July 2010: Their speech is improving but it's sleep we're still losing

[DesperateHousewife21]

Welcome back everyone!

Ah well, last night J was awake till about 8.30pm and up at 5.45 (grr). I don't think he got enough exercise yesterday afternoon. I just hope he naps for my mum today...

Yes, chulita, it's quite normal to still look 6 months pg at this stage! It will go down but it will take a month or two...

S definitely sleeps better if he has 2 outings a day.

B is awake, gave me about an hour so not all bad!

And don't say a month or two!

I'm no help chulita I still look 6 months pg nearly 2 years later . Well, maybe 5 months . I do find cutting down on the carbs helps with the stomach but I would think you need all the energy you can get at the moment.

I had a really good day with W yesterday. Pleeeeeeease may it last.

29!!!!oh man, what i wouldnt give to be 29 and on my second child! Matthew Right was on about life goals, i really dont think i have any any more, just to love my children and spend as much quality time as i can with them.
Sleep............dont even go there, F is getting over his cold, just has some mucus hanging about so hes back to waking once a night, and he is up in his room from 7ish too! But D..........thats a whole 'nother story! Think he was awake for just over an hour from 2.30 last night, its hard going, dh went in in the end and he went off...........i think? Well i did thats for sure! I forgot to tell the child minder to only let him have an hours nap and last night was worse that the previous three nights where hes had lots of physical excersize and only an hours nap, sooooooo we have been to group this morning and off to the park when i go wake him up in a bit. All this going out though has made me really fall behind with the house work so i did a mamouth clean yesterday, good god the place was filthy! And all of the above is why i havent been posting.
mylife so glad you had a good day with W. D has been lovely the last few weeks, just hope he can hold on to this phase for next week in brum.
chu sounds like B is moving forward a bit but im so not bothered about moving F along, if he wants some company its fine, they ar only this tiny once and i can feel it slipping away so quickly.
tsc good luck for the scan on tues, how long doen it take to get any results? Fantastic about F's sleep, long may it continue.
dh how are you feeling? how far along are you now and whens your scan?
woods why cant the good things last?
Off to brum tomorrow and really need to get my shit together, getting stuff together for a week for all three of us is no mean feat. One day of good weather left aparrently, hope everyone is enjoying it!

I'm just over 7 weeks now, the tiredness and nausea has kicked it. Majorly tired by 8pm and because D is still waking up I'm still tired by the morning so feel sick for most of it.

I'm glad I'm going to have both my kids by 22, gives me a v long time so sort out what I'm going to job wise and employers won't have to give me mat leave as I'll have had all the children I'm going to!

Hope everyone else is doing ok, it's been nice here today but still a chilly breeze, downside of living by the sea.

Kicked in*!

mlic how was today with W?
chul get thee to primark for a body holder in thing, like the pants but for thewhole thing, I think the one I got from there was better than the expensive one I tried! Makes the lumps and bumps a little smoother.
viksam have a great week, been warmer here in the Midlands than anywhere else! I had factor 30 on in the garden for 90 mins yesterday and still burnt!

L been at mums today, he really isnt being fab at the mo and only one minute wake up last night, my dad is still having transfusions today, going for a big food shop tomorrow, wonder if they will be panic buying food like they have petrol, its madness no fuel in a 20 mile radius here, I popped in to get a snack and they were argueing this was at 7am!
Anyone been watching Marys Bottom line? I love it, the lace man is our lace man! I want him to marry my mum!

I haven't braved the petrol station yet but I will need to, it's prob all run out though.

I had a stroke of luck on eBay, last week I bid on a pine dining table with 6 chairs. In the last 5 secs someone outbid us by £3 I was so annoyed. It was such a bargain, we need a new table and it was in our hometown.
Anyway last night the seller emailed to say the highest bidder hadn't paid or contacted them and were we still interested. He gave us a second chance offer so we got the table for our original bid and we're collecting it tomorrow!
Since dh and I moved in together we've had a glass table which is horrible I don't know why we got it in the first place really.

That's great dh, I love it when stuff like that happens.

W was good again thanks. He fell on his already-scraped-the-day-before knee on the morning, and then fell on the other knee on the afternoon so he's covered in grazes. But the weird thing is, he moans like a goodun' for so much of the time for no (apparent) reason, yet when he hurts himself he barely flinches like when I didn't even realise he'd broken his fucking arm for example When E scrapes his knees or something he has a crying fit in the bath when it gets wet...oh no, not W, he just gets in with two cut-to-bits knees and sits down without a murmur! 'Tis odd.

