Feb 2011 - The one where they all start sleeping through the night! (We hope)

[WanderingSheep]

Was hoping a positive title might bring us some good luck

Sorry about K Byron, that sounds horrible. I hope you get the results back soon. Dark choc and ginger is great for iron if you need some of that too! I think Chocoroo works for Cadbury's who make Green and Blacks too.

Jane I missed my period and then had a big streak of red blood. Turned out to be an implantation bleed and here is Sam. Wishing the same for you.

Debka, I hope you get a better night's sleep. Do you find the dcs behave so much better when you are on top form? I know I do.

Good luck with the carpet tomorrow reastie! Hope the M&P delivery comes soon, wandering. Hope L sleeps better tonight american. I hope ledkr is just giving herself a bit of a break.

debka - I've not had 4 hours since L was born, it was bliss. I didn't even wake up halfway through to make sure he was still breathing.

suzy - I considered getting a slumber bear but will see how you get on with yours. I wonder if it might be too late to try womb sounds now?

I got a leaflet for baby sensory today but it seems awfully dear at £7.50 (tho includes admission to the science centre too). The baby sessions at the library are ending for the summer so we need something else to do.

tad Rumbled...if I can convince Byronic to eat more G&B then my bonus pot might increase! I think I'll need it with all the stuff I just bought from the John Lewis sale...

American Baby Sensory is good, but expensive. Ours is £65 for 10 sessions. I do think R enjoys it and I've really appreciated getting out of the house and meeting other mums.

Suzy I'm thinking about the slumber bear too but not sure how useful it'll be now R is getting bigger.

We start swimming lessons tomorrow, forgot to get swim nappies though so have sent DP on a mission on his way home from footy. He's been an hour already so suspect it might not be going well....

american I think baby sensory is fab, but then, have nothing else to compare it to other than my blinking baby massage which costs £12 a session ((yes, you heard me right )for a course of 4 which I had to pay upfront for btw) which I'm far from impressed with . pm me if you want me to explain the sort of things we do as I won't bore everyone here. We are thinking of starting musical bumps classes (they do them across the country) - a friend of mine with her dd does them and loves them but have no idea how they compare price wise but know they are good in that if you don't go one week your money will roll over to the next week whereas most things you pay for a term and if you dont go one week tough luck on the money front.

choc I ate half a pack of giant choc buttons yesterday - will that increase your bonus pot?!

deb how you feeling today?

expat did we get repeat performance?

ledkr where are you?

alice still being a nightmare in evenings - finally got her off by rocking her for half an hour - she used to be so good . I'm shattered today but not too shattered to stop being excited about my carpet

Morning girls,

Im starting to worry about ledkr now, hope she is just caught up and having too much fun to post.

reastie how is Alice settling at night now? Hope you manage to get to sleep at a decent hour!

debka hope today is better for you.

Right i defo don't think im pg! I had cramping yesterday, not had an actual bleed yet though just the brown stuff you get at the end of a period.

chocco good luck with the swimming lessons!

irish just saying hi!

The bump classes sound good! Im sorry Alice is still being a little madam, i have no advice but i am thinking about you.

Jane, sorry your af seems to be coming. I dont want to give you false hope but when I was pregnant with Noah, I thought I wasn't as I had bled a little for 10 days! Went on hols a few weeks later and felt unwell while we were away then tested when we came back and was pregnant!
Reastie, musical bumps sounds good. Took Noah swimming yesterday, missed the class though as got caught in traffic! It took 40 minutes to drive a 5 minute journey, I was not a happy chappy!
Byron, hope K is ok.
I've ordered the slumber bear and am hoping it arrives soon! Ive ordered the premium bear which plays lullabies and you can also record your voice too.
Ledkr, where are you! Really hope your ok.
Noah has discovered the joy of ripping up my magazines. Shows what he thinks of the gossip mags!

jane I must be unrealistically optimistic as I keep thinking that most of your 'symptoms' of AF could also possibly be symptoms of early pg...? But I'm going to shut up on that score as I'm sure you've thought about all that!

Emski lol at 'premium bear', cracks me up! Good that you can record your voice though. C really seems to like one of my vocal warm ups that I do for my singing group, it jst chills her out in about 20 seconds and gets her from faffy thrutchy non-sleepy baby to relaxed drifting off baby. If I could record it it would give DH no excuse for being unable to settle her for daytime naps (in his defence he does bedtime most nights, just daytime sleeps he can't do!).

reastie happy new carpet day and sorry for naughty Alice.

Ledkr where are you?

I had another MIL nightmare yesterday. I had a work KIT day yesterday pm so MIL had C (as she will wednesdays when I'm back properly), and was due to keep her over teatime and all evening as I have my singing group on a wednesday. She had said she needed to take her DB to the airport at 4 ish, one hour round trip, perfect as C needs to sleep then and then 5 o'clock feed, bath, wind down, bottle and bed at 7 as usual. She knew I was finishing work at 4 and would be home by 5 (so she knew I was 2 minutes away, at the 'moment in question', as was DH who works locally). So at 5.30 I have just finished my tea and realised I forgot to give MIL the monitor, so go round to find SIL looking after C, MIL nowhere to be seen, having taken her DB to the airport at a completely different time. C was going absolutely apeshit, poor SIL (who I do not blame) who has no kids of her own and doesn't know C very well, was going out of her mind with panic not knowing what to do. I have never seen C that distressed, red blotchy face and horrid sobbing and hitched breathing from having been screaming for so long. It's not SIL's fault, and I have no idea what set C off (it could have been nothing at all!), but why the hell did MIL not call me when she knew the airport thing was going to put a spanner in the works, as either DH or I could have quite easily had C back for an hour. But no. again, she chose to change the arrangements and not bother to inform me or DH.

