FESH spa and creche: Is anyone thinking of the children yet?

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New Fred. Apologies for dullness of title - we need curly for witticisms.

sliver hire it from Boots, you get it for 4 weeks.

Thank you ruby!!!

Rots will message you about the allergy/intolerance/eczema issue as it is long...

colacube care to share as I may have to deal with the ishoos you mention with our PFB!!

Sorry I have not been on here for ages. I'm slowly learning how to cope - 'little steps' is what I am telling myself.

I have done a speed-read skim catch up so apologies of I've missed some major thread news. My impression of the thread (and the way I am feeling) is god this is bloody hard and we are all doing amazingly well. I'm so glad this is not one of those threads where the only people who are vocal are the ones who are super-organised and coping brilliantly with their healthy and genius-like babies. Please to all keep writing of actual true problems so I feel at home with my failings!

I am making some lovely rl friends at the baby group. Very BESH! So cross we are moving in a few weeks. (And btw, I am also having a major panic/denial over that issue.)

Strength to all!

Hey FP! Glad you are still with us. I am still waiting for the sneeze and the chaos that will no doubt follow. Total respec' to you as you are double duelling with two DC's now non?

Hey lushes! So sorry for radio silence, just here for first time in aaaaaages. Will hope to resume contact soon, am indeed hugely sleep deprived, savoring last few days of having TSF home, constantly feeding, trying to get my back muscles back and wondering why Clint is in an utter pit of round-mouthed misery a couple of times a day. (all normal, I hope!) He at least has a name now, will other-place pic and name soon. Hope all is ok here, catch up properly next week.

Yay! VAG is alive! Clint has a name! TSF is still to blame! Birth story pls! Pls not to frighten silver though!

I had a busy day Tuesday with lots of visits to friends and no stops inbetween. In the afternoon went around to T's house - she runs a childcare centre at the base. She held him up and said "well, his washables don't smell" - apparently they've got someone who was using washables but they smelled really badly of ammonia and she's been ordered to send the baby in with Pampers. rots Please to send out washing instructions with every order. (You may well have done, I remember binning something and I only cracked smell-free washing a few weeks ago.) Anyway, got home to find enormopoo which had actually soaked completely in to his nappy turning the entire thing sand coloured... and she still reckons he didn't smell. She has 5 kids, 2 dogs and a husband in the army - maybe she's immune?

Does anyone have anything exciting going on? The biggest challenge I have a head is trying to fit my arse in to one of the 4 new suits I've bought. They're all on hangers and I can't face bum-rejection just yet but I have an interview next week (yay!) for a very cool company up near Amsterdam. I wanted to leave NL, but this is one company for whom I'd stay - they always come very high in those "best companies to work for" lists and I wouldn't mind a transfer to their HQ in Oregon thank you!

mornings all. I have come to the conclusion that Artie does not like the G&T :( every tom i have had one he spends all night up with the superwind. what have i spawned????

Maybe he's just after something more "manly"? Have you tried some real ales? 5 pints of Stella? He's probably just having a reaction to the lemon.

I can confirm at this end that, further to an experiment conducted in early September, Rastus did not Do Well on real ale

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Recently DD has noticed the difference between male and female genitalia. Cue shrieks of 'You have a man-bum, Daddy' and Mummy, my bum and your bum match!' Yes, even in the swimming pool changing rooms. (Back bums and front bums are all just bums to DD.)

Last night DD ran over to me as I entered the room almost hyperventilating with excitement exclaining 'Mummy, Nana has BOOBIES too!'

Today OH went to the shops and got sidetracked by chatting with a cricket mate (ie, gone for hours!) I dialled his number and DD gabbled into the phone 'Are you lost, Daddy? Are you lost?' Over and over, and over, and over...... OH was in hysterics when I finally got the phone off her.

And other things; I'm going to have a go on the racehorse on Sunday. How hard can it be?

DS slept ALL last night! All the way till 9am. Hurray. Shame DD was up at the crack of dawn....

Thanks boxy. You've cheered me up.

Good luck for Sunday. You're not jumping anything, are you? (

box!

We went to Hull Fair tonight and had a great time. Biggest fair in Europe with huge rides, even a log flume!! I fed Comma sat on a set of portable steps left randomly (I thought) in the street until he was just finishing and I noticed I was surrounded by police who were politely waiting for me to get off their viewing platform.

ski washing instructions are sent out with all nappy orders. How are you washing yours? Please tell me temperature, type of detergent, any other additives, whether you ore-soak or pre-rinse and in what, etc.

