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october 04 - nearly 10 months!

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biglips · 04/08/2005 12:19

haaaa - thats better!!

last nite, we had my DP's cousin at our house with his wife and 2 kids... there were 1.5 yrs old and 4.5 yrs old (i thought she was 6!! as she takes after her Dad who is 6.5).. anyway got to know them and had a lovely evening.. i went upstairs to get babas bodysuit ready for bed as she was worned out playing with them two.. i came back downstairs and my baba let out an almighty scream (everyone was in the living room with baba), what had happened was the 1.5 yrs old bit babas hand and baba just stood there in her playpen in shock and suddenly WWWWAAAAAAAIIIIILLLLLLLL (awww poor thing!)

ive gotta go as baba is tired and need to put in bed for her nap (cant you hear her?!)

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biglips · 12/09/2005 09:17

heeeelllloooooooo!!!!!

ive decided to get some counselling over my ex as he was a nutter who mentally abused me and i last saw him 5 yrs ago and still angry and i dream about him alot which it does affect my everyday life as i get all angry about it!! and its not fair on my DP and mum. (i used to be a laid back person but now anything bothered me!) also see a dietican as ive lost loads of weight (4.5 stones but feeling knackered so need some energy foods, and also exercise more as havent done any for a while and DP said to me last nite "ive noticed" .... ive started to put baba in bed early and wake up early which i love getting up early

how is everyone and their babas?

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Bellie · 12/09/2005 21:28

We're all fine - sorry to hear you are having stress biglips and cazzybabsabout the nursery and work.
Very belated birthday maisiemog.
DD is most definately teething again - everynight she has been awake betweek 4 and 5 for the past 6 nights - except for the one that nanny looked after her !! (can you believe that it was mine and dh'sfirst night away together since she was born !!)
Anyway having had a drunken night out and no sleep last night I am now totally knackered - will be off to bed soon for sleep me thinks!!

hotmama1 · 13/09/2005 13:40

Hello everyone - thought I'd say a quick Hi as I haven't posted for ages.

Well, DD is eventually getting a tooth - just before being 1! My favourite word at the moment is No and can't crawling babies move fast? DD is a bit of a champion cruiser and is happily moving along walls and furniture - and can reach anything up to a metre(ish) in height by going on tipitoes - and does look really cute when doing it - still remember to say No though!

She is getting quite good at imitating - had to tell the nursery not to worry if it looked like dd has a twitch - as dp has got her imitating a nodding action - well cute!

I still get together with my antenatal girls regularly and we are having a big party at the end of October - anyone else doing anything special for the first birthdays.

Oh yes - pregnancy going well (now 21 weeks) though don't have much time to put my feet up - too busy running after the mad crawler (obviously when not in work!)

Hope you are all well.

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biglips · 13/09/2005 14:00

21 weeks already!!!!! faint

blimey i remember when i was like that last year as i was shocked to realised that September arrived already ..

Went to my auntys yesterday and she got a huge back garden which baba was happy crawling and falling into the hedges and chasing after the 2 cats as she never been close to one before and wanted to touch it but i had visions that she have one of the cats tail in her hand!!! but the cat dashed off before she managed to touch them! (phew!), and also had a trolley thing that she was happily pushing it all afternoon (she was knackered though after all that laughing she was doing at my aunty and her hubby)

2day, she was determined to walk by herself without her little buggy that she got, and took 3 steps (hooray - VICTORY at last!!) before she falls flat on her face, but i had a sore back as she was like a spider climbing on everything!

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staceym11 · 13/09/2005 14:41

hi my dd was born 22nd oct 2004, she off and crawling happily and has 6 teeth now and more on the way by her actions. anyone else dreading their first birthdays?

maisiemog · 14/09/2005 12:15

Hi all,
Hotmama, what's happening?? You must be sooo busy/tired!! How does this pregnanacy compare to the last one?
Biglips, fab about your dd taking a few steps!! She's a girl after my own heart, apparently I walked when I had just turned 11 months.
I hope you have sorted things out with your mum!?!
Hi Stacey welcome to the list
I've got a little boy called Alfie(bums), he was 3 weeks early and was born on the 31st of October as he couldn't wait!!!
He is currently trying to flush the toilet and wants to be picked up a lot and has developed a phobia of the hoover.
It's funny, since he was 6 months he only wanted to move around by creeping and crawling and cruising and showed no interest in sitting still. However, in the past week or so, he has started to sit up much more and hold things in both hands to have a look at them. Rather than crawling around with a toy clutched in one hand.
It's funny how they develop.
We have had family visiting more or less consistently for the past three weeks, so Alfie was in hyper no-sleep mode for a while there.
I didn't have much of a routine in the first place and even that was abandoned for while.
He seems quite happy to get back to his normal, empty toy basket, put nose to tv screen and bash it with hands, go for nap (after wailing for 5 minutes) eat food, go out in pram etc...

