Discussion amongst Mums with babies born in December 2008

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Hope you all can find it, Moms title was perfect I thought.

Trace I dropped the bedtime one a couple of weeks ago in exchange for a sippy of milk, and he didn't seem fussed. I brought the bedtime feed back on the weekend though as he wasn't eating and I wanted to get some nutrients in him. I am a bit tired of the morning feed, but it buys me another 10 mins horizontal so it's still worth it! Never thought I'd still be feeding at 15 months when I barely made it past 3 weeks (tongue tie).

I've got a question re still BFing - does it hurt now they have teeth? I've been dying to ask for ages now! But Izzy has so many teeth, it seems a bit like I'd be feeding a great white shark!

MOM - on the pregnancy tests, I remember with DD2 that I tested too early and had the same experience as you - a faint line appearing later and thought I was pregnant (slightly alarmed as it was first time try! ).

Anyway, I had all the symptoms etc etc (and threw away all contraception but then tested again and wasn't pregnant. Of course, in the intervening period I had, however, managed to get pregnant!? I have always bled in early pregnancy usually, but not always, for no reason, so am a regular at St George's EPU. At around 7 weeks I headed down there and they confirmed that it was definitely the second go that had been the one, not the first, as the 'dot' was only 5 weeks old!

Apparently, I learnt from MNet, if you leave a test for longer than the recommended time, the line can appear and darken but it doesn't always make it a positive test, it just looks like one. But as others said, even if it isn't a positive this time, at least you know how you feel .

Ominous noises from upstairs so will have to go!

Hee hee - better to have ominous noises from upstairs than downstairs. Hee hee! Laughing at my own joke! Sorry, Dora - I hope the noises were nothing!

xx

Beans - He only bit me once or twice when he first got teeth but my reaction put a stop to that pretty quickly!

Beans: most babies won't bite, max does but only when he wants to change sides (ouch).

Thanks - I've always been curious. Izz did a couple of little nips when she started getting teeth at 5 months and it was really sore. So just wondered if it got worse when they had lots of teeth!

Being on here has made me feel much more upbeat. Thank you!

Thanks Dora! Will try not to spend my life savings in pregnancy tests this week and if AF arrives I will celebrate with lots of chocolate and get onto shagging regularly (guess once a month won't cut it if we're TTC ).

Off to bed as I'm on my own AGAIN this week and DS is punchy after his tummy bug this weekend. The worst part is that I have no tricks to get him to sleep these days - no rocking, no feeding to sleep, no co-sleeping - he is a very good self-settler when he feels like it, but when he doesn't I'm stuffed!

Night night all.

Beans I think the early nips are the worst. They're testing out their new teeth! They soon get bored of them and realise they would rather have warm mummy milk and best keep those chompers out of the way.

Night Mom. I'm going to head bedwards shortly too. Just goggling Married Single Other in all its schmaltziness - so will do teeth in ad break and get into jammies ready for immediate beddy-byes afterwards. Heaven!

Am already weeping in aforementioned rubbish programme. Love it. x

Night.

x

hello lovely ladies - just wanted to say i am here, just lurking and feeling a little blue about life. dh is out tonight, so i can sit down with a g&t, some peace and quiet and ssome mumsnet to really catch up. missing daisy and kayz, urbane and zj and veggie has been surprisingly quiet for a while.

the back is now better, but the running must continue tomorrow (eeeek) as i am 2 stone overweight (from where i would like to be) and my current cycle is on day 42 and no sign of AF coming and before you get excited, this ain't a baby, my cycles are very long and irregular and there has been so little action in the waitinghousehold. i am convinced i will never ovulate/have another baby as am in such bad shape.

well there's a cheery start to they day. see you all later.

oh arse - posted that and suddenly there are a gazillion new posts from last night. will respond later, my lovelies.

am beginning to take this personally - now i have finally posted after ages and you are all ignoring me. is it a conspiracy??? what have i done?

Hi WG - how are you doing? It's gone quite quiet on here of late! But it's good to hear from you - where have you been?

Left DD with the nanny this morning. She was weeping and I had to really struggle not to myself. Week off wasn't necessarily a good thing!!! Have now rekindled the mutual dependancy. Bugger. Anyway, am at work and it's dull dull dull. But heyho. Had 200 emails to get through, most of which were out of date. Never mind.

I've eaten a brioche roll, a bowl of sultana bran and a tub of fruit I brought in and I'm still hungry. Not long til lunch now.

Hello ladies
Here I am on a rare daytime visit to MN - I have to work wednesday this week so have today off instead. I am on a big cleaning frenzy but taking a little break.
Hi WG - good to see you again. I wondered where you'd got to. Sorry you're feeling a bit blue. Is it anything in particular or a general cloud? How are things with your DH now? Not that things were bad but you posted a while back about the frustrations of your differing parenting styles. Glad the back is feeling better. I'm so impressed with your get-up-and-go.
beans sorry you and Izzy were sad to say goodbye to each other this morning. Not long now and you can have her all to yourself again.
My CPN is coming in an hour. Feeling a little nervous for some reason. Daft.
Anyway I must press on with the housework...it's so rare to be in the house without a demanding child round my ankles that I feel I should make the most of it and try to tackle the mess.
see you later.

uhuh, it was me who said think of nutrition needs over a week rather then a day I read it though. it wasn't my own wisdom.

Hello WG

I'm bored today. I need to get massive computer and office crap out of one of the bedrooms and move it downstairs as I need to make it ds's new room but obviously it's a job for dh. Just can't be arsed waiting and half tempted to start pulling apart computer etc
Could go to Argos and get blackout blinds instead I spose.

