TTC GRADUATES! Who's baby will we be welcoming first? Mrs? Seaside? Iampg? Beansprout?

[honeyapple]

Morning all

Dex did another stupendous sleep... had to wake him up to feed him and take DC to school. Fingers crossed this is a pattern he is going to stick to.

Fettle- hope Toby is ok with the jabs... Dex has got his 2nd lot next week. What is the third injection for? Did they do the polio one in his mouth yet? Dex only had 2 jabs first time around. That Messiah was a bit gruesome!

mrs- any action overnight?

Seaside and Iampg- a lot of the lovely ladies on here were early- Bodders you were 38 wks, i think??

Sorry- so excited about the pending births that I cant remember what I was going to say to anyone else!

Hey all!!! Hows your week with just you and the kids Greedy??? My DH is off to the Island of Coll which is 3 hours north of her in a car then a 3 hour ferry ride to this remote little island. He seems to be training everyone in the island who sells alcohol. He got the job initially for a hotel but then when people heard he was coming over they all jumped at the chance to get their certificates without travelling to the mainland - especially as there are only 2 ferries per week which is why he's away for 4 days on total. So what is your DH doing on Malaysia??? Is was malaysia wasn't it??? LOL at what you said about checking for murderers / rapists etc - I suddenly become really paranoid about burglars / fires etc when I'm home on my own, I check loads of things that I'd NEVER check if DH was here.

Great news that Ty is sleepig through Firsty! All that hard work was worth it eh!!! He must be a really happy chap having had all that extra sleep too. Theo only used to nap for about 30 mins at a time but sometimes he'd be a bit grumpy when he woke and I knew it was because he was tired, so now I'm managing to get him to sleep for about an hour at a time by using his dummy. Not ideal but he's much more rested. Just got to tackle night times now. Actually he really has been getting better and in the last 3 nights, 2 have been good and he hasn't been fed and has just gone back to sleep, but last night was not so good - so its one step forward and 2 back .

Aaah, little Dex's haircut - can you post a new pic??? If Theo stays asleep I'll pop some new ones on there too. I should really be doing the dishes and getting dinner prepared but I cant be arsed .

Good to hear from you Mrs!!! Things will definately settle down, it just takes a time. Easier said than done when you are in the middle of it all

I really really hope your sis is OK Greedy - you could maybe offer the scan and see what she says - is she really worried herself? When was the NHS one? about another 5 weeks? I think if something has happened it seems pretty cruel to find out at the 12 week scan doesn't it. Perhaps if she is worried, she could pretend to have had another bleed. I know its not very ethical but they should really have offered her one initially

Welcome back PinkB .

Hows things Iampg and Seaside?

How are you feeling now rainbow???

Hi all, no time to do a proper post - just to say Hi to Mrs and well done for getting on here at last! Sounds like you're doing really well, but little Xavier seems like he's keeping you busy, especially at night. Hang in there, it will get better - HONESTLY. I never believed anyone when they told me that, but it is TRUE!

Oh - and lurverly photos of your DS (you must be so chuffed to be able to type that at last!)

Been mad busy with visitors this half term and am absolutely shattered and now have to go and do some work - bloody work keeps flooding in and I'm crap at saying no....bloody vandals going round smashing church windows.... don't they know I'm knackered?

hello all!!! its really quiet on here at the moment........just when i need everyone most you all desert me!!!

fettle - when are you due to go back to work then? i hate tough work decisions, i hope you manage to sort everything out and that your dh is more use than mine would be in helping you decide whats best....................mine is rubbish!!!!he just lets me blabber on about all my problems until i have come to a decision and then just nods and agrees!!! having said that...................i love him to bits and i am really really missing him!

nice to see you back(again) pinkb!!! i will believe it when i see it that you will post regularly!!! we have heard it all before............anyone would think you had a real life to get on with! hows brooke doing.....................we dont know anything about her? is she crawling? sitting? standing? being gorgeous?

firsty - so glad ty is sorted with his sleeping! i know i keep asking, but will you be back on the ttc boards soon?!!!

