Postgraduate brookers - Brooking No Argument for happy, healthy and sleeping DCs..

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New thread time!

Hmmm, my arse seems to be well and truly stuck to this sofa. Someone please make me get up. At the very least I have to go and turn the sprinkler off.....

brooking lots for us all to be less grumpy and fall out less often. :(

so DS1 seems to be in the habit of doing his evening poo in the potty. that seems good? he even carried on playing naked and went back to the potty for a wee. he was a bit determined about the poo, refused to go to bed till he produced it

i guess we'll just keep at it.

vin de France for us tonight, we stopped at the supermarché beside the tunnel so it was a nice Chablis tonight. (7 euros, i splashed out on that one)

I have a dentist appointment this morning, and I'm so petrified I thought I'd sneak on here and ask if any No Brookers could spare a little Brooking No Argument for a non-baby issue? :( As I have such a fear of the dentist I'm having sedation with the treatment (although sedation just makes you more compliant for the dentist, you're not unconscious and there's no additional pain relief from it :( :( :( ) So DD will be living on frozen ebm for the next 48 hours, which will be very strange! I feel bad that she'll be on the standard bm from several days ago, and not the new super-watery bm that my body must be producing at the moment in response to the heatwave. At least she'll be having it from the fridge though, so it'll be nice and cool for her.

Apologies for being so self-obsessed in this post. I'm just so utterly terrified of what's to come. I promise to put on a less mememe post soon, with lots of No Brooking for everyone in need.

But now the heatwave is gone so all good :)

No brooking for you scream - all will be fine. And then no more dentist for ages :)

Good luck x

Does listening to music help? My friend is scared of the dentist and she finds it easier to have her ipod to distract her a bit. She also has a great dentist and they've come to an agreement that if she raises her hand, he stops to let her calm down again before she tells him she is ok to continue. She changed dentist as her last one wasn't prepared to make these concessions and while she is still scared, she finds it much easier to cope with

It was 10 feeds in the end yesterday if anyone is interested I doubt it

Good luck Scream brooking for you xx

Thanks for the No Brooking, it clearly worked! Due to an admin error we've had to reschedule the appointment! Woohoo! Plus, because of my CA road trip followed by my trip to Bordeaux, my new appointment will be late October! Double woohoo!!! I'm now off to have lunch with my brother who lives near the dental hospital. So my day has improved dramatically!!!

Dream, I know what you mean about not being able to do the things you used to with DH. We're lucky in that we can still do some of the things (mainly due to lots of people wanting baby cuddles!), but it's still hard - and with three little ones it must be so much more difficult for you! Still, when they're bigger you'll al be able to do all those things together, and it'll be wonderful! We've been married for about the same amount of time as you - almost 3yrs (together 9). It's amazing how the dynamics have to shift when little ones come along...

Scream, brooking lots for you. I'm also impressed you have enough frozen ebm for 48 hours - it would take me forever to build up that much!

Rang bells for 3mins this morning, and now a nice quiet day at home - housework and baking hopefully. Iz is just drifting off, so hopefully I can tackle that mountain of ironing...

Oh, a quick question - any tips for moving LOs into their own rooms? Iz has had a growth spurt and has suddenly got very long - and only just fits in her basket still :( Sadly we don't have enough room for her cot in our room, so she'll have to go into her own. Not sure how to approach it though - do we just put her down in there one evening and hope for the best? Trying to put ot off for as long as possible, but it won't be long until she'll have to make the move!

Musical when we moved ds1 I started putting him down for daytime naps in the cot 3 or 4 weeks before he started in there at night, just so he was used to it all. Will probably do the same with ds2.

Hey, you know how I said he'd put no weight on in a fortnight? Well is it possible he'd just grown in length instead? I noticed last night he's hardly any room left in his 0-6mth sleeping bag and all of a sudden he looks longer in the pram too? Because
he's been wearing rompers etc I haven't noticed it in sleepsuits / trousers.

Hope you enjoy the rest of the day Scream xx

Will try that - thanks Biscuits! There are a couple of flaws to my plan - for one, we don't have any curtains in there yet - that's a task for the weekend (although not too sunny in there, so might be ok for naps). Secondly, she doesn't nap anywhere that well really, other than in the sling, so will have to work on that too! Might not be able to keep her in the moses basket for 3/4 weeks if she gets much longer, but will try a transitional type thing. She's already napped in there a couple of times, though never for that long..

