The Sparkly New 2 (or more) Under 3 Thread- Join us!

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Hello!

Post here if you have 2 or more kids under 3yrs.

We were formerly the 2 under 2 thread, but some inconsiderate DCs went and had birthdays.

Commence rambling / ranting / updates etc

hi everyone

sorry to hear your ds2 has the pox now Grrl.

DS2 has slept through the night 3 times this week, which has been great (exept when he wakes at 5.30am!) His vomiting has been getting worse and worse so went to docs yesterday and got infant gaviscon. It worked really well for the first 2 feeds, but today it's just stopped working and he has been throwing up as much as before - damn it!

DS1 has a cold I think, or could be teething?!? Who knows. But he is all grumpy and whiney which is just fab

All the playgroups have finished which sucks, so now we are all bored stiff.

Went to mothercare this morning and spent too much money

Both boys are asleep so am watching aussie soaps on tv

Hey kaybee, sorry to hear about your shitty day and vomiting baby - if it makes you feel an better, DD2 has ben diagnosed with fungal face infection after a visit to GP today. She has some creme and also some avent magic creme and see how she goes. So, at least your baby does not have giant mushrooms growing out of her face!! (only joking - but if left untreated who knows!! lol)

sat her, glass of wine, lovely salad supper, off to bed with a book soon. Loving the hot weather, but the girls arn't. Had to swap about grobags til I found the thinnest onebut DD2 would not sleep without sniffing her fleecy blanket but I have left her windows open and there is a draft blowing through so she seems to be alseep anyway.

Am attending my own leaving party for work and am hving my hair done then, plus wearing my new high-waisted jeans (excellent for baby-belly) and I will look HOT! Well, ok, the more I drink the better I'll look to all concerned so who knows how I will feel the next day [vomit emoticon]

Bye for now girl-eees and speak soon

Chaotica - glad you had a good time in London

Jewels - I am with you on the hot weather, I love it but DD doesn't much.

Kaybee - Sorry DS2 is sick. I went to the next sale and spent too much too and none of it on me

JKS - Hope you get a better nights sleep tonight till at least ohhh 8am

Well day 1 of potty/toilet training over Went okish 3 accidents and one wee in loo

Treated myself to fish and chips and now having wine

Hello, going to join you if that's ok but have intermittent access to computer so will apologise in advance if I don't post much......

Have two DDs - 26months and 5months. Am really struggling with DD2's sleep at the mo, in particular daytime naps (and feel that if I can get them sorted it might help nighttime sleeping) and wondered how other mums of two LOs tackle these kind of problems without abandoning the first born to amuse themselves (mostly in front of Cbeebies ). I am convinced DD2 isn't having long enough/ enough daytime naps but once she wakes it can take me another hour to settle her again all the while poor DD1 is left to it - mostly just whining 'mummy mummy mummy'. Any tips? I feel bad and guilty about DD1 and also bad and guilty about DD2 because she is unsettled. And I feel TIRED!

Eeek, that turned into a vent, sorry. Any tips most welcome .

Hello Milki and welcome

I have DD1 aged 2.5 and DD2 ages 6 months. I am on a routine so the naps are fine but I don't put her down for a nap until she has started yawning and then, I sing to her and take her out of a room with any distraction then take her to her room etc. I find dong this every time she knows what is happening and settles within just a few mins (she self settles)

DD2 has 3 naps a day and wakes at 6am so that is when my day starts:

Nap 1 8-9
Nap 2 12-1400 (sometimes 1145-1345 et)
Nap 3 1600-1700

Perhaps try routine for a week or so and see if it works for you. Should give you time with your your other DD and also give you chance to plan your day around getting home for those naps I.E half an hour before at least.

Hello everyone else! DD woke at 6am today and it is going to be another scorcher! Have to go to supermarket today and get some more SMA progress (we use the ready made) and are low. Then maybe the swings for DD1 and then back home to feed DD2.

Still aching from tuesday's pilates/yoga class! And am as usual covered in fake tan

Big wave to everyone!

Hi all! Hope everyone and their DCs are well, inc any newbies to the thread.

DS2 is much better- still looks like he's got the plague, but his temp is under control and he ate a little yesterday. He's also got another tooth through.

I'm back to work Monday!!!!!!! I am so excited. DH is having to take Monday off to stay with DS2 though, but it'll be easier on DS2, because of the pox he's missed his settling in time with one of the CMs, and he's quite clingy I will feel bad leaving DS2, but once we're over that, i know i'm going to love being in work again.

