FEB 2011 - Peekaboo!! Sitting, Eating and sometimes Sleeping

[wigglesrock]

, Welcome all - will post stats later, so any lurkers decloak

jane sorry AF is here, it's amazing how long a month can feel, really hope it happens soon for you. I found TTC the most frustrating thing ever.

irish hey there I was wondering where you were, sorry things are not so good. Like emski said, the antideps can take a while to kick in. Glad lovely Maeve is sleeping well for you though. We're trying to sell my old house and have had zero interest and money is just slipping away, things are just no budging at the moment are they?

Nate was up six times last night and is just getting so hard to resettle him. I don't know if it's his belly, we are on to day 10 of no poo now. I am planning to take him swimming tomorrow though, so hopefully the opportunity to embarrass mum by producing a vast plop, probably resulting in having to close the pool should be impossible to resist.

Off to find dirty knobs......

ledkr please please tell us what you said (or the jist)

wiggles glad you enjoyed the museum. I have no advice re: anna as you are my font of advice for everything

irish good to hear from you. Sorry you're so down and have lots of probs with housing etc at the min - where are you wanting to move to? Has Maeve still got the fabulous jedwood hair?

borg 'day 10 and still no poo'

I did 'it' in the food court at bluewater today Alice continues to be hard work - she wouldn't sit in her buggy at bluewater so I kept having to take her out and carry her and now have big back ache and now refuses to be further than 1cm away from me. She keeps rubbing her eyes and yawning but not going to sleep . bought the whole of the baby dept a few bits from john lewis including an amazing bubble machine which suckers on next to the bath as a bath toy - can't wait until bath time tonight - think I'll be using it myself when I'm in the bath . Alice and I are now sitting watching cbbc exciting life . I actually got the itch that if she carries on like this I'll be desperate to go back to work in december . I wish DH would have some time and struggle with her as I don't think he sees how full on it is and most of the time I'm around when he's home or when I'm not it's not for long enough to be hard

wiggles is it possible she is waking at night and feeding out of habit? Why not offer her water instead of milk. Does she have milk at meal times too?

this is the fabulous bubble making bath toy I got - it's fab, we just tested it out

oops borg the swimming trip is a dead cert to make nate poop!

reaste hopefully she is just going through a wee phase, most babies have seperation anxiety at some point. I have had to deal withit a few times with babies i have minded, if you need any advice let me know.

jane do you carry them around everywhere, let them cry or stay pinned to them all day ?

reastie it is hard, but i sometimes had to let them cry when i went to the loo, (i did find talking to her and singing helped as she could still hear me) was making lunch and seeing to other mindees. It does help if they can see you though. I had a travel cot/playpen in the kitchen so the baby could see me when i was doing lunches. I would also try not to hold them too much but would be near to them, e.g have the baby on the floor playing but i would be sitting beside her. I would gradually move a little a bit away. The good thing is though the 2 babies i had like that grew out of it after a month or two.

reastie leave him for a bit then-did my dh the world of good,have abreak go shopping.
wigglres always lurking never posting.imagine me and you on a thread together.
irish you will always get my sympathies re knob head ex's. Mine who has never paid a penny or taken them anywhere,asked for the money to take dd on holiday next year-hahaha ok right.
Ok then i have been troublesome on the threads the last few days,but the deleted message just said to anyfucker that the op sounded a bit like a troll young,and that it was the school holidays. That is naughty apparently.
borg are you bf? D has just done the biggest pooh i have ever seen,i cant believe that came out of her.

I have remembered a funny ledkr story but dont want to post it on this already massive post,i think it will cheer up jane,ill be back later.

ledkr I read the thread and thought I have nothing of use to say here apart from sniggers. Ah you were listening under the bridge for the trip trap troll feet .

reastie I let Anna cry during the day if I need to go to the loo, get the washing, clean something, she sits on the big jigsaw mats and has a gurn to herself. I also loved a travel cot, used it religiously with the other two. Honestly I used to pop Olivia in it, in our darkest moments and have a 2 minute shower. I found placating them in the pram a lot easier when you can bribe distract them with something to eat like a breadstick.

jane Going to try the water tonight again, she has water with her food then her bottles separately during the day.

