6oz
12 Apr: Phdlife: Name TBA GIRL 9lb 3oz
12 Apr: BethDivine: Name TBA GIRL 9lb 9oz
13 Apr: MathsMummy27: AMELIA CHARLOTTE
14 Apr: Purlease: ADAM 9lb 2oz
15 Apr: Juwesm: HUGO GEORGE 9lb 2oz
15 Apr: Bronze: ISAAC JOHN
15 Apr: HeidiT: HEIDI
15 Apr: Kalikaroo: Name TBA BOY 8lb
15 Apr: Minush: ZAFIRAH ROSA 7lb 12oz
15 Apr: FatandFedup: EMILIA ROSE 7lb 6oz
16 Apr: PuzzleRocks: HOLLY ELIZABETH 8lb
16 Apr: Brettgirl: HANNAH GRACE 6lb 15oz
16 Apr: ReallyTired: Name TBA GIRL
17 Apr: DungunGirl: ADEN LEE 9lb 4oz
18 Apr: Staryeyed: Name TBA BOY 7lb 11oz
18 Apr: Dawntigga: SAMUAL 5lb 11oz
20 Apr: LuLuBai: SEBASTIAN 9lb
20 Apr: Swaliswan: BETH 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: Kittycatisgettingfat: GABRIELLA AUDREY BIANCA
21 Apr: B52s: SAM MARTIN 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: Schulte: HAZEL LOIS 7lb 9 oz
21 Apr: Mrsgboring: EDMUND 8lb 12oz
23 Apr: Tristaleejac: LEWIN 8lb 4oz
23 Apr: NuttyTaff: TIAHNA SKYE 8lb 8oz
23 Apr: Purplemonkeydishwasher: ISLA ELIZABETH 8lb 14oz
24 Apr: Soon2befamilyof4: TALIA 7lb 6oz
26 Apr: Carameli: THEO LAURENCE 7lb 6oz
26 Apr: Surprisenumber3: EVIE ANNE 8lb 2oz
26 Apr: Bicnod: OSCAR MATTHEW 8lb 1oz
27 Apr: Lauren61: OLIVER STEPHEN 7lb 7oz
27 Apr: Gingersarah: VERONICA ROISIN 9lb 1oz
30 Apr: MegBusset: ARCHIE 8lb 15oz
01 May: Satheresitting: Name TBA BOY
03 May: Conkertree: Name ANGUS ANDREW 8lbs 8oz
06 May: Frekkles: HARRIS MERLIN 8lb 5.5oz
07 May: TarteTatin: ALBERT JOHN
10 May: Ilovesummer: Name TBA BOY

What's this? I go away for five minutes and come back to find Maths suggesting I lap dance a spider??

Schulte, Schulte, Schulte! You just made my blood run cold.

Hoover the spiders. It's the best way. I feel a little bad, imagining them being torn limb from limb in the vortex. But some schadenfreude mixed in there too!

Puzzle, that would be ridiculous.

You don't need to lap dance them, just provide them with beverages and savoury snacks and a place to do a lttle dance, make a little love, and just good old get down tonight...

Good morning. Was just about to fall asleep on the floor with Hazel when an Amazon delivery for DH arrived and the idiot who delivered it knocked on the door so loudly that H jumped.

She woke two hourly from 2.30 onwards When oh when will this child sleep properly?

Am planning to go to the pool today, if anyone else wants to come along?

Schulte, when she wakes so often do you feed her every time or resettle her in other ways?

Morning everyone - a lovely sunny day here, I am back from a failed meet up because I had to turn around and go home because V would not settle in her pram. Too soft?

Puzzle and others with absent DPs - very impressively hardcore, I have never faced this hurdle yet. I think it will come over the next few weeks as it is very likely that a work trip will come up for my DP. I only have one little baby and it seems daunting! I think the lack of company as much as anything... it is not physically hard to put one baby to bed but it nice to feel part of a team and then have someone to relax with.

morning ladies; this hotel is lush and i'm sure it's the cause of moo sleeping 4 hours through the night, either that or I was just too tired to hear her during the night... the bed is so big that she can sleep spread eagle on it and there's still room for me and dh comfortably!

spiders...there was one on the stairs the other night. It's legs diameter were as big as my fist, though it's body was 'only' the size of my thumb nail. I wouldn't go up them thinking it would jump on my and strangle the life out of me. Luckily dh was still home. He laughed at me until he saw the size of the bugger then he sobered a little and said,'oh that is a rather large one isn't it?'

so does 6months (for solids) mean 24 weeks or 6 months calendar style? we're at 20 weeks today and moo's getting more and more agitated that she's not 'sharing in the bounty' which is our meals. Everything i move towards my mouth she tries to intercept when she's on my lap. and if i try to eat anything when i'm bf her she refuses to take the breast at all...

going to Kew today i think...as long as I don't get lost

Bebe, I believe the official 6 month mark is 26 weeks (i.e. half of the 52).

that's what i thought

dh was intereested to note that on the spoons we bought the other day they said from 4 months on the front of the package, but on the side of the package it said new recommendations suggest solids at 6 months and nothing until 17 weeks... when purees could be started...

bit confusing that aye?

Bonjour ladies,

Thanks for all the details on bedtime routines. All these references to babies who go to sleep at 7:30pm'ish made me envious. How can I reprogramme my baby so he'll go to sleep earlier?
And I haven't really managed to put A on the floor while I do things with DS1, as I'm worried he'll bash his head on the tiles (am I being daft?)

