With IDOB and STT ready to go, the Wagon rumbles along!

[Kayzr]

Here we go new thread. Sorry for awful title!!

we deserve an mbe for services to shopping
good luck with postoffice
glad u have heard something from buyers sounds positive;0)

Great shopping ladies! Sounds like a v. good price.

Diege - really wish your buyers would pull their finger out - getting angry on your behalf. Really hope it gets sorted for you very very soon.

Well, had a big of a one yesterday evening - DD did not fall asleep at her bedtime feed, so I figured I would put her down awake - well, she didn't like that. I kept reassuring her, but she just kept standing up in cot. I left room and then went back to reassure when she cried, but she would then just grin at me. It got me really stressed out and I knew she didn't need a feed - think she had just got overtired. Anyway, I ended up feeding her at 8.40pm and she went off, so I put her in cot and she was grizzling and crying a bit, but I managed to get her to settle in her cot, just making reassuring noises and hand on her back - she then slept from 8.55pm to 3.35am, had a feed and went back to sleep until 7am - woohoo!!! So, she is getting more settled and I know that she can settle herself off when she's drowsy, it's just the getting to drowsy stage she needs help with 'Tis a shame that DS woke me at 1.30am (bless him, only his cold and I think I was in a stage of semi-consciousness anyway). I made DH sleep downstairs on sofabed, so when I couldn't get back to sleep at 1.30, I did some puzzles and went back off at 2am. I woke before both of them at 6.30am - what is that all about?!

Anyway, have told DH he is sleeping downstairs again tonight, as we all sleep better when he does

One of my friends has just told me she's 13 weeks pg. Am delighted for her as she had 3 m/c before conceiving her DD, who is 19 months old. But am also rather jealous (is that bad of me?!) Am sooooo broody at the moment, but know that DH does not want a DC3 and we would really need to check out the likelihood of a further DC having the same complication as DD - oh, so much whizzing through my mind. Maybe I should just get on with some Christmas shopping instead?! I am really really thrilled for my friend, it has just sent my own mind and hormones racing.

hi st

sorry for bad night sounds like she is getting better
great news about friend

Tink - lol at MBE

Star - hope you get a better night tonight. Sounds like DD is getting there!

Diege - well done for not going completely stir crazy with your move.

Day 3 of weaning and DS is starting to get the idea. As soon as I put a stick of carrot on his tray today, he picked it up and shoved it straight in his mouth. I congratulated him and he gave me a big smile

Hello all,

sorry I havent been on for a while. been very busy but managed to lurk a bit.

Ses sounds like Owen is getting the idea with BLW

Tink - great shopping and so organised as usual

CANT - sounds like Ruby is doing really well, great that you are getting more sleep! YAY!

Star - glad things are improving for you too.

Diege - I am so sorry that things are not so slow on the house front. I hope it all gets sorted soon!

Hi to Kayz, IDOB, Gyo, Lightening anyone else I have missed.

GC is keeping me on my toes! He is such hard work. Only just over 6.5months and pulling himself up at every opportunity, on furniture, in the bath, on me, on other sitting babies...I cannot believe how hard it is and theres only worst to come I thought things were supposed to be easier now??!! Oh well, he is sleeping well at night and eating really well. Just not so great at napping in the day, ho hum!

Mum has had her first chemo session (thanks for asking Lightning!) she is sleeping alot but sounded quite chirpy when I spoke to her yesterday. I am finding it invredibly difficult being so far away from her

My dad and step mum came down for the weekend last weekend and babysat for us. the first time we have been out alone since GC was born! We went to the new Jamie Oliver restaurant in Guildford and we had such a lovely night!

Anyway enough of my rambling hope everyone is having super evenings!

doh, mistake obviously meant sorry that things are going so slow DIEGE!

and *incredibly

Glad your mum seems ok Gruff, I hope her treatment goes well.

I marzipanned 3 Christmas cakes today and my back is now sooooo achey I can barely move. Feel like I need a lazy day but tomorrow is preschool day so I'm going in town in the morning to do (hopefully) all of my Christmas shopping so I doubt I'll be upright much on thursday! MW's coming on friday to bring my homebirth box and my parents are collecting some newborn things from my brother's house at the weekend so after that I'll be all ready! In theory anyway

Gruff - hi! Must be v hard being away from your mum. I was thinking of you the other day, wondering how you and she were going.
New Jamie restaurant in Guildford!???! Yum!!

Moos - 3 cakes??!
Not long now until our final wagon baby (for now!)

Has anyone heard from BB?

I've just been out to my Tues evening church group (7.30-10). I left O asleep in his cot with DH armed with monitor and bottle of EBM. Did the same last week and O didn't stir and DH said it was easy. This week I got a phonecall to please come home as "he's been awake an hour". Turns out he's been awake half an hour. DH says he's not sure I can go out again. Don't think he means it
in anycase DH is looking after him all of Thurs as I have a KIT day and I'm out Fri night with the other girls from our NCT group. Going to Tony Tobin (minor celebrity chef!) restaurant. I'm tempted to ask DH to only phone me Fri if he's really desperate!