Scream, hurrah for the admin error!

You could always try putting the moses basket in the cot to help get her used to the room if you like. I can't see that being a problem. That way she still has the familiarity of the basket but has a chance to get used to being on her own

Oooh I've heard other people suggest that - sounds like a good plan. Wouldn't have worked with the crib so well . I do think it's nice to give them a chance to get used to their new view

biscuits I am sure babies grow long sometimes instead of out,I am sure D has too! He is on 50th for length and only 2nd for weight.
All those going through bumpy patches in their marriage, hold on in there! DH and I have been married 21 years next week and we've got 3 children! :) this too shall pass!
I popped into Mothercare today but there selection of highchairs was a bit pants. I will have to make a trip to the big shop in Southampton.plenty of time yet.

I wish I could grow taller instead of outwards

I think that mothercare is a bit pants for everything wants :) Like the ELC just down the way though.

I was going to say moses basket in cot but I did it biscuits's way too with dd2. With dd1 I just dumped her in the cot one night and away we went but she was the easiest baby in the world apart from not being keen on milk.

Just had a phone call to say my Nan passed away this morning:(

Oh Wants

So sorry to hear that - thoughts are with you xx

Oh dear wants, such sad news :( . Is it a shock or expected? Sad either way

I just put DD in her cot, in her own room, the day the mattress was delivered, so 9 weeks i think. She loved it! She'd always hated the basket though.

I've had a really rubbish night and day. S so bad last night Dh took him out in the buggy at 3am. that bad kind of night, with both. Today DD has fallen over, grazed her knees, really scraped and grazed her nose but worst of all, broken her front tooth :( :( :( . Took her to the dentist, he just said soft diet for a few days, calpol, they might be more sensitive to hot/ cold for a bit but nothing more serious done and nothing to do but wait for the adult tooth- which bearing in mind she's still 1 will be a while. She'll be starting school etc with her broken tooth. It seems so important now, hopefully I'll have regained some perspective by the morning :( . Depends whether I get any sleep of course, B was terrible last night too, why's he joining in?!.

Oh, agree with growing lengthwise not plumper too biscuits.

And good you've deferred the dentist terror scream . Maybe DD went for you . Hmm

wants so sorry about your man.

dream your poor dd. She is in the wars. DS1 has knackered front teeth and I've got to wait until his adult ones come through to see if they are affected too. It appears no one can say whether it us because he was so prem or because of the hideous amounts of drugs he had in the nicu. Either way not much can be done but they look really bad and it hits home when other little children ask why he has yellow teeth. makes me want to weep a bit

Oh blimey hawthers, was he 31 weeks you said? I remember you said the size of a 26 seeker though... :( I will Brook No Argument his adult ones will be just fine. And even if they aren't there'll be something can be done about teeth though won't there? If it bothered him. And if he's discharged by paeds he is clearly developing fine which is so much more important and shows how amazing he is, and you as his mum. hats off to you . How is your relative with the diagnosis of IUGR doing?

Oh dream big hugs for the boys at night and poor dd. Rubbish. Hope you have a better night and wake up feeling better.

I am reading 'Colic Solved' at the moment and it is the only thing in the world making me feel less lonely. A's reflux has made me feel so isolated and different somehow but this book is weirdly helping a bit (although we're already on the treatment they recommend). She's been really bad again today. i hate it :(. maybe it is just the heat or something? Maybe S, B and A are just anti Olympics? :)

:( for wants nan as well, so sorry to hear that wants.

Sorry to hear about ds's teeth too hawthers.

Out of everything that DS1 could have ended up with, I know we got away very lightly and if the big teeth are the same, we'll get involved in some dental treatment to help. Just feel for him as kids can be cruel.

Not good news for relative, their baby didn't make it. And just been contacted by my cousin who has a friend with the same condition asking about chances of survival. Unfortunately given their fugures think its almost impossible to end well.

Life is really shit sometimes.

Nan had severe dementia,had a fall last week but everyone thought she was on the mend. She was sitting up in bed smiling at everyone on Thurs and then passed away on Friday morning.:(
On a brighter note my brother's GF had her baby this morning. Grandchild number 8 for my Dad but first girl! I can go and look at girly stuff now.
Sorry to hear about rubbish night and bashed up DD dream ds1 really badly grazed his face at that age( missed his teeth though) the day before we had photo session booked!