Caution! December 2011 babies can be hazardous to health, bank balances and carrot sticks!

[LittleMissFlustered]

We''re playing worms on the ipad. Haven't played worms since my studie days!

Bob save the Queen! Gorgeous dress, gorgeous baby!
We're going to a Jubilee party tomorrow. :)
But now, shoppi!
The relatives are safely back darn sarf, so the sun is out. :)

aethel as ever you?ve articulated things brilliantly. I do feel like I sound selfish over giving up BFing, but as you say I need to do what?s best for all of us, and having a happy Mummy is important. With the small age gap between my two, I?ve been either pregnant or BFing for the best part of the last 3 years, and I want my body back! Besides which I think 6 months BFing is a good effort in anyone?s book.

Cherry thanks. Yes, I used baby rice to thicken things, particularly melon, with DD so will do the same again. Foolish of me to think my two children would be in any way similar to each other, but DD took to plain baby rice fine, and took to bottles comparatively easily too. Apple at lunchtime for DS so we?ll see how that goes.

Gorgeous photo MissRee

The pub quiz was fun, but I got a bit twitchy as time went on since DS had fed at 10.30, 3 and 7 Sat night. Got home to a peaceful house and amazingly DS slept 7.30-7.30 last night! He normally poos twice a day, but we haven?t had one since Sat morning so I?m not looking forward to that eruption!

Aw, she looks fab MissRee!

Well, the weekend isn't getting better-
Saturday- bury chinchilla
Sunday- drive to Essex to hear 'D'Niece be horrible to all and sundry, but especially her grandfather who's driven down from Lancashire and mock him being ill
Monday- find out my disabled mother had a really bad fall yesterday, which was bad enough for my elderly, disabled MiL to stay over night to look after her. Not that she was going to tell me about it, and not that she'll go to hospital to be checked out.

C'mon Tuesday, what have you got to throw at me ?!

Oh, and worms (of the computer variety ) totally rock, but as I'm so crap at computer games I think I only ever got as far as level four....

Thanks ladies

It's one thing after another! No gas for 3 days the other week and now no water!!!! It was slow running this morning for a little while but I assume this was just the water left in the pipe because now we have nothing! We're out all day so the builder downstairs is phoning the water board for us. Next door's water is fine

Ladies how long do I leave this before worrying? Yesterday DS drank only about half his normal milk, today by now he'd have had 3 bottles of 210mls so far he's had 1 210, 1 110 which I had to feed him from a cup as would scream the minute a bottle came near him and then about 30mls from his last feed. He's grumpy but alert, doesn't seem unwell other than his cough in mornings/last thing. He has eaten his porridge breakfast and then a rusk with fruit at lunch but again that was after a massive paddy. He's also had some wAter but again out of a cup which was just going everywhere. Maybe he's finally full after 5 and a half months? Could it be teething? He has his first settling in day with childminder on Wednesday I'm feeling bad enough about it as is let alone worrying about what he's eating/drinking.

We off to PIL for jubilee stuff this afternoon lo has a union jack suit for the occasion

Hello everyone

yay for Thomasland on Saturday, when to my mum and dad's Sunday and chillin' at home today.

Weaning in well on the way now so i meed a higjchair. Has anyone got the mama and papa once upon a time highchair?

Hope is crawling and and sit up in a high chair and can grab boob and put nipple in her mouth when sitting on my knee or in bed! I cant leave her alone now she is mobile and we will have move the cot to the middle level now :)

also she has started to chew when eating!

also are we going to put photo on profile or snapfish of lo dressed up for juberlee?

It's official - I'm struggling.

With.....
Bickering with DH all weekend
Potty training
Not having had a full nights sleep in a year
DS1 constantly pushing the boundaries as he is stressed about pt.training
Being a mother to two children during the week and the limited conversational topics available
Having to sing old macdonald AGAIN
not ever having any time on my own ever and DH not understanding the issue at all
Feeling unattractive with excess weight and no time to even apply any make up most days

I just don't feel happy at the moment - when does it get better? Sorry just needed to spill it all out. Will buck up in a min.

Hawthers, I don't know what to say, what's your family/friend/support network like? Can you get people involved to give you a free morning or so?
( being back at work is easier.)
I'm sure you're coping really well, and that's why your DP doesn't get it. Do what you can to get some time off.
((((hugs))))

aaoh the snapfish album never kicked off. We were all keen on the idea at first, but less so later. I do like the idea of a Jubilee edition. Even if we only get 10 or so, we could get a jubilee poster.

