40+ Yummy (or not-so-yummy) Mummies, Come and Eat Cake

[ladymac]

Have taken the plunge, hope this is acceptable to everybody.

Floria that sounds awful hope the abs help and you don't have to get a root canal or something equally horrid. My teeth have really stated falling to bits in the last year or so, all the big fillings i had in my molars when I was younger are comming to the end of their life expectancy grrrr

MrsB My HV said that weaning although ideally was 6 months could be anytime between 4-6 months if the baby was showing signs - and increased night wakening (with more feeding at night is one of the signs). I will have a delve in my book and see what else it says but young O is wibbling (again!!)

floria ouch, I really sympathise, having had an abcess in a heavily-filled root canal a couple of months ago - after a week of antibiotics, which I hate taking esp while pregnant, I had to have an extraction which was yukky. But such bliss for the pain to go! Hope you feel better soon.

I didn't check out that v expensive website - suspect it's like the one that came up on Google when I was researching playhouses a couple of years ago. £10,000 for a fairy princess palace anyone? Erm, nope, let's get a climbing frame set instead...

£10k ermintrude? Try more like £35k! Totally ridiculous! And would never fit in my lounge!!

£35K!! glad I didn't take a look, it would have been no good for my blood pressure! Blimey.

Hello ladies. Floria that sounds awful... poor you. Hahaha I told my DP that I wanted a posh playhouse to move into! He's drawn up plans for one for the girls - it's in a 'Grand Designs' style....it's the house we want but can't afford to build - so we'll make it in minature Thing is - I think he means it!

It's all gone Pete Tong here again - waking all night - am also shattered. mrsB I've found that weaning has made no difference to night feeds It's apparently to do with the fact that babies get more calories from milk than they do food - so it's their way of getting more in during growth spurts....grrrrr

tee I hope you've rallied round and managed to get some more sleep. Ahhh, sleep - I vaguely remember that. Off to tidy up the place -looks like we've been burgled...

*Ladymac if you're out there - hope you, Betsy and Bump are all in fine fettle x

MrsB - that's not a cheat recipe - like the others say - chopping involved - shame about the peppers though - satanic vegetables!

Excellent predictions Duchesse - lets hope he lives up to them

Tee what an up and down time you're having at the moment... happy and grim.

jeanjeanie we went to Glasto last year with DD 11 months old. It was brilliant. We were going to try the year before but decided against it. Sooooo glad we didn't as it was mud- bath-hell and I would have been a marooned 8month preg whale! But last year it was wonderful. (I'm a real hippy at heart - I've just added a pic to my profile of the end of our garden- and our veg patch ... sort of allotment type thingie - all good green stuff - yum!

Oh wow to those playhouses. We want to change our disintegrating shed and make it into a combined tree-house and shed. We'll have to make it ourselves tho' and that looks like it may take a bit of planning and time, time, time .... so ... sigh .... a while off yet.

We had a great weekend in Nottingham. Took daughter to a softplay place with friend's children and held heart in mouth while DD clambered up slopes and holes and tumbled down slides .... she thought it was great ... AND was shattered at the end of the day. Hurrah!

Nose ticking like mad now - someone's darling has given me a cold ... sob.

I haven't been to Glastonbury since 1997 when it was very muddy as I am still get mud flash backs.

weekend sounds nice Bonzo, although I never managed to get B to go around soft play things on his own, so I always got a bad back . Nice wild bit of the garden too

MrsB other weaning signs are apparently; taking an interest in food, being less satisfied after a milk feed, reduction in weight gain. But it may be worth trying to squeezing an extra feed in the day , to make sure he isn't reducing in the day because he is looking at stuff and then making up at night.

