north of the border - bulging bumps and bonnie bairns!

[weeonion]

folks - thought it was time for a new thread with a new title for all those whose LO are out! i thnk we shoud be aiming for a meet up in May / June?? - what do you reckon?

Sounds good GMM - would be good to see everyone and meet the newcomers. And of course all the new bubs. We're off on hols up north some time in the next couple of weeks, but should be back by end of Aug I think - will keep you posted.

Hi ladies

I am new to Mumsnet - living in Edinburgh and I have a 10 week old baby boy. I don't know many people with babies and would love to join your thread.

I have been reading Vio's story and my heart really goes out to her, I have just gone to give my wee boy a kiss as I am so glad to have him and grateful that he is well.

Welcome all the newbies

Meet up would be great GMM. End of Aug suits me. I don't have a car so would prefer Glasgow but could always catch a train if Edinburgh gets the majority vote.

If anyone else is BF and interested in taking part in a study looking at energy needs in exclusively BF babies then let me know. I've been recruited as I'm hoping to BF exclusively for 6 months but the woman doing the study is struggling to recruit people. It's quite interesting (honest!!) and involves some weighing, urine samples and ds drinking some "heavy" water (not radioactive or anything).

A meet at the end of august would be fun, I don't mind coming through to Glasgow.

Have been enjoying the sunshine at last - hope it carries on.

hey hey folks - the tartan tribe gets bigger lovely to see and also great to have more bumps joining us - nice to have that to look forward to!!!
love the idea of a meet up - how cool would it be to take over somwhere!

vio - add yourself to the stats thread??

we seem to be missing some folks - lazyemma??

how nice is it to have sunshine?? my folks live by a wee fishing vilage so we went for our first paddle today. caoimhe was not impressed by the freezing irish sea. neither was her mummy!!

liath - i think that study info has been posted before. i spoke to suzanne about it but as i dont think i will make it to 6mths - i didnt want to commit to it!

hello everyone ,new and old !
WO - sound like you're having a lovely time in Ireland ,V.jealous -would love a break from home just now!how are you getting on with the BFing ? hope you're feeling better .
LOULEE-Congratulations ,bet he's gorgeous !
Trixy sorry to here about your DS's allergies ? hope he's okay .mine is now sporting two tiny little teeth -so funny looking , waiting to get bitten one of these days though -not looking forward to that .
right stats ..

weeonion:1 dd (13 weeks) glasgow
Geordiemacminx:1 ds (12 weeks) S.Lanarkshire
thelady: 0 kids (due 4 Dec) Roxburghshire
Liath: dd age 2.5, ds age 14 weeks, Edinburgh
Tallulahbelle : 1 dd (6 weeks) Glasgow
loulee: dd1; age 4, dd2: age 2 and ds1: age 6 days (!) Glasgow
midnightexpress: ds1 20 months, ds2 6 months, Glasgow
Fairybit: 0 kids (due 28 Nov) S.Lanarkshire
LwandLottie: 1 dd (9 weeks) Lanark.
bumble75: 1 dd (11 weeks) Edinburgh
Lucewheel: dd1 7, dd2 5, ds1 3 & ds2 (13weeks) West lothian.
MrsMcJnr: 0 kids (due 15 Jan) West Lothian
Anjo1:1ds (5 1/2 months)Hamilton
xxx

dansmum - add yourself into those stats and welcome!
gmm - we should be back from hols by 26th Aug - hope that won't be too late to make it to the meet-up.
loulee - hope all going well with ds1, and you're getting a bit of sleep?

hi all ,a meet up would be lovely - end of aug is good for us too, then we're off to dp's family in ireland for a couple of weeks rest!
all going well here, but sleep is lacking (night and day is still a bit confused!)- he's an easy baby though so think we're really lucky
will try post a wee pic on profile in a min.

Hi everyone, especially the newbies!!

Meet up sounds good, hopefullyu the weather will be nice so we can meet up in a park somewhere.

Loulee - Congratulations! Your DS is a wee cutie and your DD's look delighted!

Anjo - Can't believe your DS has two teeth already. He always seems to be one step ahead of my DS. Although DS has just started sitting up [proud mum emoticon]

Tried DS on Nutramigen today. He refused to take any more than an ounce and then came up in hives again . Looks like I'm in for the long haul with bfing.

Liath - if they're looking for babies over 6 months then looks like I might be able to take part in the study!!

