Feb 2011- food food glorious food, all over the walls and some in their tummies!

[debka]

Ok bit lame but started a nice new thread cos I put the 1000th post on the last one!

at Nate's poodar stare.

Hope anya is ok ponyo

sorry about all the babies parting the nights away, hope they all sleep well tonight.

reastie you are the human equivalent to senakot!

ledkr senakot have I missed something? Are you all secretly laughing at the poor simple reastie without me realising?

will read the thread later when i have time to find a tissue

oh, OK, hang on, was that a reference to my friends DD pooing while looking at me? ahhhh, I thought it was some odd jokey reference to something about me (but couldn't work out what it was about and why it was funny) .

Sorry have not read all the posts. Borg ledkr is the expert in annoying colleagues!
ledkr I have read that thread too but didn't know it ended well! f*k that's sooo amazing!!! It has made my day.
xxx

Paranoia reastie darling. Yes it was re your friends baby using you as a poohing aid

milkmachine me too,how amazing must they be feeling now?

Dilly is a big miserable thing today i feel like throttling her tbh,all she does is bloody winge,i am really looking forward to returning to work,i may go full time if she is still so vile.She has had plenty of naps today but still moaning,i am going to bath her now and she has began to moan all through that too

I am defo owed a night off by dh tomorrow.

Oh i thought you'd like this.Pil are coming on Oct 1st but i have already arranged to have anight out in Brum,cant be cancellled cos one mate is home from Dubai,so ill have a good night and wont have to tolerate them.

Brummers-if you fancy a drink we could meet up.

Hello, not been on for a few days as S has been keeping me up at night too. There really must be a conspiracy. Bloody knackered now! Edward is 4 today so have been busy arranging his party at a local pizza place. Weather here is good again this week (and the weatherman is rubbish!)

I just read that thread ledkr - it's such an amazing story!

Love the poodar story, and all the others, and looking at all the photos - the Feb babies and their older brothers and sisters are gorgeous.

Hope everyone is having an easy bath and bedtime. Had an hour and a half at home since dropping Anna off at school and have to go and pick her up again shortly! Don't get much in the way of housework done either!

tad happy birthday to Edward, hope he had a fab day!

tadjennyp Happy Birthday to Edward Olivia is 4 at the end of October - she's counting down the days in a purely materialistic way I drop O at nursery school at 9 and she is picked up at 11am, barely enough time to MN batch cook some meals. Hopefully she'll be kept on until 1.30pm from next week (please God please, I've been a very good wiggle)

ledkr A has continued her moany ways today, went to bed early so who knows what the night holds I was on that thread earlier, lots of tears here.

ponyo Hope you and A are ok xx

We are heading away this weekend with friends, it was the postponed weekend from the summer, I'd love to say I'm really looking forward to it but there will be a six, 2 three year olds, an 18 month old and Anna there and my friend is 6 months pregnant so may be a tad stressful

Happy birthday to Edward, Tad!

Deb, yep, Noah will go from 2ish until bedtime now without a nap. If he naps later than 3pm he doesn't go to sleep at bedtime. I was at Rainbows this evening but dh said Noah fell asleep on the bottle then woke a while later to drink the rest! Ben was the same at this age.

Ledkr, I've been reading that thread too and was finding it quite upsetting, but what a miracle today! Amazing!

And housework? What's housework? I manage to keep up with the washing and clean once a week, especially if mil is coming over!

It's rained all bloody day today! Miserable! I don't mind the cold but the rain can bloody bugger off!

Is anyone else starting to get really excited about Christmas? I'm one of the annoying people who love to start the build up in September and have Christmas songs on in the car from November.

Hi tad sounds like you've been busy :) And happy birthday to E, enjoy the pizza yummy.

