HGG
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They eat crickets.
Duh
And you haven't taken one round to your parents' yet to sort out their noisy cricket problem? Shame on you.
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He may have been slightly inebriated (as I am just now), because he'd just finished singing "DUNC, DUNC, SUPER DUNC".
I just tried it. Singing "DUNC, DUNC, SUPER DUNC" doesn't make you inebriated at all. Lies. It's all lies!
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But I want to sleep
The cry of many a P&Ber. You should go and find the nocturnal thread if you're staying up.
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Same here gone very dark.
And here.
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Happy birthday Muggy.
See, I know mine's a day late too but mine should count because it isn't my birthday today and you haven't wished me a happy birthday on time.
Hope you had a good day yesterday.Happy birthday to everyone celebrating theirs today too.
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Congratulations Phoenix. Lots of Grandad Phoenix stories to be littering the forum soon then.
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I'm away to the garden centre for a nose before we go out to plant the tatties, onions and shallots that we've got already.
Oh heck, it's that time of year isn't it!?
I'd not bother this year but the GCs are already beating me to it and I can't have that! I guess I'll be off to the garden centre myself this weekend and then out in the garden to sort it all out while it's sunny and warmish.
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We weren't charged for scan photos, nor was there the slightest suggestion of a donation box anywhere either. Didn't realise that you get charged elsewhere!
One of the operators did say at one point "We aren't allowed to give you two photos from one visit" which I presumed meant they are expensive but, as they'd actually printed two to look at, I couldn't see the point in not giving them both to us.
Aye, I'm wavering now, trying to remember if we do get that first photo free and pay for any others we want or whether we have to pay for the lot. Only two and a half years since I had my last but I just can't remember well enough. I do seem to think we had to pay for the lot, but maybe I'm wrong. Any other folk out there had babies in England recently and know the position?
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Not you, honey
Awwwwwwwwwww, that's very sweet of you, honey. You'll be on the first train south tomorrow then, yeah?
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Do you want another baby?
:lol: You'd run a mile if anyone so much as joked about that in your direction!Edit: Mopatop - a virtual baby? Now there's a thought. Bet the virtual birth and virtual sleepless nights would beat the real ones hands down.
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off work for 2 weeks, going away for 1 week.
Please look back and check.
Guess your memory is going in your old age
Good try though
Are you my ex-husband? He's getting married this year (possibly) and your posts sound about as literate as his would... My children have been asking for another baby, I guess that's me off the hook.
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Thanks. Technically we didn't get any at the first scan - they didn't have any photo paper in the machine, so Ryan had to take photos of the screen with his mobile. This time around, because he/she was being so awkward, we got 6 photos! The sonographer actually said, "you know you've got an awkward child when you get 6 scan photos". I was really surprised to get so many though.
Do you have to pay for the scan photos up there? We do now. Didn't when I had Sam but by the time I was pregnant with Scott I had to pay for it if I wanted to take pics with me.
and Ayrgirl - the jellybean shaped blobs on Reina's scan?
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Aye, it's a strange one!
Where's Ayrgirl and why hasn't she answered? Has Reina just eaten a few too many Jellybeans?
Seriously Reina - that first photo is amazingly clear around the eyes! Fab stuff.
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11 months already. Have you taken him to a game yet? I'm thinking of taking toots to one over easter.
You STILL haven't taken him? We had Scott up at Baltic Broadwood in the middle of January when he was just five weeks old. Three layers of clothes, snowsuit, popped him in Moby wrap sling thingy, fastened my coat around us both and off we went. Snug as a bug - he never even noticed. I swear I've only just regained feeling in my feet from that match - it was peeing down and bloody freezing!!!
I've just been reading about babies that go straight from moses baskets to beds
Imagine that.
:Its amazing how different boys and girls are. Molly was almost 2 before she could walk, yet Ethan was walking at about the same time as yours. He's also into everything, where as she was really good and didnt touch things she knew she shouldnt. But the biggest difference has been the speech. Molly started speaking really early and her vocabulary etc has always been really good. Ethan, on the other hand, is only just starting to say more than the odd word and he'll be 2 in June!He has learned how to say "Daddy", though, and shouts it repeatedly as he runs over when I come in from work
Such a lovely welcome home at the end of the day, that.