Guimauve, I now know who you are. Do you have a marshmallow thing going on?

Bebe, glad to hear your baby likes plush hotels. She's fitting in a lot of varied experiences at a young age, from camping to more luxury lifestyle...

Ginger, definitely not too soft, I hate pushing a pram with a screaming infant inside it. I have been known to turn around and come home in similar cicumstances. I often carry a sling in the basket bit underneath the pram for times like that, and I carry A, pushing the empty pram. Get some odd looks, but who cares.

Well, we are on orange heatwave alert in the region. 38° yesterday, and temperatures not cooling down below 22° at night. Alex is spending a lot of time on the boob. DH kindly informed me yesterday that I now no longer have a bum at all, as he claims all the fat has gone into my milk. Think he was a bit surprised at the thickness of the fatty layer on the ebm he gave A on Sat.

Hello hello [ought to be changing dishwasher or cooking emoticon]

Thanks for the lake info Schulte - bit of a trek for us but worth knowing about nevertheless as I love open air swimming.

Gui No it is not mad to look forward to weaning - it's great. It solved all our weight gain problems with DS1 and I have high hopes for E too. He had a whole banana last night. Good luck for the weigh in. If it helps to know, we consulted (informally as DH was working with them) two separate paeds with DS1. One said start solids the other supplement with formula. If you haven't already done so, it might help to read the WHO guidelines and the rationales for them (look on Cochrane database. Sorry I don't have a link) as even paeds seem to have a religious attachment to some of the mad misinformation there is out there about these recommendations.

Ginger no guilt! As you know E is in with us but spends most of his time in our bed (naughty). Re V not settling in her pram, have you got a sling? DS1 not settling in the pram was the reason I got into them and it hasn't turned me into a strange sling obsessive at all. No it hasn't

Bebemoo hope the corporate house possibility comes off for you.

Puzzle Know what you mean about spiders - for me it's the terror of wasps in the house that makes being left so awful. Did you know you can repel spiders (a bit) with conkers? Put them next to places where they come in to the house. My spider-phobic ILs swear by it.

Maths you are very bad with your spider house party.

WFH did your DP come home?

Had a whole load of friends and their kids round yesterday and house is still a bit devastated but a good time was had by all. I am a grinch and hate the hot weather and bright sunshine (I burn so easily even with factor a million. Hate the feel of sunscreen on my skin, hate putting it on DS1 and hate the fact it's corroded the coating off two pairs of glasses this summer ) I am inside sulking and wishing it was raining so I could shove the washing in the tumble dryer instead of hauling it out to the line. Anyone else the same?

BitLateToTheParyOnTheTiggaSignOffsGrorincyMrsGBoringAKAMrsGGrinchy

circumstances

circumstances, even...

ooh, hello mrsgboring.
X-posted (I was correcting my typo, not responding to your grinchiness, honest). Glad the weaning is a success.

X-Posts Auld. Bonjour. Huge sympathies for the heatwave. I am really enjoying our Bumbo for briefly putting down E - could you fit one in the bathroom? for the no bum at all.

Ha ha Xpost again.

But was really posting to say bugger the jumping laptop cursor has mangled my Tigga signoff.

Can'tTypeForToffeeMrsGBoringAKAMrsGGrinchy

I have been considering a Bumbo, mrsg, I'll see if they have them in France. But A is deeply interested in leaning forward to try and taste his own toes. Is that dangerous in a Bumbo?

[ReallyAmDoingChoresNowHonest] I don't think he'd be able to lean forward too much in a Bumbo. Certainly wouldn't think it was dangerous if you're in the same room, as the only likely thing is he'd get stuck bent over rather than tip it up or anything.

48 euros plus p&p. Ouch.

Quick catch up while Holly sleeps and Ellen amuses herself by flinging herself from tall furniture.

Ju - You think i'm brave enough to get close with the hoover? Not on your life.

Maths - Please do not encourage the spiders to make love. That means more friggin spiders.

Schulte - Hope you enjoyed the pool. I'm glad I didn't see your post earlier. Bad enough that my morning has been taken up by some dimwit excel-happy auditor.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh, and Bebe is at Kew. No fair . It's glorious outside and i'm here crunching numbers.

Auld - The heat sounds oppressive. Phew.

MrsG - I had heard the conker thing. Must try it out.

I am in for a bashing on the Schadenfreude thread... [scared]

Pool got really busy at lunchtime, people were practically sitting on each other's towels!

Auld, 38 degrees is way too much. H leans forward in her bumbo and sucks on the middle bit. DD1 managed to get out of it by throwing herself backwards and sideways so I wouldn't leave a baby in there unattended.

Can't remember who asked, I often ask dh to try and settle H without a feed but if that doesn't work straight away, I feed her so we can all go back to sleep.

Bebe, hotel sounds lovely.

For those worried about hubbies going away. Mines does regularly in fact he got back yesterday having gone away last wednesday.

I survived the kids survived the house survived. I consider that a success.

Don't fret the small stuff just keep people fed and watered (including the spiders) and you'll be fine

little A hates the bumbo. and they're way too expensive. Can't you compromise with a prop-up bouncy chair? Little A goes on channing mat in bathroom (at least until she wiggles under the cupboard)

Puzzle - you just need some spider prophylactics to solve that one. Try googling it..