Brooking no argument for babies who sleep, eat, smile and behave perfectly at all times. Yeah right!

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New thread, here we go...

I'm far to scared to post anywhere else on MN apart from sometimes in recipes / baking (to ask for help of course rather than offer any help!). You ladies are so lovely that you've spoilt me too much - I couldn't deal with the meanies elsewhere

And I've read your thread and I think you make an excellent point

I tried to purchase medicinal this morning, only to be told off by the checkout lady in Tesco - it was only 9.40 am. Oops. Stupid licencing laws. Then I never got around to going back for it.

Total bedtime fail here - we got home v late, by which time M had been asleep in the car for 2 hours. Had leisurely dinner/painted kitchen walls (Farrow and Ball Plummet, anyone?)/supper/bath and then first attempt at bed. All was going well until M suddenly gagged at the boob and started choking. After a few minutes of coughing and spluttering she coughed up a piece of apple peel from her supper. By this time she was wide awake and sitting up on my knee with me thumping her on the back. Went back to living room, 20 minutes quiet rolling followed by second attempt at bed. Went and bf M, started smelling really awful stench. Thought it was the dog at first, but it gradually dawned on me that it was tiny stinker instead. She hasn't pooed at night for months and months! By the time I'd taken her out of the sleeping bag and changed her she was, you've guessed it, wide awake again. She's now rolling around on the floor at my feet quite happily.

Brooking that no mini-Brookers are insomniacs, no matter what their family history! It's not on. Fact. Also, both DH and I could sleep for Britain and M keeps waking up every couple of hours, so where does she fit in?

Off to read Scream's other thread now!

Mmmmmmm... Mulled

We had 30 mins yowling at bedtime which never happens so we went straight to calpol as he's been clearly bothered by his teeth for a few days now.

All fine until 3 apart from a get up at 1.30 by ds1. But at 3 all hell broke loose. F was up shouting and would only be quiet if I was cuddling him, more calpol, bonjela and teething granules and DS1 woke up... Finally I gave him some milk at 4 ish as he had refused one if his bottles in the day and he wolfed it down. It still took 30 mins to get him to settle properly after that but DS1 was buggering about so not surprising. And of course he is still asleep now.

The question is could it be separation anxiety instead of teeth? I'm back at work next week and the nanny started this week and had f most of the day yesterday and Tuesday which match with the worst nights sleep in ages.

And my mil is coming to stay tonight and thinks children should be able to sleep through anything so generally isn't very quiet. And DH is out at a work thing he can't miss so I've got it all on my own hats off to those that do it on their own. Way better mums than me

Scream did you enjoy your night off? Did A behave well for Nana? :)

Hawthers, good call on the calpol. Sorry F's being trouble at night -separation anxiety sounds likely, but a bit worrying if so :( Maybe he's just adjusting to the nanny? God luck with the MIL :(

Better night here last night - though by no means wonderful. I'm going to judge nights on how human I feel in the morning though.. and I'm feeling a lot better today! Whether I'll be at all with it by choir rehearsal and performance this evening is another matter altogether!

Too, very sad about the medicinal wine!

I must have written a post last night, and not posted it. Not sure about police officer pictures being against the law :P Have remembered he's a PCSO not a fully fledged police officer at the moment! I didn't have the pictures, but text the PCSO's other half, who has sent the picture on to me! When I have a minute I'll post it on the brooking page :D

Gaah. Longest sleep stretch 1.5 hours. And she didn't go to sleep until 11.50pm. I wondered if M was too hot, so I turned the heating down a notch. She woke up a lot, plus she had icy paws at 6, so I don't think it's that. Still, I had had the heating turned up to 22 degrees and have now put it to 18 and the temperature in the nursery stayed between 18 and 20 all night, so I am persevering with a cooler house in the interests of our heating bill.

Poor Hawthers, that sounds grim. Hope tonight is much better and MIL doesn't wake anybody up.

just trying a chrimbo name change out, what do you think?
only a v quick one from me to say hi as M is moaning for milk and the washing machine is being delivered this morning so got to clear space (I have soooooo much washing to do as have done none since beginning of last week for all 4 of us)
Anyway hi to all and hope all is well, will try to get back on later if at all possible. Mwah mwah.

i think i prefer this name.....

I thought it was going to be BigBaubles, Ninja? I like RedBaubles better out of those two.

