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.

I'm very of the horsey meet-up, if Pegasus can grow herself some wings I'll come too.

Kate I wanted to ask you how the job hunt was going but didn't want to bring it up. Any joy yet? Any new leads? I missed work so much - words I never, ever though I'd utter!

C'mon laurie - we're waiting for you! Your cheese has gone verrrrry furry.

Haven't started the hunt yet Alps - not least because MrCluck has bought a laptop that doesn't have Windows so haven't figured out how to re-write my CV . Am finding myself trying to live vicariously through him, quizzing him on his job when he's trying to unwind in the evening which irritates the hell out of him.

Jealous of the horsey meet too - need to get me some wheels. Would travel with Boxer only the pone likes the whole trailer to herself (& Boxer doesn't want a hole in the side of hers).

kate You can get a Word like synthesiser for Linux and then publish it to a .pdf file. I always deliver my CV as .pdf because i) it stops different versions of word messing with the formatting making it look sloppy and ii) it stops asshat recruiters copy & pasting!

You can have my job if I can have the money? No?

I still have an unwell child. SFF took her back to the doc today and she has another course of anti-bs. She has so much gunk in her chest and a sore throat, and we had another cough-puke-cry incident last night

We've been told to keep her away from other kids, so that's another wasted nursery day tomorrow. And she's supposed to be at a party today. Somebody please give my child an immune system! (I'm off to get my own buggered up immune system sorted this week - hopefully)

medee You have been so bloody brave. I've been at the centre of a meningitis scare myself, and had my baby readmitted to hospital 48 hours after getting home, but can't imagine the horrors of finding ourselves in NICU with our wee girl having seizures. My heart really goes out to you and I am so very delighted that you are home and enjoying normality now. Loving the photos.

I have been lurking, but energy levels are seriously dwindling.

Artie has finally mastered sitting up properly. Hurrah.

and apparently is doing painting today and the CMs.

Poor squeaks curls I hope she's better soon :(

Hurrah for Artie! Hope we get to see his masterpiece. I want to start doing creative things with Squeaks but fear she'll eat all my art materials.

Just had a text to say he?s thrown up all over everyone! Seems happy though apparently (for the moment) .

If painting has occurred, I will scan and post.

Poor Squeaks. Hope she's on the mend soon.

Hooray for sitting up Artie.

We went to mum & baby yoga today. What a waste of time that was. I spent about 90% of the class feeding her or trying to stop her crying while everyone else did stuff. I'm not sure why I thought it was going to be any different! And I ended up getting all upset like a big loon. Gah. Must get a grip.

muse we go to Gymboree, have done since he was 8 weeks old. I think he was 5.5 months before he got through a session without crying or feeding!

I don't think any of the babies got through without crying or needing fed Cos, but mine was conspicuous in its inability! The teacher even made a very sympathetic comment. Still, bank holidays next two classes, so by the time we're back again she'll be nearly 12 weeks and could be entirely different. Or maybe she just objects to the singing.

Just another one saying here that routine and cuddles are not mutually exclusive not by any means. I find it so frustrating when people think that if you like routine you leave your baby screaming for hours! With L, establishing the routine cut down on his crying so much that the cuddles became much nicer quality ones.

Need to try and be a bit more consistent with E's routine. On the days I just have her, it's great. On the days I have them both whenever she sleeps I just leave her so I can spend time with L and get anything else done... so then we have worse nights. Need to get my act together a bit more on that one.

Muse I missed my entire postnatal course first time around cos I was out in the corridor with a screaming L, so I feel your pain on that one. Cranial osteopathy did diddly squat for L. But taking him to a McTimoney chiropractor was nothing short of miraculous. Honestly. And I was SO sceptical. And now I'm training to be one, that's how good she was.

I want to see Archie's masterpiece! Unless of course he's painted it using the aforementioned sick

Kate googledocs has a free "Word-esque" program. It's not as good, but it's something. And agree with saving to pdf, too.

Just want to say I know routines don't mean no cuddles, this was just one crazy person. I have nothing against routines, some luffly people follow routines so they can't be that bad! I am curious as to how you get an evening cluster feeding baby like mine into a 7am-7pm routine.

We do have a sort of routine anyway. It's just taking some time to form is all.

What did the chiropractor do Cass? I am intrigued.

On a completely different subject, it's immunisation day tomorrow. Any top tips? I have Calpol ready for her and brownies for me.

muse just prepare to have your heartbroken and shed a few tears ya'self.

boxy I iz excited it's troo! Not told hoss about forthcoming adventures but he'll be game so he will. Better dust off my travelling boots etc! Let's hope it's a sunny but cool day. Hot climes we can do without. Just need to figure out best preparation for hoss in the run up to said meet up! Guess should ride!! Oh and there is no way I'm wearing cream jodhs! Not with my cellulite!

Apple mush, banana mush, pear mush, Petit Filous, jelly, rice pud, custard. All go down well here, even with the 3yo.

