Nobody Loves me, Everybody Hates Me, I Think I'll go and eat Worms

[BibiBelle]

Aw silky that's cute of ds2. My ds2 has really just discovered his language skills over the last 10 days or so. Before that he was either indecipherable or just made noises . Tonight he said "my play rabbits mimmy" (Rabbits is ds1's new game for the wii). He even sounded a little hopeful in his asking, but am sure he wasn't so much asking me a question but rather talking because he's learnt some words that people actually understand (and he seems rather proud of himself)

hippo you're right, i was seeking many a distraction!

Silky could your DS2 please have a session with my dd1 on the manners subject?

Captain, aren't you suppose to be doing school work? LOL!!!!!

Folks my new stroller is AMAZING!! I am not lying. It's PERFECT for our trip and anything around town. I love it when my shopping sprees are good.

silks that's lovely re DS2 :) DS says thank you as well. Just never at the appropriate moment. He also has a VERY unfortunate pronunciation of 'bridge'. MW was here the other day and was very obviously working hard to keep a straight face as S repeated 'BITCH' over and over and all the adults repeated 'YEEEEES it's a BRIDGE' over and over (in somewhat desperate tones)

E weighed today for final check by MW. Has gained 12 oz in the last 6 days so now weighing in at 10lb 10oz. She's firmly in 0-3 clothes

congrats on your new pushchair ts Don't you just love it when a plan comes together

silks girlie time sounds like a lovely idea

cc tut tut

evening all on shift as of tomorrow and DH on really shitey altered shifts. Sorry not been about much but trying to keep up.

Silks so sorry that L has those worries . Don't really have anything to add to the good advice already offered. I do have this book tucked away from when DH's sister first became unwell - it is ten years since I looked at it so don't remember how helpful it would be... certainly very premature and perhaps more frightening than reassuring (I certainly don't mean to suggest that her comments necessarily indicate any such problems down the line). But I'd be very happy to lend it if you would like.

Loti I'm also and at your GP. Not a lot of help. Hope you can get a second opinion.

Thanks all. Have come to the conclusion that I may have overreacted a bit (but not unreasonably I think). Spoke to a mum of one of her friends who has 2 older DDs too and she kindly pointed out that they don't grow out of it, all girls (and most women)today think they're fat but it doesn't mean an eating disorder is imminent. Will keep up my normal prevention campaign (no scales, no diets, no fat jokes) and up the one-to-one stuff I don't do enough of with DD. Plus going to spend more money on poo-assisting foods eg fruit juice, probiotics etc, rather than fighting about what she won't eat and causing stress about food.

sounds like a really good plan silks. But, without wishing to scare you, you really do need to keep a close eye on her in the years to come. There are a couple of occurences in my close family and they both started worrying about their image/size as young children.

morning all
P still asleep since 10.30 last night And that's despite being brought downstairs this morning and having T playing right next to her cot! If anyone needs milk for their tea this morning, just let me know, i'm literally exploding!!

bibi missing you, hope you get a chance to stay and chat soon

hiya pru

Silks sounds like a good plan. I hope I can be as good a Mum to my dd when she arrives

Sorry for being a worry wort all is fine and although still not gained any weight not lost any either. Doctor says I need to rest more and have also spoken to my boss today and possibly managed to fill my long outstanding vacancy if the person I interviewed this morning accepts so all looking a bit brighter here!

oooooh merlion
little boys are lovely but little girls are just scrumptious

oh and i'm obviously v pleased that everything's ok. please listen to the doc

Hurrah for a dd Merlion so so pleased all is well.. Agree with Hip please take docs advice!

Morn Hip

merlion I had to re-read your post 3 times because I couldn't see how hippy had worked out you were having a girl . Yay, a little sis for your big boy

Morning all

bb don't work too hard, we miss you when you have to work

I'm going off to work hard again, so no doubt will be back on here in an hour at lunchtime

Thanks hippy but I'll pass on the breast milk tea if you don't mind

merlion yay for a DD! So glad everything is OK, and hope you do manage to get some more rest.

loti are you feeling any better?

cece keep at it lass and you'll be done in no time. I wonder what amazing fact from the natural world you'll learn today while procrastinating gazing out of the window for inspiration

I'm currently trying to gather up some energy to get my bowsaw and go back out in the garden to do some serious tree pruning. Arms are a bit achey though after yesterday's efforts though, and it's still cold here. Maybe have some more tea first...

Ursula Congratulations to you both.

Piggy backing on someone's wifi so just scanning for news.

Merlion how lovely, I am made up for you :) Let's hope my scan next week goes as well, although obv won't know the sex yet. I am really anxious about it and so is DH - we both had bad dreams last night (both about zombies , how weird).

I am feeling very worn down by DS atm. Lovely though he is, he is really playing up - not listening when we say no (so what's new?), refusing to say sorry for stuff, won't sit down at the table for lunch/dinner and then wakes up in a foul mood in the morning because he's starving, tantrums over every little thing. I know he's feeling unsettled and with good reason, and I know he will only get worse until we're settled in the new place, whenever that is. Somebody say something reassuring.

star its just a phase... and T is going through exactly the same phase. it'll pass just like all the other phases. what i've found helps with T is explaining exactly why x, y z is bad/wrong/dangerous. takes longer but does seem to be slowly helping

oh and a bit of emotional blackmail seems to help too eg it makes mummy sad when you throw bricks at P

I do all of that and normally it works, just not at the moment. He just refuses to accept it and sulks.

not sure if it'll work with J but if T is sulking, i copy the whingey noises he makes. he starts off being annoyed but eventually realises its funny and can't resist smiling

and actually, spending time with children that were worst behaved than he was, helped too. i pointed them out to him at p&t group and we had a chat about why the child was being naughty and what his mum should do etc

star i promise i'm not stalking you but just saw your post on the unexpected thread... wish there was something i could do to help :(

Star ds2 is a mystery to me at times, just when we think we have him pegged he goes and changes his behaviour. I seem to recall ds1 was worse though...My own (unqualified) opinion is that he is processing some new feeling/behaviour/environment/anything and is having a bit of trouble making sense of it, so he expresses it in a way he knows how to, until such time as he learns what the new thing is all about. Works for me Hugs though, parenting is hard enough guesswork at the best of times without being pg and feeling exhausted on top of that!

hippy/star of course, now I'm intrigued to know about the unexpected thread...

cece the other thread was just me saying that I cried in my counselling session this morning because the woman noted that it must be very lonely having been through everything and then losing my brother.

Thanks both. I have made him go to sleep, by dint of, um, going to sleep myself. Has given me a bit of time to do the washing up, phone estate agents etc. I just feel like such a mean mummy who has done nothing except tell him off all day, even though it's his own fault because he's been so 'orrible!