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

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

chocoroo Hope appt goes well for you. We had a bit of a worry about one of Sofias' eyes about a year ago, she had an eye test in school and her sight didn't test well in one, cue waiting on referral appts etc but when she was actually tested it was nothing. Although this summer she has had what looks like a burst blood vessel in an eye and we've had a few appts but it looks like she had some kind of infection that took a while to clear and GP thinks she may be developing hay fever. So will have to watch next summer.

I did it, ducking for cover , I joined NM local group, just lurked but God they're clued up, listing for all primary schools etc, all toddler, swimming groups etc. Haven't "spoken" to anyone yet, am v afraid that I may meet someone I went to school with etc. Still haven't got over bumping into a few dads during Sofias first week of primary school that I may have snogged twenty years ago , ahh the joys of living in a small country

wiggles at the dad snogging! You know, everyone I have ever met from Norn Irn (or however you pronounce it) has known everyone else I have ever known. I seemed to exclusively go out with Irish lads in my late teens/20s but I'm not going to tell you who cos you probably know them . Re botty - timodine (I think) is really good for nappy rash as it contains an antibacterial, antifungal and I think a steroid as well so should blast everything. Love the photo, your girls are so lovely.

choc hope the eye test goes well. Romilly sounds like a genius - crawling, picking crumbs up off the floor, that needs a pincer grip non? Wow.

ponyo I can't see your photos except the one of Anya reading which I remember trying to compliment but the compliment went wrong.

american what were the netmums like? I go to quite a lot of groups but am quite antisocial when I get there and usually just play with Nate. He's my friend

reastie brilliant photo, all yours are so funny, she is so cute.

delia congratulations on your first day back, don't forget us boring mummies when you are strutting about in your power suit. There are folk at my work too who are always running about going on about how busy they are. I have yet to see them actually do anything other than tell me how busy they are

granny at your friend, 10 weeks!!

needto Nate is vegetarian by default, he has turned his nose up at my fish stew and beef casserole. He likes cheesecake, crisps and toast - my ideas of lovingly feeding him my organic purees whilst wearing an apron and simultaneously baking a cake/arranging flowers are ruined. We'll be on Greggs pasties soon at this rate.

I will put some photos of Nate on soon in case you are wondering if I even have a baby, I need to do it on DHs computer though and he's hogging it.

Hi everyone, hope you're all ok and the babies are behaving themselves

at Alice on the tractor reastie, she's lovely - reminds me a bit of my niece

Ponyo Anya is beautiful! I don't think I have ever said to you before that I love the name Anya, DD1 has a little friend called Anya and she's such a sweet little girl

Choc hope R's eye is Ok

Delia hope you had a good first day back! Don't worry about C, she'll be fine at Nursery

Granny that's lovely about your friend! I don't know if you remember me saying - I have a friend who had a baby 2 weeks before I had L and she's due another baby beginning of January!! She also has a two year old so she'll have three under 3

I have to say that I'm a little jealous - I went to hospital today just to pick up a new mould for my hearing aids and we passed the unit where both DDs were born and felt really sad to think that exactly 6 months ago today I was in there giving birth and now she's growing up so fast [sob]

I keep thinking of training as a midwife - I wonder if being one would cure broodyness

Jane as you are "giving it a rest for this month" I'd bet a hundred quid that this will be the month! Every time I've gotten pregnant it was always the month that I've thought, "I'm not bothering this month!"

DH and I had our first proper night out, since L was born, on Saturday! We went for a meal, with some friends, and then round a few bars

We had a really good time - I'm still knackered though, not used to doing it anymore although we got home about 3 am and then I had to get up at half 6 to see to L! My mum stayed over to look after the girls but didn;t get up - I don't think she was feeling very well!

We're off camping on Thursday, I've never been before apart from on a horrendous trip with school so i'm hoping that it's a very sunny bank holiday weekend or I will NOT be happy!!!!

LOL at Dad snogging Wiggles

I still live in the same town that I grew up in so I went to school with a few of the mums at DD's school - didn't snog them though!

Meant to say - I haven't been to any baby groups yet as they have been on the days that DD1 has been at home but I'm looking forward to going to one in September

I met some lovely friends when I used to take DD1

I have been taking L to some toddler groups along with DD1 although they don't run in the summer

I've been feeling a bit cut off from people as my phone is broken too and with the weather being so crap it's been rather depressing!

Wow, I don't post for ages and then 3 in a row! Aren't you lot lucky?

night night x

WanderingSheep See I escaped my hometown for a long time, moved back for free childcare to be nearer my ever loving parents The thing is that I was half chuffed that several one or two of these snogees recognised me, because I hadn't seen them in almost 20 years and I was quite a good looking 16 year old, so I basked in my youthfulness until scunderation got the better of me

WeAreBorg Anna had a chocolate button today! Think it will be a long road back to the delights of tuna which she had for the first time at the weekend and wolfed down.

