Feb 2011...Creeping, crawling and cuddling towards Christmas

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Morning!

Ear still pants but DP thinks his man flunks worse.

Off for hair cut but back later....

X post Wiggles. It's strangely comforting to know you were up in the night too. Not that I would wish it on anyone! Hope A sleeps for you tonighyb

Hi all, have made it trhough the second day phew

reastie at A's nursery they have a dark room off the main room with cots in which the babies can go in, they also get them to sleep in bouncers and just on cushions on the floor. They wash the bedding every day. I was a bit b'cos they always say "whatever you want us to do" but then when I said A sleeps on her tummy they said they can't put her down on her tummy Anyway today she slept for an hour and a half in the afternoon - what the frig she never does that at home!

hubbard sorry to hear things are getting worse for you, poor F you must be worried, I just hope you get things going with appts etc asap. You do have mothers instinct don't you like you said you knew something wasn't right. I'm sure eventually you will be able to enjoy bonfire night and think of your dad - jusy don't feel guitly when you do :) Oh and I don't know how you do it with 2 under 3 either (lovely as they both are!)

Thats a lot of rambling already, I'm off to have my tea so will pop back on later. I can't keep up as well now, stupid work getting in the way!

Evening all!
Glad the back-to-workers are doing ok, I'm sure it's one of those things that seem worse the more you think about them. I have a little bit of work-envy and am going to get some 'private lessons' (TEFL you dirty-minded lot!) of an evening, those few precious hours between food/bath/bed and first waking!

Borg K still comes in with us sometimes and we all snuggle up. I don't mind at all but sometimes find I get backache as I mousy sleep funny around him

hubbard so sorry you are having a tough time, and can only second what others are saying. Hang on in there!

needto you are doing a great job, I can't believe you are being so positive and giving still, I'd love to know you in RL and am happy thy I 'know' you here :)

I had no idea about babies sleeping at nursery, I quite like the sound of the wiggles clan and their alcoves.

Well, looks like Greece is slowly falling apart around us! It doesn't really affect us at the moment no money to lose anyway but DP's job in finance is proving tricky. He is job hunting madly, even considering the middle east will let you know when we do! I had a tentative look too, but I think I will have to trail DP and then see what I can do wherever we end up (my job - scientific editor for nosy ponyo I can do anywhere and is more flexible), or if salary will allow I can study

Mousy? Must, I guess!

Ponyo that's funny re A and the nursery, I've just remembered when Sofia started to go, she only went one day a week but the staff kept saying aaggh she rolls onto her tummy, what will we do? .

emski I think what was so hard about last night is Anna just usually wants a cuddle fed when she wakes up but last night, nothing would help her, she was being as my granny charmingly puts it - a contrary madam

Back now, wiggles at S rolling onto her tummy - oh no panic! Hope A sleeps for you tonight, its horrible when they wake but nothing helps isn't it.

byronic you sound remarkably chilled about what is happening in Greece! Good luck for you ad dp job hunting, now then scientific editor sounds interesting do tell more

Needto good luck for Fri, everything at once isn't it. Have a hug from me too x And B you sleep tonight for your mummy :)

delia I always like reading your posts and you have been veeeery helpful for me recently!

Last night A slept really well despite her 6pm nap, I put the dummy in about 12 then she slept til 7 please don't hate me I was very relieved though I don't know how I would've coped at work if she'd been awake again in the night.

Am off to make bottles then bed soon, despite the good sleep I'm very tired, hi everyone and heres to a good nights sleep for us all

Hello everyone,

DH is back and I've been busy so not been on for a while. I have read everything but apologies if I don't remember everything

hubbard from me, what a shitty time you're having. Really hope things start looking up soon.

needto well done for keeping going, you have a hug too xxx :)

ems and wiggs sympathy for bad nights :(

Well done all those who are back to work, don't know how the heck you manage to work and do all the house stuff too maybe your DHs are less useless than mine

40weeks brilliant weight loss WELL DONE!!!

jane woohoo not long to go!! I went to the Turkish Bath in Harrogate the week before my wedding, it was lush.

Weigh in for me tonight and I lost another 4lb, couldn't believe it! That's 1.5st now, and I got slimmer of the week again. Starting to get a little embarrassing- had it 3 weeks on the trot now

ponyo I'm glad you are fine with work an that Anya has settled into nursery.

byron I hop your dp finds a job ASAP .

wiggles hope little miss Anna lets you get some sleep tonight. When are you working next ?

byronicheroine x posted with you, hope all goes well with dp and job hunting, my parents did it in the 70s [phnar, phnar], my dad couldn't get work here so they upsticks when I was 13 months to Africa and we stayed for 4 years. If two mousey people from Belfast can do it, you can too. But fingers crossed you both get something closer to home x

Watching X Men Origins, well when I say watching - all I want to say is Michael Fassbender, be still my beating hormones , fine figure of a man.

i'm actually not that bad, just need to know what we've got to face and i won't know until she is scanned. I just wonder how much more crap i'm gonna have to deal with as i've more or less reached my limit. I'll deal i always do.

jane back in for 5 hours on Friday morning/afternoon, then another 4 hours Friday night [poo]

debka well done on weigh in, am watching DVD and I lurved him before anyone , just before Borg muscles in .

