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FESH Spa & Creche - The Messiah is late - 'e's a very naughty boy!
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AlpinePony · 01/01/2011 11:09
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FannyPriceless ·
24/02/2011 16:44
cunty Didn't you have something clever with which to start our new thread? Better hurry up...
SilverSky ·
24/02/2011 13:05
*in - ON!!!!! FFS!
I haz no life free schedule at end of March !
I am dreading weaning. There. Said it.
AlpinePony ·
24/02/2011 12:54
I'm not diffed. I've pissed on seven a stick over the last week this morning and they all it said "haha as if". 
Have just been to IKEA to buy a "play mat" - i.e., a piece of carpet. What do you other laminate/parquet girls do? I tried sellotaping a blanket to the floor and he went quiet... when I investigated he was trying to eat the sellotape.
Bear's home-made feast today will be salmon, stir-fry veg & rice which I blended last night before adding salty spicy sauce. I really really love feeding him stuff I've cooked myself - on the other hand, nothing on god's green earth would make me go out and buy a baby-recipe book! 
He's mad about Miffy biscuits.
I haz decided to visit London-ish last week of March. Pls to tell me when we can do FESH meet if cunty is off on wednesdays - perhaps that's a date?
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FannyPriceless ·
24/02/2011 11:30
VAG wins the award for 'most exciting plans for the day'.
alps wins the 'fell on a penis' award for diffment limbo lingering. (Prize = a broken butter dish and a carton of CB menkul sticks). Though seriously, two days late and you're not POASing every 5 minutes? Does not compute.
cunty I have never used a steriliser.
But Clyde was not really on bottles until after 6 months and in my book anything goes then. Plus I have brilliant washing up skills from my days spent at the laboratory sink. And as alps suggests, the dishwasher is a giant steriliser, don't you know.
Cosmosis ·
24/02/2011 11:14
yup, over 6 months = germ training even more lax than you were before on sterilising
Cunts I have gone hardcore on Artie re feeding to sleep as it was becoming a huge ishoo. I am not doing it no more. We stopped on monday morning. his sleep has already improved dramatically. Instead of feeding till asleep, I feed till he's dropping off, then cuddling, shhh in ear and pat vv rhythmically and firm on his back till he stops crying and goes to sleep. Is not distressed crying, is half cross, half tired and half yawn. For naps, I don't feed at all, just do the patting thing. It's gone from taking 20 mins the first time to sometimes under 1 min, and mostly about 5 mins in the day, and way way less in the night. In the night I will only offer feed at around 10 /11.30 ish wake up and 3-4ish wake up. All other times is the other method. We've gone from wake ups every 45-1 hour, to averaging 3 or 4 hours in less than a week. Also had some self settling.
alps I seem to remember you saying you couldn't be differed last time as no sex.....
AlpinePony ·
24/02/2011 10:38
cunty Dishwasher by now. I'm in the process (i.e., when I can be arsed) of putting the steriliser away and just utilising the dishwasher instead. Accidentally pregnant? Fell on a penis did she? 
My droid is late but I've no symptoms whatsoever and think I'm menopausal plus we've barely had sex. Obviously being totally unfertile was a boon during my wild & free 20s, but I'm a grown-up now. Tsk.
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CUNextTuesday ·
24/02/2011 10:05
That's what i did this morning alps and as soon as he was back to sleep i crept back into bed in order that i could stare at the ceiling for an hour till hom got up for work
In other, more exciting news i'm having a new bike delivered to day in order that i can cycle to work. I'll be a twig in a month or two, just you watch
AlpinePony ·
24/02/2011 09:40
Is it possible you're just too damned exciting? Bear got overly wound-up when he was in creche on holiday - we needed to de-stimulate him. You know, Katie Melhua CDs, cross-stitching, that kinda thing. If he's got too much stamina how about putting him on rations? At least homme doesn't appear to hear it - can you not simply escape downstairs and get a few hours kip on the sofa leaving homme & rastus to fight it out between themselves?
My little champ is refusing to sleep this morning, he's been up since 6 and it's now 10:45. I can feel the bumps on his teeth poking through his gums so I guess that one's going to arrive fully today. If he won't go down I'll have to stick him in the buggy and wheel him across some cobbles. That relaxes him! 
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PollyPoo ·
24/02/2011 09:13
Oh god I really feel for you Cunty.
Feel free to smack me one but have you tried controlled crying? Is he in his own room? We found with Boo that we were disturbing her sleep and once in her own room she was much better.
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PollyPoo ·
24/02/2011 08:16
Cunty you must be tearing your hair out. So sorry I haven't got any advice magic cures.
AlpinePony ·
24/02/2011 06:02
No, it's not colds - it's probably just the dirt & dog-hair he licks/sucks/snorts off the floor.
I don't know what to say about the sleeping - except for us it seems cyclical. The first few nights of moving in here were dire - he seemed a little insecure, but things have definitely improved and he's done a few nights of 12 hours plus 3 power naps throughout the day. He has his sleep sheep, a couple of teddys who've been with him since day 1 and I've been putting teething gel on his dummy as I think that top tooth is giving him a bit of gyp. How's it going with the transfer to his own room? We've put that on hold temporarily.
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