SEPT 2005 - thread 2

[pooka]

here it is

URRRRRRR - very bad day.

I morped into a wifeswop/supernanny bad mummy! (no swearing though!)

I shouted since 6am! - trying hard to calm it- but I've got a really short fuse today - its not like me but I'm sooooooooooooo tired! Nearly crashed the car earlier - just not concentrating!

Hoping normal service will be resumed soon!

The time thing is annoying - It feels like groundhog day - going soooo slowly!

Bubbles - I WANT A PINK DVD PLAYER!!!

you should see it rh, it's sooooo cool, quite small and compact too, i love getting a bargain!!!!!!!

Trimmed the hedge indeed.lol!!

When I panic about doctors and embrassing things like that - I always remind myself that he's seen far worse!!!!!

Glad your in your slim jeans! I've got over half a stone to go - and its all around my tum! My mum says I look slim from the back!!!

LOL, mums always know how to fill you with confidence don't they! i still have 8lb to get back to pre-mia weight but really feel confident that i'm getting there. it took me almost 2 years fter leonie so i'm really pleased with myself, and luckily my gp is female. just cooking sunday dinner, don't worry though, fire crew are on stand-by. I CAN'T COOK!!!!!!!

Hi girls was having an off day yesterday so you're not alone RH just felt like everything was getting on top of me even tho dp said im coping really well and he knows he couldnt do it but then we had a silly tiff cause i bought some jeans a couple of weeks ago and they didnt fit properly cause im losing weight so he said i should take them back, but i couldnt find the receipt and he went mad about how they were a waste of money anyway in the end i washed them on a 95 degree wash and they have shrunk so i can wear them - yippppeeeeee!

feeling better now anyway cause its a new day im already bathed n dressed and about to pack dd1 off to school dd2 is asleep and the MIL is taking the kids out this afternoon so its all good apart from having to go and get my ingrowing toenails sorted (ouch!) not fair how i never had them before i got pregnant.

As for the hedge situation i'd had enough of mine so i took the lot off forgetting i would have to have an internal in 2wks time - ooops lets hope it grows back in time.

Whats everyone up to today?

Ladies Morning all.

DS - has gone to school (horrayyyyy) so if dd goes back to sleep so will I!!!!

You are worrying me with talk of an internal at the 8 week check - I hope as I had c-section I won't need this?! Is this the only advantage to a section?? Imagine I'll just show my war wound!

Any way - had a period yet?? Rachel is 6 weeks old - but I'm sure my body is trying to today - perhaps that accounts for yesterdays moody! Imagine you bfeeding ladies will be some weeks off a period.

Are you having a spooky halloween! Cut my finger doing the pumpkin!!!

Hi everyone ~ DH is back at work today after half term holiday. Shame the weather is so dire. I'm trying to keep my mood up, however. This is the week I get sociable. I only moved to this area 3 months ago and haven't met anyone yet. I have a week of baby and toddler activities mapped out.

This afternoon I'm going back to my old area to meet up with some friends who have children the same age as dd1. dd1 has been a right little madam recently. It's like a stroppy teenager has moved in. I'm trying to figure out if this is a consequence of her being about to turn 3 or whether this is her given personality. If it's the latter I'm in trouble

It's somewhat a relief to have DH back at work this week. I feel like I have less free time when he is on school holidays than when I'm alone with the two children.

We had quite a good week, regardless. I got some new clothes. Yesterday was the first day I did not feel like a frump. Alice will take a bottle of ebm from DH so I have gained a bit of freedom. It made me laugh when I got back from ym shopping trip, at 11.30am, and DH hadn't managed to get himself dressed yet Welcome to my world.

I'm going to a postnatal aquacise class tonight. I am so looking forward to it. I hope I fit in my swimsuit

Alice is napping upstairs in her crib at the moment. It's the first time I have put her upstairs without going to bed alongside her. I had to get the monitor out and dust it off. So far so good.

Happy Monday everyone (although if it's as wet as it is here then a wet Monday as well

Health Visitor is coming between 10 and 10:30 to weigh Alice and do the PND questionnaire with me. Hopefully we will both pass .

I have my 6 week check on Wednesday - I am hoping that no internal is needed, but have booked it for a day when DS is at nursery as I would not really want to have his comments of "whassat" going on at the same time .

I didn't have one at my check after he was born so am feeling hopeful for this one.

Still haven't tried Alice with a bottle of EBM - in fact haven't expressed anything since being very engorged about 5 weeks ago. But I have now found the sterliser and got some bottles .

Need to go and get new car tax today - why do I always forget until the last day of the month?

I know you can do it online now - will try that next time.

Need to go and get new car tax today - why do I always forget until the last day of the month?

I know you can do it online now - will try that next time.

RH while your on the subject of periods im so annoyed with mine, i still havent stopped from giving birth, i think it calmed down for a few days and then it came back - it has done that twice now and im losing patience will it ever end.........dd2 is 5wks on thursday am i being impatient, is this normal?

