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June mummies '05 thread 8 -The one with where they get EVERYWHERE!

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katzg · 06/01/2006 12:28

one new thread as requested

hope the title meants with approval

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MrsWednesday · 09/01/2006 11:04

Woo hoo, have had my desk moved so can now get on Mumsnet without being spotted by quite so many people!

LOL at the fireman sign story Tea, very amusing indeed. Are you suffering today after your bouncy castle exercise?

Good to see you again muma3. Your DH must be a very happy man at the minute then, being a Chelsea fan? No teeth either here (well I've got some but DS2 hasn't).

Thanks for enquiring about my boob welfare! I'm still sore and lumpy after a week of not feeding (and I had cut down quite gradually too) so may take a trip to the doctors to get it checked out. I'm finding it a bit difficult to massage the affected area now that I'm at work....

Troublesmummy, on the food front I've started pureeing up stuff that we eat and giving it to DS2. He's had lamb casserole (mainly pureed veg with a bit of gravy), roast chicken dinner, shepherd's pie, vegetable soup with a bit of baby rice stirred in to thicken it. I have to cook blander stuff for DS1 anyway (gave him chicken and noodles that was a bit too spicy for him and he ran around the kitchen, bright red in the face and retching) so it's not too much hassle to make a bit more for DS2.

Good tip on putting hands behind the feet so DS2 has got something to push against, will try that. On second thoughts, why am I encouraging him to move?! Well done 2happy baby!

Mcmudda, great to see you again. Doesn't sound like there is anything to worry about at all, she's probably just happy sitting up and watching everything going on (DS2 only just mastered sitting up at Christmas).

Lua, how do you intend to move that feed? DS2 does the same, waking between 4 and 5, guzzles down a bottle which of course fills him up so he won't take any at 7. I'm starting to fantasise about having a full night's sleep, without DS2 (or DS1 for that matter) disturbing me. Last night DS1 got into our bed at 12, then at 4 DS2 woke up, took an hour to get back to sleep, by which point I was wide awake and unable to nod back off again.

Right, better go and pretend to be busy (or order some new clothes from Next Online...)

MrsWednesday · 09/01/2006 11:06

Bloody computer! Sorry.

eastyorksmum · 09/01/2006 11:20

Morning mums hugsssssss

Mum3 welcome back hunny, im gald you had alovely christmas and new year we missed you hugs.

Sfxmum thank you for thinking if me, thats so sweet, ive been far too tired to post or even catch up.

eastyorksmum · 09/01/2006 11:27

The truth is im feeling very low again, im waiting for councling to start, and our william is just not sleeping last two night me and hubby have been up with him for 2to 3 hours during the nite, its been exhausting for us, I know its his teething, but he wont take a feed when he wakes up, just wants comfort.

eastyorksmum · 09/01/2006 11:28

i was speaking to my best friend last nite, another nursery nurse and playgroup superivor, and we used to work very clodely with each other, and she said you know william needs a routine, which he does, and i thought i could just leave him till he settled into hs own, she said if wiliam was aybaby im one of my rooms i would have settled him into a routine by now, with mums approval of course, the thing is because im feeling so low, and sad and dont really want to go out, i havnt done this, i know shes right and im going to try and make more of an effort with him, see if i can change things, he has better quality sleep during the day anywway that my moan.

Im very weepy still, i just hope my mild depression isnt changing into PND i just dont feel myself hubby been lovely and so have my big boys, i just need sleep.

Skler hunny i hope the move goes well for you hugsss

Katz i hope dd baptizism went well hunny and you had alovely day was thinking of you hugsss.

right im off wils having nap so maybe ishould weve been up since 530am grrrrr love to you all xxxxxx

MrsWednesday · 09/01/2006 11:32

Big hugs EYM, you do sound very low. The sleep thing must be wearing you down, which isn't good if you are already feeling sad.

