October 08 - More birthdays to go!

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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 - 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
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

Much, thank you, csws

Glad I'll be good again for BabyG's birthday

I might need hand holding on that day. Am alreayd feeling V wobbly about it all, doing the whole "this time last year...." thing!

today is the halloween parade at school. yuck. I know that sounds quite unplayful but it is not fun. The children walk around and around the fountain in the centre of campus for 20 minutes and spend 10 minutes before hand getting dressed up and then spend 25 minutes after that having a special halloween snack (provided by a parent) and playing in the classroom. But, parents are the ones who fight to keep this tradition alive, so we do it...
rachie and aubergenie - anything of the sort at your schools today?

yay! Ok, so csws and star are having a christmas "do" somewhere in England on 28th or 29th November if anyone would like to join us . We'll get ours in before the December rush of busy holiday gatherings actually starts

LOL star

We're on half term and not back to school till Tuesday Star, so nothing of the sort in my school, thank goodness.

However, we are having a spooky story night at school soon and I'm going to dress up and read a spooky story but I've got no idea what to read. Anyone know any good spooky (but no TOO spooky) stories suitable for 8-9 year olds?

Sounds horrendous Pistachio. Hope things improve for all of you soon.

BTW - Has anyone bought a rear-facing next stage car seat for their LO. I've been investigating getting one and been astounded that they're not more widely available. I was in a huge Mothercare and the bloke who worked in the carseat section didn't even know that they existed. We need to make quite a journey to either Essex or Kent in order to try them out in our car.

We use a forward facing seat, aubergenie. It's perfectly safe and he can both sleep and play in it and I love that Q and I can interact more in the car now

Pistachio, I hope it gets better soon!!

SOmethign silly like Winnie the witch - winnie's flying carpet?
Or Good old Bony Legs, aubergenie?

Ooh, I forgot to say. I went back into the bedroom last night and gave dp a night off to sleep on the sofa. Was a bit worried that when S woke up, he would demand milk from me so I was prepared for a long night. He woke up once at about 11.30 but didn't ask for milk at all. Apart from being a bit restless he didn't wake at all until 7 o'clock! It's working.

yay! That's great, aubergenie!!

To be honest Myjob it wasn't my hard work at all, as dp did it all and I just had a few lovely nights on the sofa. It's definitely paid off though.

Also, he went to sleep at 11.30 and is still asleep. Unheard of in this house.

Very good news on the daytime nap! I think good nap = good night and vice versa
I forgot to say... Q dropped his afternoon nap He's going down later for his nap and it's anywhere from 2-3.5 hours, then he just gets grumpy around 5pm and we keep him happy and give him food, bathe him and he's in bed by 6.45pm most nights.
It's still a good long nap, I know... but I feel like he's growing up dropping htat other nap

myjob we're like two trains passing in the night - how are you?? Are you wiped out from having 4 dc in your house still?

Hello I am back! We re all knackered and not unpacked yet. M is on the floor unpacking the toiletries bag and trying to eat my tampons! I will catch up as best I can but I don't need to check FB.

We did indeed. We visited a very nice family while we were here and was presented with the biggest bit of cheesecake I've ever seen in my life!!!

we just took Q to a halloween thing at my school. He had a blast. Too bad on the way in, DH got angry with me for something, I tried to make him stop because I didn't want to be humiliated in front of parents and colleagues at my school and ended up going a bit too far, I apologized and explained that I just wanted him to not talk to me like that at my school and he said, what about the way you talked to me?? (but I had just apologized!!) so he told me "I'm so sick of you" and then "just leave. I'm so sick of you. You're so annoying. I'm sick of the way you treat me". I at least own up to it when I've made a mistake and WORK ON IT. He just thinks he's in the right and doesn't acknowledge it at all.
Then I got all upset and I told him if he leaves, I'm taking Q and I will get custody and he said "we'll see about that. We'll go to court and that won't happen" He doesn't realize that children always go with the mother if she is able to take them. Jerk. I'm so tired of this. I've decided it's just too painful. I can't take it anymore. So I'm jsut going to numb up and move along, swallowing hurtful things and smile/nod and just take it and let it wash over me. Seriously, who the hell am I anyway to think that I actually deserve someone to treat me so well? I'm not that special. I'm just a foolish idiot.

He's since said he didn't mean to say he wanted to leave...etc. and people say things when they are angry...etc. But I still feel like crap. I've got to find a way to get this feeling to go away. so I can just not let words hurt me. No one close to me really cares about me. Why should I even care about that. That's just selfish anyway. I'll work on it. I know this sounds stupid. I am just so down at the moment. Going to start taking the AD's again. At least I know Q loves me

Oh Star. I still have to catch up properly but I can see from skimming the thread that you've been having a rubbish time of it. Have you spoken to your counsellor about al this? I assume you must be. I honestly think that your depression is related to the way your DH treats you rather than PND. You do deserve to be loved and you do deserve to be treated better. I think you know that really, but find it hard to believe given your current situation. You can't just "swallow hurtful things" it's no good for you and it's no good for Q. You are the most important thing in the whole world to Q and you need to look after you.

I'm going to bed. Thank you 50ft. But I don't deserve it. Q does. I'll do my best for Q but I'm really sick of caring about me me me. It's totally worthless.
ANd I am SO SORRY to have taken up so much of your time reading all of this crap!!