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

Hee hee! I don't want ds to be like DH! I know the things he got up to, his parents don't. I hope M isn't like I was......

Argh that bloody Pampers advert with the scrummy newborns is on..... Must...... resist!

good luck, aubergenie

I was a well behaved teenager. I didn't misbehave until I got to university at 17 (nearly 18) but drinking age in the US is 21, so what I did wouldn't be considered misbehaving by UK standards . My parents were lucky with me, I did follow the rules, get straight A's and never took anything for granted or asked for anything from them. My sister... she was a different story.

these posts are all very interesting. I want another one, but really struggled with the first 6 months and certainly didn't take to motherhood in the way i expected. However I do think another child would complete the family. I am absolutely loving the age Emma is at the moment, she's a tinker and so funny... i guess for me its almost the opposite to everyone else - i don't want the pregnancy or small baby bit!

I am worried how i will cope, because i have to go to work for the mortgage to get paid (I have saved up for mat leave again) so i guess there's that pressure to keep my job and perform as well as i always have. I am also quietly scared of all the things that could go wrong in pregnancy: last time i had a highish downs risk and a slightly prem baby.... even though everything turned out fine i am worried that this time that will all be worse... breast feeding was nightmare (linked to the prematurity) and dropped after a couple of months etc etc etc

I guess i am, however, in a similar position to aubergenie in that i don't want to leave it too long, so in our minds we have set January as the time to start trying again to keep the gap at a 2 year minimum.... that's really soon!!

So much chat today! You ladies are just trying to fill up the birthday thread now that there are no more birthdays aren't you ?

KSal - I know that there are no guarantees, but I found parenting a baby much easier the second time around.

Good luck Aubergenie . Make sure that we are the first to know when you are successful, or the second if you really must tell your dh first .

KSal - Totally agree with CSWS about the second baby. Why do you think I have such a big age gap between my two? DS was horrible for he first three months and barely tolerable for the next 3. I had a horrible pregnancy, had a nightmare breastfeeding and was so relieved once he was a toddler. M has been a completely different experience. Looking back she has probably been more of a nightmare than ds was but we were so much more relaxed this time round. If we had been as chilled with ds as we have been with M, then I wouldn't be having the third baby discussion as M would have been the third one!

Why when you click on the "threads I'm on" and then click on the latest post or whatever, it still brings me to the beginning of the thread? It's only an extra step to click last page, but I so much liked before clicking on the last post read and just having it appear for me.

That's only happening for some people star. It's fine for me.

Am very very .
I bought a 6 pack of baked crisps last week. Dh tried them and said not to buy them again, because they tasted like cardboard. I tried them and liked them. I want a packet RIGHT NOW. Dh has eaten the whole fucking lot.
(and no, I'm not hormonal )

And ds is grizzling every half hour or so . He was so overtired by bedtime. Took less than a half hour nap today.

I hate that, csws. When DH says he doesn't like something but I do and then he eats it all! I am for you!

Make him go out and get you more

You can have classic MN and pages myjob - they are diff settings .

I would send him out if he wasn't already just coming back from diff supermarket getting bits.

There's nothing else that I want right now though, not even kettle chips .

what's classic MN?

Click 'customise' from your talk menu, and you can select new or classic etc there, and also whether you have pages or unlimited messages per page.

I have unlimited too myjob, unless I know I want to browse on my mobile, which won't let me post on long threads (like this one at the moment) as its memory can't cope.

Dh was at the checkout in the supermarket 45 minutes ago, and it's only 15 mins away, but he's still not home. Now we've missed our chance to watch House tonight and I'm having to wait up because he's prob gone out without a key. Where on earth is he?!

Star - I am finding the same thing. I am on MN Classic with pages. I can't get my head around a long long page of posts.

Ooops! I meant to be enjoying my anniversary with DH. I said "can I please check MN. I won't post". Oh dear!

Oh yes happy anniversary 50ft. I wished it to your dh but not to you .

Happy Anniversary 50ft. How many years?

Has your DH come back yet CSWS?

he's back - went to sainsburys to buy me crisps which I am too tired to eat!
Night all!

Awwww, bless Mr CSWS.

Thank you ladies. We had a lovely dinner of sausage and mash (except the mash was lumpy as DH didn't cook the potatoes for long enough), just like we had on our wedding day. It is five years today.

Happy anniversary to Mr and Mrs 50ft!

We had a lovely day yesterday altho I was a bit frazzled. We went for a lovely meal then to a local playbarn. We've been cleaning all day today so I'm knackered!

I was plannning to stop the mid-morning feed this morning (already changed mid-afternoon to formula/ cows milk) but Poppy screamed her head off until she saw the I'm gonna try again tomorrow...

MyJob, your post re 3 children was excellent, it really summed things up for me and reaffirmed what I've already been thinking, that I should stop at 2. Having said that, Poppy's birthday has made me really want to start trying again!!!

I'm making The Cake tomorrow eek!
Oh, to the cake-making diva's amongst you, this cake has buttercream icing all over and inside (with jam) and then that icing you buy and then roll out, I only made the demo with the buttercream but it was incredibly sweet, I'm worried it'll be so sickly with the other stuff too - any ideas?

Hmm - I would go with buttercream icing on top instead of royal icing. Royal icing is too much and the only people I now that like it are 3-5 year old children! I make my buttercream fairly stiff so it works on top of a cake too. If your buttercream icing is very soft, just make another small batch for the top & add a little extra icing sugar. You can then add some edible glitter to the top which looks very pretty. I'm sure that leaving the top icing free will taste fine, but I think a cake looks more birthday-y and special with icing in top.

Thank you all for your anniversary wishes. Bed time in a mo I think.

Oh and I have been experimenting with various M bedding options in the hope that she will be warm enough to sleep though. Tonight she is in a Grobag, a fleece sleepsuit with a duvet on top. I checked her earlier and she still felt chilly. It's not even cold in the room! I'm starting to worry that I'll overheat her.....