Out of interest, why do you attribute the differences in your children to being due to their gender? I've heard so many times people say how different boys and girls are. I can't help but feel it's a little strange. My children are all different. When I had one boy and one girl people would look at the differences between them and put it down to the boy/girl thing. I used to make a point of asking them about it. I guess I just feel that my small family isn't really a big enough random population sample to make that distinction. I found my first two children did things the opposite way round to yours with touching things - it was my daughter who tried to rile me by getting to everything she shouldn't and my son who didn't touch when he knew not to. I love seeing how different they all are.
21 week scan tomorrow! I'm soooo nervous! Enjoy it! Hope you're still feeling well just now.0 -
It no doubt would have been but frankly it was completely impractical attempting to maneouvre much through the tight space over the back of the front seat into the back at the best of times.
Ah. Didn't realise it was three door. I got on great with my Yaris until my second child was a few months old, but mine was a five door model (the car, not the baby!). I see now why changing your car was the way forward.
No more P&B babies arrived yet? It must've been a week or so since the last one.
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Haven't stuck my nose in here for ages. Congrats to Half a Person
.the midwife was adement that swadling was a no no now...Then the first ward swaddled our child and said...
Then when we moved ward the midwife on that ward didn't swaddle.
Why can't people just present options and realise it's not their baby so a. they shouldn't be making the decisions and b. they shouldn't be implementing them!? Grrrrrrr.I gave up listening to the professionals, in fact I checked us out of hospital 10 day (we'd been readmitted) after the wee one was born as they were trying to force me to use formula instead of EBM and actually the best bit of advice we got when we were struggling with Ruairidh's weight was from HCG on here.: Cheers Rowan! That's the first of me seeing that. Over-inflated ego time in my house just now then. Growth spurts, eh? No-one's mentioned that yet.
How's it going SD? Baby mentioned a growth spurt and let you know about it yet?
Don't worry though, some newborns only 'poo' once every two or three days. Kirtsy was like that for the first week or so then she became more regular, so it's normal. You'd only need to be concerned if Thomas was showing obvious signs of discomfort (ie constipation).I think formula fed babies poo more regularly than breastfed ones, but once a day is still normal at that age.
StewartyMac, baby expert in three weeks
As a rule if a baby wasn't pooing much even in the first week I'd be wanting to know more. Tiny babies may well not show discomfort if the reason for not pooing isn't down to a blockage or similar. It *may* turn out to be absolutely fine but I'd be looking very carefully at what was happening. Talking through things certainly wouldn't be harmful and there's the potential that no output = need more input, ie baby might need feeding more frequently/effectively.
Breastfed babies often poo more frequently than formula fed babies - certainly a mum's early milk contains a laxative effect so although some babies only produce a few in a day other parents find that their breastfed baby might poo at every feed time. Happy days
.Having said all that, we've just spent £5k on a 5 door Fiesta this morning (less a generous trade in on the Toyota) having taken it for a test drive and checked the fit of the car seat. 06 plate so newer than I ideally wanted but it's a good deal, a good car and ticks the boxes.Would a new car seat not have been cheaper?
I've started doing antenatal courses now (was only doing individual classes until recently) and my first two sets of parents had their babies last week. That's about as close as I come to having any baby news.
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I've hurt my little finger playing Guitar Hero! On the plus side, I've just completed it on Medium level. It's incredibly hard!
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Had a we read of baby whisperer and my god its alot to take in. Is a good read but wow its in good detailHaynes do a baby manual, which is much better, and uses 'bloke speak'.
The trouble with these books is that the babies haven't read them!
Will someone please think of the children!! I can just imagine the scene when sprog asks daddy for help with their Primary 1 english homework.
I made an arse of myself recently with my son's year 2 homework (also primary school - he's 6 years old).
Beautiful Picture.Aye, he's gorgeous! Congratulations SD. A little belated but this is the first of me seeing this thread for a while.
You're all making me cry!Me too, but you have an excuse!
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righto, my rant for the day.
Ranty rant rant.
