July 2010: Talking Tenacious Tantruming Toddlers Too Tiny To Turn Two.

[Spirael]

Here we go again...

Re the snip, dH flatly refuses, so thats that. Its up to me. The GP said she has seen far to many women asking for a steralization reversal for various reasons and she said to take into consideration health of present children.............thats horrid but did make me think. I just really dont fancy the coil and dont want to pump hormones in via the pill either.............tut, would be a lot easier if DH would take responsibility but clearly thats too much to ask!
chu Hope B calms down soon. Hows L? Its a shame you cant go to your folks but sometimes it can be more hassle than its worth. Have you ever left the children with them? If it makes you feel better F winges and cries NON STOP, all day every day!! Its enough to drive you insane, i cant work out why he does but im starting to wonder wether its an attention span thing, he gets bored really quickly, or tired or hungry really quickly its like someone flicks a switch and he goes from smiley sweetness to moany screamy nightmare!!!!
mylife are you still on two days a week at work right now? hows it going, are you still enjoying it?
I Have an issue at work that i need to get involved with and unfortunatly it involves a longstanding member of staff, who is absolutly lovely, and trading standards, im going to see her tonight to make sure she is ok, i hate when stuff like this happens, silly mistake with big consequences.

L's calming down now thank goodness, she's usually really bad for a few days then it goes back to normal. It was worse than usual this weekend but she's also taken to running around naked in the garden so if she reacts to grass that would explain it perhaps.
My dc love my parents so leaving them there wouldn't be too much of a drama.
DH isn't keen on the snip either but after 3 cs I reckon I've had my fair share of being cut about so if we're serious about not having any more, he's the one who's going to have to get done.
Hope everything gets sorted out with your colleague viks!

memphis did you survive today? sounded like it would be fun but shame your dh couldn't make it too.

I was settling B tonight and heard L shepherding S upstairs, came out to give them a rollicking to find S had dug around in his nappy and wiped poo all over his legs/face I remember L going through a "playing with poo" phase at EXACTLY the same age but AAAAARRRGGGHHHH!!! Why, why why oh why why why the frick is it always when I'm upstairs with B?

Off to sit and zone out for an hour before bed, I'm really feeling the strain today. I'm supposed to be doing 2 woolly hugs squares by Monday and my knitted one looks like shit, I need to do some big flowers to hide the awfulness of it cos I've not got the time to redo it before I post it on Fri.

Hi all, hugs to those who need them, especially memphis! Poor you, sounds like things are a bit shit at the mo.

Am back from a wonderful holiday - lots of hot sunshine and great food and wine and swimming pool and fab toys for J and the other two toddlers to play with. Great stuff.

Chulita it's obviously the age for it. I was watching the rowers' medal ceremony today and shedding a little tear when J presented me his hand all covered in poo. Kind of made me forget the emotion!

Your photos of the holiday were great Woodlands, looks like a fab time was had.

Ha ha woodlands! Ace timing! Am very jealous of your holiday, we're only going on a 3 day get away in sept and I bet it won't be sunny.

Note down dont bother with big boy vests yet... I dont want smeared poo on walls!
woodlands yor hols look great, did you find it ok holidaying with a toddler?
chul we are only going for 3 days too, camping in Forest of Dean I think.
Im at hospital, the diary...everyone else is in a room together, they have put me in a room alone! Im so hungry

S is still in little poppered vests but he'd taken his trousers off dungarees for the next few weeks I think!

Ooh memphis we're only 30 mins from the Forest of Dean, maybe we'll come and make scary noises outside your tent Hope today goes well for you!

chul thats good to know...if it rains then I can flee to your sofa!
Im home already, they took loads of blood, and said they are concerned about my heart, no hardcore excercise allowed (oh damn) but he said try and swim a bit, but he said lower cholesterol diet, but I dont really eat too much fatty stuff, but he said I should have been on a low carb diet as this will help lower the levels, but as I spoke to him he noticed I was gasping for breathas I talk so he is concered this could be because of my heart so now have to wait for the results then they will do a treadmill test and another heart uitrasound as I shouldnt be out of breath...I thought it was just because I talk to much and on the baby front he said they will have to wait for results but he said if I did sall pg then they would monitor me more this time and may have to consider a c section a bit earlier rather than putting body tough stress of labour again.

His rationale really doesn't make sense though, you can't eat low fat and low carb together, it simply wouldn't give your body any fuel whatsoever. Sounds positive on the pregnancy front though, defo wasn't a 'no you can't' was it.

Lower cholesterol doesn't necessarily mean low fat, it means low "bad-evil-touch-them-and-die" (supposedly) fats so it could work but you'd have to eat lots of nuts and such like (right?). I've been researching diets far too much since DH leapt on the low-carb bandwagon.
Good news on the baby stuff though, like mlic said, at least they didn't warn you off. And we've got a sofa bed

mlic I dont really know, mum said I need to push for a diet sheet, but this is why I struggle with the low carb thing, I hate frying and adding butter to stuff the biggest baddest thing I love is cakes and biscuits, been doing research since I got home and the cholesterol thing is because the blood levels make your heart walls weaken and your arteries 'fur' up and thicken quicker, but as I dont have deep fried mars bars every day (although I would love them) I think I need to concentrate on the low carb as that is the one that hightens the levels that I need to get lower.
And I am feeling positive on the pregnancy front!
chul I dont need luring, dh knows for me to go camping we need a hotel fund in case thing it rains! it will only be me staying by the way as dh loves camping in the rain, and its raining here and L is playing outside, he loves the rain so he will cope! dh wanted us to go for the week but I cant cope without a hot bath for a week!