I keep missing peoples posts and x posting, deffo think my laptop is on the way out

wiggles get off him, he's mine

hubbard really hope you can get a quick appointment, I can't believe they would let a little baby wait that long. Really hope things pick up for you, thinking of you and needto a lot at the moment. Agree with delia I can never give advice on the net, what I write never seems to be what I mean but I'm sure you know we are all there for support

Well I never, I just cannot see Nate ever sleeping in a nursery, he's so stubborn. Do they ever take them out in prams, that's our only way other than a boob (which I presume is not on offer!)

deb teacher's pet. Well done.

emski and wiggles hope the babies sleep tonight

byron thinking of you and DP in Greece, I too would like to join nosyo in wanting to know more about scientific editors, you sound like you have an enormous brain.

Oh dear, N is awake, he's done a few hours in his cot, not bad

Borg C's nursery take them out in prams a lot, but she is in on Mon & Fri which are the quieter days, and I think they have more staff and fewer babies. They go out with lots of double buggies, in fact yesterday C went to lok at the waterfall, and I have no earthly idea where that is, as the only waterfall I know would be a good hour's walk from nursery (and off-road), so don't think they went there!

Deb Yay for fab weight loss, well done you.

Byronic I keep thinking about you when I see stuff about Greece on the news (most days at the moment!). Hope you get through it and good luck for you and DH with job hunting, wherever you end up.

Dx

Byron, loving Borg's comment about you and your enormous brain....do you? Do you have an enormous brain? And yes, what is a scientific editor?
Hope your ok over there, you do sound very calm about it.

Borg, I know that our nursery would try a bouncer and a buggy if a baby wouldn't sleep. Apparently one baby fell asleep in the buggy in the garden yesterday while all the other babaies were playing!

Deb, wow to weigh in. You've done so well!! My dh is pretty useless too. He's away this week and tbh apart from his company I don't really miss him for helping with the boys or housework!! I've actually just realised I have washing in the machine that was done last night....now thats going to play on my mind for the rest of the day.....wonder if I can sneak out of work to hang out my washing.....wonder if they'd notice....

Ponyo, glad A slept well last night.

Noah was ok all night, but awake at 5 and moaning. I finally went down to get his bottle at 5.40, came back up and he'd fallen asleep. Ben and I had to wake him at 7!! With dh away Ben likes to help me but I think he's starting to take dh's place. We spoke to dh this morning and he said he's going to have to regain his 2nd place in the household when he comes back. Ben even got in the shower with me this morning, and said 'Look mummy I can see our bed from here'. He's also told me he wants to marry me!!. I was woken this morning by Ben standing next to my bed, putting his face up close to mine and saying 'put my socks on mummy'. What a wonderful way to be woken up.

HOpe your all having good days. Thank goodness today is my Friday!!

Hi ladies,

Apologies for no personals but will catch up and do so later. Just need a bit of hand holding [high maintenance needy emoticon]

Went to my exercise class (oh yeah, oh yeah ) and had arranged a quick weigh in with ff leader before hand. Anyway, I had the weigh in and STILL no weight loss, but, I am maintaining my weight which is better than pre ff so in a way I'm doing sth right. I've been trying really hard with what I eat this week with makig loads of meals with tons of veg in to keep me regular and all the other good stuff like cutting down on snacks etc, so was actually feeling positive that I may have finally lost a bit of weight. Alas no, and ff lady decided today was the day for tough love for me - I wasn't going to tell her about pnd as I was just too upset to talk about it and it's easier to pretend it's not there sometimes, but she made me burst into tears (granted this isn't hard to do) and made me feel like I was a disgusting fatty who was obvious eating excessively and slobing about too much. Anyway, I broke down and told her about the pnd but she handled it IMO badly - wasn't very sympathetic but maybe she was just taken aback I don't know - obviously they don't teach compassion at ff training. She won't let me leave the program [scared] . I feel really miserable about it all now. Sorry for rant, just need to, in delias words, get it out there. Maybe IABU anyway. On the plus side, loved the exercise class

at my enourmous brain... Not enourmous, just, er geeky specialised??! Scientific editing involves lots of messing around with fonts and graphs on a mac, reading lots of scary texts about cancer and experiments on mice and intense conversations with Japanese scientists about the aforesaid graphs and mice. Got that everyone? There'll be a test later.

wiggles your parents sound great, I shall take inspiration from them. Do you remember Africa at all?

ems ben sounds hilarious and such a sweetheart. Lucky you!

reastie she sounds like a right witch, of course you can leave if you want to! And don't worry too much about the weight (know that's hard) as I've heard that it's difficult to lose until you stop bfing, your body keeps 'some in reserve' sciencey words

Tbh, nothing much has changed for us here, and if it gets really really bad we'll just come back to the uk and live off benefits find jobs... Another government won't change much either- they are so much under the control of the EU. Dp reckons the only solution is a benign dictatorship - presumably with him in charge! so things could be worse

reastie you're right your weight is going in the right direction by standing still. If it stays still and you keep up with the exercise class the weight will start to come off. Some people aren't well equiped to cope with other peoples emotions, I'm lucky I come from a family of shouters and criers so I find it a bit strange when people can't give someone a quick hug or at least a sympathetic shoulder squeeze. As Mr W says about my family "why make do with one emotion when fifty will do" .

