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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.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:50 (nineteen years ago)

I know you didn't really mean me, Nathalie, but I don't need much encouragement (shame about my great, looming mug):

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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).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I hope Ophelia turns out as pretty as Ava!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

Whaddyamean, she already is!

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

wow, only nursing twice a day! Louis is having three good meals of solids a day but still nurses once or twice in between, and a few times overnight. He can handle cheerios really well, it's fun to see him pick them up and gum them. He can now point (not really at anything y'know, he can just make a pointer finger now) and for some reason I find this hilarious, we sit around and point at each other. He is also cruising with two hands on the couch and lately he seems to be trying to stand unsupported.

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.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

oh oops I forgot to include a picture, we went swimming:
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― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, sweet. Not very goth, though. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost I guess I shouldn't worry about feeding (as I always tend to do or rather tended to do...). I breastfeed mornings and evenings. Then fruit at lunch and veggies at around 4. :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Beautiful, beautiful children.

― luna (luna.c), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Edith in a bad mood:

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Please excuse the untidiness.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

You lot do realise one day your kids are going to google themselves and find their baby pictures all over the internets? Or, worse, their CLASSMATES are going to do it and subject them to years of roffling at them?

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Children don't roffle at themselves in old pictures, they roffle at their parents. Bad luck, Mike :)

― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'd fucking HATE my parents if they put my baby pictures all over the internet with my name attached to them where people could find them. Just saying, like.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

don't worry, iLx will be eternally poxy-fuled by the time any of these toddlers are online.

― Handmaiden of Hip Hop (Molly Jones), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ailsa, with the poxyfuling I doubt they would be able to show it to their mates. ;-) And I think she'd be PROUD that I wuv her so so much. Which I do. Ophelia, honey, I love you so much it sometimes hurts. :-)

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

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

*vomits*

:-)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Look, Edith's mates, here she is upside down when she was a tiny tot!

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― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Mike, Peter, you are excused because I have googled your daughters by name and have found no pictures. Well, I've found lots of pictures, but not of them. I don't know anyone else's surname, or can't be arsed, whatever.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

for your lil christian warriors: armor of god pj's.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 26 August 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Y'know, if you put my daughter's full name into Google you get an ILX post from her in the year 2022.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Saturday, 26 August 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

My sister and niece (3 months), yesterday.
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― Andrew (enneff), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:56 (nineteen years ago)

first cold. I thought the magic boob juice would protect him forever. :(

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Aw. I remember the boy's first ear-infection. He was pukey and pathetic and his equilibrium was fucked up, resulting in falling down. So sad.

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?

― captain reverend gandalf jesus (nickalicious), Monday, 28 August 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Edith is a bit off colour today as well. I find it very depressing when she is even mildly ill. I don't know why. A thoroughly unreasonable sense of failed responsibility, I suppose.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Monday, 28 August 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

i'm a dad,dudes. he's a month old yesterday and perfect.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

yay! no chance of posting a picture? PRETTY PLEASE!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Cool, congratulations!

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

teeny, oh dear, how is he holding up? ophelia had a bit of diarrhea but it's already gone. she's such a sweetie. every day i love her a little bit more. she's still not sitting independently yet which worries me a little bit, but she's running across the living room at breakneck speed. she has also started babbling. it's very much like talking but it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. "hahabablalalapopop... aaah YAH!" she also loves to scream and lift her arms up when something doesn't go her way or when lucy (our dog) doesn't react quick enough.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

oh fritz why didn't you tell us earlier? I was worried! seriously! congratulations! pics pls!!

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.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 28 August 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

We had to bring 15-month-old Cyrus in to the emergency room on Sunday. He cut his lip. Four stitches! Three of us had to hold him down while the good doctor sewed him up. He is eating fine now and doesn't even seem to notice the stitches, but I am traumatised forever. He's at daycare today. God I hope they're hovering over him to catch him if he falls so he doesn't bang it up again. Cyrus won't sit still a minute and still insists on climbing onto precarious surfaces, under teeetering objects, across tripping things, into sharp things --- sheeeesh. I wish I didn't have to work so I could hold him all day!

