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120 · 14/09/2010 18:44

here we are. am going to start a bet on who is next to get broody!

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hackneyzoo · 07/10/2010 21:46

It's reassuring to know I don't have the only DP in the world who shows no interest in sport whatsoever. He is quaking in his boots at the thought of having to take DS to football matches and saturday coaching and all that Grin Well I'm not doing it! Although I quite like watching the rugby (grew up with a rugby mad father).

Think my deal breaker is that DH has has has to be hands on with DCs and house stuff, seems to work out 40/60 in DHs favour...so that one worked out well for me Grin The tables will turn come the new year though! Agree with the steak too....

Am chuckling at spartacus 120. Will have to ask him all about it on saturday!

I've eaten some unusual stuff on travels in asia, but not sure I've tried horse. Don't really see why horses can't be part of the human food chain if pigs, cows etc are. Although think I will take 120's pov and stick to riding them rather than washing them down with a nice chianti.

stripeywoollenhat · 07/10/2010 22:23

not the terrible tv spartacus, though, with the shiny muscles and the violence...?

so much to catch up with... wow, dog, 2lbs? he's a cutie Smile

argh, chef, i'm amazed you haven't evicted your uncle with extreme prejudice. hope the exhaustion starts wearing off soon.

tree, you are really a shockingly lovely mum to have got dd1 back her bee. i'm going to hire you if c ever loses softbear (discontinued primark bear thing)...

sorry about the cb cut/tory scum. pretty sure cb will be more or less axed for everybody here in the next year or two, along with hospitals, schools, police, arts, public transport, everything else... our lot don't even have the integrity to have an ideology, they are just plain, ignorant scum...

chefswife · 08/10/2010 04:34

Stripey How bizarre, herpes? Glad she's better. That just sounds awful. Never heard it was common in toddlers... then again I wasn't told about how many times in a week mom needs to wash her housecoat. Too many things no one talks about, about this whole raising kids thing. Wink

120 E is Rayray little one. Mine is V. lol.

DD and I had a great nap, after I got her down. Then we got up, had tea and fruit and watched Ellen, made dinner, watched Happy Feet while we ate, paused to clean up, curled up on the couch to finish it, and ended the night with a shower and books and cookies and night night. Grin

tinkhasboughtoutalltheshops · 08/10/2010 10:04

morning

tree - ye for playroon doores and luv bee photos on fb Grin

hi miss j Grin

and pothers

yeh for fri Grin Grin

getting blinds done today Grin

treedelivery · 08/10/2010 12:39

Hi all.

Been to a swim splashabout class with H-bomb, who is crashed out on me Smile Am off to bed in preperation for work soon.

Ohhhh ouch ouch for C. I feel really sorry for her. I get coldsores, which are hepres simplex I [maybe II??] and they make me feel like utter shite.
Chocolate has a chemical in which triggers the virus to reproduce. Bummer!

SOunds like a lovely day chef, and good luck with blinds tink,

teaandcakeplease · 08/10/2010 14:44

I am sooo tired today I am counting down to the DCs going to bed tonight and to my shame I was in bed last night not very long after 9pm. What's wrong with me? Confused

Poor C Stripey, that must have been horrid.

I've read everything but I'm too tired to put together a meaningful reply Blush

Rrrrayray · 08/10/2010 16:44

Hi all.

Have read all but afraid not taken much in.

Haven't heard much from you moose recently? is all OK?

Thanks for tips with E Temp. Its finally under control but not totally gone. Seem to be teething related, as 2 molars and the odd missing front tooth all coming through together. poor poppet.

Tink, maybe i missed it, but did you get Bracken's bed?

Hkz- def didn't get a healthy pregnancy grant. Gov is bonkers, cutting back left right and centre, but yet giving Grants for being healthy? huh? That said.... grab it and run! ;-) Massage and accupunture sounds like very wise spending of it too! mmmmmmm!

Tree- i love the Zonked out quality sleep they have after a swim, if only we didn't all have so much to do and we could join them. Lush.

Es and i just been collecting Apples from our apple tree. Off to make crumble, and one for our neighbours. Got bloody hundreds, far more than i could use, shame we dont all live near, you could all have a big box!

hackneyzoo · 08/10/2010 18:16

Ray I love this time of year for apples and blackberries and all that autumny stuff... makes me miss the countryside. Think the pregnancy grany is to be scrapped in April along with trust fund...so gonna get my massage in while I can.

