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How exciting for a new thread - two FESHspring due shortly!

Fanks y'all. Have been in contact with rotters who is being phenomenal with advice. Trouble is I am rubbish wuss. However have "felt the fear and done it anyway".

Worried about the cream for nips doing nasty stuff to MB as not designed to be ingested but as long as follow guidelines from the BFN all will be ok. Right ??

Re feeding : I go from when he finishes cos at the mo we are having hour long marathons.

Who has snow? We do. HI has to go to work and am worried about ice/accidents etc. I am so glad I don't have to go anywhere, let alone try and get into work which was a complete bitch during the last lot of snow we had. Hopefully sharer has got to yard ok to see to hoss!

Rastus was A-MAZED by the snow this morning - I didn't think he'd get it but he obviously recognises the difference in the garden

Silv we have oral thrush here. Peppa was on nystain first of all and now on Daktarin gel and I have some nip cream (can't remember name and can;t be arsed to run upsatirs but it begins with a Ny).

To be honest I am a bit lax with it applying as I don't think it is that bad and it is not affecting feeding or my nips (famous last words)

Have snow in that SW London now. Walked the 2 miles to and from nursery this morning as did not want to get in the car. Mini C liked the snow until he got cold and then he cried - Peppa slept through it all. Then went and met a friend for coffee. Not letting snow hinder my social plans.

I am - my buggy won't get through the snow and I'm not carrying him in the sling, no siree Bob. Stuck indoors, although we have had a turn around the back garden

I agree re thumb sucking not necessarily meaning braces, I sucked my thumb (only ever to get to sleep) till a shocking age, but never had braces, nor did my thumb fall off

Alps we were saying the same re responses the other day, Artie has a fab bottom lip and has done for weeks, it's so funny

Okie you are my hero. I think I may have developed agoraphobia given that we've been out twice since we came home. And I don't fancy going out in this weather. In fact I haven't even opened the curtains today it's so drafty with the bloody Victorian windows.

Well master moo slept so well yesterday and I even managed to get a 2-3 hour kip in the afternoon which was medicine! However we got a 2.30 and 5 wake up call again so am resigned to no sleep for foreseeable future. It's weird, we seem to have gone backwards a bit. Maybe I let him sleep too much yesterday...

Dogs gone mad with snow. He LOVES it.

Oh my, I think we may have sorted out near-perfect childcare arrangements!! Can it be possible?

cosboss you need to use the gel four times a day to be effective. rots and the BFN say this so must be the troof.

I let MB cry again today. He cried himself to sleep and is still asleep now.

Another bad parenting tactic - when he poos mid feed and I change him after (during day no prob) he is then wide awake however
have now decided if he is sleepy to not change him and leave him. If he wakes and cries then will change him but otherwise won't. Otherwise we are all then wide awake Til the next feed two hours later. Pls to not report me to NSPCC.

Silver I am so with you. My mother looks at me in horror when I told her I didn't change him one night as he was falling asleep...

I am kind of with you but have suffered the consequences of terrible nappy rash when leaving poo too long. Apparently the mixture of poo and wee together are not your friends when it comes to avoiding nappy rash.

Oh poo! Literally!!!!

How to stop small baby pooing mid feed during the night ????

Cork?

I shall ask Bear why he chose not to poo at night! But no, I don't change in the night even if I get up to feed. I just want milk & back to bed. I can't change the nappy with my dicky eyes in a low light anyway, so it'd mean turning on the real lights and then that'd wake him up further.

cunty G'wan tell us about your childcare arrangements then. AIBU to leave the pitbull in charge?

okie Pls to describe "terrible consequences" - it sounds most un-nerving. Am thinking I need to get popcorn and shield eyes? Worlds collapsing? Dogs going like the ones in The Thing?

Bear was definitely under the weather yesterday, he had sniffles and I'm sure that teeth is coming through. As a consequence he was a fucking delight and slept more than normal and woke up a delightful little smiler! Saw the mortgage advisor and it looks like we could have the keys as early as end of Jan - not that we want them because we'll be off skiing. Got my car back from the garage and his system went down so was unable to charge me. Gutted. And got a letter from my health insurance company "apologising" and admitting that I did actually pay September's premium. I knew I had done - but I had to send the tossing bank statements to prove it. In the interim they've passed at 93 euro debt on to the debt collectors - so will need to phone them this morning and say "thank you for apologising, now pls to call off the boyz?". Twats. Oh and POAS says no. Fucking rude innit. I think I understand now why some people continue to POAS even after the BFP. You piss on so many sticks who say NO, you want to even up the score a bit.

Sore bot bot Alps and much meh due to sore arse discomfort.

Alps it really isn't that exciting - it's just that I've been stressing about it so much then all of a sudden it just fell into my lap. And it is all thanks to Edward de Bono - I've been assuming that he had to be close to me geographically because it made more sense when dropping off and collecting, and the nursery on site at work was ideal but tres expensive.

