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!

sorry - happy birthday Rainbowdays!!! .
Hope you have a good day, although far from your family.

xxx

hi ladies

fettle - sorry about the wordless hv! how frustrating!! congrats now you are lighter than before you fell pregnant - and that was without dieting wasnt it?!

just back from my appointment - all went well, they didnt offer a sweep but they have agreed to let me go to 42 weeks instead of 10 days over which i am thrilled about and didnt have to put up much of a fight either. i had the choice of how far i would like to go over but i think 42 weeks is fine i would be too scared to go further than that with regards to the condition of the placenta etc. i have to go in for monitoring on friday and monday but hopefully i will pop before them.

so all in all i am a happier iampgatlast

off to clean up now as had to give dp a haircut before we left for hospital and didnt have time to clear up.

love to all xxx

oh forgot to add, oscar is now head down fully engaged and shoulders and back to the left - so he has moooovveeddd!!! hooray!!

sorry can you tell i am over my few days of depression?!

iampg - yippy , so good to hear you sounding a bit happier, sounds like you feel like you are back in control again, good to hear it.

fettle - good for you having a lazy day enjoy those cuddles.

firstar - great to hear you are getting more sleep

hello all!!!

sorry to see you still here iampg! fingers crossed something will happen in the next few days. was it you who asked about milk? think it was and yes marcy has it at room temp, i have never warmed it for her so i guess she just thinks thats the norm.

i have got so much to say and so little time again! i have been reading this thread fro the past few days andf then not getting time to post.................so i am really sorry when i froget everything!

ok happy birthday rainbow! wow the big 4-0!!!! anything planned to celebrate?

hello pinkb!! i had a little girl called marcy! she is 17wks now.

fettle- i got marcy weighed on friday and she was 17lb 5 oz. i said to the hv "not sure i can hold out on weaning her much longer" and she said "well dont then!!!" she reckoned the 6 months guidelines are more for first time mums cos apparently there were lots of mums who suddenly got to 4 months and started weaning whether their babies were ready or not. not sure about that myself, but i started marcy on some solids on friday anyway! surprisingly she isnt too keen at the moment, i thought she would wolf it down but she doesnt. welll done on the weight loss. i am still heavier than pre pg weight, but i have lost 10 1/2 lb now. only lost 1 lb last week, but its weigh day tomorrow so i am hoping for great things!!!

chooster - yes i bought the jumperoo. marcy likes it but can only last about 15 mins max at the moment. i think one of the reasons she likes it is cos it forces her arms up and she can chomp on her fist easily. she is the dribbliest baby in the world at the moment!! sorry to hear theo has croup. i thought my ds had it this morning cos he has a cold and when he was coughing he sounded like a dog barking and said it hurt his throat.....he soon perked up though so i decided he just has canine tendencies!

bodders - i am jealous of you being in center parcs! we went to coral reef in bracknell on sunday which is like the swimming pool at centerparcs and it made me want to go again.

who have i missed????.......

honeyapple - i would love to meet up, not sure you would like me, but i am sure you would pretend to anyway, so i am sure it would be fine!!! not sure what i would do with kiki though. she only does 2 afternoons a week at pre school. guess i could just bring her and she is very good at entertaining herself! especially if their is food around. we should meet for an early lunch so we can get back for school time!

bugger my patient has just arrived..............i was really hoping to catch up properly before she arrived. i am here till 8pm so i am hoping i will get another chance to come back online.

firsty - well done with tys sleeping.......sounds like he is getting there.

i know nobody wants to hear this, but MrMcJnr sent another email with some pics in and they all look very happy! it was sent to a million people again, so i know im not special!!! i think somehow my email address got mixed in with their RL friends!!!

seaside - how are you mummy?!!

my sis is 6 wks tomorrow!!!!! i am still so excited!!!!

ok really gotta go!!

sorry, just read through my last post and realised some of it sounded a bit crap!
rainbow - a VERY BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!! sounded a bit lame in my last post.....hope i sound more sincere this time!!!
pinkb - realised i sounded crap to you too! sorry! nice to finally have you back! i just assumed life with 3 was too hectic and you didnt have time to post! hows little brooke.....or should i say big brooke, seeing as she is the grandmother of this thread!

there is/soon to be, loads of us with 3 kids on here now! 3 is the new 2 you know!!

there are also loads of us on this thread now!!

honeyapple
bodkin
chooster
mrs
seaside
firsty
iampg
rainbowdays
cityangel?
pinkb
fettle
ME!
scorpio

phew!!! i think thats everyone.........................who have i missed?