I think Os nappy has leaked, my jeans feel damp.

bonzo loving the look of the garden! I'm thrilled to know you're a hippy at heart. I think I'm a strange mix ; a designer wellie kinda girl!

hedgepig OMG I was there in 97 too - hold on - I think I saw you Oh the mud. I remember seeing the Prodigy and the mud had actually dried on me. Ah - that was a classic year for the Dance Tent [nostalgia emoticon]

bonzo where was the soft play area....or ermintrude for that matter. I need to take Iris somewhere like that when we go to Nottingham in a few weeks to see my folks. As lovely as they are we'll go mad if we don't get out and I'm fed up of Highfields playgrounds and the ducks!!

hedgepig I think he has always fed less in the day due to distraction or whatever and made up for it at night. Since day one he has fed better at night. I don't know about him being interested in food - he watches us eating but he doesn't seem to want food himself. Don't know about weight gain either as he hasn't been weighed since he was about 8 weeks old - he's plenty big and heavy though so I've never bothered.

He's just basically stuck to the same pattern since he was a newborn feedingwise which means that sometimes, like last night, we will have to do three feeds through the night I think it just the way he is. It won't be fun when I go back to work!

Love the garden bonzo I would love to be able to grow some stuff in my garden but we only have a little narrow yard.

JJ if your OH can make playhouses like that he shouLd start doing it as a business - you'd be millionaires in no time at those prices!

oh Barratts shoes has gone into administration now - if people have stopped buying shoe we are definitely headed for fiscal Armageddon!

Not sure we've stopped buying shoes per se but I haven't bought any shoes from Barratt's since I was at school. Mebbe that's why they've gone bump

Nice sunflowers bonzo. We had 3 last year. DSS's grew biggest, DH's medium and mine was a weed in the corner

Never been to Glastonbury and never intend to. I dont want to cough up the GND of a small African country, get covered in mud and have all my money stolen. And I can sit in a tent in the pouring rain for a lot less. Yes, Monday is Grumpy Old Woman day at Worf Towers. Rawk!!

Accounts done. Given myself a small payrise into the bargain. Well, I might have to make myself redundant soon

New pic of the girl herself before our little outting round the block today. Whiff of fresh air means she's in her big cot now fast asleep. She's really taken to it. Spent all last night Ebaying the gliding chair, crib, bedding and all of her Katvig/Molo/Ej Sikke Lej stuff that's too small. All goes into the Tripp Trapp fund (or is that 'troll' fund JJ?)

OMG JW just too cute And so much hair Verity is still bald as a coot! Katherine is one heck of a looker; full lips, pointy chin...cute child alert...reckon she could advertise Silver Cross looking like that....!! Congrats on tax return and pay rise

I'm on ebay (as well as cooking St Jamie Of Oliver mince beed pie) looking for a replacement breast Pump as DP trod on it Only want the pump bit at the top....Ggrrrr. Oh and I've just purchased some heart-shapped cookie cutters - as the girls can make DP some biscuits for Valentines...with a little help from mum.

Barratts gone eh? I think the last shoes I bought from there were in the late 70s when thick black moccasins were all the rage.

mrsb I wish DP would build playhouses - where there's big gardens there's brass He built a sort of playhouse for a grown up once it's gorgeous - above a car port.....I'd have lived in it!

Iris is caught up in her chicken mask - best rescue.

JJ is it an Avent one? If so you can have mine I have no use for it.

awww she looks beautiful jw and she looks a lot like you!

'ere ladies I have weighed myself and have lost 3lbs this week! That's 6lbs now. Am chuffed. This no carbs malarky is da business!

Alhough I have realised that the wii has made my mii look like a proper fatty
how very dare it!

Sadly no hedgepig is a Medula (medela?) - but thank you. Luckily I've spotted one and there is no interest in it as it's a hand pump - not electric. I shall hold my interest till the last moment and then enter the bidding frenzy I've just got so used to using this one that I feel lost without it. COmes in handy incase MIL or DP has Verity and then she can moan at the expressed beaker full she's presented with

JJ If it suddenly goes for silly money you are welcome to my Avent hand pump.

Well done MrsB good for you. I know what you mean about the Mii being made too look fat, it did it before my very eyes when I set myself up

Cute photo JW, loving that hat . My mum still talks about her Silver Cross pram circa 1965, when my brother was born, with a tear in her eye. She thinks prams are so much more stylish than buggies, although has accepted that they're not much good on buses...

