September 2011 babies are rolling into 2012

[ssmileWithFairylights]

Hello in new thread come over and chat part two from the September edd babies arriving thread.
Just watched strictly dancing final part one but can't keep eyes open for part two so off to bed now will watch.it tom. Sleep well.....zzzzz

Ha! :o too true!

@ Loves

Summerpixie, it's a step up at a new school. After not getting the job that I applied for at my school before Christmas, I decided that it's time to move on. Not 100% sure about this one though, I live right in the catchment area which I have always avoided doing after my dad (a headteacher) was threatened by an ex-pupil once.

I do a similar thing with DD to your ear trick but on the eyebrows. They are funny things, babies aren't they?

Oh and really, come on Mr Sebs, I'm sure you can do better than that! Although I'm sure he's just building up to something spectacular tonight

Oh yes ooh a day in bed alone wouldn't that be nice :o

Well made the effort to cook dinner for DH so we could eat together at 7.30pm once girls in bed (normally I eat with DDs at 5pm &plate his tea up as he eats 8/9pm when I'm in bed). Nice tea I thought, he miserable sod, non communicative as tired ......yes I know he has done two 5-6 day weeks at work BUT he gets 8-9hrs solid flipping sleep everynight, I on the other hand have not had more than 2.5hrs of solid sleep in 7-8mths. Plus DD1 is off school so the last days I've pretty much not stopped all day between 7-7 barely had 30min sit down I'm very tired but tried so hard to make an effort AND washed up. Fed up with him tonight even though he generally a lovely hubbie grrrrrrr. Rant over off to bed now....alone .....well ok except baby! Hope you had better Valentines.

Ssmile only read your post but had to commiserate and share with you. Husband only back from his week long snowboarding holiday 3 days. Had pushed me into agreeing a sleepover for dd1 with her 9.5 year old friend - I told him I couldn't cope at the mo - he said I wouldn't need to do a thing - organised it, so tired I forgot that tonight was valentines. Basically I an still poorly from throat and cough virus, suffering from anxiety/ possible pnd and so exhausted as lo only sleeps for 1.5 hours between feeds every night and is bf. Tonight dh comes home announcing he feels sick (great help with my vomiting phobia and general anxiety issues) so I am now left on valentines night on my own as he went to bed in the loft room at 8pm with 4 kids to look after, will be up all night with babe and have just discovered the sleepover child kindly brought body glitter with her which is now in every corner of MU sodding house and all over carpets,bedding,kids etc. Ds1 just arrived to announce his tooth came out so the tooth fairy is also expected to arrive and I feel like I could have a breakdown at any time. It's 10pm and the only person having any sleep appears to be dh - happy valentines indeed. I think I jay learnt finally how to say no no no no no

Hmm had an amazing meal, m&s doing me proud again

Just brought ds up to bed, not sure if I'll make it back down again after all that food and wine

Minky and Ssmile big hugs your way. The menfolk do seem to forget that sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture, and that even when they're ill they're probably feeling better than us.

We did our Valentines meal at the weekend - I did slow cooked lamb shanks and mash, twas very tasty!

Feral hope your application goes well. I work in my catchment area and have never had any issues, bar the annoying inane statements like 'Miss, you live near x don't you?' and 'I saw you in Sainsburys last night Miss'. The policy is always smile, never deny or confirm where you live if they've worked it out, make friends with their parents and always sit facing the window so you can see them walk past!

Anyway it's late, better catch some zzzzs

Baby on calypol for temp &cough&streaming nose, I'm on ibprofen for headache and back pain, DD1 on high octane four year old energy juice, thus fear its going to be a very loooonnnngggg day.

I really am not very good at posting on this thread but I do always try to read and just wanted to send big hugs to ssmile and minkyjj. Hope your DH's start understanding and helping you more and you and your DC's feel better soon. Looking after LO's when unwell yourself is hard going. DC's and myself are feeling under the weather here too. Combined with severe lack of sleep lately all I can say is uuuuurgh!

Oh minky that sounds really tough, I hope you're ok? You are an absolute star for coping. As someone who also suffers with anxiety I can imagine how overwhelmed you must feel, is there any chance of having a good chat with dh about things? Sending hugs your way for a good day.

Really sounds like we are all having a funny old time of it lately with sleep deprivation making everything so much harder! Hope those of you that had lovely valentines days are feeling better for it. We postponed ours and went to bed at 7.30 - party animals :o - feeling better for it today though and have managed to out lo down for a nap, she has been asleep 20 minutes and counting so far!

