October 08 - New Year, New Thread.

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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
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

alex had had 10 minutes nap all day today!
dd stopped naps at 18 months, i was so tired coz i was 3 months pregnant with ds, oh how i missed nap time!
no chance of naps with this pregnancy, have got my booking in the monday after next, it all seems so surreal. i must be mad!

anyway girls make me feel better i'm turning 30 on tuesday and i don't like it, i want to stay 29 forever!
the only good thing is dh is giving me his credit card as a gift and i'm off to the trafford centre on sunday to spend

Right, I'm just making a note that I've got to the end of page 4!! Ironically, once I've been back in the office a few weeks, I should be able to get on MN more, as I can go on in my lunch hour [HMM imagines a world where you get a whole hour for lunch]

Oh I have a theory about turning 30, I think it prompts a bit of an "early mid life crisis". I lost loads of weight and started doing 10k runs when I turned 30. You'll be fine

I turned 30 the day after Q was born. I always said I wanted to have a child by the time I was 30. Even though we hadn't planned for a baby for the next year or 2, when Q was conceived as a surprise, he arrived just in time at 38 weeks to be born the day before my birthday! Amazing!

oh and I had no time to worry over turning 30 with all else going on. I suspect you will have a bit going on expecting dc3

DS is home today as the school is closed - hurrah! I already want to shut him out in the garden. Poor M is not happy about her big brother ruining her fun.

30 is the new 20 you know heather. It'll be fun.

No more snow overnight, but school still closed as expected. Ds up twice in the night. Dd up too early considering the late night she had (not late late but later than usual) so we are clearly going to be in for a fun day!

Same here CSWS. DS woke up in the night cold because he always kicks his covers off. So he is stropy and hyperactive today. M woke up way three times in the night and woke up for the day way too early so now keeps asking to go for a walk (so she can go to sleep). She is teething again I think. I am tearing my hair out already. Plus DH is being annoying as he keeps getting in the way, not helping when it is needed and moaning about not knowing whether he should go to work.

DS woke up (I think) cold in the night too. Mind you, he still wakes every bloody night like clockwork at around 3, when dp puts him back to sleep, and then around 5 when I feed him.

He's being very funny today - making lots of animal noises. He's also started waving goodbye to my breasts when he's finished having a feed. No more snow here. I think we'll brave the pavements in a bit.

pistachio about DD. Q is the same - never sits and plays always wants to be pushing something or carrying something or running or trotting back and forth...etc etc

Aubergenie - someone on another thread I was on recommended a baby whisperer technique for when the baby wakes like clockwork at one time each night. I forget what it was called but you wake the baby about an hour before they usually do, disrupting their sleep pattern and then after a few nights supposedly it works and they sleep through that other waking - I think it's just rewiring their internal sleep clocks or something to break the cycle they have of waking at that time? Anyway, I'm going to do it with Q, too and see if it works. Maybe it would work for S.

50ft snow day here, too! most of the parents from my class emailed me because I've given them some work they can do at home if they get bored, not mandatory... anyway, they were all so happy for the 2 snow days!! I hear you, though - I'd like DH to be at work.

Oh and LOL hahahahaha I got SUCH a giggle re FB and HMM.
We taught Q to point to his nose. So now, he points to his nose when we ask "where is your... (any body part)" He is following instructions so well now, though - and understanding practically everything.

AND he is consistently bringing us a nappy whenever he poos - as soon as he does it and sometimes before. He's starting to bring them when he's just wet, too He was nappy free the other day and peed on the floor then brought us a nappy

Another snow day tomorrow I got the text, email, and phone tree call an hour ago. Lucky us!!

Wow Star. That's a nice bit of extended holiday for you! Is the snow really bad where you are? Here the roads are fine but the pavements are really icy and treacherous.

I do feel sorry for the parents who've got to make childcare arrangements while their schools are shut.

Pistachio - It must be exhausting having a child who doesn't sit down!

Oh and Star, thanks for the tip about the sleep. Do I just wake him up before he would normally wake and then settle him back to sleep again? Scary - what if he doesn't want to go back to sleep! I could do it tonight as I don't have to get up tomorrow for work.

dd's school is opening from 10am til 1.30pm tomorrow. Dd doesn't usually go on a friday but is taking up the offer of a foc place as she is desperate to see one of her teachers again! Will be a relief to get out of the house for a bit tbh.

