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

No not a typo Myjob, but the guy in question has no life. He is on his way to earning about £250K this year, if he hasn't died from the stress before then. Everyone, including his boss thinks he's making himself very very ill. They have a system where your bonus is capped at £5k for the first three months and if you exceed it for three months in a row, the cap is removed. PLUS, if you earned say £15k worth of bonus each month for the first three months, but only (only!) got paid £5k, the rest would be banked and you'd get it back at the end of the year. It's unbelievable.

Star - I've done the job and I HATED it. It is all about sales and I can't sell. I can advise and was bloody good at that, but I can't make people buy from me. It's just not my nature, I'm too fluffy!

CSWS - D might not be walking much but he gives the best hugs a baby ever gave! It would be worth the drive over to see you just for one of those hugs!

I have recently noticed just how much more advanced ds was than M is at this age. DS was walking at 10.5 months, feeding himself by 12 months and using two/three word sentences by 13 months. M can just about say Daddy, Mama, that, milk, yes and no. Oh and last night she said bye as she ran away when I was trying to get her ready for bed. I think maybe M is putting all her energy into growing rather than learning. DS certainly didn't put much energy into growing......

I think the fever fried Q's brain
he doesn't talk.
The dr kept asking me "is he so tired that he can't finish a sentence?" and "does he seem confused?"

he always seems confused... and has never even started a sentence!

Stop it now. Do not compare. You know that.
First children get 100%, all others get whats left. They all turn out the same eventually. I would say that M has everything under control wouldnt you
W seems to spend his time taking food out of my mouth/off my plate, smashing stuff up and mostly refusing to walk on his own! Completely diff from the girls.

CSWS. Myjob was spot on. Apart from recovery position, Only need to do that if child is unconscious. Generally speaking once temp is reduced then the fit should stop. However it is important to see a doctor as it could be a symptom of something else. Just be aware not to overheat in the first place. I have stopped loads of parents in shops and warned them that their child is about to explode. They always look at me as if I am nuts.
I had to strip off a child in WHSmith once as it was just in the first stages of a febrile convulsion. Stupid mum just had a go at me as if I was the one in the wrong. I phoned an ambulance and luckily they sided with me as by then the baby was unconscious. I gave her the benefit of the doubt as it is a very scary thing to see happening. She didnt apologise or say thanks or anything
Myjob sinus scraping is not for the faint hearted. I couldnt get up for 3 days.

Star your GP is shit. Get a new one.
A 13 month old finishing a sentance what a Twunt.

M is currently smashing herself on the head with a xylophone stick thingy.

Star - Did you laugh at your GP? What an idiot! Is there anyone else at the surgery you can see? There is one doctor at my surgery I refuse to see as his a twat and says everything is a virus

Ronshar - Obviously ds looks like his Daddy but has his mummy's brains and M is the other way around.

Myjob - There is no justice & people don't get paid what they are worth. For me it is often a trade off. I could do a job that would give me loads of money but I generally HATE those type of jobs. They are usually so focused on money and making more for a company. Midwifery is hard hard hard, there's huge levels of responsibility but the money isn't very good. I doubt you'd want to give up you dream job to sit in an office and convince people to buy life cover & to start a pension. Going to Nationwide and leaving the civil service was one of the biggest mistakes I've ever made in my life. I am a public servant, who was I kidding.....!

Twunt! New word of the day! Thanks, Ronshar! I'm going to try to use it today

Of course I laughed. I said, well, he's 13 months, if he ever spoke a sentence... or, um... a whole word... I'd fall over with joy!

Ronshar can't believe some people!! I would have gotten your address and sent you weekly chocolates for life for saving my baby's life

oh and Q still won't clap!

Star - I still think he's not been amused enough to clap anything yet. M was about 5 months before she laughed and I think that is because nothing amused her before then!

Exactly Myjob. I am 100% with you on that one! It is so much more important to me that I do something I love rather than something that earns loads of money. Life is more fulfilling that way. DH is not the same. He would be a teacher if he wasn't so concerned with earning more money than his school friends. Oh and we have no money either, all stems from DH's self-employment stint as a mortgage advisor. It was at exactly the wrong time so we lived on credit for about 8 months. Plus I wasn't working, then we found out about M! Oh the joy!

myjob, can i ask how much milk N is having at night time?

I am going to try and wean emma off her bedtime bottle at christmas and I'm interested to know how much she is likely to have (I know it will be less than the bottle). Also v interested that you have a different bedtime cup: DH tried to give emma a bottle at breakfast this morning (lord knows why) but she refused it and pointed to her cup....

I know i should have stopped the bottle when she was one... i stopped all but the night time one - i just couldn't bring myself to mess with a succesful routine... i have 2 weeks off at christmas to make a go of it!!

yes she is, thanks, she's not been sick today, just been very needy and not too keen on her food (so pretty much how i'd feel after being sick!!)
Thanks for the advice, it kind of backs up what i was thinking - that i want to make it into more of a child's night time routine iyswim, one that i would be happy to carry on with

Star - ds isn't talking yet either. He's far more interested in hiding things around the house. I came home to find the remote control in the (fortunately empty) bath. Later on I just caught him in time as he tried to put my best Camper boots in the bath while it was full.

I'm too tired to remember what everyone's said. Hope you all get good sleep tonight and sickly grown ups/children are feeling better soon.

Realise am not keeping up well at the moment, but just marking my place before going to bed.

Got to the dr. Q has a bad chest infection. The dr said it is "quite severe actually and I'm not sure why you've waited this long to be seen" !!!!
They kept telling me to stay at home!!! That's the prob w/ having like 8 gps in one practice.
Well he has antibx and an inhaler now. The inhaler signifixantly helped the wheezing thank goodness.
He's sleeping on me now. I'll stay home w him tomorrow.
We have no money either despite us both working!!
Glad Emma is better today Ksal.
Aubergenie Q hides stuff too. Mostly our spoons

I did but she wasn't one of drs I spoke to yet this week.
He's breathing 100x better after inhaler. Godsend
I sort of want to give him a dummy b/c he's waking sooooo much
I won't do it though. Got rid a while ago now. Just wish there was a substitute