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!

Thanks :)

mlic I know I bang on about dairy-free far more than I should but S cried non-stop all day and all night with maybe 10 mins here or there when he wasn't crying. It was horrendous and there were times I hated him and I hated myself for hating him cos I knew he was crying cos something wasn't right but it was driving me round the bend. Cutting out dairy made him a completely different boy - ok, he still cries and doesn't sleep but he only cries every now and then when he's tired/hungry like normal babies do. He doesn't sleep but he's still got reflux so no surprises there. The big thing is that he's happy most of the time, he smiles, laughs, sits happily on the beanbag grinning at L and I'm not ripping my hair out at the roots cos he won't stop screaming. I can't emphasize enough how completely different he is since I cut dairy (and soya) completely out of my diet. If I cheat like have a mince pie or a sausage roll, he throws up and cries a lot the next day...so I don't cheat anymore. Even one mini sausage roll affects him...
Also he won't take a bottle happily, even with ebm and I think that's because it gives him wind so he just toys with the teat and doesn't want to suck and whatever he does drink gives him horrendous wind.
I'm just trying to say that if it is dairy, you might need to cut it out completely like I had to with Sam.

chulita - waitrose mini mincepies are dairy-free. sainsbos freefrom ones are too but aren't as moreish as the waitrose ones (altho that could be a good thing)

is S intolerant to soya too or did you cut it out just in case?

Sorry, mammoth post and pretty hard to read...
And on to my little whinge if you'll indulge me, S last night 'went to bed' at 6.30, fed twice before I went to bed at 10, fed at 11.30, 1am, L lost Bear at 2, S fed at 3.15 and wouldn't settle til 4.30, fed at 5.30 and wouldn't settle til 6.30, up for the day at 7.15...He's still got a stonking cold and his naps are all off. He just cried for 2 hours til I gave him Calpol and he's out at last. I'm trying to convince DH to put the inlaws' visit off til Thursday cos heads will roll if I meet up with them on this little sleep!

memphis how do you get fabric so cheap? Costs a fortune round here! I'm tempted to make my own bunting though, a friend had some in her living room that her mum made and it looked really funky :)

I cut it out after mumsnet told me to reading several other people's experience. Makes no difference to me really, just means Oatley milk and no cheese No Waitrose round here (don't get me started) but I've been making my own mince pies

chulita that sounds like a shocker of a night.

deffo postpone the visit - no fun for anyone of you if you and S are feeling like this.

home-made mince pies are far better than anything shop-bought anyway

if you get desperate for sausage rolls over xmas then you could make your own with jusroll pastry (no dairy) or risk the soya in Linda McCartneys ones.

I bought loads of really gorgeous chintzy old fabric in charity shops when I was getting stuff for our wedding (needed lots of fabric to cover the hay bales for the picnic)

chulita our markets fabric stalls are brilliant the xmas material i get is £4.99 a meter and in John lewis it is over double that, not that i would buy much from there..although i went in there and bought a Sophie the other day!! my mum is a haberdasher so i get steal all my aida, thread and felt etc from her one of our suppliers gave me a fanastic pair of pinking shears as an xmas present yesterday so im going to make xmas bunting too as its only up 2 weeks a year i can use pinkers rather than edge them! ebay is also really good for fabric, we also have a sewers guild here, its £5 a year membership and then you get cheaper fabric usually used for quilters

Pinking shears? What on earth are they? I read that as 'sewers' guild like under the ground sewers filled with ming for a mo, yeuch!

cakes I make my own pastry anyway (only cos our freezers pretty small and full of frozen peas cos I love them

Just googled pinking shears, we're ok [cheesy thumbs up emoticon]

a sewers guild

do you make the clever stuff like puff pastry too chulita

But of course

only the best will do

blimey, impressed!

seemed miles harder than that when they taught us at school

like your festive name btw

help needed...

where might a pg woman have hidden the warranty for the boiler?

(it's not with the other warranties)

Why thank you
Behind the boiler? In the sideboard? (that's where all my random papers end up, under the unused candles for some unknown reason)

Right, off to wake L and get some tidying done. My house is one of those that's always cluttered regardless of the amount of tidying I do (which isn't much to be fair).
Hope you find it cake and when you do could you post back my maternity exemption certificate cos that's not in my sideboard.

thanks for the suggestions

found it! it's in the filing thing in the dresser (where it should be) but filed under "gas" which does follow a certain pg logic

i'm normally freakishly organised/tidy so when something goes missing, i don't have a clue where to look as it shouldn't be anywhere other than where i've first looked!

tsc really??? re weaning? when the hell did 'they' change that.

i think i'll prob wait til 6m anyway as A showing no signs of readiness/needing more than milk and 6m was deffo right for F and blw.

also, LOVED the crisps earlier

Just started a thread if anyone has any thoughts link

i guess it's just horses for courses (semi-pun alert) with blw. you're/she is probably right in that there's no long term benefit but it might be just be better suited for some in the first 18 months.

blw really suited us and our lifestyle and it was great not to worry about the transition to 'lumps' like some of my friend's struggled with with their babies then.

and it's not as if spoons are illegal with blw (bearing in mind the pic i posted of F very much 'using' a spoon )

couldn't you try just being stricter with F before cc or do you think its all or nothing time? not being judgey (at all) i just have seen nothing to make me believe that they can be manipulative at this age.