Borg nice to 'see' you and I cracked up at the poo-dar too, I read the description to dp as it made me laugh so much

delia boo to your dh how dare he get lots done and show you up I like watching dd on the monitor too (when she's not crying haha) and she always squirms her way to the top of the cot, she seems to like being wedged by the bars funny baby.

wiggles dd has been put to bed early too, she was tired but kept her awake and grumpy rather than a late nap Sorry but I have to agree that your weekend sounds stressful to me, however you're a pro so sure it'll be lovely Enjoy!

choco dd's hair is funny you know, it changes style every time I wash it - I washed it last week and it went from nice and quiffy to a horrible comb-over I washed it again and it looked a bit better New underwear swit swoo, hope (for his sake) dh notices!

ledkr at D's clingyness to dh, and enjoy your night out in Brum, all up Broad st I imagine

Well docs was fine, dd's temp is fine etc, she said just keep offering milk etc as usual and go back if worried which isreassuring. dd whingy but hopefully on the mend.
It was pissing it down here when I had to go out to docs and I don't have a sensible waterproof coat, so borrowed dps, it is a blue and red FILA pac-a-mac type thingy which was way too big for me, I looked a right state trudging up the road with the buggy with a big flappy coat on, think dd was ashamed to be seen with me

Fingers crossed for tonight ladies, can't be as bad as last night eh :)

Fingers crossed for your nights, especially ponyo and ledkr.

emski my girls have always needed a lot of sleep I think, like their mumma

Ah balls ledkr I would have been well up for meeting for a drink but guess what, have a wedding on 1st Oct. Last one of the year mind (I hope!). Come the day before instead and we'll go on the razz!

ponyo I NEED to see a pic of A's comb-over. I'll try and put some more up of R but I'm always on iPad and it won't let me.

emski Rain all day here too. Rancid. We only went out to Touchwood which is all indoors. Not sure R has had any fresh air for days...

wiggles Weekend sounds lovely. I love going away with friends :)

tad Happy birthday Edward. And am v of pizza party.

Just sent DP (who was home today before 6:30!) to Co-op to buy chocolate roulade as inspired by Great British Bake Off. He's come back with mini rolls and chocolate eclairs....

Hi all,D normally goes to bed early too its the only way to cure the whinging.
However i had to get Ella from brownies at 7.15 so just kept her up,she waqs fine in the car,i even thought she had gone to sleep,she went down around 8 so we shall see.Dh not back untill the wee hrs so ill be coping so have my secret fag stashed in case [rin]
ponyo are you saying im predictable but yes will prob go to b st then arcadian followed by a club in a seedier area,i dont like main stream clubs.
WIGGS hmm could be ok dependent on your accomodation i think.I can think of nobody in the world i would like to holiday with tbh,im a moody cow
I wonder why the babies are so grumpy? I cant remember Ella being like this,D is rarely happy these days for longer than a minute.

Happy birthday Edward.

jane how are the plans going? Ill look up that jacket on the bay of e tomorrow.

Oh well,up the wooden hill now,bit of shameless followed by whatever D decides to throw at me. At least ill be off duty tomorrow tho.
What do you do wiggs just watch tv when A is awake,i was worried that would stimulate her but she wont sleep anyway so have the fast show ready in the player.

Ems Touchwood? Was John Barrowman there?

ledkr we are all going to be in the same room I mean as a Wiggles family not all, all of us that would be weird Usually the girls have their own room but it makes more sense for us to share this time. S&O are tres excited about sleeping bags and airbeds, Mr W considerably less so as he is laying money on the fact that he will be on the airbeds while me and S&O are in the big bed A has a travel cot.

I watch tv with A, she just wants up for a while, she likes to sit, be held and doze over, the tv helps her with that. I tried just sitting with her in the dark but that seemed to make her more awake

ledkr could it be teething pain making Dills miserable? What happens if you Calpol her?

ledkr Yep, I frequently refer to it as Torchwood by mistake. No Captain Jack today but there was a selection of the rudest women Solihull has to offer.

choc mini rolls and eclairs are the corner shop version of what they made for sure . I love the bake off - that really scatty lady who seems to throw it all together and somehow it sort of works always makes me

Happy bday edward

ledkr brownies not finishing until 7:15? that's late, when i was tawny we used to finish at 6

wiggles maybe mrw will wnd out in the travel cot you do say he's rather short

ponyo if it helps with the positive thinking when alice was last ill she had one night where she was up EVERY hour but there was only one night, the ones after she was much better

