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!

Good to hear you are back fettle but sorry to hear it was emotional - and also sorry to hear that Toby is unwell - its really going around isn't it!? Hopefully tonight will be better but like you say at least you will be getting a lie in tomorrow. I bet DD was pleased to see you! So when is the op??? Hope not too far away so you dont have too long to worry about it.

Theo has had a much better afternoon and is in bed now so I'm hoping for a good evening. Its ironic really as DH was given a 2 week pass for him and me to use our local David Lloys health club as he did some work for them recently, but this is the end of the first week and so far I haven't been able to get out... Mmm, jacuzzi and steam room or baby puk??? I know which I'd chose if I had the chance!

Hope everyone else is doing well - especially the new mums!

chooster - you poor thing! im sure i said that last time i posted as well, but i realy feel for you cos its really lingering on isnt it? did you get any good advice from the thread you started? at least its some consolation that theo is quite a big boy (not in the downstairs dept i dont mean, although of course he could be!!) but at least hes not tiny to start with, so you dont have to worry too much about him wasting away while hes not keeping much food down. it WILL pass, it HAS to! and you will get a decnts night sleep again soon i am sure!

fettle - seems like you have only been gone 2 minutes! hope your friend wasn't too bad. how did she cope with toby? guess hes not exactly a newborn anymore so hopefully that helped. was it going to be her first baby? i meant to ask you that bfore. bet you are so so pleased to be back at home.

honeyapple - keep meaning to ask how it is going with leaving dex to settle himself during the night. is dp still downstairs or have you given up/ cracked it with dex's sleeping? your house looks lovely

had a pretty crappy birthday yesterday really!!! i was expecting that though, so wasnt too disapointed! i asked for money from everyone so i would have a whole wad of money to go out and spend on me me me without feeling guilty!!! so....i've got £200 to spend at some point........just need a day without the kids now so i can spend it!! had the shittiest afternoon at work ever!!!.......................some 89 yr old doing massive farts everytime she turned over on the bench! (would have been quite amusing if they didnt stink so much!) and then some rancid old russian woman who thought she knew everything about chiropractic and kept telling me what to do to her and how to treat her.......she was possibly the rudest, most annoying patient i have ever had..............and the worst thing is i had to be so nice to her............when all i felt like doing was inflicting some sort of real pain on her!!!!...........ARRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!! all my other patients were lovely though, but she really really pissed me off!!!!.................wow!!! i really needed to get that off my chest!!!

ok! calm now!!! dh did take me out for a meal last night, which was lovely! he arranged for our childminder to come and babysit and took me for a mexican which was yummy. had a bit too much to drink and felt a bit rough this morning! luckily (?) ellis was barking like a dog everytime he coughed this morning and said his throat hurt and could he stay at home ................so i agreed (probably a bit too readily!!!) and we had a lovely lazy morning instead of rushing to get to school!!! kiki and marcy have got this cough/ cold thing too but none of them actually seem that ill with it so far, just lots of snot and coughing!!! ellis was running around like a loony by about 9.30am and i did feel a bit guilty keeping him off school but he has never had a day off sick yet since he has been at pre school or school so i guess its ok!!!??? we had all had a fab day together anyway..............a very snotty, coughy, cuddly, fab day!!!

ok better go and finish dinner!

have a fab bank holiday weekend all!!!

i am taking kiki to see angelina ballerina tomorrow at the theatre so hopefully that will be good, and then sunday we are out for a big family lunch and then monday we are meeting friends for the day. hope the weather is good for everyone!

byeeeeeeeeeeeee all!!! hope all the kids get better soon and that everyone has the best weekends ever!!!

im feeling a bit hyper tonight can you tell?!!!

just wanted to tell you all how 'sensitive' ellis is........he asked me how old i was on my birthday, and i said "really old!!!" and he burst into tears!!!....................when he finally calmed down he told me he didnt want me to get really old cos that meant i was going to die soon and he didnt ever want me to die! i have to be so so careful what i say to him, cos he reads so much into everything bless him! i kept promising him that i wouldn't die but felt really weird promising that cos obviously it isnt true. i know i need to explain death to him properly, but i think he will get so upset i cent bring myself to do it.

OH MY GOD!!!!! i have just gone from being really hyper to being really lowper!!!! (i am sure that should be the opposite of hyper!!)

anyway!!! t'ra!!!

chooster - sorry to hear that you have had such a rotten time with puke fest in your house this last week. Hope things are improving now?

fettle - can only imagine you must be exhausted after your emotional trip away, hope that you are having a chilled out weekend now to recover?