Thinking of you, hope the counselling starts soon, and that William starts sleeping better too. Could your DH do one night so you could at least get some rest?

katzg · 09/01/2006 12:43

DD2's baptism went really well and SIL behaved herself which was good! I was a really lovely day and she was a star, she didn't cry when the vicar poured the water on her head!

EYM - sorry you're feeling down, keep talking here, i know i found it very helpful when i was feeling depressed.

well the builder was supposed to start today, but he not here but this was his first day back after the hols, so i guess he may have been caught up else where, we're not ready for him to start any way.

Well going back to work has been a lot better than i thought, i love the peace and quiet! i do miss both of my girls. i'm currently doing a manic dash home at lunchtime to feed dd2 because i still haven't tackle bottles or formula!!

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sfxmum · 09/01/2006 13:02

morning all

eym - nice to hear from you, am sorry you are not feeling that great but i second katz keep talking here and dont worry about how you sound thats what we are here for.
i agree that lack of sleep makes things worst, make sure you accept/ ask for help.

dd not sleeping that great, as usual, but i am finding it ok. she rolls around a lot and chats mon stop, great giggles too. she is starting to wiggle herself forward (sometimes sidewaysvery funny) on her belly. the weaning is very hit and miss but she really likes finger food.

take care all, am trying to have some time to read the sunday papers. have my laptop back thanks to dh

Hulababy · 09/01/2006 13:10

Just wanted to add that Katz's DD2 looked beautiful at her batism yesterday

giddy1 · 09/01/2006 13:21

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muma3 · 09/01/2006 14:20

oh eym im so sorry to hear your having a rough time at the moment , just keep positive that it will pass and try not to let it affect you and your partners relationship because i have been there and it makes it feel all the worse when you start arguing due to lack of sleep

thanks for all the warm welcomes back i have missed you all .
mrs wednesday yes he is very PROUD chelsea fan at mo but i hate it more and more every day , if it isnt the matches then its the ps2 with his fifa 06 (arrrrrrggggghhhhhhhh)
teabelly nails vs dirty nappies , had one accident but wont go into it lol does make you feel better but nightmare for school tshirt buttons
good advice giddy , i totally agree it wont be anything you are doing eym they do go through a stage like that , they know all the buttons to press and have got a reaction from screaming in the middle of the night so know it works and keep at it , im sure things will settle ( this comes from someone who had a baby that woke at 11pm and went to sleep at 5am every night till she was 15 months old but she bear with it and im sure baby will get bored soon , i wont even bother to tell you all the advice ( warm bath , bottle quiet time etc im sure you doing great already ) GOOD LUCK HUN

JonahB · 09/01/2006 19:24

Hi All,

Hope you are all well. I?m afraid I?ve missed LOADS but I?m finding it quite a struggle do work full time/see DS/have more interaction with DH, other than baby-assistance requests/do mundane house jobs? you get the picture. We?re all fine here, DS seems to be enjoying nursery, being back at work is good, just no darn time to myself anymore. I am v. impressed (and slightly ) with the rest of you being able to keep up on this thread.

Mrs wed, I had exactly the same with my boobs when I stopped b/feeding. One side was fine, the other side was just the oddest shape, all lumpy and weird. It took about 10 days to go down.

Mcmudda ? we?ve got no teeth or crawling here either. But what he lacks in teeth, he makes up for with the hugest barrel-belly!!!

But most importantly?. Mrs wed, congrats on the desk move!!!! Good for you!!!!

JonahB · 09/01/2006 19:26

oh yeah, two other things that have made me happy:

a, i've sold my house. Hurray!! Now just need to find somewhere to buy that meets my ridiculously high standards
b, (this is the best bit) I've bought some new sexy underwear . I finally feel human again .

I cant highly recommend underwear buying enough to all of you1!!!

teabelly · 09/01/2006 22:54

Jonah he he he...know what you mean!

a flying visit as dd is due last feed any mo now...

Heard back from Yahoo and can't remember who told me, but you were right we'd exceeded our quota...have to delete some before we can add any new ones or it will happen again...I was thinking if it's ok with you all, we get rid of all photo's older than the most recent ones of each persons dd/ds (s) that way we should have loads of room for all the cute mini santa shots yet to go up what do you think???

tribpot · 10/01/2006 07:27

Morning ladies, ds had me up bright and early this morning, thank you sooooo much little one!

