***The All New 2 or More Under 3 Thread!*** Join the Madness Here!

[TattooedGrrrl]

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.

Welcome pinky. How are things? DD2 is still very little then?

I have 2 DDs, DD1 2.5 yrs and DD2 6 months old.

Evening, Ladies

Nice dress!

thanks, GoodDays. Yes she's very dinky. And very chilled out- seems completely unbothrerd by the vortex of chaos caused by her siblings.

DD1 is not going to bed very well since DH went back to work- he works quite a few evenings- so things are a bit mad at bedtime.

My DH works shifts and so his shifts either mean he's still at work at bedtime, or he has to leave before work before bedtime, so 4 nights a week I go it alone. I've managed to finally get a good system going, and things are definitely easier now DD2 is 6 months old, but I hated it in the beginning. trying to put DD1 to bed while DD2 screamed downstairs......

Bedtime is known as 'the witching hour' amongst my RL friends!

It is tough, but this is a fab thread to be on, as we are all in the same boat.

That's the thing, isn't it, getting a system going.

My ds and dd1 are very close in age- 16-17 months, so they were just sort of going to bed together, but DD has started having a big tantrum in her bed when I put her down, I just really hope it's just a little phase.

As you say,early days yet.

I am a bit of you all chosing dresses. MY wardrobe is very limited at the mo!

Hi Pinkyminkee!

I bought 2 new dresses too- it was from my friends shop, so i got 20% off. They're the kind you can wear on top of jeans with a cardi for work, or with heels and jewellery for a night out. (More likely to be jeans and cardi knowing me!)

Dyl has been quite poorly. His chest seems better, but he had a temperature all day yesterday, it got up to 40 in the afternoon and he started vomiting, so rushed him to the GP (on our street luckily) He now has an ear infection, and i think his molars are coming through too. Restless night and he still has a temp and has puked over me already Staying home with him today, poor little man.

Grrl hope poor Dyl gets better soon. It's horrible when they're ill.

Today, so far, is a good day .

he's really unwell- i can't seem to get his temp down, and he's so quiet. what a shitty day.

Looking forward to a bath when DH gets in and Celebrity Come Dine with Me (then bed, probably with DS2 aswell)

Grrrl - hope he gets better soon.

Both Dcs sick here DS spewed on me this morning and DD is coughing lots and hardly eaten all day.

She had her hosp appt today and have to drop a poo sample off

Apparently she has skin tags on her bum which is making straining for a poo painful so it could be that. Have got lactulose for her.

Welcome Pinkyminkee

Gooddays - my DH works shifts too, it is tough when he is not here in the eve and I have to do everything. LOL at witching hour!!

Poor Dyl., Grrrl. I'd be tempted to go back to the doctor's tomorrow if he's not getting any better (the nurse told me to give it no more than 48 hrs last week when DS was ill). Doesn't his temp come down at all with calprofen?

Today is the first day Connor has seemed almost better since he had his chest infection last week - so we all went to playgroup. But I wish he'd get some teeth (well, more than the 3 he has) - he keeps waking at night and I have to give him more painkillers because he just won't settle, even in our bed. I won't let him get up though as I did that yesterday and he just wailed like crazy for hours until it was time to go to the CM - I felt really guilty leaving him (but once he got there he was fine).

Have to bedtime on my own tonight as DP is out - my hat is off to all of you who do that every night (although it's as important what the DCs are used to as anything else). I hope they're both in a good mood...

it's finally come down Chaotica. I spent half of yesterday on the phone to NHS direct having the same script read to me about how it's not unusual for a baby to have 40 degree temp when ill- they didn't seem worried, despite the fact calpol wasn't making much difference and he was being sick He's alot better today though.

Hello again!
I seem to have survived my first week solo with the children..yay! I am hiding upstairs now with the baby whilst DH supervises the last few mintues of playtime downstairs.
Only managed the last 20 mins of tumbletots for DD1 this morning but at least I got there, I wasn't sure I'd manage the walk.

Sorry to hear people's dc are poorly.

Thank you for thew welcomes!

Evening, ladies

Grrrl - Glad to hear Dyl's temperature has come down. I would be too - nhs direct sound rubbish (I thought they tended to be overcautious - our gp usually are).

Hi again Pinky. I read your other thread and I'm sorry to hear you feel bad. I don't have much to add other than what others said - you haven't failed, you have a lovely DD2 . I had an em cs for DS when I wanted a vb but there were risks to his health and just don't regret it at all. (As someone else said as well - my vb took nearly a week, hurt like hell in comparison and DD was at extreme risk by the end.). Just have a stock phrase to tell people about the birth - I just used to refuse after DD except with very close friends and I don't regret sounding rude. Is your hv any help?

More later, DD wants me to draw her hand print...

Hello all.
Am finally in NZ and yes, def need to start up a 2 under 3 with jet lag thread
Thou I actually think DS2 is suffering more from disorientation than jet lag! He was waking in the night absolutely hysterical for the first few nights, there was nothing we could do to calm him down. Poor wee man. Now it has turned into waking just before 5am but at least he is in a better mood! He doesnt really understand what's happened to our old house or anything, and I can't really explain....he was asking to come into our bed but he meant our old bed in the old house

Sorry haven't had much chance to catch up with the thread, but sorry to hear about various illness etc. Big wave from the other side of the world

Helloo! Can I please join too!