Honey - have not looked at the link to your house but hope all goes well with selling it.

greedy - wow you are on a roller-coaster ride of emotion at the moment, I got exhausted just reading your last message

I am settling into life with three children nicely now. Think I have got passed the worst of the jaundice and mastitis issues. I had never heard of breast-feeding jaundice before, but apparently it is fairly common, Jak has to go for another blood test this week to check the levels, but I have been warned that it can take three months for the breastfeeding jaundice to go! My ds1 and dd are very good with Jak, they love him to bits already, and although we have had a couple of interesting wee and poo incidents in reaction to Jak's arrival, otherwise there has been no obvious jealousy issues.

I have one problem, I am already considering ttc dc4!!!!!!!! I must be so so so loopy. I love that the first two are so close in age and as playmates, and I would love Jak to have a close playmate too. Why am I even thinking this when I have a rough time during pregnancy and this baby is only just a month old!!!! Phew I feel better for confiding in you all, now you can tell me how mad I am!

Bloody hell Rainbow - you are as bad as Greedy! I think we all had those moments of "I want another one", probably around the same time after the birth as well. Although you've already had kids close together so you know all the good bits and bad bits. If you still feel like it after another month or two then go for it!!!! Why not eh!!!!!!!!! I kind of wish I could in some ways but not in others if that makes sense... In a dreamworld another would be lovely but in reality its just not for us I dont think. Gosh I'd never heard of bf jaundice... Hope he's OK with it??? Good to hear the other DC are handling Jak's arrival well .

Thanks for your empathy ladies! Theo wasn't sick last night which is great but he did need to be changed a couple of times due to a full on bottom explosion. When I was at the GP he did mention that if he has a bad bot for too long then he may become lactose intolerant - has anyone else heard this? Anyway, I was with a friedn today and she said her DD had it for about 3 weeks and needed to go onto lactose free milk for a while. I guess you learn something new every day... Of course now I'm just worrying that the milk I'm giving him is now prolonging the diarohhea? It will get better - It will get better - It will get better...

Wow, you are hyper and lowper Greedy!!!! Rotten Russian woman - Grrrr!

Hope everyone else is doing well
xx

Evening all - hope you are enjoying your Bank holiday weekends - shame the weather isn't better, but at least it is warm!

Greedy - should really try and explain death to Ellis in a simple way - there are probably books you can buy that broach the subject in a subtle way. I've heard that the worse thing you can do is say that you're not going to die, as heaven forbid anything ever does happen to you, your DC have more trouble coping with the fact that you lied to them, than the fact that you've actually gone. Oh sorry gone a bit morbid sorry - just we're having the same conversations at the moment with DD due to my friend's baby dying. She's constantly wanting to know if X's baby is in heaven? Being looked after by Jesus etc - think I've told you all before? also she's asking if we will die, to which we simply said yes we are, but hopefully not for a very very very long time. I think at this age it is easier for them to believe in life after death, which makes death less frightening for them - think how magical Father Christmas is for them and you get the idea of it all (we obviously do go to Church regularly, so DD firmly believes that God is there looking after us - she's having difficulty understanding that he doesn't sleep though at the moment, so we've settled on him having a short afternoon nap!!)

It was emotional last week seeing my friend. It was their first child and she'd already had 2 early miscarriages before 12 weeks. They currently have no idea why she died, but are waiting for the results of blood tests. I think seeing Toby was hard at first, but better as he is obviously not a newborn anymore and a boy, so didn't look in any way like their daughter (who was absolutely beautiful by the way - so lovely seeing the photos). Really have no idea how they are coping, but my friend said that I've helped a lot by just being there at the end of the phone, so that was good to hear. I think the hardest part for her was seeing her mother cuddling and cooing over Toby, which must have been awful for her. But I imagine her parents are also grieving for their first grandchild. I've no idea if they will try again - the worry for the whole pregancy would be just dreadful, but I'll be there to support them whatever they decide to do.

Anyway, on to brighter things..... how was Angelina Ballerina? DD would love to go see that, is it a touring version? Should try and find out if it is coming anywhere vaguely near us! Those patients of yours sound weird and wonderful! Can't be a dull job you have there!

