Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

Please or to access all these features

Post-natal clubs

Join our Postnatal Clubs forum to find parenting advice for newborns.

August 2009 Welcome to the world all of the little princes and princesses!

391 replies

OonaghBhuna · 28/07/2009 21:54

I would like to say congratulations to everyone that joins us on this thread and I am looking forward to hearing lots of birth stories and interesting developments of about our beautiful babies

OP posts:
Are your children’s vaccines up to date?
Hawkmoth · 19/10/2010 15:44

Hello KickArseQueen!

I only work part time, but it's a massive workload and pisspoor money. Like you, I keep thinking about retraining... having a future career... a proper job! But I just can't see how that would happen money and time-wise!

Would I make you too jealous if I told you that the boy just decides when he wants to go to bed? This morning he was grumpy, I asked if he wanted to go back to bed, he said "Yiss" and then slept for three hours! At night, he'll stand by the baby gate sucking his thumb when he's ready to go! It's almost too good to be true, so I'm trying not to think about it! Still, I deserve it after unwillingly sharing with DD until she was two and a half!

KickArseQueenOfTheDamned · 19/10/2010 23:36

Aww! Bless! I hope he keeps that up! My dd2 loves her bed! Shes 5 now and still tells us when its her bedtime!

Ds2's favourite thing to say at the moment is "Quick, Quick", but the reason why is v funny. Everytime he picks up something he shouldn't the other children started shouting "quick mum, Quick"!! Now everytime he picks up something he shouldn't he shouts "Quick"! Its incredibly helpful of him!!! Grin

Keep your fingers crossed for me, he just slept through the last 2 nights. :) Hope your LO keeps up the good behaviour Wink

valz · 21/10/2010 11:43

hi all, just thought i pop in to see hown everyone is getting on. one of my twins is sleeping through, the other is still waking every night needing lifted into my bed. im considering just getting him a double bed, putting it against the wall and putting a guard at the other side. i really think its the cot he hates, he just freaks when he realises hes in it. i was going to let him cry it out but during the night when he crys i just feel so sorry for him. do you think i should just go with the bed or leave him in the cot with a bit of tough love?

Hawkmoth · 21/10/2010 11:57

My DD was VERY anti-cot. Never really slept alone until one day, we went to Ikea and she saw all the little beds and wanted one! But she was over two, up til then she'd been in with me!

KickArseQueenOfTheDamned · 21/10/2010 22:01

Hi Valz, I think I'd be tempted to just buy a single mattress and put it on the floor, I'd still put a bed guard on the side so he can't just roll out, but he wouldn't be able to hurt himself climbing to the floor iyswim?

cairns · 21/10/2010 22:42

Hello ladies
just seen this thread is still going! Sleep is getting better here too but still not great 5am wake ups every other day and I bring him in with me. He loves his cuddles and I must admit I quite like the snuggles too it doesn't last long. No speech yet but I do have a cheeky climber on my hands he is obsessed with anything vertical (so all of our dining chairs now live on top of our table) and shrieks with delight if he has an opening to climbing anything, I am so not used to this as I never had this prob before but thankfully ds1 is a fab early warning signal too.

I am so glad everyone is well

valz · 26/10/2010 19:25

hi Ladies started putting twin2 into his cot with his bottle at night since friday, he falls asleep when his bottles done, i have been sleeping in the same room so he woke about 5 times the first night, so id lay him down rub his face he'd dose off each time, as the nights went on he woke less and less and last night.....miracle he slept sound til 8.30am, it worked i cant believe it, soo hoping he sleeps through tonight. will keep yas posted.

how is everyone doing?

quixotic · 03/11/2010 00:30

Hello Ladies. Lovely to hear how you are doing, all going well for us. DD is climbing on everything too - deadly. Saying Daddy, Woof and Ish (fish), even her babysitters name, but no Mummy yet. Still waking in the night, can't wait for that to end. We are in Tokyo, it is a great experience but hard work and to be honest I am looking forward to our year being up so we can head off somewhere I can understand the language! BB2B - hope you are staring to feel better. Anyone else pregnant? DH talking about number 2 but I cannot face it yet!

valz · 04/11/2010 12:46

Quix im pregnant, had my 12 week scan yesterday, all looking good, due date May 13th. i spoke too soon my last post, my troublesome twin still wakes maybe twic a night but if i lay him down he goes back to sleep, i was sorta hoping he would quit waking though cuz i think hes still dependant on the comfort of knowing someone is close by. with another bambino on the way ive a feeling i'll be very very tired for most of next summer if i dont get this boy sorted very soon.

