Sept 08: last year they were cute little bundles that smelt of milk and vanilla, but now they've been replaced with a babyzilla!

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A new thread for us as the last one was running low.

Dh back tomorrow morning but I will be at work, so might see him in the evening unless he goes to my mums to help pack. He's sipping coffee in Brussels, making the occasional phone call to eurostar to see if any cancellations have come up. I know iabu but I'm a little miffed that he didn't make alternative travel arrangements on Thursday when it all started, despite knowing his Friday morning flight had been cancelled. Just really bad timing.

We have a date for the new tenants to move into my mums house. Good news because she can look after ds so much more and not have to work so hard as her mortgage and bills will be taken care of. Will mean we'll be a bit overcrowded until we can afford to extend/move (dreams of 4 bed house in sought after catchment area, makes mental note to start playing the lottery again).

Ds is coming out with new words (not all understandable) and doing his best to speak in what sound like very earnest heartfelt sentences, but usually only the word at the end that we can make out.

DG hope your DH is being looked after if he hasn't made it home yet. Sounds like something out of the blitz but if he can get to Calais the TV guy Dan Snow is offering high speed evacuations to people to Dover using a navy boat. People needing rescuing need to get to Calais and email [email protected]. Given they're saying it'll be a few more days yet, it might be worth hours on a train or a very long drive from italy to calais.

Carrie DP is self employed and works very hard but the business has only been going for a few years so doesn't bring in what it should do yet. A few years down the road, we'll be fine but at the moment we rely on my salary but DP has to work longer hours than me at the moment to build the business, so he couldn't take any time off at all (he struggles to even take hols).
Ninja I've heard that about 6month old - think it's more like me not wanting to leave a baby.
There's no easy way - we'll have to have a good old talk but I think he's coming round to the idea of talking about another one.

Best go - supposed to be cleaning whilst DP has taken C out. I had a proper girls night out on Friday (vodka shots and out till 1am!!) and felt OK yesterday but today......I am cream crackered!!!!!

Oh and talking - no proper words yet, just attempts, although mama and dada has finally become mummy and daddy.
But if she doesn't have many words, she 100% understands things! (too much probably)

DG cross posted. Glad to hear he will get home OK. My friend is stuck in New York after a once in a lifetime trip to japan, and is supposed to be back to work tomorrow!

AArgghhh We have no sky for 3 weeks whilst our roof is retiled.
I know it isn't a huge problem what with the fight cancellations but it is bloody annoying. Have resolved ourselves to doing a spring clean and watching dvd's when the kids get bored.

There are suggestions it could be weeks not days before the flights can go again We've got 2 members of our dept stuck in Canada and no doubt a few more of our teachers stuck places too.

We're going to Edinburgh for bank holiday weekend so hoping that if flights still won't be going then that we will at least know soon so we can plan other ways to get there.

Thanks for the wishes, ladies. We saw a couple of houses, one of which was ok, except for the fact that i would feel compelled to COMPLETELY redecorate. It boasted, amongst other monstrosities, a pink Jacuzzi, eighties style - i'll say no more.

We are now actively TTC. It's all been a bit sudden, but we have had a simultaneous attack of broodiness, dp and I. Mind you, I'm rather old, so unless it happens sharpish I'll be well over my sell by date.

New house, new baby... nothing really has materialised yet!

We know of a few people trapped abroad, one family from church is stuck in south africa til May (unless the whole Spain plan comes off where they're trying to get brits there then they can drive/train/boat back to UK). My friend's DH suggested she home school the kids and she laughed in his face and went to the beach!! I know a few teachers stuck abroad too, I wonder how schools will cope? There's been a couple of stories of school sports teams stuck, and it'll be mid-May before they can get a flight that will get all of them on, they can't come back in smaller groups coz there's a bunch of minors with only two adults.

Being the first day of term, i phoned another nursery today to try and put dd's name down there instead, they won't be able to let me know til the end of the summer term because it depends on teacher numbers. I said but if you can't give us a place it'll be too late to get in anywhere else...and don't they have to apply for the funding well before then?
Now to phone the other nursery to ask what's going on, and i think I'll put dd's name down for school while we're at it, maybe skip the whole nursery stage altogether!!

mama and others who are worried about late talkers, I've noticed among dd's peers that by the age of 3 they've pretty much all evened out on their speaking ability. Dd was always ahead with her talking up to the age of about 2 1/2, but now some of her peers are much clearer and more articulate whereas she can still be a bit baby-talk at times. If he can hear, then you know its going in and at some point it'll all come out!

I almost forgot today's top news....I officially ovulate!
Had blood test on friday, got phone call from docs today saying my iron levels are low and they booked me in for an appointment first thing, trotted down there, got the full low down on my results and a prescription for iron tablets. Sadly all branches of Boots are out of stock, so i'll have to eat dark chocolate instead

Soooo relieved about the ovluation. Scan for cysts is next tuesday. eek.

carrie that's good news. Try Spatone for the iron, I gather it's really good and doesn't have the side effects (iykwim!)

Carrie That is great news.
Don't get your hopes up too much but 2 of the 3 times I went to get scanned for cysts I was pregnant.

Hope you get the school sorted as well. i was going to put Robyn's name down for the nursery but as we want to move we might end up bowhere near it.

DD1 is 14 today. i feel so old, the years have just flown by.

quick bookmark so I can catch up.

The dc's are out and I have just had hectic 2 hours on my own in the car doing errands, car waash, petrol, supermarket, post office etc. I should be having a tidy but I think I need 10 mins of MN and some tea first then I will spring into action before they are back at 5 for tea.

grrrrr my childminder has given notice and I've spent all afternoon leaving messages for childminders to try and find someone new who can do my exact hours as I can't be flexible at all.

debi. How long do you have? 1 month?