Beans when are you finished work?
We shouold have a mini meetup before babies arrive. When are you due again?

getting CS date tomorrow. Very excited

Lady are you back tonight to tell us about scan? Are they going to try guessing the sex? Private and all they bloody better.

Where's Veg? and Urbane and Kiwi?

hello trace I'm on a cleaning frenzy too - but then I always am

Oooh, a mini meet up would be great fun! I'm due 25th June, so before then would be lovely. Only 26 working days in the office - thank the LORD. And actually still have 2 days holiday to take, so will have them in April. Only wish there were more for me to take - hee hee! I'm using them for house hunting in a couple of weeks time.

Gosh, 26 days is nothing - shouldn't complain really. Sorry! But it was hard to leave this morning.

Wow, manic cleaning sounds v impressive. I live in a sort of sterile state at the moment as we have to live in a show home for visiting potential buyers. Quite hard with a teeny weeny!!!

Don't worry Beans I'm bitching only having about 16 days of work left and they are 6 hour shifts!!

I meant to say before. We have the bath problem too. Although, it's not a screamathon it's more he just won't sit down and just stands there whining to get out. he will squat down sometimes to splash the water but after about 5 seconds he's done. He doesn't see scared at all. I'm thinking of going to the HV tonight this afternoon to ask and perhaps to ask abotu screaming after naps however that has got slightly better

Beans are you in maternity Jeans?

oh strewth you must be I keep forgetting you are 6 weeks ahead!

Hello all,
Quick post here from me!
I'd be up for a mini-meet up. I won't be stopping work til July though, but I'd be up fo meeting up on a Thursday as I don't work then. Rubes are you working at the moment??

jj re your house dilemma, I hope it wasn't me telling you about house prices that made you start worrying about it!! I would stay put for now. Could you think of moving out of Cambridge a bit to somewhere with a decent primary school (eventually, not now), you get so much more money than if you move nearer the centre....it's so expensive. Which school is it, is it St Matthews that you would like DD to go to - definitely expensive catchment!!
I really don't want to pay for private education for primary school, it just seems like such a lot of money, in addition to the fees I am sure things like super pricey uniform and expensive trips away all add up. Might think about it for secondary but really hope not for primary. DH and I both never went to private school so I think that changes the way we think about it as well.

beans we are the same on the super tidy house for house viewings. It is driving me nuts already. I can't find anything, DH keeps tidying all my things away to weird places! Have you gone back and said anything about the offer you got?

Hello trace good luck with the tidying and the CPN!

Oh Mom Re pg tests I tested on day 28 of my cycle and it was negative, didn't get a positive until day 35 I think!! Also I conceived on about day 21 of my cycle according to adjusted dates of scan! (though i had only had 1 period so I didn't know how long my cycle was, presumably it was being weird and long) So basically yes, I think you could be having a negative test even though you are? (Mind you I used a cheapo test not one of these sensitive ones)

WG sorry you are feeling down. Get out running, I am sure it will cheer you up, especially as the weather is getting better. I was very very impressed with your run with the running club by the way - very long for a first run!! Have you been back?

Summer - yeah I work at them moment just 2 short days a week so can't complain but I have 17 days of leave to use so that works out to finish up about 2 months earlier than my maternity starts as I only work 8-9 days a month! Quite lucky really as mil looks after ds one day and the other day is a weekend so dh home.

Hi all, it's quite phenomenal to think how quickly the pg ladies are going to be having your babies now that you talk about your ML starting up again... Do you think we'll squeeze in a meet before the babies so we can admire your bumps? (NB I work Thurs and Fri so you can have SL or me, choose carefully muahahahaaaaa!)

SL the school we're hoping for is ST Albans - so there's hardly any houses actually near it, everyone seems to have got one child there when it was less oversubscribed, and then moved out to the affordable bits of town knowing that their next children would be guaranteed a place I would ideally love to move to a village with a nice little school (much like where I grew up...) but DH is dead against leaving the city life (having grown up in Glasgow!)) so not much hope of that. Oh btw where is the house you were looking at?

Beans what a lovely description of your boobs as scrotums am assuming they're all lovely and pumped up again by now?! Teeth and BF, DD did once bite me hard and draw blood when her first top teeth came in, but now she's got 4 top and bottom (plus a canine just peeking through!) and it's not a problem at all apart from a bad week a while ago - she was nibbling and not sucking properly but seems to have remembered what to do again.

WG hope you're still about somewhere and not feeling too blue, I did pop on this morning and was going to post to say hello but then dd started attacking the keyboard so had to close up. Is there anything particular? Given what you said about your cycles, could it a bit of PMT style down-ness? Am in all afternoon if you want to call for a random natter.

Trace hope the CPN has been helpful, and that you've managed to have a bit of a rest instead of spending the whole day off on housework... what you said about P made me well up a bit, they really are amazing little people aren't they? When dd is in the bathroom and I say "bath time" she holds up her arms for me to take off her vest - how on earth do they learn that sort of thing? BF - we still do the morning one, and usually the evening one but she is now ok for DH to give her cow milk in a cup if I'm at choir/late duty at work, so you needn't have to give it up altogether.

hello Jam! Hope DH is mobile again, back pain is so horrid.

Rubs you may pull a few cables out of the PC but nothing more strenuous madam!

Quick survey - car seats. Who's still in their baby one, who's moved into a bigger one and if so are they forward or back facing?