Rainbowy - great to hear from you. Can't believe you are seriously considering DC4!!! Remember how clucky I was in the first few months? Totally worn off now! I love my two very much, but can't wait to move onto to our next stage of life (and get a reliable night's sleep - DD's almost as bad as Toby at the moment, so we're all shattered!). Also I've definitely heard of breast-fed jaundice, both mine had it! I was told it was due to an enzyme that some women produce in their breast milk that prevents the breakdown of the baby blood cells, so prolonging newborn jaundice. So although keeping the baby hydrated is how you flush the system of the old blood, by breast-feeding you are actually delaying the process even more. I was only ever slightly encouraged that bottle-feeding might be the best option, but was then reassured that as long as the levels of bilirubin didn't get too high then it was doing the babies no harm. Treat them like a tomato plant in the window all day and keep feeding. Toby was yellow free by 7-8 weeks, while DD (who needed phototherapy in the beginning) was still a shade of yellow around 3-4 months! All fine now though both of them (although Toby is a strange shade of orange most of the time, I assume due the amount of orange food he eats!!).

Chooster - really hope Theo gets better soon. Never heard of people becoming temporarily lactose intolerant, but if it sounds feasible, it probably is worth investigating further? how is MrsMc by the way? Have they moved to spain yet?

We're all recovered from last week and caught up my sleep now. Toby is still teething, i think his top two teeth are nearly through, so he's still not sleeping very well at the moment. Gave me a real shock last night - when I went into him at midnight, I couldn't find his head and panicked in the dark until I realised he'd turned a full 180deg around and I was trying to pick him up by his feet!. He will not keep still and is definitely a boy wanting to play with all things electrical! I'm having a small mental block about how to get him to eat finger foods and what to give him and what size pieces to offer him. All this talk of chips etc has me worried - do you really offer them whole chips and let them bite off bits. Toby seems to take massive chuncks of say banana and then choke and I panic, so I've stopped giving him whole foods and he's back to mashed stuff, but I have to start somewhere - any tips? Can't believe I've done this before, I just can't remember how and when I started with DD (all I remember is she was sick as soon as she came anywhere near gagging on something!).

Right - think I've talked long enough - sleep well all
xxx

Oh wow what a beautiful day!!!! Its been so gorgeous up here as I think it has been for everyone? There was an hour earlier when I lay in the garden reading my new book as Theo was napping upstairs, DH was gardening and Max had popped to his Gran's... It almost felt like being single again . Well child-free anyway. Looks like it'll be like this all week so get teh sunblock out girls! . (Am very excited can you tell??? ).

Sorry to hear that it was an emotional visit Fettle. Your poor poor friend... I really hope they do try again if having a child is what they want to do, particularly if the post morten reveals something significant. When we had a post mortem done on our boy it gave us the answers we needed so more screening could be done the next time round, and this definately helped my fears. Either way, the most important thing is that they get through the next wee while. Toby is becoming more and more like Theo with his cot turning!!! Did you ever get a cot bumper? And how is he with his cup of milk? I remember Theo was really into it for a while but then has since rejected milk in a cup and now takes his bottle fine. Not sure why that happened but hey, as long as he's taking it .

I looked up temp lactose intolerance and apparenetly its common in babies who have ahd a stomach bug or anti-biotics. Strange I'd never heard it before . Either way Theo is now on the mend and he ever slept through the night last night - Hooorrrayy!!! No poo's no sick, nothing.

Better be off - Love to all and dont get burnt!

BTW, MrsMc is fine - had a fab holiday. I'm seeing her for a catch up on Wednesday so I'll let you know her news... I think she moves to Spain in 3 weeks though.

hello all! we have had fab weather here this weekend too. and a really nice relaxing weekend too although dh had to fly to holland this afternoon for a meeting tomorrow so that cut the weekend a bit short.

rainbow - i know EXACTLY how you feel! i am seriously considering no. 4 at the moment cos marcy is coming up to the same sort of age that ellis was when i got pg with kiki. if we did have another i would like them to be close in age to marcy so she has a little playmate too, i can thelp feeling like she will be a bit left out when i see the other two playiong together so well. SUCH a big decision though isnt it?!

chooster - glad to hear theo is on the mend! phew! seems amazing that there is so much stuff about babies that i have never heard of........bf jaundice?........temporary lactose intolerance?........what else hey?

fettle - my dh is very against teaching ellis any sort of religion cos he is so anti-religion himself. his mum is super religious and forced it down his throat as a child and it had the opposite effect. but we discussed it the other day and we (i!) decided that i get some religious books and give him something to believe in and then when hes bigger he can decide what he wants. actually.....we were talking about heaven at bathtime tonight............not sure kiki gets it completely cos she asked if her glitter glue would die and go to heaven?!!!

angelina was fab by the way. it is touring round the country and i am sure it must come near to you. i wasnt sure she would like it at first cos there was no talking just dancing but she LOVED it!!!

hope everyone else is ok and has had a lovely weekend too. i am not so hyper/ lowper today.........i think it was to do with coming to the end of my packet of pills. my gp put me back on microgynon and i didnt realise, but now i remember i came off it years ago cos it made me such an emotional wreck! i must go back onto yasmin...or get a coil...........or avoid sex!

