Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh: ILX Rolling Parenting Thread

Whatever. CONGRATULATIONS, NickB and Mrs NickB!

I also love hearing all the ILX kiddies talking. It's the sweetest thing!

Ophelia's eating habits are more difficult, I think, due to the heat. She doesn't eat much, prefers to stick her thumb in her mouth instead of a nipple, and then suddenly screams for food an hour and a half later. She drank for half an hour, which made me insanely happy. She's a pretty skinny baby. Funny how you want the exact opposite with a baby (compared with older kids/adults): you want'em chubby. She also dislikes some solid foods: she makes these *choaky* sounds when eating some things. :-( Ah well, I'm not worrying too much.

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She loves to play with that parasol.

My real question--the boy (almost 8 mos now!) is not a fantastic little traveler and we're about to take a 5 or 6 hour trip. We did it once when he could be counted on to sleep a couple of hours in the car but I don't have high hopes for this time. The initial plan was to take off in the morning, before his morning nap, and at least get that hour asleep in the car. Someone suggested we take off in the evening and let him sleep part of overnight in the car and we're considering that now. Pros: kid probably sleeps whole way. Cons: we are a bit tired during the drive and when we arrive, and when kid wakes up for transfer to bed, he'll think nighttime sleep is over and be ready to play. Pros: we're going to my folks and they'd probably be delighted to get up at midnight and play with the kid for an hour until he realizes he's still tired.

my god, what a tiny little decision I have just elaborated, feel free to ignore all this, my life is all these tiny little decisions.

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In regard to travelling? We did it once, never again... until next year. Ophelia was screaming and crying the whole day when we went to my PIL. :-(

Come on, people, I wanna see pictures of your kids!

Ophelia has six teeth now. Luckily she doesn't bite my nipples so breastfeeding is a joy. I only do it twice a day now. What a change! I used to do +8 feedings a day. She eats quite well and is growing a little slower than before.

She loves her walker and sleeps 12 hours at night. During the day she takes one or two naps. The rest is PLAYTIME with mummy and daddy. She doesn't sit yet but does sort of lifts herself on hands and knees. She doesn't really crawl forwards, only backwards. But damn it's cute seeing her run around in the walker.

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Ava now recognises rabbits (makes ears above her head, says "hop hop") and cats ("meow"). Showing some signs of recognising letters too (points at signs and says "mmmm" or "ohhh" for "M" and "O"). Also asks to be lifted up onto the couch ("up"). She gave me a kiss the other day! A smacker, right on the chin. Will not stop singing "E-I-E-I-O" from Old MacDonald or "Bob Bob Bobby Bob" (her version of the Bobinogs theme).

He's still waking up a lot at night and I can't figure out why, he knows how to put himself back to sleep but he still wakes up and is pissed off to be awake, cries for a couple of minutes, and then goes back to sleep. I'm a light sleeper so this always wakes me up too. It's not really a problem, both of us are getting enough sleep and he is such a happy guy during the day, but it's just odd.

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Please excuse the untidiness.

Hah, already said but who cares. *pushes submit button*

:-)

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Somehow my son's speech class this year consists of only 3 students: him, his arch-nemesis/bully, and the girl he is in love with. What are the odds?

lou just has buckets of snot coming out, a bit of a cough, and is cranky. totally survivable. last night was a bit rough and tonight probably will be too, oh well.

Ava is well into the shy-until-she-warms-up stage. Her reaction to seeing "Auntie" Gail at lunchtime today was hilarious - dug her head into her chest and pretended to play with the straps in her buggy, occasionally glancing up through her eyebrows at Gail. She couldn't have been cuter if she'd fallen into a skip full of kittens.

I'm 24 weeks pregnant! How did that happen? Currently not sleeping very well and have a mild case of SPD, but the good news is we've finally chosen a pushchair (probably). Oh and while I'm here can anyone point me to our several baby name threads as I am still struggling on that front? Thanks!

Uuuuh, SEX! ;-)

But seriously, the time is going alarmingly quickly! I'm supposed to have my hospital bag packed already, 'just in case'. Arrgh.

I don't know about packing your hospital bag "just in case" at this point in time Archel - although my second daughter was born at only 34 weeks (and I wasn't organised enough to have packed anything apart from a walkman and some CDs).

All these adorable babies on this thread! It seems a lifetime ago that my two girls (now 8 and 10) were that tiny.

I'm not on my own computer at the moment, so I have very few pictures at my disposal. All I can currently lay my hands on are these :

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In which Rhian demonstrates how cold and grey the sea is in Wales

and

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In which Sarah is attacked by a giant tiger

Will you be staying in a one person room or not? I did. It wasn't that costly. Everything incl. 1000 euros, which seemed a good deal, as I wanted privacy and only my baby crying in the middle of the night. ;-) If you don't - so staying with one other mother in a room - then it costs 300 euros.

CJ, your daughters ars so beautiful!

Maria, I hope Cyrus heals up pretty quickly. :-)

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She loves her thumb.

I'm not sure how it works in NHS hospitals but I have a feeling they don't accept cash for rooms here... I never wanted to give birth in hospital in the first place so I'm hoping - well fantasising - that I go into labour early in the morning, have no problems at all and get home the same night. Somehow I doubt this will happen!