August 08: World domination

[cyteen]

Thought the title might be appropriate for both mums and babies

poppy well done for offering more sensible advice than my 2p's worth!
glad you agree with me re stupid mums at p&t! you wait, we'll turn out to be best friends and we'll still be in touch in 50yrs! I actually know one of them from playing hockey with her 20yrs ago!! bloody hell! i had no idea it was 20 yrs til i just worked it out!! but i reckon if we bump into each other once every 20yrs, won't be the end of the world if our daughters have the same name

the glare on the screen is such a pain isn't it

i now know why DS was dancing round the room singing 'wotty wotty wot wot' a few days ago... has anyone seen the WotWots on channel 5? its actually really funny and obviously where DS has got his song from. i'm assuming The WotWots are my mum's bad influence on him!

Thanks mrs m and poppy took her this am. She screamed the place down and just kept looking at me with her big baby blue eyes so upsetting. I am calling at 9.45 to see how she is. They are recommending more sessions at nursery to get her used to it. As I am not working it's breaking my heart and feel she should be with me

doesn't help that I am feeling so I'll and could do with a couple of stress free child free hours. H knows I'm poorly but doesn't really understand how poorly iykwim so I am just getting on with it. I am made of strong stuff

Morning, not had chance to catch up yet but will do when O goes for his nap later.

Just have to share this funny with you. I was getting dressed with ds1 in the room and he looked at my lady garden and said "hey, nice beard" . pmsl. Then when I put my pants on he said "what are you doing? Hiding your beard?"

laters....x

Well dd2 home with after refusing to eat and crying herself to sleep think that might be the end of her adventures to nursery!!!

Loti Why not try and find a childminder who already does infant school run so you can hand over DD2 at the gate? Going to play at a CM's house must be so much less stressful for a kid IMO, more like visiting friends. If you had a CM booked to start September you could have a few extra DD1&mummy hours during the pesky phase-in period.

Miamla Great names, we had Beatrix on our list (we know a little Beatrice with a similar surname to ours.) Like the Greek link of Penelope and Theodore though.

Productive morning in town, bought Kurt some new sandals at last and sent my wedding ring for estimate (getting the 3 lack-of-diamond holes filled in with rose gold from an antique collar stud. Ring is platinum so will be silver with pink spots!)

Hi all.
I've been out nearly all day with a couple of local mummies. Means S hasn't napped all, so he's a little moany now. Well very moany He's eaten dinner already, so I think he's heading for an early night atm. Have given him a biscuit because he's been so good today though
Good news is one of the ladies has lent me some clothes for Sunday (it's DP's boss's son's birthday, and we've been invited) so at least I don't have to go spend money on clothes to wear.
Might join S in his bath as I have got so sweaty today walking around in the sweltering sun

oh loti, you poor thing, you must have been upset let alone how dd2 was feeling. buckets' idea is a good one though re the cm

cc not sure you're going to want to know this but i was thinking of you earlier whilst shaving my beard

buckets hmmm, hadn't thought about it from a greek link point of view... not sure if this has put me off or not!

hiya qod

well, back from mw's appt and it would seem that Pea isn't actually hatching an escape plan through my bumhole which is obviously good news! The news that made me though is that she's engaged already! At 32 weeks!! I asked mw if she thought this might mean an early arrival and she just smiled at me and told me to be prepared . Pea is apparently a v long baby but she didn't write this on my notes because that would count against me having a home birth. WTF?! anyhow, i trust her! (both Pea and the mw!)

oh and she's not back to back . Her back is on my left side, head in pelvis and there's a foot just under my right boob

anyone on here trained to be a bf counsellor? mw is encouraging me to do it and is getting all the info together.

Whoops, did I say Greek? Ahem, I meant classical.

ah ha, well that's ok then! a classical link is fine

Bit of NCT info about their BF Peer support training and BFC training.

£4400??? thanks for the links Buckets but is that seriously how much it costs???

