Bumpkins & Babies Chat Thread

[Bingers]

Happy Birthday Dexter x

 

[florabean1981]

Happy belated birthday to all the pre-october born Bumpkins!

Happy birthday to Dexter & George & all the other bumpkins who came this time last year.

Kte, I just had a look back over that thread from last year- makes me look like some kinda crazy stalker freak, LOL! But it was kinda addictive seeing what everyone had & what names they chose, how big or small they were, what their births were like etc. I feel all nostalgic now!

I made a thread in the baby club section saying happy birthday to everyone. I thought it'd be kinda cool to share then & now pictures & wish everyone happy birthdays & stuff, for old time's sake, coz a lot of people go in the baby club who dont go in this thread & it might me nice to see some old faces again? here's the link- https://www.babyandbump.com/baby-cl...well-happy-1st-birthday-yall.html#post7118499

 

[Kaites]

I got all nostalgic last night too- I was driving home from some birthday shopping for Emma and passed a couple who were out for a walk. The woman looked about 9 months pregnant and it got me thinking about how this time last year I was dragging hubby out for a walk every night, in the hopes that it would get labour started. I'm so glad I'm not feeling like a whale with acid reflux this year!

I ended up getting some stuff for Emma's birthday at Toys R Us- gotta love when they have good sales right before a birthday, although I actually probably bought more than I would have if the stuff had been full price I got Emma 2 Fisher Price Little People playsets (happy home and farm ones), a Finding Nemo ball pit for our basement and some crayons for the bath tub. I can't wait til Wednesday so I can play with the stuff too I should save something for the "big" family get together next Sunday (haha, big is relative since hubby and I both have tiny families) but I'll probably cave and open everything on her birthday.

Emma just woke from a nap- better run!

 

[Kaites]

Almost forgot!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEORGE!!!

Hope you are having a great day!!

 

[Kte]

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[sam76]

Thanks, for the birthday messages, cant believe George is 1!!! we have had a great day and the party was fab, been a long day for him, and me too!!! Feeling sad too, had a little cry before too xxxx dont know why, cause im over the moon!!!!

 

[Kte]

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[Kte]

Morning all, where has the morning gone?! I really need to get dressed and tidy up and get Chloe dressed Just the usual Sunday of cleaning and inlaws. Chloe has scribbled them a picture, that was fun, she has a rainbow mouth too from knawing on the crayons!

Hope everyone is having a nice weekend and its not as wet as it is here!

 

[xTaylorsMummy]

has anyone watched the film "Babies"?

 

[Mummy~L]

Happy Birthday to any bumpkins babies I have missed yesterday and today xxx

 

[xTaylorsMummy]

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[Kaites]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROMILLY, THOM AND JACOB!!

Eala, Neon and Craftymum too- hope you're enjoying your babies birthdays!

Kte- Chloe sounds cute making pictures for her grandparents We've done fingerpainting a couple of times now and Emma really enjoys it. I've tried her with crayons but she all she wants to do is eat them. For Emma's first painting, I bought a cheap canvas at the dollar store and we've hung it on the wall. Hubby and my grandparents are all really artistic so maybe Emma will have a bit more talent than I do! Hope you are enjoying your weekend

Taylorsmummy- gorgeous cake!! Hope you had fun celebrating I haven't seen the movie Babies.

Right, I best be getting ready to head off to the lake- it's freezing cold here so I can only imagine how cold it's going to be with the wind coming across the lake. I hope Emma's fleece pram suit still fits, because I think she's going to need it today! Our furnace actually turned on this morning- I can't remember the last time we needed the heat in October At least the rain has stopped though.

Hope everyone is having a good day!

 

[Kte]

How odd, i postedtwo posts today and they have gone?!

EDIT: Nope it was just the lap top being silly

 

[Kte]

Great cake TaylorsMummy! I havent seen the film either.

I want to make Chloe a cake. I cant wait for her actual birthday, away from all the fuss of everyone else!

Hope its not too cold Kaites :flower

 

[Neferet]

Happy birthday George, Romilly, Thom, Jacob and anyone else I've missed so far!

Taylorsmummy- Dexter's cake is awesome! Did it taste good? I haven't seen Babies... I'm guessing it's about babies lol!

I've been buying loads of birthday and xmas prezzies for Ike recently. I'm completely skint lol! So many different cakes I wanna bake for Ike's birthday. I really need to start planning his party lol!

OMG I was doing painting with Isaac a few days ago and ever since he's been picking up pens and pencils and stuff and drawing on everything he can find lol It's driving me mad!

 

[aimee-lou]

Good evening everyone!

Happy birthday to everyone too! It's so odd to be wishing all the bumpkins happy birthday (and how many of us have clicked on the 2010 bumpkins thread by accident!? lol)

I hope we're all good. Earl got his first shoes yesterday - Size 4G! He's apparently got massive feet and the woman in the shop thought he was 18 months. When I told her he was 11 months and a bit, she was flabberghasted. He's got proper walkers and is doing so well...I've been trying to get some film of im (or rather hubby has lol) but he has athing for cameras, phones, remotes etc and will just whinge until he either can't see it or gets to play with it.

Neferet - Earl used a pen properly the other day and ever since has been obsessed with them. We're going to get him some crayons etc for christmas/birthday and maybe an aquadraw and see what he makes of them. I always thought it was when they got to about 2 that these things became interesting!

Hope we're all well...I'll catch up properly tomorrow. I have hubby trying to get ready for uni tomorrow, and a dinner to cook now lol.

:wave: bye for now xx

 

[Neon]

Happy Birthdays
Dexter
George
Romilly!!!

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Thank you SO much for the well wishes for Thom's birthday - he turned 1 at 14:16 this afternoon. Had a party in our local community hall yesterday. It's been good fun!

