Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh: ILX Rolling Parenting Thread

Good luck with the scan!!!! Let us know how it was.

As for me, I've been in hospital since Monday night :(
Back home now and fine - just a bit of a scare with bleeding and slight contractions but swiftly sorted and established as NOT early labour. They still kept me in as a precaution though, which was a very boring experience.

Although it did mean I got to watch telly for a change, including Britain's Youngest Mums and Dads, which was scary, sweet and entertaining by turns. Most of the teenage parents seem to be doing incredibly well, which was quite humbling really. I'm at least 10 years older than the oldest of them but I'm still terrified of fucking up this parenting thing :/

Scan went well - all those Taste the Difference brownies are obviously paying off cos #2 is now up to 1989g (how can they be so accurate? I think she was reading it off a chart), no kidney probs, placental fluid good, sys/dia blood flow ratio good. Doesn't have to go back until 2/11! 80% sure it's a girl!

That movie above was from July - she can't fit in that flowery blouse any more. If you click on my username on YouTube you can see a few more Ava movies - most of 'em are quite old. None of them are very interesting outside of the Berry-Jones house. None of them have the nice saturated colours that the clip above has (I think it was a Sony).

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Back home now and fine - just a bit of a scare with bleeding and slight contractions but swiftly sorted and established as NOT early labour. They still kept me in as a precaution though, which was a very boring experience.

Ah, I had this as well. First just slight spotting but then I had a full on bleeding scare. I still remember waiting for my dad to pick us up to go to the hospital and I was just crying and crying... and crying thinking it was all going so horribly wrong. Apparently I had a tendency to *tear* the inside passage skin (?!?) quite easily.

Yay for Michael's good news!

Hopefully it will make her do this more often!
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Ophelia now has three CDs. I especially like the Raymond Scott CD!

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(It's actually the first volume, but isn't that cover GRR34T!)

I hope they caught it early. The survival rates have increased massively over the last 20-30 years. I guess it's ALL, at that age; most kids with ALL are cured thesedays. (Comfort in statistics).

^_^

Ophelia doing a Jane Fonda!

I would quite like to get this baby out of me now please. Even though I don't look that huge it feels like I'm carrying an elephant (I must have some sort of super-dense baby?), and I can't find a single comfortable position to sit/lie in.

How old is Louis now, Teeny?

I didn't think I was getting much bigger but last week I tried to put on a zip up hoodie Id worn the week before and I couldn't even get the bottom of the zipper to join. It was about an inch and a half off!

I can't do up any of my coats any more, even baggy ones, and have broken the zip on one of them trying :(

"That's because you bought an emop3 player by accident!" piped up Charlie. Oh, how we laughed.

5yo boy: You're not gonna pinch me. 'Cause we're buddies, right?
2yo girl: I turn into a monster. (pinches him)

For about a week Ophelia has been known to wave and say "baba." Yep, her first words are BYE BYE! I think it's cause our salesperson talks English to us. (She talks Japanese to Ophelia though. I asked her cause, heck, why not?) So yes, she waves and says baba. Not only when we do it, also when she feels like it. And the other day she was grabbing for the sushi magnets and Thom said:"That is sushi." What did she do? Repeat it! But of course not in the correct way, more busi or something. I had the feeling she was beginning to repeat sounds but I was wary cause as a parent you're prone to *see* things even when it's clear to the whole population your baby isn't doing it. ;-)

She knows for quite some time who papa and mama are. It's dead cute to say:"Where's papa?" and she looks around for Thom.

I HEART MY BABY SO MUCH. :-)

teeny, I have no idea how much weight I've gained. My midwife doesn't believe in weighing me and that's fine by me!

People are being nice and saying it's all in the bump/boobs, but I have definitely got a bit more padding round the hips and bum. I don't care, though - I'm pregnant and it's allowed!

we just found out last week that our application to adopt a baby from Ethiopia has been approved. within six months, we will PROBABLY be new parents...just without the whole childbirth/pregnancy thing.

keep it on this thread though, okay? I don't want to get into a whole thing except with you guys/gals.

but let's get back to actual tangible kids. e just turned 11, she's going trick or treating as marcia brady tonight. sammy's tapdancing classes are really paying off -- he's dressing up as gene kelly!

matt, are you going to adopt an infant or an older child?