March 08: We're about to get our first little sister or brother!

[turtle23]

Thought I'd start a new thread as as soon as evie pops we're bound to fill it hugely and some of us have phones to work with!

Happy New Year all - I am back!!! Broadband finally fixed after sensible BT engineer realised previous engineers had not actually bothered to wire up my broadband correctly at the exchange. I'm crap at DIY but could probably have done better myself. Been offline for a month and now have DS sat in front of Meg & Mog DVD eating his bodyweight in blueberries while I catch up on everything I've missed!!!

turtle - P and my DS are clearly two peas in a pod. I have been off work for 5 weeks with move, and the only response I get to anything I say is "one two three four five six choo choo beep beep". I am so desperate to get back to work next week

DP - so sorry to hear about your dad. I've been able to follow on facebook/here via mobile but not been able to post as it is very temperamental. Anyway I hope the funeral and wake was cathartic.

hello to everyone else.

New house is wonderful - despite the move and Christmas and snow and how discombobulating that has all been, I don't miss our old home at all

anyway cheerio, i'm off to surf 'tinternet like there's no tomorrow

I have been lurking once again. Mainly looking for info on the question posed by yourself timelordvictorious regarding the swine flu jab letter...

I have no idea what to do. One day I am scared into saying "no way - not a chance" and the next I talk to people in RL and I am like "oh no - defo getting LO the jab" then back on the net only to go "nope - no way is he getting it.." I am totally undecided at the mo. Would be devastated and unable to live with myself if I decide against it and he gets ill or if I go for it and he gets ill either now or in the future... This is just awful. I am sure it will be in the press many years in the future for one reason or another.

So sorry for your loss DP. My heart goes out to you.

Hello to everyone else and disbelief that we are all going to have 2 yr olds (and brand new wee baba's to a few of you too!) in the very near future.

Oh,and I have to ask, why does my LO love ALL the tv shows I detest... Dora, Diego, Barney FFS!!! Oh and now Fireman Sam which I sooooo hoped he would hate but I had little nephew over for the day and he is a Sam-a-holic n the pair of them were glued to the tv while it was on... Sigh...

No offence to those who love the above shows. Just my personal opinion. I actually quite like Dora now... AND Diego except for Clllllick la camara!!! LOL

Sorry - I shall go away and sit quietly in the corner now and stop butting in

re jabs...for me personally it is a no. They offered it to me as I was pg (letter actually came AFTER T was born.) Got P's letter last week and even before T's immunisation nightmare I was going to say no.
If for no other reason, I have said no because if you have even a sniff of illness it's inadvisable. Child goes to nursery=always ill or on the verge. With my luck I'd jab him the same day that the pox started showing or that he actually HAD swine flu.

P plays with cars, trains, planes and puzzles. And anything that has numbers on. At this exact moment he is trying to balance trains into a tower and saying one, two , three...oh nooooooooooooo

Not sure about sf jab either. I have had it, a few months ago when they started doing pg women. Really not sure what to do.

DD and DH gone off on daddy-daughter adventure this morning- British Museum.

DD's talking has totally kicked off the past month or so. She loves this fridge phonics toy and has started to point out A, I, D and H in books. They're just little sponges! tlv, I agree with you- I love every stage more and more too.

Hi all, still here & reading, feeling mostly ok but shattered. Still haven't had time to come to terms with things I think, been too busy keeping my mum organised & fed/watered while she's fielded all the phone calls. Very strange being back to "normal" at home, so quiet again. My mum's enjoying things by the look of it, she's finally coming out of her shell after 54 1/2 years of a crappy oppressive marriage.

Thanks PAra, turtle & Meg.

Have been listing things on ebay today, took all afternoon just putting 10 items on for the 0-3 pile of leftover clothes, though I seem to have many many gro/sleeping bags stockpiled.
Haven't the energy to get the bigger clothespile listed yet (bigger only because i haven't given most away to friends). That'll have to wait for another free listing day, sigh.

The little monster continues to run riot through our lives, it amazes me how much he understands but also how much he can communicate by just pointing and going huhhuhhuh then screaming if you don't give him what he wants. Thought he was chewing on a raisin or dog's biscuit today until he spat it out on request - was a little tyre from one of his toy cars

Swineflu jab - nope.

MotM glad you're back in broadband land

Pants - belated happy anniversary!

Turtle, hope your boys are both ok now & ex hasn't found another excuse now the snow has melted...

TLV, if you buy that lovers' lead you can never watch the Apprentice in the same light again...they featured it last series

Sorry if I've missed anyone off on the replies, you were chatty while I was away & U can't follow the thread on my phone!