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biglips · 14/09/2005 19:28

well atm, mum is in France sorting out the rest of her furniture that is left in the house and once she is back, ill tell her that she have a month to find elsewhere as we had another argument in front of baba and baba was crying (2nd time) as me and DP dont argue at all in front of baba, we just go in the other room...

mine is nearly 1 in 2 weeks (gulp!)

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geogteach · 14/09/2005 19:33

Well DS1 has after just 2 weeks crawling mastered pulling himself up, he is not the popular baby brother he once was as now he wrecks everything!
His eating has tailed off a bit too, much more interested in feeding himself finger food than stuff off a spoon, but he was well impressed with mashed potato, veggies and mushroom gravy tonight so maybei'll be able to stop mixing his dinner in with his fruit!

KathH · 14/09/2005 21:03

Biglips - waht are you getting dd for her birthday?

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biglips · 15/09/2005 07:55

Dunno.. havent thought as yet!! probably a new toy.....what are you getting?

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staceym11 · 15/09/2005 10:19

Am i a mad insane nuerotic mummy, by throwing my dd a 1st birthday party in a hall????

maisiemog · 15/09/2005 11:43

Hi Geo,
woah that ds is certainly going for it!! He'll probably start walking next week. Is he still enjoying his margarine?
Stacey, I'm thinking about doing the hall thing as well. For me it's because a lot of people still haven't met Alfie, like my colleagues at work and stuff, so it would tick off a lot of that stuff to have a big do. Plus it's for us as well, since we have had no social life for a year.
Now it all depends on the cost???

staceym11 · 15/09/2005 12:09

with all stuf inc. a bouncy castle, for dh bros n sis's its costing me around £300, which is a lot but i think itl be good lol!

maisiemog · 15/09/2005 12:25

With a bouncy castle for bro and sis We know you don't want to go on it yourself

staceym11 · 15/09/2005 15:31

lol, well acctually......

geogteach · 15/09/2005 20:13

Asked DD what we should get DS2 for his birthday, she said 'flowers', she was picking dandelions at the time so a very cheap birthday here!

maisiemog · 15/09/2005 20:59

MMMMMMMMM! Flowers! Delicious! I think your ds would love them.

staceym11 · 16/09/2005 08:10

dd prefers daisys to danelions, but all still as cheap!

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biglips · 16/09/2005 08:58

we are having a open house so people come by..

one of my friend had a baby boy last nite as she was 5 days overdue... dont know the dets as yet but believe she was big and also my other friend had a baby girl who had to be induced early and to have a c-section too (as she had problems with her 1st pg) so she was 9lb 3oz (6 days early)..

my cousin is expecting next month so i got a feeling its a boy

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biglips · 16/09/2005 12:22

went to a baby signing class today to see how they run the class and it was all singing with sign.. impressed as poss be a teacher as im doing BSL level 2 anyway, so ive just look on their website which is this Tinytalk

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mommie · 16/09/2005 12:48

is anyone else's baby not moving around yet? my dd still sits on her bottom. she's trying to bum shuffle but with not much effect yet, bless.

cazzybabs · 16/09/2005 14:49

Where has the time gone - mind you don't thinbk Grace will be having any party. She took 5 steps on Tues - HORRAH. What is evyerone doing for pressies - it is so hard because we have sooo many toys for dd1. Got her a small shape sorter from Ebay as the ony we has you put shapes in on four sides of a cube - there are hundreds of the dman things Grace doesn't stand a chance of knowing where to put them in. OH and I bought a buggy snuggle - not sure if that counts as a pressie mind you! Don't know wether to get dd1 something to open on the day as well!

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biglips · 16/09/2005 18:03

ive decided to buy a activity walker as yuo can walk it (like a pram) or you can take it off and play it on the floor....

baba got plenty of toys but not too many as one of my friends DS had about a ton of toys by the time he was 1 and now hes 5. in the bedroom you have to step over his toys in his bedroom (his bedroom is summat like 18 feet X 10ish feet, its a big bedroom)

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biglips · 16/09/2005 18:05

mommie - i wouldnt worry about it as its too early to say that your baba SHOULD be walking or standing by now, as she may one day get up with no help and start walking

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maisiemog · 16/09/2005 19:29

Mommie, I was talking to a daddy the other day at the soft play I go to, and he was saying his little boy didn't crawl at all, he did some bum shuffling, but just got up and walked one day when he was about 14 months.
If you LO passed the 8 month check ok there's nothing to worry about. They mainly worry if the baby doesn't sit unassisted or put both its feet down when held in a standing position.
The age range for walking is really wide, like from 8 months up to almost 2 years. I was reading a development website recently and they said there is no correlation between early or late walking and increased or decreased apptitude for sports and that kind of thing. So I don't think it really matters when it happens. To be honest it seems like an expensive thing to start early because then you have to spend a fortune on teeny shoes, that last a couple of months.
If you think about it the whole novelty of walking is soon forgotten - I mean no one has complimented me recently on the fact that I can walk.