November '05 - babies getting bigger, mummies getting smaller!

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A nice new thread for us all - I know someone mentioned it a few days ago

oops..we watched the show on t.v i made it sound like we were there ..lol

nough blahing drunkenly..
step away from the computer..step away from the computer..

just got told off by dp.
woke him up as I ws playing a c.d and pretty much shouting at my friend whilst blahing on the phone ...lol
the c.d is one O's 'godparents' gave us before he ws born..a complition of songs with 'baby' in the title..
my favourtites being the ronettes - be my baby , the metros - since i found my baby - diana ross and suprems - baby love...
ooh such fun! I ws ctully claning the sash windows at the time so why would he complain..lol!
the friend i was 'loudly talking to' is one of the par that mde the c.d..what a lovely idea. she also told me i am invited to top of the pops in april with her to see her d.p play..wwoooohoo! i apllied for tickets as a teen and never got them
hop someone amzing is on too so I get to see them backstage ..lol..i'm still such a teenger..

Diege & Golden - thanks for the advice. In the end I sorted it a bit by doing home blessing hr Flylady style and whizzed round doing the main things and forgot about the rest!

I'm going away for the week on Monday so am despertely trying to get things done!

Also I should say htat if you want a reply don't text me cos I never turn my phone on

I've been trying to get Caleb used to playing in his playpen twice a day for 10 mins (up till now I was using the bassinette feature) and he hated it - 10 mins of crying everytime! Then DH went to town and wantedto buy him a toy so he got him an activity ring (so far we've been relying on people's gifts for toys). So we squidged it in the playpen and now he sits there the whole ten minutes as happy as anything!

Sarah - hope you're doing OK

BoB, Nova, Diege - how d'you get all these friends in high/famous places!!

Do you guys leave your babies in a creche that has toddlers running around too? I went in one the other day and I thought I'm not taking him in here for quite a while yet!

BoB - sounds as though you had a fab night last night and got very drunk. lol!

Tex - I agree it is scary when they wake up screaming and shouting, I know I used to go back to bed almost in tears. It was probably about a year ago that he started having bad nightmares and that phase probably lasted about 2 wks. I think I made thi time worse though by fussing and trying to make it better. He's ok most of the time now, just has the occasional one, but I think thats probably to be expected with all children. He woke up last week screaming about 'pinchy crabs chasing him down the beach', but he didn't remember anything the following morning. I hope this period of nightmares doesn't last too long for Tobes and you.

Beartime - I've had friends who used a creche for their babies and in each of them the babies were seperate from the toddlers, so maybe you could ask if its normal for them to have them all mixed.

Morning everyone . Oh BOB, your posts did make me laugh ...bet you're feeling it this morning!
Glad you're feeling more in control BEAR ; are you off anywhere nice? [nosey emotion]Agree with GG, all the creches I've known have separate baby room/area; agree a mixed one would be a bit scary (though wait till you have other LOs; impossible to always keep apart at home!).
Need my coffee (though not half as much as BOB does I bet )
Diege

BoB - did I mis-read or were you cleaning sash windows, listening to a CD at midnight last night?

Wedding was great, although had to pull out all the bridesmaid skills as the shop had only given us half the dress - and we only discovered this 30 mins before we were due to leave for the venue!!! Cue cries of 'I'm not walking down the aisle without it'. Thankfully the shop drove like the clappers and made it to the venue in time for a quick change. Then at the reception someone broke their arm falling up the stairs in the toilets!!. Was actually quite nice to have a break from Nat this weekend bad mummy.

Even more exciting is that my friend has just got hold of tickets for Take That and she's taking me - all together now 'relight my fire....'

Evening :)

A quickie before Planet Earth & 24.........

Glad the wedding went well Nova, well done on you pulling out the stops to sort the brides dress! And NOOOOO! Don't feel guilty about enjoying being childless for the weekend - I wholeheartedly agree it's lovely!! How was it being husbandless too? Any flirtations with best men or ushers? Wow! Take That - I used to be madly in love with Mark Owen as a young teenager, sigh.....

Tex, I've been using Ambre Solaire No Streaks bronzer Self Tanning Spray in Light - it's an aerosol so dead easy to use and not bad for a cheapy. Lancaster do a good one which works well on paler skin and also the Lancome Flash Bronzer in Light is good for fair skins too. Have never dared try a salon spray on, my sis went for the lightest one at a local salon and ended up looking like David Dickenson on a bad day!

BoB - You naughty drunken woman hope all is forgiven today! TOTP?! Excellent! Who will be on? Agree with Bear - how do you get all these famous friends?! V. !

Had a good time last night, a good dance
and a few vodkas. Feet are aching today but no hangover, thank goodness. Hangovers and children/babies are a bad combination!

Ooooh and in our kitchen we are currently housing......(apart from a few hardcore ants who have survived several attempts on there pointless lttle lives)........some frogspawn!!!!! It's very gross stuff but my dad's frogs laid it in his pond, but his fish gobble it up so he takes a portion of it out so a few froggies get a chance to survive!!