Lots of love to you and the family DP, be kind to yourself.

Swine flu jab is a no-no here. It seems to be pretty mild on the whole and DD has a pretty good immune system now after 18months at nursery - I suspect she's already had it actually but it just melted in to a number of other cold/viruses she had last year!

DD is really chatty now too, doesn't shut up actually. Constant stream of jabbering, it's very cute. She also wants to take her baby and buggy with her everywhere which is a nightmare, she inevitably gets fed up of it and I end up carrying it, baby and her toddlers!

turtle, how are things? Is D back now?

hello hello. hope you're OK DP and turtle. i've been on own a lot recently, dh working mucho hard at present. weird and wide variety of clients. deffo case of what recession, which is weird, just weird. not what we expected at all, maybe it will come later i his line of work.

i'm about 60% through a job application, because it's such a sweet and obvious kind of thing (0.6wte, local, brainy enough, not really challenging, just a year's contract for mat cover). haven't thought through (m)any of the ramifications, just going for it with DHs whole hearted support, as getting somewhat stir crazy. will carry on this way, hanging out for work from his company, lobbing in apps for really good fit other jobs. but feel unsettled just doing this! what will it be like when i actually get something??

Merry - best of luck with job app. It sounds like an ideal reintro to work so I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

First day back at work here since before Christmas (!) so first commute around the M25. It wasn't at all pretty - stop start much of the way - but it took the same as my guesstimate for a clearish run so I guess I had overestimated the distance.

The journey wasn't helped by the fact that I was feeling knackered and nauseous, due to the fact that I am 6 weeks pregnant I lost the baby at 5 and a bit weeks in November, then found out 2 weeks ago that I was pg again. Been on tenterhooks just desperate to at least get past where we got to last time so at least we are there now. I've been nauseous for the last few days which is great (ask me next week if I'm still saying that!) as I didn't get that last time. There's still a long, nervous way to go but scan should be end Feb/early March which doesn't seem so far away, and then baby is due in mid Sept. Keep your fingers and toes crossed for me

meg- fingers and toes crossed!

DP and turtle- hope things are looking up this week

merry- good luck with the job! v exciting!

big hi to everyone else xx

yay, good luck Meg! what excellent news.

it must get so boring doing a busy drive commute, what keeps you sane? podcasts? radio? that what's it called? oh yes, 'thinking' thing?

Meg- hurrah! goog news!
MB- good luck with job!

I'm bored of illness. Please send in healthiness to my brood.

Meg, that's fab! Massive congratulations.

Merry, very exciting news indeed. Fingers crossed for you. How is your big boy getting on at school?

Glad to hear you're doing ok, DP, thinking of you.

Turtle, if we had some well vibes I'd send them. Bloke has been on the sofa complaining of something very vague but debilitating since the weekend, and Ff is sneezing away.(Tis v funny though. Whenever she sneezes she also shouts 'ahhhhhchooo!')

Hi to everyone else

Meg, fab news, keeping everything crossed for you & nausea is great when you think of it from that perspective!

MB, more fingercrossing on the job front!

Turtle, focus on everyone being well and healthy rather than them not being sick, subtle difference. You can have my crossed toes as fingers already taken up. Would send you all Reiki but think my batteries are too low as i can't get it to work on myself at the minute

And now with great timing, bband connection has vanished at home, am reduced to sneaking a peek in work or on the phone. If it continues to the weekend I may be forced to find social abilities

Been a serious lurker again, but had to post a big to Meg. Must be hard doing the commute when nauseous, but you could take some ginger to munch on in the car!

DP So sad to hear about your news, especially at the time of year it happened. Hope E is a great healer for you and your mum.

Ewe and Little Ducks and TLV, how on earth do you manage to study aswell as everything else. Hats off to you guys!

Big wave to everyone else too

We made the decision to make DS's cot into his bed last weekend. Sunday night I was regretting it slightly as it took nearly an hour and a half to go to sleep and with me sitting next to him and cuddling him. Monday night was only an hour, and last night was 30 minutes. Its so strange as I'm used to putting him in his awake, and leaving him. Can't do that now as he is off!!! His night waking is getting better 3rd day in too and I'm hoping by the weekend he'll be back to a 730 wake up.

