October 04 - Nearly 8 Months!

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Thanks girls, for letting me start this thread.

Well as Maisiemog and Biglips have said --- I am pregnant!

OMG - once I got over the shock I am now quite excited and dp is absolutely delighted.

EEK - I'm still on maternity leave!

Anyone else got a small age difference between babas - if everything goes O.K there will only be nearly 16 months between them.

Anyway, dd is fine and is now eating happily if not too well - still a bit of a chunkster - but lovely. She is now also drinking water - hurrah!!!!! Still no teeth or crawling but she is creeping backwards and sits up well.

Hope you are all well - still think this parenthood lark can be difficult!

Hi All, I have been around, lurking but not getting much of a chance to post as dd thinks the keyboard is by far the most entertaining thing ever, so all my typing ends up looking like this
sssssssskjdjkddddddd dddddddddddddddddddddddddddduuuuuuuuuuu uuuuuuuuuuerrrrrrrrrrrrrbfhhhhhbwejkp asuiophf80999999989dj fksdfhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

She is also teething, she has 2 bottom teeth so am I right in thinking top two are next? Up between midnight and 4 this morning trying to soothe her on-fire gums with calgel and cold teethers, but she was so cross and tired all she did was wail and thrash about. Finally she fell asleep through sheer exhaustion but I am now like the walking dead in work - also being 9wks pg is adding to the fatigue and I am ready to drop.

Pg is SO different this time round. I'm feeling sick constantly (only a little with dd),I am constipated yet windy, and I have a constant tummy ache. So not all happy in the Bibi household this week.

Sorry to whinge on about myself. I am feeling very "me, me, me" at the mo. Off now to ring dh for a bit of bolstering and some kind words. Then I'm going to pop the kettle on and get a couple of custard cremes down my neck and suggest all mummies out there do the same - together we can ahvea collective sugar rush and feel happy for the next 30 minutes at least

Hiya guys, just wondering if anyones thought of the 1st birthday celebrations. Have you got anything planned? I dont know whether to go out with dh and ds for the day or to have a tea party and invite close family. The only thing is having to invite mil and my dm. Mil thinks she owns ds and acts like she is his only nana which obviously really winds me up as it is a total lack of respect for my mum.I try and avoid them being together at all costs in fact I try and avoid my mil too. Maybe I should just have a open house.

Hi all. Managed to find 5 mins in between running round after Babymole. He might be little be he's sure fast! Have my hernia op tomorrow and am getting really nervous. It's the way everyone keeps saying they hope it goes well like there's a chance it won't. My Gran's funeral is next week. I feel really awful but the money she's left me is a godsend. We'll be able to clear a few debts like paying off the car loan and move to a bigger house. That sounds terrible doesnt it? Hope everyone's ok. Biglips - how's baba's bum? (if you dont mind me asking!) It's just that ds1 had a really sore bum and he ended up getting thrush altho it cleared it pretty quick with some cream from the hv. By the way Babymole is 10 mths today and is still absolutely crap at sleeping. My next goal is that he might be ok by 12 mths!

Kath, my op was ok, but I was sooo worried before, which I'm never usually like. I think it's babies, you start thinking what if something happens etc...
But of course it is so unlikely to go wrong, and it really is like you close your eyes and you open them and it's all over. I found they kept me pretty busy before I went in anyway, because so many different people were in and out of the room, then it was time to go. The worst thing was kissing Alfie goodbye in the lift, I got round the corner and started crying, but only for a couple of minutes and I was ok.
Best of luck with it.
I keep thinking now babymole's got top teeth he will be more like a proper mole
Alfie is crap at sleeping at the moment, he still doesn't have teeth, but they are really bothering him now. Oh that's him waking up again....

hi all - I handed in my notice today and will be skint SAHM from November! Scary but I'm looking forward to it. Even though I work part time, it wasn't working out with 3 young children and complicated and expensive childcare arrangements.

Well done cerys, and snap, I too am now sahm to 3 young children.
As to snacks DS2 doesn't get any yet (but he is not moving yet). When DS1 was little I just started a all food in the kitchen rule which still holds, they know they have to go and sit down to eat and even there friends know when they are in our house you sit at the table for a snack ( me and DH still eat in front of the telly when they are in bed )
Still undecided about the name thing - serves me right for choosing something related to work in the first place

Haha exgeog, I like it - sitting in front of the TV. It's the biz, we do that as well, but we are feeling the eating a table vibe from g'parents, and our internal ethics system. So we will no doubt sit AlfiePog at the table when he's big enough. At the moment, forget it - he takes a while to feed as he's so like: 'ooo there's a butterfly' 'Oooo what's that on TV' when I'm feeding him.
We normally eat after him.
Cazzy I think I do what you do with the snacks, I just find something for him to munch if there's a big gap between meals, like if we go out or something, then it's a bit of banana, or my sandwich or avocado (loves it - green frog mouth)
I'm still just using formula or water to moisten food, and we are trying not to give him wheat very often - just in case. I think I'll let him have wheat/dairy when he's one, but he's doing fine without at the mo. Eats lots of porridge.

Well DS is much cheerier, and he only had a few spots on his face so relatively unscathed (although had a v. painful bum). Now DD has a snotty cold which could be the start of CP? Not sure. This will make it a full week of not going anywhere I think....