Tea, yup I agree, let's delete a few pics. However, the important thing though is that everyone resize their pics as their cameras are taking high resolution piccies for printing, for internet purposes they can be much lower quality and still look good. So for example, MrsW's SUPER-CUTE pic of ds2 (hadn't seen that one before, really want to kidnap him now) is a whacking 920 KB, whereas my pic of ds next to it is only 48KB because I resized it. Just realised there are loads I haven't seen recently, god our babies are just the cutest aren't they?! Btw, killiemum herself is using up about 3 gig of our storage, not sure how much we get in total but that may explain why we've gone overbudget.

Having said that, tea, have you got admin rights for the Yahoo group? I can only delete my own pics.

If anyone's not sure how to do resizing, please CAT me and I can do it for you.

Jonah, well done on one excellent purchase and one excellent sale (always better to sell a house and buy pants than the other way around )

EYM - so sorry to hear you're under the weather. Like giddy I don't think what you would do in a nursery setting is that helpful. If William was a baby in your room you wouldn't have to deal with lack of sleep, with all the stresses of your sister's new baby, with the heartache of losing your mum, or with three older boys and a dh as well. Concentrate on getting your sleep and worry about routine later.

MrsW, snort at you massaging your boobs in the office. Surely that would be enough to get you your own office for MN surfing!

muma3, good to see you back! I feel that accidentally breaking the ps2 is the way forward for you

giddy, Jess is just full of surprises isn't she?! Is it a refluxy thing? I know she's been better on solids since you started adding the rice.

katz, yay for dd2's baptism, will we see some pics on the Yahoo group?

sfx, how weird that your dh doesn't want to sign with your little one when you both already know how to do it! Makaton is quite widely used I think. I absolutely do not believe it's linked to slower development of spoken language skills, although that is based on a random sample of one, i.e. my friend's dd. But babies can pick up two or more spoken languages simultaneously, in fact I wish I could do that for ds with French and Spanish (despite having lived in Holland and Sweden of late!) and without any slowdown in their development. So what's the diff?!

Lua - well done on baby boot camp! Am imagining your ds in baby-sized fatigues, bless 'im.

mandymac · 10/01/2006 09:31

Morning Junies. I am on my day off today, so popped in to see what was happening in Junie Land.

EYM, so sorry you are feeling down, I really hope the counselling helps - I went for a while, and found it really useful, and I hope you do too. Big Hugs to you!

It seems that those of us back at work are all having pretty positive experiences, I am enjoying it too, but I do miss my time with DD and mornings and evenings are such a rush trying to feed, change, bath etc, I have to remind myself to just have fun with her too!

Well she is waking up, so I have to go - sorry for not catching up with you all. I am trying to avoid mumsnetting at work as once I start it will be hard to stop.

Hugs to you all

katzg · 10/01/2006 09:52

if we want to do the photo thing a bit better, shall i open an account with one of the online photo album places? you are generally allowed a lot more photos. we can have more sub albums and stuff too!

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katzg · 10/01/2006 10:03

okay i have set up a photobucket account for us

the webpage is here photos

you will need the
username junemums
password babies

its really easy to upload photos

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katzg · 10/01/2006 10:08

we're allowed 50mb and the max photo size is 128 but i think its clever and will re-size it for you.

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giddy1 · 10/01/2006 10:26

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tribpot · 10/01/2006 10:36

Well done Katz! I'll upload a big file and see if it resizes it.

muma3 · 10/01/2006 11:23

i have uploaded a few photos not sure if it has worked havent got a clue about computers really

katzg · 10/01/2006 11:25

great photos!

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muma3 · 10/01/2006 11:38

thanks hun i think so too !!!!!! your baby so cute too

muma3 · 10/01/2006 11:40

like the look of the fondue set ummmmmmmmmm