Jewels- where did you get your jeans? I'd love a pair of high waisted flares.

Hello...I'm a newbie...can I play? I have a DD1 21 months and DD2 8 weeks.

Just starting to grapple with double buggy, sling, and toddler meltdown in public while you're trying to feed baby...! Not sure I ever want to venture out in public with them both ever again

Hi milki..just read your post...hahaha Cbeebies should be paid as a babysitter here...I'd have collapsed without it even though I always said I'd never sit them infront of the telly

welcome Milki and jeanjeannie

JJ yes it gets so much easier and you'll learn the tricks to make your DD1 content and happy to wait patiently whilst you feed DD2 etc (in our case bribes and pots of strawberries!).

TG glad to hear your DS2 is getting over the pox, my DS just has a few scabs to fall off now - so relieved they have all shrunk. He's got a really runny nose at the moment, not sure if its teething or a bit of a cold or a bit of hayfever?

J&G this nice hot weather is brilliant isn't it? I've been complaining about the poor Scottish summer but will now just enjoy the sunshine. I'm going to put fake tan on tonight as DH is out playing golf and I'm out tomorrow night and we've got a party on Saturday. I used to use it all the time but got out of the habit. Also having my hair done on Saturday morning - my roots are literally shouting for peroxide as they are so dark now

Good luck TG for going back on Monday, I need to start looking into college courses to book onto something to do from home and self employed.

Next have some nice high waisted jeans and some were in the sale so if you want some you can grab a bargain too!

we're going to have a bubble party in the garden whilst washing all the plastic toys, think we're going to get soaked but its all fun

Hi Loucee....oh good - someone else uses bribes....glad that's ok...as DD1 has had a lot of banana yogurt today while I fed baby!

Bubble Party...how fab....we put the fan on full blast in the living room and stuck the bubble stick infront of it...et voila...in-house bubble mayhem!

Oh to get my hair done...I've got chipped toe nail polish, legs that need attention and I won't even talk about what used to be a lovely bikini line... Still, when DD2 official gets to 2 months I'll start grooming again! Enjoy the hairdressers - what a treat

Hi all

A bubble party is a great idea Next week DH is away for four days and will need things to keep Dcs occupied. Bubble party may be used

Day 2 of potty training and it is kind of doing my head in but such is life.

I have been quite productive today and painted our garden fence. Just got to wash paint of myself

Welcome to JeanJeannie and Milki

evenin' all

chaotica - glad the london trip went ok, maybe he just has expensive taste

kaybee - poor ds2 with the vomiting, is it still bad? all our playgroups ended too which i just don't get cos none of us have kids at school
one nursery started a garden play thing today, was only 3 mums there but i know the others both well so we just had a nice chat and the 3 toddlers all played nicely together while the 3 babies sat in the shade with us

jewels - yuk re fungus! hope the cream is working and fast. so when are you leaving work, confused? the jeans sound good though, need something for my mid-region....
though am wearing some size 14 cropped trousers today that are snug but dh and a friend said they looked good

simpson - well done on day 2
was ok last night, ds2 up at 3 for a feed, ds1 up at 5. managed to get him to be quiet until nearly 6, then brought him down to watch the repeat song on beebies before the programmes start
dh came down then and i went back to bed until ds2 woke at 7.
ah well, this too shall pass.....

hi milki ds2 pretty much just falls asleep without too much fuss. i just go with the flow with him really. i started out with the intention (and mostly stick to it) of letting ds2 wait for things cos he won't remember anyway, and mostly a feed will sort him out. ds1 on the other hand would build resentment and cause problems. so i never say anything like 'no, mummy can't do x because of ds2' and so on. good luck!

grrl - good luck for monday, you sound very positive about it anyway glad ds2 is better.

jeanjeannie - hi i also said that about tv and beebies or dvds are on so much here
yes toddler meltdowns not good at the best of times, and looking after a baby is not the best of times! i have been lucky, so far....

loucee - good bubble party idea both my boys love bubbles - and my cats too!

our hot weather idea is baby bath full of water, various toys and some paintbrushes, ds1 then paints the fence, garden toys, etc. even my feet

right, best go, long enough! speak soon

Hello milki and jeanjeanie , my youngest dd is 14 months, and I still haven't mastered a daytime nap at home without dd1, whispering (loudly)'shhh, dd2 sleeping',whilst poking screaming dd2 in the eye, and smothering her with kisses. Without the double buggy I doubt either of them would sleep in the day at all. As for Cbeebies, we have been without it for 2 weeks, because Sky was knackered, (it's fixed now, and I have given the TV lots of lovely hugs to let it know it was missed). Dd1 said today 'mmm telebision, dd's favourite'

Sorry for all the poorly lo's, mine have just started with the snotty noses, and dh is on holiday from tomorrow, so I'm not sure if that is good timing or bad.

