October 2011 chattering, eating and on the move!

[strawberrypenguin]

New thread!

Thanks fuzz, I could be making it up but fingers crossed!

BB3 glad everything went well x

mama your DS2 sounds lovely

fuzzzy ouch to your teeth, sound horrible for you

bb3 glad it went well. he sounds adorable too.

scheh i read it that your smear follow up was tomorrow, but if it was today- i hope you're ok.

engel it doesnt make you a bad mother for choosing a ff seat. the variables are sooooo massive its hard to say that ff would come off worse. you would have to be travelling at the same speed, have the same style of car, hit something at the exact same angle etc to be 100% able to compare. and i dont suppose that anyone on here as looked into which make of car passes the ncap car crash test dummy thing and specifically bought that one? so we must all be bad mothers then.

fuzzy ditto ouch to teeth. ive still not registered since moving here last jan.

now that makes me a bad mother.

out at the pink shoes.

sassy was not saying I (or anyone else) is a bad mother for buying a ff car seat, far from it. We have a ff car seat and are very happy with it. Was trying to say (very inarticulately) that it's easy to feel guilty that you're not doing the "right" things (and what is "right" can depend on who you're talking to, what research you're reading etc) and that making your own choice based on your own personal circumstances and feelings, whether it's rf/ff, home birth/hospital birth, bf/ff, blw/purees, and feeling comfortable with your choices is more important iyswim

fuzzzy ouch ouch ouch. My wisdom teeth are still hiding. Went to the dentist last week and DH has a cavity (which he has to get filled tomorrow) while I always get told what good teeth I have (which seems to surprise my dentist who seems under the impression that all Brits have awful teeth).

bb3 great news

went to look round nursery earlier for "intake". M starts in 6 weeks time! He must be huge, the manager asked if he was nearly 1 yet!

engel that was very articulately put.

i have to say on the last 2 pics on fb, the one of him in the bath and pulling himself up, he does look older. i think he's tall, is he not?

i went to my mums today and she has put all the photos that she has ever taken of the kids onto an hard drive for me. was lovely looking through them. i hadnt seen some of them. i did delete one bloody awful one of me though on xmas day! but it was a true horror! i left a few were my eyes are closed or im pulling a funny face mid talking or something- but that one had to go!

sorry engel just read my other post back after reading yours and saw it in a different tone, ie, that i was thinking you had called people bad mothers for choosinf ff. eek! thats not the tone it was written in!

i was writing it, defending you, ie, engel YOU are not a bad mother just cos you chose ff.

iyswim?

i dont mind upsetting people if my intention is to do so- but im mortified if it was never thus, and i did so.

sorry.

Brilliant news bb3 fingers crossed he improves lots from here on.

Slob night for us, C had a jar, we're having KFC in front of a DVD. DP wants us to move to US, fine by me I said!

Colposcopy tomorrow am. DP going to work from home and take me.

bb3 great news about his hearing! A worthy excuse for chocolate and DVDs. Well done for being so brave

mama I didn't realise you also had a teenage ds (I hardly know who has what babieslet alone siblings, sorry!) I admit to only having worked with primary SN kids, I think it's pretty amazing that your ds stands up for his friend. You must be proud of him even while you worry!

fuzzzy i love my dentist. I actually look forward to going to see him . I had root canal work done a few years ago and I really think toothache is one of the worst pains in the world. Hope you get it all sorted out soon.

Sche am of your KFC. Is that wrong? Dh has still never had KFC (he's French) and I keep threatening to get some. Must do it one day... Hope tomorrow goes ok. Will be thinking of you

bb3 that's fantastic news. You must be so relieved. X

lookout ds2 is 5 but starts school in September so I imagine he will quickly grow out of the pink phase too. I will be slightly sad about that though

Bb3 glad to hear K is through the op and already seeming better

Scheh all the best for the procedure hon x

Trying to remember what else is goingon for everyone!

L is a feeding monster, still around 12 feeds a day including 3 solid meals. But through the night he is waking every 2 hours despite us teaching him to self soothe, he mostly goes into coy awake now. I hoped it would sort itself out but things appear to be getting worse not better. It might be time for us to force the night weaning

Anyone else still night feeding?

sassy you didn't upset me, I just though you hadn't read my post properly no offence taken at all (and yes iswym )

M is quite tall (or "long" as they say in Dutch, always makes me chuckle when discussing height "Your DH is rather long isn't he engel ?" ). He's above average height (no talk of centiles over here, so never know what you lot are on about )

That's lovely of your mum sassy I must back up my photos again. I have all of mine, DHs and my parents photos of M, I always copy them straight onto my laptop. Have a best bits folder and have been printed them every few months to put into his baby book and send to my GPs.