Absolutely furious! It's just another trust thing, it's like when she has C, she thinks she's totally hers, well no she's not, actually, I'm her Mum and I want to know if you're thinking of leaving her with someone else. It was just another stupid decision and nobody bothered to tell me.

Grrrrrrr! And breathe. Ooops that's a really long rant, sorry, I needed to get that off my chest!

Dx

d your MIL sounds like she does things exactly the same style as mine sometimes. Are you getting stressed/anxious about how C and you will cope when you go back to work properly? I share your [anger] on your behalf.

carpet currently being laid - even alices massively smelly pooey nappy I'm just off to change can't dampen my mood

at your mil! delia

Sorry if im boring you all with my ttc talk! i have joined a ttc thread with some lovely ladies in the same situation as me, so you all might be spared from the drivel i spout!

I am trying not to think that i may be pg, i know all the symptoms can be related to early pregnancy as i felt this exact way with Zoe, but i know only too well how my body can fail me and play tricks, so im not holding out any hope again, well until i am holding a screaming baby!

Ohh yay for the new carpet reastie just wait until Alice has an incredibley smelly leaky nappy on the carpet!

Just marking my place!!!!

Had fab holiday, will be back later after catching up on all your news. Stop talking everyone, can't read that fast. Missed you all (does that make me very sad ) xx

jane I am not bored of you ttc talk at all - infact, more of it please . I'm trying really hard to not keep writing hopeful posts your way as I don't want to get you excited and then dissapointed if it's a no go this month, but I am so excited for you whenever it happens (and am still keeping everything crossed). When was the last pg test you did? must be 8ish days post af now is it? And alice wouldn't dare spill anything on my nice new carpet at any point in her life

wooooohgoooooooo for wiggles tell all about the hol and photos please, we've missed you

Have to head out to Sofia's Irish Dancing show (God help her, she's not quite as good as she thinks , inherited her Mothers lack of rhythm), can someone give me a quick catch up of all our news, preferably in the style of Big Brother, everyone ok? xx

Yay wiggles is back Glad you had a fab time! Cant fill you in i have a head like a sieve! (sp)?

Poor sofia sounds like me, i don Irish dancing when i was a kid, i learned how to point my toe and tie my laces!

AF has finally reared her ugly head! Ah well another month ahead of swi for me

jane can I say a rude word? seriously, keep us updated with your TTC, we ARE interested and want to hear all the gory details

wiggles byronic's son K went to a hell hole of a Greek hospital but escaped with his life, Alice STILL won't sleep but reastie doesn't care because she has a new carpet, the swaddlers ponyo and suzy I think have stopped swaddling, my Sabine has started sitting up and expat got four hours sleep. But worryingly we haven't heard from ledkr since she talked about PND. Can't wait to hear about your hols, we've missed you!

Better here, had slightly more sleep last night and my aunt had the glirls for an hour so DH and I went out for a double vodka coffee, made me feel like me instead of MUMMY MUMMY WANT MUMMY!

delia that is not ok from your MiL, I imagine mine would be like that if I let her anywhere near S. Hope you told her it was not acceptable. Hope C was ok after all that.

wiggles I'm trying to round up but prob wil forget most things - ledkr is back but hasn't been on for a few days so we;re starting to get about her; byron had to go to a nightmare sounding greek hosp re: k and some blood in nappy but hopefully all undercontrol; lots of sleep talk - both good and bad nights and the swaddlers are now grobagging; not that much mention of the shred so I can only assume people are giving up doing it quietly; deb is now saint deb and s is sitting up already; delia has a slightly unhinged mil; we continue to wave our pom poms to jane; we ahve been moaning about mamas and papas; and wandering phone keeps going mental so she has had issues posting. that's all I can remember but know I've forgotten most of it

carpet all in and looks amazing - a different room alice is now banned forever incase she messes it up

oh deb xposted....and it took me ages to remember all that news for wiggles

Whoops! You remembered more than me though!

Can you post a pic of the wonder carpet?

oh photos just can't do it justice deb

Ha ha ha it's like the generation game here, you both forgot the cuddly toy or slumber bear!

jane I nearly mentioned the slumber bear - would I have won the car if I did

well, limited time only as it's not exactly riveting for anyone other than me is a piccie of the carpet. It's a bit of a rubbish piccie as I can't get all the room in on my little camera to truly see the beauty of the carpet. You can also admire our reclaimed fireplace we had put in a couple of weeks ago . The room looks so big it seems a shame to put the furniture in it now

back to scrubbing the kitchen floor. don't think it's been properly scrubbed since it was done (20 years ago ) so am finding it's cleaning up nearly a completely new colour

reastie wow that room looks gorgeous, jut wait till Alice is 2 and there's another little reastie wiggling about, won't look so beautiful then

NOT jealous of the floor scrubbing, but I bet it'll feel good when it's clean. I used to work in a restaurant and I always slept well the night after I cleaned behind the ovens

I just made a white chocolate cheesecake mmm mmm mmm but NONE OF YOU CAN HAVE ANY until Friday night! Apart from byron you can't have any at all (sorry) Not sure how I'll last out... We've had a tentative arrangement to have dinner with some friends friday night after the girls go to bed, I was going to cancel after the god awful nights I've been having but decided today sod it, if Margaret Thatcher can manage on 5 hours sleep so can I (bet hers weren't broken though!...) Now really looking forward to it, I think it'll do me good.