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TooImmatureTurtleDoves · 28/08/2012 13:42
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Biscuitsandtea ·
05/10/2012 18:37
All good advice from Hawthers there Pomme. DS1 also took forever his own sweet time to get poos. I used chocolate button bribery. And in the whole thing of 'staying calm' (yeah, right 
) I tried to be zen like, no telling off and just made him stop whatever he was playing with and come and wait while I washed out the pants and tidied it all up. It wasn't exactly done as a 'punishment' more just as a consequence of not bothering to go to the toilet.
I did then one day find him making Roary the Lion wait by the sink 'because he'd had an accident' 
Also I was worried when I started the chocolate button bribery that he would still be expecting a button for a poo when he was 15 but he sort of forgot about it in due course and it just sort of petered out. We also tried a reward chart where he got a treat for every 5 stickers. No negative marking for missing, just a sticker for every success and a treat at 5 stickers (or else it was too 'delayed gratification'.
Can I just say as well, when you said she wouldn't poo in the toilet or potty I assumed you meant she was constipated, which I take to be a measure of how much the horrors of potty training fade so it is no longer at the front of my every waking thought mind.
Oh and definitely 
, and more . I was pg when we were potty training and would have made it much more bearable! In fact I shall have tonight as a show of solidarity with you
ScreamIfYouWantToGoFaster ·
05/10/2012 21:39
Apologies for the me me me, but I just had the most AMAZING experience with DD! (I rang DH to tell him there had been an unprecedented event and his first guess was "Speech?" At 5 months old....?!?!)
What actually happened is, after DD waking every 2 hours last night and consuming vast quantities of milk each time, I decided to load her up with food this afternoon. I maxed her out on milk. Then I fed her half a jar of chicken and rice puree (spoon-fed, to make sure she actually ate it). Followed by some homemade sweet potato chips, which weren't much of a hit. I then did her bath followed by some baby massage. The SHOCK event was that DD fell asleep during the massage! (7.30!!!) She's never even been close to that before. THEN I transferred her to her cot and put her sleepsuit on and she STAYED ASLEEP! She's actually still asleep now!! There has never been an evening remotely like this in history of the Scream household!!! DD usually goes to bed after 11!
Sorry, I know it's an anticlimax to anyone with a baby who doesn't stay up all evening every evening, but for me it's like the second coming!
My sympathies to all with poo problems. I do hope the Dreamy twins get better asap, and Pomme's DD1 gives up the poo-in-loo strike! Dream I am No Brooking like a crazy person for you to NOT have mastitis! That would just be unfair to the point of lunacy .
I hope all the housework issues improve in NoBrookerVille, I'm starting to feel like I'm stuck on a treadmill of housework as well. It's just that when I would normally prioritise DD, or 'me time', instead I'm having to religiously keep up with my tidying/cleaning while I'm at my parents' house. DD made almost no mess with dinner tonight just dumping all the chips on the floor under her chair and getting the puree all over the chair it was all confined to her immediate area, and my parents were still amazed at the amount of mess!
Hawthers how did you escape the car in the end?!
Right, I'm off to antenatal to see what the news is over there! I'm No Brooking that there's a new member on their way...
jaggythistle ·
06/10/2012 15:20
ds was 2.10 by the time we started dream. I'm happy that we did it when it suited us rather than worrying about peer pressure. DS1's 2 best wee pals are both younger and were trained first. although one will only ever poo in his night nappy.
DH eventually took boys out for a walk and they're out in the back garden now. washing mountain has been conquered at last. could do with some ironingtime now...
i expect DH wants to come in and cook though, i bought him a recipe book as a get well soon present and he's bought ingredients. he'll have no idea what time it is just now though!
i think we're on 5 or so poos too, i can't imagine how you're still sane with 2 bums to look after dream. how's the rash? i forgot to ask.
i reckon DS2 will be just after 6 months for food. I'm going to move him into DS1's room, then wait a few nights before starting the food.
work in 5 weeks. Eek!
scarletfingernail ·
06/10/2012 17:42
I hate getting back from holiday, that's 6 loads I've done so far. DS is remarkably better. His appetite only came back yesterday, but he is really making up for it now. He's still very snotty and has the awful sounding cough, but at least he's no longer complaining of anything hurting.
