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

star - have I just read that YOU apologised to HIM!! .
Honestly, that man makes me soooo angry. He's manipulative, he picks a fight, gets you cross and then makes you feel like you're in the wrong, then you get down and he seems to feel he has the moral high ground. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Where's ronshar? She'll sort him out.
I say this from the outside looking in, as it were. He can't treat you like this, little by little he's eroding away your self confidence in amost destructive way.
Please show him this post, (if the voodoo doll doesn't get him first..)

ahem - I had only read the top post Will read later in case I just put my foot in it.
Slopes off to big pile of fish and chips...
Hadn't logged on since Wednsday, so will catch up later!

Star am very and for you. You DO NOT deserve this!

50ft glad you had a good time and met a very nice cheesecake loving family

Aubergenie- We also have a front facing seat, I did do some web research about a rear facing one but like you say they are very scarce in this country so it all seemed a bit of a PITA. I have to say though that J loves his front facing one as he can see everything and he has even gone back to sleeping in the car which he stopped doing after about 10 months in the rear facing one. We have a Maxi Cosi Tobi and so far we are really pleased with it.

Had a really busy day getting things ready for the party. I made my cake and I'm pleased with it, my Mum came over to help me and basically reassure me that it was looking good.

Happy Birthday to all the birthday babies who turned one while I was away!

Yes, we need photos definitely Rachie!

Star - I'm really sorry you're going through all this at the moment. You really don't deserve it. It sounds like your dh is unable or unwilling to reflect on his own actions and turning everything back onto you, making you feel like you're in the wrong. Does he ever apologise or say that he was wrong? I agree with 50ft - it does sound that your depression may be linked to your relationship with your dh. Very very on your behalf.

50ft - welcome back! Glad you managed to find some nice locals while you were down there.

Myjob- I've just put a photo on our fb page as it was too big for my profile on MN. The butter icing around the side looks a bit messy but in real life it has a kind of rough moon crater effect (convincing myself)

Pistachio I really hope you all get better soon, it sounds like what we had a few weeks ago and it is horrid. Well done for making it out of the house, the water workshop sounds great fun.

Hey all, god too many posts, 50ft must be back!

Star, I hate to see you posting what you did. I also hate to just slag your DH off for the sake of it but it's really starting to sound like verbal abuse which IMO can be just as bad as physical. I'm just wondering if you apologise/ give in too much? I had a friend whose boyfriend cheated on her loads, and every time afterwards he told her and she forgave him, so he had absolutely no respect for her. I hate to say it but maybe the best thing would be for you and Q to have some time away from him so, if nothing else, he can realise what he's got and could lose - and I'm not just talking about Q there. It's a very big step though and it would take a lot of courage to do that. Big hugs to you in the meantime. Don't forget that these arguments and your being so low will have some effect on Q even at this age so it's not like you'd be just doing it for yourself x

Having said that, I've been really low again too today, have been all week really which is probably cos of my weaning myself off one AD to get onto the Sertraline again - I'm back on the sertraline tonight, thank god so hopefully will see some improvement within a few weeks. DH and I have hardly been speaking for the half term break as we keep snapping at each other.

Anyway, I had a trial run of Poppy's birthday cake today, I've not iced it yet, it's cooling, but it's really risen in the middle so it's more like a pudding! Should I just cut the dome bit off??? I think I might do a set of fairy cakes instead

HMM my cake rose in the middle and cracked so I used the bottom of the cake as the top as it was smoother. I also cut the top bit off so that it would sit flat as the bottom, iykwim. I used a serrated knife, as advised by the cake shop.

Rachie, that's pretty much what I did apart from the turning it upside down, I only thought of that afterwards! Doesn't look that bad iced. I used a bread knife.

Pistachio, I've just been a complete psycho at times the last few days, I just get sooo angry. HOpe you feel better soon.

oh dear, I'm sorry so many of us are feeling down, not sure the weather helps here as it's grey and damp - no chance of my washing going outside! and as it's not cold enough for the heating everything takes ages to dry...
It;s lucky I'm not a domestic goddess .
Have just painted nails dark shiny green for a halloween party tonight. They are most distracting as I type!
Have no other costume yet....
DD has done 3 of the foulest nappies this morning, I'm hoping it's teething and nothing more sinister.

well, it's much better than last week - so I can feed myself and get dressed again! but no magic improvement on how it was before. She told me it could take 18 months to recover on it's own but, havign said that I'm nearly a year in..... if the injection doesn't work then I have to have an operation - and I really really don't want that - especially after last week!
Apparently I've torn the cartilage, got a ganglion inside and fluid somewhere it shouldn't be as well

Star - you do deserve someone to treat you well. I'm going to just send you a big hug and a big kiss, as you can probably guess what I would say about your dh.

Sorry to hear that lots of you are feeling so low at the moment. I blame the change of season.

Happy birthday to Samuel .

Happy Birthday Samuel

Yay for new boots, pistachio
I hope you're feeling better, pepper. I can't imagine having one less arm to deal with just one ds and you have 3!
Sorry you're not feeling great lately, HMM and pistachio Seems like AD's for HMM and some therapeutic time away for pistachio is what works

Just a quick hello. J's party was lovely though I don't feel like I spoke to anyone properly as I was trying to be the hostess with the mostess. Sorry to hear so many are feeling Am so tired I can hardly type so am off to bed.

We talked recently about how we all give food to the babies. Just thought I would mention that I can now give ds his entire meal in a bowl or on a plate without him chucking it. He is currently attacking a bowl of porridge with a spoon. I sense that a bath will be necessary afterwards.