I have five kids aged 18, 16 and 10 (all boys) but 2 under 2. My dd is 21 months and my ds is 9 months. So yes they are 12 months apart or 363 days.My friends all think I am very brave but I think I am a bit mad.

I have found the only way to cope is to just take each day as it comes and to try to keep happy positive.

Hope to get some hints or tips for my sanity please.

hello tracyface sounds like a fab brood you have there!

Chaotica thankyou so much for that.I had an emcs with DS, an elcs with DD and this sort of unplanned cs with DD2. It's a complication bunch of emotions. I am enjoying my baby very much, and I don't feel quite as wretched about the whole thing as I did in the first days.

I have only met the HV once, and I think the nurse is coming next week-I may try having a chat with her. The cmw who came was very young and very new and I really didn't feel like loading her day with all my baggage. It's really hard to talk about these things in RL, isn't it?

Hi Tracyface!

Glad to hear you've settled safely Kaybee- jetlag is not fun at the best of times.

Dyl has been up since 4.30am...spent an hour convincing him to go back to sleep, but now i give up

Are we allowed to talk about Xmas yet?
I'm having Xmas tea party for the boys Dec 20th, and inviting 4 other kids. Going to make snow-topped rice crispie cakes and all sorts...i can't wait. Have bought all my presents, which sounds amazing, but we're only buying for the boys and my baby nephew, so the total cost has been £45! To buy for everyone i usually would would have meant putting it all on credit card, so for just this year we're not buying for others / each other. It's quite liberating! PIL have invited us for lunch, and we've said yes for once. Step MIL starting squealing with happiness / shock when i said yes. So no dishes / cooking for me either! Plus i get a whole week off work...

Hello ladies sorry not absence but had to send laptop off to HP again and let's just say it is an ongoing fight with them to get them to just bloody well fix it.

So, welcome newbies

Massive welcome back to hazey and lovely dress cazwa!

Izzy has stopped the bunny in the mouth at 4am thing, strangely enough, since we dropped the cot down again (she has started to pull herself up) and now for the past 10 days or so she has been waking about 6, but just crawling around and chatting, instead of crying which is a much nicer way for me to be woken each morning

Nothing else to report, just been getting ready for christmas and for Izzy's first birthday (Yes, I really cannot believe she is 1 on christmas day, and cannot believe that I will be 31 too!!!!

speak later when I abduct DH's work laptop again.....may be a while...hopefully not too long

xx

Hi all

All Christmas shopping is done here I ordered the last thing online yesterday (a wheelybug for DS)

Am looking forward to Christmas this yr as DS will be old enough to know what is going on. Going to make reindeer food and have got a special "key" for Santa to get in the house as we have no chimney (this was DS's worry )

DD still not better Got her weighed at baby clinic on Friday and she has lost 6ozs so going to doc tomorrow (if we can get appt!!)

Jewels - I would LOVE to be 31 again!!

Evening, Ladies

Jewels - 31? That was so long ago . I can barely remember that far back...

too at all this completed christmas shopping. Grrrl - I like the idea of limiting christmas presents this year (but I don't know whether I will).

Hi Kaybee! Glad you're back . Your poor DCs - it's hardly like you can explain to DS2. He'll soon forget [hopeful emoticon]

Simpson - sorry to hear about your DD. I hope the doctors can help.

Jewels - I didn't know your DD2 was a christmas baby. Will she get twice the presents?

BTW Hi and welcome, Tracyface

Yes chaotica I had Izzy on my 30th birthday...could have thought of less painful things to be doing on my birthday so this year I am making the most of being a) not pregnant b) not actually giving birth and c) not breastfeeding. yay!

simpson yes do hope all is ok, you must be worried.

And ladies I am after breakfast ideas for Izzy. She is 10 months and is no longer that interested in anything babyfood related and I am wondering what to offer her for breakfast - she did like fruity musili but no longer, cheerios?

grrrl we are skint this year for christmas, just not used to having my birthday, Izzy's birthday, christmas for the girls and christmas for us - in other words we have not enough money! I guess the girls would have no preferance over cheap toy V expensive toy so that's something. I don't plan to ever be one of those parents who spends several hundred pounds on firth birthday and christmas presents though as I think that is just silly.

Hello
Simpson hope your DD gets better-it's horrid when they are poorly.

re-christmas.. well I was doing ok budget-wise but our dishwasher finally gave up the ghost last night so that's a big chunk of the christmas savings money gone!

Exciting morning shopping for d/weasher for us, then!

jewels the odds on both you and your daughter being born on the same day- that must be unusual. But gosh you are going to need quite a savings regime to cope with christmas! I agree. though, we onlyspend about 12pounds or so on the first birthday present, thye mainly like the box anyway.

Both my daughters were born in October- so that's going to be s dear do, just before christmas.

PS must apologise for my typing- new baby sleep deprivation,maybe?

Jewels - When DS was 11mths or so he used to love rice crispies with a tiny bit of milk. He used to pick each rice crispie up one at a time to eat Kept him quiet for AGES. Cheerios would work too!!

Or bite sized shredded wheats??

I used to shovel a yogurt in afterwards so I knew he had eaten enough!!

Got back from docs and DD has a sore throat, bless her. Doesn't seem to stop the crying though