Sending supportive hugs & Pom poms for Hawthers

Is there anyway you can sit down with your DH and explain how you feel? Tell him your not coping and you need his support.

Hawther snap.

I have given up on pt for noe and going to start again on yhe 11th. I just cant cope with potty training and bf at the same time. i find it really hard to get housework done cos im just going from one child to the next. Im worried he will not be clean for school. I have no idea how im going to separate the toys to stop Hope eating/choking on cars.

I always jave Hope as dh doesnt to babies. He has not change a single nappy of Hopes and will not even feed her with a spoon and then he moans about doing everything with air.

I think it will get easier when Hope is 3!

I know the difference from hard and PND and so far its just been hard. I think it would be unmanagable if i had PND with two.

My best abvice is ask for help when you need it and then tell them what you want them to do.

Do make thinks easy on yourself

Do one thing at a time.

Air is 3 and he is in nursary for 15 hours per week term time only and we have a cleaner that comes every two weeks and when Air plays up i send him to gp's for an hour or so. If Air plays up at nigjt dh sleeps in his room with him. Start potty training when everyone is well and when dh has a week off work.

It will get easier when they can both do more things for themselves.

((((((hugs)))))

I like the poster idea.

How do people feel about snapfish juberlee poster?

There is no need to name babies or put txt on it we can just upload a photo of lo in their outfits and do a college poster.

msbuggy's DH is a graphic designer, he could probably grunge/funk it up a bit too. :)

just caught DP looking at MN he denied it straight away of course lol

Also i didnt put any weight on carrying her but six month of bf and i have put 2 stone on

I have downloaded the fitness app.but im not doing very well i just want choclate all the time!

Hey air I've put on three stone this time from pre-conception, a new record for me but hey ho, that's what we do for our kids and nothing to do with Magnums, salami sandwiches or double portions ...
I'm sure we'll all be working on that soon, in the meantime know you're not alone!

hawthers, dude, it gets better, really it does, I think with ny DDs I found seven-eight months in a real turning point. It's important to keep an eye on your mood. If nothing at all gives you pleasure, or you can't see things will get better at all, then you need to chat to someone in real life for some support and assessment to check you're not getting depressed. I hope things feel better for you soon.

F just woken for a feed. It's going to he a long night.

think I just need some sleep. My mood really dips when I've had a run of crap sleep and I can really notice the difference when I've had some sleep. Oh well....

Just me having a shocker?

Really thought we'd turned a corner with sleep last week.... Oh dear

Hiya hawthers, I was up from 3-4.30 but phone charging out of reach. I think some of the thread now have babes who sleep well, but many of us are " variable". My DS can feed once at 3 on a good night, or be up every 90 mins all night on a bad one. Sleep deprivation does have a role in me wanting to mix feed/FF very soon. I'm going to move straight to followon (6month +) formula as when I gave the DDs formula the first milk and followon tasted different. figgy* did your LO's reduction in formula happen when you changed types? If not and babyb is well just keep an eye on what they take today...

Hi hawthers , you are not only one. Ds is shocking sleeper. Has got worse not better. I have given up and he goes in cot till he wakes up then just comes in with me, where he just seems to gorge on milk all bloody night. Last night this was 9.30 till 12 in cot then in with me.
I'm just too tired to sit up with him any more, but I don't sleep properly with him in the bed either, but at least im lying down eyes resting.
DP is still sleeping on sofa 6 months on.
I am back to work in 11 weeks and can not see it getting any better.
also, like you I have another DC to watch too.

Would just like to say thankyou to Oi and athel I last posted had a rant on the other thread and you were lovely to me and gave some Brill advice, but I never came back and replied - sorry

I always read but find it hard to post but its a great support to see what others are up to.

DS is also still a bottle refuser, giving up on that also

Hey ho, it won't be this bad when they are 18 will it? Will it ....

Hawthers I feel your exhaustion. Just keep an eye on your mood. It can only get better

Sky was rolling over in her cot last night and hasn't mastered the art of rolling back yet. So was extremely frustrated with herself, which meant several times of being up - shattered.com.

We enjoyed watching the Jubilee concert last night. Think Her Maj was tearful when Charles mentioned Philip being in hospital! Bless her.