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAINBOW!!! And welcome back PinkB! Good to see you here again - My little boy Theo is now 6 1/2 months old - Time is flying along isn't!!

Great sleeping from Ty Firststar! It really seems like the battle is being won and it will all be worth it - just think of those of us with the fight still to go . Well done Ty!!!

Hi Greedy! Hope your evening passes quick and you get home soon - will all the kids be in bed? Does DH manage OK? Theo manages about 30 - 40 mins inhis jumperoo if I let him- he just LOVES it! Well done on the weight loss . My scales show I'm still the same - haven't been walking for ages but still - I would have thought the breast feeding would have done something .

Oh gonna have to read Max a story - will pop back

Back again! Sorry to hear that Toby is not too well Fettle - whats up with him??

Can't believe Ty has so many teeth Firsty! I was thinking about that when reading 'Planet Zum Zee for Max' - one of my favourite stories .

Well, I thought Theo was feeling better today so took him with me to a friends house for lunch but he started to get poorly again and the barking cough etc is back again. I read in my book that it can recurr for a few days. I took him to the doctors who gave him some steroids which probably stayed in Theo for about 47 seconds before he threw the whole lot up . Actually it was kind of odd at the doctors - it wasn't our usual one and he asked me how much Theo weighed for the dosage and I said about 19 lbs. He said hes check anyway so we went into the HV room and the doc tried to stand Theo on the scales . They were proper baby scales for lying down but he just didn't try to lie him down. So the weight was flying all over the place from 6 to 9 kg as Theo was just bouncing around on it. So he said "yes I guess you are right". How he could tell anything from that is beyond me.

Hey Iampg - good to hear you sounding in control and great they are letting you decide how far over you want to go. Well done Oscar for turning .

Right off for dinner - am starving!!!

Hi Honey - Yes, I'll waggle my finger at MrsMc and get her to let us know the details - I love a good birth story!!!

evening

Iampg- great news about extending your induction deadline- next time DEMAND a sweep! Good to hear you sounding happy again .

Firsty- well done Ty!

Greedy- Lunch sounds great . Any day is good for me except thurs. And I promise to pretend I like you!! Very jealous of your emails from Mrs ... What did you give Marcy to eat?

Chooster- hope you got Mrs to get a move on with her birth story ...

Sorry- bit tired at the mo, cant manage much of a post at the moment, also Dex is starting to whinge...

Seaside- hope all still going swimmingly.

Evening all!

It's been a bit quiet on here, so glad there more activity again!!

Have to admit that I got that e-mail too Greedy - got it about a week ago, but didn't want to say anything, as like you I assumed I'd got mixed up in RL friends' emails, which MrMc wouldn't have realised! i'm sure Mrs won't mind though!

Well done on your weight loss Greedy. Can't believe that Marcy is over 17lbs - my little(!) Toby is only 16lbs! But he still looks big for 4 months - must be tall, I guess. I'm going to go for solids next week I think, as I have my Mum staying and she can amuse DD while i'm feeding him (as DD will want to help,b ut I don't want to put him completely off food, by having a spoon stuffed down his throat by an over-enthusiastic sister!!). TBH I don't want him to grow up, but I have to face the facts that he is!! He is also a real dribbler, has been since Christmas and everything goes in his mouth!

Chooster - sorry to hear about Theo - hope he is better soon. Your GP sounds a little unsure of babies!!! How on earth did he think that he'd get an accurate weight by standing Theo upright! (?I assume that he had to hold Theo up?). I never lost weight BF DD, so I'm not sure why it has been different this time around. I just don't seem to be hungry, but then days like today, when I've been moping around the house I seem to eat pretty badly, but then I've not been hungry tonight, so where I would normally have eaten anyway, I've just not bothered. I probably have more to lose than you anyway - I'm 3.5stone heavier than when I got married, 2 stone heavier than before I had DD and 2.5 stone heavier than where I really want to be and I don't think i'll be able to delay Toby weaning while I lose all that!!!

How long is Bodders at Centerparcs and which one did she go too - bet it's the one near me and we could have met up much easier than anywhere!!!

honey - sorry to hear you are tired. You need a day on the sofa with Dexter - like I had with Toby today. nothing really wrong with him I think - just a bit unsettled. Maybe teething, maybe hungry, but just didn't sleep peacefully last night, but he had a lovely long sleep on my lap. Everytime he woke up, he snuggled back into me - aahh I loved it, but feel a bit guilty that I did nothing today!