choosterchops!!!! i feel like i should know about Coll!!! is it on the west or east coast? we went to stay with a friend on North Ronaldsey a few years ago (pre kids!) and thats a remote island and it was fab! such a completely differetn way of life...........whiskey for breakfast if i remember rightly!!! when does he leave? FIRES!!!!!!!................i hadn't even thought about fires!!!! thanks for giving me something else to worry about!!!!! i knwo i am being stupid really, cos i check behind all the doors before going to bed...................................do i REALLY think if a murderer had broken in they would be hiding behind the door, and if i find them they will just say " sorry, better be off!.................i wasn't planning on being seen before i killed you all!!!"
i suggested my sis pretending to bleed again but she doesnt want to. i dont think she is too worried cos she knows i bled each time she just assumes she will be ok. i did convince her to do another test this morning though adn she said she got 2 really thick lines straight away so i feel happier now. i just want to get REALLY excited for her and start giving her stuff cos i dont think i will need anything again............................i have almost decided that dh should have the snip...................i think..........................maybe!!!

ok going to eat my weight watchers meal for one now!!!!..................................my diet has been poo the last couple of weeks.......................stayed the same............so still 12 1/2 lb, but i have a ball to go to in 2 weeks and i really wanted to be 2 stone slimmer by then!!!!!!! nevermind hey? not like i am on the pull or anything!!!

hi bodders!!!!!.................. ok................ sorry!!!!! ................i thought you needed the work!!!!...............i will tell ellis and his mates to lay off the churches for a while and concentrate on the corner shops!!!!

HEY!!!! WHERE IS EVERYONE??????!!!! Are you all in Malaysia with my DH having fun?......................................i'm lonely!!!!!!

I'm here Greeds!!!!! Just back from checking behind all the doors for murderers . Actually I normally have visions of them hiding in my wardrobe - I check everywhere when DH is away - Just gonna catch up

Yeah, I know what you mean about the checking - what exactly would I do if I found someone . I just like to be in bed and know that I've checked everywhere. Dh left yesterday and is back on saturday, so not away for too long. Coll is on the west coast and is tiny - DH is staying on the only hotel I think. He wasn't really looking forward to it but I reckon he's having a great time propping up the bar in the hotel - bit ironic really as he's traning them about alcohol and licence holder responsibilities .

Hey bodders, so you've got a lot of work on eh?! And a social life with visitors . I bet you are looking forward to the calm of next week so you can get some more MN time in

So what the work issue Fettle?? I had a lunch with a couple of friends today from my work and mentioned to them that I want to ceom back part time and they both thought it should be OK as there are a few precedents of people working part-time. Wonder if I could get away with 3 days a week . Anwyay, my boss called me yesterday and wants to meet for a coffee next week to discuss it, but I found out today that he has a new job and is moving onwards and upwards. Not quite sure if that will make him more agreeable to me being part time as it wont be his problem or if it will make him more stubborn - either way I'll find out soon.

Right must go and get some dinner - am hungry but can never be bothered with anything when I'm on my own . What are you having Greedy? Shame we can't sit down and have a good chat with a bottle of woine

Hi All

Has been a bit quiet on here recently - but i suppose it is half-term, so busier days for us with school age children!

Greedy - how you doing without DH home? your post about checking behind doors made me PMSL!!! But I'm glad you admitted to double-checking everything - although i'm quite used to being on my own due to DH's job, I still double-lock all the doors, as soon as i come in and take all phones to bed with me (in case I can't get to the landline (or it is cut-off), I can use my mobile!!!). Wouldn't ever admit it to DH though! I've stopped losing weight too at the moment, so I wouldn't worry about your slow-down. Best to have breaks I seem to remember to consolidate what you've lost to help make it more permanent! Thanks for asking about work - it has all gone pear-shaped TBH! They are not planning on replacing my boss, but I can't see how they plan for the department to be run now - either my role is devalued and I'll feel unappreciated, or else I'll have more responsibility, but i've been assured no more money. in either case, I'm struggling to see the incentive to return to work, so i think I might just not! DD has been on such fantastic form for the past 2 weeks, so she's a pleasure to be around - Toby is obviously adorable, so i'm sure a little career break would be fun! Besides, DH will no doubt get posted off somewhere soon and we'll be on the move anyway - it is just so hard wondering how we'll cope on one salary, but money isn't everything and we've managed to have a great week and only spent £7.50 all week! Managed to have a great 45 mins wandering around B&Q yesterday as it was freezing and grey day and didn't spend a penny - came out loaded with paint sample sheets though! But they are free!

