Discovery Home & Health

Hi ladies, yes its mad to think our little ones are 6 months or nearly there!

Karen, you're right Ben has grasped drinking from his cup, he seems to like the tommee tippee first cup which is great as they are only about £1.50 each.

Lynnn, ahhh love the new pic of Abbie, she's a cutie!

Hope everyone's well, I've not been around much as we've been finalising the sale of my dad's house, so I've been quite sad and just lying low. It should have been his 60th in a few weeks, just got over xmas and now another hurdle. It doesn't get any easier with time.

Hi

PJgirl and Lynn - having had 4 "normal" deliveries and then the c/section with Katie, i have to say that there is no way you should feel cheated or that you didn't achieve it because i can honestly say that the c/section was much harder than the other deliveries and it probably wasn't down to your body in the end anyway - i know Katie got stuck - mine should have been the easiest birth going! i was 7cm half an hour after my first contraction but she had her head tilted the wrong way so she'd never have got out however hard i worked!!! If i were both of you i'd discuss with your consultants when you are next pg but i'd certainly try for a normal delivery but if they recommend a c/section don't beat yourself up about it - the delivery isn't the end of the world. you have done a fantastic job carrying him/her for 9 months and you are going to be fantastic mummies once born - how they get into the world is incidental!!! Oooh that was a bit longer than i meant - but you know what i mean!!!!

Kate - i do have a tommee tippee cup but she shakes it and it goes everywhere!!!! When they are a bit older and they can suck better i find the best cups are the anyway up cups as they really do not spill!!!!

Kate - i meant to say - it will get easier hun - but it will take some time! My mum and dad died 22 and 20 years ago this year - but it still only seems like yesterday sometimes.

Kate - I'm so sorry to hear things are so difficult for you. I hope it does eventually get easier and you can start to remember your dad without so much pain. sending you big hugs from me and abbie

Karen - I know that at the end of the day it really doesnt matter how they come into the world and i shouldnt wish i'd had all that pain! i must be crazy! as the c/section was planned i just feel like i didnt even try!! stupid really as i wouldnt change abbie for the world its just my own feelings creeping through!! and i would never risk the safe arrival of number 2 by pushing for a vaginal birth if it wasnt tthe safest way! i'll get over it!!

i'll have to start using the cup i've got see how she takes to it. its an avent magic cup but she doesnt really drink much at all at the mo, i suppose it will increase when her milk decreases and she is having more food

anyway should go get some work done really!! i'm so jealous of all you girls who arent working at the mo!!

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Hi Girls thought i would check in while i have alittle time, sounds like all a lovley little ones are thriving .
leland trying to sit unaided but not quite there yet however he is getting abount in is walker now and prefers to be stood.
unfortunatley we have had a bit of a bad runn latley, he was poorly over christmas and we found out he had a bad ear infection, i just got rid of that and week off antibiotics he came down with achest infection so more antibiotics i have just got him clear and one of the kids fetched atummy bug home so we have all had that too nightmare AHHHH!
other than that he is doing pretty well and very smiley as always.
Have been a bit fed up myself latley My dh recently had a vasectomy done which i thought was the right thing at the time but now i am really down by the whole thing and find myself wanting another because i cannot have one and the decision is nolonger our to make, i am a bit depressed about the whole thing to be honest.

lelands as a good feeding routine going now and as pretty much started to go off his milk.

06.30- 8oz milk
09.00- breakfast and 50z
12.30- dinner + small yogurt.30z juice
2pm- 5 0z milk
17.30- dinner 1/2 pud+ 3oz juice
20.30- 6oz milk

BED TIME ZZZZZZZ

anyhoos i best shoot of again got the bedding to do a womens work is never done.
takecare all
love sharon & Leland

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Hi Sharon - Leland is 6 months today isn't he? It has gone so fast don't you think! Katie is also going off her milk. She tends to have just the two bottles of milk a day:-

8am ish - porridge/weetabix - no milk!
12-1 ish - lunch and a pud - water/juice
3ish - 8oz milk
5ish - tea and a pud - water/juice
7-30 8oz milk and then bed!

