July 2010:Our actions get dafter, all for the reward of giggles and laughter!

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new thread! thanks once again to spireal for the name!

oh and cakes i wont be putting 1st baby pics on fb, i wouldnt do that to your eyes, i look bloody shocking, i didnt even want to print them but my mum made me!!

Morning, Dylan slept in his cot from 9 til 9:40 giving us time to have 'relations' (still bloody amazing )

He then spent the rest of the night in our bed, he woke at 2, 5, 6 then it felt like every 15 mins til 8 when I palmed him off gave him to DP so I had another hour and a half sleep.

We're going to see friends today, they're due their baby in Feb, I cant wait to meet a little newborn again, Dylan will be 7 months by then so he'll seem huge compared!
They dont know what they're having but I hope its a boy as Ive given them a whole load of D's old clothes!

I really wish I hadn't given birth to the most miserable baby in the world. Up all night and done nothing but cry today. He's in bed now and I hope he stays there for a while cos I'm sick of hearing it. He's such hard work, I've never know a baby like it.

Sorry you had a row and spoilt your lovely night memphis. tsc, very sweet! And great you kind of slept through him feeding too. Even having a separate room for my little horror darling didn't make a difference on holiday - he was up 3 times first night, 4 times second night, 6 times third night and lost count the fourth night. I got a few hours kip (with one 2.5hr stint) the first night we were home but barely got a wink last night. DH took him off my hands this morning and I got about 40 minutes before ds1 got up.

The less sleep I get, the harder it is to cope with :(

tsc and mlic - if I could swap for a bit to give you a both a break, I would. I hope you both manage to get some respite soon. My friend had a baby from hell and I always used to say to her that she must be due an angelic toddler - and she is. Hopefully this 'phase' will end soon and you'll both have cherubs to die for.

We've just been to see Mega Man at the pictures. Was quite good, F was glued to it all the way thru, A sat up high in her carseat, glaring at the screen and frantically sucking her dummy looking like a cross between an evil mastermind and simpsons maggie.

evening ladies, how are you all? Sorry your having a crap time mliff good news bout him taking more food, we had to swap r onto level 3 teats as the carobel made it hard to suck it out.

memphis thats rotten bout you 2 arguing, all ok today? Men can be such arses on drink.

tsc did you enjoy your xmas night? Hows dd1?

cakes were did you buy the amber necklace and whats the name of the gel your using? R is rotten atm but seems she has a cpl trying to pop through

dh dress sounds gorgeous. Your so organised

spireal dont worry about rolling etc m will do it when she's ready.

Hey to everyone i've missed. We are going to put the deckies up tonight make us more festive hopefully lol x

Well I rang my mam this morning and told her I'd decorate her tree (always been my job, even though I bought my own house and moved out 7 years ago!) but only on the condition she did us a Sunday dinner! He screamed all the way there (20 minute car ride) and I walked in in tears and just told her to get him away from me. She did, bless her and whilst we were there he had half an hour nap so my ears got a bit of a rest. He cried the rest of the time though, even though everyone (except me, apart from briefly) juggled him. I felt better for not having to be 'the one' who calms him down, and frankly he wouldn't calm down for anyone anyway so I just played with ds1.

I didn't bother with any solids today as (1) he just was not in the mood for anything except crying and (2) it was a bit inconvenient timing-wise. I'm not bothered though, it hasn't made a scrap of difference to our nights so doubt he'll miss it. On a positive though, I managed to leave him to go to sleep relatively painlessly without his dummy.

cake, wow, F sat through a film? I can't get E to sit still through a story nevermind a flipping film!

mliff - it's so hard, it just feels relentless doesn't it? When G was at her worst ( waking 5-6 times a night) I would just get this feeling of panic - because it would be non stop all day with the 2 of them and then there would be no break at night either - it just felt like it would never end. I really hope it imprves for you soon.

G's first night in her own room went OK, she woke at 10 (before I'd gone to sleep), then at 2 and 4 so that's an OK night for her. Even though I had to get up and go to her cot (instead of just leaning over in bed to her cot) I actually feel less tired today and like I slept better - I think it's better not having her right by the bed. Plus I can actually get in my bed on my side now rather than having to crawl over from dh's side as the cot was in the way on the other side.

Yep, I would consider that a good night too wss! Well done G :). Yes, it's the feeling of never getting a break from it that I can't stand - all day followed by all night and so the wheel spins... All I'll say is thank God I have a toddler to be proud of or I'm sure I'd have been packed off to the looney bin by now!

Oh and thanks cake, if you lived closer I'd defo let you help me out!

Stac, not sure where cake got hers from but all my amber stuff is from amber pumpkin. ds1 has this one and this one and ds2 has this one whilst I wear this to try to keep me calm

And I know most a lot of people think it's all bollocks but I don't, so I also wear a citrine bracelet to try to keep positive through this shitty time. See here for the reasons for wearing citrine.

