June mummies '05 thread 7 -The one with their first Christmas

[katzglitterytree]

hello all

come and join us new and old junies

Sorry Trib - Your poor nephew and bro and wife, what a nightmare. What about sticklebricks/lego/megablocks for him?
Bubb - Glad ds is back on his food. My dd1 had lots of fussy phases I am afraid, all designed to worry me and recover just before I sought professional advice. It hasn't made me any more rational with dd2 though.

Arrgh, nightmare being back at work, hate it. Although I've gone back to the same company it's a new role (the woman they took on to cover my job is keeping it ) so I feel a bit like a new girl too Tea. Even worse, my desk is right in the middle of an open plan office so I can't get on Mumsnet whenever I want - and what's the point in being back at work if I can't go on the internet??? Spent yesterday close to tears or actually in tears, it was awful. Feel a bit better today though and have already suggested I move my desk to a more suitable spot.

2Happy and Mandymac, how did your first day back go? Tea, I hope today was better than yesterday for you.

Lua, DS2 didn't seem the slightest bit upset about being in nursery all day either, and wasn't even particularly excited to see me at the end of the day. How's baby boot camp going?

Giddy, yes we do have the same problem here with DS1 hitting DS2 but like you say, the size difference between the two of them isn't quite so big. Hope things settle down again soon. Well done on the smoking front - have you read Allen Carr's Easy Way to Stop Smoking? I too have battled against the evil weed and found this book really useful.

Trib, so sorry to read about your nephew. Hopefully the full body scan will have put the hospital's mind at rest?

Bubb, hope the blister heals up quickly. Bless him, your DS sounds such a good natured little boy.

Cratchit, is your DS now decked out in lots of new clothes?

Troublesmummy, glad the diet is going so well

Skyler, I'm not surprised you're knackered after everything you've been doing recently. Hope the move goes really, really well and that everything is quickly sorted at the other end. Are you moving straight into your new house?

Sfxmum, glad you've got your plumbing sorted. I know what you mean - being a mother makes it even more impossible to understand how people could ever hurt little children deliberately

EYM, are you feeling all rested and refreshed after your night off? Hope William is sleeping better now.

Anyone heard anything from Welshie? She hasn't been around for a while. Hope all is ok Welshie.

Right, I really should go to bed, I'm so knackered at the moment. Sleep well all.x

Just popping in to say thanks to all who have asked how the first day back at work went.......it was surprisingly OK. DH and I dropped dd off together and both had a little tear in our eyes, but no blubbing. As I said to DH 'ah our little girl is all grown up' . She was only there from 8am to 1.30pm as I took a half day, but she managed 2 x 1/2 hour naps (not ideal but better that nothing), ate the all lunch I had sent it with her (yes I am making a rod for my own back by insisting on organic, which we have to provide ourselves!) and took about 2-3 oz of EBM from her beaker, which is more than she has ever taken from me! .

Meanwhile, mummy had a nice time at work, feeling strangely OK about it, because it is such a different environment to being at home, where I think I would have missed her much more, if that makes sense?! So of course now I feel guilty for not hating every minute of it like I thought I would - whats that all about????

Giddy, sorry to hear about your trials with Leona .

Off to bed now - sorry I haven't caught up with everyone. x

mandy, glad you were able to enjoy work, I must say I find having to switch back and forth from business professional to 'singer of Old McDonald Had A Farm' quite a head trip, guess we will get used to it!

MrsW, so sorry you aren't having fun at work, assume you came up with a more meaningful reason to move your desk than "I want to play on Mumsnet".

Sky - all the best with the move, did you know that Wolverhampton has just been voted by viewers of Breakfast News on the Beeb as place least deserving of its bad rep (I think that's it) - and a poem will be written about it by Ian Macmillan. So there you go!

sfx - thank goodness you got a plumber sorted out in the end. I know what you mean about having worked with abused kids, my summer job at uni was typing for a solicitor who dealt with child abuse cases (representing the kids, I should add). Awful. I just try not to think about it now.

giddy - poor you and poor Leona, so difficult when you know she doesn't really mean any harm. Well done on giving up smoking, keep it going! Interesting about the rice, my ds's vomiting seems to be worse since he started solids, I guess because they aren't laced with Infant Gaviscon like his milk! Might try the rice trick.

tea - have you got a long commute to work now? I can't remember if you said you'd taken a job in the City?