Hi I'm back!

Well, briefly anyway! Our phoneline has been down for 5 days, - turns out our neighbour cut through it while he was pruning his ivy!

Chooster - you poor thing with all the D & V, but just to say the same thing happened with Nelly when she was a baby, and someone recommended trying her on soya milk (I think SMA do one called WYSOY) and it did the trick! We have exploding bottoms here too! Both girls, but not too much vomiting, luckily....

Went to MILs over the weekend but Isla was really feverish and pooey and was awake and screaming for 2 hours in the middle of the night, so we aborted mission and came home early.

ok gotta dash - i smell more poo....

hey bog off klonky! you dont belong here! what have you done with bodders?

ok, so i may be a bit bonkers, but i have started my egg and grapefruit diet today!!! 7lb in 7 days apparently!!!! we will see!!! i am starting to panic a bit cos i have only got 10 days till i have to wear a bikini!!!.....and dont try to tell me i dont HAVE to wear one cos i cant possibly go on a sunny holiday and not expose as much flesh as possible!

Bikini in 7 days! Where you going, Greedy? anywhere nice? Although you could be wearing a bikini today in the garden - it is so lovely here today - wasn't so lovely over the weekend (hot, but not sunny).

Egg&Grapefruit -together! - no wonder you lose so much weight, I just wouldn't eat anything all week! Wish my weight loss would return - still the same as I was before Easter, but then I'm not trying to lose at the moment. Now my job is probably definitely not happening (long story, that I won't bore you with) - I'll have to walk everywhere instead of driving due to the price of flipping petrol/diesel, so that will help (hopefully!).

Yes - why has Klonki stolen Bodders DDs?!
Bodders [grr] at the phone line cable - how are we going to communicate re our meet up? But we have a few weeks in hand still! Hope you're girls are better soon - poor you, always seems to be one thing or another. But at least it sounds as if work is busy, which is good, yes?!

Chooster - glad your little one is getting better. Send our love to Mrs when you see her. When are we all planning on going out to visit her in Spain?

Toby is ill too at the mo - temperature, runny nappies and was sick 3 times yesterday - won't feed, only bites![yeah - I really love it when he does that!

Right - need to go plant some herbs, while it is still sunny and Toby is sleeping.

Oh and Greedy you're not mad, just you!!! Evil things COCs, mess with your brain - go with abstination, or in your case, just get pg - we all know you're going to eventually, so just get on and do it, we need another pg on here as Cityangel has vanished and the rest of us are frauds in this section of MN!

xxx

oooh 7lbs in 7 days! I like the sound of that . I had been doing really well on Atkins and have now lost a stone but I think its all stalled a bit, and I really want to lose another half stone before my holiday in 3 weeks. I've been doing lots of exercise but yesterday I seemed to have put on 3 lbs - but then I do ahve AF - Do you guys put on weight around AF or has my diet gone completely to pot??!?

Hey Klonky / bodders!! Whats with all these bad bots eh!!! Sorry to hear you needed to cut your trip short - Was that a relief for you or a bit of a bugger...

Yeah, where you off to Greedy??? Is this the trip to Greece?

Ooh, gotta go - DH needs help with bath x

Oh yeah and you may as well go for baby number 4 Greeds - as Fettle says its a foregone conclusion really . You seem to make such happy sleep-through-the-night kids that I'd probably do it if I were you . Am thinking of a coil too... I never did start that pack of the pill

Greedy - yep please do go for it and get pg now - then you can let me know if it is ok or if I should stop at three!!!!!

