One small step for Baby, one large step (or mad dash to prevent disaster) for Mumkind

[ninja]

Hi, Welcome to the new thread, the one where we can't drink a cup of tea in peace (there you go, we could have used that for a title!!)

I was in bodyshop yesterday and M trashed the place. Luckily the sales assistant thought she was sweet as she pulled things off displays and legged it out the shop with jars of body butter (several times)!!, cue me legging it after her with a handful of makeup . Luckily there were no store detectives aroud. She also tried to wear every shoe within her reach at the shoe shop.

OMG bfp

And of course but mainly

Oh dear ninja - best wishes to you.

And congratulations digi!

I ought to do a test but I'm scared. I don't feel pregnant. MrNC says "that's what you said last time". Bah.

NC test!! I refused to do one as I don't have any symptoms whatsoever, but was at the walk-in for another matter and had to do a test just to rule it out.

No idea when I'm due - could be anything from 5-9 weeks.

DH's reaction was Are You Joking? No? Fuck!

Hugs for ninja.

ninja we're all so for you

digi WOW! NC do the decent thing and test before I move house and have no internet for weeks!!!!

Today my friends and I took our kids to the adventure playground at a stately home near where ponymum lives, so she came and joined us for a bit. Still very green around the gills with ms but doing well I'm happy to say, lovely to catch up!

{{Ninja}}} So sorry to hear about H. Maybe it would be a good idea to go to that event you were talking about. It will give you both some time away from eachother and to think. What do you think about it all? Was it a shock?

Many congratulations digi

Yes NC, you MUST test.

Glad to hear Ponymum and foal no. 2 are well. I hope you told her to get her butt on here asap!

OH Ninja Big hugs and I hope you can talk things through and work something out.

Congrats Digi Simon Cowell is good for something eh?

YesNC go and test straightaway the suspense is too much.

Had an ok bonfire night, it was too cold to go for miles to find a display so we opened the curtains and watched everyones elses for free. Robyn pointed to them and said 'pretty'. Well something that sounded like pretty.

In thye bath we use simple baby as I am allergic to most other baby brands, or just have a plain bath

Sorry to hear your news Ninja. Maybe I am just out of the circuit but did you find his news unexpected? your post makes me think you did. [hugs]

Congratulations Digi.

Yes you can cosleep and not feed at night. search the MN archives or google for Dr Jay Gordon.

just caught up after not properly reading for a couple of days.

hugs ninja, hope you can sort things out. Have you gone awy for the weekend?

congratulations digi, what great news.

do a test nc!

Glad to hear pony is doing ok.

We use supermarkets own brand kids (not baby) bubble bath, neither have sensitive skin.

Did I miss anything?

Ninja - was this a surprise? I really really hope you can patch things up. And I hope you are ok.

DG Jesus! Congratulations! We've been having the "should we start trying" conversation with DP, but we just feel so bloody knackered. How would I cope with work and two little ones if I'm already feeling exhausted? I'm probably just a wimp. Or decrepit. Or both, actually.

No soap on our bath either due to eczema (which incidentally, has improved a lot). Just Dentinox shampoo twice a month or so, and weleda calendula oil in the bath water. It's lovely.

Congrats DG!!!

Sorry to hear your news Ninja - I do hope things work out for you both.

Another week off nursery for DD. Now she has hand, foot and mouth disease and it started to appear on Sunday. It's fading well and she is eating much better so must be fading in her little mouth too. She seems to be spending one week at nursery and then off the following week Anyone else having this problem with nurseries and poorly babies or is DD just a bit unlucky?

It's not the first time he's said this and we've been to relate in the past but (and this isn't a joke) the counsellor had to go to her supervisor for counselling to cope with H

I knew he was pissed off, but that's not uncommon. It's a tough time of year and we're both sleep deprived etc.

TBH I don't know if he'll leave any time soon as he won't want to leave the kids . I feel for them too.

I'm just trying to get on with it though and not dwell on it as I say.

CONGRATS for DG though, that's great

ninja hope your weekend is ok. Are you going to make it to the martial arts meet up?

kagey when ds started nursery 20 months ago he was poorly all the time for about 3 months, then it settled down. DD has been going for a month and apart from a snotty nose she has been ok, she's presumably 'caught' immunity from her big brother.

carrie glad ponymum is ok.

The csa have pleasantly suprised me. I started the ball rolling 10 days ago and they called XP yesterday get his details and hopefully claim some maintenance. I was able to give them all the info they needed (work, address, nat ins no.) so we might get some money , before he is made redundant which is going to happen any day now . Obviously XP has kicked off about it and I got a stroppy phone call yesterday,

Ok, better go and sort breakfast out for ds who is fannying about downstairs. DD is still asleep, bless. Aaaaaw, I can hear him singing along to the sid + andy number rap!