Miamal I have done the NCT peer support course - it was 10 weeks od 2 hours and DD1 came with me. Our Children's centre has also run a course with the Breastfeeding Network which I did. It is fantastically rewarding and is a reason to get out and drink tea whilst helping others.

my sis-in-law was training to be a bf counsellor when O was born nearly 2 years ago -wtf, where did the last 2 years go? She lives in St Albans if thats of any help/interest/coincidence . And lol at you and your beard miamla

Hi all, just forcing getting O to sleep, back later

Our NCT sponsored those of us who are members. I think the 4400 is for the whole group though as I would have expected gold plated boobies for that price!! I only got A KNITTED ONE

MrsM I can't believe you're 32 weeks already!

CC I lol'd at your beard conversation

oops hmm, lol re the gold plated boobies!!
do you know the difference between the diploma and the peer support you did? good idea re children's centre... i can pretty much see one from my house so i'll pop over there next week to see what they're offering

cc my beard is no longer not a laughing matter i'll have you know young lady!!

cyteen i know! its all going so quickly!! She'll be here before we know it

Awr, and then you will have a lovely snuggly snoochie new baby to cuddle

Wine has been taken, in case you hadn't guessed

i will indeed Still doesn't really feel very real though

DS was particularly cute tonight, he 'fed' baby some of his orange ie he put some orange on my tummy and made scoffing noises. i'm quite optimistic...he doesn't even share his orange with mummy

ooh are you on white, red or rose? i'm very tempted to open a beer

Miamla - that is what I miss about being pregnant - DD1 used to feed baby and offer her toys to play with although the thing I miss most is DD 'kissing' her sister. Especially when she looked at my my tummy today and said 'ohhh wibble wobble Mummy, just like jelly' I could have cried with laughter - exacly what I had been thinking as I sat there looking at pilates schedules.

I can't believe it is so close - don't tell anyone but I want another one, but not allowed

Here's my gorgeous Aug 08 child moment of the day...

DD2 this evening came over to me and brushed my hair out of my face and said 'Beautiful Mummy'.

She's also started to express emotion brilliantly too. When we arrived in Paris she stood in the ILs hall jumping up and down saying that she was 'cited. Same when standing on he windowsill waiting for DH's return from work today. [bless] Today when a boy fell over in the supermarket she pointed and shouted 'funny'.

So sorry today wasn't any easier for DD2 loti.

oops your secret is safe. You could always adopt our approach to contraception (ie. we are both refusing to be surgically altered, I won't go back on the pill and dh won't use condoms = risky).

poppy that's so sweet from dd2

O has learnt he has to say sorry when he frequently hurts his big bro. He puts his arms around Tom and pushes his forehead against T's mouth for T to kiss him. I said he had to kiss him properly, so he went back and kissed him on the lips awwwww. He is so in awe of his big bro

I MISS YOU ALL!!!!! Well half way at least since I still get to communicate with you on FB. Summer was suppose to be slower with more time for whatever I wanted to do. Just the opposite is happening.

A quick skim (backwards mind you) requires me to comment to Lucky. You're okay. She's okay. All will be okay. The one suggestion I have is...can you bump up her days to more than ONE a week? Sounds crazy BUT when a child has less time in between care times they are less frustrated (scared...choose the word that works) with the arrangement. The teachers at my kids' preschool swear the MWF kids settle into class so much better than the TT kids. I've heard my bf, who's a preschool guru, say the same about her preschool kids. It goes against a natural instinct we have to keep then as close to us as possible for as long as possible but it works by providing them the opportunity to create their own personal support system. They can and do learn to be okay without mummys and daddys around. Lots of love and positive energy to you as you sort this out.

Miamla - glad appt went well and all sounding good for home birth

CC - loving the beard

Poppy - lovely E, bless her

Cheryl Cole got on fine tonight although I can't believe my baby is 7 on Wed she looked about fecking 14 tonight will post some photos on FB. Friend has told me she is pregnant today and I've just got my period so once again devastated, when will it pass explains why I was SO exhausted yesterday though. I don't understand how I can miss something I never got to have, I'm having horrible dreams about returning to work and its coming up for the 2nd Anny of mum's death Desperately trying to focus on the positive and keeping busy.

TS, try to take it easy at some point