Bubb - thanks for the kind words, how awful for you that Oscar was on the 'at risk' register but as sfx says, it's what's best for the little ones at the end of the day. Better that health professionals are too careful than not careful enough.

troubles, is there a special "chip shop" diet we should know about?!

Anyway, thank you for all the good wishes for little nephew. He came home last night having had his cast re-done (apparently they did it wrong the first time?!) so I'll get an update today from my parents. I'm assuming that given they've let him come home, they're satisfied at the hospital that it was just an accident. I found ds with one arm through the bars of his cot yesterday morning, just to give me a little fright!

Hello all and Happy New Year.
I haven't been around for a while - illness, festivities, going back to work and all that stuff. Hope everyone's doing ok and the babies are fine and dandy.
Ds has his first tooth and is also getting very mobile using whatever means he can - pulling himself along, spinning around 360 on his tummy and rolling over and over.
Feeling a bit knackered today.

Hello all
Yes where is Welshie?
Mrs W - Poor you. What a nightmare time back at work. It can only get better I am sure, the first day will always be the worst
Mandy - Well done you on your successful day. You sound like great, rational parents who knows thay are making good decisions for their dd and themselves. DON'T feel guilty, I think it is wonderful it all went to well for you. What a releif. You sound SOOOO much more sensible than me who sobbed leaving dd1 in creche for two hours when she was 10 months old...It was the first time she had been away from me apart from three days of 3 hours stretches when I had to go back to work before moving out here and she stayed with my Mum (and yes I cried then too, pathetic). I am more rational with dd2.....although still felt slightly sick with apprehension that my ddad and dstepmum have bought us Mamma Mia tickets for April which will involve leaving the dd's with them. I think it is a breastfeeding thing..... It will be fine though.
Forgot to say ysterday that we now have forward motion from dd2. Not quite crawling proper but not far off .
Trib - Hope dnephew is ok. Has the doc not offered you any more help with ds's sickness. Poor you having to deal with that.
EYM - Hope you feel very rested.
Have to dash. House is still messy even though it is empty .
We could move straight into our house but we are staggering it visiting family and having stuff from storage and cyprus delivered a week apart.
Car has shipped too so I should be mega fit from walking by the time we get back lol.

Doh! Xposted. Hello Welshie! Glad you are OK-ish. Hope you get some rest.

Thanks Skyler. Partly my own fault - went to see King Kong and got home late, then children decided to have a wakeful night. I think dd was slightly anxious as it was the first time we went out and told her she was being looked after by someone else ie her taid.
They are cute with their forward motion aren't they? I feel like ds is a whole new little person now.

Nice to see you Welshie, hope you are feeling less tired soon.

Well, bit of update from dnephew, he seems quite content with a cast on his leg and is doing his best to be as mobile as possible despite doctor's orders to remain motionless for four weeks (yeah right). They spent all of yesterday afternoon trying to get out of the hospital because the nurse the day before had forgotten to write on the chart that social services had okayed them to go home if the head-to-toe x-rays proved to be clear. Grrrrr. And apparently one of the doctors in A&E was very rude to them and said "if this wasn't an accident we're going to call the police in you know". How helpful. Because letting abusers know in advance that they could get nicked would really be useful and not at all likely to result in the child just being removed from the hospital untreated.

What these medical people fail to realise is that I have the power to sabotage their IT systems, ha ha ha. (Unfortunately not really).

Sky - no real improvement in ds's puking, Infant Gaviscon helps for the milk feeds but short of mixing it into his fruit puree I'm a bit stuck.

Just popped in to say hello and Happy New Year.