OH MY GOD!!! the pressure!!! not sure dh would agree to another baby yet, and after the morning i had yesterday not sure i want one! normally marcy is super chilled baby in the mornings..she just wakes up, has her bottle, comes in the bathroom and watches me in the shower, has brekkie and gets dragged to school....all with no whinging or crying she is just chilled..........BUT not yesterday!!! she cried and whinged from 7am till 8.30am more or less and it was so exhausting trying to do breakfast for the other to and packed lunches and get myself dressed whilst trying to comfort her. made me appreciate what a star she normally is.....but also made me think "how could i ever have another one cos what if they were like this all the time?"
i guess dh and i need to have a serious talk about it really, if we had an accident it would make things so much easier cos that would be it decided!

my diet isnt JUST grapefruit and egg, but thats what its called!!! so far its fine, but i am only on day two!!!

we are off to turkey next friday for 2 weeks! i cant wait!!!! i am stupidly excited actually!!! bit worried about 4 hours on the plane with the 3 of them,especially as we have a very early start that day so no doubt everyone will be tired and grumpy! my parents are coming with us for the first week and then we have a week on our own. they decided not to get the same flight as us!!! probably just as well, cos my dad is the 'turn up 3 hours early' type and we are more of a 'turn up just in the nick of time or a bit too late' kind of family!!! so he would only get hugley stressed out with us!

oh my god...how muh can i talk about myself hey!!!???

where is old honeyapple hey? maybe she has sold her house and moved to somewhere remote with no internet connection!

i do agree we need more babies on this thread!

i LOVE this sunshine by the way and i LOVE having a laptop cos i can sit in the garden whilst i am on it!!!.....musnt forget to pick up ellis this week! last wed i forgot (not sure how !) that i have to pick ellis and kiki up at the same time on wednesdays. so i went to get kiki for 3 o'clock and forgot all about ellis!......luckily i remembered just before 3 and got someone else to take him home with them...............poor forgotten little boy!!!

anyway, better go and do something produtive i guess!!

hiya sorry i went awol for a bit... too busy tidying my house!

LOL to everyone
sorry there are some sickie babes about .

Back later
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Yeah Klonky, buzz off! how very dare you!

Ahem - sorry about that! I went incognito to ask for some advice on the BF boards (because I feel like I'm always asking for advice and I really ought to know what I'm doing by now!) and forgot to change back.

STill haven't got time to catch up properly, just skim read and saw soemthing about eggs and grapefruits my insides feel all funny just thinking about it!

Honey - good luck with the house - I saw the pics and it looks lovely! How the hell you keep it that tidy with 3 kids I don't know!

Fettle - i'm still on for our meeting, but just up to my eyes in it at the moment - too much work and poorly kids keeping me very busy day and night!

Hi all

Loving this weather too!! Why I even thought I wanted to go back to work before the summer holidays! Really stupid - but then having said that didn't only have a week's long summer last year in April?

We've all succumbed to this bug now - me last night, DH has gone to work feeling really rough and poor DD has just been sick. Feel really bad as I encouraged her when I picked her up from school at lunchtime to come to an outdoor adventure play ground with all her friends and she didnt' want to. She perked up while she was there and was sick just as we were leaving (having been a pro at being sick for all her life, she caught it in her hands bless her while running to the toilet! - sorry bit TMI, but I was very impressed with her!!!).

right - both DC want a cuddle, so have to go (why I'm sticking to 2, two knees, two arms etc!!!).

Rainbow - how is Jak and his jaundice? any better?

xxx

fettle - thats a rubbish reason for sticking to two!!! you soon learn how to balance 3 on your lap........im not saying its comfortable, but very possible!

you were talking about finger food the other day and i just looked at marcy and it reminded me! she is sitting in her highcahir chomping away on a whole bagel!!! she does choke sometimes, but normally brings it back up by herself so as long as i watch her shes fine generally.(if that isnt tempting fate for a big choking/hospital episode then i dont know what is!!) if you are worried then try those new soft rusks..they are called...soft rusks....and they dissolve so easily so they are very messy but virtually impossible to choke on i would think and that will get him used to finger foods.

nice to have you back bodders!!! didnt think much of klonky!!

thank god those two went last night on the apprentice! oh, and how weird is eastenders at the moment? i thought stephen was normal again...........

It has gone a bit wierd isn't it Greedy - Sean has gone loopy too .

So you can balance 3 eh??? Room for another ?

Fettle - I started Theo on finger food with some banana that was nice and ripe and he was absolutely fine. I'm trying to think what else he's had... definately rusks as Greedy suggests and rice cakes, those little baby biscuits, ripe peaches and slightly over-cooked and quite squishy carrot and parsnip, he also liked the dark green end bits of broccoli (broccoli tadpoles according to Max!). Theo has been doing really well recently but since his bug his appetite has really gone downhill. He just doesn't seem interested and its a bit of a battle to get him to eat . Its such a shame as both he and I used to really enjoy his meal times... I guess it will get better again and I need to fight against the urge just to give him toast and porridge etc which i know he will eat???? If I do that I presume its going to be harder to get him back on proper food ???? What do you guys think?? Or should I just give him bland food for a while and let him set the pace?