Stripey, poor C, glad she's on the road to recovery and busy eating boozies!

Sleep well Chef and Tree! Tea I am counting down til bedtime too,small people are exhausting! I saw your good news on FB, fingers crossed for N.

I need some good ol mn consumer advice. Am thinking about buying a second hand pushchair for new baby as we put ours in the cellar, but the zip up it was in wasn't done up properly and now it is mouldy. I've always been a maclaren gal...but was thinking about getting one with a carry cot bit for tiny babies...any recommendations? We live in a basement so has to be easy to get up and down steps and on and off buses, or should I just stick with a trusty ol maclaren?

hackneyzoo · 08/10/2010 18:23

Ohh, I had another question I needed to ask too... I am going to try and pick up a TENs machine off ebay as used one last time and it was great. Does anyone recommend a brand or make? I can't remember what sort the one I hired was.

hackneyzoo · 08/10/2010 18:26

meant to say also...Moose, where are you? Hope all is ok..and Pat too.

Rrrrayray · 08/10/2010 20:20

HKZ - had apple and blueberry crumble for dinner. Lush.

I do have a recommendation for a lightweight pushchair. When we went to France last year i got the Petite star, Zia. It folds v. Small, goes into a bag/backback (it comes with this) and reclines to fully flat. I think you can also now get a carrycot to go with it too. Can't recommend it enough.

this is the one we have

this is the updated version with carrycot and car seat adapters

tinkhasboughtoutalltheshops · 08/10/2010 20:42

evening Grin

rray - yes did get brackens bed when i went 2 ikea last wknd hv put away till she is 2

hkz - not sure about buggys

hi yeh moose hasnt been on for a while!! hope she isnt having more bad luck

well got all blinds apart from one door blind
they r great look so smart Grin

chefswife · 08/10/2010 21:34

Hello All, Bookmarking. Just waiting for DD to fall asleep for nap then its off to bed for me too. So knackered as we were up with DD with a cough from 2-4, then Andrea woke us all up at 6.30 because she was late, as usual, for work. DH wasn't impressed this morning either about it as he is working 15 hour days right now with the new restaurant. I've had it. How fucking thick can one person be. I could hear her slamming shut her drawers ever. Why doesn't she get ready the night before instead of being that twat that rushes around waking the whole household? She almost got a roasting today but I had too piss too much before I was able to get out there when I heard her slam the door shut. Its going to get ugly, and how to approach UG about it without it sounding like I'm being pissy, which either way I look at, it is going to sound like that. Off to take a nap.

missjackson · 08/10/2010 21:42

Cooked for 24 people tonight [knackered face] so just popping on to say hello. (120 your brownies warm with ice-cream went down a storm as usual Grin)

hkz I have the maclaren one that goes flat so fine for newborns - it's useful for London and the tube as it's so light - xl something perhaps? Sorry not to be more precise. Anyway, it's been brilliant, and I can highly recommend - even now he will still sleep when I put the seat all the way back. But we only use it for town. Will be taking to Aus though!

My midwife lent me the tens machine last time - might be worth asking if yours do the same?

stripey poor C with herpes! It's supposed to be the worst the first time around. About every 3 years I get a coldsore, and this time I bought an electric zapper from boots and it was simply amazing, the cs never even appeared - best 30 quid I have ever spent! But not sure it will work with her if they are inside her mouth.

ray apples are yummy. It's also sloe gin time!

Waves to everyone else, time for my bed... cooked breakfast for 24 tomorrow, yuk. .

Rrrrayray · 09/10/2010 18:56

Hi all.

missj - 24, impressive. hat off to you.

tink glad got bed and blinds done. What does Bracken think of bed? has she stayed in it all night?

chef Sorry out of the loop as to who Andrea is, but sounds bloody annoying! Sorry DD has cough, nothing worse than a sleepless night! We've had a few rough nights through teething/fever.

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chefswife · 09/10/2010 20:32

Ray Andrea is Uncle Gord's girlfriend.

This morning we got another 6.15 wake up call of shit being dumped on the floor... I jumped out of my skin because it had startled DH so much. So he's pissed that he has been woken up after doing a 6th 15 hour shift in a row and I'm pissed because this constant interruption of sleep is wearing my family down, I pulled on my housecoat and slippers and went upstairs in the rain, rang the doorbell, and said to UG, "You guys need to be quieter in this area because we can keep getting woken up like this". UG was slightly miffed, like it was the first he's hearing this, and "Oh, ok." And off I went back downstairs. Needless to say, I never fell back to sleep so gymnastics was especially grueling today. We'll see what happens later as I expect them home half through nap time. Fingers cross. Its mostly just Andrea... and she is even worse when UG isn't home. Being pregnant means zero tolerance. I just can't take it. Simple.

