June '05 mummys - the one with veg and fruit mush!

[katzguk]

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Clogs and shawls ahoy - the June 2005 Northern meet-up thats the title anyway

evening all

very tired today, dd has been really unconfortable since about 3am last night. she plays and laughs but ends up grizzling poor pet.
at least she went to slepp at usual time with only an extra ba ba black sheep or two.

feel really odd about work, just been talking to HR today and told them i will not be back before march at the earliest. its strange not having my own money for the first time in nearly 20 yrs or so. kept woman
also miss the idea of work but cant bear the thought of being away from dd which will happen at some point. oh not making any sense...
night night all

Hi Girls,

Hope you are all well.

Amyjade - I know its already been said far better than I can say it but I feel so sad for you and your loss, I hope you feel you can 'talk' to us junies about anything. Your dd2 sounds like an absolute hunny and make sure you give a huge hug everytime you feel sad.

Welshie - You are so brave, I went into my work today for a visit and I am now dead nervous about going back in the new year (did suggest taking dd to work with me but I don't think they thought I was serious, she could probably do a better job than some I could mention, oops sorry bitchy).

EYM - How do you find enough hours in the day? You always seem to be on the go doing something different. Glad DH is home, absence makes that heart grow fonder n all that . My dp is home tommorrow YIPPEE! another two weeks of being loved up. So I apologise now if I don't get the chance to post much but I promise I will be lurking.

Don't worry if its a private thing but if not could someone tell me how to find the pics you were talking about on yahoo? I would love to see some of your gorgeous babies and add one of my own if thats ok.

Best go get organised for bed speak soon.

Thanks to all of you Junies for making me welcome.
One of you summed up my life very well and that is bittersweet. Missing little Freya so much my heart is breaking but feeling so much love for Dd2. these feelings are alot to deal with at the same time but the main thing is the love i have for both of them, they are my girls !! xx

I too would love all of you to see photo's of my two Dds where can i attach the pictures?

Just given Dd2 first dream feed as she was waking at 1230 am for a feed every night!
Have to try something as she is 24 weeks and has never slept through!!
Fingers crossed it works.

hi
I'm back have had a lovely few days away at a friends house

have tried to catch up with the thread but if i miss any thing then sorry!

Amyjade - welcome and huge hugs to you

Lua - sounds like you feel how i did a month ago, so please talk, i found it made the world of difference

Well we're off to the childrens hospital again with dd2, she has a strange rash which neither the hv nor 2 gps could identify!

does anyone fancy doing a christmas present swap? a junie mumies one?

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morning all
Katz-sounds like a lovely idea - for us or for the babies?? either is great
Lua - please feel free to chat away missus - we've all been there I'm sure - hug to you x
Killiemum - I'm not brave - just lucky to have a very family friendly office and fairly flexible hours and the most important things - a superb childminder and an easy going baby boy.
2 more sleeps until the advent calender goes up!!! Dd is so excited and so am I We've made the puddings and am thinking about attempting a proper cake too. Dd is also insistent that I make ds a christmas stocking - so sweet.
Can I have a proud mummy moment? This morning she was looking at one of ds's books and she said 'C -A - T - that's cat isn't it mummy?'

Morning all, have been lurking but too tired/uninspired to post. DS2 has got another nasty cough and cold which is keeping us all up at night.

Welcome Amyjade, it makes me feel sick just to imagine what you've been through, it must be so unbelievably difficult . Your DD2 sounds gorgeous.

Will try and find the link to the Yahoo page that's got all the Junie photos on.

Welshie, what's it like being back at work so far? Your DD sounds very clever.

Lua, sorry things are getting on top of you, but please talk to us on here, it's not boring and we are all here to listen even if we can't do anything practical to help. The sleep thing must be grinding you down - I know it's getting to me, it's the randomness of it all, I'd just like to go to bed knowing that I'll be asleep for a decent length of time.

Katz, hope the mysterious rash is nothing to worry about. Like the idea about the Christmas present swap.

Giddy, loved the card picture, that one from Bubb was fantastic.

Killie, have a lovely time with your DH. I won't be seeing much of mine for a while as he runs a hotel and the Christmas party season means he'll be working pretty much every Friday and Saturday night until New Year. Joy of joys.

Trib, happy wedding anniversary!

Have just been filling in forms for DS2 to go to nursery in January which makes it all seem very real. I'm sure when I get back into the swing of things I'll be fine but I don't feel like I'm clever or switched on enough to be back in the office.

Will see if I can also find the meet-up thread and post the link here.

