The CRESH Creche and Spa - future home of all ESH

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I liked the CRESH acronym more than FESH so have used it. Welcome all ESH to your final stop on the journey. Rest your aching lady bits, try one of the many gin based cocktails, and try to molest the gorgeous waiting staff.

Actually thinking back I think he went through a long period around that time of 20 min naps, so we had lots of screamy late afternoons. Could well have been sleep regression related.

Fucktards re house!

Are you moving again pols?

I'm not going to the office today. 1 part bone idle and fearful of the iron, one part pooped.

I did months and months of broken nights but 7 times last night has left me a broken woman. :(

Silv were they nice?

Quick question for Cos, as the resident sleep guru. Have you got any suggestions for what I can do with LG beyond putting him to bed out in the stables? He was not too bad at night until 2 weeks ago, then we had huge disruption with OH's mother being very ill. OH was first of all Oop North on his own and I was at home with the kids all day, then we all went Oop North and I stayed at various family member's houses on an airbed with LG sleeping in with me. Now he is back to midnight snacks, every hour through the night. It seems the only way he is happy to be comforted is to be back into our bed and BFing for comfort, only he is now an 8 month old ginormo-baby who likes to grunt and claw at his food. I had TT in her own room and sleeping well (well, better than this!) at this point, but LG doesn't have his own room yet - the builders are working on it! Any suggestions? If anyone can suggest anything that will work I can get him all settled before completely undoing it all again by going on holiday next week

Haven't moved anywhere yet Pone. Supposed to be moving next door next month but now landlords are being vague about the rent. Before christmas they offered it to us for £850 while the building work is going on (barns behind being converted). Over the last few years it has been let for between £1200 and £895 (this was the last let). During a phone call last week I asked if a) we are still moving as we've not heard anything and b) would the rent be the same as discussed before. She said 'oh yes, just shy of £1000 wasn't it'. The house is an old farm which is massive and looks lovely from the outside, but it is very dated inside and bloody cold in winter due to to old crittall windows and crappy (and expensive) heating system. Much as I would love the space we can't afford £1000 per month, especially with me off to college in Sept. Hence me looking around to see what else is available, only to wind up dealing with the only letting agent in Somerset who doesn't want to actually let houses. Grrr.

Despite a better night with BB I am feeling shit today. Prolly cos I keep forgetting to take the ADs. Oh yes, and the dog woke me up at 3am, followed by Boo at 4am telling me her lullaby CD had stopped. Well duh, it stopped about 7 hours previous!

I do not know how those of you with severe sleep issues have managed (I'm looking at Pone Cos and Cunty in particular here. Oh and Moo). One night of 4 hours of broken sleep and I am fucked. Not exactly hardcore. Pathetic....

So what is everyone up to on this fine sunny day?

Pols I'm a massive fan of stimulants.

I was too pone until I found I couldn't get through day at work without having a swift sniff of billy. By 10am. I realised then that my social life had to be cut back a bit. These days coffee is about as hardcore as I get.

Fucking jobsworths!

I need to get bloodtests done for my milk donation screening, so I made an appointment at my gps ? all they asked me was if I had the info on what I need ? so I said yes as they had sent me all the vials etc. Anyway, got there and the phlebotomist said, ?oh what?s this? We don?t do things like this, they are too time consuming. I?ll just check with my manager?. She then spent 10 minutes checking with all and sundry that they don?t do them as it takes too much time. How long would it have taken to take 3 vials of blood ? 2 minutes?

So I have to go to the walk in centre at one of the two giant hospitals in town, which I can?t do as I work ft.

That was an hour of my life I?ll never get back.

Oh lord I?m not entirely sure how I turned into a sleep guru! I would have been the last person I would pick for that job, since I had Mr No Sleep for so long.

Honestly these days I?m a big fan of own rooms. I think Artie used to think, oh she?s there, I need to be latched on all night. But now I?m not there, so he just sleeps.

would sharing with TT be worth trying?

box I totally sympathise as I think we are in the same boat with second child sleeping issues. Clyde is 11 mths old FFS! By this age Bonnie had been in her own room for months... while he is still sleeping in the crook of my arm.

I know the causes -similiar to yours - disruption with changing sleeping arrangements, and an inability to put both children in the same room due to mutual waking up potential. I am now working on longer and longer periods of settling him in the cot. I have tried a bit of shushing and pupd, but usually end up giving in as don't want to wake Bonnie. Gaaaarr!

I think the upshot is I really am a hopeless mother.

polly I read your post and immediately leapt up to grab my ADs as I had forgotten this morning. Tanks for the reminder. And bah to house issues.

Is he 8m box? There is an 8m sleep regression iirc.

8 metres??

I wonder if it's worth putting out crap ham in the buffet for any newbies. Mouldy cheese & crap ham?

I have crap ham in my sandwiches today.

He's a very big baby, Cunty - you got something to say about that?

Yes, he is exactly 8 months. Pah, I thought we had ridden out the 4 month sleep regression really well. That'll teach me to be smug. I think TT would leave home if I tried to put him in her room. While we were Oop North we all shared a room and she would lay in bed yelling that he was waking her up.

We have crap ham most days for lunch. TT thinks that if she has crap ham sandwiches cut into rabbit shapes one day for lunch and then cut into duckling shapes the next day, she has had two completely different food groups. Causes some raised eyebrows when she states loudly that she has duckling sandwiches in her lunch bag at pre-school. But then again we are the local mad family who lives in the woods. She's not even at school yet but already the headmistress knows who the mad family with the mad mother and mad child are! I am looking forward to being the mother the teachers love to hate

I'm waiting for a phone call from Clucky btw, to tell me if we have booked our holiday to Italy for next year, complete with in-house nursery and toddler ski classes. And chianti by the bucket-full. We are looking forward to finding out what the Italians drink instead of Gluhwein!

Just thought - don't call now, though Cluck. Am just off to call work to let them know I might be thinking about going back soon, after the extension is finished. I can feel my aeroplane calling me back now....

Cor, we're a barrel o' laughs here today.

Today is a good day in the Cluck house - LC is at nursery and BC has accepted the dummy and is quiet. So far today I have emptied the dishwasher, walked the mutt, done my stable, booked a ski holiday, picked the scab off the enormo-boil at the end of my nose and eaten just one packet of Randoms. Time for some lunch - crap ham & cheese toastie.

Am liking the talk on uppers but wouldn't have the foggiest where to get hold of any these days. Was tempted to name the boy Charlie in salute to my mis-spent youth....maybe I'll use it on the next one . Pol was it you who hankered for another in the early days of no. 2, only am having similar thoughts. MrCluck says no!...so that'll be no sechs for me for the forseeable.

I am picturing boxy's aeroplane pawing at the gate and whinnying to say that turn out has been long enough now, please get me shod and take me out for a spin.

I have run my frustrations out on a treadmill at the gym so am happy again.

ps my crap ham was also Aldi crap ham.

And you did that without leaking wee all down your legs??

I always keep a cork in my pocket for such eventualities.

That reminds me. Catflap-chicks, cossie told me I should've done my Kegels, and I didn't. Did anyone else or are we all about to prolapse any moment now?

Well I say cork, it?s more of a big rubber bung.

Alps, you should have been doing them before the sneeze anyway, before you knew you were flapping it, no?

alps You can't have a joint of crap ham, because that would imply it is actual real meat cut off the bone like the fancy stuff... as opposed to reconstituted from scrotums and processing floor sweepings and then squashed into uniform slices.

Or did you mean you were passing around a joint like a spliff with crap ham shavings in it?

don't forget the eyballs fans

A pedant writes: surely 'scroti', if more than one?

yum, scroti.