WO - hope your boobs are better

weeonion:1 dd (13 weeks) glasgow
Geordiemacminx:1 ds (12 weeks) S.Lanarkshire
thelady: 0 kids (due 4 Dec) Roxburghshire
Liath: dd age 2.5, ds age 14 weeks, Edinburgh
Tallulahbelle : 1 dd (6 weeks) Glasgow
loulee: dd1; age 4, dd2: age 2 and ds1: age 6 days (!) Glasgow
midnightexpress: ds1 20 months, ds2 6 months, Glasgow
Fairybit: 0 kids (due 28 Nov) S.Lanarkshire
LwandLottie: 1 dd (9 weeks) Lanark.
bumble75: 1 dd (11 weeks) Edinburgh
Lucewheel: dd1 7, dd2 5, ds1 3 & ds2 (13weeks) West lothian.
MrsMcJnr: 0 kids (due 15 Jan) West Lothian
Anjo1:1ds (5 1/2 months)Hamilton
Trixymalixy: 1 ds (6 months) Glasgow

Liath - meant to say I might be able to help out, but would depend on commitment! Have you got any more info?

Hi Loulee,
If you want to email me I can send you some info if you want. It's not too onerous, some wee collecting and questionnaires.

[email protected]

What's everyone doing for the weekend? I'm heading to my mum's for some good home cooking!

hi everyone,

weeonion:1 dd (13 weeks) glasgow
Geordiemacminx:1 ds (12 weeks) S.Lanarkshire
thelady: 0 kids (due 4 Dec) Roxburghshire
Liath: dd age 2.5, ds age 14 weeks, Edinburgh
Tallulahbelle : 1 dd (6 weeks) Glasgow
loulee: dd1; age 4, dd2: age 2 and ds1: age 6 days (!) Glasgow
midnightexpress: ds1 20 months, ds2 6 months, Glasgow
Fairybit: 0 kids (due 28 Nov) S.Lanarkshire
LwandLottie: 1 dd (9 weeks) Lanark.
bumble75: 1 dd (11 weeks) Edinburgh
Lucewheel: dd1 7, dd2 5, ds1 3 & ds2 (13weeks) West lothian.
MrsMcJnr: 0 kids (due 15 Jan) West Lothian
Anjo1:1ds (5 1/2 months)Hamilton
vio 1 DS ( 14weeks) N.Lanarkshire

Watched 'THe Boy whose skin fell off- the other night, it happened to be on Discovery and james was sleeping in my arms when we watched it..( I suppose it was probably a good thing that we both didn't get a chance to watch it before James was born ) I was told not to search for any info about EB when we were still waiting for the result of his skin biopsy.... I dont know what it is like to be a EB patient but i do know what it is like to be a parent of a EB sufferer..its a lot a lot of pain watching your child dying in a terribly painful way.

Jonny chose Queen's -Dont stop me now- to be played at his funeral...I was driving my car to Asda yesterday and i had the radio on,...when it played this song...i cried...i just cried , i thought of Jonny and james and all others who live with EB ...i am totally aware that i am lucky to be born healthy but my son isn't... stimes my head is a mess...

Hello ladies - i've just found this thread, is it ok if i join? I have a DD who is 2.6 and i'm expecting DC no 2 in a couple of days (due date is 8th aug so a bit scared especially when eveyone tells me that it's going to be a big baby!).

i've added my stats.

weeonion:1 dd (13 weeks) glasgow
Geordiemacminx:1 ds (12 weeks) S.Lanarkshire
thelady: 0 kids (due 4 Dec) Roxburghshire
Liath: dd age 2.5, ds age 14 weeks, Edinburgh
Tallulahbelle : 1 dd (6 weeks) Glasgow
loulee: dd1; age 4, dd2: age 2 and ds1: age 6 days (!) Glasgow
midnightexpress: ds1 20 months, ds2 6 months, Glasgow
Fairybit: 0 kids (due 28 Nov) S.Lanarkshire
LwandLottie: 1 dd (9 weeks) Lanark.
bumble75: 1 dd (11 weeks) Edinburgh
Lucewheel: dd1 7, dd2 5, ds1 3 & ds2 (13weeks) West lothian.
MrsMcJnr: 0 kids (due 15 Jan) West Lothian
Anjo1:1ds (5 1/2 months)Hamilton
vio 1 DS ( 14weeks) N.Lanarkshire
myweegirl : 1DD (2.6) DC2 due 8th aug 07, falkirk

Forgot to add myself to the stats,

weeonion:1 dd (13 weeks) glasgow
Geordiemacminx:1 ds (12 weeks) S.Lanarkshire
thelady: 0 kids (due 4 Dec) Roxburghshire
Liath: dd age 2.5, ds age 14 weeks, Edinburgh
Tallulahbelle : 1 dd (6 weeks) Glasgow
loulee: dd1; age 4, dd2: age 2 and ds1: age 6 days (!) Glasgow
midnightexpress: ds1 20 months, ds2 6 months, Glasgow
Fairybit: 0 kids (due 28 Nov) S.Lanarkshire
LwandLottie: 1 dd (9 weeks) Lanark.
bumble75: 1 dd (11 weeks) Edinburgh
Lucewheel: dd1 7, dd2 5, ds1 3 & ds2 (13weeks) West lothian.
MrsMcJnr: 0 kids (due 15 Jan) West Lothian
Anjo1:1ds (5 1/2 months)Hamilton
vio 1 DS ( 14weeks) N.Lanarkshire
myweegirl : 1DD (2.6) DC2 due 8th aug 07, falkirk
Dansmum: 1DS (11 weeks) Edinburgh

