UK SMOG Wannabes June

[indigoviolet]

Great to hear from you Babymad, glad the hormones are stable so far and I really hope you can enjoy these early weeks as much as possible. Home birth sounds amazing, I'm very impressed!

Yay for being term Charlie- are you hoping he comes early or are you going to enjoy the last few weeks of peace? (relatively lol)

Maybe- your ds1 sounds so sweet. Will text you for a meet up soon.

Petal- glad you are loving ds3 so much, gives me a lot of hope and makes me look forward to having 3 boys of my own!

sunset- sorry you are having so much trouble getting the help you need hope you are on the right track now and things will move a bit faster. serena looks beautiful btw

love to you all, sleep well, see you tomorrow

[Petal]

Sunset, sorry you are having probs with getting your son seen! My ds1 has hearing problems, well he failed his hearing test at school when he was 4 (hes now 11) got a hospital appointment and they just said he has ear wax!! so that was that. Hes always suffered with earache and the other month his ear was bleeding, so took him to A&E, he had antibiotics. Went for a follow up at the docs and ds1 said his ear was blocked and he couldnt hear, so doc said i had to make an appointment with the school nurse to get referred to the hospital, so another 3 weeks and saw the school nurse, reduced hearing in both ears so back to the docs, he looked at the form and has referred him, now waiting for an appointment at the hospital, aghrrrr, this has been going on since the begining of bloody april!!!!!!!! poor boy cant hear properly and no appointment in sight! I know theres children with much worse and i shouldnt complain but.... sigh. Anyway, just wanted to say i understand what you are going through sunset, they did think that ds1 would need speech therapy for a while when he started school, he speech was a little unclear and even now sometimes if he talks fast he has to repeat himself, i think its all down to his ears and not being able to hear properly.
Sorry for the rant, ive gone off on one a tad lol x

[Petal]

Babymad, glad you're ok! take your time and rest, dont do too much too soon, just be with your little boy and take time to bond, he is sooo yummy!!!! Who does he look like do you think? Cant wait to hear his name :-)
I dont think you need to worry too much about 'facing the world' you've had sooo many lovely comments on fb!! People dont tend to make silly remarks once the baby is here. You be proud, you have a beautiful family and as someone wrote on your fb... 4 boys is something really special :-)) x x

[Petal]

Thanks Deaks and Indigo, ds3 is just an amazing little boy, hes so happy and makes me smile and laugh everyday, he does the funniest things and has such a cheeky little face, just love his company :-) x

[Inglewood]

Lovely to hear from you Babymad, I too am a bottle-feeding mama after failing miserably after a few weeks with the boys. Couldn't imagine trying to BF twins and so so admire anyone for giving it a go! Is he the biggest weight out of your babies? Love the recent fb pic of him and daddy!

maybe, lol loved ur last comment...

Deaks, I have a 9yr old, he is 10 in Nov, that is scary!! Used the white noise today Dh went a bit mental as my elderly neighbour yapped for ages while DD1 was screaming ( I didn't hear as back door closed) and he couldn't eat his tea....OMG!! boo bloody hoo! MEN! Welcome to my breakfast, lunch and tea-time!

Mentioned Wells to DH, he just mumbled...so think he would go down but not 'meet'up, he'd leave that toall us lot, he's quite a shy guy.

Better go, girlies asleep...my turn! x

[Kell]

Awww Babymad congratulations on your little mans arrival I bet he is lovely

Sorry don't have much time I'll be back when my college stuff is handed In

[pinga]

Congratulations Babymad! He's gorgeous!! And how wonderful that you got a homebirth and NO induction!!! Enjoy these early days and don't fret about what people might say. You have a gorgeous family x

Oh dear Sunset - sounds like a bit of a stress to get seen. I don't really know how it works over there anymore! Hope you manage to see someone soon.

Still waiting here... noooo sign of baby!!!! Spent 6 hours at the hospital on Friday for fetal monitoring... damn blood pressure! Çan't believe this is my longest pregnancy!!! I've been on "baby arrival alert" for 4 weeks already. Went to cinema yesterday (Queen's Birthday Public holiday here) to the Gold Class - needed to take my mind off the waiting!! Mind you DS2 has been sick for about 3 weeks. He has a really nasty cold at the moment so really want him to shift that before baby arrives - he coughs all night and has so much mucous on his chest. Poor thing! I'm knackered as he is up all night whimpering.

Anyways - DS1 is very grumpy today (disturbed last night by DS2) so need to find something to entertain him...

[Babymad]

Petal ~ So pleased you are enjoying DS3 so much Yes, that comment brought a tear to my eye, I need to be more positive but after having 4/5 months of such negative comments it's hard not to be defensive but so far everyone has been very nice let's hope it stays that way when I am out and about! x

Inglewood ~ Men are defo a breed on their own Have you managed to have a bit of time together yet? A meal at home or cinema? Maybe your mum could have the kids for an hour whilst you do something together - just helps to have time to talk for a few minutes without getting stressed with each other, easier said than done though I know!! How are the girls doing? x
Yes, this baby is our biggest Theyhave got bigger each time which apparently is normal, baring in mind all mine are over cooked too! The placenta was huge and very painful to deliver!

Indigo ~ Thx Hun x How are you feeling? Hope you are doing well x

Pinga ~ I hope baby arrives soon! The last few weeks are hard going! Sending labour vibes Hun x

Charlie ~ How are you doing? X

Deaks~ we need a bump pic! X

Kell ~ GL with the course work!

Bubs slept better last night so got a couple of hours sleep, he is getting use to the bottle now
Loving the newborn cuddles
DH is smitten and so are the boys - even though they are getting cross that we haven't chosen a name!!

[Sunset]

oh and sunset, im with maybe, try sure start if you have one near you!

I have been back and forth to my local surestart centre like a yo yo since february.. never get any help there. It's a completely useless service

[Sunset]

Sunset, sorry you're having a crappy time with health visitors/docs etc. Im afraid the nhs seems very hit and miss in my area too. Sometimes they can be fantastic and sometimes hopeless. I hope you get things looked at very soon and that everything turns out fine with your ds2. Great news at least about his potty training....well done! I have just been thinking about when to tackle my ds2. Either need to tackle it over the summer before bubs or wait till next spring when he will be more ready but i will have my hands more full. Same goes for switching him into ds1's room and a bed. Do it before bubs and get him settled but probably say goodbye to daytime naps and mega long night time sleeping or do it just before bubs needs his room but that could be risky if it doesn't go well!

it's so hard to know when to do these things. I would have prefered to potty train ds2 around his second birthday but it was winter then and that would have been no good so i decided to wait until the summer.. so obviously he's quite big now (2 years 7 months) and i figured because he's older it would be much easier but definitely not! he's the kind of kid who wants to run before he can walk so when he started having accidents he got very frustrated and upset and simply lost interest in the potty training.. i was frustrated too to bed honest.. decided to leave it a couple of weeks and then started again, same thing happened and i nearly gave up again but decided to buy him some stickers for his potty and let him decorate it himself and that made him all excited about his potty again and everything just seemed to click into place
we decided to get ds2 settled in a big boys bed before i had the baby, but it was surprisingly easy with ds2. perhaps because he shares a room with ds1