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queenrollo ·
15/05/2006 19:13
i don't think they have moved buildings as a new poster went up in the surgery a few weeks ago advertsing it. a mum i met outside school a couple of weeks ago asked me if i was going as they desperately need new members......but if this happens to other newcomers then it's hardly surprising is it?
i phoned a friend in the nearest town and she says she's been once to a Sure Start group which is an hour on Weds afternoons, so i'm hoping to make arrangements for MIL to drop me off at my friends and we will go there together. feel better for phoning her as she said she has PND too and we had a good chat about the irrational feelings we have.
this afternoon i felt like my head was going to explode and ds screamed all afternoon. dp got in and i literally handed ds to him and collapsed into bed.
slept off my headache and dp took ds out for a drive......just got him ready for bed and he had an horrendous nappy.....gave him Weetabix for breakfast for the first time and don't think it agreed with him. poor mite all he wanted was comfort from his mummy and i was too ill to cope.
feeling better now.......but decided not to bother with local M&B group because i can't cope with this stress anymore. i always sound so sad on here but i guess this is where i come to offload, it seems like my good days are excellent and my bad days REALLY are bad!!
suzi2 ·
15/05/2006 20:05
Glad to hear you're feeling a bit better QR. Your local M&B group sounds cr*p TBH! Maybe when you're feeling a bit better you can find out who organises it and give them a good kick up the backside and take over :-)
Azure - my DS is the same in the bath. I go in with him as much as possible as it's easier to handle him. But all he does is stands up (it's the only place he can pull himself up fully) and then try to cruise. It usually ends in me grabbing him while he falls!
PP - what a clever DS you have 
Mine still hasn't rolled back to front, he was on all fours rocking about 2 months ago but doesn't even do that anymore! And he can't quite pull up to standing yet so needs me to assist and support his cruising. Is he the only one not mobile???
Josey - my auntie was head of english for a long long time. So you will likely know her and she seems to know every pupil ever in the school so I'm sure she knows you! My wedding cake was made by a lady in Alness
josey ·
15/05/2006 21:50
oh Suzi you have me thinking now Im going through all the English teachers and if i remember the right one that was the head I didnt have her as a teacher though i did help out on the school mag a couple of times and im sure it would have been her that ran it I dont suppose her name had the word horn in it? it wasnt Maxine that made your cake by any chance?small word really isnt it.
on the mobility DD doesnt like moving now she can sit she is happy just sitting didnt like rolling either and isnt keen on trying to stand and on top of all that she still has no teeth 
what a lazy lump, i find it strange as ds was walking round the furniture by this age and pushing his walker thing about(cant remember what is was called)
QR dont worry we all know how awful it can be and im sure your not unhappy all the time, but MN is the easiest place to have a good moan about things especially if you can do it with out it affecting your personal life or you family so feel free to moan away, hope you get on ok going to this new group with you friend.
suzi2 ·
15/05/2006 21:55
That's her Josey! Did you have Miss McDonald at all? I know her very well as she is a good family friend. I hear she was a real battleaxe as a teach though 
My cake was made by someone called Kerry - her hubby is a teacher at Dingwall and my Auntie arranged and bought the cake as a gift.
My Ds doesn't have any teeth either - although he seems to have been struggling with them coming since about 10 wks... Maybe it will be this week? maybe not! He's crying every hour tonight so I think they're bothering him.
kate100 ·
16/05/2006 14:32
Hi all, what a lot of posts! I've had trouble reading through them all.
Welcome to the new people
QR, your GP sounds hopeless, is there anyone else that you can see/ I'm not an expert and I can tell tht you need more support than he's giving you, silly man.
Azure, glad that thigs are going well work wise. I can see a time when a i have to go back approaching and I'm not looking forward to it. I know exactly what you mean about bathtime too. The ds's get in together and I sit at the side of the bath, on ds1's toilet step, with a towel over my head to try and keep dry. It's like they're in it together, little monsters. Suzi2, have you thought about a bath seat for your LO, ds2 loves his as t means he can splash me with both hands lucky me.