Thanks Moosy and SES re mum!

Moosy, sounds like you are far too active and organised! I'm very at all your energy but good on you! Your cakes are fab!

SES JO restaurant food was fantastic although I am not that fussy but both me and DH were very impressed.

LOL at DH, I would leave my phone on silent, aand maybe answer after the 5th or 6th call?? Seriously, I'm sure its just a confidence issue and if you keep going out then to quote Leona, Im sure it will 'all get better with time' I think thats the words anyway

Right I'm off to help DH with the chores before he divorces me

'see' you all tomorrow hopefully

Morning.

Gruff, glad to hear that your Mum is being upbeat about her chemo. Hope it all goes smoothly.

Diege, I can't believe you haven't heard anything yet. That is really quite disgraceful.

Ses, I know what I would be telling my DH if he had said I couldn't go out again. F off!!! Just tell him that he won't be going to anymore rugby or down the pub. If you can't go out then neither can he.

As you can see it is stupidly early. The boys are asleep but I'm awake.

Hope you are all asleep!!

Gruff - glad to hear your Mum's first chemo session went as well as can be expected. Must be really hard for you to be away from her. Lovely that you and DH had a night out though - sounds lovely!

Ses - am sure Gruff is right and it is confidence on DH's part. It is tough when you're bfing, as it is a great source of comfort to DS and so it will be a bit harder on DH to look after him. Maybe he could have someone go round to "help" him out? When I went on my best friend's hen do when DD was 17 weeks old, MIL came over to help DH - mind you she mainly looked after DS while DH looked after DD. Agree with the others though - you should just go out and only be contacted if DH is really desperate. You will need to go out at some point and at least you know that DS will take a bottle if he's really hungry. You may find it helps now you are weaning, if DH gives him his solid food when he's around? It certainly seems to have made a big difference for DD, now that she associates getting food with DH as well as me (if you ask me, DH is better at feeding her solids than I am!). Still doesn't help with the comfort at night, but he ho!!

Well, DD went down at 7pm last night, woke at 9.30, but could tell she wasn't really wanting to be awake - changed her nappy and fed her. She woke again at 10.30, but was just face down in her cot, crying and grumbling and moving around. Thought I would try this time not picking her up - just reassured her, but she waved her arm at me, so I just stood there. Then DH came home and she just went quiet while I was down telling him what was going on. So, I am totally reassured that she can self-settle. I only went in there because she was really crying - don't know what got her so upset - probably teeth?!

Anyway, DS then fell out of bed at 11.30pm (well, half fell with his head landing on his bedside table) Gave DH and I such a shock and he was crying loads, then after cuddles, just went back to sleep [bless emoticon]. So, had fingers crossed for DD, but she woke at 2.40am - I figured that since it was 5 hours since she fed, I would feed her and hopefully she'd go through to morning. She went back to bed at 3am and then woke again at 5am [grr]! I held off until 5.40am - she was just so angry and shouting and I was worried about her disturbing DS. Probably should just have got up for the day at 5 - I would have had to if she was bottle feeding, as I'm sure she only then went to 6.40am because I was lying in bed feeding her. Ah well - she's full of beans now

Sorry to pour out all my sleep woes on this thread, but it does help to get them out - am sure I should be pouring out on a sleep thread instead.

Hope you all have a good day - will see if DS is well enough to go to nursery today, but he's currently still asleep (usually unheard of), so we'll see - and yes, I have checked he's still breathing after his fall last night!

morning - good luck to your mum gruff
stt - sounds like u had a bad night

Morning!

Star - please feel free to offload about sleep here, I do often enough!

Cant - meant to say yesterday that I'm really pleased for you about R sitting up Can she send O some sitting vibes please!? He can send her some crawling ones in return as he is pretty much there

I'm sure DH was joking last night. He knows that I'll be away Thurs and out Fri night. Mum can't come over and help him at the moment (after her op) but I think I'll tell him that if during the day on Thurs he wants a change of scenery or company, he could go over there with O.

Off to meet up with my post natal group this morning. They v conveniently convene at the Starbucks near me. I get a good 20 min walk there and back which isn't much but makes me feel less guilty about the hot chocolate and cake!

Talking of hot chocolate and cake, I actually weigh a little less now than I did just before O was born. I tried on a pair of black trousers I'd bought just before I was pg and they're too big! My problem is that I seem to have got narrower but my belly still sticks out like a mound of jelly! In any case, I could still doing with losing another stone. Can I request that when I do it removes itself from my belly, bum and thighs?!

STT- sorry to hear of a bad night- ours went very well again- only my body is craving more sleep now i'm actually getting some!! Fingers crossed tonight was just a one off and she's back on recent form again tonight.

Gruff- glad to hear your mum is doing well through her treatment. DBIL is having a bad time atm with his treatment- it can be cured with pills and jabs, but he's having really bad pain and bad side effects with it. Is not good for MIL to see him like that... DH is finding it hard being so far away from him, like yo are with your mum. It's not nice is it?

