FESH Spa & Creche: Plenty more FESH in the brie

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Welcome all those with aching scars, undercarriages, eyelids and limbs. Find comfort here. Menfolk barred.

artie has an egg on his head from falling out of his bouncy chair. can I haz bad mother crown please??

Well I'm not using it today cossie, but you'd better check with cunty & curly first.

You're all right about this "fiend".

fanny If I'm still like this in a week I think I'll go to the docs, it just seems to have been criticism after criticism lately and the fecking horse wouldn't let me catch her today - so someone else did and then someone shouted "she's lame, you can't ride". Actually, she has a muscle soreness/laziness and when she's spanking around the field with the other asshats or all wound up in passage - i.e., working it doesn't seem to affect her. So I untacked in about 30 seconds, threw her out in the field and came home. :(

fanny Was this the friend you wrote that piece in the paper about?

alps No another friend! I am surrounded by aged hags who have thrown all their eggs (so to speak) in the IVF basket.

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Home alone. Avec da baybee.

Is it our mutual friend alps?

Glad to hear Clyde is better after that scare fanny. Def up for some swinging action

I am nearly back to normal - just not eating much. But SFF has got the bug now and is in the horizontal state I was in yesterday. Squeaks is swinging from misery to hyperactive and has had some horrendous nappies (her room stinks) but thankfully hasn't been vomming. Maybe her recent course of antibs helped.

silv take your boy out into the sunshine. Someone should get to enjoy it. We are all sofa/bed bound.

Actually we are out in the garden allowing Rastus to get a bit sunburned owing to the suntan lotion being at the childminder

curly aye. :(

haven't seen her a v v long tom. But as lovely as she can be, iirc I do remember a tendency to deal with her own insecurities by making others inferior. do not take it to heart.

squeask is trying to typ
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baby induced typos.

tom= time3

Well I've taken MB out for an ice cream like the loner I am! Quite enjoyed a bit of people watching. Even spied an ex of mine with a toddler in his arms! I did larf. You can tell the sun is out as most people have got most of their kit off.

Still got an ishoo at stables and am being ignored. Personally I think I should be doing the ignoring based on the very unpleasant comment shoved in my direction. I almost sent a text to clear the air as it's a bit atmospheric at the stables. On the plus side I get things done quicker cos certain individual has sent me to Coventry. Silver lining an all.

Oh my god Artie stop pooing! He must have pooed every hour for the last few days. Can I go back to ebf and 1 poo a day in the mornings please??????????

Sitting feeding in sling. My life is transformed . Decided needed to sort it out after ridic milk-spraying, tit-thwapping, red-faced and sweaty 20 minutes in the park this morning.

Alpy I took a decision to take a step back from someone who I'd been really close friends with for years because, well, I always went home feeling a bit shit. So now I really just see her at group things, and I really enjoy her company there. I do sometimes feel sad that we aren't as close as we were, but life moves on, you know? People change.

Re the depression thing, I think a week sounds like a plan. Try and rest a bit, do nice things for yourself, eat well etc in this week - then you'll have a clearer idea of what's really going on. But sorry you're low

I need to learn how to feed in a sling. It would be amazing. I spend half my day with a baby clamped to my boob. I'm no longer even sure if she's actually hungry or not. Does it make me a bad mother that I just feed her because it's the easiest way to calm her when she cries?

No muse I still do that in the depths of the night to get him back to sleep. I don't think he feeds because within 5 mins he's dead to the world

Rastus, not Hom.

Nope, it's what I do too Muse.

She always stays on for a while so she may actually be hungry. God knows what I'd do if I had to use formula.

We are poo-less today. Tho the farts would lead you to believe otherwise!

casp hopefully SFFs version is short-lived.

Well done casserole! Never even attempted that. Wish I had.

alps it's hard to put people at arms length if you are normally close but if these people are bad for the soul. Or if like me, you started dreading seeing them or spend the whole visit like you are walking on eggshells or avoid certain topics cos you can't bear the discussion / one upmanship, then you got to move on. They aren't friends. Lots of people keep friendships going out of duty but it's a waste of time. I'd rather be Norman no mates down the park with MB and an ice-cream. Wrt depression, the FESHs have given good advice !!!

She may well be hungry Muse, she's still young enough to be feeding more often than you think! DS only really settled into regular feeding times at about 5m I think. Now I'm back to being confused about them becuase of solids and him refusing milk at the CMs.

muse I think that's what we all do. My philosophy was definitely 'if in doubt, offer the tit.' It just seems the easiest thing to do.

alps I classify friends as either energy-givers or energy-takers. I know which category I would rather spend my time with.

casp I'm up for the swinging rendezvous if you are.

What a weird day. Have been feeding pretty much constantly since about 2. This'll be the 3 week growth spurt then. It's one thing to do it today, when I have help around... have no idea what to do if there's a repeat tomorrow. Ministew has a pretty high cbeebies threshold but this might tax even him! Any tips, other 2nd timers?

Am knackered. Have just wolfed down a curry, one handed. She's finally come off so might try and get a couple of hours kip. A couple of hours!

Muse at the moment I can only do it topless! So I won't be sling-feeding out and about quite yet. Would suggest trying it first either on sofa or bed, so you're well supported anyway. And try it for the first time when she's chilled, so you've got time to wrestle her into position Mind you, I think wrestling them out again at the end is harder!

Curly glad you're on the mend. Hope the rest of your house follows soon.

Silv you have described the situation 100%, I didn't want to go yesterday, deliberately didn't put much money in the parking meter and avoid subjects. I too would rather spend the afternoon with my boys. Also, I'm not overly prwcious but she's been told her 9 month old is violent and drawing blood at create so she wants to "test" with bear... :(

This afternoon we did bouncing and rocking horses which was lovely.

Sod that!! Tell her to find another bloody test dummy. Witch!!!! The crèche ain't gonna make that up are they?

muse MBs bfing was all over the place for weeks. I kid you not. From about week 4-16 he was feeding two hourly in the day and then perhaps once/twice the night and then eventually he started to sleep thru. Then at about 4.5mths we got into 5 feeds a day and no night feeds ( as he'd been sleeping thru a few times so when he did wake I didn't offer ask knew he wasnt hungry and he went back off easily however if he hadn't of settled I would have whipped me boob out). Also in early days if everything else was ok, clean, dry etc then I'd feed. Made for a happy baby and less stress for me.

Right, I Haz weaning q!!!! I am reading She Who Knows Everything About Weaning and her book has bamboozled me. Good and proper. Anyone else got one to hand?

1. How often do I do The first tastes planner for?
2. Why do the subsequent planners faff around changing when breakfast is given?
3. Also why does it say drop milk with lunch and then it introduces it again?

I'm confused and I'm not confident in what I'm doing or how to vet there cos the bloody fecking book doesn't explain it all.

muse I also had the delights of colic which hit at week 3 and then at week 12 we both got thrush. So it's been a barrel of laughs at times. Breastfeeding Network is a good source of info.

*advice!!