Hope everyone is getting excited for Bumpkin Birthdays!!!! And you are all well. This is also my year milestone with T practically still fully BF on demand!! He's eating more each day though so I'm really pleased. He started nursery 2 weeks ago but couldn't go in last week - I think he is cutting a tooth and had a chest infection along with loose nappies . Will try and pop in each day this month for more exciting birthday celebrations!!! I can't believe it's been a year!!!!!

 

[Chaos]

Its great to see so many Bumpkins coming back out

 

[colsy]

I'm back!

So, first of all, happy birthday to all the little Bumpkins that have just passed their first year.

Now some catching-up Qs for some of my fave Bumpkins, cos I can't trawl through so many pages of text to see what I've missed!

Chaos, I don't think I've seen any posts from you since Autumn's bday, so I hope you had a lovely day and that you managed to forget about the sad times for a while at least.

Aimee-Lou, birthday buddy and everything-else buddy, I hope you had a lovely birthday. It's great to hear you've got some work now, even if it isn't exactly what you were hoping for. Fingers crossed the real thing comes along soon for you. How's OH's teaching going so far?

Maffie, I don't think I've read anything from you in ages, so I hope everything is going fine with Noah and his baby-brother-to-be.

Florabean, I know you're having some tough times. I don't know what's up, but whatever it is I hope you're getting through the hard bits and managing to find some smiles in there somewhere. I hope OH and Harry and keeping you happy.

Kte, how's you and Nij? I hope you are still happy families. Are you still working almost full-time? Must be hard for you.

Kaites, really pleased to see the daycare is working well for you so far. You're SO brave ... both in terms of your own sanity and your house! Is it a bit weird having other babies there as well as your own, or have you always been very much a baby person?

Megan's Mum, I don't think I've seen any posts at all from you, so I hope everything is OK for you. I know you've had some hard times, so it'd be good to know you're all right. BTW I emailed Pam re Sleep Sense, and I mentioned you, and she knew straight away who you were I didn't use her in the end because we wanted a clinic based in the UK, but she definitely sounded a lovely lady in her emails.

Have I forgotten anybody. I sincerely hope not, but if I have please shout at me and remind me.

So ... to those of you who've asked about sleep ... well, we chose the Mill Pond sleep clinic in the end, as they're based in London so easy to get hold of, and also because the lady who runs the clinic also runs some NHS clinics, which suggests to us that she must have some credibility. What can I say, except that this is quite possibly the best 225 quid OH and I have ever spent. I don't exaggerate when I write the next sentence. From the day we had our first telephone appointment with the clinic, Monty has slept through the night That was now more than a month ago! (I may be tempting fate when I write this paragraph, because he isn't very well today, so I have a feeling he may wake tonight. But hey ho, once in a month ain't bad is it?!)

Um, what did they do? Well, basically we completed a sleep diary for a week, along with a very detailed questionnaire about our lifestyle and parenting etc. and then we had our first phone consultation. The main point from that was to give him a breastfeed before his bath, to make his bath quite warm and deep but much quicker than usual, and then to read him some books - almost all done in the dark. Then into cot and then walk away, without looking back ...

We were then meant to use CC while he dropped off to sleep. But we didn't need to, cos he fell asleep straight away!

We were also meant to use CC if he woke in the night. But we didn't need to, because we left him for a few minutes if he grizzled, and then he just went back to sleep on his own!

The hardest bit has been sorting out the early waking. He is still waking around 6am, sometimes earlier, and basically we are meant to leave him in bed until 6.30am if we can, even if he cries. Sometimes he simply grizzles really quietly, which is fine, but if he really yells we go and get him up. The idea is that by leaving him until 6.30am, eventually his body clock will get the idea of not waking until then.

What can I say? I can't quite believe I feel like I do. I feel awake, I feel happy, I feel able to do things, I feel entirely at ease with my parenting abilities, I am happy in my relationship again, I feel ... normal. I knew previously that I was feeling knackered, but it wasn't until Monty started sleeping through that I realised quite how unwell I'd been feeling. I look back on some of those times when I'd had no sleep in days, and TBH it was scary to think how on earth I even managed to get through an hour, let alone weeks on end! And because OH and I are sharing parenting and work, he has always done his half share of the nights, and so he is feeling similar to me.

I tell you, I never ever thought I could feel like this again. And I do The only negative thing is that I'd kind of been thinking about when would be a good time to start TTC again, but now I've got my sleep back I'm really concerned about the idea of losing it all again! So it could be a few months at least yet. We would definitely like our babies close-ish, and I'm the wrong side of 35, so we ain't got forever, but I don't want to rush into things and end up missing out on Monty's development.

Er, is the longest post ever written on BnB? Can you tell I'm feeling just a little light-headed with all this sleep? I think I better go and put some blankets on Monty (no good doing that till he is fast asleep, cos he moves about so much while he's dropping off) and then go and find OH to do yesterday's crossword.

I think I've probably missed out loads of stuff that I should have told you, but I don't want to bore you all, so I'm off until Monday morning.

Toodlepip xxx

 

[Neon]

Um, what did they do? Well, basically we completed a sleep diary for a week, along with a very detailed questionnaire about our lifestyle and parenting etc. and then we had our first phone consultation. The main point from that was to give him a breastfeed before his bath, to make his bath quite warm and deep but much quicker than usual, and then to read him some books - almost all done in the dark. Then into cot and then walk away, without looking back ...

Sounds really good - T goes for his bath at 18:45. Then I have no time to read stories. He just wants boob then sleep .

The idea is that by leaving him until 6.30am, eventually his body clock will get the idea of not waking until then.

Have you got one of those gro-clocks - could be really handy