Iamgoingtohaveababysoon - good to hear you sounding chirpier - Oscar will be out very soon I'm sure. I'm glad they are letting you go to 42 weeks.

Seaside and Mrs - I hope you are settling into some routine and I hope to hear from you both very soon.

Rainbowy - hope you'vehad a good birthday!

Firsty - sounds like you are cracking Ty's sleep! Did he wake the DSDs at the weekend? Bet he didn't - Toby doesn't seem to wake DD (much!), I think she wakes him more!

Who have I missed? I'm sure someone - sorry!
sleep well
xxx

Hi everyone I'm still here lurking and learning!

Trying to relax and starting to show but still worrying niggles like mole biopsy and worrying about the little one, but fingers crossed all is well

Right got to go dh is complaining about my load typing in bed!

Keep posting all of your tips I am noting them for later!

morning-

hi cityangel- you carry on lurking ... how many weeks are you now? When is your next scan?

Fettle- thanks, I had a much too busy day yesterday- in and out the car about a million times- DD swimming and extra ballet practise (in her tutu )... and then DP was out till late working for the 2nd night in a row- emotionally and physically tired at the end of it all. Anyway- DP got up this morning and sorted kids for school, so Dex and I lay in bed cuddling . BTW he has started waking between 4 and 5 am- and wont go back to sleep, so I have been feeding him. Guess I'm a bit concerned about his weight, so decided not to bother trying to get him off again on his own. Also been giving him a bottle of formula before bed.

Dex squeaking

xx

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Good luck Firststar you know 100 times more than me so I hope the others have good ideas

Hi Honeyapple the cuddling sounds so cute

My next scan is on March 7 I really am finding it hard to wait and be patient

I have a silly clueless query... does anyone use float/seat bath aids for their little ones... or do they get in with them. Just trying to work out how you wash them when they wriggle and whether the things you can be are a waste of time or vital? I have never seen a baby washed...

Half way to the weekend I hope everyone else particularly the recent mums are ok?

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ok..........i am starting with the positives before i get all depressing!

honey - ok so lets aim for one day next term then.............scarey!!!! i can only really do fridays so we will have to sort one out. i gave little marcy carrot! she has now had carrot, banana and apple! i am going to just give her the basic fruit and veg till 6 months and avoid gluten or wheat or anything else. she wasnt that impressed with any of the food so far, but is still ravenously hungry for her next bottle. i dont really get it! she just seems to love milk!

chooster - sorry to hear about theo and your rubbish Dr.! how crap was he? i want to read planet zum zee now! i have never heard of it and i thought i had read EVERY childrens book in the world!

can i have a proud mother moment please...................my DS got a certificate in assembly last week for being a good friend and helping one of his classmates around the classroom. he was the only one in the school to get one and i was sooooooooo pleased with him. he seems to have stopped being a loony when he gets in from school (thats tempting fate for later isnt it?!!) and he seems to be back to his normal self....phew!!!

well, we tried cutting out marcys 10pm feed last night cos now she is having a bit of food i thought she probbly didnt need it. and she went from 7pm to 6.30am. she did that for about a week a few months ago though, so i wont get too excited yet. i know the 10pm feed isnt really a hassle when she then goes from 10.30 till 7 but it would be nice not to have to do it! especially when there is important stuff on the TV like Lost, which i dont want to miss!!!

fettle - i saw you had got the email too!.........arent we special!!!?? glad you had a nice cuddly day with toby. i actually watched some tv yesterday during the day, which i havent done for years unless Nick Jnr counts! ellis was at school till 3 and kiki had preschool from 12-3, so it was just me and marcy and she always has a lunchtime sleep...........so i got to watch holby city!!!! i felt REALLY guilty afterwards cos there was loads of housework i should have been doing, but hey.............who cares!!
i lost another 2lbs this week!!! i LOVE weight watchers!!! i wanted to lose a stone by dhs bday which is next week so hopefully i will make it!!

iampg - i hope little oscar is here now, one of my friends had her baby this morning so its obviously a good day for giving birth!

firsty - how much sleep does ty get during the day? marcy was having 3 hours and consistently stirring at 4am and chattering and then settling herself after about half an hour. so i cut her sleep back to 2 hours and she stopped waking at 4am. could just be coincidence, but it made sense to me. ok..just read on and he's cracked it!!!

cityangel - i used a bath sling (from mothercare) with my first 2 and it was great. couldnt find one this time so bought a horrible plastic moulded thing which was crap and marcy hated. have finally found the sling thing again about 2 weeks ago and now marcy loves her bath! it is a metal frame with a bit of terry towelling stretched across it. obviously sometimes we bath with her, but when trying to do the other two as well its easiest with the sling!