bodders - must e-mail you - I found your address now. Good that work is picking up - but i can't believe that people think it is alright to break Church windows! - well in fact it shouldn't be alright to break any windows really. how is Isla doing? Still a happy little girl? Any sign of crawling yet?

Interesting job your DH must have Chooster - training people on how to sell alcohol! How is theo? Completely better now. Is he on the move yet?

Honey - hope you are enjoying half-term. can't remember if you had any plans?

Firsty - how you doing? Pleased to hear that you are enjoying working, that is the way it should be. I'm just scared in my position that I'm not going to enjoy work and therefore really resent the fact that it is taking me away from my little ones. With DD, I loved my job, so it was easier to work when she was little.

MrsMc - how you doing? any movement towards day/night definition yet with Xavier? update from us, we are all doing great. Toby is now 5 months and smiling and giggling most of the time, particularly at DD. just started weaning him 2 weeks ago and he's loving it. His sleeping has improved since giving him some solid food.

Big waves to everyone else - sorry DH wants the 'puter.

take care
xxx

can't believe I crossed with you both Greeds & Chooster!

Chooster - sounds positive about work part-time. But interesting that your boss is also on the move like mine!! My (old) boss told me that my maternity cover had offered to do a job share with me, if I wanted to come back part-time, but now my boss is on the move and her boss is much less amenable and much more stubborn, so I'm losing faith in even asking about part-time!

Enjoy your supper!
xxx

Honeyapple I just wanted to say 'Hi' and say how gorgeous your son is!

My son is called Dexter too!

We call him Dexxy and Dex

Honeyapple I just wanted to say 'Hi' and say how gorgeous your son is!

My son is called Dexter too!

We call him Dexxy and Dex

Hi me again - just wanted to say that I just heard from Ready, who's heard from Rainbowdays to say that she's in hospital, but she didn't give any more details than that - other than she wanted to let us know.

Hope she is ok? Wasn't she in hospital recently? My rubbish tired brain can't remember why though?

Ready asked me to pass on the message as she's having a MN break, as TTC is still not happening for her

Oh god, poor rainbowdays!!!! She had that problem with her throat didn't she when she couldn't breath - perhaps that came back after she had her cold??? Hope its not too serious - that must be awful to be so ill so far from home. Hope we get some news of her soon .

So you reckon you may give work a miss eh Fettle!!! Sounds fab!!! I reckon I could do it too but I think we need the money. Shame about the job share - that sounds like it would have been perfect doesn't it - or does it??? I'd like to explore the idea of a job share and see if it would work out?

Right bed for me!!!! had cornflakes for dinner - not great but did the job

update on Rainbowdays - she's on the labour ward. I think she's been having pains. She's been told if the pains don't stop that SCBU is empty! Can't remember how many weeks she is?

Poor poor girl - being so far from her family and friends in that situation. I've texted her. so I'll let you know if I hear anything else.

Thanks for letting us know fettle - hope she's going to be OK and gets to make it home before the baby comes. I thought she had about 5 weeks left but I may be getting confused...

lots of love going out to rainbow- hope everything is ok.

disenchanted- thanks!

half-term has been keeping me busy! off to paint some pottery now with DC- might do dex's feet .

hi ladies

just a quickie!!

sorry mrs that xavier is having trouble adjusting to night and day, oscar was like this for the first 3 nights and i was pulling my hair out - in the end i took him to bed with me and he slept like a log! i know they say you shouldnt sleep with your baby in bed with you but it worked for us to settle him, he is now in his own cot and sleeps for a good 3-4 hours at a time.

rainbowdays - sending love and hugs your way. i hope things settle down. thinking of you xx

hello to everyone else i hope you are all well and so are your babies!

i cant believe how much time oscar takes up but im loving every minute, we had an appointment come through today for the plastic surgeon. when he was born they were worried that the skin around his willy did not cover it completely and to keep an eye on him when he wees to make sure there is a "fountain". for those of you that have boys does this sound normal? il keep you updated anyway.
he hasnt been a happy chappy last few days as he has been constipated too but hopefully we have cured it with some cooled boiled water.

bye 4 now xx

Hello all!!

