October 2005 Babies - it just keeps getting better and better!

[Elf1981]

Thought I'd steal the honours of setting up a new thread

Mummygow - no AF here yet either. I see what you are getting at though. Grumpy young women!!

I passed out on the sofa last night during Corrie and was very grumpy when DH woke me. Last time I did this was.....oh, around this time last year.

NO NO NO NO. I CAN'T BE......

lol. Maybe we should test MB!!

What are we like - I'm still convinced that I am as I have such an appetite (hopefully just being a fat greedy monster) and my {{whispe}} nipples felt quite sensitive in the bath last night.

Wee Cameron not quite himself today, I had to wake him at 7am,not rteally interested in lunch, then he woke about 30/45mins early from LTN now he is back in bed. (he is still a smiler though)_

Hope everyone else's lo who are not themselves just now are getting better.

I've been toying with the idea Elf, but don't want to waste the cash on a test. I have been soooo careful taking that stupid mini pill within the three hour time window. Wanted the coil, but can't because of my heart shaped uterus. Oh well.

Anyway, I haven't been tempted to swig from the vinegar bottle, so can't be pg!!

lol
Speaking of the retched mini pill... was supposed to drop in on our FPC this afternoon which runs til from 3-5 after the baby clinic finishes at 2:30 but I forgot all about it in my desire to get poor Evie to sleep. DH has gone out and only now I have remembered that I wanted him to look after Evie for an hour while I dropped for a new pack of pills. Got one left!! Not sure if I can get anymore til next Thursday!
Ah well, just relying on the condoms now!!

and anyway Elf, if you are pg then you won't need them anyway.....

sorry, only teasing

actually Elf, on a serious note, if you don't get them until next week, won't you then have to use condoms for another week once you start the pills again? I'm sure you would be able to get the pills somehow to avoid the PITA of condoms.
Just a thought

At the mo, I prefer to use condoms as well. I dont trust these pills, stupid three hour window!

Oh, have you read that Britney Spears is supposed to be pregnant again, her first was due in October 2005 but I think he was an early baby? My mum keeps looking at the mags saying "hmmm" about it, espcially Closer magazine where it says that Brit & Kevin are hoping that a baby will bring them closer together... not sure how!!

I've been feeling extratired, grumpy, sicky for a while too. I know I'm most definately not pregnant though, so maybe we're all just going through some sort of hormonal adjustment phase.

piggiesmum the tiredness is killing me!!

Is anybodies eleses lo blowing raspberries or do I have the only rude baby?!

Had an awful nightmare last night. I was picking Evie up from the "childminders" (totally a different person & house in the dream) and there was a bloke in the doorway. I looked at him and noticed the he had a knife in his pocket. He saw me looking, pulled the knife out and threatened me. I said I was only there to pick up my daughter, not to cause trouble. I then went in tht house, there were two old ladies in the living room, and I walked into the kitchen where the "childminder" was with a friend, Evie in their arms with a big scratch on her face. I picked Evie up, and then took a deep breath to prepare myself to go home. Then I suddenly was next to a canal where Becca from Holyoaks had been found stabbed, and Justin from Holyoaks was sitting in a three wheeler pram as both his legs were broken, and Becca's dad was trying to beat him up saying that he had murdered her, then I walked up an alley way and came home.
How odd was that?!!

I think I am going crazy. Yesterday I left Evie in the car while I popped into the garage to pay for petrol. I usually take her with me but she had just fallen asleep so I didn't want to wake her. When I came back to the car, I didn't see her right away and was convinced somebody had stolen her. I was just about to scream "somebody has stolen my baby!" when I saw her!!

Think I need to check myself into a mental home!

elf pml your just frightened about going back to work next week - everything will be fine!!

Oh, there was a bit about work, my boss was being a total bitch, I was sitting at my desk doing all the rubbish jobs they wanted me to do muttering "bitch, bitch" under my breath at her and threatening to quit!!

