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

[Arcadie]

Happy Christmas MMMs. This is my gift to you!

RKD, shame there's no 'like' button for your "post-baby post-waaaaay too much chocoalte pot belly" comment. It made me in recognition
Ooh, big day for DS1...DD1 starts proper school in September (just a couple of days after her 4th b'day poor thing) and I feel my heart surge even now just thinkng about it. Good luck.

Pacific, thank you so much for your lovely post on my thread - it meant a lot and you gave great advice. Tis nice to get a professional opinion from someone you know you can trust Well done DS3 on the potty training - clever boy.

Sarah, hope you're getting some more sleep now and that the nasty pox are well on their way to disappearing.

IWCAS, glad you have sorted out your boss, just what a shame they buggered up, probably when you most needed the money too. on your behalf. Btw, I love seeing DS's updates & photos on FB. He is such a cutie (and a clever one too, taking his first steps).

Pixie, at least you have a pregnancy brain to blame I need to find new excuses!

Scooby, your working hours sound just exhausting. You really do have my sympathy. I don't know how you do it all.

Well, a proper update on DD2 for once. She is still the calmest, happiest, most content not so little baby I have ever come across. She rarely cries, frequently smiles and she slept 13 hours last night She has slept through a few times but frequently wakes for one feed per night. Obviously I have done everything I can to replicate yesterday's events to try and make sure she achieves the same sleep tonight

She is also bloody fast. She is just 9 months old, but she can run. Fast. She holds my fingers lightly and legs it after her big sister. Got to film it so you can all see it. I am lining her up for the 2028 Olympics, wherever they may be She did take a couple of steps without holding on the other day, but was very quick to find my hands again!

I have put a new photo of the girls on my profile if you want to have a nosey (same one as is on my FB profile now).

Shan't say anything about DH as I don't want to depress anyone. Got a whole other thread about that

Waves to everyone else and sorry for not doing more shout outs. Must try harder next time.

Yeah the terrifying thing is that the size 16 dress probably WOULDN'T fit now.
[eats donut for comfort] [has sudden dawn of realisation]

Morning all: sleepless nights and laryngitis.
That is all

Pixie i do love it when you recall last yrs events, seems like it was only a week ago not a whole yr!

Rinders lovely pic of you girls.

oh no Valium, i think its about time all illnesses and bugs left this thread and our families alone now:(

RKD hope the morning hasnt been too stressful.... lol mine has been!

Elliott slept a bit better last night, Dh dealt with him for a while as he was very unsettled but i took over at 3 am..... feels very much like having a new born again.... anyhoo went to school to drop off ds1 and i forgot the pushchair had not been put in the boot after dh too it out over the weekend.... did not want to carry him full of the pox etc so a friend walked him in..... i have put him to bed and so far so good! really need to do some bouse work but cba!

spk later

My sympathies to all with sleepless nights it hasn't been easy here either
[strong coffee and hugs to everyone]

Rinders your DDs are gorgeous! I wish I could say my DS was chilled, but no! He's the opposite :)

Sarah Glad E. slept better. Good luck

Scooby I'm sure you are counting down the days for Mexico :)

Pixie only 4 times?! I like your optimist

IWCAS glad your return back to work wasn't too bad. I've also been checking your FB photos. R. is just a sweet boy!

PD well done on the potty training. I have no clue on how it works, but most friends struggle with it! Do you still have snow over there? We still have a little bit over here.

RKD congratulations on the crawling. I'm still not sure if what my DS is doing can be called crawling commando crawling maybe?! Well, at least he manages to get where he wants

Nothing really important to report over here (apart from difficult nights - but that's nothing new). I've been struggling to write and focus :( but I really need to get motivated and finish this bloody thing!
Waves to everyone else

x

love the link ~Evitas x

RKD splutter about the donut Tee hee.