now i am going to get miserable. my poor big sis has started bleeding. i am so so gutted, as is she obviously. its not much and not painful and i know lots of people bleed, cos i did, especially this time, but i just know she never has any luck and i have a horrible feeling it will all go wrong for her. i am so gutted for her and they wont do a scn unless it gets heavy or painful. i got a scan at about 5 1/2 and 7 1/2 wks, so i guess i was lucky. i dont know what to say to her really. i want her to stay positive, but i think she is being a bit too chirpy and assumes it will all be ok cos it was for me.

afternoon

no sign of iampg? or mrs for that matter! Will she ever return to MN?

Firsty- great news on the sleeping last night... and no you can't leave Ty to cry for too long, I hate listening to Dex crying- it's horrible. Babies need to know that they will be comforted (it can be a big scary world after all when you are only little)- leaving them for too long is a bit mean IMO.

cityangel-
I have one of those bath support things that you prop baby on- I wouldnt personally bother with a baby bath. When baby is tiny they really dont need much cleaning- just 'top and tail'. I think getting in the bath with baby is nice- but not all the time. My sister had one of those tummy tub bucket bath things which was fun for a few months ... Firsty- I had one of those blue plastic seat things that stick on bath- really good for when baby can sit as no risk of falling over and you dont have to hold them all the time.

dex woke up at 4am again for food... oh well! I dont mind really.

greedy- how horrid for your sister, I really hope the bleeding is nothing . Annoying that they wont offer her a scan- I thought it was pretty standard to get one if you had bleeding.
I have the bath thing you are talking about- got it from kiddicare online I think.
Friday then next term...

Oh your poor sis Greedy - I so hope its nothing . It would be such a lovely outcome if it all worked out. Well done Ellis for the certificate - he sounds like such a caring wee boy - you must be so proud of him .

Yippeeee ty!!!! well done!!! He did it - At least you know he can do it Firsty . I still feed Theo once in the night except for the laso few nights when I've been feeding about 3 times. This croup is knackering for me and him. He just coughs so much at night and gets so upset, and then I try to feed him cos he's off his solid food but his nose is too stuffed up. Anyway, its been a bit of a sleepless few days. He's finally eaten some food today but promptly threw it all back up just as I'd got him in his jammies and sleeping bag and settled for a bed time feed . Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!! Hopefully he's turning a corner though - the doc gave him some steroids again so hopefully it will work. In the meantime Max is on great form and a total joy to be around . Looking back I think he's been ill with avirus since the New Year which may explain his clingy behaviour. Not sure if I mentioned it but at New Year he developed a red mark on the palm of his hand that he kept itching. Well anyway its been steadily growing up his arm and ontohis back and the doc thinks its just a virus. Its going now so hopefully my little man will be back to his chirpy self. . On top of DH's man-flu its been a hell of a week .

Gosh, got a bit off track there .

Very of your weight loss Greedy!! Its motivating me so I'm on my exercise machine tonight .

Hi city - The wait until the next scan seems like forever doesn't it!!!! Like the others I used one of those bath sling things when Theo was a baby and now he's in a seat that keeps him sitting up so he can play with his toys. I somtimes got in with him but a lukwwarm bath loses its appeal after a while. Besides Max always used to poo in the bath .

Arrrgh, running out of time!!! Dh is going to scowl at me soon as he wants me to take over story time so he can get a chinese - And I wonder why I'm not losing weight .

Hi to everyone else - Hope to hear good news from Iampg soon

evening all

off to bed in a mo - totally shattered. Toby is still waking every 2-3 hours through the night! Just too tired during the day to get anything done, including trying him on some baby rice to see if it makes any difference. Can't wait for next week when my Mum is staying!

Chooster - glad to hear that Max is doing well. DD is also so much happier now her antibiotics have kicked in - feel so guilty that she's been ill for a while i didn't really notice. hope Theo gets better soon, poor little boy. Croup sounds awful.

city - like the others, i have one of those terry towelling bath supports - had it for DD too - fantastic. Toby loves lying on it kicking away, but he also loves just lying in the bath splashing - not sure I should put his ears under water, but he laughs and smiles the whoel time, so it is obviously not sore for him!!

Greedy - your poor sis. I'm really surprised they don't scan her. I was scanned whenever I bled in all my pgs, except the time after lots of bleeding that I'd had a BFN, as they then said I'd obviously had a complete miscarriage. They can't leave her just to find out at her first scan - that's heartless. Oh so hope everything is ok for her!

