April 2009 - Episode 11 - 'There's Something About Teutonic Penises....'

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05 Mar: Kazkiss: ISABELLE FLORENCE 4lb 6oz & OLIVER THOMAS 3lb 7oz
15 Mar: Cakeforbrains: OSCAR WILLIAM 7lb 2oz
27 Mar: ZuluWarrior: Alexander James 7lb 15oz
28 Mar: FrogmellaMoonbeam: VIOLET ROSE 7lb 9oz

02 Apr: Oddeyes: ELEANOR 9lb 8oz
03 Apr: Bebemoo: MEGAN LILLIAN CONSTANCE
03 Apr: Bumpalump: JACOB 8lb
04 Apr: BabyBolat: KARAHAN 6lb 5oz
04 Apr: Kingbeat23: IRIS
05 Apr: JumeirahJane: MILLICENT ROSE 5lb 15oz
06 Apr: BoffinMum: FELIX DAVID GORDON 7lb 9oz
08 Apr: girlylala0807 JAMES EUAN
11 Apr: SpringySunshine: GEORGE NATHAN 8lb 15oz
11 Apr: RachelinScotland: CLEMENT JAMES 8lb 14oz
11 Apr: Lou031205: ISLA SOPHIA 7lb 9oz
11 Apr: Electra: ISABELLA CAROLINE 6lb 3oz
11 Apr: AuldAlliance: ALEXANDRE 7lb 6oz
12 Apr: Phdlife: Name TBA GIRL 9lb 3oz
13 Apr: MathsMummy27: AMELIA CHARLOTTE
15 Apr: Guimauve: HUGO GEORGE 9lb 2oz
15 Apr: Bronze: ISAAC JOHN 7lb 14oz
15 Apr: Kalikaroo: Name TBA BOY 8lb
16 Apr: PuzzleRocks: HOLLY ELIZABETH 8lb
16 Apr: Brettgirl: HANNAH GRACE 6lb 15oz
16 Apr: ReallyTired: Name TBA GIRL
18 Apr: Staryeyed: Name TBA BOY 7lb 11oz
18 Apr: Dawntigga: SAMUAL 5lb 11oz
20 Apr: Wrigglyfish: SEBASTIAN 9lb
20 Apr: Swaliswan: BETH 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: B52s: SAM MARTIN 7lb 9oz
21 Apr: Feierabend: HAZEL LOIS 7lb 9 oz
21 Apr: Mrsgboring: EDMUND 8lb 12oz
23 Apr: Tristalewjac: LEWIN 8lb 4oz
23 Apr: NuttyTaff: TIAHNA SKYE 8lb 8oz
23 Apr: Purplemonkeydishwasher: ISLA ELIZABETH 8lb 14oz
26 Apr: Carameli: THEO LAURENCE 7lb 6oz
26 Apr: Surprisenumber3: EVIE ANNE 8lb 2oz
26 Apr: Bicnod: OSCAR MATTHEW 8lb 1oz
27 Apr: Loobylaboobs: OLIVER STEPHEN 7lb 7oz
27 Apr: Gingersarah: VERONICA ROISIN 9lb 1oz
30 Apr: MegBusset: ARCHIE 8lb 15oz
30 Apr: Elpis: ISLA JESSICA 8lb 11oz
30 Apr: Ladyofmuswell: SAMUEL
01 May: Satheresitting: Name TBA BOY
03 May: Conkertree: Name ANGUS ANDREW 8lbs 8oz
06 May: Frekkles: HARRIS MERLIN 8lb 5.5oz

Oh really? Do let me know what is is like. We need something to replace Ellen's Monday class that has ended.

Did a test it said negative. Though it expires in february so don't know (why are all the tests old? because its been so long since I needed them)
Moo and i are going tothe store to purchase more to have them on hand for when we need them again.

Auld fb not working properly when I try to write you back it crashes...thanks for the offer of the linament we seem to have the bottom situation under control with the smelly M stuff. thank you though. Much appreciated
And thank you once again ladies for bringing it to my attention

Puzzle I'll email you.

Feiera re. random shouting. I completely understand where you're coming from. I think I have a particularly shouty baby anyway and he spends much of even a good day red-faced and screaming. What shocks me the most is the effect it has on me - it seems to flip a switch and make me FURIOUS. So much so that I have shouted at him to shut up on more than one occasion . I am constantly amazed that I could get that angry. I hasten to add that most of the time I don't shout .

I often wonder what other people think when he screams his head off for yet another mystery reason, or I leave him to cry for a while in bed. To them it must sound catastrophic - for me it's just yet another session of the daily screaming routine.

Bicnod yay for baby-free pub lunches! But arses for the builders.

Bronze comiserations for the crawling. Let the chaos and injuries commence. BW has bled from his face at least twice today already .

Kingbeat all sounds busy and stressful. SOunds like your man needs to shape up or ship out though. Thinking of you.

Dawn, I am about as sympathetic as you! Just get on with it, I think .

Wriggles and puzzle, nothing specific to say but hell .

Tits. Meant hello not hell!

Ha ha ha - glad you clarified that ZW. Wondered what we had done to offend.

S is a lot less shouty since he properly sussed out crawling. He was very frustrated and angry for a few weeks when only semi-mobile.

Did anyone watch Panorama last night? AK did not come off well.

IsActuallyQuiteGladSomebodyTookThatSmugGrinOffHerFaceTiggaxx

Orbit used to be much more angry until he started crawling, too. Frustration, I imagine.

oh god, yes, Tigga - she just looked like an uptight money grabbing old mare, didn't she?

particularly the bit where they pointed out that her kids' lasagna cost the equivalent of £10 per kilo, compared to the most expensive adult lasagna which was only £6 a kilo!