I have got the boy home again tomorrow It's been a total nightmare of a day and looks like I'm in for more of the same tomorrow.

aaagh, Snow day 3 might be a bit much for me to cope with. Today was very difficult with all 3 at home and DH and I both working from home.... Somehting had to give....
Nursery was open, but we stood no chance of getting the car out to get them there safely.Really had enough now, spent an hour clearing the snow off most of the car, DH is currently out trying to clear the foot of snow off the bins so we can take the rubbish out!
More snow sunday apparently school website promises update sunday evening rather ominously.
Bored of winter.

I had a pre-bathtime vat glass of wine!

evening, gosh it's a bit cold here today but not too much snow. Cambridgeshire seems to be escaping the worst of it thanks goodness. School is still open so DS is very disappointed (I'm not as I have to go to work)

Pepper i hope you heating is fixed, you just get so used to having warmth at the touch of a button. Our heating broke last year when O was about 3 months old and it too Homeserve 3 days to fix it (and kept telling me how quick that was for the winter months grrr) and we didn't have a electric heater or anything like that, so we had to do a mad dash to the shops.

The waking them before they wake up technique sounds like it is worth a go Star as Ollie is still waking at least twice a night (12 & 3). I am really thinking that it may have been a better idea to have had my children a bit younger as these broken nights are killing me.

Ha ha Hedgepig. I know what you mean! I sometimes think I'm too old for this lark. Mind you, the only person I know (in RL) with a baby who is a worse sleeper than S is only 30 and she's permanently knackered too.

I'm going to search for some info on wake to sleep. I've read about it before but I'd thought it was to stop them getting up so early.

So cold tonight. S has gone to bed in a very thick all in one, inside a gro-bag, with blankets. Dp slept in his dressing gown and a hat last night. I kept my socks on. Sexy .

I sleep with my socks on every night - even in the summer. My sister (7 years older and mean) used to tell me that little spiders came to bite your feet while you slept at night so I have worn socks since about age 4 . DH doesn't mind. I also wear them during other activities. I wore them all throughout the birth and snapped sharply at the midwife who suggested I take them off to get more comfortable.

Yes, aubergenie - it's wake to sleep. Since he'll be in a deep sleep, he won't wake so fully, you just sort of disrupt his sleep, don't wake him right up properly iyswim. Does that make sense? And let him fuss / settle himself back to sleep. I guess it takes a few nights... I'm going to do it starting tonight!

I did think about that - what about parents who have jobs that don't understand and want you to come in regardless of the weather? How do they cope when it's a snow day with school aged children? I haven't been worried about that for families at my school. I've never come across a family in 5 years there where both parents work. One parent (usually mother, sometimes father) is stay at home. They were all so when I had Q and announced that I'd have to come back to work some of them need a serious reality check that not everyone's life is the same.

wake to sleep method for aubergenie.

Do you not have heat on at night aubergenie? Or did I miss a problem with your boiler I did read quickly!
I've been hearing that people in the UK do this a lot with heating - turn it off when they are not home or at night. I was thinking we could save loads of money if we put it on the timer and have heat and hot water shut off from 7.30am-3.30/4pm each weekday (so warm while getting ready and warm when we arrive home) and then for maybe from 10.30pm-3.30/4am at night so it would be warm going to bed and warm waking up?
It sounds so wasteful when I think about it to just let it be on all the time! As eco friendly and aware as we are... just never thought so seriously about this. DH used to habitually turn the heating down before Q but now leaves it warm. But to actually shut the heating off would probably help the cost quite a bit... or does this not work because it has to work harder to heat the place back up again? Keep in mind it's a 1 bed maisonette.

Star - Are you saying that you leave the heating on when you're not in the house? That must cost a fortune. We do just what you said - put it on the timer so it comes on in the morning then back on again for a few hours in the evening. It doesn't take long to heat up again. If I'm at home with S, then we might have it on in the day but it depends how cold it is. We don't have it on during the night. I don't like the way that being in a heated house makes my skin feel dry.

And thanks for the wake to sleep info Star. I got sidetracked by your heating situation.