FEB 2010 Longer out than in and first Christmases around the corner...we're 9 months on.

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Shiny new thread, as promised fellow FEBers!

Figured we would start another new one to mark first birthdays, bethlou, so I've held fire on referencing that landmark in this thread title - hope that's okay with y'all!

Anyway, welcome everybody, pull up a comfy chair, someone get the wine out and I'll open a huge box of chocolates for us all to share.

Marking my place. DD feeding and I just hate typing one-handed

Littlebear if you mention that name on some threads you get eaten alive (apparently) I used the same routine picking the best bits and it does work. Mine have both been very good sleepers but it could be luck of the draw, too. Anyway, well done you to stick with the nights! I really felt for you because it must have been hell the first few nights.

Sleep: DS had 4 nights in a row of sleeping 8-8 ish last week, the norm is one wakening in that 12 hours and I bf him if he does wake. It's a far cry from the every 2-3 hours a few months ago where 'this too will pass' was my mantra.

The poor wee mite has had a heavy cold for ages now, I took him to the docs as he was starting to sound wheezy and he has a chest infection :( Antibiotics should shift it soon though.

LBH welcome, glad to hear things are improving for you.

Welcome back Stresshead, ExtremelyChocolatey & FlyingCloud great to hear from you

Love the paintings Abs, did you go to Art School? Crap about the dog, but really good that you've managed to sort it out with the farmer.

CC how's work now? Some people are just horrible, I have a few colleagues who are Arses too.

Scones, sorry to hear about the rubbish payoff. DS cries when I blow my nose too, and utterly hates it when I try to wipe his streaming bogies No periods here yet either which is a bonus.

BC your HV sounds crap, some of them are just so useless it's dangerous.

IC cheers for sending the memory stick back :)

Who was broody, can't remember! I know what you mean though, 2 of my friends are pregnant and it makes me wistful, mind you one has hyperemesis and the other has hormone headaches so right now it's great I'm not!

I really struggled when I went back to work but things seem a bit better now. I suppose I'm just getting used to the idea, and I've resigned myself to the fact we need the money. Am still pumping twice at work and doing my best to ignore ignorant comments.

That was a mammoth catch up read, DS's dangerous clambering over everything means very little me time!

Hello everyone

bethylou Thanks for the tip about the other threads with advice on reflux. Poor you to have 2 dcs with reflux - and to still have one dd suffering at 2.7. Have the doctors talked to you about an operation?

dd1 still not at nursery because of her cold which dd2 now has. Was trying to bf dd2 when dd1 started to be really loud deliberately so I spoke sternly to dd1 and made dd2 cry .

Hiya,
DS has gone to sleep very quickly tonight, hopefully he'll sleep well [wishful emocotion]

I have my sciatica back and it bloody hurt especially with all the bending I do with my walking DS.

DS laugh when I sneeze and has a big grin when he does. But he does not like having his snotty nose wiped.

Off to post on the sleep board... hopefully I won't start a riot

Thanks Sunnybump

BG I know..she is very controversial!! I am a control freak person that needs routine or I feel like I am lost!

DD has just gone down in 1 min again as it has all gone quiet as I am typing this and took 7oz of milk

I still cant get my head round that this is working. After 9 months of feeling like I am going mad with sleep deprivation. This feels like a novelty that won't last. So as much as I felt elated this morning at 6am (rather than feeling like I had been hit by a bus) I am scared to feel happy. No pleasing some people is there?!!

I am not going to chuck away the anti deps pills just yet!

GF You poor thing. Hope it doesnt last too long. Got any pain relief?

DD goes mental when I wipe her snotty little nose too.

What killed our naps was her slow weight gain. I was trying to put her back to sleep if she rose to early, but with weight concerns I became relucant, so that when she woke up she got fed and we started a new cycle.

It's thanksgiving next week and will have Thursday n Friday working at home, so might attempt a sleep training thing.

extremely hope DD2 is not funny with the feeding

sunny sounds like your doing fab with work, it's hard with the expressing isn't it. You feel like you're making a point that you have a baby all the time. It will get easier. I hoping to stop expressing in the new year. Will def stop at 1 year.

thanks bc for AIBU support

I hope it didn't sound patronising, GF - but as an English teacher I'm genuinely charmed by those kind of mistakes, some words SHOULD exist, even if they don't. And now I know what "doubt" is in French!