So much to catch up on, where to start?
Scream A is adorable, beautiful pictures. I was almost tempted to put one on of me but then bottled it. How does this FB group thing work? Can everyone else in the group see everything about you on FB? Will your FB friends be able to see that you're in the group?
Jaggy also lovely photos. Your boys are so cute. Somehow I had you pictured as Val McDirmid
Sorry! Must be the Scottish connection. Weird what images our names conjur up Dream sorry to hear about all the poo still
My DH infuriates me when he's doing something for DD. "Can you just get her a bib?" "Can you just get me a nappy?" How does he think I do it all on my own all day? He also cannot cope on his own in a room with both DC and will stand and wait for me to finish whatever I'm doing to take over with one of them.Pomme not sure about the poo thing. I forget how old she is? Are you able to ask her?
Oh and re the feeling down about everything chat going on the other day, yy. DH's expression when he walks in from work to the house being a tip simultaneously makes me want to cry with feeling like a complete failure and punch him in the face for being a twat.
I'm sure there's more I've forgotten about, will probably be back later.
Biscuitsandtoffeeapples ·
06/10/2012 19:14
I feel your pain with the washing Scarlet. The only thing worse than the post holiday washing was the washing backlog when the washing machine broke - at least I'd had a holiday before the holiday backlog! Mind you it could have been worse if the machine has broken during the clearing of the holiday backlog....
On the DH / not getting stuff done discussion I am actually feeling oddly smug today. We're just putting them to bed and the house looks like a bomb site downstairs. DH is a bit miffed about it and having to tidy it up once they're in bed, but it makes me feel mildly smug to be able to say 'look, even with two of us, it looks like this. No wonder it's like that when I'm here on my own'.
Ha ha, I'm just feeding DS2 and DH is singing to ds1. For the second night on the trot ds1 is complaining about dh's pronunciation of 'Roley' 
. DH says it as in 'row-ley' and ds1 keeps correcting him to say it more like 'roll-ey'
Cheeky bigger - DH just came in and said 'why didn't you put DS in the sleepin bag before you fed him. That was a hit silly wasn't it' . Now maybe it was (not that I would tell him this) but I don't normally put him in the grobag before feeding at bedtime maybe I should. I suggested that of DH thinks he is better able to manage the bf side of things he is welcome to take over that element.
As punishment for DH I'm now sitting here while DS is really dozing on me and feeding on and off and DH is starting the washing up mountain - ha ha
So, I am writing a strongly worded letter to the universe about the poo state of affairs in Brookersville - it is simply not acceptable - do you hear me universe? Hmmm? Do you?
I've forgotten everything else - Sorry
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Biscuitsandtoffeeapples ·
06/10/2012 19:22
I like the idea of the fb group but my issue is that after I was outed to my sis I wouldn't want her to catch on to any familiar names in my friends iyswim, or as friend suggestions or whatever. Which is a shame . But maybe I could be in the group then if I didn't friend everyone (sorry Too ). It's such a shame though buy I'd be anxious about friends of friends etc so could probably join the group only without being proper friends iyswim
TooImmatureTurtleDoves ·
06/10/2012 19:39
Pomme, that's brilliant! Well done A! Did you wake up in the middle of the night and then go, hang on, there isn't any crying?
Scream, your evening sounds great - how was the night after the 6oz bottle? at your DH guessing speech for a 5 mo. My mum had a dream the other night that M was talking in sentences and everyone was amazed. Don't think talking will be coming for some time yet, even if I like to think that some of her cries are beginning to sound like 'Mummy'. There are definitely lots of M-noises in them. [deluded]
M slept from 8.30pm to 1.30am, which was the longest stretch she's done in a long time. Then she was up at 4ish, 6, 6.30 and got up at 8.20. I get a birthday lie-in tomorrow, though! And at the 4am wake-up, she was wide awake and cooing after her feed; I put her back in her cot and went back to bed and she went off to sleep by herself and didn't wake up again until 6.
NB: I wrote the above this morning and then went out without pressing post. I've probably cross-posted with everyone by now!
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