When you say it's going to ripen now......well when exactly do you mean? - 10 / 10 thread - all welcome

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But you know that it isn't denied love. You're happy to see him in the morning and far more loving if you've slept, so maybe it balances out. And maybe you'll feel happier about leaving him to go into hospital when you know he isn't needing milk 5 times a night.

That's what I think.

However, what I did for ages was to leave things exactly how they were and just muddle through. And if that's the option you're more comfortable with then you have to just play it by ear.

It's difficult isn't it? DD isn't breastfed any more and hasn't been for a long time but she wakes in the night a lot looking for comfort. We were all knackered and I was at the end of my tether so I had to Be Firm, but it was so, so hard

Not sure if it will work with a baby as young as your ds2 but with dd (3.9) she learned when it was appropriate to wake us, eg if she was thirsty or needed a wee, and then extra overt love and lots of attention during the day meant that I didn't feel so bad about denying it at night.

Probably doesn't help you MrsC but I sympathise and empathise so very much.

I think there comes a point when you feel you must do something, but until then, you do just muddle through.

Thanks everyone - I think it seems worse because I know I will be away and that is all tied with emotional stuff too. I was hoping for a trick that doesn't exist but things always seem worse when you're tired as well. We will carry on muddling for a bit though I will try feeding him more dinner and maybe put him back in the cot after a feed she says optimistically. What a dreaful sentence that was.

It's always worse for the parents than the children though isn't it? My friend was really upset at having to leave her dd while she was in hospital, and I was the same when I went back to work and had to leave dd at nursery. It's easy to say that the lo's get over it and will be OK without Mummy but I think it is Mummy that suffers more. But it's true you know, your ds2 will be fine . Mummy is the best, but everyone who will look after ds2 while you are away will be more than good enough. That thought has got me through some guilt.

it never really occurs to me that nearly everyone on this thread is breastfeeding

heaves sigh of relief that she doesnt have to do this herself

lol at boyfriend thing..feel like i announced we were getting married rather than just not seeing other people at the moment

well i did my garening despite being knackered and had to socialise

for the second week running

this time there was an electrician there putting a pump in a well

and he didnt half talk

i asked him if he had a crard at the end as he seems to do various plumbing etc and odd jobs as well and he talked to me for about 4o mins....

i also had to talk to passers by

the thing they all seem to say to me is you've gpot your work cut out there chortle chortle

but apparently it is starting to look better and the best thing is i cut down the lavatera

three people have told me that lol

it was nice and sunny

apparently it snowed here on sunday

lully conjunctivits is horrible..do you take any supplemetns and stuff like echinacea or vit c or anything

and mrs c i had dd2 who never sletp thrpugh until she was at school

she used to wake 4 times a night to be fed and ate huge proper food meals in the day

but i stopped feeding her at one

tho she was fat to say the least

one was quite old in the olden days when i had kids i think

LOL at your determined feeder avi.

Every time I read a BF related thread I realise how easy I had it. Very impressed by people who did long BF too, it was a relief to go back to work so I had a reason to stop. [selfish] emoticon.

carrots, banana, juice, spring onions.

dd slept through while she was bf'ed. She stopped sleeping through aged 3. She's only just getting used to sleeping through again now at 3.9. I am clearly a lightweight at this long term sleep deprivation stuff

I stopped bfing when she was 7mo, a month after I went back to work. DD was totally unconcerned. I was not . We had a really easy time of it too, she was a natural and I was happy to spend most of the day sat on my spreading arse filling the bottomless chasm that was her stomach. Going back to work really finished it for me, I went back full time and just couldn't keep my supply up.

zippi you should tell the nosey passers by that you wouldn't have so much to do if they would leave you alone to get on with it

ds slept through at 6mnths
well...3 months really...I used to wake him to feed

Hello everyone

Have had watermelon and kiwi, a medium sized salad for lunch and am having sausages and lots of veg for supper.

I'm still sniffly and have that attractive red nosed flaky skin look

MrsC I think DS will be fine.

My experience of stopping feeding at night was quite positive but I didn;t co-sleep really, so it was easier. DS was somewhere between 12 and 14 months when I decided I couldn;t do waking in the night any more (I had a badly underactive thyroid and was on my knees and something had to happen). When I say I didn;t co-sleep, DS wasn;t in our bed, but I had a bed in his room where I / we slept most of the time.

Initially I did a bit of what I suppose they call "shusshing and patting"..cuddling didn;t work at all - DS would just scream blue murder if I picked him up and didn;t feed him, but was OK if I didn;t pick him up. I also stopped sleeping in his room. I seem to think for a few nights there was a lot of trotting about in the middle of the night but it was very shortlived. Within a few nights DS just stopped waking up. We did go backwards at least once with illness but by 18 months he no longer woke, and in fact had by then decided he wasn;t all that interested in milk except for at bedtime.

I was a muddler througher a lot of the time but just wanted to say that it is possible to kind of work things to how you want them without any ghastly things happening...

The first time I left him he was 19 months and I went away for a night and I was terrified of what would happen but he and DH were just fine.

ohZippi, I watched uc but we were too busy deriding beardy man and poor sciency girl who looked so pleased and proud to have answered a question about Joy Division just to prove she wasn't a total geek

Cannot remember which one your man is? [gah]
But glad it's progressing nicely ...

i had to laugh at totally perplexed look re those top bands the searchers the hollies and gerry and the pastemakers

i shall not be confessing that i actually wanted a gerry and pastemakers single and gave money to my sister to get it for me and she came back with something else

this still rankles after about 35 years

i also remeber liking pins and needles

but this is top secret lol

I was quite chuffed I managed to answer at least 10 questions

oh i was too preoccupied lol

Seeing that you lot are always looking for imaginative ways to use veggies, I thought you might appreciate this
(Don't worry, it's child-friendly)

Oh wow Rusty
I just showed vgs & he said 'Mummy,I would really like to live there.

Hi lully how are you & vgs? Nearly bluebell time!

I have some otherpics, but they are not all veggies - will it contaminate the thread if I put them up?

raw carrots
apples x 2
grapes
kiwi
tomatoes
yellow pepper
juice

Dp been in bed all day.
dd2 wearing a swimming costume all day.

oh

puy lentil,feta & roasted vegetables with large green salad for lunch
carrot,onion,garlic,pepper,mushroom,celery,courgette & supper is butter bean casserole with brown rice & cucumber,tomato,avocado,watercress salad.

vgs is very poorly again
I think we are in for a ropey night

What sort of pics Rusty??????

is it your own foto that good

Boco....is dp being lazy or poorly?