Hey everyone, I'm just watching the BF programme on BBC3 at the moment and simultaneously reading the thread about it ? hundreds of angry posts and mean words exchanged on the thread before the programme even started. You gotta a love a Mnetter 
Beans I hope you?ve raised a glass of 
to toast your Dad tonight, still v happy for you
And lovely to hear your Nan?s op went ok too Deids. But difficult for your Mum and Auntie to be chosen between
Obviously my bedtime routine is different with only one, Rubes, but here it is anyway. Bath only every other night, as DD has always had dry skin and eczema, and if she?s past it with tiredness or something we put it off til the next morning, or sometime during the next day. What we do do every night, is wash, teeth brush, pjs, then milk and story in a dark bedroom starting about 7/730 (although have recently realised the dentist would have a fit about milk post tooth brush, so thinking of doing milk downstairs). Once all that is done, its into bed. However lax I am about routine for the rest of the day, I am a stickler for once she?s upstairs and in pjs she doesn?t come back down. I remember when she was about 2 weeks old watching telly and doing a feed about 10pm, and I couldn?t for the life of me get her to settle after it, so have ruled out telly and lights at bedtime since then and have been very lucky to have a girl who settles well at bedtime (naps and resettling in the night have been a whole other story though).
LadyT I totally agree that childcare is madly expensive, and its much better up north than some of you have mentioned that you pay. I always thought that if I had another then I?d have to give up work, but as it is, even if I conceive this week the little one won?t be born until DD is 3 and eligible for free childcare for however many hours, so the costs wouldn?t change. A bigger worry is how to juggle school hours (when we get there) with work, as who would want to employ me only between 930 and 230 every day? And I also agree that an earlier start to the day than DD makes for an easier day in general. On week days I get up at 6, regardless whether I?m at home or work, as I get an hour of peace before DD wakes. Sometimes I?m wonderwifey and do some cleaning or sorting stuff for the day, but more often I?ll have a lazy shower or bath and breakfast in complete peace ? self indulgent, but I always have a better day when it starts serenely. (However if DD tended to wake at 6 rather than 7, then I doubt I could bring myself to set the alarm an hour earlier, so I?m lucky there)
at Mom looking at her crying DS and never considering trying something to pacify him. Are your parents open to having DS1, and patient enough to deal with jet lag? If so, don?t think twice ? it?ll be your first chance to have some serious one to one time with DS2 and get to know him, and if your parents and DS1 are anything like mine, then it?ll be a week made in heaven for them all. No no no to potty training!
Effie/Mom it was Beans who recommended C5 in the mornings and I then had a moan about annoying Tweenies and Big Cook. However I still haven?t tried C5, but have found that BBC2 seems to have all the Cbeebies programmes I can bear in the mornings, so use that when I need a minute or twenty to sort something out
Bummer at the lack of whisky Veg, did they have sloe gin? I swear by that when I?m grot. I hope tomorrow is a better day
Hurrah for the viewing Trace, and I like the look of that house you linked to. My fingers are crossed. Great to hear about Ps speech, DD is quite behind the others at nursery in terms of fluency and sentence creation, but does have a wide vocabulary, so they sound very similar in terms of development.
Thanks for all the advice on the hen do, I?m pleased there?s a consensus, makes me think I?m not being unreasonable. Just have to pluck up the courage to say no, as I hate disappointing people, but like several of you have said I need to get better at prioritising stuff. And there?s a chance I?ll see my other friend that weekend, the one who is miscarrying, and I really want to see her. On top of the mc, she has an ear infection too, talk about being kicked when you?re down. So I think that seals the deal
Ok, DH has been in bed for ages, so I should turn in too. In fact at 9, I thought he?d taken an age putting DD down tonight despite no sound of a protest, so I went to see if he was ok and they were both fast asleep