Or not, if you think it's all a bit wacky

evening all! sorry to hear you're both having such a shit time, tsc and mliff.

have had a nice time today at my group of mum friends' Christmas party. It was lovely to meet all the dads and we all had a good time. we even got a picture of all the babies together without any of them screaming!

J is still waking every 3 hours at night - and when I am lazy and try to feed him lying down it doesn't really work as he has a bit but then falls off and can't get himself latched back on - he bats his head against my boob and I have to try to reattach him, repeatedly. it makes my back ache too. i am better off just sitting up and giving him a full feed as then he'll go back to sleep.

last night it took a good 2 hours to get him off to sleep - this evening he went down first time (though the bedtime feed takes at least 45 minutes anyway). i don't know what the difference is. I am out tomorrow and Wednesday evenings so really need him to go to sleep before I go out - hmm.

mine are from amber pumpkin too and the other stuff is ambesol liquid.

woodlands sounds a great night, as did memphis's although not so much your row (charles and camilla?! wtf?)

also, woodlands they are all so different so this might be of no help but we've just figured out that A goes down miles better if we're quite loud and leave lights on nearby as she's dropping off. She always goes down quickly but if it's quiet she'll then keep waking up for her dummy for an hour or so after she's gone down whereas if it's noisy when she goes down then she'll only wake up once or twice. Weird huh? We're also playing her some music when she goes down - not sure if that helped too.

so what do we all think about x factor? i was quite shocked actually (won't say too much in case one of you hasn't finished watching it)

tsc that really touched me about frankles shuffling towards you in bed. you're right, it's so easy to forget that they're uncomplicated, innocent baby mammals and it's nice to be reminded.

mlic F does have an amazingly long attention span and has done since babyhood. It's out of character as he's very hyper and animated the rest of the time. We go to the pictures with him quite regularly now - just means our viewing is restricted to children's films (last one was Incredible me) but we're just pleased to slump in the dark and stuff popcorn Hopefully A will be the same as him.

We're taking the to their first panto next week so hopefully that'll go well.

Oh and mlic - I love the fact you have a wardrobe of amber to choose from!

tsc you should make quote of the week with that retort to lifeforrent about not needing a break from her SINGLE 1YO!!

You been fighting again tsc? What thread's that on? Might have a look.

Well I got up all full of today will be a good day. Within 30 seconds of dh leaving for work the dog pissed all over my kitchen floor. Very uncharacteristic of her (not the boy unfortunately, but the girl never does it). At least I got a head start on the housework anyway, having to bleach the kitchen floor! Both dogs have been banished outside and they can stay there. Dh really missed them when we were away but was cursing them within 24hours of getting home for annoying him .

tsc ds1 found his presents recently too. They weren't very well hidden to be fair, but it was a bit of a struggle trying to get the boxes back off a stubborn two year old who wanted me to 'get [them] out mammy' :)

fuck, fuck and fuck

up half the night with poor Lady A who had wind pain, i (and maybe A too) appear to have caught F's tummy upset (nice) and now F is the fucking, horrendous teething devil incarnate. He is totally uncontrollable - biting, hitting, throwing, oh and todays special: sticking his hand in A's mouth - shows no remorse, thinks its hysterical when i tell him off so i get louder and louder and i hate myself for how i'm acting towards him. I'd never ever hit him but i'm not being very gentle when i drag him off me or A.

i'm at my wits end - and its not even 9am.

oh and i have to wait in for the plumber.

where's lifeforrent when you need to show her a real life past 1 year?

Morning,

Dylan didnt go to sleep til about 10:30pm last night, hes so different every day but I much prefer it when hes sleepy all eve and goes to bed at 9.
He woke at 2 and didnt get much better from then on, he woke alot, esp after 6.

Going to the baby group at 1 today, we're having a xmas party

Oh no cake, could F go to nursery either as an extra day or swap his days this week? Sounds like it's going to be a long day otherwise :(

dh sorry but it sounds like you may just have an early riser. ds1 is an early riser too. He's very rarely in bed after 6.45/7am even now, but when he was younger my day regularly started at 5am cos he just wouldn't go back off. It's depressing when even cbeebies isn't on cos it knows it's too early!

ds1 was up 6.45 today. He's almost cracked getting his door open, but has only actually managed it once. I'm dreading the day he gets out and comes through to our room at silly o'clock. Then there'll be absolutely no chance of 'go back to sleep until the un comes up'.

i've affected a truce by being nice mummy no matter what. things seem to have calmed down but i don't know if this will last.

oh and i think i have a blocked duct again. hello mastitis

Oh god, sixth trip to the loo today (sorry tmi I know). This is a disaster!

Thinking of taking your advice mlic and sending f to nursery but I'm worried it'll confuse and upset him as he'll be going in at different time (if he goes in he may as well go after nap this morning now) and it'll get messy re lunchtime as nursery will have done lunch by then. God, I'm being useless.