L just had another of her epic meltdowns, she's been doing them since Saturday and they're driving me up the wall. She was sat quite happily watching Monsters Inc, I called her for tea and she sat down, rubbed her eyes and then started wailing that they hurt and she needed goo on them, the wailing got louder and louder despite me putting epaderm on her and asking her several times to be quiet so finally I picked her up and put her in the garage in the pushchair and left her to it. She shouted/cried/tantrumed for about 10 mins then fell asleep in the buggy so I've put her upstairs in bed. It's just over-tiredness, her speech has suddenly come on in a huge way so I think it's a developmental thing but there's nothing we can do when she starts, I've tried cuddling her/leaving her for a bit then cuddling her/bending to her every whim but the last two times I've just stuck her in a corner where we can't hear her and left her to it. She inevitably falls asleep afterwards...I expect it from S but from L it's a whole new game and I don't like it.

memphis that's what puts me off low carbing big style, cutting out cakes and biscuits forever??????????????? Not. Possible.

I'm not having it to the same extreme chul, but E is really pushing his boundaries atm too - hopefully just an age thing. His 'back-chatting' is constant and he will argue black is white at the moment

I use my frying pan every day at least once (dh has an omlette for breakfast every day) and have no qualms about frying stuff in butter. My waist was two inches smaller this morning than it was 6 weeks ago as a result of it I like cake but don't eat biscuits so that's not something I miss. I miss crisps, but still have them occassionally (shhh don't tell anyone) and it doesn't seem to do me any damage. Everything in moderation, or so they say.

So I just noticed S has just cut his 2 bottom molars, I can't check the top ones despite trying so am hoping that once these are through and he starts talking we'll have an end to this constant whinging ( mlisc I don't want to hear about W's teeth/whinging thank you, I'd rather live in my ignorant beliefs )

I'm losing weight so slowly at the mo, about .5 of a lb a week or less...mainly because I totally crave chocolate most of the time. Odd because when I'm not bfing I can go months without any at all but when I'm feeding my body seriously craves it. DH keeps telling me to go easy on myself til B is feeding less but I keep beating myself up about it. I'm in my 12s but they're tight and my stomach overhangs in such a disgusting way...argh! I need to go on one of those fat camps/fitness camps to crack the choccy habit!

chul I keep asking dh to let me put a week bootcamp on the credit card as part of our wedding plan or lipo but he wont budge! I had a pair of skinny leans on the other day (with a floaty top) and my muffin top hangs over by inches, dh saw it and said arent they too tight? I freaked out! I need high waster jeans to hold it all in!

how marvellous of your dh! I have some high waisters but they don't fit yet

He said he didnt mean iti a your fat kind of way jus another example of him not thinking before he opens his big gob

W defo whines less now that he has all his teeth big big lie
Can't wait for the second molars to come - hopefully a year to wait yet, if his brother is anything to go by.

These are the second molars mlisc, roll on the last two (then we can start again with B)

E didn't get his until 3yo therefore I don't expect W will either, since they seem to have gt teeth at a similar rate.

I sometimes get broody but the thought of weaning, teething and all that again really is enough tomput me off.

Talking of whinging can someone please tell me why my 7 month old cries and whinges ALL THE TIME?!?! We went on a train ride today and he really spoiled the way home, its just a nightmare and its getting embarrassing in public now. He does it whether he's slept or eaten or not clean nappy or not, playing or not. Just a nightmare! Dh is getting really fed up with it too as he's home right now. Just rahhhhh! He hasn't got any teeth yet but his gums don't look sore or bulging so I don't think its that. Its just mega wearing now.
chu I don't blame u for putting L in the garage, what are u supposed to do when nothing else works?
mylife F has reminded me of W and the way he used to/ does drive u nuts, how did u handle it when he was little?

It's just a phase vik, he'll grow out of it

I didn't handle it per se, I just got through each day because that was my only option. I hated every day of it though and it's a lot of the reason I couldn't face having a third, even though deep down I would like to have a bigger family. People tell me I coped/cope well but it really didn't feel like I did at the time, although I do feel I cope with it better now, he has got a lot better since being able to talk. He's just highly strung, that's the best way to describe him politely

Totally, totally agree although for me it's the establishing bf and night feeds that put me off entirely. Weaning is a necessary evil that at least isn't painful, just exceedingly messy and frustrating. I can't even remember how old B is now so don't know when we'll start it but deffo not yet!
L had all her teeth by 2 so I'm a bit irritated that S is only just getting his through.

We had a double meltdown today, L at lunchtime that saw her cry herself to sleep again and S at tea...what a lovely stage to be at...on the plus side B rolled over (and over and over) so maybe that's why he's been so unsettled lately

chu that's great about B rolling! F isn't yet but he does sit up well. Poor L and S, but mostly poor u! Man what are our children trying to do to us right now? Are they still up till 9? And is S still waking uber early? I was up 4 times last night, twice each, dont really know why D is waking but he's easily settled. F is STILL waking for a feed and he has a good 5oz too so its still a lot really. I can't remember how I stopped night feeding D, I'm thinking I should just go with it for a bit longer?
mylife I remember thinking that I don't know how ur coponb

They were up at 0545 this morning and are still awake now...does that answer your question? it's really hacking me off actually.
Both of mine fed at night til I did cc around 11 mths with L, 12 mths with S and i'm resigned to the same with B