Oh I can hear the theme music to PE...Bye :) x x x

hi all,
Hope everyone is well!!!!:)
Diege,rodeo & enthusia we must meet up soon. Sorry i have not been around for what seems like ages but so far we are not having a great 2006, first dad died then in the past two weeks my nana (which i am very sad about:( ) and my uncle.So things have been very manic and the kids dont know wether they are coming or going.Josh is doing well he weighs 14lb 4oz and is just below the 25th centile and still fully breast fed hich i am very proud of.Hopefully life here will settle down now all the funerals are over.This eekend is the first one we have spent at home in over a month, on the plus side this has meant we have been able to do some more to the garage conversion its almost finished:):)
well must go and get ready for bed!!!!!
twinkle & josh

Diege,
forgot to ask how do you find the Lush dream cream????? is it any good for nappy rash???
twinkle

Oh Twinkle, sorry things have been so horrible for you lately :( Would be lovely to meet up again soon.

PS How is the donating going? FOR ALL OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW, TWINKLE HAS BEEN DONATING EXPRESSED BREAST MILK TO HER LOCAL MILK BANK FOR SCBU BABIES - HOW BRILLIANT IS THAT??? [GRIN]

x x x

Evening . TWINKLE!!!so good to hear from you, and really sad about your family I'm definitely up for a meet-up soon; maybe the Lowry? Presume you're not joining the mad Northerners in our traipse down south?!! Glad the BFs still going well and Josh is thriving; have they come for your next batch of milk yet, or is it clogging up the freezer again? . Re: dream cream, it cleared up neck/chin rash on Libby's poor chin(s), though this is something I think she will have until she develops a neck . It's brilliant on excema, and has got rid of the few patches she had on back of her knees.Not tried it for nappy rash specifically, as use metonium which is brill' .
Glad you had a great time at wedding NOVA; sounds quite hectic, but fun . Agree with RODEO, you are not a bad mummy at all for enjoying a bit of 'time out'; in fact you will be all the better for it .
RODEO: am a big fan of Lancome flash bronzer when I go for full on tanning, as opposed to body lotion combo ones; the facial gel is esp. good for pale-os like me . Still get best result from spray-gun in salon, but agree they can be a bit enthusiastic with colour, and my feet have often come out deep bovril brown .
DD1 made me smile (in a grimacing way). Seeing me slouched on sofa, she patted my tummy and asked if there was another baby in there. Bad enough, but then asked where my 'bones had gone' and 'would my bones grow back by summer?' . Oh if it were so simple!
Diege

Good evening ladies,

Glad to see you post Twinkle but sorry to hear such sad news. Josh sounds well and congratulations on the continual b/f. Well done!

I have decided after much thought that I will not be returning to work this year. Thanks for the usual support.

Bear - I had to laugh at Flylady comment! A friend put me in touch with their mailing group when I had little time to organise the house when working. I'm finding it quite useful now too.

Z had been sleeping by around 6.30-8pm most evenings. DH sometimes likes to take me out when he's come home from work so I sacrifice Z's 'bedtime' and just hope that he'll fall asleep when out, however, the last few nights we've been arriving home by 2am and getting Z to sleep has been a nightmare. He won't go into the cot and will only settle when cuddled in between us. This is usually fine but I worry we'll squash/smother him when both so tired (God forbid). Does this mean the end to nights out to ensure a peaceful night's sleep?
What do you do?

Thanks and goodnight to you all x

Cha Cha - apparently grobag have travel grobags which have a zipper at the bottom so you can put them in the car seat - that way he can fall asleep in the car and hopefully if you wait till he's in deep sleep you can transfer him to the cot without him waking him up. I don't have one though so haven't tried it. Personally I stay home because I don't want the nightmare of trying to get him to go to sleep!

Twinkle - that's so great you're doing the expressed milk thing. How long does it take, and is it a big hassle? And does every hospital have a milk bank? So sorry about your nan too . Mine died recently as well and I cried at the funeral, though she wanted to die really so she could see grandpa again - he died about 20 yrs earlier

Oh I forgot to reply to the nosy one (I think it was Diege ) that I'm going to a Christian Conference called Word Alive which takes over a Butlins for the week in Skegness. I'm going with DH, Caleb, and another family who had a baby 2 months after us so it should be fun!

Good morning!
at my posts on saturday...sorry!

Nova - glad the wedding was fun..bet it was lovely to have time to yourself.

yes- i was listening to a cd, cleaning windows and talking on the phone at midnight..in fact i was on the phone til 3.30am..lol..and amazingly no hangover!

