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

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Ta Dah!

Ooh yes, cycle, Jo is nuts for beans too. Bean chilli or beans on toast. Her favourite.

Outme HOORAY for scan!!

Exciting - we have got a new buyer and a cash buyer at that, so hopefully can move quickly now and we haven't lost the house we wanted. So excited!! I am DYING to decorate a nursery for Jo, that's going to be my first task.

As much as I'll miss her grinning at me from the foot of the bed I am looking forward to having our room to ourselves and being able to shag noisily again I have finally got my mojo back... Thought it had gone forever ...

Just a quick hello.

OutMe Yay for the scan (and the extra one next week!)

Cycle I'm so sorry to hear about your Grandma but the new work possibilities sound v. interesting.

Ecuse that's brilliant news about the house, fingers crossed all round that it goes through ok for you.

Fizz glad to hear things are improving.

S will be having his 1st birthday in the pub...we're assuming there will be about 50 there but it seemed a good option as we can duck out if/when it all gets a bit much for S/me but everyone else can stay on.

Right, DH is nagging to watch Upstairs Downstairs on the iplayer so best go find him!

Night xx

P.S My moccis came today, SO comfy...oh and S's turned up too, I suppose they're cute

Fizz I just snorted at your ferrets in a sack T is just like that, and if he is in bed with us then he generally wants to lie on one of our heads. NOT conducive to sleep!
With the ADs, I think I noticed an effect after about 10 days. I know part of it was that they kind of zonked me out a bit at night, so I was sleeping better than I had been for a while, plus we booked a holiday so I had that to look forward to - AND I think just the fact of realising that I actually had something wrong with me that could be fixed, and that I wasn't just a disaster, bad mum, etc etc helped hugely.
It is a virtuous circle I think. You feel a bit more on an even keel, so you get things done, which makes you feel better, and so on. And gradually you get back to being yourself. There are ups and downs along the way, of course, and I had some CBT alongside the ADs which was really helpful.

chilli T is waking once in the night for a feed these days, and I think he needs it, because he is still desperate for a feed when he wakes at 7-7.30 and then wolfs his breakfast. The fact that it is 5am is a PITA though, but I have no advice. DS1 went through that phase and I suspect we will get there with T at some point on the way to him sleeping through!

oh x-posts.

ecuse - yay! That is fab news. Fingers crossed for you

moccis for grown ups?

Pray for the house ecuse! And for noisy sex

Not scream the house down noisy . Just not silent

I didn't mean to give the impression M was just waking once for a feed, e.g. last night was asleep at 8.30, resettle with feed at 10.30, feed at 12.30, feed at 6, up at 8. So 3 wake ups in all and that's a good night as we had a long 5 hour stretch. DH got her to sleep tonight by singing to her so he's now gone to the pub quiz to celebrate.
I've been meaning to try her on beans again, she's never seemed very interested in my beans on toast. I also considered tofu.

ecuse fingers crossed about the house. I hope my mojo comes back properly sometime. I last recall it being around in the early stages of pregnancy but I don't want to resort to such drastic measures to find it yet! :)

sorry to hear about your grandma cycle

at your lack of noisy sex Ali. DS has very squeaky door hinges on his bedroom door and I don't intend to oil them. It gives us advance warning if he wakes up and decides to trundle across the landing into our room.

Fingers crossed for the house ecuse

Hurrah for the scan Outme

Ha ha, ecuse. I love you needing to clarify your sex volume

I think my mojo is MIA, if anyone finds it please send it back my way. I have had a few flashes of my libido returning but for some reason it is when I wake in the middle of the night . So I just ignore it and go back to sleep.

Reet, I am off to bed. Night night ladies

Aaaargh, that should be hooray, NOT pray ecuse. F-ing autocorrect.

Oh chilli, you must be so tired x

Embrace midnight nookie ILTMIMI, DH is one of those people who get going while asleep, it's always fun!