Off to nap soon... and boy I NEED it today.

chefswife · 10/10/2010 04:47

Ok. I shit you not. UG came home, but DD and I had just woken up ourselves and she was having a quiet read, but he stomped in, dropped his shit in a big kabang, ran down the hallway and back, dropped more stuff and slammed the door hard on the way out. He's taking the piss now. Unreal, really.

We had a pretty good nap and then went to DH's restaurant for dinner. Nice Saturday night. So lucky DD is so behaved when we go out for dinner. We take playmobile characters, crayons and sketchbook, stickers and a dolly. It sounds like a lot but we've got this baby bag thing down to a fine art.

teaandcakeplease · 10/10/2010 08:39

Unbelievable. So sorry Chef that he's being so inconsiderate Sad

Very Envy that Vi can sit so nicely for dinner at a restaurant. Sounds so lovely, a real treat well earned for you both x

tinkhasboughtoutalltheshops · 10/10/2010 09:01

well we made love last nite and now i am bleeding
looks like early period
i am on the pill

chef - [shcok] @ ug!!!!

teaandcakeplease · 10/10/2010 19:18

Awww that's a bit rubbish Tink.

Very quiet on here today.

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teaandcakeplease · 10/10/2010 19:55

That sounds interesting DOG, I used a McTimmoney chiropractor with my 2 DCs and she was awesome, sounds vaguely similar, worth a short if you can find someone to show you how to do it.

I used to spend a lot of time on the breastfeeding boards and used to type what worked for my DS who had colic. I'll paste it below but it actually sounds gushing and patronising reading it back many months on. LOL so don't make fun of me people Smile

"My second child cried for 2 to 3 hours a night until aged 10 weeks, feeding didn?t seem to help or calm him and I felt like I was at my wits end, in fact I used to make the mistake when he screamed of thinking he was still hungry, so I?d try and feed him on top of the wind and then he?d scream harder and then do a massive burp and bring the feed up, so I spoke to my health visitor about it at the time and her tips to try were:

Warm bath covering tummy.
Lying him on his tummy with a warm (not hot) hot water bottle under him to soothe tummy.
Cycling his legs whilst he's on his back. Holding feet palm to palm and rocking legs sideways, whilst lying on floor or lap.
Or scooping with right hand down his right side whilst holding feet palm to palm.
Or rocking him face down well supported on legs.

She also said don't eat anything that gives you wind such as brocolli, cabbage, caffeine, cauliflower, garlic or other stimulants. However I don?t believe there is actually any evidence that what you eat affects your milk. Certainly Tiktok on mumsnet also I believe says this (from memory) however I hadn?t started posting properly on mumsnet at this point, so I gave it a try. She said if none of the above did work I could try buying Colief drops from a chemist and mixing in with a feed by expressing it first, as she said sometimes colic is caused by a lactose intolerance. I never needed to buy these in the end.

I found that out of all of those the cycling the legs was particularly good. I also found that as he had trouble burping, the infacol made him cry harder as it coalesced the bubbles into one big one that still went downwards but hurt more. But giving him gripe water after every feed straight away really soothed his tummy. I had to do it every feed though without fail.

The warm bath in a quiet room was also a real help. Every night at the time he started to get agitated I would put him in the bath, in a bath cradle and keep putting warm water on his tummy and every now and then top the bath up with warm water, so it wouldn't get too cold for him. Once or twice he was in the bath for 2 hours in the early days as it was really calming for him, my poor DD watched a lot of CBeebies in those 10 weeks, much to my shame, as he was a Winter baby too. Once he started doing big yawns and it was bedtime, I'd take him out into a dark bedroom and change him and BF him quietly and then often he'd go to sleep straight away. This was a huge relief after I discovered how much this worked for him. In the day I'd keep him up for only 90 mins only before putting back down for a nap and this also helped.

Remember things will get better soon lovely, sending you a very unmumsnetty hug. I found it so hard to see the wood from the trees at this stage. My tips may or may not work, as every baby is different but there?s my thoughts. There is some great advice on here though, I wish I?d used mumsnet when DS was tiny"

teaandcakeplease · 10/10/2010 19:56

short = shot