Rodeo - sounds like you had fun too! frogspawn..ew..my gran always has maggots in her fridge for my grandads fishing trips..yucky..

twinkle- well done on still breastfeeding! and milk donation! wow. i'd never heard of that bfore.

chacha- we take O out at night too..i'd rather spend time out with dp than stick rigidly to a routine sometims...
not sure wht to suggesdt for you and Z though as O seems to fall and stay asleep anywhere..

tex - 'cadbury world' is in birmighham...I bet tobes would totally love it!

had an almost crisis last night. i was making a bottle at 1am and dropped the container..it went everywhere, and had to happen the one time we didn't have spares in the cupbord. luckily i had a ready made carton so gave him that and prayed he didnt wake up again...fortuntely he didnt and DP got some before work this morning..phew.

right best go have a shower while O is happily cooing to himself..

oh..and don't yet know who'll be on totp..prob not any 'big stars' as they tend to prerecord those...

Chacha - we are the flip side of BoB, we stick to a strict bedtime routine and don't go out in the evening, unless we have a sitter. This I much prefer as I still get time alone with DH, just in the comfort of our own house. DH is also not a big 'going out' person because he has to do it so much with work.

Twinkle - You can use Dream Cream on nappy rash, it's what I used before I discovered Baby Balm from Neals Yard. Also very good on skin conditions as Diege said, and I slather myself in it everyday. You can also put a dollop in the bath.

Not sure if I'm or or about the fact that Nat was so good over the weekend? As a mummy I like to think that no-one can care for her as well as me.

Rodeo - when I was at junior school we used to go down to the local woods and get some frogspawn every year and do a project on how it grows. Would love to be able to do that again with Natalie, but the nearest we get are the frogs that the cats bring in.

I tried a St Tropez once - never again. I had it done in a salon, but as I tend to suffer from dry skin, after the first couple of days it went really patchy and made me look like I had a skin disease. I had to scrub it off with an exfoliating mitt. Much prefer pale and interesting, it's less work

Morning All.

Twinkle - so sorry to hear of all your sad losses. sending you hugs and thoughts. On the up side, glad to hear Josh is doing well and you are doing a wonderful thing by donating breast milk.
Chacha - we tend to stay in at night, or go out with friends seperately, or get babysitter or let T stay at his Grandma & Grandads overnight -so no help here sorry. I would rather have him sleeping and have a relaxing evening in!
Am hoping my shade-a-babe will arrive either today or tomorrow! How sad am I, getting excited about such things!!?
Had Fil and his wife (and her grandaughter) for dinner yesterday, they brought their little puppy with them. Mr George - he is so cute - T is fascinated by him! It is nice that they will kinda grow up together. We only have fish, so it is nice that he is exposed to a little doggy!!!!
Well, off to finsih my cup of tea, before it goes cold, again! Anyone else experience the permanently cold tea syndrome!? I make them, start them, but never seem to finish them before they have gone cold!!!

Brownie & Thomas

brownie..aw a puppy!
I want one..but not for a few years I think..
My friend sys it's almost as big a commitment as children, which is probably true.

agree dream cream is fab...and my friend just bought O some burt bees baby oil..it's too yummy!

Okay..big bad mummy confession now..
i think I would officially be classed as having strated to smoke again.
so cross with myself as it's been a year and it's the worst thing i could do.
I've been moning at dp to stop..and then gone and started myself
I had 4 or 5 whilst out on saturday..and occasionlly go stand outside the front door with dp for one when O is in bed at night.

grr. I'm so damn weak.

Please all yell at me and make me cut it out..I can't stand it..what a vile habit!

Twinkle - so sorry about your losses. It's awful when you lose so many people at one time. My Dad died about three years ago and then shortly afterwards we lost my Great Aunt and a very dear friend of ours - it was a very sad time and it takes a long while to realize and accept the grief. Hang in there and bigs hugs from here.

We're all healthy here finally so trying to get back into routine - as much as we had one! Beginning to think about weaning as Nate has just past the 4 months stage, but think we'll wait for another month before I start, but reading my Annabel Karmel in preparation.

Contemplating taking a big holiday here - thinking Mauritius for a week. Am wondering if we're crazy to even consider an 11 hour flight and days in a hotel having to sterilize bottles in a travel kettle ... but it would be fab ...

Golden, JenJam - fancy meeting up this week? Maybe Wednesday?

J xx

BoB - I'm confused, if you know it's so bad/unheathly/expensive why do it? Sorry, if I sound harsh, but you have the power to stop/ not start if you really want to. My very personal opinion is that smoking is a terrible habit that offers no positive benefits to anyone other than the tobacco companies. I'm afraid if words of support are what you want you won't get them from me - sorry.

Nova..don't want support at all!
just want a good telling off as I know how bad it is and can't believe I started again..like I said..a sign of weakness which is not a character trait I want to have.

It's so stupid too..and so inconvenient..when i've had one I have to take a shower and clean my teeth before going near O..not worth it for god knows what 'joy' i get from it.

And the worst thing..i've only done it when drunk or feeling stressed..I don't want/need such a 'crutch' in my life..

So please..all yell at me..I hope to not do it again from now but am so annoyed with myself for doing it at all.

nd lilj..holiday sounds fab! go for it!
what about using those disposable bottles? I think tex told me about them, but I plan to hunt some down for our holiday soon.