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

[kkfairybrains]

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

That's five hours. Two dirty nappies. Twenty minutes of screaming. Now she's happy as Larry, thrashing about and giggling like a mental baby.

that is a hard one chulita for me it would be zumba because of the winter the maybe switch to swimming.

cakes i usually get out and about with her but due to the crappy snow ds is off school and a lot of places aren't offering usual activities. But i'll try more singing etc, kind of housebound and driving us all mad. Gorgeous pics btw

needles have you tried a dummy or teething gel? I may be telling you how to suck eggs but she's probs just chomping on you as she is sore. We got a great gel filled teether from tesco. R also likes getting her gums rubbed.

Has anyone else bought an activity centre? I am in 2 minds as i have very little room x

tsc that sounds like a success on the frankie bedtime front. keep dp at it!

re trading standards - worth asking them if there's a chance you could get money back under the circumstances with the delay etc? that way you could go and buy a new one with no worries

thanks stac. re activity centre - do you mean one of those things where they sit in the middle with stuff all round them? if so, i borrowed one from a friend for felix and i'm in two minds about whether it was something i'd repeat with aurelia. They are massive but i did use it a lot in my then study (now felix's bedroom!) when he was on the move and i wanted some peace to use my pc.

needle good luck for the night ahead

fed up waiting for dh to come in from work night out no.1. off to sleep. night all.

5.5 hours. She's asleep but I don't think it will last. What scares me is how angry I get when this happens.

tsc my dh chain smokes. He gets through about 30 an evening. i've given up trying to make him quit.

I dont think I can type any more. I am still trembling with frustration, and i'm just going to have to concentrate on staying calm.

Night ladies xxx

needle hope you have a better time of it today. Fwiw we all go through this and we all get angry at our LOs, it's all part of it. S gets left to cry if he doesn't go to sleep after about 2 hours. I don't like it but I turn his monitor off, shut the door and get the kettle on, if he's still going when I finish my drink I go and give him a cuddle and then leave him again. He always stops crying when I pick him up so I know he's fine, he's just wanting attention!
cake I hate being treated like the pathetic 'kept' woman. In dh's job I've got the added nause of being a civvy too...it's a right pita.
stac we had a jumperoo for dd but we won't do it for S. They're huge and take up too much space and she only used it for about 4 weeks. S will go straight in his walker (and yes, it's got wheels on it, phone the ss! ) S is currently entertained watching us do stuff or with his 3 rattly toys.
mlic great news on the optimistic CO, hopefully W can be a happy boy at last!
tsc hooray for settling F! Now you have proof he can do it, you can leave him to it and have a night out!

I really wanted to find a dress for the christmas do but nowhere seems to sell party dresses anymore...any ideas?

chulita the chocolate, don't forget the chocolates!

dh buys me a load for my advent calendar and then another box as a xmas present cos i'm spoilt and will sulk otherwise

needle, mlic was just thinking, it's funny how we expect that unlimited patience will be delivered along with the placenta, when actually that isn't the case. I'm 100 times more patient with my two than i am with anyone/thing else but still, if they're being really, really annoying then i will naturally, be annoyed!

how was your night needle?

needle I get angry too so its not just you. Dylan went down at 9:30, only to wake up at 10:30 and absolutely refused to go back in his cot and was babbling away so he had to come in our bed.
I get so annoyed and I cant do anything about it so I have all this pent up anger I feel like kicking the cot.

He then woke up 4ish times. Im so over him at night. During the day he's fine

FUCKING SNOW!!!!!!!!

Sorry had to get that out. DP has still gone to work- loon.
I cant go anywhere, its so shit.

I don't understand how my mother did it.

Gwen went down at about 11.30. I finally rolled into bed at 2.30 and she was up again at 4. i ended up plonking her on my chest and trying to sleep and finally got her back into bed at 7, so I managed to get an hours sleep.

Don't like this game any more.

Ha cake I was running a bath for DH [proper wife emoticon] when I remembered that I should have thanked you for the link I've left it up on the home pc as a 'subtle' hint to DH. I suggested he might give up chocolate as a helping hand but no chance...
needle it will get better, it will. I look at S now and think of how he was 10 weeks ago and he's already easier. In a year's time this will be a distant memory (just like the morning sickness/cankles/contractions are now)

My mum reckons I slept through the night at 4 weeks and that was it.

