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

I?m very glad you weren?t having a heart attach 50ft.

My sister?s going through that whole teenage daughter thing at the moment. She?s got one really sensible one and one who could very easily go off the rails. She?s very unreliable about calling when she?s supposed to and always losing her phone/keys etc. My dsis is having horrible sleepless nights at the moment as my niece was followed home from school a couple of times recently. When she heard about it, my sis rang the police station just to be on the safe side, but it turns out that the (admittedly very vague) description fits that of a man wanted for serious sexual assault and murder a mile or so away. Horrible. The murder squad turned up to get more info but it?s gone quiet.

Ronshar ? you?re so right about smothering children. I was shocked to get my new Year 4 class in September and discover that about 4 of them still can?t do their laces up.

50ft ? I?m really appalled at your ds?s teacher. I would always try to tell a parent something positive first before voicing any concerns. If she?s so worried about something that she feels the need to mention it to you over and above anything else, then she should bloody well be doing something about it. If he was really quiet and shy, I?d be referring him to the learning mentor (if they have one) for some small group sessions to build his confidence. I?d also be giving the children partners to discuss answers with before getting anyone to answer. I?d also be doing some circle time activities to talk about the fact that it?s OK to make mistakes. I?d also try things like singing the register instead of just saying it. Has he told you that the reason he doesn?t answer because he?s frightened of getting it wrong? Is he not getting started on his work because he?s chatting, or because he doesn?t understand what he should be doing? I think it might be worth making another appointment with her for a longer chat.

She hasn't delivered the goods myjob!

50ft. You do make me smile, alot.
I suggest perhaps a bike, with baby seat. A more positive outlook as well. How will you conceive number three if carring a little extra??? and at your age ronshar runs away. Fast.

Pre teen hell update.
She hates dd2, I say that is a very strong and unkind word so DD1 revises it to she is really annoying and I want to move out!!
I explain that she would have to live in the shed in the garden. No thats not good enough. H will have to leave home
DD1's next solution is to move poor innocent W out of his room and in with DD2. Just so she can have a room to herself.
Oh and yes DD1 also has her ears pierced even though I had made it clear she would have to wait until the end of middle school. Dont get me started on clothes shopping. She is down to one pair of trainers and slip on shoes which are too big. Fussy bugger doesnt like anything. Literally anything.

ronshar - there is another MNer friend of mine who has 2 dds, who I think now must be 10 and 8 or 9 (c 18 months between them) and a ds who is 3.8. They have just done some building work to move from a 2 bed house to a 3 bed house, and it is her dd1 who has got the new bedroom to herself, and her dd2 and ds are sharing. Not sure what will happen when they are all older, but for now it's working.

Thanks very much

Oh dear Ronshar, that does sound hard work! I was so glad when I had a boy, but now I have M so I will have the teenage girl joy too. And I'd probably get killed cycling round my way, there are no good places to cycle. I agree that I need to be more positive, I am very good at being negative! And why do you need to run away, you said a little extra when in reality I am probably carrying an extra 10 year old!

Aubergenie - Dear God that's terrible! I think that is every mother's worst nightmare isn't it? Your poor sister! I am going to wait a couple of weeks to see if my chat with ds helps and then have another meeting with the teacher. He did say that he is scared of being wrong and the teacher does have a fearsome reputation. She did say to us that she tries to encourage them to not worry about being wrong as it is the trying that is important, but who knows how that comes across to a 6 year old. He is slow with his work because he gets distracted, not because he doesn't understand. Apparently his group were doing independent work and another group were having a story read to them. DS was listening to the story rather than getting on with his work. The teacher said, and I quote "the book was way below his reading level so I don't see how he could possibly have got anything out of listening. He should have been doing his work and I can't wait around for him to decide to finish. The rest of the group had finished and he had barely started so I told him I would put him in detention unless he did his work." Poor little fella.

MamaG - Off to look at BabyG's picture now.....

P has been clingy again this eve, she hates me leaving the room She did go to bed at 6:15 as was shattered today as never slept this afty.

50ft So P gets the award for 1st walking girl then???

The implant procedure looks odd, I know they would have to remove a part of it every 5 yrs to replace the battery and not sure how often you can re enter into the same scar tissue, unless they velcro me shut . I really need to think about it as I do think I am wanting it mainly for cosmetic reasons!

pepper what a nightmare afternoon for you! I bet you will be glad to go to work! Was it not you though who said you would never not advise on having 3 children

star at your shopping not coming! I had that with tescos once but they put a relief driver on. What a nightmare, I hope you get money off and free delivery!