DSD's are getting all grown up. DSD2 (the younger twin) started her first period yesterday morning. She has been fab about it, no worrying or fretting at all. Credit to her, although she doesn't want her sister to know, yet. Think I will encourage her to tell her after it has finished, and before their mum wades in and announces it to the world!

i think filling in this form will take longer than all our kids illnesses laid out end to end.

think it's the inability to do more the 25 minutes at a time, as dh away so much now

MB - give GG the pen, see if he can make some artistic impresssion on the application

TiaT - hello! There's a theory on periods that it's similar to the whole childbirth experience - if you get told they're horrible, painful etc that's what you expect & end up with, whereas if you don't know much about it, you get an easier life. Don't know how generalised that is, but makes some sense with the whole fear/tension/pain thing, so keep her positive!

On the subject of converting cot to bed, am prepping for it, but have the double whammy of E growing out of his grobags now. Don't want to buy bigger size if only using for a couple of months, but don't know if I should try him with a duvet thing first while still in jailbed, or free him from the bars, but risk him not being able to climb back in after getting out, due to feet being enclosed in sleeping bag iyswim?

He's such a wriggler I think he'll have to stay bagged up until he's 60

(feel like a bad mother as I put P in a double bed at 13 months...)

Timmy - already have ginger biscuits in car. and haribo sours too

DP - I have the exact same dilemma! We're doing up DS's new room so want to use that opportunity to move him up to big bed but he's about to outgrow grobags and worried about new room, new bed and new duvet all in one go. But he's dealt with new house and nursery so bloody well, it's clearly just me panicing.

You might want to look at grobag duvet thing. I don't think it's worth it for us, as we don't have a huge wriggler so I think he'll be fine after a few nights. and i think it's a bit of overengineering for what is probably a minor problem, but the monkey print one is cute! they get zipped in to a duvet. meant to mean they don't get cold but actually means they can't get out

MB - currently all about Radio 4 on the commute. Today programme in am and then whatever they have on at 4pm on way home (yesterday about growing up ethnic minority and albino, today about aspirin as a preventative for cancer - i feel like i'm learning interesting things i never knew i would like to know!) DH bought me some History of Modern Britain CD which should do a couple of weeks commute when I get bored of Radio 4 (if ever possible!) and then I could always try Capital FM if I am really desperate

gg i firmly in cot bed with bars and growbags now and for as long as possible. the double prison approach being needed to stop him playing 24/7. and we just can't stop him waking at 0545, while his brother needs to sleep til around 7. so no, he's staying in prison longer than ds1 did.

meg, actually that sounds like own-time heaven

on the grobag thing...a long zip costs about £7.50. You could easily do the same thing yourself. how much is a set of sheets?
P has never fallen out of bed. I knew my preg pillow would get used one day...it keeps him company in the big bed. Am not moving him to a single when we move as I like getting in with him.
When the plague ends here I get to suffer the indignity of applying for full benefits. D cant be assed to buy us somewhere.

Ff imprisoned cosy in cot and Grobag for the forseeable future I think. She hasn't made any attempts to escape yet, and is still small enough to have plenty of room in the Grobag. It's not broke, so we're not going to fix it.
We're moving her to the bigger bedroom after her birthday, so might have a think about it then.

Am so excited about this weekend. After months of revision and seemingly endless proofread job, I've got a gap between freelance work, and not too much reading, plus am off to Cardiff tomorrow to stay with old uni friends, minus child and Bloke.

Meg - I am a R4 fiend too, and heard the asprin programme on my way home from uni yesterday. Started listening on marathon bf sessions, and am addicted.

Turtle - I never even looked at the price of the grobag duvet as I knew it would be expensive and cause unnecessary wincing

My niece and nephew were both moved into big beds before they had attempted to escape from their cots. It meant that for a good year after moving, neither of them worked out that they were actually able to get out of their bed themselves so would wait patiently to be picked up by mum or dad! I'm hoping this dimness runs in the family (DH's I hasten to add!) and shall be praying for the same with L.

TLV - I was a R4 addict when at university as didn't have a tv and it got me through many a marathon essay crisis. Then in my young, free and single days i would always listen to book at bedtime or the late book whle tucked up in bed even when completely trolleyed! But bf marathons were accompanied by a discovery of Living TV and Hallmark so rediscovering proper time for R4 is the only advantage of my current too-long commute! Still wfh today so I can't complain too much about only having to do it 2 days a week.

Can I just add that P NEVER gets out of bed until I say he can? It's slightly irritating. If I am next door feeding T I have to actually get up and go into his room and say that it is morning.

d is what? turtle? farking hell. are you going to get any support from him?? very angry for you. also for one of my local mum friends, who ex has remarried and decided on 23/12/09 that he'd stop paying maintenance. as you do. with no warning. etc. even my mild mannered dh is incensed and said 'i'm not one to say it but i'd love tok now where he lives and go round and sort him out'. the stress for you both