I understand your Monday attitude to festivals but think I might try Big Chill with a big pile of friends and family next year. I've never done Glasto, but my sister, who used to be one of the naughty people who'd pay a local heavy to throw them over the wall when she was a student, had a miscarriage there in 2007, went there heavily pregnant in 2008 and will be there with DP and babe this year. That's dedication. Or madness.

JJ I can recommend the Avent hand pump kindly offeree by hedgepig if you don't get the one you want - gentle enough to ease in a beginnier but then strong enough to express fast once you're an expert. Had better dust mine down I guess.

ermintrude ... you had a miscarriage at Glasto in THAT mud!!!?? O M G!
And then last year - we could have passed - we had dot in pram who was dancing and jiggling whenever let out. Brilliant. Not going this year as will be 8 months ... chicken I know!

jw - how cute is she in that hat???

jj - we went to Tumbletown Play Centre in Arnold first (frind says that's the best) but it was closed for the day (so phone first). Then I think we went to Kool Kids Indoor Adventure Playground (Carlton Rd) - bit interesting for me and my sheltered life seeing all these little children with so much jewlery on! Was a nice place though and Tilly loved it. Nag at me and I'll ask my mate for definate where we went and if you email me where in Notts you'll be she can recommend the closest place.

JW I love the hat! And the hair 'there was a little girl, who had a little curl...'

Darn, I bought the shoes I wore to my SIL's wedding at Barretts. And I usual find great handbags there.

children with jewellery on bonzo?

Aye, she has hair that's got my calf lick and all the curls too, especially in the middle - so she is 'the little girl that had the little curl'. My hair was just the same when I was little. Hat is scand - Minymo. DH keeps saying she looks like a devil with the horns (but they aren't really horns at all).

I loved my pram ermintrude and it was a navy Silver Cross coach built one. Highly unfashionable when mine were little. I even had the huge sun canopy that had to be fixed down at front and back like a circus tent and you couldn't possibly see over and really needed wing mirrors. It was fab and did all the kids. The one we have now is one of the carrycots with padding etc that you whip off when they get bigger and it's a pushchair. Although the chassis isn't coach built it has suspension and big wheels. Even DH likes wheeling it around

mrsb excellent news on the weight loss front. I haven't weighed myself yet - will do it tomorrow - but I suspect I haven't lost anything as I've been eating some bread and I'm sooooooooo in the mood for lemon drizzle cake right now Still, I'll comfort myself that I've got to a baggy size 16 and plod on.

All day yesterday I was longing for my home-made lemon sponge pudding. Gawd the very thought of it.

/drools

Bonzo it was my sister who had the Glastonbury adventures, not I. Went to hospital in Yeovil and confirmed she was indeed miscarrying, phoned all her sisters (there are 5 of us) in tears and then said - well, at least I can drink now - so drowned her sorrows for the rest of the weekend. And got back to babymaking as soon as was physically possible. She's a tough one.

North Notts - ah yes, you may well see bejewelled kids in those outposts of civilisation. South of the Trent things are so refined, JJ will tell you!

I have a Tilly! Is yours a Matilda like mine?

mrsb well done on weight loss. and jw haven't you already lost that much? Put that bread away and banish thoughts of lemon drizzle cake (omg, even the name is a siren call) from your mind!

TEETH!! TEETH!!! Verity has TEETH!!

OWWWWCH! I only realised when she bit me this evening Two little bottom ones are gleamming away - might explain the bad night.
Joy - I'm in unchartered territory now, having never BF before. I'm expecting much chewing and biting. Oh, how I've always longed to breastfeed a teething small mammal

Cheers bonzo I know those areas well - and yes, I imagine that the children are very fond of their ELizabeth Duke @ Argos I think the Carlton rd one is nearest. ermintrude you are too right - south of the Trent is tres refined!

I love the name Matilda/Tilly. Oh, so many nice names - but I just can't bring myself to have another DC in order to use them up

Thanks hedgepig - if it all goes £££$$ then I may take you up on the avent pump

Made pastry today - it rocked - I'm thrilled