October 08 - New Year, New Thread.

[CantSleepWontSleep]

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
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) - 50ft - 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

csws I think you'll know when you visit if it's a good place for dd or not. I'd be hesitant on the village school if the IT stuff isn't up and running yet. That seems a bit odd.

I know that Q will go to nursery at 2.6 or 3 in a different place than he will go to school when he's 4 because he will come here with me when he's 4 and I'm not bothered about it being a different environment as I'll be here, too.

Q's bum is so red and sore and there's a molar trying to push down. It's a HUGE tooth! Poor little guy. He was up for a lot of the night and did a poo in the night, too I tried to ignore it but he was in bed with me at that point and got down, got a nappy and wipes and handed them to me... so I had no choice!

Star - Many sympathies about the tooth. M is having similar issues at the moment. She was in bed with me from 3am as she was too upset to sleep in her cot. You could tell that despite medicine she was still in pain as kept thrashing about. Added to that a car alarm went off at about 4.30 and it took the owner ages to come out and turn it off. If M hadn't been asleep on my arm I'd have used the axe to turn it off for them. M did a poo in the night recently which was a big shock in the morning! Hope Q's tooth works it way through soon and that his bottom gets better quickly.

Q has never done a poo in the night before (well, since he was about 8 weeks old!) It is so hard to focus and get it all clean and apply metanium while in a sleepy state and lights on. ugh, it was horrid.

I remember how awful it is changing a nappy in the night. You have no option but to get up! We didn't know about M's poo until the morning as she had actually managed a whole night in her cot! She hadn't done a poo in the night for ages either! Q is a very clever boy to go and get a nappy etc. Does he still hide when he is doing a poo? Have you thought about trying a potty? He sounds like he knows what's going on!

Oh and if M was doing what Q does, I would be weeping and hugging my collection of beautiful cloth nappies

Q hides when he does a poo when he's not at home. When at home, he'll go near a wall or a table or something and if we stare at him or laugh at his grunts he'll go around a corner.
He gets us a nappy when he has done a poo but doesn't like having it changed, so sometimes brings me the nappy/wipes or just nappy, then runs away, runs back...etc. He also gets a nappy when his nappy is very very wet but he doesn't do it every time he's wet iyswim.

He does a wee just before he gets in the bath - on the tiles next to the tub, every night, and points to it and says something in uggle buggle. He just wants to hear the dettol bottle spray and see me wipe it up. he LOVES to watch cleaning. Especially when it involves a spray bottle - he dances to the rhythm of the spray then likes to have a go at wiping something down with another cloth himself

We have a potty. But he likes to carry it around the flat and play in it.
we haven't really put him on it yet.

Is M sleeping better now, 50ft?

Why is everyone hiding from ronshar? Is she some sort of secret cloth nappy theif??

Q sounds as loony as M! I love a good unhinged baby! It might be worth popping him on the potty just before the bath as it is a predictable time he will wee. If he gets upset about it leave it for a while as stressing them out makes it more difficult. Obviously it depends on whether you're ready to start trying Q on the potty too as it is a team effort. The reason we both hide from Ronshar is that she thinks we're crazy for our obsession with cloth nappies. She will shout at us for being silly and talking about nappies. She's probably right, she usually is.......

Oh and no, M is not sleeping any better. She is a rubbish sleeper and will probably carry on waking up every night until she's 8.

Ladies[frown].

Star get that boy on the toilet. Think how much money you will be saving!

CSWS, thats a bugger with the drive. Good luck with your school viewing.

Myjob poor N she is a bit like W. Always something going on. At least you are feeling better.

Ksal you are helping to save the earth. That definitely counts.

I woke up last night and somehow managed to get my self stressed at the fact that W will be 2 soon. 2 how did that happen.

Well, ds will have to join the group of disturbed sleepers - he was up 3 times last night, but tbh he was acting as if it was morning each time, not as if he was in pain. Dd joined in, so instead of being good and doing housework while they are both at the cm I am going to go upstairs and lie down - what luxury .

CSWS - your dd does sound very bright. I don't know if it helps, but my dsis was really clever (still is, she got a first from Cambridge) and went to a school that was not deemed 'academic' but they were great at dealing with her and making sure she didn't get bored and stretching her whilst also dealing with the other children who were struggling. My school was v academic, but she hated it there - it just didn't suit her at all. This was before the whole idea of having to have a special g&t programme, and the teachers just used their initiative. I think I would focus on the ethos of the school rather than any documented procedures. Mind you, they were both private schools. I suppose my rather long-winded point was that your dd's personality may have more of an impact on the choice than anything else. I'll shut up now

Ah, 2 is AGES away. We've got the whole of Summer with a toddler to contend with yet!

I was thinking back to when ds was this age and he was sooooo far advanced of where M is! I remember being very stressed if he didn't hit his milestones at least two months early. I never really thought I was very PFB about ds but I think I must have been. He was talking in sentences at this age, M still points to her nose if you ask her where mummy is! Ha ha ha! I'm not stressing before anyone thinks I am. I think if I had found MN when DS was a baby I would have been laughed off the boards with my tales of DS's precociousness. Oh and I hope you don't think I am boasting, it was just thinking about how naive I was in getting stressed about milestones etc!

Myjob - Have you seen on CNT..... LLS are going to be doing NNs. Yay!!!!!

Ekka - I should probably go and have a lie down too as M is currently napping but I am going to do some knitting and watch the X-files! Enjoy your rest!

I agree re: your dd's personality and school, csws. It's all down to what the teachers actually do in the classrooms, if they know (truly know) how to differentiate for individual needs...etc.

Thanks, I wasn't sure if I should even put him on the potty with all the talk of not forcing them too early...etc.

Ronshar - W will not be 2 soon!!! That is so far away from now! They are only 15-16 months. Not even 1 1/2 yet. Q is not almost 2!

oh yes, ekka, enjoy your rest and don't feel about it. Whenever I get the opportunity at home with Q and he's napping, I nap, too! In 2 weeks, I'm on half term and I'll be taking a nap whenever I can

I am stressed about turning 33 in 3 weeks time. That, is scary!

I don't care either Myjob. M is just so bumbling, it's fabulous!

I was talking about this at school this morning. Another mum with number three in H class. She said that will number 1 she did loads of stuff, letters, numbers, shapes etc. Number three can only just read her name
It is all normal and each child is so completely different. If we spent the same amount of time with each consecutive child the house would be full of rats & spiders and no one would ever get any dinner. I feel a bit sorry for W. As a boy he already has the worls stacked against him and being number three is even worse.

Lucky he is just so cute and lovable he will have no trouble in life I'm sure.