WeAreBorg There had to be a poo evacuation at our pool when I took the girls last week, not mine but a lot of people scarpered quickly, to be honest I saw the offending item when I was in a different pool (there are 4 pools in the complex) and it looked like a big person poo

yuck!
I smiled at Anna gurning!
I was watching Dilly squirming about the other day eyeing up my coal fire and the expensive church candles in the fireplace and my shiney new tv and stand and i thought id definately be bringing down the cage travel cot soon.

Omg everytime I try and catch up there is another page of chat, have tried to keep up.

First of all reastie I am so sorry about your granddad. It is always a shock, even when prepared because nothing prepares you for how you will feel. Hope you're ok and that Alice isn't too fretful for you.

Hubbard I just read your post and am so so sorry for you and little Tom, and for losing your dog. Thinking of you

Jane AF is a bitch, I can imagine how frustrating it must be month after month and then having to wait again. I fell quite by accident first time, my bff had a failed first attempt at IVF and all I can fathom is that our babies choose us. We like to think we plan it but I dont believe that at all! have you ever read Marian Keyes "the brightest star in the sky" ?? There is a bit in it where there is a narrator and you aren't quite sure who it is, could be god/devil or even grim reaper but it's actually Life - or a spirit looking for suitable parents to be (she puts it much better than me, hence why she is a best selling author and I am not) but anyway, what I am tryin to say is hang in there, your next baby just hasn't found you yet

Delia thinking of you going to work next week. Enjoy drinking tea whilst it's hot and going for a wee in peace hope it goes ok

Welcome back Irish queen wondered where you'd got too, sorry the anti d isn't working, hope the thread helps you feel better. We are pretty bloody good usually

Nothing to report here, life plods on.

40weeks thank you, what a lovely thing to say. I might even read the book.

Do you know what 40 and jane I knew id have all of my dc's it was as if they were waiting to be born,i now know there are no more left for me iyswim?

40Weeks I've read that book , I felt the same ledkr it was so hard waiting for Sofia and when I knew I was pregnant I just knew that was that and that she was a girl and that I'd have more little girls and I'm not a hippy dippy, lentil weavery, feathery strokery (to steal another Marian Keyes line) person

Hey all,

irishqueen nice to hear from you, I was wondering how you were doing too. Sorry about all the rubbish thats been going on with the houses etc, I often wonder how people cope when they have crappy ex's/house probs/other problems to cope with as well as baby. I know people just get on with it but must be such a stress. Can we have another pic of M and her fab hair soon please

40 I have never read any Marian Keyes but that book sounds really lovely, will have a look for it.

jane I can only second what other people have said about ttc. I got pg with dd after 4 mcs and didn't have a period in between the last one and getting pg with her, so was v relaxed about it all if that makes sense b'cos I thought i wouldn't be able to get pg yet. I HATED being told to relax and it'll happen though yes that sounds so easy but it was the only thing I could think about most of the time!! Grr. Anyway l like what 40 said, your next baby just hasn't found you yet :)

wiggles love the goss re: Mr Leto, mn is good for celeb gossip I find I don't have any advice for feeding etc other than trying hungry baby milk? That is prob crap advice sorry but good luck giving her the water tonight.

Right for everyone who takes their baby swimming, do you put them in a swim nappy AND a swimming cossie? (think I;ve asked this before). Don't really want to fork out for a cossie if she won't be wearing it loads, will she be ok in just a swim nappy?

ledkr am awaiting the funny story pleeease...