Iampg - you sound like you've taken to motherhood so well! You sound so happy and relaxed about his sleeping! I've not heard of skin not covering the willy properly, but I can vouch for the fountain when Toby wees! No matter where I put the towel to catch it while he's kicking with his nappy off, he manages to aim completely over it!!. hope that little Oscar is ok.

I know that there can be trouble when they are older of too tight foreskin, but I'm not sure when/how you do something to make sure that doesn't happen - any idea Greedy, Chooster or Honey, those with older boys!

Had a text from Rainbow - she's still in hospital. they think her contractions may spontaneously stop, but if they continue they are not going to try and stop them now. She does have some family near-by so she's not completely alone.

Honey - your half-term sound great!

xxx

iampg- glad to hear you are settling in well with Oscar- sleeping with baby is fine- so long as they dont get too hot- so try not to cuddle him or have your covers over him. If you can put him in his cot that is prob the best place. I hope his willy sorts itself out... you'd notice the 'fountain' wee- as Fettle says- the wee can shoot across the room! Hope the constipation sorts itself out ... never experienced that with a little un cos of BF... mind you they do sometimes go for a few days without pooing and that is normal- only constipated if the poo is hard- not necessarily the frequency... I think! If you are using formula- I have heard that SMA does that- would be better off with Aptimal apparently...

Fingers crossed for rainbow.

Blimey- £50 lighter after the pottery painting ... Ho hum, kept DC happy for a couple of hours though- I did a plate with Dex's feet too.

Fettle- yes have had quite a good half term-although will be glad when they are back to school ... DD and DS1 have really been trying my patience... never agreeing on anything etc etc

Just found out a friend of mine is PG- 12 wks- we were just at her DD's first bday party- so she is churning them out ... havent completely decided that 3 is enough . Greedy- is that it then definitely? Will DH have the snip?

fettle - i certainly have experienced the fountain!! i took his nappy off yesterday for a split second and he aimed all the way across the room and its not just little wees either they last forever!! df (how weird it is typing that?!) tried to pull oscars foreskin back gently in the bath but it doesnt budge - i am guesing it should?

honey - oscar has his own blanket and to be ohonest has more room in the bed than we do but its better to be safe than sorry, thankfully he has taken to his cot well so last 2 nights we have had the bed back to ourselves
i have been using cow and gate formula but i am changing him to aptimal as he has been having that as ready made cartons and likes it. i have been expressing the tiniest amounts of breast milk but been giving that to him also before his formula feed.

congratulations on your friend being pregnant - you might be considering number 4?! im not going to be thinking of number two for atleast..ohhhh...18 years?!

hope you ladies with older boys can come on and enlighten me a bit about oscars problem, i feel so clueless!

oh my god poor rainbow. did anyone figure out how many weeks she was? i know she was getting home at start of march for mat leave so she must be 30 something musn't she? hope all is ok with her

iamamum - cant help with oscars problem i am afraid. i really dont think you should try and pull it back though, i dont think they are supposed to pull back very much to start with. think ellis will have the opposite problem of too much baggy skin.........the amount he pulls it sometimes!!!....nice! ask the HV to explain exactly what is going on and dont leave until you are happy you understand!

honey - one of my friends told me she was 12 wks pg on thur too!!!! and with my sis being 8 wks (fingers crossed) i am feeling a bit broody, but i did read a thread about coping with MS and a toddler and it put me off again!!! imagine looking afer 3 with MS.............no thanks!!!! one minute i want dh to get the snip and then i think " what about in 5 years time when marcy is at school i might fancy anohter one then......i would still be under 40....just!!! you never know how you will feel in a few years do you.....but i am going to get rid of all my baby stuff i think!