We have finally got our business problems solved, DH's partner is going to buy us out. We are so relieved after all the hassle and uncertainty we are glad to be letting it go. It was starting to take over our lives and we are ready to get it back and start spending more time together. It may mean that we'll have to work a bit longer than we planned, but I don't think that's too much of a hardship. Some things are more important and being together when our family is growing up is one of them. It does mean that I'll probably have to go back to work a bit sooner than planned, but I don't mind, if only I could find something to apply for....
it's ds2's baptism this weekend and I have to work out how to fit 47 people into my house, can everybody please pray that it doesn't rain and people can go into the garden, otherwise it will be a bit of a squeeze. I was remebering with dh what I was like shortly before ds1's baptism and it was not a happy time. I had terrible PND, I'd collapsed at work as I was putting so much pressure on myself and I didn't think life would ever be happy again. I can't believe how different things have been. Having CBT really helped put things into perspective and work out what was important and how to cope with life. Is that something that you could discuss with you GP queenrollo, it really helped me?
This has turned into a bit of an essay 
Hope that everyone and their little ones a are well.
josey ·
16/05/2006 16:59
Oh suzi my memory is being put to the test now especially as we usually just had nicknames for the teachers Miss MacDonald English teacher?is she from NewZeland? if so I had her in 1st year and yes was a battle axe I had her a few years later and she was alot better, she would definately remember me as she used to say hello in the street a few years later also. There was a Miss Maclennan as well she was in the class next to your Aunty but she was OIS she was my next door neighbour.
I have the bath chair and it makes such a difference to bath times I didnt used one with ds wish i had.
hope all goes well kate i will keep my fingers crossed for you
colinandcaitlinsmommy ·
18/05/2006 14:09
Hi all. Popping in before the LO's wake up.
Caitlin's been doing so much the past few days. In less than a week, she's started to pull herself up, take a few steps while holding onto things, learned to crawl, and gotten from her back to a sitting up position. Just when I thought she was going to be a useless little lump for a long time. 
Things have been crazy here. We decided we wanted to move back to where we are from, about 250 miles away. DH got the ok for a job transfer, and we put the house on the market. Amazingly we got an offer for full-price after less than a week of being on the market, which is great, but they want us out ASAP, and we're not going back till the beginning of October. Have been looking furiously for places to rent, but there isn't much out there.
Things have been annoyingly hot here. It got over 100 degrees yesterday. I will so not miss that.
Hope everyone's babies are doing well. They're really not going to be babies much longer, are they?
suzi2 ·
19/05/2006 22:54
Our babies are getting so grown up aren't they? I can't believe that I'm already thinking about DSs first birthday party. I really didn't think that I'd survive those first few weeks/months!
DS isn't very well. It's the first proper cold he's had and has an awful chesty cough and snuffly nose. He's grouchy and feeling a bit sorry for himself but still seems to have endless energy for standing (holding onto me) and bouncing. Hard work when you're trying to take his mind off the cough and he's waking every hour or so with it though.
He's started to do a few odd things too... I've been teaching him to kiss me (he gives a big, slobbery oppen mouthed one!) but now he keeps latching onto peoples chins and sucking\chewing them. Maybe it's another bizarre teething ritual - still no teeth I'm loving it that he copies me doing things too. He waves and hits the table and presses the 'beep beep' button on his toy if I tell him too. Rether he also looks around the room to find a TV when you say "where's Pocoyo"... His favourite toys are definately books - he gets quite angry when he turns 2 pages rather than 1!
Hope all the other babies (can we still call them that???) are well.
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kate100 ·
20/05/2006 10:29
Niceto hear from you c&cmommy, can we swap weather, you can have my rain and I'll take your sunshine?
DS2's baptisn tommorrow and heavy rain os forecast all day, oh well, I guess everyone will have to breathe in. We are now down to 42 guests, so that's not so bad.
DS1 had croup this week and had to go to hospital in an ambulance, along with his terrifies mommy. Thankfully he got better very quickly after he had some steroids and was able to breathe properly again. All he's got now is a bit of a cough and a snuffle.
bramblina ·
20/05/2006 22:16
Hi all.