I'm so looking forward to the warmer months when lo can sit on a blanket and play in the garden and we can all get topping up our vitamin d stores to make us feel better! :)

Hey everyone. Been a bit busy the past few days, had a friend over yesterday with her LO, and had another friend come round this morning. Spent the majority of monday afternoon in the kitchen making cakes and soup and stuff for our tea. Nothing spectacular happened yesterday re it being valentines day, except I didn't cook the tea!

E has all of a sudden got the hang of sitting on her own, and is quite stable with it now(not doing it for a long yet), she's also on her hands and knees a lot of the time when on her tummy, so instead of half crawling to things she;s trying to properly crawl, but her arms are letting her down at the moment.

sebs, I think it's good that you will get some time on your own to do your own thing as opposed to houseworky things, we all need a break.

TP how is the eye now?

I'm slightly laughing (in a nice way) at all these babies hitting themselves back awake, I've seen that happen myself with E, although she does this sucking her thumb thing and it starts to drop out, so she sucks harder and then relaxes and it starts to drop out, cue this happening quite a bit till she properly falls asleep.

Glad Mr Minky is back. although I am not so glad that you got a rough deal yesterday.

Oooh! thanks for tip about breast milk in the eye, had forgotten that and DS has slightly gunky one.

It's funny trying to do it though, or it was when E was 10 weeks old!

Oh Ssmile and Minky, sorry you had a rubbish day yesterday But good effort on the saying "NO" next time Minky!

We had quite a nice V Day in the end, had a take away (sorry diet) and watched Bridesmaids, has anyone else seen it? It is hysterical (although definitely not for you Minky as there is one very very pukey scene!) and even DH thought it was brilliant (and he only usually likes horrible gory action films and stupid juvenile toilet humour).

I am going to join in and have a minor moan about DH though. DD is being a bit of a PITA about napping atm and I spent ages getting her settled this afternoon. We were at my mum's as we've got builders doing some work here and once DD was asleep, I went out for a run. The last thing I said to DH when I left was that DD needs a proper nap and not to get her up if she wakes, that he should go back in and re-settle her even if it takes a while.

So I get back from my run half an hour later and DH is upstairs getting DD dressed! "Oh," he says, "she woke up and I spent twenty minutes trying to get her back to sleep but she wouldn't settle." So I pointed out to him that that meant that she had only had 10 minutes kip as I was only out for 35 minutes and my mum dropped him in it and said that he was only upstairs with her for 5 mins! So I sat with DD and hey presto, she goes back to sleep.

Seriously, could I not have made it any clearer to him? He's not the bloody one that's going to be kept awake all night by a baby who was too tried to feed properly during the day and so makes up for it in the night ffs. Right now I know DD better than he does as I'm the one spending every day and night with her, you'd think that he would realise that, just for the moment, I do know best!

Rant over.

tired, not tried, durr.

Hello lovely ladies

my LO currently loves carrots, sweet potato, potato, baby rice, apple, pear. He is not very keen on sweed but i mixed it with the carrot and he ate it. He is also not very keen on baby porridge have tried him a few times now and he looks at me like im trying to bump himoff!

Teething like mad lots of fist eating, dribbling, red cheeks, temperature got to 39.7 the other night! So been giving him calpol which he hates lol hope the teeth come through soon!

Still no movement he just prefers to be onhis front i think. Lazy git like his mum lol

Went to the council today about getting us a place and it all looks very positive just got to find a place for us to live and they will help pay the rent whoop whoop!!!

We still have the last lot of jabs due on the 21st not looking forward to it at all.

Sleeping has gotten worse last few nights but think this is mainly due to teething, hope it changes soon i look and fell like death warmed up!

Sorry I havent replyed to everyones post im currently typing in the dark trying no to wake up little man thats also my excuse for my bad spelling and grammar lol.