Firsty - good old Ty!!! Can't believe that Toby used to sleep through - can't imagine him ever doing it again at the moment. He's so dribbly, I wonder if it's his teeth - it really hurts now when he chews on my finger, so his gums are getting harder. Everything is in his mouth constantly now, being chewed! Got him to take some water from a juice cup with afternoon (about 1oz, but it's a start). He also played happily with a bottle of formula for about an hour and took about 0.5oz, but at least he was enjoying chewing on it!!

Honey - hope Dex sleeping gets better - although only one wake at 4am sounds bliss to me!!!

Got a real work dilemma girls - manager of my manager (who is leaving) is very keen to speak with me regarding her successor - which hopefully is positive for me. However, I'm not convinced you can manage a team for more than 10 people if you are not in the office full-time (I'm not sure me who's been a manager for 2 months only before starting mat leave, can really hit the floor running after 9 months off and have 15 people working for me either, but that's another self-confidence question, I have to deal with!!!). But I also don't really want to work full-time anymore - I want to spend sometime with my baby! Then a friend has suggested that I apply for asimilar job to hers at the senior school here where I live. It's a partime, term time only job, which pays badly, but she loves - sounds very tempting, but i've no experience of working with children (it is kind of a pastoral care type job - there for their problems etc etc, rather than a teaching job.) Then I'd only have to worry about part-time term-time childcare for Toby and then get all holidays and after school time with DD and toby. It's a scary thought applying for a job when i have a perfectly good one already, but it does sound as if the job will be much less stressful and i won't have a daily 66 mile commute!

Sorry - just sorting things out in my head by writing them down on here!

Must go sleeping!!
take care
xxx

Iampg - hope you still remaining positive, if you're not already Iamamother!
xxx

Oops, better explain!! Max used to poo in the bath when he was a tiny baby so sharing with him was out of the question - he obviously doesn't so that now

Oh Greedy that's tough We had early bleeding and were lucky it worked out ok. I can really sympathise with the worry. I am surprised they won't scan. I am sending lots of hugs from East London xxx

Thanks to everyone for their extremely helpful bath tips, I knew you would have some good ideas. I am off to google sling type thingy...
Thanks again from clueless!

Hey city - this is what I had - not sure if its what the others meant... baby thing. And this

thats the type i had too city! it doesnt stay white after a few months use though.........unless i just have especially dirty children.

just a quickie to say hi and to check on news from iampg. maybe she is doing a mrs and going into hiding? i hope shes ok.....thinking of you iampg.

off to sunny (yeah right!) anglesey tomorrow for half term. back on thur, so try not to miss me too much! staying with the inlaws which will be nightmare cos it means the 5 of us in 2 rooms the size of shoeboxes. nevermind! will probably cock up marcys sleeping just when she seems to have cracked it (another 7-7.30 last night!) ds still woke at 6.30 though and dd1 woke at 5am needing a wee which isnt like her.......so its not as good as it sounds. if i only had one (or none) i would be fine.

ok gonna go now...just wanted to say to fettle - go for the easy, stressfree job as long as you dont think you will get bored. i would love to do something like that. children take too much time and energy and brain space anyway, so who needs a stressful job too?

I'm back!

And I can't believe there's been no word from Mrs yet! Has she really had a baby?

Greedy - sorry to hear your sister has had a scare with the bleeding - how are things now? Really really hope it works out for her.

Fettle, yes, we were at the Centerparcs at Longleat - it didn't even occur to me that was near you, but i think it would ahve been a logistical nightmare to arrange meeting up - our days were pretty jam-packed as it was!

PinkB - lovely to see you back - I thought you just didn't like us Baby Isla is 7 months old today!

Well, the holiday was a bit of a roller coaster of highs and lows. DD1 was absolutely brilliant though, and had a fab time, which was the main thing. Isla's sleeping went completely to pot, but she did cut her first tooth, so kind of understandable! She managed to wake up our whole villa (and probably half the Park) on a nightly basis though!

We did get her in the pool once, which she loved, but the chlorine did not agree with her bottom, and guess who forgot to pack the industrial strength nappy rash cream , so after that it was back to baboon bum status, poor thing.

Greedy, am v. of your Marcy's sleeping. now isla is taking to solids a bit better i will try cutting out night feeds again and see what happens...

Firsty - good on you - sounds like ty's sleeping is slowly improving.

Hope everyone else is well... better go and put another load in the machine!