October 08 - The Birthday Thread

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10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama/50ftQueenie - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz - Home water birth with gas and air.
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

Morning ladies.

Aubergenie. Thats fab news. Sleep always helps to make you feel like a new woman.

Star I mean it that you are brave. I come from a very repressed family so being open about inner emotions is very hard. Well done for confronting DH, it is good that he understands just how hurtful some of his comments can be.

HMM try not to worry about loosening the strings just yet. P is still tiny and so take it at your own pace.

CSWS, how unreliable is your elbow then? Do you lose it often

Jenwa the implant looks well snazzy. Not sure about the 5 year thing though. As it is internal that would boost your self-confidence alot though. Dilema.

50ft. As it happens I have to go back to BW to take back one of DH jumper things. He has decided it is just too big!!! Star is just the right shape to get stuff in the dark shop Wednesday is it? I will have to leave a bit earlier as I have to pick up from school. Yah more lunch & chats.

MamaG. Thats about right. DH threatned DD2 with taking her to school in her PJ's if she didnt get a move on getting dressed this morning!
I had hoped that my rather neglectful laid back parenting style would not be noticed. I have learnt the hard way if you smother a child they just kick back harder(dd1) or they become so completely dependant, you end up sending your child to school unable to put their own socks on like my best friends 2 boys.
I am currently having the headache of how to negotiate with a pre teen. DD1 gets to walk or ride her bike to & from school most days. That was hard to let go, DH still not happy about it.

Go jump on your trampoline all afternoon, csws! if I lived at your house, that's what I would do - it was sooooooooooooo tempting when we were there on Saturday

I forgot to mention (did I?) that Q slept from 6.45pm-5.30am without ANY wakes last night. he did stir a bit but I left him for a minute and he settled back on his own yay!
When he woke at 5.30, I let him have some oatmilk from his cup and he took a few sips, laid down next to me, and then slept next to me until 6.30 - when I had to get up - he stayed in and slept a bit longer with DH after that

I'm going to let myself get un- about the situation with your ds, 50ft before I reply something ranty.

What's the dark shop? And I'm not the right shape for anything over the past 3 weeks! I'm sick of carrying around these extra pounds - my fault for eating sweets, i guess. I was feeling a really good happy medium, not anaemic and sickly thin anymore and not totally overweight, but now feeling chubby again. Maybe my body was just jealous of Q's - he's so squidgy and pudgy and cute!! DH thinks he's "too fat" .
btw - any of you who saw Q... did you think he weighs too much? He hasn't gained much at all over the past 3 months, but he's still so "solid". I know he'll thin out over time (after hearing about 50ft's ds, especially), but DH seems to think we're over feeding him..

OH! And speaking of that... Q REFUSED dinner last night ("tea" as you'd call it) and still slept through . So, i can't be OVER feeding him... he eats what he wants, when he wants... maybe that's the problem... ugh, self doubt. no instincts. rubbish.

i saw the column on co sleeping but i love how they say it is cause of most cot death but only after you read it do you relaise they are referring ot those who drink/smoke/take medication that it actually poses a risk too!!!

Star Q is definitely not fat!! he's a baby boy... he needs the fuel as he's doing so much growing and walking around ever-so-confidently

they get less dependant on food to sleep as time goes on, so don't read too much into that... the last thing you want to be doing is worrying about him eating too much!

I am wondering whether i am over-labouring my point or not... but Q is absolutley perfectly proportioned IMHO, he looks such a healthy happy little lad.

and by the way... the only way you are carrying "extra pounds" is in your purse

Myjob how is N head today? Did you put some Arnica on her bruise? Works wonders.
I have sympathy for you. W is a right grumpy monkey. He is currently trying to smash the tv remote over my head

Pistachio. If you have no where to go then dont worry. Have a lazy day as my girls call it, which translates to mummy cant be arsed. Dont beat yourself up. You had a massively busy weekend and DS birthday. You can have slow days as well. It doesnt allways have to be an activity filled day.

Star. Stop it right now. The dark shop is for skinny birds. I bought a jumper in large and it fits just!!
Q is bigger because he is walking around. Otherwise he wouldnt be able to stand up and take his own weight. It is almost impossible to overfeed a baby because they feed till they are full and no more. You dont give any naughty stuff so dont worry. I get the impression the DH is a bit of a worrier when it comes to Q. Nothing wrong with that mind you.
50ft. Make an appointment and go back another day. They have to see you if you ask. Maybe she is crap at expressing herself in the tiny slots you get at open evening.
DD1 is next week.

oooh ksal - I wish I was carrying extra pounds in my purse!

Ronshar - yes, dh is a BIG worrier when it comes to Q.

He couldn't deal with letting him cry when we did sleep training, always rushes to him when he grunts or whines at all, asks him to point to the puppy/cow/blue/red... whatever objects are usually out on his play easel and worries when Q doesn't get the right answer The HV said Q's head circumference was "a bit small" but that "some people just have small heads" and DH KEEPS referring to it whenever Q doesn't understand something!!! and worries when Q bangs his head on the wall (on purpose )that he'll lose too many brain cells I'm laughing out loud to myself writing that, actually!

Ronshar - lol at the mummy can't be arsed comment.

myjob - Glad N's head is feeling better. Poor girl

jenwa - Those are cool - big decision though!

star - i'm thinking i read somewhere that they don't eat more than they need till they're about 2? Only then do they realise you can eat chocolate just for the sake of it! Q has about the healthiest diet of any baby I know and he's just the right size for a Q!

Q is the perfect size star - not chubby at all! Ds def wins the chubby prize on this thread

Wahhhhhh! I wrote a really long post about ds when he was little and how similar he was to Q. Then MN decided to do some urgent maintenance and it disappeared.

Q is fine, he sounds just like ds and look at ds now, both academically & physically.

As for you young lady, if you're over weight, then I must be a shut in! I'll have to call the fire brigade to cut me out of the house so I can come to BW next week.

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no need to swear 50ft!

Ooops. That was M's contribution to the thread. Don't know how she posted it though......

dear lord what is the matter with these children. I'll never last without alcohol till DH gets home
DS1 has just pooed his pants
DS2 has broken the DVD trying to watch Monsters & Pingu at the same time
DD is clinging on to me for dear life, cutting 3 teeth and spreading snot and sad baby faces wherever she goes.
All is not well in the pepper household.
Thank god i'm going to work tomorrow!

Apologies for the blaspheming in my last post! Pizza (which i have tested) has helped muchly with the crisis point we were reaching here.

star my DH worries that BabyG is too fat as well I just tell him its his reserve tank for growing! He's showing no signs of thinning out as yet but he's a big boy wiht a big build (HUGE hands and feet and v tall) so I'm not worried. He'd look odd thin!

Ronshar - oh yes, the pre teen HELL! We're treading on eggshells some days. She wnats to go play out on her own, but we live right on a busy road so I say no (meanie). She's also choosing all her own clothes (with input from me - no DD, you can NOT have the red high heels) and has had her ears pierced ().