March 2010. A lesson for much of life: Shut the door. Find the corkscrew.

[Arcadie]

Happy Christmas MMMs. This is my gift to you!

Evening all...

Kitchen/ dining room knock through virtually done- just in time for DS birthday on Sunday. It's abfab!!!

Just a quickie cos is so late. Thankyou all so much forbyour ongoing support. I find it hard to update personally like some because generally it's by iPhone!

I have an OHU appointment next week. I agree wholeheartedly it helps look like I'm playing ball and mite do me no harm. Four days since I've been sick and there may already be positive movement - watch this space......

Nite all xx

Great news scooby, great news for your friend also donttry
I am feeling better - thanks for all the kind words here and on FB and on my own special thread. I can't believe how quickly it took hold though and just how rough I felt. Boob is still quite pink and tender but not as bad as it was and the whole body ache and fever has gone (and the migraine) and I've got my appetite back I showed DD1 just how pink and swollen it was so she would understand why I wasn't feeling well. She now keeps asking to see it and asks if I'm better now and can she rub some cream on it. (In her wee world cream cures all ills!)
Hope you are feeling stronger in the morning sarah and that you got some help with the children. Being ill is bad, being ill and having to be responsible for children is a nightmare!
pixie re the scan - had I been well enough to type I would have typed a reply like pacific I think that if you have another girl then DS is going to be so outnumbered that it might help him adjust if he knows in advance. But I have no experience of large families and the dynamics so feel free to ignore BUT I do confess to be a nosey old so and so - so if you do decide to find out at the scan then please do come and tell us ASAP
fliss took a spin round your site - looks fab, glad it's generating some more interest for you.
Oh there was more I had to say but it's ridiculously late now and I should get to bed. It's lovely fresh sheets as well - mmmm nice and DH is still working nights to I get to starfish right across the middle 6 nights of no boobie for DD2 - well I have compromised and done a 5.30am and a 6.45am feed but that's not really nightfeeding that's just early breakfast

Just a flying visit to wish happy birthday to Smac's website . I remember when you asked us to look it over (and didn't it go live on Baby G's due date?!?). I'm v proud of you for having such a great business up and running one year later!

On my own nappy note, I had my first ever Nappuccino yesterday. And even managed to sell some nappies! I was quite daunted by it, but enjoyed it more than I thought. Any chance to talk nappies is good for me! Just wish I had any pennies to spend on nappies for my own stash...

Scooby glad your birthday was good and that the building work's going well. Though I'm still that they let you get this stressed before trying to get some positive changes made.

Pixie I am that your 20 week scan is coming up - your pregnancy is flying! Though fully expect it's not flying for you . I'm a non-finder out personally but it's really one for you and your DH (taking into account whether you'd want to prepare any of your DC for a brother or sister). As others have said, if you do find out then you are in fact contractually obliged to tell us here

Today is our last week day before nursery settling starts on Monday, so kind of my last day of "proper" maternity leave. Feeling emotional about nursery (mainly as I think DS will love it and i'll be the one hoping for some clingyness!) but am feeling quite good about heading back to work in March. Remind me of these when I'm knackered and frazzled and sick of my boss!

OK, DS waking from his nap so must dash [waves to everyone!]

Awh thanks Flip and well done to you too for your first Nappacino - did you have it in a pub or find another venue in the end? Talking about nappies is easy - clinching some sales is the hard bit so well done. How will you fit it all in when you go back to work?

Hi, ladies, I am about ready to collapse in bed.

Smac, glad you are better.

evitas, how are the spots/blisters going?? Hand, foot and mouth or chickenpox; what's the verdict? Either way, hope V. is all better.

scooby, sounds like building work is coming on and you sound great - long may it continue!

Manda, at cost of vitamines. Glad to hear DD is eating a little.

Flip, end of mat leave is just crap, isn't it . I hope the transition will be fine for both of you.

sarah, I hope you are also back to normal and hope your MiL came to your rescue.

My blood count was normal and snot deluge has ceased - normal service has presumed.
Joe fell out of bed yesterday morning, well, tried to crawl out and fell, but was fine thankfully. He then proceeded to show me his new party trick: he can climb out of his TrippTrapp highchair and crawl across the dining table - it was dead funny to see, but there go the days where I could plonk him in his chair with some Cheerios to practice his pincer grasp and leave him to it .