Lol at the star jumps too sorry 50ft also at the boobs, I want some! Mine are still shrinking

Aubergenie, I have that fear every day but try not to ruin DD's life with it. I know they are more likely to be harmed by someone known to them, than a stranger. So help anyone who touches my girls. DH would not sleep until he had finished them off. Yuck but true.

50ft it was the age comment I was running from

MamaG your children are indeed scrummy.

To all those having a bad day.
I say cheers ladies, have a glass of wine/neat vodka on me.

I meant to go to bed ages ago but am still stuck to the sofa.....
Night girls.

I told my mummy that you were all laughing at me in my hour of need. Funnily enough, she laughed at me too.

Jenwa - I think that P is the first properly walking girl. M can walk, I think she's just a bit nervous. She hardly holds on to anything when she's scooting around between furniture but she just won't make the move to independent walking! She did manage to get half way down the stairs tonight though. I was right behind her but she was absolutely fine.

And you really, really, really don't want huge boobs. They are dreadful. I can't wait to get my lovely, relatively small Ds back!

Sorry not gone.
I also meant to say.
Cosmetic isnt so bad if it makes a huge difference to your daily living Jenwa. If it helps then go for it.
I shall make a badge for P, as the first properly walking girl here.

Ronshar - DH would be the same. Oh and about the age. Are you and Hmm trying to give me a complex?

Not at all I say it from the lofty position of almost being the oldest person on this thread.
I have a few years worth of wrinkles more than you my girl

I thought you said pub and I was very

That's 'almost the oldest except for that CSWS, who is a right old wrinkly' is it ronshar?

Oi CSWS! You're only a year older than me! Less of that talk! I totally agree with you BTW on the parenting style front, I don't want to ruin Poppy's independent streak cos we're overly cautious. I guess we'll start relaxing more and more as time goes on.

She's such a monkey, her latest thing is to stand up in the bath - virtually throughout bathtime . Oh and she climbed on the couch for the first time today. And DH has an Elmer book he reads to her every night and he always shows her the "sssnake" on a particular page. I started saying "sssss" this morning and she pointed up at the bookshelf immediately. When I got the book down and I said "Poppy show me the ssssnake", she immediately turned to the page with the snake on and pointed to it. The girl is quite obviously a genius!

50ft - hahaha re star jumps. Hilarious Glad you're OK tho

MyJob, I hope N is feeling better?

I apologised to DH on his return from work today so all is well again in the HMM household. God, I was a witch yesterday!!

sounds a lot like our night, myjob... maybe it's the moon
Q got up at 3, went back down at 4-5 then was up for hte day. Hip hip hooray!

50ft - that teacher is just appalling. There are so many things that she could be doing to help your DS and she's not doing any of them. As for a book being "way below his level" ?? ? I don't even have to say what you all know I'm going to say about that! It makes me so that there are teachers like that out there. Threatening detention (and to a 6 year old??) because he was interested in listening to a story? Oh god FORBID a child ENJOY literature and attentively listen to a story... god forbid he didn't "block it out" so he could do his "busy work" - which I'm sure, considering what you've told me...that's what it was. Teachers like that should not be permitted to teach this age level. These are formative years and all children learn in different ways, have different tolerances for noise, distractions...etc and it is the job of the teacher to differentiate and cater to the needs of ALL of the students in the classroom. I won't go on... and on and on and on and on and on... but I want to.

csws - I USED to order with Ocado, but since having Q, sainsburys is more affordable. I did put in my email that I "would have never had this problem with Ocado"

Ronshar - teenagers She sounds quite demanding. I don't know how you do it with 2 others as well. I'm going to make you a "supermom" badge.
oops, I can't sew. It will have to be a sticker.

oh and beautiful babyG. Sorry, MamaG, I didn't realize who you were in RL - I have you as a friend on FB even! ha!

This will go down in postnatal october 08 history... when star6 was so sleep deprived and hormonally imbalanced after stopping bf at 12 months and altered state by her ADs (I'll just blame those things for now) that she forgot who MamaG was

and ended a sentence improperly....

Oh Lord, what's the matter with poor N?! Do you think she still has a headache from the bump? Is she teething? Poor poor you Myjob. I feel tired just thinking about your night.