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Oh i hope you can find the link for all the pics, it'd be great to see all your little ones, and if its ok, i'd like to show you my ds too. He's so cute it'd be a shame not to. I'm still in the, 'i love him so much' phase with ds at the moment. Its great! Now i'm REALLY dreading work, but i think it'll do me good to get back with adult company for 3 days a week. And i think it will make me appreciate ds even more.

The present swappy thing sounds really good too. Best be off. I'll be back later

Okay sign up here for the swop
june mummies swop

i guess by the 5th so i can get details out that day so we have time to post them before christmas.

I think just a parcel for us mummies because the babies already have too much stuff!! and we deserve a treat!

You're so right Katz - and meant to say hope you get reassuring news on the rash.
Lua - can we help at all with the sleep problems?
Mrs Wed - know what you mean about being too tired to post - hope you get more kip soon.
Work is actually much easier than I thought it would be - because we know our CM so well I think.

Hi there!
Thanks for all of your supporting messages. I'm sure is just getting used to the new swing of things.... Nothing is supposed to be difficult or complicated, but end up so IYSWIM...I am supposed back to working a few hours every morning, but it seems lke when I'm done dropping kids, parking car, sitting down at my desk is about time to go pump, then I get 30 min. of work and is time to go get car, get Ds, etc. It is almost not worth it! and you are absolutely right Mrs.W, i'm not feeling like my brain is sharp enough to actually do any useful work!! I will crack this sleep thing, i will!

So, Katz, how are you feeling these days? any tips?

Only discovered mumsnet yesterday, then today found your other June mummies thread and posted a message. But troublesmummy very kindly pointed out this thread which I hadn't noticed (not really good with technology). If it's ok, I'd like to join?

Welshie - x-post! Thanks for the offer in helping with the sleep. I did phone sleep lady a couple of months back and as a result we sorted the going to sleep phase. But I can't get him out of waking up a couple of times seemingly desperate for food... I usually feed him if it is after 3 Am, but decide before than that has to be for confort. The result is that yesterday he woke up 12:30 and cried until 2Am ... But, then he went until 5:30 Am! I'm confused and inconsistent, which is probably what is making theproblem worst.... How did you get your DS to finally go without feeding?

Hi and welcome 2happy

Lua - i guess the break at my parents helped, talking through everything on here and with dh, and also realising that i'm not wonder women and that 2 children are a hell of a lot more work and tiring than 1. i still have down days, like yesterday in fact, dh got his head bitten off because he didn't praise dinner, i'd spend ages making. ask me again in a couple of months when i go back to work and dd2 still isn't sleeping.

hello all

welcome 2happy saw your first post over at concise and thought maybe you did not know about this one

lua- hope you get some sleep soon, my dd usually goes to sleep at around 7pm and up for feed between 12.30-2.30 and that it until 8am. on a few occasions she let go of night one and just woke up at 6 for feed, having said that she often wakes up at 6-7 and does not want milk until 8.
guess kids different

after a time with this pattern i was shattered after a sleepless night and cranky day, so glad all back to normal.

katz-will email

hi to all other, must tackle pm nap now

Lua - Are you going to leave him to yell tonight too? It should be for alot less shouldn't it? Also does that mean he went from going to bed until 0530 without feeding? You know what that means! I got into a pickle with leaving mine to yell and then feeding him - very bad message to send so we did have a few days when ds thought yelling resulted in food - spectacularly bad.
I don't know what kind of arrangement you came to with the sleep lady but I paid a fee which then entitled me to phone her as much as I like for 3 months so I've phoned her whenever I needed too. I got confused with the messages I was giving ds and she put me right every time. As a result he's now (hallelujah) doing 7 until 6ish with no yelling and no feeding which I really didn't believe was possible. I did have to leave him to yell but not very much really considering the prize - for all of us, including dd.
Katzguk - you'd think they'd learn to praise dinner wouldn't you??? Mine needs to praise the opening of a tin if I've had the children all day
Hello 2happy and welcome aboard. What sort of babies do you have?

Here's the link to the yahoo page:

Junies

Back soon with the meet-up thread details...

Oh and welcome 2happy!

Here it is:

northern meet up

Hello, thanks for the welcomes.
Welshmum, I have a ds, my first who should have been a May baby but refused to come out and got pretty peeved when we tried to get him out - but that's a whooole other story. He's mostly ok now, but a bit slow in using his right side. He's gorgeous (of course), but crap at sleeping in the day (but great at night so am really not complaining!)
Am loving reading all your posts, but think it may take me some time to catch up!

Thanks for the link.
I have added a picture of my girls.