April 2009 - Chapter 5 - The one where no-one is allowed to feel guilty (except about all the chocolate...)

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There will be chocolate fines for the guilty!

oooh soo glad bebe. it feels so nice to feel comfortable in your glad rags dont it!

It is nice.
I'm going to have to have a thought about more clothes...they're a little expensive...and of course the size that I wear are sold out online :P such is my luck...

To contribute to the Bristol milk bank, we would have to have another baby...wonder if DP would go for that as a good reason to have DC3?

My dh is...he keeps telling me that he wants the next asap..but I keep reminding him that if we want to go to the US for my sisters wedding in May now is NOT a good time to be pregnant and the soonest we should get pregnant is January

Has anyone every bf when NOT wearing a nursing bra? I'm having a little trouble finding one which will be hidden under the tops I was thinking I could wear....

please dont all go getting pg. I will feel very left out

I dont wear one sometimes bebe. I wear a soft cup tshirt bra thats soft enough to yank down. Mind I couldnt have done that would my first but have a bit extra give in my boobs these days

Bronze that's pretty much all that Oscar does as well... he's rolled from front to back 4 times in his life a fortnight apart but I think they were freak accidents as he hasn't done it since! He can't sit up on his own (although he's pretty good propped up) and he can't even grab his feet yet... in fact, he's pretty much the least active baby from our ante-natal group - I think its because he's such a lardy lump.

I was chatting to a friend about this and he said that he's never met any 20 year olds that can't roll over, which I think is a pretty good point.

Bebe - that's fab I bet you feel all yummy mummyish now... I'm such a cheapskate I only have 2 nursing bras - a black one and a grey one (formerly white, but since Oscar turned up I don't separate whites and colours as I simply can't be arsed). I kept meaning to buy some pretty ones but I'm probably over halfway through my bf career with O so seems a bit of a waste...

Counting down to my hols... only 2 weeks to go until we have 2 weeks in Cornwall - two whole weeks of DH being around during the day to help with O... long walks, clotted cream teas, pasties, cycle rides, surfing, sailing, sun (well, maybe) sea and...

... just sand probably

Bicnod - I think you're right about the weight. Holly is practically crawling whereas Ellen took a lot longer because she was much more of a chubster. She is slim-ish now but still has a Johnny Vegas belly.
I'm very jealous of your Cornwall plans. Have a fabulous time.

Bebe - I can't remember what normal bras look like. My underwear drawer is a sorry, sorry sight.

Will I have burned enough calories gently floating around in the baby pool today to warrant a big bag of maltesers?

bebe I've only ever worn sports bras - I have a nursing bra and I hate it. I fully intend to design one when I have some time!

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Have started giving baby porridge to Felix (21 weeks now).

For the last couple of weeks he has started waking up in the night again, and he is very grumbly in the day. He feeds every 45 minutes and I have regular milk overflows. It suddenly occurred to us ... duh, maybe he is actually hungry. DH weighed him to see how he was doing, and worked out how old he was while I made up some baby porridge for him with some bm. He then scoffed the whole bowl down, grabbing the spoon himself half way through to speed the process up. Then he had another whopping great bf and started smiling and chirrupping away like he used to.

WhatshotparentsweareitsamiracletheotherthreesurvivedBoffinMum

That should have been a profanity in the last line.

Puzzle - I'll have a pasty or two for you

Boff - hurrah that's exactly what O did (grabbing the spoon) when I gave him the baby rice for the first time. What kind of baby porridge are you giving Felix?

Does anyone have any tips on how to get through a teething baby stage without buying shares in calpol? We're giving him calpol at bedtime most nights at the moment because he's crying in pain and won't go down without it we're not giving it to him during the day, but his teeth seem to start bothering him late afternoon and i don't know how to help him. we've got some of those teething rings you chill in the fridge and he chomps on them for a minute or two but then just gets upset again. poor little scrap - it must hurt so much. really hoping the little blighters break through the gum soon. is it really bad to give him one dose of calpol every night until his teeth stop hurting him? it won't do him any harm will it? DH says it won't but feeling a bit anxious about it...

And some Rodda's clotted cream too? Obviously not with the pasty.

Ashtons and Parsons powder worked for Ellen. Holly seems to prefer the bonjela though. It's horrible to see them suffer.

Bicnod, it's some organic multigrain thing by a firm called Plum his dad bought.

BTW if the Calpol helps him cope, then go with it. 2.5ml I believe.

Puzzle - if you were holding H at the time, then that's two bags of Maltesers, obviously.

Bicnod seconding the A&P powders over here - can't stand the feel of the teeth[boak face emoticon]

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Tell me more about these powders; what do you do with them? Where do you buy them? How much do they cost? If I ask my mother to send me some, will they be intercepted by customs as suspected drugs?

JJ, we are in the Vaucluse, not the Var, a bit further north and west than where you were.
When it was so hot, I found that I was drinking litres and litres of fluids each day. Unusual for me, as I generally drink very little, far less than is recommended.
It's cooler now, 21° in the morning, though today is shaping up to be hotter again.

Took A to the CM's this morning and he grinned at her and snuggled into her neck when she held him. I am sooooo relieved this is working out so well.
I have a resit exam invigilation on Friday to mark my return to work. In France, university exams are a joke; they are held in lecture halls without numbered seats, students have a bird's eye view of the papers below and in front of them, they keep their bags and other junk with them, cheat like nothing on earth, refuse to hand their papers in at the end until they have finished everything and are very, very bolshy if you try and tell them to do anything. I hate invigilating here.

i keep meaning to pop in and say hi, but then i don't as I don;t feel i've time to type all i should. But then I keep doing that and eventually you'll all just think i'm rude, so i'm saying hello! HELLLLO! xx

Hi Frekkles how are things?

Puzzle - definitely some Rodda's clotted cream. Are you a raisins in scones person or a plain scones person? I think raisins in scones are bad and wrong.

Right, so I'm going to go and get some of this magical powder first thing tomorrow and will report back. Fingers crossed it works or I might have to throw Oscar out the window.

Auld - great news about the childminder that must be such a relief. O is supposed to be going to a nursery three days a week once I go back to work (which hopefully won't be til sometime next year, finances allowing), but have been chatting to a friend up the road with a baby of a similar age about nanny sharing. Anyone had any experience of this?

Sun is shining but I still haven't managed to get outside to sort out the front garden... O has a severe case of velcro babyness which is doing my head in somewhat. Please let these teeth break through sooooooooooooooooooooooooooon...

Hiya Frekkles! Hope everything's OK in sunny (?) Edinburgh.

Bicnod, nanny sharing sounds like a great idea...

Bicnod - Most definitely plain. Anything else is an abomination.

JJ - I shall despatch DH to the sweet shop forthwith.

Project Elderberry Jelly was an unmitigated success! Hurrah!

As a blasphemous Midlander, I love fruit in my scones (sultanas for preference), pronounce it to rhyme with 'bone', and put the jam on under the cream, which my Devonian friend assures me is wrong.

Aston & Parsons for Auld. Each one is a tiny amount of powder in an old-school-pharmacy wrap of paper, so they might look a bit suspicious!

Ashton