December 2011: Smiles and giggles and coffee and truffles.....

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Voila, a new positive thinking thread for us!

Onward and upward, ladies. Do come on and post if you're a lurker or want to join our merry band, all welcome!!

Mopsy I can imagine that was scary. Hope your both okay now?

My face feels so fat and got razor blades for a throat

Both my girls are in bed and I've been informed we have received our first couple of wedding RSVP's

Ooo...darcies I remember being really excited when we got ours. Hope your lurgy is not too awful.

mopsy so scary, it is a horrible feeling! Glad she is ok, they are tougher than they look!

In geekiness...DP queued and bought the new Apple TV...Netflix on the box now!

And more geekiness tomorrow, we're off to the Big Bang Science Fair in Brum!

Ooh we have apple tv and netflix. Bobsend those first few weeks if eternal feeding!!!

Minimopsy is up to her usual sleep/wake up grizzle shenanigans which is usually a pain but quite relieved she's acting normal!!

No vomit today:o

I got random unexpected child credit payout today. Rang and checked it was right, and it is, so for HMRC too:o I've paid the remainder of my daughter's music fees for the year, started her PGL fund and am not so stressed as I was:)

Another one on the disposable nappies here. For two children. The bin is taken every two weeks and weighs a ton!

easily I haven?t had anything from you on FB. Not sure if my PM didn?t work or if I have a common name

Mmmm I?m with you?.food is brilliant and aethel raises a very good point re: Nigella vs. Gillian!

mopsy poor you! Hope you?re feeling OK now

DSM hope you feel better soon

DH stuck in London due to train troubles so it?s a quiet Friday evening here. Just tanking up DS and will then make my dinner and do a few chores. Definitely need to do a load of washing due to vast quantities of poo, sick and paint meaning both DS and DD got through a lot of clothes today! Looking forward to Sunday. My Mum?s coming over, DH is cooking a roast, and my sister?s coming up for the day as a surprise for Mum.

Both kids in bed so waiting dp to read dd a story as he's going to pour me a Guinness and black, yum!

Fab day LMF, extra money and no sick :)

Had a trying evening, ds was having major meltdown crying fits and dd was being a bit naughty and refusing to get ready for bed because she didn't have a nap at nursery so was overtired. Having read all of you for a while, I realise that this is nothing but I did start to feel very overwhelmed at one point! All peaceful in the Harris household now though

Tyel Your DH is appallingly gifted! Like you we'll be encouraging LO to do as much music as possible - I've had so much fun with it along the way. We play in and band and should be at practice now which does mainly church worship music but also folk for barn dances. It's getting harder since either LO comes too or we don't both go.

nappies we have a nappy lending thing here in Leicestershire so we trialled several types then spent a bomb on BumGenius. They're working really well for us, although when out for extended periods she goes into disposables.

Today we (me, DH and LO) went to the edible garden show (my birthday treat). LO behaved really well, and was admired by many people there. If there was a changing station somewhere, I didn't see it but I'm used to getting down on the floor of a disabled loo anyway. She managed to do a truely massive poo while DH had her in the loo queue which (apparently) had gone everywhere.

Glad peace has returned Rash. The witching hour really is the most stressful time of the day!

So far, in terms of drying time, totsbots and bumgenius win. Trying the nappies tomo though so we shall see ....

GRRR 'D'H has just commented it always amazes me how little gets done while he's at work..... Extra large Haddock please

Incoming!

Off to bed now, tomorrow I shall be mostly not doing much at all. I may go buy myself a mother's day present.

Night all:)

Woo! DD1 has gone to sleep! We have been having a rough week with her sleep, she has been awake until midnight every night. However, the thought of being tired at the Science Fair tomorrow seems to have worked...her lack of need for sleep drives me totally mad sometimes, she can happily exist on 6hrs sleep. She has always had a much smaller need for sleep than most children though, by 1 she had given up napping and slept on and off for ten hours a night. Bleugh. Mostly I quite like her ADHD-ness, but I really do wish she would sleep!

