October 2011 chattering, eating and on the move!

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New thread!

fuckity fuck.

eva just fell of the bed.

what's the odds?!

put her in cos i was frightened she would fall out the cot. sigh.

she's going to have to sleep on my chest all night!

sassy poor Eva hope she's ok. at her timing though

I mostly feed W on Ella's kitchen/Plum pouches as he refuses homemade purée still

I never weaned him on one new food at a time (still don't)

If he drops his dummy I usually just give it back if we're at home or give it a suck then give it back if we're out

There are more but it's late and I'm tired night all x

@ fuzzy what did NHS24 say?

i pretty much do all of sassy's
i used to bath christopher EVERY night without fail...till i fell pregnant with M now i consider myslef to be doing pretty well if they get a bath every second night.
despite owning a double breast pump that cost me a fecking fortune, i give M aptimil when i'm at work/on a night out etc as i cant be arsed sterilising and building the pump then storing the milk etc etc.
my TV is on from 6am to 8pm and is generally only ever changed between cbeebies and disney junior. except when we're out.
i very rarely play with christopher any more i just dont feel like i have any time.
i was thinking about this today and since moving into my house 4 years ago i would estimate that i've hoovered upstairs less than 20 time
my oven only gets cleaned twice as year if that
and i have a one minute rule re: spoons/teethers/toys dropping in the floor and i dont change this rule when outside
i also sometimes use the same spoon for dinner/desert and lick in between.

god i really am a slob!

I'm a slatten but I'm not confident enough to publicly detail how often I don't change beds, clean the kitchen floor or hoover anywhere that casual visitors might not see...

I have also just woken up to find I'm still sitting on a beanbag in Alex's room and I have a lap full of gorgeous boy and a very numb bum. Since I regularly fall asleep either feeding him or sitting up after a feed (reflux) I'm wondering how I'm ever going to train him to sleep in his bed.

Other than his preference for sleeping in my arms, everything is going fine here.

Yet again we were up at 4.45 this morning . I can feel the exhaustion setting in and the PND rearing its ugle head again. Ds1 is poorly as well, has been complaining of a headache all week which won't shift with ibu/para and has a temp of 38.8. Not sure whether to take him to gp or not/send to school or not. He was off yesterday and perked up as soon as it got past 9am .

All i really want to do is crawl back into bed. Sorry to be so gloomy

Sassy - hope Eva is ok now, I'm sure she's fine and you are the only one suffering x

Ok. Some confessions. When DS1 was
A 14 month old toddler we stayed at my mum's and she only had one stairgate. I was so worn out I couldn't decide whether to out it on the top or bottom of the stairs. Next day he ran for the first time along the Landon and dived head first down them as I watched unable to grab him in time. He's 9 now and I still feel sick thinking about it!

Since Leo still has reflux (getting worse and now in technicolor due to weaning), I always have some barf on the bed. I too have a threshold andy tolerance is pretty high. When we coslept a lot inthw early days he would feed a lot while I slept. Every night his diaper would leak due to constant fluids going in and I only changed the sheets at the weekend. I just had a clean prefolds diaper underneath or if I forgot put one I top of the wet patch.

Clothes always have some barf spots.

I sometimes go 3 days without a shower or bath - even now. It's been better since I started antidepressants though.

rubbish night here too. all 3 babes crying at 2am! bloody wind howling down the chimneys.

lap full of gorgeous boy awh gole thats a lovely description. glad to have you back x

look sorry its not going so well. hope ds1 is better soon. my dd1 suddenly perks up after 9am as well

mrsh meant to say that your fixation with the feeding app made me and at the same time.

best get up, im 30 mins later than normal!

jnice x posts.

im not even depressed or on anti d's but i pretty much do all of yours. i posted on fb once about getting my hair done for 1 st time in a year and jacob barfed on it that same day and i didnt have a bath or change my clothes. i need a bath now as i cant remember when i last had one- not during the week anyway. it was probably the weekend.

unless i go the gym, id only usually bath every 2'days, so on the 3rd day. its not bloody dubai here is it? unless you have a really dirty job who's sweating that much that they need a shower every day

ed i was trying to estimate how many times id mopped kitchen floor since xmas. i concluded more than 4 but probably less than 7! hehehe

and chloe has fell from the 2nd top stair right to the bottom! when she was younger.

lookout hope you have a nice easy day today, will you be able to catch up on sleep over the weekend?