Hi flyingcloud, it's been a while! I hope you have a chance to catch us up soon.

Glad it got to you okay, sunny! Thanks for sending it in the first place. I especially need it now as last night I spent 5 hours wide awake thanks to insomnia. DD only woke her usual twice and settled straight back after a feed both times, so she was pretty blameless. So annoying.
I hope your DS gets rid of his cold soon.

Fab news on the sleep-through, LBH - let's hope this is how it'll be from now on [fingers crossed emoticon...there really should be one of those...] and I'm impressed with the naps! DD remains a moving pram or on-the-boob napper, which gives me little time to myself during the day (except when DH takes her for a walk, which he does fairly often, to be fair). At least when DD falls asleep at the end of a feed - as she did twice today - I can idle the time away on MN.
Breast feeding counsellor sounds like a nice idea! Why not?!

Is your dog bilingual, Abs?! Serious question! I have a friend whose dogs obey commands in English or Spanish. My mum's dog only does what he's told if you speak to him in French.

Because DD decided to take three short naps today instead of her usual two longer ones, she was a bit overtired at bedtime and had a mini-meltdown, then woke up half an hour later (luckily resettled quickly with a cuddle). I hope the overtiredness won't have any more repercussions tonight, I need to make up my own lost sleep....assuming I don't get kyboshed by my own insomnia again, curse it...

DD cries if I cough and looks startled if I sneeze. She's well used to my incessant throat-clearing and imitates it. I hope she won't pick up too many of my annoying mannerisms.

How'd you do the bear?? I can't do strike outs either!!!

You do strike outs with -- surrounding each word you want to strike out - it doesn't work if you leave gaps in the middle of a phrase, you have to do every word...

I can't do the pom bear one either...

CC??

Aha!!!

Put the word bear in square brackets....

Apparently, it's a MN in-joke - if you go to AIBU, there's a link in the "to love the new pom bear emoticon" thread which explains how it came about.

Where is the bear from?

IC don't worry, I didn't thought you were patronising .
My supervisor has a red pen he uses to correct my reports! but he does it nicely as most of the time, I'll build a sentence the French way!

Beddy time for me as I really need to lye down. Let's hope that pain killers will do magic tonight and the sciatica will be better tomorrow.

X posting
Let's try

Yepee!!

strikeout--

Bollocks!!Almost!!

DP bought me some pom bears re the funny thread.

If you want to find it it is now in mumsnet classics..

Search " to think this couple are bonkers"

It is v funny.

crumble

Little H

I'm heroically resisting the temptation to dig that thread up. I really MUST go to bed now. Fingers crossed I sleep better (and DD has a good night too) - I couldn't another night of insomnia...

Sorry.

Good night All.

My word this thread has got very busy.

How lovely to see some old faces again. Welome back.

Watercress thanks so much for telling me your about your sleep methods. As dp pointed out recently my methods are not working, so I will try to incorporate some of your stuff I think. That said for the last 2 days ds has had a 3, yes THREE, hour nap starting at 11am ish. Both times in his pram and with no resettling required. I am sure it will not last, but it has been blooming lovely.

Ds has been suffering from constipation the poor thing, so I have been trying to get prune juice, apricots etc down him. It's rare for a breastfed baby apparently and I may need to get lactulose from the gp if it doesn't improve soon. He hasn't been eating much recently and I think it's because he is uncomfortable. Talking of weight issues. Ds was born on the 75th percentile and is now on about the 5th! No-one seems worried, mainly because dp is very slim and tall and don't forget those charts are for formula fed babies who tend to be heavier.

All this talk of broodiness is catching. My head is saying that 2 dc's is enough, but my heart is thinking one more might not be so bad. I am sure one of you will be preg soon. Maybe we should have a sweepstake as to whom it will be?!

Anyway time for me to go and try to be creative. It's children in need day here tomorrow and dd has to go to school in a spotty outfit. The first of many I am going to have to create apparently in her school career. AAArrrggghhhhh........