Anyone else any news for us?

valz · 04/11/2010 12:47

quix ur life seems so mysterious, not knowing where your headed next. do you move every year? im assuming its to do with your husband been relocated?

Hawkmoth · 09/11/2010 19:30

Anyone else been to A&E with their LO?

Couple of weeks ago I get one of those phonecalls you don't want to get, "James has fallen off the couch and your dad's called an ambulance ".

Anyway, he'd cut his head open (would have been much easier to hear) and I arrived hyperventilating five minutes later to find every downstairs room at my parents' house covered in blood. Also my dad looking like he'd butchered a lamb (he had blood on his hat!).

The cut must have been 8mm long, but obviously in a key place! Bit of glue and sluiced him off at casualty and back to normal. Are boys just like that?

Anyway, all fine now, trying to do Christmas shopping on a shoestring.

Latest thing for mine is that he keeps sleeping through lunch! If I go out and my parents look after him at night they seem to lack the iron will for that five minutes of fannying about moaning before he goes to sleep, so he ends up with a late night, then back in bed after breakfast and sometimes not up until I have to do the school run! Poor bugger is then ravenous.

Oh, and tantrums... anyone else having these yet? Massive GRRRRRRRS and throwing himself backwards... to the point where people comment! He also tried to wrench my earring out in Argos the other day, thankfully one of the o-rings gave before my ear (though not before I'd shouted "SHIT" quite loudly). The manager had already come out after he threw about 30 DVDs on the floor in the time it took me to key in my reservation number. Blush

Not pregnant here, or likely to be any time soon, but seriously broody, which is just bizarre as I only just feel half-human again!

KickArseQueen · 24/11/2010 01:14

Wow Valz! Congrats on your pregnancy!

Hawkmoth! you just described my worst nightmare! no 4 is a slippery nightmare at times ( most of the time!) as you take one breakable thing off him he grabs something else with the other hand, he see's a bookshelf, he has to empty it, a sofa, he has to jump on it ( frequently falling off) climbs into the middle of the diningroom table, pours any drink he can find onto the floor and splashes in the resulting puddle ala peppa pig! The whole time he has this mischevious glint in his eye. Its a bloody good job he's cute Grin

(and its a good job I've got a play pen too for my sanity!!) :)

duchesse · 07/12/2010 00:36

Congratulations on all the pregnancies ladies. I can't say I'm not just a teensy weensy bit jealous, but at nearly 43 DD3 is definitely my last. I feel lucky to have four healthy children and don't want to tempt fate any further. Last one was a close enough shave!

DD3 is just 15 mo and is a human dynamo and wrecking ball all in one. Gorgeous and cheeky and cute as well. Feel so very lucky to have her.

quixotic · 05/01/2011 03:34

Congratulations! I hink the at the moment is the hardest, over Christmas DD has had SO many injuries, many of them on her face, she looks like she has been beaten up. Hoping she gets a bit steadier soon. Constantly launching herself off stuff. Valz, we moved to Tokyo as DH was made redundant in the UK, but HURRAY we have a leaving date - third week of March we head back to the UK for a month then on to Canada (where DH is from) for hopefully the next few years at least. Dreaming of a little garden with veggies and understanding what everyone is saying! Grin

duchesse · 06/02/2012 15:15

I was just idly wondering how we all were, what we were all up to and how many new little siblings there are for our little August 2009ers. I would have loved to have another but DH is adamant- we both feel too old tbh to put up with another raft of broken nights. DD3 still not sleeping through the night as she wakes up scratching several times a night. Has not really slept through since she was about 5 mo and started getting the eczema. On the odd occasion that she does we wake up feeling oddly rested. Grin

Still living in the same place, still doing the same work (have had au pairs over the last 2.5 years which has helped a lot as I work from home), DS has done A levels and left for university in the same time, DD1 is in lower 6th and DD2 is in her first year of GCSEs. It all zips by so quickly...

KickArseQueen · 16/04/2012 00:49

No more little extras for me, not planned ones anyway Smile

My 4 are now 2, 4, 6, and 8. Who do they appreciate?

My 2009'er is a real monkey, good job he's cute!!!

Time is going too fast. Not enough minutes in the day...........

New posts on this thread. Refresh page