Fab Feb 2009 - 9 months in, 9 months out, now they're sitting, standing and crawling about

[TheHAUNTEDHouseofMirth]

Here we go again!

Hello
Don't know if you remember me from the dim and distant ante-natal days. Alfie was 1 on Monday - I've had a brilliant year, am enjoying motherhood so much although I think non-working husband makes it so much easier as whenever it has been crap and knackering I've been able to take a break. Back at work now (yuck) but it does mean I'm free to look at the computer a bit more so I hope to keep track a bit more with you all.
I can't believe the babies are nearly all 1 already!

well i resorted to Dozol for the very first time ever last night... ds1 has been waking 10 times a night since he was sick. He wakes up sobbing and can't be snapped out of it for ages and by the time he calms down he's too awake to sleep. He's been waking A up too It's been like having an 18kg newborn in the house for the last week so in desperation i went to the chemists yeaterday and made a twat of myself to the nice chemist who was looking at ds1 running around the shop laughing and full of beans with a look with this face:

On the plus side it worked and he slept all night and didn't wake poor little A who had a well deserved 9 hours

dinky, i hope your SIL gets her sticky baby soon.... early losses are awful and they do make you doubt your body so much don't they?

THOM.... I think that could be our thread motto A is still working on tooth number 8. over a month now

Tulips - have you had DS1 checked out for an ear infection? DS1 was abit like that when he was coming down with his ear infections - and medised was the only thing that knocked him out. Glad he slept last night and A did too though.

Eejaykay - lovely to see you on the thread and of course we remember you! Lovely to hear that your little man is doing well too and that having a non-working DH has its benefits. Returning to work is always a wrench - but it will get easier, honest.

Danny can now say "mamama" and "dadada" - pretty indiscriminately - but is really working hard on being able to say "Josh" whenever he sees his big brother. Its so cute

dinky... I was going to bring him down to the gp yesterday to be checked out but there's nothing wrong with him during the day and even at night if we take pity on him and bring him down, once he wakes up he's cheerful and full of beans..... he claims his tummy hurts doesn't act like it though!

hello eejaykay... cross posts there and i missed you. Glad your year has been so good, hope it continues

it's my baby boy's turn today. did lots of 'this time last year...' reminiscing last night and then he woke up pretty much dot on 7.05 which was the time he was born this morning. he's enjoying the balloons, singing and the presents (when dd lets him anywhere near them, oh she's so 'helpful' with opening them!) but is also suffering with teeth so is a bit grumpy but he's sleeping well at night so i can't complain.

i put him down for his morning sleep today with a singing igglepiggle which he cleary rolled onto and was therefore woken up by 'yes my name is iggle piggle'. that didn't improve his mood any.

Tulips - hope things get a bit easier and ds1 feels a lot better soon.

rosie - if it wasn't positive this time, good luck for next month.

eejaykay, i second dinky's comments. it does get easier.

Happy birthday - hope he has a lovely day!!!!

Happy birthday to I KBN - hope he (and you) have a lovely day. DS1 enjoyed opening Danny's presents more than Danny did - and blowing out his candle - I think its an elder sibling's prerogative LOL at the iggle-piggle awakening!

hello all,
just popping in quickly to say happy birthday to I. KBN hope you all have a lovely day.

dinky so sorry about your DSIL. If it helps I had a mc in Oct 2005 (honeymoon baby) at 9 1/2 weeks and then I had DD in October 2006. Good luck to her x

So, I am officially crap at posting but thinking of you all and your little ones turning 1! As usual my life is in chaos, BUT it's my last day in the office tomorrow and I can't wait to leave the City. Start the new job on Monday though.... no rest for the wicked and all that. I have Friday off as holiday and the DCs will be at nursery - I plan to laze around at home nursing a hangover .

Sam was 1 on Monday, but you would have thought it was all about DD - oh well, she had a blast and seems to have acquired lots of new toys .

Both DC's have had coughs and colds, and hard times with DH... but we'll get there. Just need a couple of extra hours every day and a whole new day at the weekend.

must dash off as loads to do before popping out to hula hooping at 8.

Hugs to you all and promise to do better at posting.

Happy birthday to I and happy belated birthday to Sam. My DD was the same as all the other older siblings....she opened the cards and pressies, blew the candle out and played with the toys

Have a great last day STW.....is your new job more local?

I had a day off work today and DCs were at nursery and it was lovely. DH took me out to lunch and it was so nice.

Very about your SIL Dinky.

Can sypathise with the teeth....I bought a large bottle of medised today and they didn't ask me the age of my DCs!