I can confirm that there is naff all on tv at this time of night / day (delete as you feel appropriate).

S'pose I should get used to it.

I need to turn my brain off as if I start thinking about shiz then I am stuffed and can't sleep. And a preggo needs her sleep.

rots I've figured it out now and am smell free. They go in the bucket (no water, no poo soup thanks). Then they're chucked in the machine with the bag open, 60 degree with pre-wash cycle. Half the usual measure of detergent. No additives. Nuffink and they're all doing great now. Think I had detergent build up before.

haha about you using up valuable police resources!

silver You need a DVD box-set. The reason it should be DVD rather than regular TV is so that when your precious bundle-of-joy screams through some particularly crucial dialogue you can rewind and try again.

I'm a bit tired and fed up. I went out riding yesterday and apart from being shot at it all went well (first solo hack since 2009!). Anyway, got back to be told they'd been doing lots of playing. :( Despite trying to top him up I was up at 1 and 4am. Am so looking forward to how jailbait handles it this weekend - I hope he learns very quickly that the more sleep Bear has during the day, the better he does at night. I'm not sure how I'm going to cope next weekend without him - everyone else is car sharing but I'm going to take my own just in case I have a wobbly and have to drive home 2 days early.

Box you have reminded me of a friends little girl who said "Daddy, why have you got a poo hanging from your leg?".. hilarious!

Okie snort!

FP I will be going for a 15 minute trudle round the block. However, Ski has been back in the saddle since before my DS was born, and she's only just managed her first solo hack, and now I am wondering whether that's a good idea. I don't have anyone else to hack with (DD on the Shitland is probably not going to fill me with confidence,) so will be going alone. OTOH, the horse is a donkey in a racehorse's body. He apparently spends 99% of the time on a go-slow, and the other 1% a warp speed. It's the 1% that slightly concerns me!

Rots - Hull Fair! Brings back memories. I went every year till I was 22. Was a bit exciting in a slightly rough way back in the day. And you never knew whether the rides would kill you or not. I loved it!

PS FP lists are good! You always feel you've made a start with a list.

boxer It was mostly nerves... she's a fiery beast and I was just feeling a bit jittery - wound up by others as much as anything. But all went well yesterday although I didn't have her gallop flat out... I do understand that one - I've had a few gallops on her but I feel very much more aware of speed than I once did. :( Was talking to YO yesterday about our beach trip and the one thing I have in my favour is that as she's not fit she's not going to gallop 10 miles. After about half a mile she'll be huffing & puffing haha. On saying that my confidence is gone I was eyeing up some rather large ditches... so I'm not quite ready to quit!

Am having "undercarriage" issues. Was quite tender yesterday after my ride (90 minutes or so) and today had to cut my gym session short as was on the bike and felt like my fanjo was about to go up in flames.

Yay for hoss riding. Sharer took nag out alone today (was s'posed to inform me beforehand! But didn't cos didn't want me to worry or feel I had to go over and watch). Am bit bovvered but she did call to tell me after and did say all went well and tbh I would rather she did it before I am housebound. Plus she had her phone and told others where she was going. So it's all good really.

Need this baybee to arrive to switch my attention.

boxer How did you get on yesterday? Will you be entering "pony races"?

curly I'm really sorry, I forgot to say last week - BLOODY WELL DONE LOSING HALF A STONE! :) That's really excellent and I think in all the jibba-jabba your congratulations became lost. I imagine you're now looking like a cross between Kristina Hendricks and Lara Tomb Raider?

silver She had her phone and told others where she was going. Pls to not worry! That's really all any of us can do when we're going on a hack - it's certainly all I do "If I'm not back by 3 - send an ambulance/come looking".

Last night I conducted a little experiment and made a point of counting how many times Bear woke me up and got me up during the night. Went down at 9:15pm, up at 6am for milk. During those two times I was awoken 12 (TWELVE!) times.

Boy oh boy is daddy in for a shock...

With you ski I saw every hour last night 4 months eh? I'm laughing hollowly. He fed every single one of those times.

What about setting up one of those feeding systems on the side of his cot like the clever rats get? Everytime he pushes the red button milk comes out. Am also picturing a hamster water bottle?

In your mind's eye is this system in any way linked up to my babbyfeeders?!