I know precisely how you are feeling - my DH also had a vasectomy back in November! Even though we already have 6 kids i do get a funny feeling when i think about the fact i won't have another! In reality of course it was for the best (too bloomin expensive!!) BUT ....!!!!!!

Lynn - how are you getting on with the cup?

Kate - how are you doing hun - did everything go smoothly with your Dad's house??

Well Katie and her big bro both still have horrible colds and he has now got a sicky bug too!!!! One of his bigger sisters seems to have it too! So sounds like our house is mirroring Sharon's!!! Thats the trouble with so many kids - they pick things up from all sorts of places!!!

Karen
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Hi all
Karen- your not far wrong about the so many kids, everything just works its way through the entire family, unfortunatley since my last message Leland as become worse and ended up down in hospital as is 24 hr bug as turned into gasterenteritis (soz cant spell it) he has stopped the sickness but continues with very bad diorrea hes has lost 13oz of weight in 5 days, they tell me because he alread had a chest infection that he is very dipleted and the bug as attacked is stomache causing the gastro thingy ( i wont try spell it again) hafter giving him fluids he is now home again and i am told it could tak ea few weeks for thr Diorrea to stop as his stomach needs to work its sell right. One of the worsat things is the burping each time he curps he stinks the room out of rotten eggs it awful turns your stomache so as to be expected his feeding at the mo as it alow so we are just concentrating on giving him fluids. The weirdest thing is he is still very smiley despite been ill bless him but its costing me a small fortune in nappies had to by a bulk box.
Anyhow hope every one else is well sorry to here your house is now like mine karen.

I started weight eatchers on tues to try and loose a little baby fat before my hols in may and all this illness is getting me stressed and all i want to do is eat but so far i am baRING see what the weekend holds for me.

Take care

love sharon & poopy bum!
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Oooh Sharon - bless poor Leland! It's horrible isnt it - i remember Dan getting it like that - yuk yuk!!!!! I hope he starts to pick up soon. I too am in theory doing weight watchers but am not doing too god so far!!!! I need to lose LOADS of weight - we are off to the Seychelles in March and i don't want to look like a whole herd of beached whales in my cossie BUT i think at this rate i probably will!!!!! My willpower is just non-existant!!!! Oh well! Wouldn't be so bad but i've bought a load of stuff a size small in the vain hope it spurs me on! I say this whilst eating a bar of Thorntons Cho covered Marzipan!!!

Love to all
Karen
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Hi ladies,

SNAP! I'm doing weight watchers too, I'm doing it online as I too want to loose the weight I gained ttc and while pg and I'm going on holiday to Crete in June. I've been doing it nearly 3 weeks and so far I've lost 6lbs. I lost 4 the first week, nothing last week and am on track to loose 2lb this week as I naughtily weighed myself today, 2 days early. My hubby is doing it too which really helps. /what annoys me is how drinks are included , we're celebrating DH's new job tonight with some champagne and its 2 points a glass - outrageous!!!

Sharon, really sorry about Leland, I hope he gets better very soon. I know what its like Ben had it in November, he was projectile vomiting and had very bad diarrhoea and was leaking through all his nappies. I'd have bought newborn one's if they were big enough lol!!! Anyway it took him 2 weeks to get over it and he was still smiles throughout which made it all so much better cos it meant he wasn't suffering too much.

Hope everyone is ok, we're having a quiet weekend just hanging around and going for walks.

Hi Kate - congrats on DH's new job - he's worth the champers - even at 2 points per glass!!!! Enjoy it and then get back on the diet tomorrow!!!! Well done on the 6lbs (hopefully!) too!!! As i said to Sharon i am struggling! ave been to sainsbury's this morning and have bought no naughty things - the problem is still the amount of choc/biccies/cake and nibbles etc STILL left from Xmas - just proves we buy too much - you could feed a starving nation with our excess rubbish we bought for Xmas alone!!!!