Ah, but TT it's very nearly organic! nearly organic how the hell did she come up with that one.

Can'tStandLadySmugnessOfSmugvillTiggaxx

Great minds, have just posted about 'nearly organic' on the other thread!

Not her finest hour. I've always thought she was mad as a hatter, tbh. Nice to have my suspicions confirmed.

Evening

I have been here. Zulu's recommendation.

Possible Bonsoir stalking opp

HasBeenSuckedInByTheBAThingTiggaxx

BA didn't reply, did she? Maybe she knows nowt about wedding attire, as she is anti-marriage?
Loved the "we are titled"!!

There was a classic BA comment on another thread about how on the rare occasions she ventures to IKEA she rubs shoulders with people leading "errant lives" or some such (subtext: not unfaithful spouses, but yucky plebs).
Rummage, rummage: here

Oh, and while I was looking for that I found this pithy remark:
classic

My name is AA and I am a BA stalker!

Actually, while I am at it, I was intrigued by the person on that AK thread who said she fed her child oati-something for breakfast because it had bugger-all salt in. When it was pointed out that it does actually contain salt, she responded that she hadn't said "no salt" - she had said 'bugger-all salt". Does bugger-all mean "a little bit"?

I though "bugger all" meant none meself.

"It's awful, really awful."

I snorted out loud at that. Brilliant.

I thought that was the only correct response really to someone asking if they could name their child Ethel!

Good morning.

Wriggly how did your DH manage to drop S on his head?

I have started organising DD1's 3rd birthday party and I am getting very excited about it I really need to go back to work.

Morning!
Bebe, I meant to say, if you do ever want anything sending, just ask. If FB will let you, that is.

I am too knackered to think straight. I need your input, ladies.

I just cannot work out what approach to take with A at night. He was waking and feeding twice, which to me seems reasonable at his age. But then after the second feed, he was taking ages to get back to sleep, raising his head to check I was beside him, and freaking out if I wasn't. On the nights when I had the energy, I left him to cry, which I hate doing and which meant that I lay listening to him howl for ages, and got even less sleep. So I was not v consistent in my approach, as some nights I just couldn't face it, and rubbed his back in his cot or took him into bed or rocked him, did whatever I could to get him to sleep asap.

After the gastro, I now have a cold and am just exhausted. I have no energy left to deal with this, but I need to.

Is 2 feeds a night just unnecessary at 9.5mths? (Last night at 11 he seemed very hungry: water wouldn't cut it, and when I fed him he fed greedily for a long while). Should I decide that after, say 11pm, he gets nothing, and I grit my teeth and stay by his cot, but leave him to "settle himself" (which means shriek in rage and sorrow until he finally gets off to sleep)? I am so bloody torn between my hatred of leaving him to cry and my utter, debilitating tiredness. I am not functioning well at work, and on the days like today when I am not working but have both boys at home I am too knackered to do anything with them, barely managing to do minimal chores and cooking.

Opinions welcome!

Fei, I don't like Ethel either, but there are less damning ways of expressing a difference of taste, I feel. FWIW, I don't like BA's daughter's name, which in my eyes is an old lady name as I had a great-aunt who had it. But I have refrained from telling her it is awful.

Ooooh what are BAs children called then? (clearly behind the curve on BA stalking)

Auld - I'm not really sure what to suggest about A at night. I've been wondering when S is going to sleep through and wondering if he actually needs calories at night or whether I should sooth him back to sleep some other way, but in the interests of the whole household getting much needed sleep I follow the path of least resistance and pop him on the boob and get him back to sleep in my bed. At the moment he is waking around 2:30 most nights and is in bed with me from then on, sleeping and feeding again around 5am which I do half asleep.

Last night I got 6 oz of formula down him before bed, but it made no difference.

I am really trying to get stodgy filling food down S in the evening to fill him up(pasta / potatoes etc) but he isn't very keen. He sometimes only eats a bit of fruit and yoghurt.

I'm pretty sure DD stopped having night feeds around this age. I stopped BF altogether in Feb (she was an April baby too remember) and I know there is no way I would have made her a bottle in the middle of the night. I just can't remember how I persuaded her to stop.

Oh Fei - DH didn't technically drop the baby. He popped him on the edge of the bed and went off to do something else. S tried to follow his Papa and careered straight off headfirst crashing onto the hard floor.

You would think DH would know better though. A few months ago he put S on a bench in the garden which he fell off headfirst onto the hard paving stones.

[Shock]

What am I supposed to do!?

And Fei - I am under enormous pressure to start planning my DDs birthday too. She is obsessed! She has already put in requests for star-shaped balloons (?) and glitter and butterflies and bubbles.

Excellent Wriggly, I think Tesco have bubble machines in the sale at the moment. I have bought a ball pond and a pop up house and a couple of space hoppers, all for the party How many balls do I need to fill a small ball pond? 100 enough? Does anyone know?

We are having a teddy bears picnic and I have hired the local church hall because we'll invite almost all the children from nursery, along with their teddies obviously. It's ridiculous really, having 15 guests plus their siblings on your 3rd birthday! And the teddy bear theme was my idea, not hers, although I'll make her think it was hers This is the last year where I can do this I believe and then from next year onwards it will all have to be Disney / princess / fairy themed .

Now, how much do I spend on the party bags? And how many items should go in there? So far I have: A book for each child, a bouncy ball and a homemade cookie. Do I need to put another toy in or will a couple of little chocolates do? I am not a fan of all those cheap plastic toys you get in party bags, they always end up in the bin a few days after the party.

Oh and you can definitely get star shaped helium balloons. More excitingly, Tesco have balloons that are lit from the inside by a little LED light.