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CakeandRoses · 14/02/2011 08:19

And voila: our 6th postnatal thread... which neatly works out roughly one a month [maths genius emoticon]

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Dylthan · 26/02/2011 13:33

Why do babies feel a need to fight sleep B's just gotten herself into a right over tired state she was all red and hot and just screaming she was fighting sleep so bad. She's now woken up in a delightful mood.

tsc just chuck everything under the sofa and spray some polish around the room so it smells like you've dusted Grin

Dylthan · 26/02/2011 13:34

And congratulations on the job Smile

DesperateHousewife20 · 26/02/2011 16:27

Dylan was fighting sleep all afternoon, he finally feel asleep on DPs stepmum for an hour!
He prob would have slept longer but she had to pass him to me and he woke up.

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CakeandRoses · 26/02/2011 19:09

that's great news tsc!! really good result and as you say will give you a taste of working without too much of a commitment.

mlic what went wrong with the dough?!

well today has been a farce. has just felt like a non-potty-trained child strutting around wearing pants. Saves paying for nappies i guess Hmm He's done 1 wee in his potty and about 4 in his pants today.

I'm really struggling with this mentally as i've realised i really like control over my life/house and i have none with this.

give up or try again tomorrow?

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WhatSheSaid · 26/02/2011 19:28

Can you let him run round without pants on cake I think when they're wearing pants they forget it's not a nappy iyswim. Wearing nothing round the house may mean he is more likely to realise he is doing something.

I was pretty pleased we have wooden floors when I was potty training, I have to say.

You will have lots of accidents for the first few days though.

mlic I found a good recipe I made pizza dough from. It's basically flour and olive oil isn't it? I have made it OK from that recipe and I am seriously shit at cooking. I will see if I can find the recipe.

Friend of ours had twins yesterday at about 36 wks Smile, boy/girl, both doing great.

WhatSheSaid · 26/02/2011 19:31

I think it was this one (pizza dough)

www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2341,157183-233201,00.html

CakeandRoses · 26/02/2011 19:38

i was just wondering that re pants wss so it was good to see you saying it. our kitchen floor is quarry tiles and we're there most of the time that we're in so accidents aren't really a problem.

is it difficult to make the transition back into pants then though and when would you do it?

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CakeandRoses · 26/02/2011 19:39

should really have yeast [purist emoticon]

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CakeandRoses · 26/02/2011 20:16

that's a real shame re the dough mlic. i've made it lots of times and not had that problem so i can't think what might have been wrong with yours. perhaps try it again if you're brave enough sometime but add the water gradually til you get a dryish pliable dough. with dough you do have to be careful with the liquid/flour balance so i often add it gradually rather than putting the whole stated amount in at once.

i'm dreadful re the doubling up of recipes, i actually have to write down the doubled amounts otherwise i always miss something and cock it up.

did you do it sans pants too mlic? is E totally dry now or does he still have poo accidents?

a couple of times F's asked to go on the potty but was wet by the time we got him there. i'd put trousers on him (probably stupidly) so don't know if he was going en route or already had. he's happily sat on the potty plenty of times today but only had that 1 wee in it.

its surprised me how frustrated i feel about potty training and i really don't want F to know how i feel as its my issue, not his. i've been a total bitch to dh instead. this is deffo one of the parenting things i've found hardest so far.

and he's just blatantly pooed in his bedtime pull-ups Confused

on the upside, A is being a total dream and is eating loads now. she's blowing non-stop cute raspberries and she's started doing the long, up and down version of the wave they do to start with. no clapping yet tho.

dh has that promised tooth arrived yet?

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WhatSheSaid · 26/02/2011 20:29

We just had no pants on in house for first coulpe of weeks. Actually even now she runs round without pants
(or top) on lots of the time, she just loves being naked.

when potty training we did no pants at all round house for 2 weeks or so. she was fairly good at knowing when she needed to go by day 3 or 4, still mybe 1 accident a day?

justwore pants on short trips out, like i said left house immed after wee and just stayed out an hour. extended staying out time quite soon as cant stay in all the time with 2 yr old!

scuse typing, feeding.

WhatSheSaid · 26/02/2011 20:39

Oh and holdign on to poo till nightime nappy/pull-up put on is v common. A was fine with wees but really funny about doing poos for a while.

Stac my inlaws are back on Thursday from Fiji. They weren't too bad last time apart from having a big rant about how all their taxes go to pay for "all those people up North who don't work" (Hello in-laws! This is your daughter-in-law who's from Manchester! And whose entire family still live in the North!). The real test is from 5th-12th March when we will all be in a holiday house together with no escape...

tsc sorry you're feeling not so good about nurseries. I would recommend seeing as many as you can to see if you get a different feel about one/any of them. You may just not be ready though. Like someone said (cake I think) at least it wouldn't be full-time though, which is something. Maternity pay is only for 14 weeks here and we used to have some babies starting where I worked at 3 months, 5 days a week, 8-5.30. Poor mums having to go back to work while still so knackered too.

WhatSheSaid · 26/02/2011 20:42

Oh and if F is asking to go on potty that's a really good sign.

CakeandRoses · 26/02/2011 20:43

thank you wss

ok, we will carry on again tomo without pants and see if there's an improvement and then decide whether to continue. it felt like yesterday was such a good start too.... Sad

makes me really sad to think of 3month olds in nursery full-time. as you said, poor mothers too.

feel very blessed to have been able to have a year off and then work p/t with both of mine

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Needle · 26/02/2011 22:59

MLIC, If I can stick my oar in WRT baking, esp bread, you do need to use a certain amount of intuition.

Needle · 26/02/2011 23:00

Urgh, God, sorry MLIC I just read that back and I sounded really patronising. I really didn't mean to, just haven't got my head screwed on properly this evening.

CakeandRoses · 27/02/2011 00:13

well that explains a lot...

F has just been spectacularly sick all over his bed and then again in a carefully positioned bowl Sad

he's been off his food today but well in himself so i didn't realise he was unwell, i thought he was just distracted with the potty training, when actually he was probably distracted from the potty training.

i'm feeling even more guilty now.

have no idea what to do about potty training tomo now too... nappies? pull-ups? pants?

Confused
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WhatSheSaid · 27/02/2011 00:31

I'd see how he is in the morning. If he's still sick I'd go to either nappies or pull ups and forget about the tting for a day or two. If he's better maybe still do the no pants thing. Go with your instinct in the morning - you'll know how sick he is.

CakeandRoses · 27/02/2011 00:33

thank you wss

i rather like you doing the late shift Grin

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WhatSheSaid · 27/02/2011 02:15

Ah the benefits of having a group member on the other side of the world Grin

I once chatted to mlic for about 3 hours when W refused to sleep at some ridiculous hour in the morning in the UK.

After not using his pizza stone since I got it at Christmas, dh has now gone home-made pizza mad and has made 3 in the last 2 days (he even had a "breakfast pizza" this morning Hmm). He is currently making me a ham and pineapple one. He is being v precious about cleaning the stone carefully so as not to scratch it and ruin the surface (or some such nonsense). Still, I shouldn't complain, he is making me pizza!

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