Happy Birthday I!

Had a better night last night. Think I actually got 5 hours uninterrupted sleep after over a week of 4-5 hours in total. But why do you always feel worse though when you've had more sleep?!

Dinky another member of the miscarriage club here. Though mine was a missed miscarriage detected at my scan. Miscarriage is really common - I think the stats are 25% of all pregnancies in mothers aged 30-39 (goes up to 50% at 40) so there's no reason to believe there's any underlying cause. I'm full of admiration for those women who start trying again straightaway. It took me several years to feel ready to try again.

Tarran refuses to say mummy though he can say daddy very clearly. And door, and ow! That's about it really. DS1 had loads of words by this age.

STW hula hooping?!

THOM.... i was wondering that yesterday too..... i got a 7 hour stretch for the first time in months the night before last and felt awful yesterday!

my older two had loads of words at this age too but A only has Mama, his variation ob No (only understood by me and dp) and he says Dada very rarely.

He's going to see the SALT again at 18 months as it's possible the tongue tie is making it difficult for him to form sounds.... he doesn't use any constonants other than M, all his babbling is soft vowely sounds.

STW.... enjoy your lazy day on friday. hope the new job eases the chaos slightly

Morning all - and happy belated birthday to Sam and happy last day in the office and last day of commuting to STW! Have a great time tonight And how was the hula hooping?

THOM and MOS - so sad to hear that you had losses too, but the fact you went on to have happy healthy little ones gives hope. Glad you had a better night last night THOM - am liking T's vocab (very apt for a little boy)!

STW hope you have a good last day at work, i'm sure it will be emotional but you know it will make your life so much better in the long run. and i'm sure a few drinks tonight will help! hope all is ok with dh.

LMN sounds like a lovely day. i was asked about age of child when i bought medised, i'd been busy memorising the exact fictional date of birth as if i was 16 trying to buy booze again!

Tulips it doesn't sound like A is doing too badly with his speech, it may be a bit more of a struggle for him but he doesn't seem to be particularly different to a lot of our babies here. he's probably too busy being the amazing running machine to bother with talking.

I can say dada, ca (for dd's name) and a pretty good attempt at bye, bye. we obviously have to say that to him too much but he's very good at waving, grinning madly and saying it as i set off in the morning. (when i abbreviate ds to I it looks like I'm talking about me...and aren't I impressive with my 3 words at 40 years old?)

really sorry to hear about the mcs people have had, how awful and thom that must have been such a dreadful way to find out and it must have put a strain on you each time you went for a scan with your subsequent pregnancies.

I thoroughly enjoyed the party our nanny threw for him and some of the friends he's made through other local nannies. i got home in time for cake and overtired tears from dd.

KBN you are right about the strain for the following pregnancy. DH refused to get excited when I was pregnant with DD until we had our 20 week scan and even then he was still worried as I'd had bleeding again from around 7 weeks and early 'reassuring scan's didn't reassure so very stressful. He was a little more relaxed when we had H though.

dinky Hope your SIL is ok and goes onto have a baby in the near future x

Bad day here. DH got a phone call few hours ago to say one of his good friends out here was killed this morning when a group of them were out riding bikes in the desert. Seems that some arsehole deliberately drove across the road and hit him head on sending him into the windscreen, over the roof of the car and around 30 meters down the road. Killed instantly. Then the bastard drove off. I hope they catch him.
Poor mans wife is here and DC in the UK and she is being sent home tonight and the contents of their house will be boxed up and shipped back
DH is struggling and thinking about it this is his first experience with a close death apart from his dog. Am trying to forget how unsupportive he was when mum died and have sent him to go and have a coffee at cinnabon and some time to himself.

Hope everyone is doing ok x

Oh my god MOS that is terrible news - that poor man's wife and family - my heart goes out to them I really hope they catch the bastard who drove into your DH's friend and throw the book at him and then some.

god how awful MOS

Right - have started a new thread as this one is fast running out of space - here's my attempt at a link

lord MOS.... what a shock.

good for you taking the higher ground and being supportive for your dh despite how he treated you after your mums death btw, must be hard.

A had his hair cut at the barbers yesterday, he was surprisingly good, whinged a bit but stayed still enough for the barber to do a nice job of it. It badly needed doing, he had lots of long (5/6 inches) wispy bits which were getting all tangled and matted.

Oi Tulips - time to go to the new thread. [Waves fig vodka at Tulips to entice her to the new thread] Glad the hair cut went well - am putting off getting Danny's hair cut for as long as humanly possible as he's such a nutter he'll either try to eat the scissors or headbutt the hairdresser...