I think her memory has gone.

MIL says her 1st two were awful and her last one slept through at 3 weeks. She says she only remembers it cos she couldn't believe it...neither can I tbh Mind you, SIL loves her bed even now! Trust me to marry the middle one who whinged for the first year of his life apparently...

ffs tsc he is actint like a dick. but then on the other hand things are said that nobody means when tired. but he really needs to give you a break. you've tried explaining it to him so what else can you do? really hoping this cluster feeding eases up for you soon.
needle you're having a really tough time at the minute you poor thing. wish there was advise or help i could give but i got nothing!
haven't been on in a few days as i've had a busy few days with work and ellie still not better. she's on the last day of antibiotic and she's still not herself. but then im thinking that the antibiotic may be putting her off form. her teeth are driving her nuts too and she's chomping on everything in sight. wish they'd just come.
got the 30 day shred dvd today........oh holy god! its tough! doable but tough! there was a few stages i felt like giving up but kept going. just hoping i get the results that everyone is raving about!

Thanks guys.

Omg tsc, I would go mad in your position. Dh drives me mad, but at least he does it like a man!

To be fair, gwen slept through from birth to three months, so I guess I'm just getting my comeuppance.

afternoon all, well i was supposed to go to work today got told to turn back as road was unpassable by the police due to weather so i couldnt get to work, then on the radio it says government are holding talks to find why the country grounds to a halt! maybe if they get the gritters out of the depo we could get to work, seriously these people are morons as i drove back home passed the depo i nearly pulled in and offered them a driver if they werent going to work!!!! grr! but on the plus side i got baby free til 1 and had a lovely soak in the bath!
tsc oh my god i would be fuming!
kk is it really that bad? how long is each workout? i need to lose my flabby backside -im not really eating a bag of macoys...honest-
chulita and dh my mil insists dh slept through at 6 weeks and never not once woke in night again, this is my dh who suffers mild narcolepsy (sp?) but even then i doubt he did!!

needle what an awful night. Fingers crossed tonight will go better for you. I was lucky last night B got up at 12 and then didn't get up again until 5 so I'm hoping for a repeat performance of that tonight.

tsc he really is being out of order. You can't do everything by yourself I can't understand how he can't see that. Dh would be scraping me of the ceiling I would be that angry if he had acted like your dp.

Memphis dh was out on his road from 9pm until 8:30am so some gritter drivers do work honest

tsc I think lack of sleep can make us all act like a cunt at times. Hopefully he'll just snap out of what ever mood he's gotten into as quickly as he started.

Its probably a combination of a few things tsc. Tiredness being number 1. I get really irritated with dp when im rewlly tired and vice versa and i say things like your dp said to you and i actually dont mean it cos he is good.
Menphis it does seem good in fairness. Alot of people on the shred thread are doing it without dieting and are still seeing fairly quick results. Plus its only 20 mins. Now that its been a couple of hours since i done it im thinking it wasnt THAT bad but i know i wasnt saying that while doing it!

No advice for anyone from me I'm afraid. I don't have a clue anymore...it's 2 steps forward and 1 step back here, G was up about 6 times last night and I have no idea why...

My mum had 4 kids and reckoned she started us all on solids at 2 months because it made us sleep through the night

haha dylthan can you send your husband here? the gritters were all in depo covered in snow so they hadnt moved in a while, im not hunting down the depo like a mad woman i genuinely pass it on way home!!
whatshe said can you tell L that you and your siblings slept through with food he has a big boel of food followed by big bowl of pear then a bottle but still wakes up, i think he has hollow legs!!

i give r supper at 8.30pm followed by her bottle and she sleeps from 10pm till around 6ish, she has 3 meals per day, breakfast teatime and just before bed. I wouldnt say she eats vast amounts but it does the trick

tsc i know this may sound daft but does he maybe feel pushed out because you have to be with frankie so much? Its just at the moment you both have loads on just now, so like we sometimes resent the babies maybe thats dp's problem. I would imagine life was a lot easier for him when you only had C to run around after? Hope I dont sound out of line, just dp and I have struggled as there used to be far more time for me and him iyswim