Was up re-settling A and her hair has grown in the past 3 hours , she is now wearing a fully fledged mohican right up the middle of her head!

tadjennyp haven't heard from you in a while. Know this is usually coming up to your posting time - hope all is well

Hi wiggles, all is well thanks! Have been on a camping trip to the coast and the Giant Redwoods and have taken about five hours to read through everyone's posts! Can't remember much though except to say well done Delia on your first day back at work and well done hubbard on being so brave with Tom. I can't believe the amount of baking going on and glad everyone is enjoying the last days of summer. Got to dash as S is crying after his nap. Back later!

Yay I'm actually up late enough to see tad , time for bed now but. Night night x

Sleep well, wiggles household and everyone else!

Morning tad me old fruit, if you're still up.

ponyo what a beautiful baby, she is so gorgeous! Mine both have very light hair and blue eyes, but I love the dark haired baby look.

wiggles your three are lovely, do S and O love their little sister? Imy has mixed feelings!

wanderingsheep I am exactly the same re broodiness. Whenever we drive past the hospital I get all misty eyed and start reminiscing (you can tell I had easy births!). I am seriously considering training to be a midwife too once the girls are older. I loved the whole experience of giving birth and the care during pg. Do you think I'm mad? (this question open to everyone!!)

Anyone's LO not rolling yet? S totally hasn't got rolling at all. She's getting frustrated now that she can't move about. She's so funny, she was in her highchair the other day and Imy was running round and round- whenever S saw Imy run past she did this mad whole body wiggle thing like she was trying to run too!

Ooo another quick question to bfers who are weaning- have yours lost interest in feeding a bit recently?

deb alice lost interest in bfing? love bean running watching Imy

I think training to be a mw would be ace as there arn't enough are there? I once looked into that too a few years ago after I'd trained to be a teacher but there were no jobs for my subject in my area for over a year . It could have the opposite effect though - you could end out wanting more babies

tad the 'giant redwoods' sounds great just going by the name

well, I've just heard on the radio there are flood warnings for my general area today - is it bad part of me wants the rain to be sooooo bad DH gives up working and comes home (he works outside) ? He never has done before, I'm just struggling alot today with various things, there have already been 2 crying fits this morning, and that's not even counting alices ones

well I looked up my local netmums group after what was said yesterday evening but sadly mine don't seem very active

Morning all,
at wiggles snogging dads. Love the pic of the girls, they are all adorable.

debka I was accepted into a midwifery course at uni twice, but i changed my mind both times. I didn't think i was strong enough to deal with delivering stillborn babies (how ironic now)or to cope with baby or mother passing away. There is no way i would consider it now or later in life.

ponyo Anya is a gorgeous little girl.

debka Anna has definitely lost interest in her bottles. Sofia and Olivia do love Anna but only on their own terms They will happily play away but if they are playing on their own on the floor and she rolls over its "Mummeeee, get her away"!! I think they only show interest in her because they are a little older. Sofia showed no interest in Olivia when she was born!

Jane and wandering and reastie and debka you can't get into a midwifery course here for love nor money. One of my friends has been trying to get in for the past 3 years and is doing a diploma in something this year to give her a bit of a foot in the door for next year, she also started work this year as an orderly in the local hospital to get a bit of experience.

It's the same here now with midwifery wiggles this was 10 years ago i was accepted. Even if you get on the course the chances of getting a job once you are qualified are very, very slim! Two of my friends are midwives and they are constantly busy and understaffed, but there are no funds to create new jobs for more midwives.

Ah reastie wish I could pop over and cheer you up, you poor girl :( it's bloody boring and lonely and stressful and unrewarding at times. Can you get out of the house and visit someone today?

jane :( of course no one deserves a stillborn baby but even sadder and harder for you who'd thought seriously about it.

wiggles at not getting on courses! I've heard that you have to have a lot of voluntary work under your belt first.

x post jane- I guess that's the problem- not lack of midwives per say but lack of funding. Well, i'll look at it again in a few years.

reastie you all right pet? Just one of those days? Are you all set for your Grandads funeral?

Strangely jane its my friend whose baby died that is trying to get on the midwifery courses. Its the same here maternity wards are closing all over the show. The hospital I had Anna and the other two in closed two bays of beds just after Christmas and I think they are trying to close my local maternity dept.

Morning ladies...my SIL qualified as a mw 3 yrs ago...after her 4th child (oldest was 18 & youngest 5 at the time)...she loves it & is obsessed with babies but is v glad she's done her bit! But as she's in Scotland is nightmare for jobs..has only just got a permanent job after temp contacts for 2 yrs. Although there is a shortage in England,it would seem that it is following the same route in Scotland in that there is nit funding for the additional posts! Was nicest hear tho that she was on shift one night when a family friend went thru the awful tragedy of a stillbirth too..was her first time she had to deal with it but has been a fab source of support for that friend...said friend has gone on to have a beautiful wee girl!

Must admit I'm getting quite broody again, but then I keep thinking about my friend & how she'll have a 13 month old & a newborn . Plus I want to be able to drink at younger SIL wedding next summer as older SIL's (mw) partner will be there & he is a prize knob!