Have spent the day with a friend who has a three and a half year old and 14 month old, so my house is now one huge pile of toys, breadsticks, cous cous (what idiot gives toddlers cous cous!)and dirt from the garden.
Aah well dh is cooking a lovely curry, and there is cold bottle of wine in the fridge, so things can't be too bad!

Have a good evening everyone.

hola ladies! Don't know why the spanish greeting all this hot weather must be going to my head - or else the fumes from my extreme fake tanning are turning my delirious,

The high waisted jeans are a godsent! Grrrl I am sligtly to admit that mine are from a shop I previoulsly considered for the 'more mature' women - Principles. I did try some lovely ones in oasis too but they were just that bit too short once worn with towering heals whereas as the principles ones are uber long. And they have four buttons vertically on the waist, are really fitted around the arse and make me look all curvy They are not 'shit-man' flared though, just a bit.

DD slept til 0550 this morning was is better than the last few nights of 0500 so today I have my old spring back in my step. Had a long day though DH should have been back from work by 3, but it was 5 and I was ready for a rest.

The bubbles idea sounds great! Will try that for sure!

oh and exciting stuff DD2 can now sit up on her own! Ok, not for ages (just 20seconds or so) but I feel all emotional that she can nw do that aaah

Off to bed soon then pilates!

Loucee my hair is also dying for a good dousing with peroxide.....

And yes, the leaving so. I left work last september but took maternity leave for 1 year. So my official leaving date is september. Make sense? and yes, yes, you are right it is just an excuse for a party I do not need to be asked twice!

A bientot mon amies, (not sure that plural for friends works in french but there you go)

Hi all plus new people to this thread, nice to hear lots of new tales of woe to make me feel better - ha!

Well DS has roseola, judging by his symptoms anyway. He had a really high temp on saturday then got a bad rash on tuesday which lasted overnight then disappeared. The whole time he has been MISERABLE. He literally cries the whole time he is awake unless freshly druggedup or having just eaten. His nappies are even fowler than usual which I didnt think possible from the poo monster. Touch wood he has slept ok so far this evening but I have had such a flashback to newborn stage the past few nights.

Grrl - I am back at work next week too - yippee! I start on wednesday, doing 2 days in office then a half day in my own time which Im quite pleased with. What are you working? Lets see how we both get on, Im dreading the morning get ready, Im up on my own as DH works nights so Im convinced I'll be late every day. I struggle for 9am leaving!
Jewels - I missed you saying you'd quit work or was it always your intention not to go back?

I have had 2 days to myself with nursery and parents giving us a break so Ive been shopping trying to buy a work wardrobe. You know when you have loads of money to spend you cant find a bloody thing?!? I was also in Principles but didnt touch the highwaisted trousers, I though they wouldnt suit my flabby belly but perhaps I should have given them a go? Ended up with 4 black tops and one skirt Am enjoying the thought of looking smart for a change.

Right off to bed, its silly late now. Night all. Heres to peaceful nights.

i'll be working Mon / Thur / Fri 9-4.30pm, and 9am-1pm Saturdays. I didn't want to work the Saturday, but childcare is going to cost us so much, i'll need the money. We'll be paying around £168 a week

Can't wait though. DS1 going to spend some time with one of the childminders today, but DS2 can't go.

and i don't have to look smart for work- thank god- but i'm getting out all my funky mini dresses and jeans. i'll even be able to wear a NECKLACE without someone trying to throttle me with it!

Hi can i join please? I have two DD's, 5 months and 20 months. I am finding it real hard work. Live in a flat and find it really difficult to get out.
This thread is great I have just read back the last few pages. It may move too fast for me!!
I will try and jump in on the conversation if I can!!

well, there are alot of posts. i'll start another thread, and we can all introduce ourselves again for any newbies

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/67/574206

Hope that link works

New thread ladies!