April 2011 - silence might be golden but the April ladies are diamond so chat on

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Ta Dah!

I have got the diamond jubilee queen thing on Sky+ to watch. I have seen clips of Harry and it just makes me like him more ...... in a very unmotherly way He has been doing his helicopter training very close to where I live but I have never spotted him

Good luck MrAli!

The pancake batter has been made. M will be off to pre school soon, then MIL will be coming round to take I out for a stroll. I am contemplating making the pancakes when she takes him out. Pancakes are easy to do but a right faff to make a whole batch - especially when you have small children hanging off of your legs.

Will everyone be having pancakes today? I am a sugar (lots of) and wedge of lemon girl myself.

Morning! I am full of the joys today, T resettled really quickly after his feed at 12.15 or whatever it was, and then went back in his cot until he woke again at 6.15!
I have brought the boys teatime half an hour earlier and T ate a lot more, hoping that is the reason he slept better because I can do one wake up.

ILike I am rather fond of Harry myself

Yep we are having pancakes, I am going to do just a couple for the boys and then DH and I will have ours later. I've got some hot smoked salmon and creme fraiche, and then a couple of lemon and sugar to finish. Yum yum

Bloody hell I have just left a howling, and I mean howling 'Mummyyyyyyyy don't leave meeeeeeee' DS1 at preschool
He was clingy when DH dropped him yesterday, and according to the staff it is lunchtime that is upsetting him. He has never been like this before, he settled in really well and he's always loved going.

I am really for him, he was so unhappy.

Oh Ali, it's awful isn't it. Why is lunchtime particularly upsetting him? Is it the eating with a group, or a particular person, or is he being rushed over his lunch?

I'm always nervous about ds going back to pre school after a holiday. Today was the first day back for him. Although thinking about it, any issues with pre school have been at the end of term.

Will they call and let you know how he is?

Shall I make a joke about Harry being welcome to fly his Apache around me anytime, to cheer you up?

They have phoned and he is fine, he calmed down about 5 minutes after I went. The lunch issue seems to be that he doesn't want to eat his sandwiches, only his fruit and then go and play. Which is weird because he eats them at home and asks for them for his lunchbox. Ho hum.

Yes and thank you for the thoughts of Harry and his Apache

Been lurking. Our turn with the lurgy. Throat and cold = s in with us last night.

Fingers crossed punch

Hope mrali's 1st day o's going well.

Sorry for not name checking everyone.

Quick question - does anyone put their baby down awake (or drowsy) to go to sleep at night? According to most sleep theories this seems to be the key to self settling.

We decided to try last night - initially decided to do feed then put her in the sleeping bag, but she was far too wriggly to feed and wanted to crawl around the bed instead. Put her in sleeping bag and after an hour of DH trying to settle her stories, hugs, lightshow, etc and lots of crying I fed her again trying to stop when she was dropping off to sleep but she would cry going into the cot. Eventually I think she was just so exhaused there was a cry and she rolled over and went to sleep. Not that it made any difference to the night wakings. Still 11.30, 2 and 6am (each for an hour) and I'm still exhaused and too tired to interact much with her.

We've alwAys put b down awake. but he's a star at self settling and always has been. in fact he never falls asleep on one of us. he gets his sleepy music and flopsy rabbit and 9 times out of 10 he's asleep before its finished. he hs to nr showing tired signs though. rubbing ears and eyes are his 2.

Sorry for typos on a break using phone.

Any news punch??

Nothing. At. All. I'm still holding out.......

Thinkning of you punch and hoping that it's good news

Glad DS settled Ali and hope new job is going well

We don't do self-settling. Never have, not worth the tears, we'll do it when he's that bit older and can understand. For now my philosophy is if it ain't broke, don't fix it (and we cosleep anyway so any night wakeups are dealt with by magic boob.

fizz glad the GP appointment wasn't too bad and hopefully the lifestyle changes will help you feel a bit more positive. Exercise is great for raising endorphins but it has to be fun rather than slogging on a treadmill!

Sorry to hear of those still lurgified.

Harry is rather dishy, and wicked fun too. I have an embarrassing story involving him Speaking of the military, warning - mini-rant : DH is deployed next week, then back for 6 days, then away for a week and doesn't seem to understand why I might object to this. I accept that it's entirely necessary but it doesn't mean I have to like it, and even worse I know he'll have fun (in fact he's gloating all over the place about his deployment next week) and will still come back knackered and whinge . I'd rather have a longish deployment where we can settle into a daddyless routine.

Hey all,

Half term was gert lush!

Sorry to hear about poorly people. Hope everyone's on the mend.

Good luck with DH's job Punch. Got my fingers crossed for you.

Chilli we usually put F down awake these days. I would feed him to sleep, but even if he dozes off he springs awake as soon as I stand up to move him.

He moans a but then spends a while crawling around his cot singing to his music, chewing his silky and flinging his bears around!

Sometimes we need to go up and give him a cuddle, shush-pat, but he usually falls asleep happily himself.

I just started.plonking him in the cot when he finished feeding but wanted to play. He's not always happy about the idea initially, but he's into his tantrums at the mo anyway! As long as he's happy we leave him to it. So no training. But about the only thing we've been 'lucky' with!

Frak - it is the adjusting to one thing, then another, then back to the first, etc. It throws me too when DH is away for a while - i get into my routine, then he comes back and messes it up helps, then disappears again.

Punch - good luck re the job, so annoying waiting.

self-settling; DD does it like a dream so she has gone to bed awake for a while but...the boys didn't til much older (hazy memory so can't recall exactly when) - i used to bf them to sleep for a long time. But they stopped bf no probs and go to sleep no probs now.
So i would say, stick to feeding to sleep for now and leave the self-settling til she's older :)

Check you Frak name dropping an HRH!! I met prince Philip once on a ramble round loch muick with my sixth year management class cycling. he asked if I was alright as he'd seen me fall off my bike! Needless to say I haven't been on a bike since!!