Now because my new boss has fannied around with alowing me compressed hours, they can't take him till 1st June and I need to go back 1st April, preferably 1st March for financial reasons. Well the application of a little lateral thinking has turned up a childminder just round the corner from where Hom's garage is in Holland Park, OFSTED outstanding, 12 years experience, mother and daughter set up so can take more than one under-1, great reviews from other parents and they do loads of activities and trips to parks and the big museums, follow EYF syllabus, and AND cheaper than the nursery at work by some 300 sheets a month. Timings work out almost perfectly and it sounds exactly what I want for Rastus. Almost to good to be true - I'm going to be interviewed meet her early next week so everything crossed.

On a different note, especially if you are an atheist or agnostic, does anyone else hear their child begin snuffling and rustling around in their cot and actually pray to the lord god almighty that he/she doesn't wake up? Irrational.

If poo happens mid feed, can you not change mid feed? I think that's what I used to do back in the days when he used to poo at every feed. Now we get 2 a day, one between 9 and 11am and one between 3 and 5pm. little clockwork boy

silv when you say let cry, I am assuming you mean winge and not scream? If scream, I have childline on speeddial Seriously though I iz jelus, it just does not work for Artie. hey ho.

Sounds absolutely ideal cunty! When you say "pray your child doesn't wake up" - can I just clarify that you meant +"for a grizzle" and not "4evah"! Btw, wrt going back to work - when I went back nearly every bloke came up and said "oooh how are you managing being away from the baby?" Er, just fine you cock, it's not like I've never left him before. Patronising cunts. The three women (and mothers) came up and said "you must be so relieved, couldn't wait to get back". So there you go, you'll be patronised by the men you brave wee thing choosing to exercise your braincells post-partum and not just bake cakes for the next 18 years putting on a stone a year.

We've been out for a push around the park - in deep snow do wheelies with the buggy.

I think I'm going to go out for a ride later in the snow - partially just to piss off the others at my yard who always slag my barefoot horse.

I've got a cold god dammit. Short of putting myself or Babymoo in oxygen tent jacko style will I hurt my baybee?

where iz everyone?? bad day... lots of weeping. kick me

moo you need to go for a walk.

I'm here Moo, what's up, anything more than the cold? I suggest bad day probably due to feeling poorly. Always equals weeping for me.

Suggest some paracetamol / neurofen to get your temp down, plenty of cold drinks to get the fluids in, and some cake.

Babymoo will be fine, even if he does get your cold (which he may well not as bfing should give him the antibodies).

I was out at the crack of dawn on new horse. Was like riding Bambi on ice skates! 4 year old clueless Irish thingie on slip-slidey road is not the same as the larger 11 year old version I sold earlier in the year.

Ski I've had all the 'ooh, how brave you are' stuff from the blokes in our hunt for turning up in the car with both kids to car-follow. Er, what's difficult about sitting in a car with heated leather seats and a picnic, looking at neddies through binoculars and occassionally whipping my teeshirt up?

Moo have a very gentle kick. You can't have Lemsip (cause of the pseudoephidrine) but you ARE allowed honey and lemon with whisky in it - have a few of those and I'm sure you'll feel better soon.

LG is continuing to grow. He was double the size of a dinky 6 month old girl at play group today!

I think I'm just strung out, knackered and under the weather. Feel pathetically crap. Sent Mr Moo to get more iron tabs yesterday too as hospital supply expired... not sure that low iron was helping me either. Last night was a 1-2.30 and 4-5.30 feeding operation and up feeding again just before 7. I know this is all normal and I'm whinging but fuck me I need more sleep. We had a good evening last night, in fact bedtimes are definitely getting better and he is sleeping if not all the way through until 9.30/10, then for most of it. Trouble is, I should go to bed then and I don't. We've been making the most of it and I think I need to learn my lesson since I'm not sleeping any other time. I'm going to start expressing tomorrow again and Mr Moo is going to do the late feed before he goes to bed. Do you do this okie? How do you work it with bedrooms etc? He was going to put little one to bed in our room as normal, sleep in there until he wakes up around 1 or 2 and then come and get me in the spare room. I need to do something as I am literally hanging.

Moo That sounds like a plan. Peppa is awake most of the evening at the moment so I am not getting to bed any earlier. Also I am expressing at 10.00pm so I have got a bit of a milk stock going in the freezer and Peppa is having an expressed bottle at 10.30. However, this is mainly to get her used to taking a bottle although I am sure it will eventually result in me getting more sleep when I stop expressing as much. She is only waking once in the night though so I don't have the sleep depravation you have (frantically touches wood). If you have got peaceful evenings I would get myself off to bed early if I were you. Or sleep more during the day?

Sounds to me like mama needs a cocktail moo. 1 shot vodka, 1 shot kahlua, splash of diet coke, splash of guinness. V good for iron levels, have 6 4.

moo I'm in bed most nights by 9-9:30 - I can't predict what's going to happen during the night but he'll usually sleep until 2 - so that at least gives me 4.5 hours.

Your ride sounds lovely boxer, I was going to go this afternoon but my arsehole employers appear to want me to work for my wage. Wass that all abart eh?

I haz odd friend problem. (Problem and friend both v. odd). She is one of my oldest friends - she's sent me in the last 6 weeks or so 3 mails talking about my son using his middle name. The first time I thought "oh she's just remembered the wrong one", after the second time I littered my response with his first name. But today, she did it again. Do you think she just can't bear to use his real name?