Jojo - really hope you get a lovely place - I know I speak for alot of us on here that we have our fingers and toes crossed for you.
Thankfully sleepover done and dd1 very grateful and trying to help me any way she can. Ds1 being so gorgeous that he makes me want to cry and cuddle him all at once !
Dh still not feeling well and I feel terrible too - booked a gp call today and am now pn anti depressants for anxiety driven depression - don't worry lovely ladies, I am just ready to bounce back but struggling because if the extreme tiredness. Doc says my Phobia has become an abxiety disorder because I have tried to do too much (admittedly I fm a control freak and a perfectionist so at the moment not a great combination especially as I have 3 kids (2 with am unusual medicL condition which I also have - time to learn a life lesson me thinks.) anyway - sorry for not replying to you all - you are all doing so well on the weaning and as usual all very supportive and great - taking my invisible hat off to the lovely ladies xxx

Jojo great news on the house, hope you get somewhere soon!

minky glad you're getting the support you need from your doctor. I hope this helps you turn a corner!

No I've not seen Bridesmaids yet, I've heard good things about it though. I might have to see about renting it or something. I think it's hard for our partners at times, we spend all day with the babies and know what works to help get them off to sleep, how to settle them, and occasionally I've found myself saying 'do it this way' to my partner, whereas I think tbh he needs to find a way of doing what's right for him, I have said x way works really well for me, but it doesn't always work well for him, unless I just have more patience in doing it.

jojo, that's great news for you about the place :)

Minky, I'm glad the sleepover went well. And I've been on anti-depressants in the past, it helped me to get to the point where I was able to start helping myself more, gave me a boost which helped me further to get better.

I've got a 'race' on Saturday, it's only a mile, but we shall see how I get on. I'd ideally like to do it faster than I did the last time, but that was 2 1/2 years ago when I had more training(!) under my belt. We shall see.

I've got a feeling I might be getting my period again! :( Boo. It has only been 2 weeks since the last one. I bloody hope not, I'll be slightly peed off if I do get it.

Jojo, good luck with the new place, hope it's sorted quickly. As Minky said, we've all got our fingers and toes crossed for you.

Minky - how do you cope??? In awe of your coping, and hoping doctor helps you and family. Well done for surviving sleepover and enjoy extra nice cuddles for kids.

100 - good luck for your race. I'd be happy just to finish but good luck with beating your time. hope AF stays away for you.

Feral - yes, we do all have our ways with our LOs and spending so much time with them means we do seem to understand them better. When OH is trying to settle her or something I'm itching to tell him to do it one way or another, but like 100 says they have to find their own way. But, annoying when you want them to have a nap and find them bouncing around with OH!!

Oh, and Feral - not so spectactular evening planned... he came home with a card and an orchid from Tescos saying it would have been hilarious seeing all the men in Tescos buying flowers if he hadn't been one of them!! The evening was pretty normal otherwise.

Wow, LO's nap now a full hour :) Jojo - my LO didn't like porridge either when mixed with water, so tried it mixed with milk this morning and she lapped it up. She's still pushing the food out with her tongue so hasn't quite got the hang of it, but the food does disappear eventually! Going to try sweet potato next - got lots of lovely pear, apple and squash in the freezer and the dreaded carrot too!

Right going to stick the kettle on ready for next feed before she wakes up!! Ah too late, eyes open!!

Hurrah for new house Jojo, that's brilliant. What a relief for you all.

Minky I really hope the ADs help you out and that Mr Minky feels better soon too. I sympathise with the control-freakery though, I am also this way inclined (as you may have all noticed from my rant about DH ) and I have to try really really hard to just let things go and relax a bit.

I went for my pamper session today and had a lovely massage and facial so I'm actually all nicely chilled for the moment although the damn builders haven't turned up to finish fitting my new wood burner so I can feel my grrr levels rising again!

Aw Sebs, orchids are lovely. I didn't get a card but DH and I don't really even bother with cards for birthdays (just big presents ) Have some virtual from me as well

Aww, thanks Feral... gratefully accepted :)

And grrrrr indeed to the pesky builders ruining your chilled out state. Always find a massage ends far too quickly... that's if I can remember what one feels like :)

Feral can sympathise as my DH has no patience with getting DS to sleep and will often use 'he needed changing' as an excuse for baby still being awake. Will keep making him try though especially as he never does a night shift!

Can I rant about DH too? He helps with ds etc and generally is a model DH, but he is pissing me off with discussions about return to work.

Basically he's sending me mixed signals about it. He wants me to return to work for the money, I don't (tbh we have plenty money enough). But recently he's been calculating how to pay mortgage on just his salary, discussing how I could cover costs by tutoring instead, describing me as a soon-to-be-ex-teacher to people... So I figure he's got the message and has come round to my pov. Then he has a go at me describing resigning as a 'likely option' to my workplace...