I phoned the doctor's surgery at 9.07am. Readers of my earlier rant will know that you have to call between 8.30 and 9.30 on a Thursday in the hope of getting an appointment. I used Ringback because it was engaged. It is now 10.31 and it still hasn't rung me back. I keep getting pissed off and calling to check that the Ringback is working and sure enough, the number is still engaged. F*cking useless system. Oh, and I got a reply from the practice manager to my complaint basically saying they are working on it and I should see improvements in the spring. Yeah, because that helps. I've emailed him back to say that I'm trying to phone and they're continually engaged.

Oh grrrrrr Too!

How frustrating! It really is ridiculous z if it were me if take M as an emergency appt and it would be their own fault for having such a ridiculous unworkable system! Can you make a non emergency appt in person rather than phoning in the ridiculous windows they give you?

Ninja at a week's worth of washing! You poor thing! It nearly broke me catching up about 4 days worth when our washing machine broke! How's the new place? All fab I hope although I can't abide the mess of moving - hope it's not too bad xx Have some low maintenance new home that don't need watering

its good thaks biscuits and it has some lovely things like original part-stained glass front door, victorian tiles on the porch floor, stripped wooden doors and high ceilings upstairs. I'm soo looking forward to having a washing machine, we are drowning in washing here, it is in every room and breeding constantly.

Right so answers on a postcard please - which do you prefer
NinjaChipmunksShinyRedBaubles
NinjaChipmunksGotShinyBaubles
NinjaChipmunksBigRedBaubles
NinjaChipmunksBigShinyBaubles

or
NinjaChipmunksGotBigBaubles

I like shiny red for my money.

The house sound awesome! Are you having work done to it? When does it start / has it started yet?

NinjaChipmunksGotBigBaubles!

I painted my kitchen grey yesterday and this morning I hate it. Will do the second coat anyway and see if I like it better then.

Hurray, DH has taken the afternoon off! He left his wallet here and I have been bombarding him with complaints about the doctor and the kitchen and sending him links to expensive wall stickers.

ooh too our old kitchen was a lovely colour called potters clay, a kind of lilacy grey. Twas lovely with the wooden worktop and table and white cupboards. Kitchen here is crap and falling apart a bit. I miss my lovely old (but brand new) kitchen
No work going on here yet. Not sure when...

Argh! Just updated the MN iPhone app on my phone and now it doesn't seem to mind me going on to this thread but if I go on to either the brooking ttc thread or the ante natal brooking thread it just crashes! How frustrating!

They do have some new icons on here though - there are now buttons for (what is that? A biscuit?). Also not sure what these ones are:

Lets try this:

shock?
sad?
confused?
hmm?

Hmmmm, I don't think confused or hmm look anything like the normal ones.

Not a great job MNHQ!

how do you not know the biscuit biscuit? You'll be saying you've never seen the soon!

I've seen the biscuit before but it used to look more like a jammy dodger - now it's a weird burnt digestive looking thing (on this new 'improved' app at least) Darn I need a raised eyebrow on that hmm!

What were you saying I wouldn't have seen - it just came up as a space on here....

the bear.

Ah yes - I'd forgotten all about him!

I feel terribly cut off particularly as smegs is going to pop any day and I can't get the ante natal brooking thread to load! What if I'm missing a sneeze birth!?!?!?!

oh blimey I've just added the mn app and its confusing me - just get out more. both boys have had good naps here so hope they might sleep tonight but of course their naps totally didn't overlap so no nap for hawthers

This new MN app is strange! I read Biscuits' message with all the icons in it on the old app first, and it made no sense to me (sorry! ). Then I updated my app and suddenly it made perfect sense! I agree, some of the new icons are odd looking.

DD was a little angel for her Nana last night. Stayed in her cot from 11.30pm to 7am with no crying, no milk, just a little bit of patting/soothing on two occasions. Unbelievable!

It's official, DD only can't sleep when I'm around (is that the new sad face? Or is it this ?!) I'm gutted though. She still likes to check there's someone with her, but if its not me she just goes back to sleep, when it is me she cries herself sick for 3 hours trying to get me to pick her up. Sob sob. I still don't know how to resolve this! I can only think that I'm going to have to do proper CC, and actually leave the room (or at least pretend to leave by hiding) even if she's crying. I guess I should check back every 5 mins? Ugh, I feel sick even considering it! What if she falls and bangs her head?! Or gets tangled up in the cot bars (as she often does).

I just need to stop stressing I guess, it doesn't help. Mum's going to have her again tonight anyway, in a bid to get her used to spending the whole night in the cot. We'll just take it one day at a time.

How are all the mini No Brookers this eve? We bought DD's stocking today

They look the same as usual here on my laptop.