Glad all went ok with your Dad's house by the way - it's a bit of a wrench i know - makes it so final. I often go past our old house and i get a bit of a pang - makes it worse because my Dad actually built it too - one day i think i'd love to buy it back - when i'm rich and famous hey!!!!

Hi

I'm doing weight watchers too!!!! I'm in my 4th week now and have so far lost 6.5lbs!! I'm not doing very well this week, I just feel like eating and eating (think its the time of the month!!) I'm being a bridesmaid for my sister in August and I dont want to be the fat one in the photos! so neeeeeed to stick to it! I'm not going to the meetings but did it a few years back so have all the books etc, think thats making it even harder to stick too though cos its only me who see's how much i've lost/put on theres not so much incentive! We will have to support each other!

Sharon - poor Leland (and you of course!) hope he is back to his old self very soon and can finally fight off the nasty bugs, bless him.

I am giving Abbie some water in her cup every afternoon and when she is thirsty she will really drink it well, if she's not she just chews on the teat bit for a while then drops it!!
Has anyone seen any teeth yet? I havent at all, Abbie is always drooling and chewing EVERYTHING but still no sign yet, everyone keeps telling me that she should have them by now!!

Enjoy your weekends!
Lynn & Abbie xx

Hi all sharon hope that leland feels better soon.
well done to all of you that are doing weight watchers, i need to but cant even think about joining love my food to much lol.
Maizee doesnt have any teeth yet even though she too chews anything and everything she can get her hands on.
She no has another stinking cold so ot comes the snot sucker again lol.
she loves her walker that she had for christmas from her nanny she wizzes uo the kitchen and passage and she looks rather proud of her self.
A break throught she now eats savoury food well for the last 2 days any way. I now give her the seven month jars and they seem more of a hit than the 4 month jars. She also loves fromage frais too. But she too doesnt like juice or water very much and thinks that her cup is another toy.
Take care all
love louise and maizee xxx

Hi all thankyou for your well wishes for Leland he is much more spritley now and eating & nappies are returning to norm (thank god).
Glad to here i am not the only one attempting weight watchers though i am finding hard but do crave choc karen all the time though have managed to resist quite well so far,. Its my first weigh in tomorrow so fingers crossed would very much like to get back to my pre pregnancy weight if 8st 13lb so lets see i have a whole stone to loose but desperatley want to fit back into some of my favourite clothes in the wardrobe and we are going on holiday to spain in may so would like to go shopping!!! as a big treat to my self lol have also put dh on it to because each time i have been pregnant he has broke out in sympathy and eaten for me.
No teeth for Leland yet though i can see his first bottom one just under the surface so i am hoping he wont be long now.
Any hoos i am for a nice shower now then to watch tv in bed as all my little sprogleysare in bed now yeah (free time!!!)
so catch up soon ladies, ooh i could just kill for a glass of champers and strawberry choclate cream but never mind.

love sharon & Leland
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Hi everyone,
Not been around for a while.

We had Charlie christened at the weekend and he was really poorly. Sick all over his outfit so have no photo's. Had to change him several times. Lewis and dh got it now. I had it last week and about 15 other people who were at christening are all ill too. How bad do I feel especially cos my best friend caught the bug and it started her off in labour (she was due nxt wk). She gave birth to a baby girl this aft in record time. MW was just about to examine her and baby popped out - how lucky is that! I am so happy for her as she has been trying for ages and had a few mc. I feel really tearful though for some strange reason! Hormones!

Well I think it is final - no more babies for me. We had a long discussion about it and dh really does not want anymore. I am quite upset about it but we have to both want one. Think I am thinking with my hormones anyway! Just can't get used to the fact that I will never be pregnant again! I would also really love a girl but I know that is not a good enough reason to try for another. So Sharon I know how u must feel.

Kate - thinking of you at this difficult time. I am sure your dad is looking down on you with pride.

As for weight watchers, I really need to go but can't seem to find the time or the motivation. Must do something soon.

Charlie has slept through the night finally for the last four nights. I hope this is not just a phase! He doesn't take water very well either and is hit and miss with his solids. Must get him weighed soon.

Chele