Oct 08 - Chair climbing, spider greeting, potty training? NOOOOOO, they're still babies! <wibble>

[50ftQueenie]

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 Oct) - 50ftQueenie - 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

Hope this is ok ladies.

ah yes... should have twigged the allergy thing.

must say i feel terribly lucky that we are allergy free (touch wood) having seen the dietary requirements reeled off last week!!

i get bumpy skin if i wear cheap jewellery and belt and watch buckles give me a rash... does this count? [desperate to fit in emoticon]

I love being home with Q on my own. He's such a fun toddler. I can't wait until 18th June, when I'm off for the summer with him

myjob will she fall asleep on that car journey? Otherwise, I guess, put her in reins and tie her to the bumper

I agree about the not always feeling that rush of love at your baby's birth. When the midwife asked if I wanted to hold J I said no! Think it was the shock of everything. I never had that rush of love but love him to pieces and sometimes when he is being cute or sleeping looking angelic my eyes go all misty and I can't believe he's mine.

50ft a Greenwich meet up would be excellent. I love wearing my comfy clothes. I have a pair of huge Primark jogging bottoms I brought when I was pregnant and still wear them in the evenings now. Dh hates them but then I hate his tracksuit bottoms too

J has come back from Nursery today with bright red cheeks, red eyes and a snotty nose. Am hoping it's teeth but then he's due a cold as it's been 3 weeks since the snotty nose cleared up and a week since the throat infection

Evening ladies. What an day. I left the house just after 7.30 this morning, and this is the first time I've had a proper sit down.

Sorry - I haven't had time to read properly.

Pistachio - I think the thing that shocked me the most was the fact that S just wouldn't be put down to sleep. At all. I remember me and dp meeting in the hall and handing him over to the other one with both of us in tears with exhaustion. I knew he'd wake up a lot, but I thought I'd just be able to put him in the moses basket and he'd at least sleep for an hour or so.

Is anyone watching the programme on C4 about childbirth?

I'm going to watch it once I've seen eastenders (nearly finished).

Sorry, but if anyone tried to tickle me with a blown up rubber glove while I was in labour, I'd punch them.

oh yes, aubergenie makes a good point. I did envision putting him in the moses basket for a bit and then he'd wake...etc. That just didn't happen. He just wanted to be held and to sleep on us. Putting him down to sleep was a rare occurrence. I wish I had just bought a sling before he was born. I had all these thoughts that he'd just sleep in there a lot and I'd rest or do housework or whatever. Bouncy chair was also a godsend but I had to bounce it all the time. Easier to just hold him but good to have it there when I was so sore from bf

Evening. We have been trying to do some sorting now that it seems that we are having an impromptu meet-up in my house! So how many people are coming? How many cakes am I going to have to make? What allergies am I catering for? There is one thing I will ask ..... don't forget that monday is MY BIRTHDAY! Oh and my bathroom isn't finished so you'll have to excuse the hideous mess in there. It will be clean though because I'm making DH clean it.

So is it Monday we're supposed to be coming? I have a hospital appt first, but think that's prob at 8:50, so depending on how disorganised clinic is, that means that I could be out any time between 9:45 and 11. Are we coming for lunch? Seafood allergy and virtually carb free/low GI for me. Low dairy, but doesn't have to be no dairy. I don't know if I have your address or not, so you'd better let me have it. Eek at the thought of a long drive without dh!

Monday is when Ronshar is coming, the lovely Myjob family are staying Sunday & Monday night. Yes to lunch, I will do some sort of selection of things like Ronshar. Low carb/no carb should be easy for me to cater for as I am the same!

Ronshar - I will make marmite on toast for dd2 and will make sure there are some yummy nut-free cakes for dd1.

Super dooper! We will come on Monday then. What can I bring? Leftovers from dd's party on Sunday ?

That sounds like a good plan! We'll probably go to the farm shop or Waitrose for some yummy bits.

50ft. Do not make anything diff for us. We can all eat anything. Except dd1 with the nuts, which includes almonds.

Star DD1 is a bit in love with your cake. She has had a bit in her packed lunch everyday. However I have been chomping in to it today so not much left for tomorrow!

Just back from body pump so evrything is a bit painful.

Hey guys, not another meet-up without me!!

Pistachio, good to hear you're feeling better.

Aubergenie, I too would have thumped his lights out. It was a good prog tho, will be watching next week!

God I feel so neglectful of Pops. I saw her for 5 mins after she woke this morning before i went to work (with her crying as I left) and got in basically to give her her bedtime BF Gonna take 2 days off next week to spend some time with her. I miss her Prob just like this cos I@m tired, I'm off to bed.

I want to come! Why can't you have meet ups on saturdays and sundays like we did at Ronshar's?

Why can't you have half term at the same time as the rest of the country?!

Because the damn americans think they have to do everything their way. They still think they are the centre of the universe.

Hmm - It might be a meet-up without me unless we can get the house sorted quickly! Don't know what to say about you feeling bad for being at work. You really shouldn't feel guilty but I do know what it's like. A couple of days off should help. Is there any chance you could go part-time? Or work compressed hours?

Hmm... don't know what to say other than i can empathise. I don't see Emma in the morning at all, but i do see her for an hour before i put her to bed in the evening. I have to be pretty ruthless about leaving work to be able to do even that... its that way we have organised it - i go to work early and leave early so i can pick her up. DH drops her off and stays a bit longer at work in the evening to make up for it (although he at least manages to see her at both ends of the day )

i totally undertand though - its so hard not miss her

Hmm It must be very hard. I get sad sometimes about leaving Q, but I spend lunchtime with him most days, drop off at 7.55 and collect by 3.30/3.45 and have more holiday than most. I feel very, very fortunate and do not know what it feels like to work and only see ds first thing in morning and at bedtime. But I can say, that even in my situation, where I do still see him a lot, I feel sad some days about it Is there a way you could work more hours over 3 or 4 days so then you have more days at home with P? I don't know how this works, but just thinking of a possibility.
Different things work for different people, I think. Aubergenie was saying she does 3 days instead of 5 but stays a bit later at school to finish up all the work instead of taking it home to do after ds in bed (like I do). That sounds quite nice. 3 days full on and then 4 days home. Could you do something like that?

Sorry, aubergenie - I hope I got that right... I think that's what you were saying. it sounds like it works quite well

HMM also is there a way you could get P into a nursery or cm near your work? Having Q so close to me at work means I can nip out and spend time with him often. I know it would mean resettling in a new place,but may be worth it in the longer term? I only suggest it as we're resettling Q the week after next!