Feb 2011- the one where Jane gets married and ALL the babies sleep through!

[deadka]

Hello everyone!!

me again, when I say I have towels at the ready to cover the bed for AF I mean actual towels like bath/hand towel, not like sanitary towels. I am to myself at the thought of covering my bed in always pads

Sounds like when babies rely on a dummy and their mums scatter dozens of dummys in their cots in the hope they'll find one in the middle of the night reastie

reastie that would be a very noisy bed if you papered it in crinkly always pads, haha!
jane yikes to your SIL, she sounds a bit of a liability. However your friends sound lovely, buying you that bracelet was too sweet. Hope your head recovered!
borg loved your tales of photoshoot terror! I'm sure there will be some gorge pics despite the drama.
Hello to everyone else! Thread moves so fast that when I don't come on for a day or two I feel a bit muddled by who posted what, sorry! Will be a daily updater from now on....

I am very sad today. Took Cass for a walk in the buggy, and because there are steps up to my house, I stash her buggy in the boot of my car, so putting it away whilst holding her is a bit of a task. I'd had my blackberry in my pocket but I think it must have dropped out onto the street. It's now been switched off so some utter bastard has obviously picked it up. I actually had a bit of a cry because I have so many pics of Cass and the older two on there that I hadn't stored anywhere else, so they are now lost. Plus I have no insurance and have 12 months left on my contract, waa! V bad day. Not helped by the fact that my hairdresser transformed me from a blonde with a long bob into a dark haired Severus Snape lookalike on saturday. I am now ugly AND phoneless.

Oooh that was a big moan! Hope everyone is having better days, ooh actually ledkr I meant to say I looked at your pics of the girls, just gorgeous! You shall have plenty of trouble with those two in their teen years no doubt!

deadka , I had visions of that too.

reastiehorrorshow I covet the Royal Wedding set too, but I think bringing in any kind of Royal memorabilia into the house might send Mr W over the edge

40 hope dressing change goes ok and that the faffing about from GP surgery doesn't keep you back.

Not sure where time is going at the minute, thought I'd have more time on my hands now that Olivia is at nursery school all morning but seem to have less

My friend sent me some Contented Baby Weaning recipes for soup, cooking some up for later, will let you know if A refuses Olivia is dancing on our table to High School Musical CD which I thought I'd binned lost, that is where my time goes

Hi all,

Haha A is sleeping and just did the biggest snore!!

MizK poor you losing your phone, what a scumbag whoever picked it up :( I got your text this morning btw, sorry didn;t reply - message me your new number when you get one?! But its a big yes to taking those babygros off your hands please Bet your hair looks lovely.

reastie at a bed covered in Always pads! My mum bought A a lovely 2.5tog gro bag (not proper grobag) in preparation fo the cold weather, it doesn't feel thick enough to me, and I worry she'll get cold little hands (pfb)

Borg at nudey photos and N playing with his willy, v funny. There was a reason behind the early bedtime if you know what I mean, nudge nudge, wink wink, tmi tmi

deb of course hair counts! Make the most of the no rolling and crawling is all I'm saying.

Hmm A has just woken up and done a sick then looked at me all feeble. She seems to be more sicky at the moment, not loads at all but she wasn't at all sicky before, don't know if its b'cos she can eat a fair bit of proper food now? Weird. Better go, going out to buy potatoes and cheese, thats how exciting it round here

Oh and 40 hope you've got the dressings sorted, what a faff

MizK x posted, shitty shit about your phone, am sure your hair is gorgeous

Ponyo hark at you flaunting your love life

mizk Thats shitty about your phone . Im sorry but I did at the severus snape hairstyle! Im sure it looks good.

40 hope M is ok getting his bandages changed.

wiggles at O and her table top dancing.

reastie I lol'd at you covering your bed in always - can you imagine your dh face?!

ponyo hope you enjoyed your early night.

Hi ladies,

Is it a bit of a 'bleh' Monday or something? It is all very grey outside and a bit Monday-ish at work today.

mizk sorry to hear about phone, people just don't think about things like pics when they do something assholic like make off with a phone that isn't theirs.

Ponyo I know what you mean about 2.5 tog grobags not being thick enough for 'proper' winter. I suppose I will dress C in more actual clothes (and babygrows with hand thingies at the end), but still, my duvet is about 13tog or something! I've ordered a couple of 'travel grobags' though which are 3.5 tog and have detatchable sleeves and a slit to put the buggy or car seat strap through, which we will need for wheeling DD home drunkenly from my parents house on Sunday evenings, so I suppose those would be OK in the winter too. Might also end up with the heating being on through the night when it's super cold. In Feb right after we had DD we had a mobile radiator in our room that just came on and off for about half an hour every so often during the night, and it took the chill off.

Ooooo weirdy feeling thinking back to C being a real moses basket pink wrinkly newborn!

reastie as everyone now secretly suspects you are lining your bed with always ultra, I will share my embarassing story from last month. AF arrived slightly unexpectedly, no towels, about a hundred of another type of paper product designed for absorbing, you know...stuff. Yes that's it, I took some scissors to one of C's nappies and that did the trick . Actually was weirdly more effective and more comfortable than the product designed for the job..?