My libido has returned but not my self esteem. I occasionally plead the 'headache' simply because I feel so jiggly .

Ready for the TMI... I also miss nakedness, I never wore pyjamas before H and now they're a must for middle of the night wakings and a bra is on constantly to contain the mega boobs. Plus the jiggly issue. Sigh...

cycle I dreamt I bought a trailer on eBay that was fitted with two maxi cosi car seats but couldn't ride my bike while pregnant. Haven't been on my bike in about 8 years.

Glad you're feeling better fizz the lighter days def make a difference.

Fab news ecuse. pmsl at noisy sex.

I would embrace midnight sex ........ if I wasn't so damn tired

I know what you mean about the nakedness though. I wear a soft night time bra because I have really sensitive nipples when breastfeeding, but I miss being completely in the buff.

Try and ignore the jiggly (I know I do), your dh will not care. Embrace the jiggly

Ds2 is off to preschool this morning, then we're off to a friends house this arvo. The boys will all play together while we sip tea and gossip!

I ignore the jiggly, although my libido is also MIA. I would really like it back actually, in part because I weigh less now than I have done for years and so feel really good about myself. But no mojo. Hmmm.
It is actually a joke between DH and I now

chilli it is really tough. The only comfort I can offer is that T was in a very similar pattern a month or so ago and has gradually dropped the wake ups. I do think that until they are eating a decent amount of protein they need the milk.

I might try beans with M soon, need ideas for something different, feel like we're in a rut again.

I can ignore the jiggly in the dark when i'm in the mood
But not with the lights on, DH came back upstairs the other day just as i was getting my towel for the shower and i was not happy. It is ridiculous as i know he doesn't care/mind/notice & I am losing weight now, but ...

Also when i'm not in the mood - most of the time! - i have no patience for him trying

I do miss sleeping naked though, i need to keep a bra on & breastpads - though i haven't tried without for a bit, might do soon to see how much i am still leaking, if at all. I know i still need them for the other side when feeding but sleeping might be ok.

Anyone else whose AF has come back, is it heavier than before? I don't remember noticing a difference after the boys but now I really suffer, heavy & painful :(

JKS - no, no patience here either

Thanks for the sympathy but strangely I haven't been feeling that tired for the last week or so I think because there's actually only been one (occasionally 2) wake up that's woken me up or maybe I've got used to it.

But last night.... feed when DH got home about 11.10, then nothing until 6am ! More than 6 and a half hours sleep at once - it was fab. She fell asleep again at 7am til 9 too :)

Sounds good chilli!

I do try and embrace my gross jiggly crepey stomach but I just can't. Sigh... DH insists I'm as sexy as ever but I really don't feel it at the moment.

Must get the trailer out again, couldn't today as I was meeting friends but I'll try in the morning if it's sunny.

I also found out that M liked tuna today when she sole a handful of my friends potato with tuna mayo.

chilli that is good on the sleep and protein front!

I'm hoping that they weren't one-offs. Guess who's going to be offered tuna for lunch tomorrow :)

And I missed a 't' from stole.

JKS - I've had super heavy AF, but thought it was due to the coil.

Proper moon-cup AND towel flooding stuff. Hourly on some days.

And 3 out of 4 since F have made me nearly pass out.

Bizarre.

No nookie here, I'd rather sleep. And a begging whining DH is NOT romantic.

Oddly my disgusting flabby crepey stretchmarked stomach doesn't put me off sex but it has totally killed my self esteem in all other areas. Can hardly bear to look at myself in themirror now. Have just started thinking about getting back to work clothes and trying s few things on has made me want to cry

We're middle of the night shaggers too. Go to bed thinking I'm too knackered for it then find myself waking up after an hour or so DTD. Oddly I'm told it's usually me who initiates it, but I don't usually regain consciousness until we're well underway and am always slightly surprised to find I'm doing it Nice though cause by then I'm enjoying myself too much to worry about the jiggly. And it's dark.