Other than that out birthday month is about to start, so much planning and gift hiding going on here.

Morning all! I'm enjoying a rare treat this morning - MNing from my bed! I was up in the night for about 2 hours with DD2 so DH got up this morning and seems to have taken her away out somewhere in the car - I don't even care know where! So I've had the best lie-in [smug emoticon]

scooby glad to hear you're feeling more positive, I really hope your bosses get their act together now. FWIW I think you're right to see OH and play ball in that way - it will surely only go in your favour.

sarah hope you're feeling better and getting a break from the DCs

Smac glad you're also feeling better - I know what you mean about how quickly it can strike. My worst bout of masitis crept up on me within about an hour one evening - I went from perfectly fine to almost expiring on the sofa before the Apprentice was even over!

Healing vibes to pacific and her weird nose also

Good luck with the nursery settling in flip - always a bit of a wobbly time (usually for mummy more than for DC!) I'm sure he'll love it but miss you the appropriate amount without getting upset every day

Still in the midst of the sleep training here - see above note re: 2 hour waking . She's definitely improving but still wakes fairly frequently. Aren't they supposed to suddenly 'get it' and just sleep through the night by now?? Hey-ho. Will keep on keeping on with it - the goal of an entire night's unbroken sleep is too precious to give up now!

And we're still contemplating house buying too - in a nutshell, we've seen a house we really like and ticks nearly all of our boxes...DH is a bit worried about the step up in mortgage and putting ours on the market. But I think even he is now reluctant to let the house slip through our fingers so we may have a stab at it and see what happens...

Oh and the Australian cousins have set a date for their wedding - 6th April 2012! So it looks like we're contemplating flying to Melbourne next year with a 2 year old and a 5 and a half year old - yikes!

Hope it's a sunny Saturday for you all - enjoy the weekend peeps x

Good morning MarchMNers :)

PD and Smac Good to hear that you are getting better!

Blessed London is too much of a trek for me but I am sure you will meet plenty of the other Marchers on your visit :)

Sarah How are you feeling today?

Manda You have my sympathies on the crap sleeping front, will explain further down.

Flip Well done

Pixie How did the scan go yesterday?

heckle DD still hasn't 'got it' yet - however, I spotted in the Pantley sleep book that something like only 6 out of 24 two year olds sampled were sleeping through the night As for sunny Saturday, it is absolutely bucketing it down here. Still, it's made sure that next door's stinky bonfire of plastic items is out. However I have just spotted that it has not stopped my bonfire remains from THURSDAY smoking

DD appears to have all four molars coming through which meant that Thursday night into Friday consisted of her sleeping on my chest with me half sat up in bed, and every time she rolled off into the bed she woke up screaming blue murder and took ages to settle again :( This was not helped by some fuckwit chugger ringing the doorbell at 8.30pm on Thursday waking DD up just as we'd settled her to sleep the first time.

Paracetamol/ibuprofen/dentinox didn't seem to help AT ALL. That was the third crap sleep night though, and as I predicted, last night all seemed to be well again (just a midnight and 5am waking, although of course that seems to count as sleeping through )

We bought DD's first pair of shoes on Sunday but after reading a few threads about Clarks shoes and the fact that they did my feet no favours, we got her measured at Brantano and then got her a pair of Next shoes. And then yesterday discovered that Primark do size 3 shoes so I fear that she may end up with a collection to rival Imelda Marcos fairly shortly...

Can anyone help me here ?
Thanks

I've posted on your thread, Siamese. Hope you are ok.

My day so far...

hi all
pd i've texted you......rubbish day, poor you
siamese i can't add anything but hope she does pee soon, how rubbish for you...
heckle i hear you on the Oz front we are all heading over in november for my brother's "wedding", at much expense and Annual Leave...... at some point i need a bit offload about all of that but i haven't worked out how to do it really anonymously (not that he'd ever read MN but you know, [paranoid])
pixie i'd never find out, personally - i always get tempted but GOD i LOVE NOT KNOWING as i waddle get into my 35th week etc etc....So much fun.
Glad smac is better, glad monty is settling ok, siamese, glad The Truth Is Out rkd re the twinnies, amd the Great iwcas/Sarah meetup didn't happen but fingers crossed for a future appointment....and, um, sorry for missing everyone else.