Bit more rant.You can pick yer mates...
Having had more than the odd family-related rant on here, I sympathise. The conscience is a real pain in the arse sometimes isn't it!?
Edit: Don't go signing any more leases or anything else! Let the buggers fend for themselves.
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Get in touch with The National Childbirth Trust http://www.nct.org.uk/home. They have parenthood classes. Yes, it's middle-class and twee but there is some good info to be gleaned from the courses and, better than that, you meet other folk in the same situation and you realise you're not alone.banging, cheers for that. my mrs has mentioned classes before and there on a tuesday night, thats football training night!!
I didn't do their classes when pregnant myself but have been to the odd one or two since. I believe the NCT's Specialist Workers running those classes are pretty well informed and provide great classes. Especially the ones near to where I live.
And I have one piece of advice for expectant mums.Take the epidural
A very personal decision. I had one with my first and swore never again. Chose home births after that rather than hospital too so that the epidural wasn't even an option.
Oh and see all these people who say......oohh it's your first you'll go late......they lie. Of PB'ers along and IIRC correctly, Ayrgirl, HCG and I have all gone early with our firsts!I was early with all three of mine.
Thought I'd post this in here... Pregnancy and Birth magazine this month includes a free copy of a Baby Whisperer book, if you're interested? Could be worth a read...Ooooooh - I've never read that but could be worth getting for the branch library for the cost it'll be.
I did half expect to turn up and the consultant try to find something and be laughed at because there was nothing there.I was a little paranoid about that before my 12 week scan with my first too!
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If I want a curry, I would have to make it from complete scratch. Its on my list for when I get home (providing I manage it alive)......a nice curry, a bottle of Irn Bru, a munchy box, a proper fucking kebab and a cup of Scottish Blend tea! Basically, I am going to put on about 3 more stone in my first week back.
Why don't you make a curry from scratch then? It really isn't that difficult. I think recipes for it were posted in a thread somewhere here a while back?
What's a munchy box?
No fucking munchy box?Again...?
F'kin wean still hasnae popped oot the wife.It must be a girl, the only excuse for such tardiness.
When was the due date? I assume you've passed it already?
What is a nag though, is that I bought a big bag of crisps earlier on, just picked some at random, after all, crisps are crisps. They were so foul I ran the ingredients through google translate. Mussel flavoured crisps? Fucking mussel flavoured? What is wrong with these people? :lol: 0 -
Well, has anyone started anything so far this year??
I'm chitting my early potatoes already.
I'm off to buy my earlies later this week, so I'll be chitting them by the weekend with any luck.
Haven't really planned what I'll be planting this year, but the kids enjoyed growing the carrots last year so they'll be on the cards again. I forgot all about the swedes and sprouts being out there. Wonder how they're doing?! Most of their leaves got attacked by slugs last year so I'm not convinced there's going to be anything at all happened under the soil but I'll have to go out there at some point and empty the trugs anyway.I need to be more vigilant against the slugs and snails this year. There was one great big fat slug out there last year - so full with my plants that it could barely move. Just you wait Mr Slug!...
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So I wasn't the only one up at 5am then
And 6am
Then back up with wee one at 9am and now can't sleep
Should've joined us on our wide awake threads.
Oh yeah, me too. When Mark died (and in the run up to it when his speech was slurred and things), I cried for ages then decided I couldn't watch it anymore.That was the point at which I gave it up too. Enough was enough. Too sad.
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c***s continuing to use the phrase "credit crunch", or indeed the new abbreviated "the crunch".
Right there! That! I can't bear it! "Credit crunch" my arse. Bloody stupid bloody phrase, that is! Whoever invented it wants shooting.
Blooming ER - always makes me
Stopped watching it years ago for that very reason.
New Zealand is looking more attractive by the day...Went to my friend's this afternoon to say goodbye as she's away after the weekend - moving out there for good. No doubt I'll speak to her more on MSN this way than I have done in person the last year anyway.
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Hope you had a good day yesterday.
Almost makes me want to do it all again. Almost! 
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Petty Things That Get On Your Nerves...
in The General Nonsense Forum
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They keep a fridge in your old room? He should be under the floorboards on a mission!