I want kfc now

lookout NEVER HAD KFC! These continentals, eh? (DH is a Dutchie) One of my fondest childhood memories is going to the shopping centre with my GPs. My GM would always have a spud-u-like (do they evn exist anymore?!) and me, my DB and my GF would have some fingerlickingly good chicken. hmmmm...chicken...

All the best for tomorrow scheh

fuzzy hope your toothache goes soon and if you need wisdoms out that it goes smoothly x

Had injuries here . Last night before bath time Jessica feel down hard on plastic box and bruised her bottom and today at the infant school induction she burnt her fingers I had a very hit coffee (burnt my tongue) and had J in one arm and coffee out of reach (so I thought) in the other. And I was talking to PTA and she stretched really far and fast with tips of fingers. She cried lots and I held hand under tap for ages. No blistering thank goodness and only a bit red. Felt like worst mother ever. Samuel went to class for an hour by himself with his class. The main event was he did a poo and then stuck his bum in the air for the teacher to wipe . She didn't and headaches himself

KFC not LGC bloody stupid phone

Outnumbered still night feeding here. He can self soothe no worries during the day but when he wakes at night for some reason he needs a boob . Atm it is 2-4 times a night but a few weeks ago it was only once . No idea why the regression but it is killing me! And 12 feeds a day??? How do you get anything else done??!!

Mama you are obviously mad. KFC rocks. End of. When I was 18 months old my dad was making a pot of tea and left me sitting on the worktop next to the teapot while he turned around to answer the phone.You can guess the next bit. I had skin grafts on my legs and still have the scars, though they are very small now. You're at least not that bad . Also lol at bums in the air for wiping!!

Engels they just don't do take away in France like we do here. But that's probably a good thing! I have had the best ever take away kebabs from North African restaurants in France though. I miss them...

scheh hope tomorrow goes ok, thinking of you x

mama poor J and poor you! It's amazing how fast they are! W has a thing for tea cups, they hold an apparently irresistible draw for him so I always have to be really careful with them, luckily he's not managed to grab one yet (he's come v close though)

I'm currently sat at home on my own after my BIL phoned to ask my DH to take my SIL (DHs sis) to a&e as she has a uti that she's known about all day but has only now decided to do something about (she's 21wks pg) that she's taken a precious part of our 'us' time but cant really vent in RL without looking like a complete bitch and making DH feel guilty. (some of you may remember I have SIL issues anyway which aren't helping me be rational about this)

W learnt to pull himself up today! He's very pleased with his new skill and practiced it a lot with a big :o on his face.

Ouch lookout. Burns scare hell out of me. My mum got scalded by black tea and I remember seeing her leg literally shedding skin.

Another night feeder here too. Dreamfeed from anytime now till around 11. Then she has been waking around 4 and sometimes before. I'm not worried, she will stop when ready and as se gets older, she can help herself . She does feed a lot less than I remember ds2 tho. I think boys may be greedy boobie monsters

strawberry go W clever boy. Love how proud they are of themselves. Te SIL of be too, as I'd say it too . She should have seen about it earlier and why a&e and not maternity unit? Is she usually quite dramatic. (I know I'm a bitch ). I just hate it when someone tries to exert their needs over others when they are adults and quite capable of helping themselves.

Arrghh sorry grammar and spelling screwed up again

mama :o yep SIL can def be a drama queen, no particular reason for a&e suspect they will have been sent round to the mat unit when they got there.

Poor J mama :( I'd be in bits, is she ok?

fuzzzy re: wanting to be carried, that's what C has been like constantly since 5mo! He's a lot better now though. He flaps his arms up and down hitting his belly when he wants picking up, and now can drag himself upto me/come over in the walker and pull up my legs screaming to be held.

C a nightmare all day, lost my temper this eve and shouted "shut up!" :( he didn't hear though, was screaming too loud. His scream is ear piercingly painful. Just because I took him out the bath. Then he wouldn't go to sleep (even though was exhausted) and screamed for about half hour. I tried going in, picking up, but didn't make a difference so just left him to it, he's asleep now. Didn't have any other option, he was screaming (not crying, full on "I am being murdered" temper tantrum) out of tiredness, so couldn't bring him downstairs as he wouldn't play, and lights/tv would keep him awake.

Hate anyone who says you shouldn't leave q baby to cry, they have clearly never met Cyrus. He always cries before falling asleep, screams/contorts body. Regardless of whether he's in cot/car/pram/co sleeping/rocked in arms. We co sleep every morning and every day I have to pin him down whilst he screams to stop him kicking my C sec scar. It's just a habit now, I can't remember him ever going to sleep without at least 5-10minutes RAGE.

Sorry, long moan before bed.