October 2011 chattering, eating and on the move!

[strawberrypenguin]

New thread!

lookout yay sleep

lp gastro sounds nasty glad your getting treatment now though

outnumbered nice name! I'll try not to get too confused

Thanks strawberry! I will keep using my old name to sign-off for a bit and use on FB too

lookout glad you had a better night. I too class 5 hours as a good night . Sorry to hear about your day yesterday ((hugs))

pebble glad to ear you're being treated for Gastro probs, and hope you're all better soon.

Sorry but have forgotten all other updates and on iPhone - brain like a sieve

(Jnice)

DS only woke 3 times last night, I got off just after 12 and got a 4 hour stretch, I feel great even if it is for one night only

Yay Penguin

pebble hope you feel better soon

lookout and penguin hope you get another good night tonight

J has ANOTHER cold! Poor little thing has just got over the last one. And poor me having night wakings!

I also forget who is who, partic on FB. I have the worst NN of them all, so uninspired.

Hope you all enjoy the sunny weather today

I get confused too!
I'm not a new one - new to fb though, I was in the original thread (mumtoobee) but kept dropping off for months on end as I couldn't keep up.
I've added M's name to the 'Name' doc on fb, so hope that helps a bit.

I'm ebf too, for whoever asked.

Not sure if M will take a bottle, I really want to try it though as occasionally I would like some time without her - for the last 7.5 months I have only left her for just over an hour on 3 occasions!

Me and my DH have a theatre trip booked at the weekend and will be leaving her with the ILs, I'll b/feed her before we go and if she gets hungry they can give her some food. I feel nervous about it though, and she's never been in a car without me, and the ILs will be driving her around. I woke up in the middle of the night worrying about it, it's crazy what your tired mind can worry about! She's so little and dependent on me still.

Pebble - glad you're getting things sorted, I thought you were going to announce you were pg too!

Em poor J (and poor you) hope the cold clears up quickly.

Pink theatre sounds lovely! In sure all will be well but I would be anxious too. Anything new like that sets me off. It helps me to talk to myself in terms of all being fine, kind of go through the scenario in the positive.

Sorry, forgot to sign off (Jnice)!

may the good nights sleep continue for you all, and i hope everyone is feeling better.
last night was horrible, but for once it was me doing all the waking not so much N!! i seem to have whatever lurgey he had at the weekend, and went to bed at 8 last night, all shivery and achy. he slept til 11, so i got up, BFed him, decided i couldnt be arsed with getting up again before alarm went off (tbf i was a bit wobbly at this point and still shivering away), so i brought him into bed with me and booted DP out into the spare room :) unfortunately i was at work today so no rest there, but off tomorrow and its Ns nursery day so i plan to drop him off in the morning and have some me time (watching a ton of stuff i have sky plussed).

you never know pink she may surprise you and take a bottle. am still amazed that N has taken bottles of ebm at nursery, and today DP gave him 3 bottles while i was at work. until last week he was a bottle refuser! ive found that if he hasnt taken that much he'll feed like crazy off me when i'm back. know what you mean about worrying though, with them being so small, i'm the same. must have rang the nursery 5 times the first day i was back at work! hope you have a nice time, i'm sure she'll be fine :)

Oh no ips, I hope you feel a lot better tomorrow. Your day of sofa and tv sounds like a recipe for getting well to me!

pink, I hope your theatre trip is a success, I'm sure it will be. Try not to worry too much!

Just popping on to say hello really ! Hope you're all enjoying the same great weather we are here in Glasgow, it's been beautiful here.

Wishing us all a good night's sleep!

I am happy to leave DS for three hours now and he is still a bottle (and water cup) refuser. Did a first aid course tonight at the children's centre. I got a lot more out of it than I thought it would.

so turns out DS is 37 weeks which with the attempts to get moving explains why me and DH are fed up with having to hold him the ENTIRE time.

Although to be fair he lasted a while earlier when sat outside on a towel eating rice cake bits loaded with hummous. Managed to fit in a painting session with DD while he did that.

do you think this is why we seem to spend all our time carrying N about PA? he refuses to be put down, which is a new thing. bit of a pain if i'm in on my own and am desperate for the toilet.....
thankyou mrsH, still feel like i've been run over today. and having major attack of the guilts for taking N to nursery this morning while i'm off :(
i keep telling myself that he's having a much better time there instead of at home listening to me coughing my guts up/sneezing/generally whinging. and its paid for, so if i kept him home we'd lose the £40 we paid for today. still feel hugely guilty though.........

