October 08 - The Second Year

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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

So much to comment on, but I'm too tired and have given myself only 3 more minutes before I need to go up to bed, so I will say only that ds drinks from an open cup (doidy usually) at mealtimes. He can do it, but once he's had enough he does like to pour it everywhere too, and then splash in it if it's on his tray .

Right. First of all Star you do need to change your name, get some sleep and relax. Q is fine, you are not a bad mummy. Children fall over ALL the time. If you stress every time you will be on valium before he gets to school!

Myjob. Now young lady, let me ask. Have you lost your appetite or just trying not to eat too much? I would suggest a pg test purely to rule out the most obvious. Get a real cheapy from the cheapest shop. I am def not saying you are but it saves you looking a bit silly at the Quacks.
I have to say that it sounds very thyroidy.(50ft) It can be a problem after pregnancy. Or it could quite simply be aenemia.
I do think that you could try and give yourself a break. You have had two children fairly close together. When we met in June the very last thing I could have said was that you need to drop a few pounds. BF holds on to fat remember. When you stop feeding N then you will get a true reflection of any weight gain that has occured. Please Please be gentle with yourself. Enjoy your children and DH and get your arse in gear and train as a midwive. We know someone who might need your skills! You dont have long

50ft. You know I have my hands on my hips and I am peering over the tops of my glasses. You my love have had the most extreme surgical operation not once but twice in 10 months. Abdominal surgery is the biggest and most severe of all surgery. Lets not forget you almost died. Your body will take a long time to get back to normal. You had a small country growing in your tummy!!!! It will be a while until it all gets back into the right places. So I say to you also. Give yourself a break or I shall go to BW and wait behind the pretty dresses in Monsoon kids and give you a good talking too.

Pepper I can raise your cat sick to a kitten who seems to take great delight in pooing on my bed. Mostly on DH side so I dont mind as much

Pistachio hang on in there not long until DH gets home.

Aubergenie, it is crap when you think you are getting somewhere with the sleep and then the babies get ill and you are back to the beginning again

MamaG, did you get a comedy photo of babyG holding on to his sausage? We have a great pic of W with his arm around a pint of Guiness. Not his obviously before you all report me

Is anyone else amazed at how much these tiny babies actually understand?! I honestly can't remember how much ds understood but M seems to be very knowing! If we ask her if she's hungry she'll either nod or shake her head. If she nods she then either trots off to the kitchen or asks to be picked up and directs you there. If we say "do you want to go out?" or "shall we go and get DS?", she'll get her coat or sit by the front door (like a dog ). If we say "bath time" she'll go and sit by the stair gate, wait for it to be opened and then pop off up stairs to the bath room. I am amazed! They really take things in don't they?! Oh and she can say "dog" when she sees one and has started saying "boh" for book when she wants a book read to her. She still can't walk though........

Myjob - I think that if you're convinced you're not pregnant then your are very unlikely to be. You know your body and you know your sexual habits.

Ah Ronshar, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways...... I keep forgetting about my ops! My tummy is still pretty sore on the scar so it is quite obvious that I am not completely better yet. I will try and give myself a break but it's not easy when I feel so un-me. I look so alien in the mirror!

CSWS - M can now drink from a baby cup, but I tried her with an open cup the other day & she poured it all over herself. She wasn't impressed and handed the empty cup back to me and shook her head.

Ekka - Is that M's first tooth?! I thought my M was the most toothless but your M is the winner!

50ft can you access a physio through your GP? They should be able to give you some post abdo surgery excercises. How many weeks post surgery are you now?

Ekka cool tooth. Horrible geting there though

You are still beautifull to me.

That's a good idea Ronshar. DO you think the consultant could refer me? I am seeing him on Thursday next week and he is much more understanding than my GP! I need to do something. My 57 year old mum can hold M for longer than I can these days.

By way of a public service announcement, I got M http://www.elc.co.uk/toy/fairyland-bluebell-boot/ this with some birthday money she had & she has played with it pretty much constantly for two days now! She absolutely loves it (and ds won't leave it alone either). I a going to get her some Happyland bits fro Christmas too but I thought that you might like to know for your little ones.

50ft the consultant should be able to. I am a little surprised that something wasnt done for you whilst you were an impatient. I would have arranged a physio referral as standard following two abdominal surgeries in 12 months. Hey ho. Try GP first as they may have an arrangement with a local team. You could get lucky and have two different referrals
we also have a huge collection of ELC Happy Land stuff. A farm house, toadstool, fairy castle. With all the crap bits that come with it. DD2 loved it. W has just started to play with it now as well. Throw it around really but he is still a baby!

Hmm did you find us? You sound brighter. Tablets must be working better. Sounds like P had a great birthday party.

I'm going to have to check out happy land stuff too. Q is more into mobility toys it seems. He doesn't sit and play with toys much, he'd rather push or pull stuff around (or throw it!).
He totally obsesses over one thing for a long time, too. Like the mop. He'll push a truck with us for a minute or two, then look around for his mop, mop up for a few minutes, then he might find another toy or an electrical cord and then back to the mop soon afterward. Other days it's a drum stick or a phone... he's an odd duck.

Q loves his dustpan, too We will have to do a meet up

Ok... trying a very slight namechange. I have to keep a bit of my old name because I'm not up for too much change. I wanted StarQ, but it was taken.
I thought this was fitting, too. What do you think? Be honest, I can change it again.
Was going to to StarQdoodle but then thought too many people in RL know my star fascination and that I call Q doodle and in the off chance they ever came on MN... I wouldn't want to be identified so easily. All a bit silly, I know.

Pistachio maybe it was a Freudian slip?
At least you got some sleep. That tired headache is horrible. I think I have only had a few days free of it since Oct 2008.

Star how about Starcleaner, AmazingStar, MopinhandStar. I will come back with some more if you like later?
No! Oh how dissappointing I am on a roll now

Oh I do like StarClean.... StarSterile might infer something else on here...
SleepyStar

There should be a sleepy emoticon

Sleepystar is a good one but you may be frowned on by using the sleep word

I think I should keep StarExpat so that people can be a bit more understanding when I mispell British words or use a phrase improperly. Don't let it get out off of this thread that I'm american, though. I only admit that around other americans (if they're not like typical americans, that is!).

Unfortunately I think there is already a Stars&Stripes, that would have been good. Or Starinstripes...... You could be ShinyStar or SparklyStar.

Ronshar - Impatient is probably more like it where I am concerned anyway! I did see someone from physiotherapy while I was an impatient patient but that was only to give me foot and leg exercises!

Well thats crap 50ft.

I am off for lunch with some new mums from school. Should be fun. All that PFB chat

I've just checked Stars&Stripes & StarsandStripes and they're both free! Oh, just re-read your last post, that would be very obviously American. To be honest, I don't think I've come across any typical Americans on MN so it might not be a bad thing to admit.

Hi all thanks for new thread csws

Am at the babies drinking out of open cups, we've just mastered the sippy cup! By we, obviously I mean BabyG I can drink out of a wine glass and everything!

Very unsettled boy last night, woke at 4am and then didn't go back to sleep until after 6am (arggggghhhhh you went to bed 45 mins early! no need to wake at 4am!) but he does have 2 new teeth so I'll let him off. He's v tired now though, so it might be early lunch then bed for him