D'y ever wonder if Shabs will put Lewis down?!!!!

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Yes!!!! Touch down!!!!

Victory dance!!! I've made it!!!!

Not been yet Frumpster. I am dreading going to meet Nikos - God alone knows what else Martha and Lyndsey have said!!! It is making me but very

Lets just hope he had a few too many schooners of sherry last night and cant remember anything

i need some guidance please ladies....I've already bent Chops ear on MSN this morning, so now it's your turn.

Breastfeeding.....

I would like to breastfeed number 3 as I was unable to co-ordinate doing the boys, although did express for the 8 weeks they were in hosp, so feel they got a good start.

My concerns are:

1. Going back to work when he or she is 5 months (no choice honest), how does one carry on feeding/expressing while sat in an office.

2. Getting sleep in the early weeks to allow me to be human and on form for the boys as I won't be able to sleep in the day when baby sleeps.

3. Dh being able to help, he has already expressed concern as he wanted to do nights for me to start with to allow me to sleep so I had enough energy to face the day with boys and baby.

4. Clingy baby when I do go back to work as he or she will be used to being close to me all day everyday (boys didn't have this as I never spent a lot of time cuddling them for fear of one feeling left out and they were bottle fed).

I think thats it - oh and plus i have a big fear of the PND coming back if I am over tired and unable to pass baby onto anyone for any period of time as he/she will need feeding every few hours

Oh and leaky boobs at work.

any thoughts?

MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSS Wheres the bobos expert when you need her?

MMMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

sob

Neerley - fret not me owd mucker. Mars will be along in a bit and Momma is also a bobo queen......

Tiggs sweetheart we are right here with you. Sounds like you are very together and i am glad you have this new chap to lean on too. Remember i married my chap! Lots of love and strong hugs. Brave girl baring your soul like that too

Neerly dont fret about the booby! Exclusively bf for the first 3 weeks or so then intoroduce a bottle for the evening feed, ebm or formula depending if you have had time to do it in the day. Some days i did some not.

This means dh can do the last feed at night and you can go to bed early! It also means you can escape for the evening sometimes for a break. Your work place should provide you with a room to express while you are at work. Leave the ebm for the baby in the day.

Dont stress and all will be fine.

Breast pads at work, in fact 24/7 if you are anything like mine!

Clingy baby is no guarantee with bf either, some of mine have actaully settled better for other people as they assume when i am holding them they need to be fed! Hand them over at every opprtunity and go to bed!!! Take the baby with you, whatever works!

tigger, reading your story jsut makes me think of that song tubthumping, you know, I get knocked down, but I get up again... Tigger really is the perfect name for you! You've come through so much, well done.

I have decided my next baby will be a continuum baby, strapped to me all the time. DH goes away to sea as soon as his Paternity leave is over for 9 months. Beau will be 19mths, so i want a wrap sling that i can attach him to. He will sleep in my bed (i will be lonely) and will coo at everyone from the sling.

Of course some of mine have been the most un cuddly children and shrieked until put in their own bed and left alone when they are tired.

This one will want to be cuddled, oh and it will bf like a dream too. Beau was a terrible bf! I made him

D y' think i may be asking too much?

I honestly couldn't imagine anything worse! Mine were all made to go to sleep on their own once they were 6 weeks. I do love mars idea of babymooning though. Almost worth having another to do that.

OMG Chops that was my first thought as well!! and now I cant stop singing the dam thing

Frumpster - postman just came, I am overcome xxxxx

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Good Afternoon lovely ladies,

I hope that you are all well ?

I am sorry to read your post Tigger, but always go with your gut feeling, it will see you right in the end !! You only have one life, You must make the best of it !! If your happy the kids will be happy !

Shabs I have been chuckling reading along with an image of you with sunburnt bits being admired by Nikos !!!!!

No news on scan still waiting, DD2 still well, hand still working ok.