Silv and any other horsey people who are interested - I won a fabulous leather hunting sandwich bag to attach to the rear D-rings on my saddle in anticipation of all the hunt rides and sponsored rides I will be going on this summer. Well pleased with it, until I went to put it on the saddle and realised I don't have rear D-rings..... Fool!

For immunisations, my osteo recommended to me to put a bit of arnica cream on the injection site before the jab. Be ready to stuff yer baby up your jumper for a feed asap.

As for cranial osteo vs chiropractor - I've never used a chiropractor, but have osteo for both me and both kids. I luv my osteo - she has magic hands! for colicky babies she is known locally as the wind lady. She just lays her hands on the baby and they trump away like mad! She does fabulous crunchy-cracky things with my shoulders and ribs too. As for what an osteo would do with a non-sleeping baby, I don't know. Worth a try once? I don't think I would take a baby more than that though if there was no reason I could pinpoint. Some babies are just cry-y babies. TT cried more or less from being born till she could crawl and then suddenly stopped. I was at the end of my tether by then, but have almost managed to erase all memories of it! LG is a much smiler baby.

Cluck and I did manage a full-on 4 child wailing symphony on our picnic today. BC was hungry, LC was tired, LG had gammy eyes and TT managed to catapult herself at warp speed onto her knees on some gravel. Fortunately Cluck was armed with Peppa Pig plasters, but we each had to push a pram back to the cars while carrying a small child on our backs with a mei tai. Which reminds me - we will be making a little video on Wednesday to show all the things you can do with a mei tai. Well, maybe not ALL the things you can do, but the things that involve carrying a small person.

Where do I purchase Peppa Pig plasters? Also, not a fan of petit filous as they are full of sugar, I am a Rachel's Organics fan or a Yeo Little Pots (am I being a bit PFB?)

Cass on days when I have them both it does tends to go a bit to pot too. I tend to be out a lot so Peppa gets plenty of chance to have naps in the pram. I try to stick pretty much to feed times even if it means having to get out the baps out on a park bench (it won't be the first time!) I rarely get them to nap at the same time so it is full on. If I am at home and it is feed time Cbeebies comes into it's own.

I tried MB on an Organix pouch when we were out on Friday. Smelt V.I.L.E!!!!! MB had three mouthfuls and called it a day too. Their fruit pots he likes but the pouches had a dodgy aroma. Whereas Ella's smell good enough to eat.

Where can I buy Rachel's? Never 'eard of 'er!

I have just been upstairs to see to chatty grumbly baybee to find ANOTHER poo!!!

Boots Okes - they were an emergency purchase yesterday when LC's brand new sandals, which she refused to remove in the shop & wore without socks, gave her a blister.

Rachel's are just yogs Silv - in the chiller cabinet! Poo city round your house, huh!

'Fraid so! If it ain't dog poo, cat poo it's baybee poo at our gaff!

Just been upstairs as he didn't settle and held his hand thru the for bars as he drifted back to the land of nod.

cossie awesome about Artie sitting up!

Oh and yes, yes, yes to CBeebies and Nick Jr also .

Muse don't beat yourself up - you are doing bloody brilliantly to be out and about so much with Bob being just 8 weeks.....is still ver early to be expecting a routine. Being slightly older than many first time Mums we're all so used to being fucking excellent at what we do that it comes as a bit of a shock to be wrestling with the role of motherhood. Have faith - you will get there. Gradually those cluster feeds will wane as Bob takes more food and is able to go longer between meals and, hey presto, you're on a 3 hr feeding cycle.

My poo moment of the week: If it smells like you have a poo under your pillow in our house, it could well be because there is a poo under you pillow. OH changed a pooey smelling nappy in the middle of the night but expressed surprise that there wasn't much poo in it. I spent the rest of the night sniffing LG, my armpits, the sheets, everything, as I could still smell poo really badly. Next morning, in the light, a little round poo rolled out from under the pillow as I sat up. So that's what smelt. OH swears he didn't let the poo escape while changing the nappy......

Okie if you can keep up buying organic low sugar stuff, good on you. But when you have a building site for a house and no income you buy whatever is on BOGOF and easy to dish up! OTOH I do have lots of outside space with lots of fresh veg growing in it, an orchard, a soft fruit garden, chickens and ducks which provide me with fresh eggs and soon meat too, and a sister who sends me a freezer of pig every 6 months. I am happy with my choice of childrens' dairy desserts.

I should hold my hand up to feeding LG a sugar coated fruit shortcake biscuit today. It seemed the only way forward at the time.

I want to live in your house Box! And am trying not to laugh too hard at the tiny escaping poo.

We have had massive middle of the night poo here. Normally I'd swear at this but as last night she kept me awake grunting because she needed to poo I'm happy. I hope this means no grunts. They drive me crazy as they are so loud they keep me awake and she was waking herself hourly with them.

curly I'm very sorry to hear about squeaker - but am wondering if it's just "one of those things" when they start creche. I'd heard about it before and remember Bear seemed to have one thing after another when he started mixing with other filthy germ-ridden children.

box oh my! hahahahahahaha. Of course it was the man's fault - women don't lose poos. Have you ever heard a story about a woman who loses a poo? It just doesn't happen.