Good evening all . Hope you are all enjoying your healthy/yummy dinners - I made chili so am with scaryspangle feeling virtuous!
Hi texasholdem! The thread is about our babies who were all due and mostly born in May, and lots of general chit chat as well to keep each other company as our babies grow up together. We had an antenatal thread too so some of us have been here since the babies were very little bumps. We find it very useful to share our collective wisdom on various child/family/miscellaneous issues - these ladies are a knowleageable and lovely bunch! Who like their cocktails .
Err... bad pun halloween coming up: I was going to say that we sleep deprived zombies like to pick each other's brains (but couldn't think how to get it into my sentence ).
llare I hope you feel better soon, it's so horrid to be ill and looking after the kids too.
Toffeeapple at your crawler!! Dd was stationery until she was well past 1 year (we were both later movers/walkers too) so I am hoping T goes the same way, it was rather good just to be able to plonk her somewhere and know she wouldn't wander into an electric socket or something. T is showing signs of wantng to move already though - he loves to lie on his tummy (dd hated it) and is desperately trying to roll. I won't mention G to him or he will be all .
Hello Salemchocs ! We are a little fed up that the Belgian halloween holiday on 1 Nov is a Sunday this year, so dh won't get a day off for it. I do like here that people actually go to visit their deceased relatives with those big flowering plants (chrysanthemums??). I'm sure for many of them it's an empty tradition but it's a real contrast to how I grew up and I think it's good to remember. Little things like that which make me appreciate living in a 'foreign' country even if most of the time it's not really that different!
Lots of talk about routines - T is also bf on demand, it seems every couple of hours, sometimes a bit more or less - I totally lose track and quite often wonder if I am just feeding him because I can't work out what else he wants. Not that he seems to mind! He must be ok as he's doing good poos, and sleeps through the night pretty well. we have got him doing 8.30pm to about 7am almost every day, although he's just finishing a stinking cold during which he woke up twice each night because of coughing and had to be fed back to sleep. Currently he's waking at 5.30 for a feed and then sleeping till 8 which is fine by me - am more concerned that dd (2yrs 3months) has just started to wake up in the night and cry for her dummy, as if she can't get out of bed and pick it up herself (is that a nasty mummy thing to say? Or just a sleep deprived one? 4 times last night...). Anyway, I am a bit worried about when T starts at nursery as they want to know all about his routines so they can stick to them (fab people that they are) but he just doesn't have one .
Anyway, on that note, it's my bedtime. Will just swig the last of my wine...