Anyway, she has started refusing all her "baby" foods (mostly rice mixed with various things). Not sure why - could be that she is ill, or could be that she just likes toast, yoghurt and fruit and stupid Mum just tries to feed her rice and lentils instead... She had a banana for lunch and a nectarine and kiwi for tea. Getting quite good at stuffing banana in her face actually! And has learnt not to pick up her bits of broccoli and carrot and give them a chew but throw them on the floor without so much as a suck. No snacks for her BTW as I am still offering a feed inbetween meals. When I drop the feeds, I'll offer a snack instead.

Good luck for the hernia op Kath - DH had one a few years back and it went really well. Much less painful than having a hernia anyway!

Well, I'm still here. Went ok except no-one told me they give you an epidural type thing for the pain and in the afternoon they told me to get up to go to the loo which i did and both my legs promptly buckled underneath me! I felt a right plonker and my knees are really bruised now. Am in ruddy agony as well so feeling a tad sorry for myself today, had a little blubber last night as i felt so horrid. How pathetic am I?

By the way, I have some very fetching surgical stockings and paper pants they gave me to wear

OH Kath H poor you - hope you feel better soon. Think at the thought of paper pants I would cry too (and dp - he is maoning about maternity bras)

Aw Kath, sorry you feel so cr*ppy, but on the bright side, in a few days time you'll be right as rain and happily burning the surgical stockings in the garden.

As for snacking between meals, if dd hasn't finished a meal but isn't due eehr next on for a while, or if we're eating and can't bear her begging eyes, we sometimes give her apple rice cakes, savoury baby fingers (biscuit things, not REAL finge!) or some chopped up fruit to play with/eat. She has tried toast too, which she loves, but is totally unsafe to be given. I cut a piece up into small squares the other day and she promptly put about 6 of them in her mouth at once, until she was a red-faced, gagging, hamster-baby. So now I give her the squares one at a time and have learned my lesson that babies aren't very sensible

get well soon Kathh XXX and also i remember when we were all going thru that Baba not eating solida moment, well i remember baba went off all babas foods and she was happy with real foods!!, so now i give her babys foods of breakkie and desserts but her main meal is proper foods.... atm im just giving her bland foods as she is recovering (at last!) but i keep on wiping the big fat green slug that drips out of her nose ha ha ha!!! (yuck!)

yesterday went shopping and i ended up with a banging headache coz of baba was shouting at everyone .. people could hear her 3 aisles away and once they found it was her they said "oh it was you who doing all that shouting!" (im never gonna have a quiet baba as i crave for 5 mins quietness!!)... even more funny that she put her hand out to the people like if she wanted a hand shake or a kiss on the hand

bibi - awww as you tend to forget that they cannot feed themselves properly.. i noticed mine doesnt like brown toast as she prefer white!

does anyones babas loves music as she always doing like body popping when i turn to MTV - Go girl.. go, go, go!! or even if i sing songs to her, she doing that body popping

had everyone gone past 8 months? (should think so!) so can start a new thread nearly 10 months (as mine turned 10 months on monday)

My dd loves music too - we catch her dancing to music all the time. She kind of bounces up and down on her bot and sometimes if she's feeling really funky she waves her arms too.
Current faves are anything on VH2 (thanks to her Daddy) and the music on Big Cook, Little Cook.

She'll be 10m on 15th August, so go ahead and I'll join you on the 10m thread.

Ah Kath, hugs to you. Rotton things not telling you, you would think the nurses would come in and make sure you got to the loo alright.
Now make sure you take it easy, I thought I was ok and started doing stuff in the house and have been feeling so wiped out ever since.
Do you have to take iron or anything? Do you know how much blood you lost?
Glad to hear it all went well though, and now it's behind you and a lovely new house/holiday/car/icecream is in front of you.
Bibi Haha! your lo stuffing her face, that's so funny. What are babies like??? Pog tries to swallow whole things and then sits pulling a face for five minutes before vomiting - at least I get a warning.
Hi all. Hi preggy mums, taking it easy now!! Ham it up and get people to do stuff for you!!
I recommend a pedicure - I had my first on Friday. It was very nice.

Went to get DS weighed today, aparently I last went when he was 20 weeks He is falling through the centiles, so HV going to try and hurry my dietician appointment, anyone got any ideas on how to get more calories into him without any dairy? Now that is done he can have his 8 month check next week, just in time for him being 10 months.

Bellie spotted you in Boots this morning but didn't think I could yell 'Bellie' across the store.

geogteach you should have done - my dh would have done .

dd is still being a fussy eater - she will only eat breadsticks and cheese as finger foods - anything remotely healthy (carrot sticks etc) get flung as far as possible!! She will not eat savoury off a spoon either so cheese and bread it is!! However as she will eat fruit or yoghurt from a spoon I have to confess to sneaking in the odd spoon of veggies covered in pudding .

Florence - hope dd doens't ge the chickenpox so you can go on hols.
Masiemog glad the op went well
Biglips - dd likes music too - she has a drum from elc that plays reggae music when you hit it - when it turns off she crawls right across the room to start it again - very funny !!

Geogteach - what about avacado?

Oops - sorry Kath - glad the op went ok

Yes I was going to say avocado as well, although DD doesn't eat it - might try it mixed in with banana, I'm sure DS ate this once? Plus frying everything up in lots of olive oil. How about chips?

Kath - hope you are on the mend soon. Bibi, hope you're feeling better soon, if my memory serves correctly my morning sickness went at 12wks with both pregnancies.

No spots yet...

right girls im gonna start a new thread "October 04 - nearly 10 months!"

sseeeee yyyoooouuuu tttthhhheeerrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!