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Here we go again- join here if you have 2 or more kids under the age of 3. Feel free to update / whinge / look for advice / gloat about how sleep you've had

For any newbies, I have 2 boys, aged 2yrs and almost 9mths.

Hello again its been a loooong time since I posted. Mainly becuase I write a pont on the phone and then someone rings and I loose my page aarrgghh

Cara is teething and is NOT happy. She has been sleepnig throgh since she was a few weeks old and now likes to wake either a couple of times or night or absurdly eary and decide shes up. 2am is the earliest thats happened

Am totally knackered all the time now but was like this when pregnant with cara so no surprises except I keep falling asleep infront of morning cbeebies and wishing barrett would run out of energy for half an hour. Seeing the midwife next week tho......

Hi ladies! I might have made a mistake reading this post. Just skimmed it a bit. I've only got one DS (15mths) but am expecting another at end of March (so, 2 under two). Was just wondering what life would be like. Now I'm a little bit wishing I'd left well alone!

Please tell me it will be fine!

Jumbs

Hi All,

Jumbs - it's tonnes of work, total chaos, and quite often loads of fun. And once you've got a bit used to it, it's so lovely seeing your kids get on (or even not get on) because the older one still understands what it's like to be a baby, and still laughs at the younger ones' jokes (DS is turning into a witty one year old... ).

Grrrl - job thing sounds great... DIY doesn't (which reminds me I better get to work, both housework and outside work, while they're at the CM's).

Mumto2 - sorry you're feeling so tired. I can't imagine being pregnant with 2 (or more) already (I found it hard enough with 1).

Littlepushka - have you cleared the whales out yet? Sounds like I should avoid room sharing for a while yet (although DP and I want our room back!). Hope you're not lost in the wine cellar with the dog (although it might be a good place to hide...)

Must go and mow the lawn, clean the house, organise myself at work, do the washing... aaaargh! I prefer it when the DCs are around. At least then I get to hang about in sandpits and feeding ducks

Hi to all

Urgh, potty training setbacks - please help! We had a cracking start, dry after 3 days, barely any accidents for 4 weeks and now 2 accidents a day over past 3 days to 4 today! Im reminding her, taking her anyway, trying REALLY hard not to scold her or make a fuss when she wets but this is doing my head in, especially when she seemed to get the hang of it so quickly. Do I go back to nappies? Is this normal?

Writing it down it doesnt seem that much and is probably just a blip, it feel like a bigger setback than it is, just v annoying.

Im shattered after a late night last night with friends then up a few times with teething billy. Got a whole day on my own tomorrow with them both, grrr.

Freya is sick She was fine and then... DP has been upstairs with her for what seems like hours while I wash ever more sheets and bedding (and now we've run out). Poor girl - I think it might be something she's picked up at the CM's (whose daughter was sick earlier in the week, although there was no contact while she was sick). I hope it's one of those things she gets over soon. (Seems as though it might be a weekend of beebies for me...)

Cazwa - your potty training relapse doesn't sound too bad (by which I mean we've had a few similar ones and I don't think there's any cause for alarm). I think we just all have to keep calm (and a change of clothes handy) - they'll be dry soon enough... although perhaps not soon enough for us.

Loopy - don't have any advice I'm afraid. Only thing I do when DD won't sleep properly is have enforced quiet time when we read books or watch something, I try anything to stop DD getting manic. (Not that it always works, but it does calm her a bit.)

Now they're both sick... (Hope me and DP survive without getting it or that's the nursing staff gone...)

oh Chaotica

George had a terrible bug last year, it was awful. Towels everywhere and tonnes of washing.

Mine are full of snot, but not too bad in themselves. Been up since 4.30am mind you.

aaaaarrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh was at work last night got back after 11 nearly 1 when I got to bed and cara was up in the early hours dh works a full day today so gave him a little lie in and now cannot face going to work tonight. Oh and aftEr no accidents at Pre school 1 accident yesterday today has been weewee everywhere!!!!!!!! Rant over

Hi

Hope everyone ok and the sick Dcs on the mend?

More potty training sagas I'm afraid...DS will poo in loo at my mum's house but will not entertain it in his own house. Grrrrr....

DD had her 8mth check yesterday and has to be checked again but needs to be checked again at a yr as she is not sitting properly. Am not worried though as DS was the same and crawled before he could sit...

However HV did query the amount of poos DD does (7 today!!)she also cries in pain but poo normal iyswim...so she thinks she MIGHT have a milk intolerance. Ahhhhhhh.....

Hi All,

Just settled our two down for the evening (I hope) - probably not for long. I need some serious debriefing having spent all day watching beebies... (Found myself getting interested inthe jackanory story )

hi all. I have just found this thread. I think I qualify, I have 2 DDs, a 2.5 yr old and a 5 month old. I am finding having two pretty hard work, even thought I had PND a while back, but no, just hard working bringing up a baby and a toddler.

My DDs are generally very good girls, good sleeper . It's just so exhausting!!!!

Evening all, and hi luckymummy74 and welcome (are there 73 more lucky mums out there too?)

We have intermittent sleep going on around here (with DP and I still wondering whether we've caught it too). But so far no wild puking tonight from DD and DS so I hope for the best, despite a couple of near misses... I think DD's on the mend as she told us she wanted to go down a slide this afternoon. (Not a good idea!)