My very glam (naturally thin) sis has arrived from her travels, Marocco this time, with a wonderful tan, she is obviously getting on my nerves already !! She snow boards around the world in the winter and surfs in the summer, DD1 thinks she is soooo cool, she always says .... "when i'm older i think i'll be like Aunty and go travelling, not like you with kids, cos she has much more fun !!! cheeky minx !

I dunno girls - i'm very apprehensive now! If this was my first there would be no discussion, but the fact I will have 2 busy 4 year olds at home to entertain while having baby suctioned to my chest after very little sleep (I'm talking early days here, not like months down the line)...I can see me loosing it.....

LG&T . . . I am in awe of you, with this being your 7th !! Do you live in a great big house ???

You must be very patient ??

Do you have much drama with your ex and the kids ?? DD2 doesnt really have much to with mine, and i get blamed for that !! He's such an idiot, he cant see its his behaviour that has resulted in her not wanting to go !!

Just been speaking to Lyndsey in Faliraki via Facebook - she is hillarious.

Lyndsey: - You will love the new bar Nikos is working in it is right on the beach!

Me: Have you gone in to see him most nights.

Lyndsey: Every night except the second night. I fell off the bar in there and my legs are covered in bruises

Im not even going to ask 1. Why was she on the bar in the first place. 2. How long did everybody laugh for when she did it? and 3. How long is she barred for!!

Shabs

Lydle the house is 5 bedrooms, not really big enough anymore! We live in Military accommodation though so will have to request a bigger house on our next move! I am not hugely patient i just have different stress levels The children are very good, especially the twins. They were awful as babaie and toddlers but angels now. Well most of the time.

My ex is a numpty, he has only in the last year started to pay any kind of mchild maintenance and i left with nothing after 10 years. He got the house and all. He was being such an arse though that i really couldnt be bothered to fight. It wouldnt have been healthy for the kids, they all see him and his fiancee He is maryying the live in student this summer, on my birthday!!! pmsl. So much for "oh it was only a drunken fumble" I am over it. The kids love him and i have not told them anything about anything, they can find out when they are older. It is not their fault and i refuse to have them drawn in to it and make them feel sorry for me or feel badly about him. It does them no good.

I bite my tongue ALOT

Neeerly stop worrying It will all be ok, you will find that the next baby will fit right in and the twins will help you. Think positive.

I only had 20 months between my twins and dd, that was hard! They would do terrible things to her when i wasnt looking!

Hello!

Bllody hell Tigs you are one strong lady! Good for you x

I am trying to do a VAT return and Carmen is shreiking in her bouncy chair ... just wants to feed when I cuddle her ... nothing doing!!!

Lydle LO at your DD - just had a friend come back from 4 months kitesurfing in Vietnam, sigh

Mind you everyone seems to think I spend my days sunbathing and buffing my nails!! It is getting on my bobos TBH. So now I actually answer the phone when they call and the girls are both kicking off in the background, just so they remember why I'm not in the office!

Shabs PMSL

LG&T

He sounds like a numpty !

DD1 and DD2 dont know the real truth of the story, he was sleeping with his sis bf (an ugly dumd blonde bint, the last of many, straw that broke the camels back) but his behaviour since, when he has them, they sit at his doing nothing, being v bored and also girlf doesnt like them and goes out when they are there, means they just dont wanna go, i think age has something to do with it as well DD1 11 so has local friends etc, doesnt wanna go there for w.end !

Do you live by quite a strict routine ??

sorry being nosey, just intrigued how you its done !

dumb

anyone around?

anyone following the footie?

Footie mah just finished doing my nails though

Am super strict, dont follow a strict routine really but generally they are all in thier own rooms by 730, maybe not alseep. The morning is a nightmare though, too many packlunches and school runs. That does me in!

DH home soon, wahooooo! Am going to bed (alone you filthy minxes)

LG&T - when DH gets back make sure you're both in bed by 7.30!