Hope all June babies enjoyed their first Christmas. DD celebrated it with her first proper (stinking, streaming) cold, which kept her and me awake loads (strangely not dh , despite us having her in the room with us at my parents' house). But we had a lovely holiday all the same.

DS back to school today so I am catching up on mumsnet and trying to reclaim my house from the midden of new toys and cardboard boxes (ds will never let me get rid of the boxes, so I have had to wait until today and will take them all to the recycling, then tell them they got wet if he notices...)

I really haven't had time to catch up on the thread yet but will later, but I see briefly that a few of you are freshly back at work, hope it's going well. And Trib, I did scan down to read about your poor nephew, - hope he is on the road to recovery soon. DS has a kids' walkman and story tapes which he loves when he's poorly, might that keep him occupied a bit?

Afternon mums hugssssss

hey welshie there you are hugs, wow his first tooth, i wish our william would get get at least one, all this teething troubles, his cheeks are so flushed bless him.

Ive just got to say well done all you mums going back to work, you should be really proud of yourselfs, i now it will be hard first, but it will get easier, remember the nurseries you have have chosen your for your lovely babies are answereable to you, you have have the right to expect the best care for your babies hugsss.

Skyler you have done so well lately, geting all packed and i know how tired you are, try and take a break now let DH do the running around hugss.

Giddy hunny i know its hard dealing with leona behaviour, im afraid its like james, you have to try different techniques in order to deal with it, it takes some time, good luck hunny, well done on quitting smoking.

Well william was fine at my sisters house, but i was so restless without him, its mad i slept better last nite, lol, hubby said im so tuned in on william breathing, maybe i am very strange.

Its an excellent chip shop diet that i'm on. Actually, i'm doing weight watchers so its all points. Really boring unless you've ever done it. Obviously i need to eat more chips though! I've lost 3 lb since Monday (couldn't resist weighing myself!)

We've got a tooth over here!!!!! Yeah! But not yeah on the grumpies that are to follow

This thread has been quiet compared to normal. Can tell everyone is back at a work.

As a relative newbie, i don't want to, oldies, can we have have new thread please (its not christmast anymore)

I second a new thread please...someone.

Troubles-Great new on the tooth and great news on the diet.I've also lost a few pounds this week.

I've been meaning to explain to the 2006 Junies that they don't have to post every ante-natal message in a single thread,they are up to 700 or so now! They'll never beat our record unless they start a new thread at around the 500 mark

However, I am too intimidated by the need to think up a witty thread title myself, over to you Katz! (Or I think Welshie does it sometimes too?)

hello just before this thread goes allow me to feel sory for myself

between dd crying bothered by teething,dh snoring and my premature and absurd concerns about going back i managed to pretty much stay awake all night

day however went well dd in good mood but refusing naps, managed to get her to sleep at 12, and within 10mins i looked out the window and saw a delivery van parking, the highchair arrived, the bell woke her up but she does look pretty sitting there

i hope i get some sleep tonight, but poor thing this teething does drag on.

giddy - well done on giving up smoking.dh and i gave up on 1/1/00 went cold turkey, we always thought of it as a test to our relationship, if we managed to give up without causing lasting injury to each other, we were probably meant to last.

Hello can anyone join in? ive got a junie and another due in 2007 june dp birthday same as my junie as well so i defo qualify for junieness. Mine has been teething for about 3mnth but no teeth ever appear its so annoying. I would also like you guys to make a new thread imy eyes went all funny when i scrolled down the 700 posts!!! Hello all hoorah for june

i meant 2006 sorry!

i meant 2006 sorry!

Yummy, welcome - you will either be wanting to join the June 2006 mummies or you can start your very own thread for June 2007 Actually I have a feeling some of us 2005 Junies might end up on a 2007 Junies thread, but time will tell.