Simpson - sounds a little odd that they've referred your DD. DS couldn't sit when he had his checkup and nobody cared (although I suspect different standards are applied to girls and boys although we're not told that -- DD was referred for not pulling up yet and because she didn't babble...) (...now she doesn't shut up)

4.30am again, FFS

What is going on with my kids?! Dyl is trotting round the room with a toy phone and George is covering himself in Thomas the Tank stickers. I am so arseing tired and sick of this- i was sure Dyl would sleep longer because he went down a good 30mins later than usual last night.

Hope everyone is well and potty training going well. I'm not finding it that stressful- probably because i'm not trying really. George still wears pullups, not even attempted going out in normal pants!

Right...I need tea.

Chaotica - she is not being referred just re checked when a yr old. Am not worried about her at all as DS wasn't sitting at 8mths.

Today have not given DD any yogurt or milk (she has had ff)and there has been a BIG difference. Only 3 poos (although maybe pooed out from yesterday )

Ok I lied its now 4 poos!!

Hi All... Seem to have caught the dreaded lurgy from the DCs. Thankfully on a day when dp is at home so I haven't had to ignore deal with 2 sick children while I writhed and groaned in a particularly unladylike way...

Simpson should have said 'rechecked' not 'referred' (sorry) -- dd wasn't referred either. When we got to a year a HV rang to see how we were doing (DD had started pulling up and babbling earlier that week ) and that was that.

Have an important day at work tomorrow and I don't know whether I'll be able to make it... One of the perils of working and having DCs I s'pose.

Grrrl - I don't know how you deal with the early mornings... wish I had some advice but it's not a problem that we've had (yet).

Chaotica - that is probably what will happen here not worried about DD at all apart from the constant pooing!!

Think I have caught dreaded sore throat from DS starting to feel pretty rotten myself.

4.15am today. Surely some kind of record.

I think i'm going to ring in sick today and try and rest. DH and the kids are all full of snot anyway, DH has a day off today and the kids will be at CMs. I think i'll soak in the bath and watch Dr Who DVDs....how sad!

I feel like arse.

And we actually had a great day yesterday- i did a cooked breakfast for all of us, and we all ate together. After lunch we went to the park, and i got some brilliant pictures of them on the swings laughing etc.

Hee hee! Not so much 73 other lucky mummy's as I was born in 1974!

I am having big debates as to when to return to work. I find having 2 young kids so hard. The thought of 2.5 days at work sounds good in theory, it would be nice to have a break from the kids and the routine, and I am very fortunate that I love my job (physio). BUT, I am fairly senior at work so there is a lot of politics and shit that goes with it. If I could just go in and treat patients it would be great, but there is so much NHS politics. When I went on mat leave in March I was at an all time low stress wise at work....that doesn't help.

I just don't know what to do!!
Def not having nay more kids so this is my last chance at time off work.

I REALLY feel for anyone with sleep problems....have you heard of the Weissbluth sleep book? Its great.

Got to go.....feel guilty for not playing with DD1

grrl - def take today off!
sympathies, we had this with ds1 over the summer lighter months. seems to have been knocked on the head for now thought thank goodness.
thoughts:
dark bedroom?
bunny clock? needs to be able to be seen though, hard in the dark!
a line in the sand re coming out of bedroom time? ds1 wasn't allowed of his room until 6, we have a gate on his door and some toys and books in there, we would turn the light on for him if needed (most of this was summer time though so it wasn't most of the time) and tell him to play in his room quietly as it was too early to get up or tell him to go back to bed whatever seemed more likely to work at the time.

otherwise, sorry not been on in ages, do read and run most days, find it hard to keep up.

i'm due to go back to work in nov, only one day a week but although i'm looking forward to it in some ways, i'm also at how fast my mat leave has gone! and i extended it by a unpaid month. not really ready to leave ds2 just yet and haven't got round the bf issue either, maybe should try expressing but hoping he can just have water at nursery for that one day...

anyway, he's due to wake from his nap any moment and i haven't done any jobs yet!

Hi Justkeepswimming!

He does have a gate on the door, but DS2 is also waking at this time too, and he's almost 1yr old, so can't really leave him.

Am going to try and keep them both up later from now on, and CM under strict instructions to wake DS1 after 20mins of nap.

My maternity leave flew aswell, and i was still breastfeeding when i went back, but it all worked out. (After a few days of huge, sore knockers at work!)

I really don't want to set the cat amongst the pigeons....esp as a newbie to this thread, but the sleep book suggests that the more they sleep, the better they sleep as they are better rested and not too overtired to sleep. Just a thought? Apparently a lot of people assume that keeping them up later means they will sleep better and later (which is what you would expect) but the author says that studies have shown this is not the case. The later they go, the more overtired they can be so they don't sleep as well.

I'm not trying to interfere, meerly trying to help as I am finding things hard enough and that's with having 2 girls who sleep 6:30pm-7-7:30am, so I cannot imagine how much harder it would be if they weren't sleeping well. You have my upmost sympathy, really you do.

Hi everyone
sorry been ages since i posted.

Sorry to hear about all the sleep problems, sickness etc.

We are having probs at the moment too, Jacob has a cold and is waking all during the night because he can't breathe through his nose! He wakes me up and I can't get back to sleep, as I am sick too! It sucks!

Luckymummy, I have heard that too about the more they sleep the more they sleep, still putting it into practice isn't so easy

Less than 4 weeks till we move to NZ, can't believe it's come around so quickly We are having an Almost 2nd birthday party /leaving drinks for Zak just before we go as I feel bad he won't get to celebrate with his friends!