I think Prince P is fab. I'd love to meet him!

Mine actually involves both younger princes (that sounds dirty, it isn't...) to name drop a teensy bit more. And the former Miss Middleton was there.

Were you at the wedding!!!!

I'm just very nosey!!

JKS she appears to have stopped feeding to sleep :( In fact today she's barely fed at all, though has eaten solids ok. She has a had a suppertime feed but kept breaking off and trying to crawl away. She's now in the sleeping bag in the cot with DH reading a story to her. At least she's not crying but sleep could be hours away

And now stood up in the cot chattering to him and shouting if he stops reading :o

We try to put T down awake, it doesn't happen very often! Mostly I feed him to sleep, or DH gives him a cuddle.
Rod/back - absolutely but he will actually sleep all night in his cot now except a couple of wake ups so we are getting there.

DS1 was exactly the same, and once we nightweaned him at just past 18 months he slept like a dream. He is still a really good sleeper now unless he is ill, and knows when he is tired and just takes himself to bed sometimes.

Frustrating day here. All of us getting used to DH not being around, and something is definitely bothering DS1 about preschool that I can't get to the bottom of, he has been muttering about it all evening :(

I NEED to know the Prince's story!

Does ds start primary school in Sept Ali? I ask as I know our pre school are now prepping the rising fives for big school, could it be something like that bothering him?

There again ime it is often the most seemingly inconsequential things that sends ds off in a tailspin. I go through the big things in my head to no avail and then eventually find out it is something like someone looked at him a certain way

Ds self settles in a blue moon. I think M started doing it when he was about 18 months or so, but he has always been a good sleeper. So whilst I think self settling is something to aim towards, I'm not convinced that it is the answer to everything.

Very intrigued by your royal liasion Frakk :)

Chilli We've been really lucky where sleeps concerned tbh. R always goes down awake and gets herself off to sleep, she's done it pretty much from the word go so can't really offer any help, sorry.

Poor DS Ali :(

UBW We are encountering some cracking tantrums too just now :) R likes to fling herself back in disgust when something isn't going her way! Makes getting her into the car interesting, have nearly lost her into the foot well a few times now!!

Punch Hope you hear some good news soon, is it a case of if you don't hear anything you didn't get it or will they phone your DH and tell him??

Got HV today for 10 month review (can't believe my ickle baby is 10 months old!!) and I've put R in a ridiculous dress, that takes ages to get on and off - duh!!! CBA changing her again now tho!!

Could someone give me a shake please!!?

I've just had a (kind of) period, TMI coming up. It was quite dark in colour, like "old blood". This sometimes happens but usually a "normal" period would follow, i.e. fresh red blood. It was really light and only lasted about 3 days. I still have the periody ache but nothing is happening beginning to panic slightly that maybe I'm pg!!!!
It would be almost impossible as I'm on the pill and it would be fair to say that our sex life is nothing like it used to be once a week at most plus it took me a year to fall pregnant with R so it would be very very unlikely that I was. I'm hoping that by just posting this it will mean AF will start properly now and I'll look silly for mentioning it!
Can't even try and compare symptoms because I never really had any until I was about 6/7 weeks gone last time, if I hadn't been testing like a mad woman I wouldn't even have know I was pg, the only thing I do remember having from the word go is period pains but no period - hence the freak out!!

Joining those in the Tantrum Trench©
Screams from R in the morning, screaming for food, screaming for toys, enough or too much, swinging to the left...her screams form some sort of constant insesant detection system for R's Happiness Ideal like living with a parking detector designed by Goldilocks.
At this rate I'll be joining in and having a tantrum as there is STILL no phone call from them. Given that they said they would call Monday evening I doubt he has the post is it daft to be living in hope that they are so impressed with him that they are in the process of creating a second post? shrugs defeated

NBG If you're on the pill I wonder if that changes your body's response to being on a period from what I understand and really I have no first hand experience so ignore me if I'm wrong when you have a period on the pill it's not a bleed following ovulation as the hormones supress that? I wonder if your body is responding differently to the pill? Maybe give it a few days and POAS if you're still feeling unsure?

In other news yesterday R stood up entirely from squat in the middle of the Sitting Room and took a step forward promptly fell to the floor but let's brush over that :D I was suitably pleased with applause for her which was received with a mixture of surprise and bemusement.

I was at Church today for Ash Wednesday and F pipped up "Yucky, no Mama" repeatedly whilst trying to rub off the ashes on my forehead. I could hear folk behind me giggling. The primary school children were there and there was a lovely moment where they had written their own prayers to read out and when the Lord's prayer was said together they joined it perfectly. Brought a wee tear to my eye thinking that F will be one of their ranks before long. They look like very bright, kind and considerate children.

Punches You're right that periods on the pill aren't true periods, more of a withdrawal bleed caused by the hormones. It would be strange for my periods to suddenly change though as I've been back on the pill since R was about 2 months old so have a had a good 7-8 "normal" periods since then. I did think though, that if I was somehow, miraculousy pregnant then I wouldn't have had a period at all?! Who knows. I shoud probably add that I messed up my packets last month as I tried to take them back to back but had a breakthrough bleed anyway so stopped half way through the second packet and started them again about a week and a half later Hope I haven't been caught out over that few days!! Pretty sure I'm just not that fertile tho!

Going to speak to DP about it tonight and get a test tomorrow if still having cramps and no period!

on your behalf about the company not phoning your DH to let him know one way or the other about the job - it's very inconsiderate! Love our copyrighted Tantrum Trench!! :)