Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh: ILX Rolling Parenting Thread

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

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. :-)

Beautiful, beautiful children.

Edith in a bad mood:

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Please excuse the untidiness.

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?

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

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.

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

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*

*vomits*

:-)

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

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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.

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

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

My sister and niece (3 months), yesterday.
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first cold. I thought the magic boob juice would protect him forever. :(

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?

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.

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

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

Cool, congratulations!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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

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!

"How did that happen? "

Uuuuh, SEX! ;-)

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

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

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

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.

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!

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).

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...

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

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

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.

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

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 :)

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!

adding good wishes for cyrus and family!

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

My OBGYN hates ante-natal classes as, according to him, they give the wrong breathing exercises! I wasn't aware of this so I felt extremely guilty when the midwife asked if I had learned how to puff (through a delivery naturally). I hadn't. She taught me in half a minute. Ten minutes later Ophelia (or Olivia if you like heh) was born. A bit too quickly, I nearled demanded a refund but then I realized I was the performer and I had disappointed my audience (read: husband). Just kidding, it was great.

No epidural? Oh,... hahahahah... HAHAHAHA I was as naive as you when I was pregnant. After ten hours I'd have KILLED for drugs. I was a junkie without crack. But hey I know it can be done.

Teeny, how's everything? Cured of that cold I do hope!

Ophelia is sitting but in a wobbly fashion. I was SLIGHTLY worried but then I met a mother who's baby doesn't even have good head control at seven months (granted, it was ten weeks premature). I realized that I should not worry if some things go slower.

I was trying to find when Louis was standing up. Yes, I like to follow your son's progress (and every other ILXor baby). :-)

Nearled? Nearly. *sigh*

Oh yes, tooth seven and eight are coming through.

Wow. You people, and your children, are so awesome.

Emma started JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL yesterday OMG WTF. I dropped her off for 6th grade orientation day and we did this whole awkward wave thing that kind of broke my heart, I wanted to hug her but, y'know, NOT IN FRONT OF ALL THE OTHER KIDS DUH so I forebore. She is funny and sarcastic and wise, and taller than her mother at not-quite-eleven years old.

Sammy got a pretty good scar from falling onto our coffee table last year, it got kinda sunburned this summer, we might have to do a little more about that. He is now in 3rd grade and obsessed with:
*Gene Kelly movies, musicals in general, and Broadway
*Judaism (his own, and others)
*Genghis Khan, Egypt, Rome, other ancient figures and civilizations
*"Project Runway" and "Lost"
*Italian football team, esp. Gennaro Gattuso (we just bought him a jersey on eBay for his birthday)
*North Carolina, still, but also now Seattle for some reason
*writing soap operas and serial dramas about guys with strange names defeating Hitler
*talking trash during our fantasy football draft

My only bit of advice to expectant mums is to suggest that if you are liable to need a haircut, get it done the week or so before your due date because it'll be almost impossible to sort it out for the first few weeks after the baby arrives.

And (at the risk of making everyone saw "eww") the only important thing you need to pack to take to the hospital is a plentiful supply of Always Ultra Night-Time Super-Duper Absorbancy type pads because you'll need them for several days afterwards and they don't seem to have any available in the hospital to just give you.

Do you still get loads of freebies for the baby? I got a huge box load of free nappies, creams, wipes etc while I was in hospital - a marketing ploy from pampers to target new mothers I guess. Still, it was very useful.

Ah yes, the freebies. I got a whole load. Pampers and whatnot. I don't use that brand anymore. We discovered the cheap ones are actually much better funnily enough.

The pads are a good idea but at our hospital they had tons. I really needed'em as bled like a pig. :-( I lost so much blood they had to give me two bags of blood.

Plenty of pads at hospitals in US (well, Minnesota anyway), and yes, definitely they get used. Personally I am still amused at the notion of the weird postpartum undergarments they offer here, which seem to be make of some kind of flexible netting. I swear they could stretch to fit anyone.

My son started 3rd grade today and my daughter begins preschool this morning. I can't quite believe it...