You would have thought that she would have come across loads of people going through emotional times with her job but maybe not. Anyway yay about enjoying the class, see onwards and upwards and hopefully bye bye weight xx

emski at Ben, Olivia goes through stages of calling my room "our room", "our bed". I hate the idea of leaving washing in the machine, as we all know my housekeeping standards can be fairly low but I'm picky about my washing . Hope you are getting that Friday feeling.

Hi all.Ive had askim read,its all going on for us isnt it?

The info day was good and we found out loads about transplants which is really the best option for him.I want to donate but Drs not keen as ive been through quite a lot.Am hoping his brothers or Dad will be a match.
There was a funny moment when a rather large lady on a mobility scooter rolled up and gave her perspective of living with dialysis.She was cluthcing a nicorette inhaler and was literally the most unhealthy woman ive ever come across. Ds was like and after he said "phew everythings going to be alright then?" we were all in hysterics.

Dilly has been atrocious at night and im thoroughly fed up with her.
Waking at one randomn time for milk but then also insisting on getting up at 5am as well.We have forced her back to sleep for 2 mornings which takes about an hr but im hoping that will break the habit.Ive ended up with a massive headache so dh got up with them both and did school run but absolutely sod all else.He has now gone up to bed without telling me and left the kitchen in a state so it can bloody well stay in a state cos ive got to do a dancing run and some food shopping after school.

Grrr shes awake now.speak later xx

byronicheroine I remember bits and pieces but what I remember most is coming back here We didn't see any of my family the whole time we were away, so it was strange having this huge, noisy, crying family all the time. Plus I couldn't follow a word they were saying . We didn't have Christmas when we were away my first Christmas was bizarre, and very overwhelming. We also didn't have tv, it was very rural where we where and don't get my Mum started on trying to get us to wear shoes!!!

I have one funny story, we lived with my granny for a bit when we came back and she was always trying to get us to eat and keep us warm (I was always so cold), she kept saying "move away from the door, there's a draught coming in", yes well you can guess poor me was excitedly waiting on an actual giraffe gambolling through the door of her tiny house in Belfast

Hubbard you poor thing, what a time you are having. Agree with wiggles a out hassling the bejesus out of the consultants secretary. Best of luck

needto how are you doing, really feel for you, how is dh at the mo? What's his Plan? Big hugs

reastie do you want me to go and slap the evil FF bitch?? What a cow, hope you're ok. I didn't lose any weight til I stopped bfing. I did SW, 2 spin classes and the Shred every day for a week and didn't lose a smidge. So depressing, I really feel for you - it will come off though, don't despair

Glad the info day was ok ledkr fingers crossed one of them are a match

wiggles at giraffe coming in

debka BRILLIANT news on your weight loss, you must be delighted. I have my weigh in tomorrow but will be lucky to maintain weight this week as have been so naughty. Went out for a 7 course meal last night, whoops! I did go to soon this morning though

Hello everyone else, I am sorry I can't remember all the other news, glad work seems to be ok for those that have gone back. Boo to the poorly babies picking up the germs though, it's one long round of ills now!

Not much news here, still laid low with chest infection which has dulled my brain somewhat, sorry for dullest ever post, just wanted to say hi!

"Go soon" I meant go to spin!

reastie am so on your behalf about stupid FF lady, and actually about any healthcare professionals who can be so narrow-minded and will only focus on/consider their very own thing and not look at the whole person and what else might be going on. This goes for 'your baby does not weigh x number of oz therefore something is obviously Very Wrong' to the stupid FF lady who you have had the misfortune to encounter.

You posted a few weeks ago about trying to not focus on weight, just think about eating healthily (my body is a temple, I shall only put good things in it) and exercising (which should help you feel better anyway), and the rest will take care of itself. It might not happen fast, in fact in some ways it's good when it doesn't. Most of all, please please please don't use your weight as another stick to beat yourself with. You really deserve much better than that, be good to yourself for a change!

wiggles actually laughed out loud in my office about the giraffe. You know, it doesn't surprise me at all that you say you come from a family of criers and shouters, not that I have seen you do either thing, but you're very good at reassuring others that it's OK to do so, which is what we all need sometimes!

byron I work in med comms and knew what a scientific editor was [oddly proud]...

Ledkr sorry for more crap sleep, Claudia was a bit whingey last night, but didn't seem to actually wake up, don't know what that was all about...bit odd really. You still going away at the weekend? You should.

D

Urgh, why am I ending everything with horrid ! exclamation marks??? Sorry, tis most crass and vulgar of me.

Re babies picking up germs, my Dr said that it could be up to the first 6 months when they seem to just get one thing after another, and then they build up more resistance and fight them off more. C had a load of things for the first 2 months, but is OK at the moment.

Oooooh, just having a 'moment' thinking about how cute she was this morning, I really miss her...