It's my mornin 'off' today. Tesco had no diesel but Morrisons did at 148.9p per litre. Bloody scandalous. I'd have stayed away if I wasn't on the orange light. Only took me 10 mins though, the beauty of being able to go when lots of people are at work I suppose. Don't know what to do now. Hang the washing out then walk the dogs I guess.

mlic £1.48.9? Holy shit! its £1.43.9 here, the only garage that is high like that here they come out and fill it for you! I put £50 in the other day so ive got enough for the next 10 days or so.
Im not doing much today just the Asda shop, and to get L some new trainers.

That's average round here. It's always made me really that it's complete shitsville round here, yet 20 mins away where my mam lives it's a really affluent area and diesel is always 2-3p cheaper per litre. It's typical government though isn't it, kicking those while they're down.

I haven't managed to do anything bar hang the washing out and watch Grey's Anatomy. I. Must. Get. Off. My. Arse.

mlisc we're the same, my parents always have fuel a good 5p cheaper than here.

dh the early pgcy bit is awful isn't it? So, so tired and yet nothing to show for it!

memphis I'm going to drag my sorry arse into town tomorrow and peruse the undies in primark, good idea. Despite eating a choccy bar a night, copious amounts of biscuits and cakes and 3 doughnuts yesterday, I still lost 4lbs this week. I've got to sort my diet out though cos the post-birth weight loss is probably nearing an end and the last thing I want to do is start gaining! 2 stone to go...

chul I defo think when you have lumps and bumps when they are smoothed out with tight undies they look loads better! Thats great about the 4 pounds though! how are you healing?
mlic that is shocking, but then there are 2 Sainsburys 10 miles apart and they is a 4p difference between them, they are still queueing for fuel here even though its been announced there wont be any strikes!

Asda wasnt too bad, couldnt find a spice I need for the curry that my friend swears they sell though! DH is going to London tonight to the Ace Cafe on his bike, im a tad jealous, but I have bought myself wine L is having a nap and I have all the shopping to put away!

Anyone else toddlers obsessed with shoes? L takes his shoes off at the sight of a shoe shop, he loves walking into Clarkes,and I was in Next earlier and he whipped his shoes off and was trying to put on some heels!

There's a bit on the incision that hasn't healed yet and it keeps oozing (nice!). I can't get air to it cos of where it is, and there's one bit inside that hurts a lot and I can't work out why it's not getting easier after nearly 3 weeks. Still, they said this one would take a while to recover from, I've just got to remember to take it easy!
S loves shoes too, he's always pottering around with my snow boots on!

Have you had it checked for infection chul? I was told any oozing/redness/pain in the scar could be a sign. I don't think it should be hurting espec after 3 weeks.

Yes G is obsessed with shoes, spends half the day trying on A's or mine.

We have our first colds of the autumn, me and G are worst. Having some lovely autumn weather though so been out quite a lot.

All the queues for petrol sound like a bit of a panic buying situation from what I've been reading here.

Got to go do breakfasts

Good point wss, I should probably ask someone about it. Trouble with not driving is I'd have to get DH off work to take me but hey ho!

Could you ring the community midwives chul and explain how hard it would be to get into a surgery, especially woith 3 kids in tow. Surely someone could give you a home visit?

True, even though I've been discharged by the mw I can contact them up to day 28 - might ring them tomorrow.

I think you should ring them, they would probably prefer to get out to you rather than stress you out with getting everyone out the house!
DH still isnt home, he left before the chip shop opened so I had soup, but he text me to say he was eating chips! I half want to send him to the chip shop when he gets home but its a bit late!

Omg talk about STRESS! Took us 5 hrs to get to brum, shoukd only take about 3.5 including a feed stop, two accidents on the m5 and loads of diversions when we came off. Ended up feeding f in a petrol station, no ques though! Horrid. Both boys fed up tired and very grumpy and whingey. I'm so fucking tired. Another hellish night last night, d whinged for about two hrs untill I lost the plot and shouted at him, I do feel ashamed but he went quiet after then and 10 mins later I was up feeding f who went on to wake just an hour after he went back down. I recon I had about 3.5 hrs sleep last night. I can't cope with this any more, its hell. Hope this week we will all get more sleep!

I think you should too, I didn't have any pain or oozing in my scar after either of my c sections.

viks I hear ya! We're off to the weddings in a couple of weeks and I am Dreading It. A 3 hour drive will undoubtedly end up being closer to 4 or 5 with screaming babies/toddlers.
Last night I slept from 11pm til half midnight then B wouldn't settle til 4.55am, slept for 30 mins and was awake again. I'm going to properly cream in today, I'm that tired.

chul did you call the mw? hope you have had some rest.
viks hows has today been for you? hope it has been stress free, we have been cleaning and cooking for my friends who are due and minute and..... I cant tell anyone in RL but we have been to buy my engagement ring today!!!! Im not allowed to mention it again until he asks me, which will probably be xmas! but im happy he has got it, and had to tell someone!