SMA has never made any of mine constipated!!! they seem to have the opposite problem of pooing all the time!!!

marcy woke up last night at 1am!!!!!! she doesnt DO that!!! she was crying too, so i reckon her teeth were bothering her. i couldnt think what else it could be and her cheeks have been on fire for the last week or so.

chooster - hope you are ok on your own still. my dh is back now and we were all glad to see him although he was completely spaced out all day yesterday cos of jetlag i think.............that, or all the drugs he took in the Far East!!!

ok..............off to have a lovely weekend with my wonderful family....................hopefully!!!

oo oo oo!!! just found this on the internet iamamum..........................so please dont try and pull it back again.........................

"All sorts of myths abound about what should be done with a baby's foreskin. The truth is that you should leave it well alone as long as it is causing him no problems. At birth baby boys' foreskins are adherent to the penis. The foreskin separates spontaneously over time, so that the foreskin gradually becomes mobile and retractile. This process can take many years. By six years only about 8 per cent of boys have a foreskin that doesn't retract, and by 16 years the number is around 1 per cent. Forcible retraction is more likely to cause problems including scarring and infection. There are no advantages in forcibly 'breaking the foreskin'."

ooh - Greedy that must be what I was talking about - my poor little brother (don't mention it if any of you ever meet him!! , must have been one of the few that it didn't pull back in and that's why mum had to work gently on it, but not when he was a young baby, but about 6 I think.

Iampg - I was told not to worry about it at the moment, so definitely don't try and pull it back. If you are at all concerned about it, mention to your HV or your GP at your 6 week check.

Update on Rainbowdays - they think she's got an irrable uterus, so it is not proper contractions. She was hoping they were going to let her out later today with some pain killers and she was trying to find out where she could borrow a tens machine from to help her with the pain over the next few days, while she works out how to travel home safely - would imagine that driving with sore pains isn't really advisable! Feel really sorry for her being so far away from home, but there isn't really very much we can do for her, except send her positive thoughts.

OK - today's work plans are firmly on taking a career break - thoughts please! Is there any chance I'll regret it in a few years time giving up a reallly good job? I'd hope not, as I'll get to spend some good quality time with my little ones now. And it can't be that hard to finf another job in a few years having taken some time out?

got to make a decision and stick to it really!

xxx

Hi all, thank you for all your kind thoughts. I have been released from hospital prison to go home. I was having real contractions according to the doctor, but none-productive ones, the contractions certainly showed up well on the ctg machine. Everyone was surprised that it all came to a halt on Thursday night.

I had another bad night last night with painful contractions most of the night, but again, it spontaneously stopped.

But I have managed to convince them that is more important for me to get home. so they did a couple of checks on me and agreed to me travelling by plane within the next 24 hours, but would you believe it - due to the airline system we cannot book flight, not even if we go the the airport..... typical make plans and they don't happen.

So I am in limbo land, but managed to get a tens machine to control the pain rather than masses of drugs. Only danger is that they warn that using a tens machine before 36 weeks can cause premature labour....!!!! However it did not when i had this happen with ds, so I am going ahead with it and seeing what happens (the pain relieve is immediate and wonderful)

Sorry if this is long and waffly, but I am post-hospital crazy at the moment, life is seeming very unreal. Emotionally I just want to be back home with my dh and children. Part of me thinks that if I am going to have prem labour then I am better off where I am, but I think if it was going to happen then it would have by now.

I want to thank ready and fettle for being so supportive over the last few days, it was great to know I have some friends here.

I am now 33 weeks, I am 34 weeks on monday, so getting closer to where I need to be.

Hi Rainbow - can't believe you can't even book a flight in person at the airport. Just when you need to - sure it's not worth trying to give them a ring and explain the situation?
Hope you sort something out soon - is there anyway someone could drive you half-way and your DH meet you and take you home?

big hugs
xxx