Morning all!
Kelli - Seem to remember bleeding for a long time after DD1 was born though I can't remember exactly hoe long, it was at least a month. Still going this time, but then DD2 is only 3 weeks old today - where has that time gone?. DH was surprised to hear that I was still going. Think he thought I was deliberately withholding privileges or something!
I had an internal exam at 6 week check after DD1 - not looking forward to that again but it's still a little while off.
PC - my car tax was due last month and I didn't trust the online car tax thingy - so ended up getting my car tax from the PO about a week before it was due. Left it in the glove compartment until the first of the month and completely forgot about it - ended up driving around for a week with the old tax disc displayed until DH spotted it - see, I can't even be organised when I'm being organised iyswim!!! Hope HV was ok. I too need a kick up the bum when it comes to expressing - just can't seem to find the time. Have a steam steriliser and by the time I get round to it I've passed the 3 hour deadline and have to re-sterilise all the equipment.
For a nice change, weather is ok up here! Walked DDs round to drop off DD1 at nursery. DD2 slept all the way, even when I stopped at the nursery and the shop and to talk to people on the way. Was looking forward to a nice snooze when I got home but I had literally just pulled up at the front door when she woke up. HOW DOES SHE KNOW??????? So have spent last couple of hours trying to settle her again. Knew it was too good to be true!!!
Woke this morning determined to be good as have been eating too much chocolate and cake for the last 3 weeks and now time to be sensible or I'll never fit back into any of my clothes and can't afford a new wardrobe. However, found some choccie biccies in the cupboard and some fairy cakes dangerously close to their sell by date and one thing led to another...oh well, tomorrow is another day. Wouldn't be so bothered except that Christmas is so close (oh yes, it is Bubbles!!) and DH's work do is a masquerade ball. Have visions of me wearing some kind of sack, but hey, who'll know who I am with my mask on?!!
Good luck with the socialising, Beatie.
Redhelen - well done for coping but PLEASE stay away from sharp instruments!
Kiwikate - good luck with the imunisations.
Am now really worried about RZ. Hope you are ok. Please let us know you if you are out there somewhere, RZ. Am missing your facts and figures. x

Afternoon ladies!

On the subject of 6-week checks, I had a smear AND an internal in mine

Just when I was starting to think I'd never have any sleep ever again, Elise went 5hrs between feeds yesterday evening! Plus 2 lots of 4hrs during the day.. seems to be every 3hrs so far this morning, but things are definitely looking up!

Can't believe people are planning or even thinking about Xmas!!!

I don't think about Christmas until it is November....although I have been thinking about an outfit for DD for Christmas. Don't know exactly what it will be like, but I am thinking of a red party dress (maybe satin type material) with a bow to tie round the back .

I've woken up!!! - with a head ache!! serves me right for going back to bed!

beatie - good luck with the mother and toddlers.

LL- a smear & internal !!

jessysmummy - Glad I'm not the only one with the munchies!

Of to raid the fridge & have a bath!!!!

Can't help but worry about RZ - its been many weeks - Just hope its the pressure of being a mummy and nothing else.

Need to pick someones brains can anyone help with a little concern i have about SIL's baby?

Hi all. Also had a smear and an internal with dd - and if I hadn't had the internal wouldn't have known about problem with the stitches which necessitated a restitch 7 months later - well I would have found out at some point but better sooner rather than later iyswim.
What advice do you need Helen?

hi all

hope everyone is well and settling into life with their new additions!!
Dylan is settling well althoug no routine seems to be emergig as yet and right now is demanding fed every 2 - 3 hours, the wee greedy monkey!! i cant remember if this was the same as dd.
i had my 6 week check also alls well apart from because my scar is on the lage side due to crash section it is taking a little longer to heal internally the doctor says its a little bulky still at one side!! Im just glad that it seems to be hidden by my new over hangin belly!!
Does anyone have any thoughts about colycynth granules im not sure if there making any difference

Hiya sorry to have butt in like that! Im always lurking on here - dont often post though My SIL had her 2nd baby 6 weeks ago and im a little concerned about her as her facial features look downs syndrome - SIL and her dp have said nothing about it being possible, can a baby have downs features and not be downs?

Helenemjay - are you able to post the problem with sil'S baby - we'll all do our best to help.

What are colycynth granules?

Plus she looks nothing like any of their family - either side, SIL's dd1 has huge eyes and small petite features like her mum and her dad, but her dd2 has small slanty eyes and they are really puffy and she has quite a strange face shape - its not really my business i suppose - but its just something thats been on my mind a bit!

Helenemjay - sorry our posts crossed.

I know a couple of people who have a downs look about them but are not at all. In fact I had a similar concern when I first saw dh's cousins baby but it was just how she looked as a baby - shes a 4 year old now and very cute & cheeky!

Imagine the hospital/gp would have advised them if they had any concerns.

rh they are a homeopathic remedy for colic etc an alternative to infacol my hv recommended them as they are supposed to be quite effective

Helenemjay - I'm sure that the midwives/hv's/drs would have said. For what it's worth, I thought that dd looked vaguely as if she might have had down's syndrome when she was first born because her eyes were huge but fairly puffy, she had (and has!) wonderfully regular features - looked really baby-faced rather than like an old man/winston churchill.
HTH
As for looking like the parents - neither ds or dd looked much like me or dh - the grandparents seem to be showing through instead.

Really redhelen? i hope its the case for SIL, her dd2 is lovely, but her dd1 weighed a nice 7lb 9oz but her dd2 weighed only 5lb she wasnt early or anything.
Dp and i also noticed alot of tension in thier house when we went to visit them when she was first born, it may be me just getting it all wrong, but sometimes things stay with you and your not sure why