Oh and Borg I watched twilight and thought it was booooring, sorry wigs and reastie

I know what I meant to say, I have a moby wrap I keep meaning to ebay but if anyone wants to make me an offer I'd rather sell it to someone here! I can't remember how much I bought it for, I'll have a google in a minute how much they are new.
Its dark green colour, I have unwrapped it and washed it but never actually used it. Don't think I'm a sling type of mummy... (I thought I would be too, weird)

ponyo I'm v interested, but can I just ask those with the sling ( deb ) what age am I likely to use it to? We have a baby carrier rucksack style thing for proper walks when she's a bit older, so I'd love it if I'd use it, but if I'll only use it for a very short period I'm not sure if it's worth it.....iykwim

ILovePonyo I put A in a swim nappy and costume but that was just for the extra bit of coverage from the sun when we were away. Funny enough with S & O I just used a swim nappy, precious third born I just get mine from Asda, Tescos, wherever is cheaper, there's probably some in the end of season sale on now - but I get a size bigger than they usually wear, so its not as tight to get off!! Ps I'm not a slinger either

Just a quickie cos DH AND I ARE OFF OUT TO THE FLICKS!!!!

reastiepants you can use them up to the age of 3 they can go on your back. But looking at the prices people are paying on ebay you'd get your money back anyway.

Ooo gotta go Granny's here

Have fundebka Whatcha watching? I wasn't a twilight fan either, although I do sort of like them i can of bear Bellas character. She is so smugly unaware it makes me want to slap her.

ponyo I had no idea about the 4 mcs, how awful for you

And wiggles didn't Jared Leto date The Diaz that is Cameron for years? Was she a cover or did she turn him, I wonder.....?

ledkr how is it you always find the dirtiest/drunkest threads?!?!

We have friends coming round for a takeaway in a bit, bring out the wine, the wine I tell you!

Have a good night everyone. Oh and hope I haven't ruined the book for you all by giving away too much. I do like her books for light reading though. My family are Irish and her turn of phrase tickles me as it reminds me of things that say.

'cannot bear'

40Weeks Cameron Diaz really irritates me, can't explain why , well just look at Tom Cruise

I like Marian Keyes too, I think I actually wet myself a few times reading Rachels Holiday and that's before I had a dodgy pelvic floor Enjoy tonight.

jane work sent me a lovely e-mail telling me no worries re not doing any of the remaining kit days

I would like a big round of applause please, I have been having an ongoing row heated exchange of e-mails with Tescos, regarding a clubcard voucher issue which even by my standards is pretty boring but got lovely phonecall this evening and a lovely goodwill gesture of £40 of vouchers. To be really honest I think I may have been slightly mistaken in my original complaint but ho hum I have personally kept them going through this double dip recession

No pressure reastie don't feel obliged! Have been having a clear out today and found it so thought I'd post.

wiggles hmm I reckon dd will be ok in just a nappy then? Bloody swimming near us is 9-10.30am which is when dd is either asleep or hungry so don't know if we'll be going anyway boo.

deb have a great night! Whatcha seeing/seen?

40 thanks, I now consider myself lucky as they were all early mcs, I ended up having hcg injections for the first 12 weeks with dd and weekly scans, don't know how much the injections helped but they were reassuring if that makes sense. I am so jealous of the takeaway and wine, well ok just the wine am in the mood for a nice so might treat myself tomo. Enjoy tonight!

I am meant to be doing my wii zumba tonight as dp out again but can't be bothered, thats going to shift my tummy flab isn't it

Ok- a few years ago i was out with 6 mad girl friends.We got asked to leave the club as we were having ago on the dj;s stuff when he went to the toilet
We were very drunk and piled put of the club and straight into a taxi.3 in the front seat and four in the back 3 sat down and me sprawled across them.It was a small family car.
I remember seeing alittle dog yapping and then heard this bloke saying,
"please dont squash my dog,im not a cab im just here to collect my daughters!!"
We were shouting
"take us to the prom club tax!" and laughing like drains.
After some time we got out,the bloke was stood there like this as we staggered up the rd,my drunkest friend hadnt even noticed and thought we had arrived at our destination she was shouting "are we there.how much do i owe you?"
I hope that actually does sound funny ánd you didnt "have to be there"

sorry it took so long to write that that you had all posted again.
Im in for a night of it,dilly has croup wont go to sleep,going to have her in the travel cot with us tonight.Hope she's better by holiday sat.