July 2010: Our babies are growing, they're grabbing their toys and soon they'll be throwing!

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new thread ladies xx

mlic haha waste not want not!!
i think he may have been testing the waters, its not that i dont want to marry him i just know it would never happen as if we marry its us and L not all the family, and he wont marry without his family, so it wont happen!
we were supposed to be going for a walk today but weve been at bank for 2 hrs sorting income insurance for dh and life insurance for both of us and an account for Lyndon

S won't sleep for longer than 30mins and won't stop crying today, I've totally had enough :(

Why does it always all hit the fan at once, chulita? Hope your day has started to improve a bit by now.

im loving the new mobile mumsnet, makes it much easier to read and is much quicker loading pages.

Im sitting in Eat having a cuppa, there's loads of mums and babies here.
Dylan slept for an hour round town, I couldn't believe it!

Birds eye emailed me back, they're sending me a bag so I can then send them the maggot, bit odd I think. Also the maggot has been sitting on my window sill for 24 hours so its a bit shrivelled and dry lol.

mlic I'd do that if I could but dd doesn't sleep in the buggy and rarely sleeps in the car so it's nap or nothing. If she doesn't nap she falls apart from about 2pm onwards. If Sam screams while I'm putting her down so be it, not much I can do.
Wrt couriers, cos we've just moved house there've been quite a few bits we've needed to order. Today was the double buggy though so I'm annoyed to have missed it, S is a bit big for the baby bjorn now!

dh they might want to make sure it's a maggot rather than a caterpillar. A caterpillar is just par for the course with peas but a maggot would show that they've got decay problems somewhere down the manufacturing line, just a thought. Odd thing to post though, you going to insure it?

mlic might E's nap thing be teething and the fact he's ill tho? F always fights naps when he's off-colour and it's hard work getting him out of the phase afterwards but so worth it when I get the holy grail of time to myself when both are asleep!

I can't understand toddlers. After putting up a massive fight F will then go on to nap for at least 1.5 hours - so what was the bloody problem?

Just upstairs feeding A again as she had painful wind (from my antibiotics) so couldn't feed earlier. DH is collecting dinner from pizza express tho so it isn't all bad!

chulita you know your stuff with the frozen food packaging industry! I dont think Ill insure it just hope they believe it is a maggot now as its just a shrivelled up looking blob.

Dylan is at last in bed asleep, hope he is better than last night, woke at midnight then about 3 maybe 4 more times after that even tho he was in my bed.

cakes whats the pizza express thing on fb? Did you send a pizza idea?

chulita what a rubbish day hun, feel for you. Have you been using the ranitadine for S?

mlic have you a list to hit this consultant with tomorrow?

kk saw the pic of ellie in her new toy, she looks so happy lol

Met up with becky and violet today with the lo's was nice to have a catch up and we're heading to baby cinema on friday which no doubt will be an experience lol. Anyone else been? X

probably because she has seen things with w also be some moral support. What time you there? mlic

Augh... Four month growth spurt! Nap time has gone to pot here too, replaced with yet more feeds-!!

Night time sleep is so far unaffected though, phewf! Survival mode though for days ATM.

mlic will they examine his mouth tomorrow? oh and you're not alone, you've got all of us stalking you there

stac nah - I just like food!

needle you alright girl? you've been quiet.

spirael exactly the same here!

how many growth spurts do they have?

Lol cakes thought you had made up a pizza and your right we are there with mlic tomorrow online stalkers lol

spireal wish rileigh still slept all night but shes now needing a night feed, nightmare

Hi Ladies,

God, it sounds like everyone is really going through the wringer at the moment. MLIC, I really hope things pick up for you soon.
Chulita- that's so rubbish about missing your parcel. Our post isn't getting through here, and about 6 parcels have gone missing in the two months that we've lived here. I think basically our postman is a lazy git and we're not getting our mail.
DH Congrats on setting a date for the wedding - the fun part starts now! I've no idea what your plans are, but my dress was made for me by this company and the service I received was incredible. Especially considering that they took on my commission at very short notice, turned the whole thing round in 2 months, and took into account the 4" around my waist I gained in that time with the pregnancy!
Spirael it's a lovely article in Prima- how did you come to do it?

