July 2010: Better child-proof the home, it won't be long now 'til our babes start to roam!

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As you were

Morning all,

A seems totally unphased by her descent, mlic, thank you. Altho she did have a bit of a panic when she rolled off a cushion late that day, the poor thing! Think she's getting a bit fed up with being kissed and cuddled nonstop tho!

You night sounds awful mlic :-( Mine aren't great at the mo as A is waking more but doesn't usually stay awake for long. It just gets worse when you add felix into the equation. God, I so miss having the bed to ourselves and more than 3 hours sleep regularly.

What I didn't get a mo to post this yesterday but almost right after the drama with A, my step-mother called to say my step-bro's wife's waters have broken - at 32weeks :-( The outlook is good tho but it's still v worrying knowing your baby will be so prem. The same happened to a friend of mine and that turned out fine altho she had to spend a month in hospital on bedrest to give the baby more time in the womb to get stronger. V depressing for her.

How are you feeling today kk?

tsc how's day 3 of the routine going?

Hey melissa, we do all talk so much it's impossible to keep up unless you're on here about 50 times a day :-) I didn't know you had pnd, you poor thing - have you had any help from the gp for it? Enjoy your day.

Ok, well Dylan is still unwell but...he slept 10-7:30 and only woke once at 4am.

Also he is 6 months old today

We're going for lunch at our friend's house today and its sunny!

Morning all - kids driving me crazy today, dd was up at about 4, so dh still in bed and she is being a nightmare because she is tired - I have run out of ideas for getting her to get enough sleep, its a nghtmare. DS is still teething, rosy cheeked, and waking hourly No idea why I wanted children today

mlic I guess it must be hard to separate pnd from feeling really fed-up with a difficult situation and v sleep-deprived. Not that I've personally experienced it so apologies if I've just talked rubbish. Did you mean you'll get a prescription for anti-depressants from your hv?

26 weeks?! That's really early. It is amazing how these babies manage to do so well. Its particularly worrying for my step-mother as both her sons were v prem at 30 - 31 weeks so she's reliving all the fears and worries again and so sad her ds is going to have to go though it with his own son.

morning ladies,i slept great, same cant be said for my mum L had his worst night ever up at 12, 1, 2 at 3 he wanted to play then sleep at 4 til 6, im quite glad as when he has days where he doesnt settle i think mum thinks i make it up as hes so good for her, we only went cinema and went home by 9 but she said she would have him overnight!!
kk sorry about your friens, i know what you mean about losing control of car, when it happened the other week i was crying at thought L COULD have been in the car, glad you got home safe!
cakes hope the baby is doing well!
we have just been for a lovely long walk, and on the way home treated myself to a new slow cooker.
going back to my pushchair, the woman promised she would call back friday and theat part would be in and she didnt so i plan on raising hell again tomorrow!!

How do you them on prescription mlic? Wouldn't mind metatanium foc as A's going thru it like mad with a teething nappy rash.

On a lighter note, continuing my festive wrap efforts I have now wrapped my father's bday pressie like so:

Brown parcel paper sprayed with transluscent layer of silver spray paint

Silvery green chiffon ribbon in a big bow

A brown cardboard tag with silver card detailing and star cut-out

A twig of pussy willow

Aahhh!

Off to a country pub lunch with said father, step-ma and sister and my brood soon. F is obsessed with playing piano with my father at the mo so as soon as we mention seeing 'grandbob' he starts singing and doing the action to 'I am the music man (pia-pia-piano)' :-)

DH just gave J a bit of bacon, you should have seen his little face! he really beamed. dh was very proud!

off out for a walk later, it's such a nice day.

((hugs)) MILC hope it gets better

Aw thanks ladies. Its heartbreaking as he was an only child and his dad died a few years ago and that nearly killed the mother so can't imagine what this will do to her. Its just tragic.
Turns out i think there's something wring with the car so will have to get that fixed before i attempt to go home.
Thanks for all the kind words i'm feeling alot better today.
Sorry to hear your having a bad day mlic and tsc and that tomorrow is better

Ladies, wrt love and libido, I can assure you it's better to be the partner who doesn't want it, than the one who's dh doesn't want to have sex with them.

Mlic, this week saw me sitting in a ball in a corner of the kitchen literally screaming at the top of my lungs. Dh had to slap me. I can't even remember exactly what set me off now. Getting on the scales probably. It would seem i'm not dealing with parenthood quite as well as I thought.

tsc you're not alone, I have no libido at all. It's a right effort to get it on but I do tend to enjoy it once we do. I'm a bit worried about it tbh cos it's not like me.
melissaM S has to be fed in a dark room too, he's rubbish at concentrating if anything's happening while he feeds. Irritating cos dd doesn't like to be left alone so feeding is a right mission.
kkfairy sorry to hear your news, hope his mum's ok. And good luck getting your car fixed!
cakes that wrapping sounds so pretty. Hope A's ok today after the fall yesterday.

I've had an absolute crap day. S was up at 11pm, 1am, 2.40 and 4 from 4 onwards he was awake til he finally went to sleep around 8.30. L was up by then of course. He's barely napped all day and is now upstairs bawling his eyes out - he's been awake since 2pm. DH and I are both ill with sore throats/coughs/aches, L spent yesterday with a temp of 39.9 all day and today has been clingy and fussy. Can't get S to sleep, DH has a 12 hour day tomorrow so no chance of any help and I'm so pissed off.

so sorry for the crap day you're having mlic, wonderstuff and tsc. it's days like this when it's hard to see the good things about having children. hope tomorrow brings some bright spots.

that's such a tragic story kk. his poor mother

chulita have you tried feeding S under a cover and with some bf beads? f was the world's worst in terms of feeding at about 5 - 6 months and it was only the combo of these that got me thru it. A has just started being distractible and is doing my head (and nipples) in so need to dig out the beads again.

who's planning to stop bf soon? i've been amazed how many on here are still bf and it's been great to able to compare notes and tips. in RL no-one seems to bf for long round here.

i'm probably carry on til A's a year and then review it monthly after that.

F had a david beckham stylee look earlier after a serious nappy/poo malfunction in the pub . he ended up wearing his biker jacket and beanie with a blanket tied like a sarong Pics were taken so will post them to fb group when i get them.

oh tsc. poor frankie. i was just thinking how 'beaten up' the second and third children are compared to the pfb.

dh accidentally took off a flake of cradle cap from A's head with his stubble earlier. Doesn't sound bad but she really cried and it bled

they're all in the wars, bless them.

Cake I'm going to keep bfing for now, I fed dd1 till she was one, then I just put her straight onto cow's milk. Will prob do the same this time unless I have to get a job and then I'll just have a rethink.

Tsc I'm sort of like Chillita, I don't have that much of a libido at the mo but once we do get started I enjoy it. It's better now the baby's in a separate room , can relax into it a bit more. We're in the every 1-2 weeks camp at the moment.

I read somewhere that when you're bfing your libido decreases (prob nature's way of making you not have another pg while you're already feeding one) and also that you feel a bit more up for it once your periods return - cos then you can get pg again so in evolutionary terms there's not much point shagging when you can't get pg iyswim. I seem to remember last time I started feeling a lot more like it at about 7 mo, when period returned and also we were all getting a lot more sleep.

kk sorry about your friend. I get quite nervous in cars since having kids.

Dylan still hasnt shifted his cold and is really miserable, hes currently asleep in DPs arms.

Im sorry to say my libido is sky high, always has been and prob always will be lol. I think I want it more than DP but her never objects.

Now, does anyone know when Desperate Housewives is back on in the UK? Its on in the US at the mo.

thats meant to be he never objects