Ses- she's sitting really well- and loves being part of the 'fun' with the older 2!! Still toppling over a few times so i've propped a 'V' cushion behind her but she can sit quite independantly and i'm happy to leave the room while she's sat up.... my confidence in her has grown!!.... And O can keep his crawling vibes- i dont want her crawling or walking- as i'll need to babyproof the house again!!

Yup! Babyproofing - tell me about it!

Morning! Glad that things seem to be going well with you Mum GRUFF, have been thinking about both of you as friend's mum is going through the same at the moment (started chemo last Friday)
SES, I think the advice of putting phone on mute sounds good . In fact I'd be tempted not to take it at all! As you say, going out without O is part of life, and in the long run it will do dh good [condescending pat on the head emoticon]. Are you going anywhere nice on Friday?
STAR, mean to say before that re: ttc ing again the midwives I do my research with often mention the condition that your dd was born with. For some unknown reason there's a part of N'Wales where it's incredibly common (they're doing research into it), but despite this there's no link to you being at any more risk of it happening with another pregnancy. Hope you can talk dh round And sorry for bad night - sounds rough
MOOS, my god women sit down! Very excited for you and the forthcoming birth. Do we have a syndicate yet?
CANT, know what you mean about sleep greed. The body seems to adjust relatively well to short term sleep deprivation, but as you say just seems to crave more and more when it gets a bit. Like chocoloate I suppose!
KAYZ, hello! Yes, buyers being total arsewipes (parden language). Hope in a way we don;t complete this Friday as packing in 2 days would be a total nightmare! Having said that, if they want friday we'd take it as less time for them to think of 'concerns' again! Hoping to hear something positive today anyway! Did you get the break situation resolved btw?
TINKS, thought of you last night when the phone rang. Both me and dh thought it could be estate agents (rang 5.30 ish) but it was only a bloomin recorded message saying that my wheelybug had been despatched . Dh wasn;t impressed to say the least

Cute conversation overheard over breakfast between dds 1 & 2. DD2, 'Jasmine, are you happy?', to which Jasmine replies 'Umm, yes...why?' DD2, 'Well it says on here that if you're not 100 happy then you're to ring 'em' If only life were so easy eh!
Right, better get on, speak later!

i havent had a call diege yours might beat mine then lol @ thinking of me

school shoes - which ones do your have ?
she currently has these :-
www.clarks.co.uk/find/Department-is-girls/ProductType-is-shoes/product-is-20333137
she has ruined them jumping in puddles leather has gone horrid

was thinking of getting her :-

www.clarks.co.uk/find/Department-is-girls/ProductType-is-shoes/product-is-20333130
in the red or blue her school specifies dark colours

or

www.clarks.co.uk/find/ProductFamily-is-firstshoes/Tube-is-girls/product-is-20332923
boots are ok just not allowed heavy or heled ones

www.clarks.co.uk/find/ProductFamily-is-firstshoes/Tube-is-girls/product-is-20324190

have ordered these all to collect in store hoping they will wear better

tink- the last link- DD1 has them ones for school now. really nice on.

they are sweet not sure if she will manage buckles

I like the fushia patent TINKS - not sure my dds would have managed buckles either when starting school (they still can't do laces the aftermath of the velcro revolution )No wheelybug yet, but should be here today.
Dh has rung and it'll be tomorrow now that we'll hear anything more about the house as the man who's dealing with it at the EA is out now until then . So it's a case I think of trying to relax and focus on it all happening next week (if at all). Going past the point of caring at the moment, though know this will swing back to utter desperation by this afternoon!
Have a horrible headache, part stress part not sleeping last night due to bad cough that just wouldn't clear. Have been taking cocodomol every evening for about 2 weeks now which seems to settle it, but didn't last night as think I've been on it too long and don't want to get addicted . SES, if you are there is it ok to take it in small doses for more thann 2 weeks?
Right, lunch!

Diege - How frustrating that the EA isn't back until tomorrow!!! I remember getting so frustrated when we moved last year that it seemed to take ages to get answers.
"Officially", if you need to take pain killers for longer than 5 days, you should see GP and get a prescription. However, if you're not taking max dosage (and let's face it we know the cause ) then you'll be fine.
Love your DD's cute conversation

Moos - yes, where's your syndicate??!

I'm just watching DS with a plastic wheely rattle. He's on his tummy trying to grab hold of it and it keeps wheeling away from him so he shuffles to get it and then it moves again and he moves. Bless him, he's not getting frustrated!

Had a good meet up at Starbucks. DS was trying to grab my scone so I gave him a couple of large crumbs and he seemed to like it.

Woooooo!!! My brother has just passed his driving test!! I am so happy for him!!!

Thanks SES . Think things would be a lot easier with buying/selling houses if they just got everyone in a room and communicated!!! I think part of the stress, as you say, is the waiting and the worrying about why there's so many delays and silences...and having no control over it!
O sounds very cute - good that he is 'focused' as opposed to frustrated, bless him. Maybe a clue as to how he'll be in later life!

x-posts KAYZ, that's great news!