Excuse my recent silence, Gwen and I, and my mum stayed at my grandmother's this weekend.I left the baby for the first time so that I can go and get a haircut (£50, and it's possibly the dullest haircut in history. Not impressed)
I'm going through a funny spot, and having trouble staying on top of everything. I'm still having trouble meeting other mums, and it's starting to get stupidly lonely. I've started snapping at DH's friends- the ones who work with him every day- i think for no other reason than the fact that they're male and therefore socially useless to me!
For some reason, despite my not eating very much, weight is still piling on, which for someone who's spent their entire adult life cheerfully anorexic is a nightmare, not to mention baffling. I know that really losing weight shouldn't be the first thing on my mind at the moment, but I'm so used to spending my entire day obsessing about food that now that I don't have time to do that, I seem to be gaining weight faster than when i was pregnant.
DH and I are still arguing. It feels totally stupid though; the whole time we're arguing, I know nothing's really that bad, it's like we're going through the motions of rowing, but not really putting our all into it, you know? Very odd
It's so strange, I have this incredible, perfect baby, but everything else in my life seems to be going weird, and, at the risk of sounding pathetic, I can even have a proper bitch about it because a)most of my friends aren't talking to me and b) the people i do talk to all go "well, you have a baby who sleeps through the night, so I don't know what you're complaing about".

God, I just read that back, how incredibly whiny I sound! If anyone can deliver an esoteric slap to the face, I'd be grateful, as I really need to snap out of this ridiculous mood.

needle thanks for the link, vintage!

Dylan was awful last night, dont know if its the start of the 4 month sleep regression or what but he went down at 9:30, woke at 11:30, then at 1:45 then he was awake til 3 cos I was trying to get him back in his cot but he woke up every time so I gave up and had him in my bed but then he still woke up around 4am, then 6am, then 7:30.
I feel SO tired this morning, its horrible I dont know how on earth people put up with long term sleep deprivation.

Its a bit of a viscious circle with him tho, he wakes up if I put him in his cot, but then when he is in my bed he wants loads of space so I have to squish up towards DP to let D spread out, but if I move around too much it wakes him up but he doesnt want to be in his cot where he has all the room he wants!

Going to my baby group today, its the last one of the course which is a bit sad cos I really like it and I met a girl there my age so I might see if she wants to meet up again.

morning all, not a great night here either rileigh woke at 1.20, 3.30, 4.30 and at 5.30 came into our bed were she proceeded to take more bottle and has been wide awake since 8am what is happening?

needles you do not need a slap hun, its hard being a mum and everything else plays 2nd best to your lo which is where dh and freinds struggle as they are used to being more important to you iyswim. Regarding the weight thing do you have a councellor you can contact? My cuz battles bulimia which it seemed after the kids she needed a bit more support as she hated herself. Sorry if this is like telling a hen how to lay eggs. Think mlic's ideas to get yourself out there is a good one and i'm sure when you find some people in a similar position you'l feel better but mind we're all here x

what a bitch mlic do you have anyone else to go with you? X

mlic can tell you're loving having your own stalkers . Best of luck today. can't wait to hear the results.

i was just delving around in the fb group settings and help centre and found this - reckon this means we may have been panicking as perhaps it was only us who could see the pics etc?:

Groups ? Groups: Posting content to a group
What group stories can appear in my News Feed?
Activity in your groups displays like information on your home page and Facebook Pages. Posts from your friends within a group can now appear in your News Feed. Actions you take in a group can also appear in a mutual friends? News Feed. For secret groups, no stories will be generated in your friends? News Feeds when you take an action in the group.

For example, if you add photos to a group where you and a friend are members, your friend will see this story in their News Feed. Mutual friends who are not in the group will not see this information.

needle mlic's right re speaking to your hv. i find them generally quite superfluous but mine did give me a great list of everything that was going on in my town for 0-5s so hopefully yours can do the same.

why aren't friends speaking to you. still about your ex? it must be so hard and the last thing you need at the mo.

re your weight i guess it'll take a while for you and your metabolism to get used to life without anorexia as you won't be used to eating 'normally'. Well done on staying healthy after G tho!