THANK YOU for the Elk Birthday wishes - we had a lot of fun and she is really turning a corner, I can't now decide if I was massively sleep-deprived last year or if she was a Terrible Two...but either way, she still swears like buggery pushes the boundaries....

Anyway, to explain my absence, we had all of the Elk Birthdayness, plus me going back to work, plus a really sad family-friend funeral, plus lots of other stuff that is just too boring, so I sort of lurked/caught up on the iphone during my morning poo (i know, i know TMI but it made me smile just thinking abotu you all going 'NOOOOO' at that thought so i had to put it) and am now just getting around to posting....

hopefully more anon. but obviously, will try and keep my lavatorial habits to myself.
hope i haven't missed anything drastic.

OH!! And DD2 is walking..more or less. and she says lots of thing but mostly, this week,she likes pointing and saying "LOOOOK". it's very cute. Seriously. I have the smiliest baby. She's. Just. Lush. (even if she drinks like a fish and wakes frequently for Nork Support in the night )(glad to hear some are still boobing it, i'm massively in the minority in RL and beginning to wonder when to stop.....)

Baby G is having her 1st birthday party tomorrow. I'm very excited. Her birthday is on Wednesday but it is more convenient to party tomorrow.
I've made a MN recipe cake (which I have made before but somehow misread the amount of coco powder and put the icing quantity into the cake so it looks a bit pale, never mind it looks light and moist anyway) DD1 suggested an Insy wincy spider theme and I bought cola laces at the shop but I'm not convinced. I need a sudden burst of inspiration.
Melk we have missed you lowering the tone with your lavatorial chat.
PD hope tomorrow is a better day - here have some more
siamese hope DD is better soon - dioralyte
fliss - hope you get more sleep too.
Waves to everyone else and gets back to icing.

Nighttime norm support: yep, engaged in round 1 of that rightnow.

Happy birthday to Baby G. Incy Winsy theme sounds great. I'd never get away with that here. DS has developed a fear of spiders from nowhere. Well, not from me anyway.

How is your DD, Siamese? Any soggy nappies to report?

PD, your other thread made me wince, shudder and chuckle. I think it sounds as if you held things together really very well considering how tryingly you were tested. Oh, and I was once "abandoned" in a rather similar situation to your DS1. I can't remember provoking my parents in quite the same way subsequently.......

Nork not norm.....

(Must must remember to preview)

Baby G slept from 7.15pm til 7.05am so that is night 7 of no booby feeding and we have a result! Please note this is the first ever night she has slept through - it's only taken 362 nights...... (not that I'm counting or anything!) off to think about icing and stuff.

Morning all-

Yay too fist full nights sleep Smac- hope u all have a great party x

Melk- great to hear from youm glad we fill the time on the loo for u! hope life is settling down and Go DD2 walkking x she is super cute i must say x

PD- hope ur ok after your terrible day x i feel your pain at times, how do we keep smiling sometimes! lol

feeling much better now, thankfully, what a nasty sick bug! what a way to spend half term and more importantly what a waste of annual leve from work:(

DH and i had a big argument last night, not really sure whats goin on here, bith seem off and fed up..... thinking perhaps we need to do something just for us...... however i dont want to do the organising etc..... life can be such a PITA sometimes, TTSP !

Hope everyone else is feeling better now x

sneaky lurking from the loos at work is the only way I know what's going on round here. I view it as being just like chatting to friends in the bathroom.

at Pixie's typo. At least I think it's a typo.

Aaaaaargh, I just lost an epic post and may just lose the plot permanently if I try and recreate it

Melk, still BFing here, you are not alone.

Gah at everybody not 'feeling the love' at work (or at home, sarah - hope you get some time away with DH)

Good day was had here today .

On another note: does anyone on here know Rinders in RL and would be prepared to PM me her postal address?? I would really like to send her something, anything... I just feel so inadequate in the face of her tragedy and have the need to Do Something, Anything.

Off to bed now, nighty-night.