My older two sleep, octopus sleeps a lot still. I hope he develops a liking for his bed like his older brother. I can cope with no naps and being up early if they go to bed at seven:o

Feed time, then sleep time. Taken some ibuprofen as I seem to have pulled something in my foot. Walking funny has made my calf muscle stiffen up and the upshot is my left leg hurts from the knee down. Meh.

I've decided to put LO in his own room tonight he's so loud overnight thrashing his legs he wakes me up without him actually waking up but then I can't get back to sleep. I was always a heavy sleeper and He sleeps through most nights anyway.

Got a video monitor today finally, the first of which didnt work so then had to trail to 2nd closest Argos for a replacement. It's now all set up and he's asleep in his Moses in his cot bed. I know the advice is 6 months so am really worried about doing it but this is an experiment and he won't know any better right???

Ps argos have a baby event on.

Aarg, need to get to sleep but DD1 keeps agigtating, coughing and generally complaining of insomnia...

figgy lots of people move the LO out before 6 mths. Including a few on this thread. And everyone lives happily ever after, and everyone sleeps better.
I was told the reason behind sleeping in the same room was that babies suffer from sleep apnea (es), - they can stop breathing when they sleep. When they sleep close to their mums, they are in tune with our breathing and "remember" to breathe = lesser chance of SIDS.
I do not know how true this is. But I know that I'm far too scared to think about LO having his own room. Tis ok for now, we don't have an available spare room. But what will our excuse be if/when we move into a multi-bedroomed new house and build/create his nursery?
I still won't want him to be in his own room!
-but I sleep ok with him nearby, he's not so noisy. I just hope I'd wake up should anything...
We don't have any kind of monitoring. A baby may be safer in his own room as you'd then use a monitor...
This parenting lark ain't easy, is it? No decision is right or wrong. You have to do what's best for everyone... And you can't make everyone happy. Someone will always find fault, or want to share their opinion.

Oh and when DS outgrows the moses basket in 4-6 weeks time he has to go next door as we don't have room for a cot in our room. We have a baby monitor, he'll share the room with DD2, we did shared rooms from 3.5omths with the DDs and one has only woken the other 2 or 3 times EVER, so hopefully will work sgain thia time (if not we'll put DS innyhr boxroom, though DD1 has her eye firmly on that one!!)

Hey lmf. There's a popular song out at the moment., DD1 keeps singing it. I can be the DJ...... Any volunteers out there to be the Dancefloor??

I eschew popular music, though my daughter just wasted spent some of her birthday money on Now 412. Beginning of the end, so I nominate her to assist.

Octopus will be going in with his brother when he outgrows his crib:)

The only way I know the DJ/Dancefloor/zombie is frkm DD1 repeatedly singing it into her hairrbrush .... I have a copy of Now 1 on vinyl, that's how down with the kids I am....

The goddess is repeatedly singing about somebody moving like Jagger. I stay clear of it all >_<

Onto boob two now after a nappy change that really wasn't worth the effort. Think he's saving all his pee for his next poonami:/

I am totally paranoid mummy and DD sleeps in a cot right next to the bed and had an Angelcare breathing monitor!

DD has woken for a feed at exactly 1.44am 6 out of 7 nights this week, whatever time she's fallen asleep. How weird is that?!

Have been trying to get DD to take a bottle of EBM but she just gags on it like she does on the dummy. She took a bottle fine about 6 weeks ago (but never a dummmy) but I haven't tried her again for the last 6 weeks. Will be a pain if she won't take a bottle. Any advice?

DS1 has a grotty ear infection. DS2 has diarrhoea and is feeding and pooing every 2hrs. DH goes away for 3 months on Monday. Help!

figgy DS2 has been in his cot next door for over a month. We all sleep a lot better for it. Although tonight he's co sleeping as he's feeding so regularly.

mmm keep persisting with the bottle so that you can have the occasional night off! Can someone else give the bottle, as if it's you, you smell of milk and so baby will prefer bf. If she's taken a bottle o once fingers crossed she will again.