Oh Elf, that's horrible. I'm sure once you go back and that things get into a routine you will be more at ease with it all. I'm paranoid about leaving JOhnny in the car at the petrol station and always take him into the shop, much to the annoyance of the people waiting behind as I fix his seat back in!! But I try to wait until DH is around to fill the car so that one of us can wait with him.
I felt like such a bad mummy yesterday. It was snowing and I had a bunch of letters that had to be posted. I wasn't planning going anywhere, so couldn't post the letters when I was out anyway. But, there is a postbox at the end of our road, maybe 150 yards from the house. Johnny was lying in his bed about to nap, but was making all these cute cooing noises. I went to the postbox while he was in the house. but I did have the baby monitor with me - 300 metre range supposedly, and it seems to work at the postbox!!! I still felt like a bad mummy though..... does the Mummy guilt ever ease??

Yay! My electric breast pump arrived this morning, and it works a treat. At this rate, i should be able to forgo the formula milk supplementing when i go back to work.

Thanks for all your advice Elf - i got the pump on your recommendation, a good deal on Ebay, and we also seem to be getting somewhere with the NUK bottles you suggested too. I did originally ask the HV about hiring a pump, but DP wasn't too keen on the idea of me using a, ahem, 'used' one , so we bit the bullet and bought our own.

Just got to sort out Joey's dire sleeping patterns out now, and we might have cracked this parenthood lark! NM x

Mawbroon - my friend, who's baby is 6 months older than Joey, keeps telling me that the 'mummy guilt' just gets worse as they get older!

NM- so glad that your electric pump is working out, I love mine! It gets out so much more milk than my stupid Avent one!

Been a good mummy today while Evie was having a settling in period at the child minders (she had three hours Mon and three hours today). I have made :

3 pots of apple and blueberry
5 pots of carrot and sweet potato
3 pots of cauliflour and broccili
2 pots mango
2 pots melon
3 pots butternut squash

My bottom drawer to my freezer is choca block with frozen food and milk now!

Though mush dash as I have been a bad mummy and ran out of gas so I need to buy some more as it's a bit chilly!

Ds is a raspberry blower too and has great comic timing with it too. Eg: while dh is in bed with hangover and me playing noisily with ds downstairs.
Me "hehe we'll wake daddy up with all this noise"
Ds "ahhh pppppppppppppppppppppppprrrrrrrrrpppppppppppppppppphhhhhhhhhhhhh"

or

Me "Mummys talking to nana on the phone, say hello to nana"
Ds "ppppppppppprrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpppppppppppphhhhhhhhhhhhh" and a phone covered in drool lol

Elf - You sound so organised. I've hardly even started thinkng about what I'm going to wean ds onto.

Evie loved the brocilli and cauliflour that I gave her this afternoon (cue green poo!) and ate a whole pot, I didn't think it would go down well but she loved it!

have been feeling really fed up this week, anyone else feeling like this, I just want to go to bed and sleep all day and thats not going to be possible for about another 18yrs I suspect!!!

I wouldn't say fed up MG, but I just feel like I am treading water all the time regarding getting things done which is frustrating. I'm trying to mop the floors, but in between times, there are nappies, feeds, crying etc to deal with. Maybe I need to look at it the other way - I'm trying to look after my baby and mopping the floor gets in the way!!

This pishy weather doesn't help...

MB

Oh Johnny is such a bloke already!! He's just filled the clean nappy I put on 5 mins ago and is now laughing away as if it's hilarious that he did a smelly poo...... I suppose the answer as to why men are the way that they are is that they were born like that!!

Have you cheered up yet MG? You can always come to visit me if you want a change of scenery!!

MB

Elf - Can melon and mango purees be frozen then? I'd been doing it fresh, and it's been costing me a small fortune as Joey obviously can't eat whole ones at a time!

I've been batch cooking this afternoon. So far, i've done the mixed dried fruit compote, and the apple, blueberry, and strawberry puree from Annabel Karmel's book, as Joey seems to really like her food combinations.

Have a good weekend All, NM x

LOL at your LO, mawbroon - Joey does exactly the same thing! Sometimes i swear he's deliberately holding out till the second the new nappy goes on, just to 'christen' it

(just for the record, my male cat also does the same thing re his cat litter - he can have been in there just five minutes before, but the second he's got new litter in his tray, he HAS to go and do something in it!)