Morning all
Equally lurking here just outside work, I fear my MNing may make me late tho.
Selfish post if I'm allowed. Dd2 has croup and sounds awful, I heard a new cry from her last night that I've never heard before, was awful, anyway we've been to OOH overnight and she slept for the remainder off and on my chest. Joy. Add DH into the mix with his trapped wind/dodgy tummy (who TELLS work that's why you're not coming in??!!!!) and I'm afraid sympathy for my family is stretched...dd2 can have it all, I can't be doing with a DH describing his every symptom.

Work could be fun today then?!!

God, I feel more shattered than I thought humanly possibly.

But on the bright side, I saw my wriggler today - measuring 12 weeks exactly (making due date 12th September) with a very reasuring NT of 1.3 and visible nasal bone.

In one 'head from above' shot to look at the brain, the baby actually clapped - quite mind boggling to imagine all the stuff they do in there when still so tiny. DP says he thinks it's amazing I still find it amazing when this is number four! But then he had to wait outside with DS2 and it's easy to mock when you haven't watched this two-inch being acting just like a real little person!

Oh. Did anyone was anyone else stupid enough watch Toughest Place in the World to Be a Midwife. DP shed a few tears. I... didn't. I felt strangely numb, probably because it just seemed too horrific for my delicate sensibilities right now.

I still feel sick.

Lots of love and relevant birthday wishes to you all - sorry just not up to shout outs today.

Happy Birthday to scooby's DS! Hope you have a great day.

Manda that's lovely, I'm glad the scan went well. It really is amazing, isn't it? I had a dating scan at about 8w and the detail was just incredible, even then. We got some good photos too, better than at my 12w scan (but that's because I fainted and had a seizure before they could get a good clear shot). Sorry you're still suffering from m/s though, hopefully now you're more-or-less into the 2nd trimester it'll pass soon.

Blessed I'll be around that week in April, maybe we can organise a London MMMM catch-up.

evitas how is DS' rash? I hope he's recovering.

Smac lovely photos on FB of Baby G's birthday party, and well done on the sleeping front! Hope you're getting over your mastitis.

siamese how is DD's fluid intake/output? Hope things are improving.

Melk I said as much on FB, but I hope DD2's croup clears up soon. Poor thing, and poor you spending the night at the OOH. That's so cute that she's walking and talking so well though! Still mainly cruising here. How is work going by the way?

sarah I hope you're feeling better, and fingers crossed you stay healthy for, ooh, the rest of the year. I think you've had your fair share of bugs already!

Lots of poorly babies and mums :( We're all in fine fettle here, for now, although Isobel has three teeth coming through (uppers). She's generally a bit fractious atm, grumpy and a wee bit belligerent even. I'm hoping it's just the teething... Nothing much else to report. Same old same old :)

Just quickly: PD, I don't know if anyone on our thread knows Rindercella's address but I'm sure WhoMovedMyChocolate does. Perhaps she could help / pass something on. It's a lovely idea, anyway.

Happy Birthday to BabyScoobs and Get Well Soon to DD2, Melk (and cannot believe your DH really described his ailment thus to his employer.... I think I'm left feeling sorrier for the employer!)

How is C, Siamese?

Hope everyone else is well/getting well/enjoying looking at their scan pics/having fun MNetting in the loos at work.

Hellooooo lovely MMM ladies - one of my dash in, dash out selfish posts I'm afraid, still lurking though, just crazy working bla bla bla, can't believe DD will be one soon ( I know lots of you have already said that.) Oh, and still Bfing (and co-sleeping) here too. Greetings to all, belated happy birthdays to all babes - i believe Arcadie, TooBlessed and I have the littlest March babies, if memory serves. So DD is 11 months old today. 6 teeth, cruising, saying "bye bye" and "Daaadddeeee". I do feel grateful that I have a DH who gets to spend so much time with his DD, to be honest he has probably spent more time with her than I have since she was born - but still, feel slightly about the lack of "Mommy/Mama" or similar.Sniff. Ah well. Back to work. >

Dear lovely ladies, Happy St David's Day for tomorrow to you all

Pixie must be too busy with her DH to come back with news of her scan So we know she's persuaded him to do such a thing at least FIVE times

Happy birthday little Scooby :)