Hi all and welcome myweegirl (assuming you're not in the throes of labour). My what a lot of newbies we have - good to have a new batch just as our eggs were all about laid, otherwise we might have got thrown off the pregnancy threads.

Hope everyone's well. Not much news here except that ds2 is sitting up and now has three teeth. Unfortunately hasn't changed his rubbish sleeping patterns though so still up half the flippin night feeding him.

Hi everyone, especially all the newbies.

My DS is sitting up as well midnight. No teeth yet thank god although he has been teething the past couple of days I think. How are you finding bfing your DS with teeth? i think I had planned to give up bfing when DS started getting teeth, but won't be able to do that now.

Forgot to add myself to the stats as well!!

weeonion:1 dd (13 weeks) glasgow
Geordiemacminx:1 ds (12 weeks) S.Lanarkshire
thelady: 0 kids (due 4 Dec) Roxburghshire
Liath: dd age 2.5, ds age 14 weeks, Edinburgh
Tallulahbelle : 1 dd (6 weeks) Glasgow
loulee: dd1; age 4, dd2: age 2 and ds1: age 6 days (!) Glasgow
midnightexpress: ds1 20 months, ds2 6 months, Glasgow
Fairybit: 0 kids (due 28 Nov) S.Lanarkshire
LwandLottie: 1 dd (9 weeks) Lanark.
bumble75: 1 dd (11 weeks) Edinburgh
Lucewheel: dd1 7, dd2 5, ds1 3 & ds2 (13weeks) West lothian.
MrsMcJnr: 0 kids (due 15 Jan) West Lothian
Anjo1:1ds (5 1/2 months)Hamilton
vio 1 DS ( 14weeks) N.Lanarkshire
myweegirl : 1DD (2.6) DC2 due 8th aug 07, falkirk
Dansmum: 1DS (11 weeks) Edinburgh
Trixymalixy: 1 DS (6 months) Glasgow

Oh and my DS has a terrible sleeping pattern as well!!

Hi Trixy - not too bad with the teeth and bf. We had a couple of weeks when the first two came in where he bit me at the end of feeds, but I yelped loudly and unlatched him each time and he got the message pretty quickly.

Glad not the only one with terrible sleep too. DS1 was sleeping through by 6 months, so fondly imagined we'd have ds2 in with him and unbroken nights by now. Ha.

Hi & welcome to the new folk .

Ds is crap at night too. Dd was sleeping through at 12 weeks in her own cot in her own room. Ds is 16 weeks, won't settle in his cot at night & feeds 3-4 times a night....Wonder if it's a BF thing as dd was FF by 12 weeks or maybe it's my fault for co-sleeping. Oh well! I quite like being snuggled up with him at night.

Getting very busy here in Edinburgh - loads of tourists around blocking the pavements ! It's fringe Sunday in the Meadows this weekend so might wander along.

have you started weaning midnight?

DS will not let me put a spoon anywhere near his mouth. Have been trying a bit of bLW as well which seems to be going a bit better. I'm fed up with the whole thing already though, it's so messy.

god knows why so many people are desperate to start weaning early it's such a hassle!

Liath I have ended up co-sleeping for at least part of the night. Only way I can cope with night feeds! i sometimes wonder if it is making him wake more, but can't face having to et out of bed to feed Ds.

Ditto trixy - don't know if he's feeding so much at night because I'm co-sleeping, but co-sleeping is the only way I can cope as I can feed him half asleep.

BTW 2happy has a hilarious picture on her profile of the face her ds pulls every time she tries to give him solids. Weaning is such a faff and OMG the change in poo is horrific .

I've seen the picture. It's hilarious!

If I do manage to spoon some food into DS' mouth he shudders and holds his mouth open untill it falls out again.

Bit depressing when other people's babies just seem to go yum yum right from the beginning and gobble up anything they're offered.

I said I'd never co-sleep before having DS,I'd never give a dummy etc etc LOL!! You just do what gets you through it!

Trixy, Liath, me three! Won't settle in his cot after I get into bed, so co-sleeping and not sure if that's why he's up half the night. But nice and snuggly too and gets me through the night half-sane.

Ah0ha, I hear his dulcet tones...

Trixy, yes, he eats like a horse too. Better dash! More anon.