Love PDs optimism too. makes me feel so much better to know that so many of your baby's wake up too. Though feel sorry for us all of course!! Tis tough tough tough. Mind you I should be positive too. It is lovely cuddling her now she doesn't punch and headbutt me so much

rinders very very gorgeous kids. Love the hair - amazing, like beautiful haloes.

Pd love that your DS is so proud of his potty antics!

evitas your blog is fab. Puts mine to shame. hope this link to DD on xmas day works

oooh meant pixies optimism. Though PD is v optimistic too .

Feck, I always press post before being really finished.

Out of curiosity can I do a straw poll on how many of our baby's sleep through the night (generally?). Mine - NO! Lately 2 wakings with one feed, last night about 45 (slight exaggeration only).

Donttry Thanks.
DS is not sleeping through either. He slept through a couple of nights, but in average he wakes up 2 to 3 times

P.s. your link is not working :(

Generally Elliott sleeps thru most night(unless sick) he is in bed by 7pm. dream fed at 10/10-30 wakes between 6 and 7 am!

Rosie was like this too but harry DID NOT sleep!!!!!LOL

Oh and RKD meant to add, Elliott also likes to be swaddled even now at nearly 11 months!

sarah,

Here Joe goes to bed @ 8pm and now has on average 2 night time wakenings, usually 2am and 5am, for feeds. Yes, he probably gets more milk during the night than during the day...

He does now go to bed quite peacefully, but can wake up every half hour or so for a couple of hours until he is in a deep sleep, I think .

Also, I forgot to mention my at walking and talking babies - nooooooo, they are babies and must remain so for cuteness sake

Thanks for the review, again, Pixie .

Sleep through the night??? Ah ha ha ha!!!!!

Ha ha ha.

Ha ha ha

Sleep through? Never

Wakes at 11 and 3 or variations of, and up at 6 or 7. Fed both times. Last night however was fresh hell, woke at 10, 12, 2 and then up at 4. Did not nap today until 12. I'm so tired I'm considering death as a nice alternative. (only partly joking, this is really getting me down -although don't put me on suicide watch just yet)

Inspired by BMIs recent thread I think I'm going to do some CC this wkend (DH back on fri) this can't continue.

Those of you with older DC - did you have to do something before they slept through or did it magically happen one day?

Back later when I find energy (one born every minute followed by Glee tonight! Need to find coffee I think..)

Isobel used to sleep through, from about 3 months to 6 months old. I think it stopped when her teeth started coming in, and now she wakes once or twice most nights. Some nights it's a brief waking and she settles with a cuddle, other nights she'll be up for an hour and a half. She rarely has a night feed. She doesn't go to bed until 9.30 though (sometimes as late as 10.30; RKD, Melk and Sarah will remember her pootling about when all the other babies were asleep and we were on the wine in York. She usually wakes about 7am, and comes into our bed to sleep another hour or so.

siamese Good luck with the CC. Isobel's sleep is so variable (and sometimes not too bad) that I'm not sure we're desperate enough to try it yet. I hope it works for you.

Isobal has started pointing at things, usually things she wants. It's very cute. Less cute is the frequent high-pitched shrieking. I'm hoping she'll just grow out of that if I ignore it.

Babies the ae of ours that sleep through the night? Surely this is a myth, peddled by liars fantacists?

THe best James has ever manaegd is four hours. Last night it was every 45 minutes again. I couldn't help thinking as I slipped back into unconsciousness each time as he fell back to sleep 'this cant be good for the baby...' But I feel a bit helpless. I really don't think I can sleep train, but if I don't Imay lose my mind?

Anyway. PD you have a kindle, non? Anyone else? I managed to get over to see my sister today and she gave me my christmas present (haven't seen her in some time!) which is one of the 3g kindles. I think I like it, even though I seriously do NOT covet gadgets (I turned down an ipad from DP). Because I LOVE books... but haven't read anything at all (barring a few magazine pages here and there) since James' birth, because, y'know, all the looking after a baby and The Exhaustion.

My book club, which I also haven't been back to since before the birth, seems a distant fond memory...