On a separate note, anyone with only one DC seriously considering sticking at one? DH and I were discussing the other day and agree at the moment that we can't see ourselves wanting to go back to the beginning again, but people do, don't they?

Dx

delia that's given me a genius idea

ponyo yes to 2.5 grobags - are they actually warm enough experienced peeps? If she has a long sleeved vest and gro then surely she'll be cold? Do you use fleecy or layered sleepsuits in winter?

oh and d we are going to stick to one but for different reasons to you

mizk re phone. I don't know snapes hairstyle so may need a piccie of you to confirm. i bet when you're used to it you'll love it, if not, just grow it out and dye it

got back from tesco with a big fisher price toy thingy which was half price for chrimbo. Lots of half price toys at min so it's worth a look, for older kids too. On way home we went in the car wash (alices first time i never clean my car ) and she looked so

Eek wiggles not flaunting, just justifying going to bed so early Hows the cooking going?!

jane how you feeling today? Hangover all gone I hope.

delia aww at the tiny babies so many months ago, I saw a teeny newborn the other day in John Lewis and stared (a lot) (which used to piss me off when A was little) then looked at my 7month old and couldn't quite believe it BUT, dp and I both have no plans to have anymore - we are definitely at the 'sticking with one' mindset. I think it really is hard work and don't actually know how people can do it all with a 2 or 3 year old running about the place too! The only reason I'd want have another is b'cos I sometimes feel selfish that A would be an only child, but then she wouldn't know any different would she?!
Oh and think we might have to have the heating on a bit at night too when its cold, boo!

I was an only child until I was nearly ten and growing up I never ever felt I was missing out on anything. The only thing is my mum and dad made such a massive thing of not spoiling me because I was an only child before my sister was born that when my sister was born when I was 9 they just splurged everything on her [poor deprived me] .

Hi all.ive just spent ages having a good read thru.I wont remember everyone cos im not wiggles
MIZK i recently lost my e mail account and all my phone contacts,that made me cry and dh lost his phone but didnt realise for about 3 hrs during which time some tota c u next tuesday range ghana to the tune of 200 pound-just what we need.I also have lots of pics on my phome but cannot seem to up load them so i know how you feel.
reastie Yes we just pick her up in a blanket YOU DWEEB! I just pick her up with the blanket beneath her and move to cot.Where does one get a gro bag with sleeves? I opted for the portable rad too in D's room.
I am shocked at how many of you will not be returning to baby land,i would certainly not want to but then i have had flaming five
jane does sil do that all the time?I have to have a tiny bit of sympathy as on my b'day 2 yrs ago i went a bit ott after a few wines,i was stressed and due on which can make you react differently,i lit a fag off someones birthday cake in a restraunt i was lifting my legs to show everyone my spanx and then i went into the ymca carpark to do the ymca dance,my son was working there as a trainer and wasnt impressed.Dh took me home and i asked the taxi to take me to pergatory or "no 25 no fun avenue" I seriously didnt mean to get so drunk it just happened,i nevr normally do it.
I remember at my first marriage to knobhead,his sis got rat arsed and fell asleep,i was a bit p'd off but then i never liked her anyway.
Bus sounds amazing.
Its ,my birthday Sun so dh has a surprise booked for Sat,im hoping its fast car driving.We are then staying in a hotel for the night for some debauchery
wiggles they were talking about the wiggles on radio one today and a Scottish lady asked me why Dilly was "gurning" I knew what she meant from you but i thought it was an Irish saying.

ponyo Ella was like an only child till D,she had benefitted i feel,had some fab holidays,nice clothes,plenty of time with me,never had to fight for homework help or baking time etc,we have afab relationship,at the mo we are being bitchy laughing at knobheads child bride (the ow) she looks like the fat bird on x factor so i told Ella thats who it is,and i also told her to watch out for poisonous apples or being led into the woods and left (a la snow whites wicked step mom) I told her she is singing "i steal husbands" in next weeks show,Ella is like this im very naughty i know.

YY Ponyo and reastie we are completely in the sticking with one mindset. I am not ruling out that we may change, but I too can't imagine being ready to start all over, with a (naughty) toddler to boot! Those who do, I am in awe of you (and Ledkr you must be a little bit nuts).

Ledkr I got some (grobags with sleeves) from thedreambag.co.uk but they're not cheap (careful, they seduce you with all their cheap prices until you realise they are for very small and very thin ones, and the ones you need are not really cheap at all. Also Vertbaudet do them too I think, but also expensive. I just got a couple from the dreambag for our pushing pram home through snow in the middle of the night, so I thought spending the money would mean I wasn't A Bad Parent.

reastie sorry was being nosy and just reading back what the lifting with blanket conundrum was, and actually laughed out loud in my office (people think i'm a little off my head now) at your 'do you and DH hold two corners each taut?'. I just started thinking about getting through doors etc. with some kind of extended 'to me to you to me to you' scenario, and apparently unaware sleeping Alice precariously balanced in the middle.

yeah i imagined giving her the bumps like it too. Come on reastie answer to your ridiculousness.You do have a degree i presume

Snorting at the blanket scenario, thinking Ross in Friends and pivot! Pivot!! PIVOT!!! I also thought reastie meant sanitary towels but just thought, ahh reastie [shrug], her funny little ways

mizk oh no, I would be crying, that makes me really angry. People are horrible. Although they are lovely too, some lovely woman handed in my back card the other day I'd dropped it and wandered off . I find Severus strangely attractive, s suggestively.