― Maria :D (Maria D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Poor Cyrus!

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.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hang on - are Beth P and Ken L a couple??

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

That implies that some callous dastard has thrown away hundreds of kittens :'(

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to do that next time I see Auntie Gail, only I will have to fiddle with my flies.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I've missed loads of this thread somehow. So much cuteness! Hope wee Cyrus is ok - injury and illness does seem to be a lot more traumatic for the parents. When I think of all the accidents my sister and I had in our infancy I wonder how my mum and dad stayed sane. Possibly they didn't.

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!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

"How did that happen? "

Uuuuh, SEX! ;-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:38 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Amusingly enough, the medical advice for alleviating spd is 'keep your legs together as much as possible'. If only I'd done that six months ago eh.

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

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

Archel you know I dreamed your baby's name, AND it was conveniently unisex, so it's all sorted.

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:49 (nineteen years ago)

Unisex in the sense that it wasn't male OR female or in fact a real name at all, you mean? ;)

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 08:53 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Cyrus is better soon, and doesn't bump his lip again. I think children who have a devil-may-care adventurous streak in them are really cool (despite all the worry they cause their poor parents!)

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

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 09:03 (nineteen years ago)

I certainly didn't bother with a bag when I was six months pregnant. I don't think it's that necessary (unless maybe you have a caesarian) as you'll be puffing for approximately 20 hrs (that's the average amount of labour) so your family can get your bag in the meantime. :-)

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.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 10:17 (nineteen years ago)

Aw Olivia is getting so big and bonny :)

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!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

At my local NHS hospital they've got a birthing unit with all private rooms, en-suite facilities, birthing pools etc. BUT you can only give birth there if you've had a totally normal pregnancy (which luckily I have so far) AND you can't get an epidural there - if you need one mid-labour you have to go to the general maternity ward (which I imagine as some big communal screaming room).

― Meg Busset (Mog), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Screaming room haha oh my god.

I think I will be giving birth in the same maternity ward I was born in, which is kind of weird/nice. Though hopefully it's changed a little since 1978...

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:29 (nineteen years ago)

Big Communal Screaming Room? This makes me think of The Scream somehow.

Olivia? Who the hell's Olivia? :-)

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm *hoping* to start and finish in the birthing centre. But all my friends who've given birth recently have laughed at my naive idea that I could get through it on gas, air and pethidine alone. So I may yet end up being wheeled down a corridor, 8cm dilated and begging for sweet spinal relief.

― Meg Busset (Mog), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Eight days to go till they hack my wife open and drag my baby screaming and kicking into the new world!

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Are you going to any antenatal classes yet, Archel? They usually arrange a tour of the mateernity unit for you as part of that, so you'll see what the facilities are like.

I had what was known as "shared care", which consisted of seeing my own GP and the community midwife for the routine ante natal appointments, and then I gave birth at the local NHS hospital attended by one of the community midwives I had already got to know (which was nice - it felt better to have someone with whom I had some kind of rapport already, rather than a complete stranger).

I gave birth to Rhian on a beanbag on the floor, like I was some sort of whelping labrador, to the sound of They Might Be Giants' "Particle Man" blaring out on the CD player, while I giggled uncontrollably from having had far too much gas an air. It was great :)

― C J (C J), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

Duh, pregnancy brain. OPHELIA is big and bonny, Olivia is purely imaginary :)

I am seeing the midwife next Friday and will get info about classes and hospital visit then I think. I like the idea of a beanbag!

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:46 (nineteen years ago)

adding good wishes for cyrus and family!

I don't remember packing anything useful in my hospital bag except the clothes I wore home.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 11:52 (nineteen years ago)

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