DH and I had a discussion argument this evening. Tbh I don't think he can win whatever he does but he doesn't get the full on-ness I feel of looking after alice. I get really frustrated at how he can do what he wants and doesn't really even think that much that I can't. I also feel (and this will come out wrong) hard just adjusting to not being able to do what I want to do when I want to do it. DH really doesn't mean to upset me or anything but it's just that and our relationship is a bit rubbish at the min. I get really down at going to an effort with things like to make a home cooked from scratch meal (which is hard with an alice moaning) and I'm lucky if I get a thanks or a that was tasty. Just feel really down trodden and he can't understand why which makes me

out of interest I found this pnd questionnaire (think it might be one ledkr mentioned) here . Can I be nosy and ask if you do it what your score is? It's just I've been pondering on this talk of pnd and wondering if what I feel is normal or pnd (bit like some of you were thinking about not being sure what's normal and what's not). Anyway, FWIW my score was 18, would be interesting to see what others are too.

reastie Mine was much lower than that, my midwife and health visitor both do this questionnaire at each appt after baby is born and at "milestone" appts.

I did suffer from depression and anxiety about 8 years ago and always felt like whatever I did wasn't good enough or that I was barely treading water sometimes. I spoke to my GP who was fab (and tbh I wasn't expecting that much from him) and was on anti-depressants for about a year but I also made a lot of changes to how I behaved - I always felt that I was responsible for everyones happiness etc, how I couldn't let people down (which if you think about it is a bit egotistical ). It took a lot of hard work and sometimes the bad weeks well outnumbered the good days but I got there. Sometimes even now I can feel myself slipping into a certain way of thinking but the difference is that I now know how to readjust things, how to slip out of that way of thinking. My relationship with Mr W was the thing that suffered the most during that time.

18 too reastie. Sorry things are difficult with mr reastie, here they are too, it is getting better because p is better at being with dh, but I have to really make an effort to give him the benefit of the doubt rather than jumping to the worst conclusion (that he's a bastard! ) immediately. He's right about one thing: talking is good, so forcing me to express my emotions rather then bottle them up which is what I tend to do means that I've not gone totally mad yet, so have you told mr reastie how you feel? I know it's difficult and to do it without hurting them is hard, but it is better in the long run.
ledkr i was thinking how it must be to have your world shattered like that and then to be told it's ok... incredible.

Reastie-motherhood is bloody hard and i dont think you can ever be prepared for the massive impact upon your life.I have been shocked 5 damn times now.
Fwiw your dh sounds a bit insensitive but some men just dont get it,is it worth the fight to make him?
Can you bring some joy back into your house? Have a laugh instead of deep and meaningfulls?They are the work of the devil

As for the pnd you need to speak to someone,ill do my score tomorrow.
It does get easier when they are a bit older,i love aged 2 and beyond,they are more fun and a tiny bit more independent and you can leave the house without a massive bag of stuff.

Sleep well.I probably wont.

can i be frank? I felt as if i hated dh before i was well again.I felt no love for him just damn annoyance.Feel ok now.

i did it as i remember feeling and it was 18 too.

hi ladies and babies, not been on for ages. Been having a hard time with freya, that anytime normally spent mning has been taken up with moany children.

Christening was great. Had family and friends there and they all doted on tom and freya.

Freya has her 1st tooth and the 2nd one is not far behind. She now eats everything.
She is sleeping so badly and i'm pretty sure its teeth. She goes to bed at half6 awake at 10 1-2 6 up for the day at 8. It's starting to really wear me down as she normally ends up with me from 1 so i now have a stiff shoulder. Not sure what to do to get her to sleep. I do the teething powder and ibuprofen but it doesn't seem to help so any advice greatly appreciated.
Tom has had to be refered to an ENT specialist as he's having nose bleeds 3-4 times a week at night. Also got to take him to the hospital for bloods to check for blood disorders or any other problems. Not looking forward to that at all.

On a more positive. Dh and i have decided to make it official and get married. Been engaged for 4 years and i refer to him as my hubbie but maybe we should get the bit of paper. We'd planned it 2 yrs ago, bought the dress, booked church, venue etc but my dad died and i could not go through with it without my dad, still find it hard to think about it without him. We've planned for 2yrs time as we need the time to save as dh is in the process of setting up his own business. But atleast it gives me plenty of time to plan and make it perfect.

Haven't responded to anyone as the last time i read the thread it was on page 12 so i haven't had chance to catch up, so i hope all are well and baby's behaving (slightly) better