I saw MrsMc today for probably the last time for a good long while. She leaves the UK on the 28th May and we'll be away for their leaving bash. She's doing really well and xavier is getting so big - he's now 15 weeks! Time zooms by doesn't it. She says hello to you all and says she misses you guys .

Boy number 2 is now in bed so I'd better go and see what boy number 1 is up to!

Ooh, I know I am so glad red-head Jenny is gone as I really hated the way she talked . Just really odd!!!

hiya

chooster- think you should just give theo the bland stuff that he wants- I know when I have been sick that the only thing I want is toast! I'm sure he will get back to normal eating in his own time.

Finger foods- Dex has had-
ripe banana cut into slices
ricecakes
baby biscuits
baby corn snacks (very messy)
toast
brocolli florets (big favourite)
chips
strawberries cut up
grated cheese
grated apple
dried mango
dried fruit leather bars (VERY messy)

Basically he wants anything anyone else is eating...He has choked lots on things but always manages to get the stuff up again with a bit of a pat on the back... obviously keep an eye on him eating and rescue any HUGE bits that he has chomped off. He is a bit like a hamster and has a tendency to store masses in his gob.

blimey- dex has done a whopper- back laterxx

Thanks all for finger food advice - I suppose I have been giving him lumpier things, such as unpuree parsnip, butternut squash etc and he has tried chopped up bananas, rice cakes and strawberries and rusks - suppose I just go with and need to work through the choking - so far he is definitely not as sickie as DD was as a baby, so I should stop worrying and just let him get on with it... And yes he does seem to store things in his cheeks.

Chooster - agree with Honey, go with Theo's appetite - his old one will come back with a vengence when he's ready. Toby is still taking things slowly, although having said that he had a whole weetabix yesterday morning and boy did he poo this morning - down and out both trouser legs, all over the carpet - basically just had to put him in bath! At least it was a good consistency!!

My slightly sad news is I think I'm going to have to stop breast-feeding. He bites me nearly every time now and I'm just getting scared to put my nipple in his mouth at times unless he's very sleepy and hungry and then I can pretty much guarantee he will be ok. Good news is that he downed 2 4oz bottles yesterday, one with a juice cup lid and the other with a teat and he actually got on better with the teat, so we'll go with that option. Bit sad that it's time to stop and plan on doing it as slowly as possible, but his top teeth are very nearly here and then it will really hurt when he chomps me![ouch].

Anyway, better rescue him from DD's toy box - no sitting relaxing anymore (must get a playpen, i think, he's too mobile now to leave alone in a room even for 2 seconds!).

Hope you all have a great weekend - supposed to be a scorcher.....

xxx

Aw Fettle - you suffering with a biter as well? I have to say that Isla has got much better lately, now she only nips me once or twice a day, and usually when I'm trying to give her milk she doesn't want! I have developed a very good technique of sliding my forefinger in between her gums and then twisting it to prise her jaw open! But with both sets of top and bottom front teeth well and truly through it is blimmin painful if I don't catch her in time!

Chooster - that's sad that you won't see Mrs again and will miss her leaving bash. It's so weird that we've all been a part of her TTC and pregnancy but know nothing about her life as a mum... it feels like reading a book and then getting to the end only to find someone has torn the last page out!

Another finger food that goes down well here is pasta twirls and also dried prunes and apricots (the really soft ready to eat ones) which I break into small pieces for her. Good for keeping her quiet in the carseat! Oh and she loves frozen peas (still frozen) as does Nelly.

Bottoms are nearly all better here at last, phew! And she's been in nursery since 9am this morning - so far so good! I walked past earlier to have a listen (it's 5 mins from my house) and saw one of the girls who works there in the garden. She said they'd managed to get her off to sleep in the buggy really easily and she was still asleep an hour later!

Greedy - Klonky is Nelly's nickname for Isla, because she likes to klonk her head on the back of the highchair!

nelly klonks islas head or isla klonks her own head?!!!

Ha ha - no Isla klonks her own head! She just rocks back and forth and whacks it on the back of the highchair, quite happily! (obviously we have put a cushion there, just in case you think I am a bit cruel!)

She stood on her own for about 15 seconds today! She looked extremely excited about it!