December 2011 - April drools!

[OiMissus]

A new thread! squee-eeeze. :)

Chest has eased a lot, thanks:) just wish this octopus/limpet mutant hybrid boy would sleep >_< Hope you're asleep now:)

Sleep tally stands at 90 minutes. My eldest woke me up to complain the the middle one woke her up. I might have been all out of sympathy >_

Morning lmf, sorry not to post overnight but couldn't find my phone: DS did do some sleeping but then got very hungry in the wee hours, spent most of an hour feeding then volvanoe'd some back onto me qnd his growbag (missing himself fairly nicely). Then of course he's made space for more... Hope you get a quiet day and the drugs continue to do their thang.

Both of my DDs had temps last night (one borderline, the other 39) but othewise not too bad. Hope we don't get stricken by the holiday liirgie...

Aaand Ive just been covered in milk again. Niice. Fortunately I have many changes oif nightwear available...

Fingers crossed for you. I have just fed the older two and came back up to find this one wriggling in a pool of his own sick, picked him up to sort him out to then discover he'd poonami'd up his back too. I was out of the room ten minutes! >_

lmf hope your day improves!

We have speech therapist later, she couldn't do DH's days off this week. No idea how I'm going to manage, I hope DD is asleep! Bread maker on, beef stew in the slow cooker, now I need to get dressed. Have a good day!

LMF my sympathies that sounds horrible, not to brag but LO went to sleep at 8.30 woke at 5.30 usually I'd just get up and start day but he looked a bit dopey so put him back on his bed and he slept to 8.30!!!! I usually have him in with me after his breakfast bottle so to be able to go back to sleep like turning the clocks back to pre baby!!

I won a jumperoo on eBay last night £41 and it's 10 mins away so have to pick it up tomorrow. Can't wait to see if he likes it.

I have nothing planned today will try walk off the alcohol and hangover cures indulged in over the weekend and start packing LO clothes for trip home to Scotland on Thursday. Flying again but thankfully DH is coming too this time so won't have to fend for self at airport.

Oh and lots of draw something

I cancelled speech therapist, Eva is grumpy and continually dribbling. She's had a bit of a cold for over a week which she just can't seem to get rid of. She seems to be getting better one day then the next she's full of snot again. aethel will that be ok for her jabs tomorrow? I know they ask if she's well but I don't know if a cold is acceptable?

If they've no temperature they're ok with colds at my surgery. If they said no to colds no child would ever be immunised, especially subsequent kids >_<

Friend is coming round in a bit to spirit my older two off to park for a couple of hours so Edward and I can try to sleep.

As lmf says, colds and snot are fine,except if they have a fever over 38 too. If they are really really out of sorts you could postpone, but I try not to (DS was coldy for his first lot, second ones are next week).

We're cough and snot central over here, DS still clingy and growthspurty and had to debung him with the snotter thing. Both DDs are OK with the help of Auntie Neurofen, but cancelled our playdate as didn't want to infect plague on the other kids! Now watching Sarah Jane and playing with nail polish, garden play later I think for a quiet day.

Thanks both of you.

lmf your friend sounds great, hope Edward lets you sleep!

Hope you get some rest lmf

I'm tired and moany today. DD2 fell over in an odd way yesterday, she managed to scrape her bottom on the radiator knob. While I was cleaning it up, I snapped at DD1 because I couldn't see how bad the cut was and was worried. DD1 then had a four hour long meltdown. Surviving on coffee today.

Crazily busy week here...

Tuesday - birthday party for DD1's best friend. Tis a stay and help one.
Wednesday - meeting up with Home Ed friends for lunch in the park.
Thursday - get Miri weighed (stressful managing the elder 2!)
Friday - off away on the boat until Monday.

I really need it to stop raining so I can make sure we all have enough clean clothes!

Older two gone for picnic, Edward being a milk vampire. Hoping he sleeps for an hour, maybe even two!

Hope the snots and grits clear up soon aethel though if your house is like mine they'll disappear just in time for term to start >_<

No rain here msb so I'll send you our weather:)

We've got rain here in Scotland with a forecast of snow tomorrow, I was just getting into putting nice clothes on DD2 when it seems I have to go back to snow suits :(

Finally went in for my groupon IPL patch test session after 3 years without IPL due to pregnancy but with definite signs of beard shadow. It has been getting me unbelievably down about myself, females at 25 should not have to shave! Don't know if anyone else has this here, the beautician said its common with all the pregnancy hormones/PCOS to get a bit beardy and I guess I'm lucky DH is never mean about it.

On the bright side of life I emailed the betty crocker website and they have confirmed all their products are suitable for vegetarians - so pleased, num num num bring on Easter Monday

Just got back from 3 and a half hours of soft play, although dd spent about 15 mins in the soft play and the rest of the time wondering around with a doll, eating and going to the loo, bless her! She had fun, that's the main thing :)

Hope all you ladies with illnesses in the family feel better soon. I've got a sore throat and tickly cough. I don't feel ill per se but it's irksome.