I suggest as you are our only official "two years in a row" Junie, you should suggest a new thread to our 2006 sisters

Forgot to say, I spoke to my Mum this evening and dnephew is absolutely as right as rain! Cannot believe it but he has taken a broken leg all in his stride (so to speak) and is perfectly content unless the dog jumps on his leg. His big sis (3) is utterly traumatised by the whole thing - we are all saying thank goodness it wasn't her, she is such a drama queen - and even poor old Douglas the Dog has been pooing on the new carpets and throwing up where he shouldn't in sympathy

I know little kids are incredibly resilient anyway, but am just so impressed at what a chilled-out little soul dnephew is. Bless 'im!

Hi all. A bit too knackered to properly catch up - ds taken to waking all hours just in time for me going back to work

at nephew's leg,Trib, but glad to hear he's coping well and back home.

Hope the moves ok, Skyler; and hope you get some sleep tonight SFX.

Hello Yummymummy and welcome. I hope your current pregnancy is going well. What's your first Junie - ds/dd? June's going to be a brilliant month for parties in your family then

Back at work. Hated hated hated leaving ds and bubbled all the way from the childminder's to work. Pulled myself together to go inside, only for someone to compassionately ask "are you ok" so of course that set me off again! Amazing how quickly it all seemed so familiar though, but is different having to rush over for feeds and pick up at the end of the day, can't hang around finishing paperwork. Will need some adjusting to!
Right, am so tired I am wittering now aren't I? Sorry! Night night!

SFX-Hope you get a good nights sleep tonight.I think Oscar is also teething at the moment.He goes to bed at 6.30,but wouldn't sleep tonight so we bought him downstairs in his sleeping and he just sat there for 3 hours blowing raspberries.Decided to give him another bottle at 9.30 and now he's asleep.
I reckon he's also going through a growth spurt these last couple of days.Only recently he wasn't eating or taking his milk and today he's had 3 large meals,2 yoghurts and 40 oz's of formula.

Trib-So pleased your nephew isn't feeling too down in the dumps.

Welcome Yummy-Junes a fab month for celebrations.Ds was born in June,my birthday is in June and our wedding anniversary is also in June.

2many-Sorry to hear about work.It is mean't to get better,or so I've heard.
By the time I go back in March it'll be nearly a year since I left and I really am not looking forward to it one bit.

Sorry 2Happy-Must be all those christmas names confusing me.Doesn't take much.

Evening ladies

Welcome Yummymummy - blimey you must be a glutton for punishment a current junie and one on the way

Just a quickie (famous last words ) as it's late and dd is due her last bottle any minute now...

Bubb - that's soooooo spooky, dd has been exactly the same as Oscar...suddenly waking before the norm and wanting cuddles to go off again, off feeds, and then suddenly the last 3 days eating and drinking everything in sight, and she cut her first tooth today, hurrah! very red little cheeks bless, but so good natured with it, not like ds who was a real grumpster Mind you I could do with out the poos from hell!! Re sarnies I give her crusts and all...just cut it into triangles...the crusts give her something to gum away on without me fearing she'll choke on too much...not that that's a possibility the way she ate most of my scone this afternoon!!!

Trib - no not in the city, just down the road in fact - lovely as I used to have an hour and a half commute and now it's only 10 mins Not sure how I'll cope if my fab city job prospect actually comes up with the goods in the summer

Welshie - welcome back, missed ya

Mrs W - ha ha ha at not being able to get on mumsnet undetected...me too! Got the lady leaving on maternity watching over me and I'm just itching to get online during the day and get back to normal

2Happy - god I hate those 'are you ok?' questions at the worst possible time too! I could always cry at the drop of a hat, with two pregnancies under my belt I have no hope of ever gaining control over my tear ducts again

SFX he he he at your relationship test Giddy keep at it, you will succeed, it took me three attempts, but I've been off the dreadful weed for 9 years now and although I'll have a crafty fag when I'm really really sozzled (which I realise is not a good idea when I start choking as I can't take it any more) it's the best thing I did...well that and have ds/dd

Ok ok I know I said a quickie, but I'm a fibber . Right will go and wake dd for that dammed bottle, otherwise the little madam will have me up 10 mins after I close my eyes! Night night x