Anyway! What's the latest must-read? That isn't toooo heavy going? I need to give this new-fangled thing a test drive (it doesn't smell all booky though and can you imagine pixie's library being anywhere near as impressive as it is in my head if all the books were downloaded onto a few kindles (they hold 3500 titles each!) and placed on a shelf. Not The Same!)

In no particular order of importance and v sorry if I miss anyone:

Iwcas, bad news re boss but good news that he has u-turned. Commuting sucks, doesn't it? Although as you say it does give you reading time. If only I wasn't reading a socking great hardback that I don't want to lug around. Which is a fantasy book (Wheel of Time book 13, I know someone on here shares my tragic book taste) so I can't even give a recommend. The new Jilly Cooper is perfectly passable trash if one wants complete brain off. Or has completely lost the brain on switch like me.

BMI, marathon training is going ok and I love being focussed on that kind of goal.

Thank you all for your good wishes for DD, the anti-bs have kicked in and she's much better.

No comment on sleeping as it's too erratic and I don't want to jinx any success.

Rinders, nice to see you. You are so brilliantly positive despite everything. How's the house?

Speaking of positive, I hope your pox boy is getting better Sarah and so are you.

Pacific, well done DS3!

Sariska and Donttry, don't forget that KIT days can be used for catching up with MMMs who also work in the City marketing meetings. Also Ang, if you're about - how was being back in court?

Scooby, hope you have got some sleep somewhere along the line.

I have just realised the sheer lunacy of going on holiday with a highly mobile baby. Having only just got off his HUGE gorgeously chubby bottom (should the swimming instructor really be asking me how I manage to lift him?) to crawl he is off everywhere and into everything. Including chasing one of the other babies, a girl, around the room, stealing her comforter toy and waving it at her to get her attention. Surely this kind of behaviour shouldn't happen for another 13 years or so?

Waves to everyone else.

And I'm out of memory spent. Have a guaranteed calorie free donut (may contain nuts).

Hi Ladies,

Right time for a proper catch up after 'boobgate' as I have seen it referred to!!

Good to see you rinders

sarah booo about the pox - am just realising that mixing with other kids = lurgies of various kinds after DS's first sessions at nursery.

donttry glad you made up with DH. FWIW DH and I have huge rows about who has the harder 'job' from time to time. Will be interesting to see how they pan out when I go back to work.

pixie loving the recaps from last year. Cant believe our LO's are nearly going to start being one soon. Hope DD2 is still on the mend.

IWCAS good news that your boss has seen sense and [shocked] at the walking. Glad DS is eating more again even if just for CM. I have 'a week in december' by Sebastian Faulks waiting for my first commute.

bluey v impressed by marathon training. Haven't been to court yet, first day is Thursday!!! thanks for remembering tho.

So DS had his settling in days at nursery, he was fine, I was a blubbering wreck. He has caught a stinking cold though, a sign of things to come I fear?! He starts properly on wednesday. I am soo stressed and panicky about going back to work. I think I will anjoy being back and having a bit of 'me' back but I am shitting myself that I still have such a baby brain that I will cock it up and end up being sued!!
To add to the stress we have sold our house and found somewhere to buy, problem is that we will have to change DS's nursery and I haven't found anywhere else yet.....

Sorry to hear that so many of you have sleep woes.

Anyone else who had EMCS feel unable to watch OBEM? I feel bizarely envious when I hear of people having VB and can't bear to watch a load of them on tv.

Hi, just a quickie:

I love my Kindle, but have not used it much lately - but I have not been reading anything else either...

E-books are significantly cheaper than the paper versions, but, I agree, reading anything on an e-reader is not quite the same as in a 'real' book. But I still love the portability of it. I even have a couple of kid's books on it too - in case the boys ever switch their Nintendo DSs off long enough to listen to a story when we are on our way to anywhere....
Sorry, no recommendations off the cuff; I am crap at remembering titles/authors ('tis a real affliction, me and names ).

Also:
at sleeping through babies (and )
at marathon training