Hi lemmings nice to have you back

I haven't had my hair cut since before W was born (and thats not a particularly unusual gap for me either) have been thinking about getting it done soon though. Trouble is unsung the time and it's flipping expensive! Might have to wait till I'm back at work on full pay.

I just remembered MrsH's post! I still use my app obsessively and only just stopped recording poos and wees on it a few weeks ago

I like your confession list sassy. These are mine:

• We have hardly ever cleaned his teeth. I mean to start, then do once, then forget. Or he'll fall asleep during his last feed and I don't want to.

• I once got poo on my forehead while changing a nappy. In public.

• Before A was born, we were never going to use a dummy. I now totally rely on it. Wish I didn't, but I did.

• The sweater I am wearing right now has baby food and spew on it. Which would be ok if it was from today, but it's not. It's yesterday's.

• once when he was about 6 weeks old I didn't understand why his carrycot was soaked and then realised I had forgotten to change him for 9 hours. I felt terrible.

• I dyed the laundry blue. Sigh.

there that's all I can think of right now ...

On the earlier convo about EBF until older ages, we have noticed that A started waking more in the night, and were told that's because he wasn't eating enough. So now I try and get him to eat as much as possible.

edward am impressed by you cleaning your oven twice a year, that's twice as often as me!

Pene I keep meaning to ask is A still waking up screaming after about 40 minutes at bedtime? There was someone else this was happening to but can't remember who it was, Engels maybe? P is still doing this and I have moved her bedtime back and forth so now all I can think it is is either wind (although she only does a little burp and it doesn't really seem to make much difference) or she is just not in a deep enough sleep and wakes up hungry.

Now P is out of her Wonder Week she is only waking once in the night, which is fab, although I am awake before she wakes in anticipation and ended up doing an hours work at 3am .

Am getting nervous now as heading for now money coming in from me next month and startig to feel a bit panicked. Have bought a lottery ticket though,
.

cheshire no, he just stopped when 2 more teeth broke through! He still wakes at about 9.30 though, without fail. Someone suggested the 40 minute thing is due to them thinking it's a nap, not a big sleep, and then getting scared when they wake up and it's dark??? Not sure though.

P is a day or two older than A wasn't she? (he was born 6/10/11). If so hopefully he's out of his wonder week too as I am tired!

well i think my confessions have shamed me, cos so far i have, hoovered chloes stairs, the landing, the main stairs, dining room and living room. pegged out, put another load on, loaded the dishwasher, took the bins and re cycling out and thats besides breakfasts, nappies, getting us all dressed and milks! just given twins pineapple and eva is having a nap in isobels cot. going to do some ironing before it gets massive with all this washing.

was going to have a walk into town for dp a fathers day present but.......meh.

forgot to say i have dusted and hoovered the fireplaces too.

i clean my oven every week!!!!!

its a brand new range master and i love it

Okay, time to catch up on all the chattiness at the end of the last thread?

Welcome tango

Great ideas for treasure basket fuzzy
We tend to have all half of M?s toys in the box (playpen) and half on the mat ?so we can break our necks-- If he?s crawling around though he?d much rather play with the telephone table, my laptop lead and the plant!

Feeling better pen ? Thurs is DHs daddy day and the past few weeks everytime I come home he?s just handing M over to me, saying how much hard work he?s been all day, and hasn?t done ANYTHING else ? no washing, no washing or tidying up. He seems to think that the fairies will do it

Are you going back full time strawberry ?

scheh if C is drinking his bottles and his food and not throwing up all the time, then I?d be guided by him. I gradually dropped M?s lunchtime bottle when he either wasn?t finishing it, or then wouldn?t eat his solids.