im too tough love to be carrying them around. if i needed the toilet and they cried when i put them down- they would just have to cry.

it does have its downside though- eva will not fall asleep on me. thats because i put her straight in her cot if i think she looks sleepy. plus side though, she very rarely cries at this. she just goes straight to sleep. suppose you cant have everything, can you?

emm hope j's cold clears up.

pink hope you have a lovely time at the theatre (and enjoy it instead of worrying)

ips id feel guilty too if i was just off work, but you are ill. prob better for him to be away from you. get well soon. x

DS has a sibling so if he has to be left to cry, he has to be left. I also put him down if I need the toilet. Clingy phases are normally just that, phases. If you know it's unusal behaviour and there is a wonder week or some other development then it is a lot easier to just ride it for a week or so.

DS isn't quite there with the crawling, he has one more week to get it before his sister was walking. I think he'll make it, he is pretty close.

He was his normal 2-3 hours last night and easier to put down after feeds.

I've lost who was ill etc. but hope you are ok.

No need to feel guilty about the nursery day, you had to recover.

argh! just spent 30 mins telling twins to lie down, every time they attempted to get out of their cot. eventually came downstairs, sat down less than 5 mins and someone rang the bell and knock knock knocked on the door!!!!! ffs!

i can hear them running amok now! christ on a fecking bike............

i wouldnt bother but its one of the neighbours who knows i have 4 kids. stupid cow.

and gues what- dp is away and im on my own again.

rant rant rant.

havent had chance to look at the wonder week chart yet, but figured thats where we must be with the clingyness - nursery staff said he wanted lots of cuddles today (he gets plenty there too, its a fab nursery). we're just going with the flow on that one...

just realised i made it sound a bit like i take N to the toilet with me! no, he gets put down, and generally screams til i get back (unless i can bribe the cat into sitting in front of him for entertainment purposes :) )

still feeling rotten, will probably ring in sick tomorrow if i feel like this in the morning. poor N is still having bother with his bowels and the dr has given us movicol for him. its not going well, have put a lengthy post (rant!) in childrens health to get advice on how i can get the stuff in him as you have to make it up to 62ml with water. not a easy thing to get a 8mo to take!

em how are you and J feeling? better i hope

do link it ipswitch I don't think I get 60ml into DS either

sassy would it help if we all shouted/gave passive agressive stares at your DP as well?

sassy hope kids are sound asleep now.

Took us ages to settle W tonight, poor thing has a cold (which he's passed on to me) and is teething I think. Screamed for ages, DH and I tag teamed till he fell asleep, then he woke up just as we sat down with food luckily dropped back off pretty fast though.

ips and anyone else who's ill hope you feel better soon.

trust me penguin your stares/shouting would be whispers and smiles compared to my aggressive rants!

its his job that keeps him away. he's a field service engineer for the north west, but sometimes he has to go further a field and the hq is in telford, so it makes sense for him to stay in a hotel if its more than a 2 hour drive there and back.

im not too thrilled about it though, as he came out the navy so he could be home every night. grrrrr.

we have an in joke that his other woman is making demands on his time but he says he can barely put up with me

'you know where the door is' (my usual response)

hehehe can you believe we have our 10 year anniversary in oct?!

feck knows how that happened.

the longest 10 years of my life!

one of these days, i'll say something nice, i promise. ha!

sassy we have our ten years in August! Feels like longer

SP E has a cold to. He fed to sleep fine but keeps moaning and coughing in his sleep. I think he's teething too, four, FOUR, runny nappies today, red cheeks, loads of dribble and the sniffles. Once again I can't see anything under the gums though!

Poor thing has also developed a really nasty rash/flare up of eczema around his chin and mouth. I've been feeding him soya yogurt like there's no tomorrow once I found out how much he liked it, but seems like he's allergic to that as well as the dairy . He is sniffling and itching poor mite. When he's awake he's surprisingly chirpy but he keeps crying in his sleep. May be in for a bad night so will have to be off to bed.

Hope all who are poorly get well soon, all who have trips out enjoy themselves and all who's dh's spend too much time at work pull their fingers out and get home asap!

sassy hope the twins have gone to sleep now? Damn neighbours was she knocking for anything good?

ips hope you're feeling better? I think you should stay off work tomorrow.

I am finally feeling a bit more human and apart from a cough Elijah is much better so hoping for a better night tonight fuck I've just jinxed it haven't I?

Looked after my friends 2.5yr old little girl today, gave me a taste of what it would be like with two, not only did I survive but I liked it! Roll on October when I can start ttc again....

X post lookout hope you get a good night