Hello, haven't been on MN for absolutely ages, but bumped into Hopefully the other day while watching a magician in the street, and made me remember I've missed you all!

Had a fab holiday on Hants/Dorset border, weather was lovely, kids played on sandy beaches every day, I got a suntan and ate far too much New Forest ice cream.

No way I can catch up with all I've missed - just had a browse thru last few posts.

Really sorry to hear your news, Digi D&S - re cautionary tale about moving schools... my niece didn't get a place in the school my sister wanted, settled well in another, and when a place came up later that year in her preferred school, my sister was torn about whether to move her - in the end she did, and never regretted it. Think kids that age settle in again easily. Just in case that happens for you too.

My dd1 has a place in my 1st choice school back in Croydon, but we probably won't go back there... still no idea where we'll be living so didn't apply anywhere else... so no idea what will happen in September.

Dd2 talking so much, even puts words togther like "want down mummy". Am embarrassed to admit that she knows many words which indicate how much my standards have slipped since the early days of dd1: chocolate, smarties, sweeties, treats, buttons, crisps, cake, biscuits....

hello peeps - been busy particularly with grouchy A who has had amazing constipation and was screaming for hours every couple days. Over the last 3 days I ended up hiding all breadsticks in the house and he ate 10 fruit pots, piles of raisins, lots of dilute juice, twice-daily lactulose and five dishes of spinach and bean curry. And no poo. MrNC was away for the 3 days and returned just in time for the final poo explosion.

Poor A was much, much happier today.

More friends are getting pregnant with no.2. Trying not to be jealous...

Congratulations on the ovulating Carrie

We will have another baby. I want to lose some weight first though. But I'm 35 at the end of the year so I need to focus on getting rid of some flab and then ttc.

DS must be going through a growth spurt at the moment and I think it must have peaked today. I am totally gobsmacked at the amount he ate:

breakfast: porridge (big portion) and a banana.
morning snacks: biscuit, 15ish grapes, cheese biscuit, apple.
lunch: boiled egg and a slice of toast.
afternoon snack: pear, 2 cheese biscuits, apple.
dinner: half a sausage, a yorkshire pudding and peas and sweetcorn. Followed by a banana.

He is eating us out of house and home, and no wonder he had 3 poo's. Something had to come out to enable the mass eat-a-thon.

Lordy.

mama DD is talking far later than ds ever did. His first sentence was at 14 months, whilst dd would rather screech and point and let ds talk for her and she's 19 months now . I'm sure she doesn't have any problems with speech, nursery said she is still within the normal developmental timescales so I'm sure she will pick it up in time.

splish Your New Forest holiday sounds wonderful. We drove through on the way to Weymouth the other week, I haven't been to the actual forest in about 25 years. I could see the ponies from the road though . I'll take the dc's to Beaulieu one day.

Hi all,

Sorry to hear your news DG, I cannot imagine what that must feel like.

We are still trying for baby 2 and this morning period came a day early so another month of wishing. It took 2-months for DD so it's been very annoying as this is nearly 7-months

I hope things pick up very soon for everyone!

hooray for carrie and her eggs.

Am going to GP tomorrow to ask about looking into my long cycles. And to check on what kind of early ante-natal support I'll get if I get pregnant again.

Looks like there's quite a few of us here now ttc. Good luck to you all.

Put in our appeal yesterday. Now need to wait for the hearing to be scheduled.

Also going to visit the other local school on Thursday. When the Deputy Head called me she seemed really puzzled as there are no places at this school either. Jt know if we had applied we would have got in so anticipating us being higher up the list. The schools with places are just undoable.

We have one of DH's US colleagues staying with us as she's been unable to get home. She was supposed to fly back on Sat but has been told she won't get on a flight until at least next Sat. She's left her one year old DD behind and she's missing her like crazy.

Carrie I agree about the talking thing. I'd noticed that too that ds1's speech is exactly the same level (but more of it!) as other kids his age and he was a very early talker.

meglet yes got a month to find someone. Going to see someone next week and got a few more numbers to try. Want to find someone soon so I don't have to worry but also if I find someone too quickly I'll have to pay a months retainer and can't afford that.

Good luck to all the ttc-ers. have fun

Hello everyone we've not seen for a while! Glad you had a good holiday splish, hope you weren't the one who had to clean up the poo explosion NC, sorry for not being pg Kagey

Thank you for the champagne, not had any in ages

debs it had occurred to me...but my period is due on sunday, and the scan is on tuesday. So either i'll be 1/2/3 days into my period, of if i'm pg then it'll only be 4 weeks so nothing would show up. I was wondering whether I should do a pg test on tuesday morning before the scan? Will prob get period anyway

debi sorry about the childminder situation

DS was in my bad books today after waking at 5:30am and generally buggering about, tantrumming, lots of trips to the potty and wanting to mess around downstairs. We really need to crack his early waking and messing around as I think I will lose the plot if he continues to do at all summer. Poor little dd was so tired as her big brother had woken her up early, she even fell asleep at the table at nursery . What we need is one of those huge 1ft thick bank vault doors on his room so he can't get out until morning .....

meglet sorry about the early waking DD did it for months and then it suddenly stopped. We put her in a big bed so she could get out and play without disturbing us, and got this wonderful clock so she knows its not morning til the sun comes up. Very impressed at potty usage though!

We've had ds's first sentence "more daddy breakfast please". Ha ha, poor daddy!

I got my Freedom of Information request from the council today - 421 children offered no place in my borough! How on earth is that a successful process!