You're quite right- they aren't babies for long, I looked at ds lying stretched out in his cot the other day, he really is bigger than I thought! I still think of him as a baby but if I saw another this size I'd have a different picture. It's wierd when you don't see them growing up then one day bam! They're almost ready for school...
Tooth no. 6 popped out today. No probs so I'm hoping that for everyone else.
Dh was home Tues- Fri and I managed to get a last minute appt at the hairdresser- complete revamp for me! Had it all chopped off and highlights- it took 3 hours. That's definitely the longest I have sat and done nothing for in at least over 9 months. I feel like ds is becoming less dependant of(on?) me, which feels strange but healthy. He still has 2 breastfeeds through the day but I'm also feeling much more confident in how I can manipulate those feeds to work around our day so we're not as restricted as we used to be. I thought a few months ago I knew it all (as you do) but I think now I feel really confident, and that I know him so well, and I don't feel so uptight about things being done how they usually are. We live an hour and a half away from the nearest town, so it's hard to get all the things done that we need to and get home at a decent time. Of course ds would always fall asleep in the car and I used to be quite concerned that it would upset his bedtime routine etc but we got home on Tuesday just after 8. Ds was fine, he'd slept in the car but after his bath and feed he was ready for bed again. Do any other first time Mums feel like this? I wasn't neccessarily "uptight", just always thinking of how things would work out if x happened, and would it all fall back in to place again? I'm a very laid back person but when it comes to ds I want everything to be just so. I think I'm a tad neurotic!
Hope all goes well with the baptism tomorrow, kate. Very exciting! Sorry to hear about the croup. A friend's lo had this (he's 10 days younger than ds) just before Christmas, I hadn't known what it was before.
QR I'm glad you found a group to go to. Does your hv hace any more info on classes etc? We still go to baby massage though ds only lasts about 20 mins, before would be about 30+. He's the oldest so we'll probably be the first to stop going It's nice to see the other babies and Mums, and the hv makes a cup of tea. All free, too. We went to the library yesterday, there was a man called Bob Pegg (look out for him Josey and Miaou, he's from Alness I think and covers the highlands IIRC) who told stories, played music, sang songs and danced puppets for the lo's. It was aimed at 2-5 but was a part of Bookstart day (has anyone else heard of it?) which I don't think they can be too young for. The hv should have given us the first pack by now- I'm mentioning it as I think it's nationwide, but the librarian gave me ours, a cloth bag with 2 really good board books (peepo baby with flaps for ds to lift, he really loves it, and a basic colours book with an animal of every colour, really simple and effective) and some leaflets about bookstart. She also gave every child a little pack of grapes and raisins and a carton of juice, this was to do with Healthways. Ask your hvs everyone. They get another bag at 18m, with more books and another at 3. Dh didn't understand the whole concept, why these things are free nowadays etc. I had to explain that it's a sad fact that a lot of parents just don't read to their children and the government has to make an effort to encourage it. It really is sad, isn't it.
There's a day of dance at Culloden Academy on 3rd June (oooh could be the 4th) and there's a workshop called baby jive, if you're interested Josey. I think it's about £4. I have thrown the paper out, sorry but can get the details if you want.
C&C's mummy, where are you? And where are you heading for? It will be nice to be back "home".
QR how exciting about the shoes! The lo's really are growing up aren't they.
I was on Chris Evan's request show yesterday! How embarrassing! I did it through choice so no excuse to be embarrassed though! I requested Men at Work's Down Under for dh! He left for work at 6am and really didn't want to go. Ds's passport came through yesterday so we're seriously thinking of taking a trip with him, I'm not sure if I'm being brave or stupid?! Any ideas are welcome! Dh is a lorry driver and we would be going go to Spain's NW coast.
Can you all give a good suggestion of a toy your lo like at the mo? Dh bought ds a wooden toddle cart (with the wooden blocks in, and a handle to hold on to and walk with) and a first jigsaw- the style with a peg on an animal which fits in a hole of it's own, while I was at the hairdresser. That's all we could think of, but we really think he need other toys, the current ones just don't seem interesting. The inner of the foil was good today but only took about 3 minutes to make it well soggy!
Phew I better get off here! Have a good weekend!
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