BeeMyBaby, glad you have a sensitive Dh and hope it settles down for you once your hormones get back on track. I'm lucky not to suffer but my body image is sadly lacking at the mo. Too much weight, stretchmarks, saggy pouch belly, dry skin and my hair falling out at the rate of knots is not doing my self esteem much good!! But we have chocolate and beautiful babies!!

Just been to see a nursery and hated it, I text DP to tell him if I can't find anything better then i'm not going to go back to work! Staff seemed nice enough but the place was filthy and all the staff ratios were way off the numbers they suggested. Hope the others i've arranged to see are nicer.

Not much planned this week, except seeing some friends tommorrow. They got married last year and have now quit their jobs, rented out their house and are off round the world for a year, i'm very jealous.

Right, off to feed hungry boy!

Oh BJR, how shitty! Are there many other nurseries in your area?
@ your friends, wish we could've done that before DS came along.

Rashkakeller, sounds like a good day! Is this moulting of hair normal then? Mine looked lovely during pg but has started coming out in clumps, have had to pull so many strands out of DS's mouth!

Bee, sounds like you've got a great weekend planned, nom-nom! Please don't feel down about being a little beard-y, is it worse than it was before pg? Hope it calms down soon & glad DH is sensitive to it & not an arse.

Ooof, sounds nasty msbuggy, hope it heals well! Hope you have an easier day today!

athel, hope snot central is cleared soon! I have a large pile of tshirts in the bedside cabinet for when DS decides to coat us in night-time vom!

Figgy, congrats on the bargain jumperoo! , fancy swapping DC's? .
DH said earlier the men at his work have better sleeping babies (5 of his workmates have had babies in Nov/Dec) & wives that 'do' more, apparently 'Your wife doesn't work, why can't she do everything'? DH can't sleep through him crying so does one or both of the night time feeds, and he wants to do as much as he can (feels guilty about working long hours), but that someone, out there thinks I'm a lazy caah is irritating. for the random men?

seven, fingers crossed for tomorrow being a snot free day!

AWCH thankfully we don't have night feeds now but that's exactly how DH's boss was when he was going to work exhausted. Just feel sorry for their wives!

BJR I hope you find a better nursery somewhere. It works both ways though, my friend heard bad reports about the nursery at the local primary so sent her DS to the brilliant nursery at extortionate private school. He absolutely loves it but now she's regretting it as she can't afford to send him to school there, come September he'll be in the local primary anyway.

Glad I'm not the only one losing hair, showers were getting worrying!

Hi girls, another feed-filled day here, currently feeding down DS. We are doing OK, had a home morning, then realised I was very low on Napisan (non-bio sanitiser I use in the nappy wash) and had a parcel to send to my cousin who's just had her DS1. Piled kids into car to post parcel, raided Tescos for Napisan and pizza and suncream, then DDs asked to go to the park so we went there for an hour or so.
they all seem OK, I just hope they all sleep tonight cos I'm knackered!!

Ooh, and the hair thing: totally normal to lose it now. When we are pg the hormones stop it from shedding, so your hair volume increases, it looks full and silky. When you stop being pregnant all the hair that would have shed but didn't comes out, along with the usual loss. Usually it settles down by 6-12 months in.

Right. Children in bedrooms (if not actually asleep). Now to investigate dinner and as much housework as can be bothered with...

Hope the snottiness leaves swiftly for all of you affected

BJR fingers crossed the other nurseries are better

AWCH definite haddocks for the random men. Perhaps a swordfish may even be in order?

A couple of milestones here today: DS went in his doorway bouncer for the first time and loved it (I'll try and post pic on my profile), and I bathed DD and DS together for the first time. It all went a bit wrong when DD did a poo, but I shall perservere!

Hi all! Sorry I don't have time to post individually but sorry if you're having lack of sleep!

Weekend was brill, flights went fine, she only cried for a cpl of minutes each time. She behaved like an angel baby all weekend, napped loads, smiled, laughed, cooed, went down to bed at 7:30 and slept through three nights in a row!!! I think she was showing of in front of her cousin. He is only 6 weeks but was amazing too, and even slept from 22:00-05:00 two out of the three nights. Course, now we are back home, when I put her to bed she screeched her head off :) but was a fab w/e and so glad all my siblings finally got to meet her!

Hope you all had good weekends and hope the Easter hols are going well for those of you with older kids!

mopsy hang on in there, at least now you know she can go through the night so it will get better. Glad you had a good time.

kate DD is getting a bit big for her baby bath, I'm very nervous about bathing both of them together. Was DH there to help or did you dress DS while DD was still in the bath?

Cancel that, I assume you probably whipped them both out pretty quick ather than leaving her to play in poo-infested water!

Seven DH is rarely home before 8 so I have to do bath and bedtime alone on weekdays. I put DD in and got her clean, then I put DS in and got him clean. The plan was to get him dressed whilst she played and then get her dressed. I'd taken him out and thankfully had him dried and put his nappy on before she started to poo. I whipped her out and stuck her on the potty, so it all could have been worse, but I still ended up with two unhappy children crying the place down!