DG Wow! congrats!!!

ninja sigh...really dont know what to say. So sorry.

NC Please test!!!!! PLEASE!........

No more babies for me so I am hainvg to live vicariously through you all!!!!

starlight it would take a miracle of modern science, a lottery win and a pretty amazing relate counsellor to get me on another ante-natal thread. I ain't going anywhere .

How much talking are everyone's babies doing? DD doesn't seem to have cracked it yet, I get "mumumumumum" and something that sounds like "banana" and "hello", but thats it. DS was much faster at talking.

Toby can say "mummy" and "daddy" and "bub bub" (which means brother!) and "there" (normally followed by lots of frantic pointing to whatever he wants!)

He shouts alot too! He is saying more than ds1 at this age, but ds1 had speech delay, so not surprising.

starlight I'm not going anywhere. Although I guess it's not quite as unlikely as meglet (your post made me meglet)

ds2 calls anything with legs a cow and anything with wheels a car. He also says ta, backwards, ca-ca (Cameron) but that's about it apart from a lot of animal noises. Ds1 was talking way more at the saem age.

DS doesn't have a huge vocabulary either. just says 'daddy' all the time. Both mummy and daddy are 'daddy'. He also points to any clock, digital or clockface, and all LED displays and says 'ccccccoooo'. So today we bought him a classy 'tell the time' clock for his bedroom. Oh and he says 'dis' and points when he wants something.

Today has been a special growing up day for DS. We bought the next stage car seat and he got his first ever haircut at the barbers.

Just sat down and worked out finances for DC#2. I think we'll be okay with maternity allowance, but still need to save up a bit of our own money.

Did a hpt this morning, because i still couldn't quite believe the result yesterday. The line came up quite quickly. But been a bit crampy today, plus a bit of spotting, so not sure what's going on. Doc's appointment on Tuesday, hopefully get an early scan booked in. Not leaving this thread, so might have to bore you all with tales of trying to cope with an increasingly heavy DS and avoiding SPD and how one earth I'm going to get a break in breast-feeding DS before I'm back to newborn on demand cluster feeding.

Just popping in to say I am still here - just spending a lot of time over in the vomitting corner. It's not pretty so don't come too close. It was lovely seeing carriebo on Friday, but I am afraid I was a sort of grey-green zombie creature on the verge of barfing every time I thought about standing up. Not exactly sparkling company.

digigirl great news! Looking forward to hearing how many weeks you are so we can compare horror stories progress. I have vaguely joined the due June'10 group but I haven't visited for ages as all the discussion seemed to be about MCs. I think I'll leave it a while before venturing back there.

Nice to see you Ponymum. MS is bloody evil, it's one of things that does put me off having another. I hope it passes soon.

DS says mum, dad, cat, dog, duck, sock and that (while pointing). Although most of those words are only obvious to us. He understands a lot more now too. You only have to repeat something a few times and he remembers.

OK calm down everyone - I am officially not pregnant. Although MrNC did remind me I had a neg test at 6-7 weeks last time. And helped me try to do something about it.

A has had a very exciting weekend as on Friday he finally learnt to go down stairs (and spent 4 hours going up and down... so I didn't feel bad about not taking him outside in the rain to the playground). Then yesterday he stood totally unaided for a couple minutes and is taking the odd step. He's also repeating rythms and chatting with more syllables, scribbling with great enthusiasm, and pointing very er, pointedly at things until we do what he wants. Luckily it's usually giving him his water or something shiny. But he's convinced that my whisky miniatures ought to be his...
And I swear he's put on a couple kilos in the last week! He's short but incredibly heavy.

Forgot to say - are any other babies waking in the night and just screaming so much that you can't do anything about it? A's done it a few times now, and no cuddling or attempts to feed or Calpol or anything will stop the screaming - he's like a small possessed demon with all his hair slicked down with sweat and tears and we can't do anything about it - until up to a couple hours later when he stops screaming and goes back to sleep as if nothing had happened.

We've ended up just tucking him back in the cot although he's standing again within a second, because he's clearly no less unhappy being picked up - it's like we don't even register. Didn't want to post on the Sleep threads as people always get flamed if they even think of controlled crying let alone leaving the baby to cry it out,but after 2 hours of screaming in our ears at 3-5am we couldn't think of anything else. And then he wakes between 6.30/7.30 all cheery smiles! It's just as well he's so adorable, really.