Weather pants but off to baby sensory today so at least we get out the house today!

I'm OK thanks wiggles - just everything getting on top of me at the minute I feel I have no air to breathe to me IYKWIM. Mixture of Alice being so wakeful and clngy in the day, her bad sleeping habits and my insomnia, Grandad and upcoming funeral, all the housework etc I never get done, backaches, headaches (from gritting my teeth), still got ringing type noise in my ear and on the cusp of ear infection, I can't face doing my CBT homework so feel a bit of a failure, constant self esteem probs, lots of cramping probs with my coil I have to put up with all the time - nurse told me to keep it in 'as long as I can put up with it' , anxiety re: upcoming pil visit, worry about going back to work and how I'll cope/get everything done/alices childcare arrangements, dh and I just bickering at the min, I keep getting stomach pains from being so tired etc etc not that im moaning or anything [self pity]

alice finally getting the hang of eating over here - the mess the mess

reastie hugs to you. Take a breath and do one thing at a time.

reastie hugs to you from me too, have pm'd you. Sorry you're going through this.

debka Granny and wandering can't believe you're talking about broodiness already . Definitely NOT on that wavelength in the Skis house!

Loadsapeople thanks again for lovely best wishes for work etc. Everything is going fine so far. Last evening was hilarious as both DH and I pulled up at the same time outside nursery as we had mis-communicated (and probably also wanted to see C!), and evening was lovely doing bathtime etc. as no exhausted stressed me. C was hilarious tho, she had slept and eaten really well at nursery (sausage casserole ) and was fine but looked tired at home, so we did bath bottle bed at the usual time and put her down at 7. She must have had a very exciting day as she stayed awake for about an hour telling her teddies everything that had happened. She didn't cry and we didn't go into her, but she was literally just going blah blah da da da grrr grrr blah ga to herself for ages. And she had a party in her cot at 5am, went back to sleep at 6. We didn't get up to her so it was no problem, but she was clearly a bit 'topsy-turvy'.

Also whoeveritwas I'm also wondering about milk & solids balance. C is eating more and more these days and I am not sure if I should be strategically reducing her milk or if I should just keep going - surely not indefinitely, I mean there is a time when you need to tell your obese 6yr that 23 donuts is enough right?

Anyway, best go and do some work......see what I did there....

Dx

D glad all is going so well for you, you sound in really good form, if you know what I mean I'm gong to keep giving A the same amount of formula and food for the next while and see how she goes, she is definitely losing interest re the bottles during the day, now to work on those pesky night-time feeds

reastie couldn't agree with Jane more, quelle surprise - one thing at a time:
(1)your Grandad funeral is on Thur isn't it? thats one thing done, I know that sounds sharp,
(2)the housework is obviously really bothering you, don't throw your eyes up to heaven young lady but can you get a cleaner to come in, even just to do one "big" clean? Its not like you're lying on your arse doing nothing, you shouldn't be hoovering etc anyway if your back is bothering you
(3) Get the ear infection sorted out asap with the GP, its coming into Autumn and it will get worse
(4) Make a decision re work, I know its easier said than done but you need to know what you're doing. If you don't go back, but then change your mind, is it easy to get relief/sub work?

Make a list and start small xx

thanks for the lovely/useful comments. I feel so at always being so needy on here . OK - so wiggles in answer to your points 1. yes - you're right. 2. We looked into a cleaner a while ago but they are too expensive - I think I should be a cleaner the rate they charge 3. I have ear spray in repeat prescription and i have a permenant ear prob but I don't take it until my ear blows into proper infection IYKWIM, I have phases of teetering on the edge and either it gets nasty or it gets better. 4. I will make a decision on work after I've talked to SIL re: MIL. This is booked in for end sept so a month of uncertinty follows before decision making.

delia to C having cot parties and I'm a little at sausage casserole [fellow pfb]

Hello!

reastie Hugs! You've got loads going on, you're bound to be stressed. Focus on A but also try and get your CBT homework done...I suspect it'll help with all the other stuff.

delia Glad work continues to go well. And love the idea of cot parties...so cute!

wiggles and d I asked the (admittedly useless) HV about whether R should be dropping milk. She said the lunchtime feed would probably be the first to go, but it actually will only happen when they're on 2 meals a day - age classed a meal as main course and dessert/fruit.

granny Am at your friend. I cannot imagine being pregnant again already. One of us has to be first though....I hope it's Jane

Agh. Phone playing up so can't reply to all but I hope your days are good. I've been cooking and sourcing vegan wine ALL day. Meat pie filling is in slow cooker, vegan filling in the Le Creuseut, starter prepped and crumble made. Am currently trapped under a eeping R who has spent half of day getting herself over to the wireless router and chewing on it. Weirdo.

Oh, and I have a dilemma. I just accidentally ate a whole packet of Party Rings. Should I hide the empty pack or open the other pack (buy one get one free) ear one and pretend I only ate one and the other packet didn't exist?