I would love another baby TBH. Surely the next one will sleep? But weirdly I feel guilty to Nate, and wonder how I could love another one as much. Sob.

Lots of trauma with friends at the moment. Work friend has been dumped by her bloke (who was married with children), also from my work. She is upset and wants to meet up as I generally am one of those sympathetic types that people ring up when they want to moan about themselves but I really think she has been stupid and can't be arsed to spend time with her. I'm not really a good friend am I?

Right, tea time. Have to dress N again, ever since the photos he keeps taking his clothes off on his playmat. Trousers off, and shirt round his neck, that's about the 3rd time today

at reastie and her blanket manouvers!

ledkr sil is always like it, has to be centre of attention 24/7, do you not remember how she acted at Zoe's funeral?

"gurning" is girning here, it's more of a Glaswegian thing here.
Your weekend sounds fab I'm very jelous!

borg as one who was cheated on with 4 kids i say let her wallow in her own self pity and selfishness,did she really expect him to be loyal fgs? Not that im bitter grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

jane why do i not remember that?Maybe as it was bloody nothung compared to what you were going thru.Maybe you shouldnt remind me or ill be on the next flight to chin her!

I'm am laughing so much I think a bit of wee came thinking about the blanket logistics . All I can say in my defence is we have done some crazy things to get and keep Alice sleeping - this just seemed like another needs must idea and the fact I'm even contemplating doing this shows how desperate I am . There's quite a sharp corner between my room and alices room - definite room for some chuckle brother style issues. I do have a degree btw, a first class one at that ....

I've just read back too to find the blanket comment, hee hee reastie and massive at holding the corners taut balancing a baby in the middle We are laughing with you not at you I hope you realise

I've just looked up those grobags with sleeves ledkr and delia and it says you can't use the sleeves indoors?! Weird.

ledkr love hearing about you and Ella doing funny things together, now do tell more about the ow, did he buy her from the interntet?! Thats the image I have right now

The reason I feel guilty about her being an only child is also because when she gets older (ie not a child, as an adult) then she may miss having a sibling then. Me and my sis are close, we don't speak on the phone much or anything but when we see each other we get on straight away. Then again dp has a bro and sis and they aren't close at all really...

Borg my friend is in a similar situation, think I'm seeing her this week. I have read (on mn!) that love for a child just grows and doesn't diminish, so if you have another baby you'll love it and the first one. Of course it was put much better than that Do you remember a while ago we did a 'who will have the next baby' poll and I think I was top? We'll now my moneys on you missy!

aaw thanks for the sympathy all :) I have now manned up and am going to put it out of my mind, actually if I get a standard phone for a year it could cure my crackberry addiction! I'm sure some of you know the feeling of being always attached to your phone it can't just be me!

ponyo how funny that they do grobags with sleeves for outdoors only...is that the baby equivalent of going to Tesco in your PJs? Random.

borg you minx, does this mean I'm going to be a hit with the other mums at playgroup purely for my Rickmanesque 'do? Fingers crossed hey (wink) Also can understand why you may find it hard to be sympathetic to friend, I know its the man who is cheating on his wife yadda yadda yadda, but we all know hooking up with a married man is a bit of a shitty thing to do, to put it mildly.
delia how very inventive of you re AF improv! Were you in the Scouts? :)

i love all mine borg but all in different ways.I remember when i was pg with El everyone kept saying are you hoping for a girl.I kind of was but i was also worried i couldnt love girl as much as my boys,but i did.
Ponyo ow was 16 when he ran off with her she was younger than 2 of our children.They have stayed together but he has cheated numerous times and hit her too,he spent 2 years trying to get back with me all while with her.She is a common chav tbh,gave fags to a 13 yr old relative at aparty so i dont really want her around my dd.A few years ago when i was in Mexico she turned up on my doorstep to "talk" luckily my boys warned her that it probably wasnt a good idea to try it again The best was when i saw her out with her friends on her 21st birthday.I was 42.My mate overheard her excitedly telling her mates that she had "stolen that blonde womans dh" hawdy haw. Her friend replied "what no way,she's stunning!" woo,the only time ive ever been described as that but good timing.Tbh tho she is as much a victim as i was.

Mizk its always the man in the most wrong but the girls are too.Dh was propositioned in a club recently,he explained he was married with a new baby but the woman just kept on and on.She even said "oh come on nobody need ever know,we can just have fun" Dh had to hide in the end. horrible to know there are women like that out there,what ever happened to the sisterhood?