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.

If you add a bit of washing up liquid (lemon/lime scented or suchlike) in with the vinegar water mix (2 pts water to 1 pt vinegar) that smells nice.
Scrub scrub scrub and make sure to dry it. hth

Hmmm... what Star says (because I have no clue, Star sounds very authoritative and Star is also the biggest clean freak I think I've ever met.)

thank you!
I only have white wine vinegar, none of the stuff people put on fish and chips - is that the same???

I guess I was a bit over zealous with cleaning advice there. Not sure what came over me!

that should be fine, pepper... not 100% on that. Perhaps Jenwa could advise if that's a proper substitute I'd give it a try anyway I think that's what I have in our cleaning cupboard

Star, your advice was comprehensive.

i thought it was great -her mattress has been washed down with vinegar and water mix and when it dried i sprinkled the baking powder on to absorb some smell. Hopefully it'll have recovered by bedtime, it's the waterproof side (thank goodness). I'll have to do the downstairs carpet when the kids are in bed.

Pistachio I think it's because I just have one He is happy to play on his own and with me and help me with household stuff, cuddle on my lap for a bit and watch cbeebies, eat lunch...etc. And our place is quite small, so he can't really get into much trouble.

DH loves getting out and about with him when he's alone with him.... as do I... but I also like to throw in one lazy day where we can just move at a snail's pace and not go out at all (except maybe into the garden for a bit).

I hope it works, pepper! You'll need to hoover up the baking soda afterward... you probably know that already. Just being thorough

I had to get out even when I had just one! I had planned on a quiet day in today, but dd was going stir crazy (despite being good all morning) so we popped out to feed the ducks in a nearby town whilst ds napped. We had tonnes of bread/sandwich ends for them from all the party stuff!

Thanks for yesterday 50ft. I unfortunately had an even worse journey back than the one there, as the M25 had turned into a car park with jam after jam. Took me just shy of 2.5 hrs to get back, so by last night, having been up since 5am and done 5 hours driving in a day I was shot, and actually didn't mind for once that MN was down .

Bleurgh for stinky pepper household!

Haven't made those yet KSal, but they sound nice from title alone!

Dress looks lovely pistachio.

I often get out with S twice a day. It's like having a pet that needs excercising. Fortunately for us we've got 5 children's centres within walking distance of our house, so loads of activities, most of them free.

Hope the smells have subsided Pepper. at Star's advice. You definitely asked the expert. I wouldn't have had a clue.

I'm watching that childbirth programme again, and was in tears before it even started. Dp'd had to make a swift exit, he absolutely can't watch anything like that.

Glad you had a lovely birthday 50ft!

'lo people. Damn, I missed the labour ward prog, what time was it on?

Pepper, sorry to hear about all the smells! I hope that you are now putting your feet up in a nice non-smelly house?!?!

I love the dress pistachio. I am tempted to ask dh for a personal shopping trip at John Lewis for my birthday, but I may have to wait and see how restrained he is going to be about his birthday requests (if he buys himself the 42" LED tv that he drools over every few days, I'm definitely demanding my shopping trip!)

Aubergenie - I meant to watch that, but dh is watching football, and I don't think he'd switch over for a birth programme

I spent the day in hospital with ds, for his MMR. It all went fine, but, despite not actually doing much, I am now knackered. Any excuse to tuck into a beer.....

It's on now HMM. Till 10.

I'd thoroughly recommend a JL personal shopping trip Ekka. It just takes all the leg work out, and when I did mine I didn't feel like she was doing a hard sell at all.

Glad the MMR went well, too.

I'm gonna watch it on +1. Am watching the Brits at the moment.

I forgot about it too hmm, but spotted aubergenie's post just before 10, so am watching on +1 too.

Ooh it's sounding familiar - induction for GD and 4 days in hospital so far!

'Joy' really isn't living up to her name is she?! What a miserable moany guts! At least I had MN to keep me going when I was waiting and bored in hospital.

I didn't watch the programme. But csws, you'd probably call me a miserable moany guts in labour! . There was definitely NO joy in the process for me until Q arrived on my chest.

Ah, but Joy wasn't actually in labour star. She was just moaning about food and the midwives and pillows and ...

I did chuckle when I found out her name was Joy CSWS! I'm sure I was horrendous when they kept me in for 2 days after S was born, so I don't entirely blame her.

Can't decide what to do today. I can't go too far away as I've got to be home for S's nap so I can write reports. Gah!

Deep joy here, DS2 has it now... So all change for DDs bedclothes at midnight, then DS2s at 3am.DS1 is blissfully oblivious that it may get him at any time.
I've made her a Docs appt actually as she's had an upset tummy since Friday andnow she has an odd rash on her torso, like little pimples. Not sure how to get the others to the docs though... won't bepopular that's for sure!
carpet smells much better today thanks Star, mattress still foul though..

oh pepper That sounds absolutely dreadful! I hope the dr can help and that dc are feeling better soon. Mattresses are something that will probably need to be replaced unfortunately. Best to use one of those full mattress waterproof covers then it can't seep through next time. If you can't get a new mattress, you could zip it up in one of those covers for now and it would "trap" the smell but a colleague suggested that to me (who is equally in love with cleaning) when I asked her for another way to remove smell from mattresses.

ah ok, I get it now, csws. I didn't moan once Q was out. Well, I DID moan... not about facilities, pillows...etc. But I kept moaning about how I wanted to go home please. I actually offered to pay one of the midwives £100 if she let us go and I promised never to tell anyone about it . She just laughed at me.
Oh, AND I kept whining about not knowing how to bf and could someone please help me instead of just coming in, looking at my nipples and saying "oh my, you're looking a bit chewed aren't you?"