I have exactly the same situation with DH scheh . It?s the little things that drive me crazy ? he?ll finish the loo roll and not put the new one on, or put the new one on and leave the empty cardboard tube just sitting there even though there?s a bin. Same thing with dropping clothes on the floor. And If I?m bathing M and putting him to bed he could do some washing up or tidying but he never does. I?m trying to cut him some slack because of his depression, but sometimes I just have to say ENOUGH! Although last night he prudly informed me that he had cleaned behind the taps in the bathroom ?and I hadn?t noticed-- I think he was expecting a medal for this gargantuan feat.

tango if she?s refusing milk and she has that much food (and is a healthy weight) then I would say she doesn?t need it. M only has 2x6oz bottles (one mid-afternoon and one before bed) plus 6oz with porridge in the morning (and solid snack, lunch and dinner).

Okay, now time to catch up on the shiny new thread!

How are you?

engels confessions (can anyone else hear the Simon Mayo radio one confessions music?)?.

I only bath M once or twice a week, cut it down when his skin was dry in feb and honestly, how dirty can he get?

My oven was so dirty the other week that I nearly set fire to it (I ma have already confessed to this on the thread) . After the smouldering ciabatta incident I did clean my oven, but probably the first time in 2 years

I have never used my top and tail bowl

I have gone to work with barf covered jeans on (well, I did wipe it off)

DH and I are lazy slobs and the TV is pretty much on all evening from 5 til 10. At the moment (with DH recuperating on the sofa) it?s on all day as well, though we?re on the Discovery channel, so maybe slightly educational

Any of M?s food (or spoon) that falls on the floor goes back on the plate and in his mouth (5 second rule!)

I kneeled on Ms hand today

I haven?t mopped my kitchen floor for at least 2 years. (hoover or sweep is fine!)

I?m trying to remember the last time I changed our bedding? (as maybe that will distract you all from my most confession - the poo licking incident)

lookout sorry you?re feeling blue.

sassy sorry you?ve had a bad night. 2am?! Well done for getting so much done today already. Shame is a powerful motivator I think it?s time to go and change my sheets (and I?ll think about mopping the kitchen floor)

Not M waking up Cheshire . Good luck on the lottery

My father?s day handprint card idea has been slightly sabotaged by the fact that DH has been plonked on the sofa all week so I can?t make it without him knowing it. So instead I?ve ordered an online card that says I heart papa, with a pic of M inside the heart. Have to intercept the post today though so he doesn?t see it til Sunday!

Off to physio appt this afternoon with M.

Hi everyone

Remember me? I used to post on the antenatal board and a bit on the post natal but then life got in the way.

My little F was one of the last ones of this thread (7th November). I also have a 22 months old daughter. Both kids are doing fine and I'm really enjoying having two so close together even though it's hard, hard work.

I've been having a shit not so good time lately. DP's dad died earlier this year, I had to have an operation because of a dodgy smear test (it was precancer rather than cancer, thank god) but the wound would not heal for 3 months due to some blood clotting problems that no one thought of, so had to be in and out A&E all the time and was not allowed to lift the children) And our business took a turn for the worse and we are struggeling to make ends meet at the moment.

Still, the sun is shining and we are trying to sort everything out.

I will try and keep up with the thread now and post regularly. Will also post some recent pics in FB group. I haven't been on FB for ages. Hope the group is still going???

Anyway, it's good to be back.

Hi Trudy! We've probably not met as I joined post partum, but welcome back

Ugh. Why does Leo think 4.26 is morning when we have sickout blinds. Almost 1 hour later and he won't go back to sleep (weeps).

Sickout? Wtf! Is that an actual word iPhone?

Blackout of course.

I have never never cleaned an oven. I once cleaned the inside of the glass door but that's only because I was in the nesting phase of waiting for DD

trudy so sorry things have been horrible for you.

we have a 19 month gap which I have been enjoying for the most part

DS was less than every two hours again. He often sleep until 6, but only if someone is holding him from 5 onwards (sometimes earlier). was feeling extra tired this morning but my asthma is playing up so that explains it.

I never clean our oven. Apparently it is self cleaning but I CBA to work out how to set it to do that.