November 2012 - More group hugs and moral support please

[StuntNun]

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stunt not sure what to say? He sounds like a bully and someone who needs some sort of therapy. I don't know what to say though other than I hope you and your sons are not at risk.

Ds has just eaten all his breakfast. With no gaviscon in. I don't think he likes gaviscon. Now someone has suggested trying sma staydown but I think I should give the gaviscon a go just perhaps only on three of his feeds? It is really working!!

Well it's a merry Monday for me so far. S slept from 8:30 until 7 and only woke once at 3 for her dummy, I went straight back to sleep for once
I looooove creme eggs, I could eat loads, I want to try them new egg n spoons but the diet won't allow it lol!
Deffo just sugar and lemon on pancakes for me too.

Oooh I won a bumbo on eBay last night so S can also finally join the bumbo gang. I got it for £10.50 how much did you all get yours for off eBay?

That sounds really hard to deal with Stunt . unfortunately we do tend to copy our parents' behaviour, for better or for worse. DH is messy because he was always cleaned up after, and I honestly am the same. We both seethe and resent the other when we tidy, me more so atm as I am here so do more.

It's not too late for your son; you can teach him respect, but it will be harder if your DH acts like a bit of a twat.

Floors mopped. It's 9am and I am knackered. Going to wake LO and she is going to have a busy day. She is not getting me up at 5 tomorrow morning.

Pancakes: lemon and sugar. DH puts jam on them which is just so wrong.

Creme eggs: I used to miss them when I left the UK and bought some last year. Vile. Too sweet. Those caramel eggs though?? Mmmmmmmmm.

I have a question, may seem silly, but really bugging me.

How much are you LO's drinking and how often??

Charlee DS is now FF, he has approx 6-7 bottles a day, between 7am and 9pm. Each bottle has 7oz in it. Sometimes he drains all 7oz. Sometimes he takes as little as 3oz. I'd say he averages approx 40oz per day. He's 14 weeks old and has got to be approx 14lbs now.

madame Sophie's Choice is not for discussion today

:O holy mackerel :(

DD is 12 weeks old, drinking between 2 and 4 oz every 4/5 hours, sleeps from 8pm til 3am has a feed then goes back to sleep until 6 then will wait until 8am for another bottle. Shes averaging about 18 oz a day!

I havent been able to go and see the HV because she wont come to home address and LO has been poorly with a cold and chicken pox!!

I got her weighed 2 weeks ago (so 10 weeks) and she was 11lb 6oz (6lb 7.5oz born)

Ooooh fancy a creme egg now but not 48 of them!!

Lemon & sugar.

stunt that sounds really difficult. My DH is an untidy fucker. His DM is too. Although she is cleaner than me in the sense she hoovers, dusts etc more her place is always littered with stuff. It makes my fingers itch. I mean, the dining table is covered with letters, newspapers, magazines etc. When I lived there, I used to try to tidy it into organised piles but it didn't work. I digress... I tell DH its a respect thing. If he doesn't put our car key back in the same correct place, I can't find it, that's unfair. If he doesn't put laundry in the wash basket then I don't know its dirty etc. I refuse to clean up after him and the kids. It's not fair. But he doesn't have a go at me thankfully - he just doesn't see the mess. Have you considered relationship counselling? Don't worry about the boys, they're young enough to unlearn their behaviours, although they need to see a better example iyswim.

stunt no advice chick as I'm in a relationship pickle at the moment though hugs for you x

We've got snow here!! Dottie went to cm's all smiles monkey!!! Once I've dropped dd off at school I am all by myself until 4pm - I should blitz the house but then think why the fuck should I do all the tidying up when I didn't make all the mess??? Might just go to bed - am feeling very tearful the past few days and don't know why - the last time I felt like this....... Nooooooooo soooooo not going there!!!!

Around 36-40oz a day. 5-6 feeds.

15 weeks prob weighs about 13-14lbs

charlee your LO will eat when hungry - they are all different. Is the pox gone now? I was wondering how things were but could not remember which LO had it.

stunt sorry not awake enough for sensible advice.

Sugar and Jif lemon. Will have them with maple syrup if I have to.

Creme eggs. Once ate six in quick succession. Not really fancied them since as I was a bit green.

Nor feeling very merry. Half term here so having requests for crafts and activities from all sides, plus the constant 'I'm hungry'

I am pretty much caffeine free. Just on decaf now, but a small bit of choc might have got in my system. No coke for ages either. No fizzy. Not tackled the dairy yet

Good meowning,

It is DH and my first anniversary today. Considering the amount of snot going about in crisp towers it will be a lust free anniversary.

charlee p is 13 weeks today. She had 6 bottles per day all of 150ml. She will drink anything between 90ml to the full 150ml. On a good day she might take 24oz but recently has been on 18-21oz. I am teaching myself not to get frantic about daily changes in amounts. She was weighed last Tuesday and was 11Ib 7oz

fruit you beat me ... Drat! is that including postage...I was feeling quite good my bumbo was £17 including postage.
stunt yeah think you need to talk things through proper and maybe he does...think I have narcasistic mother - how do you really tell though? and I was v worried about turning into her think being aware of the selfish behaviour I felt I couldn't help 10 years ago was the start of me stopping it. Mum is a dragon too and born 3 days before dd (and 60 years earlier) I panic sometimes will they turn out the same.
cluster feeding wearing me down again 7-11 last night thinking of formula feed again.
cluster feeds in the night -told me I was going to loose the fight... to the tune of weathering heights!
is no-one else going to take me up on the spiritual home topic.
re pancakes yeah sugar and lemon...raisens in the mix too. though I think it will be limes this year (order of 1 was not available for online shop so got 6 instead).
needing to wee all the time ...but think I may have dd cold

Spiritual home - haven't got one. Not really sure what the phrase means to be honest.

Congratulations Mr&MrsCrisps

What about Nutella on pancakes?

Congratulations crisps

charlee totally agree with VQ (as always). If your baby is gaining weight and seems happy, then they probably are. Every baby is different. DS is chunky and very long, he is also a real snacker, can only go a couple of hours - 3 at an absolute push - without more.

vq sorry my posts are so long bet no ones reading them...by spiritual home I meant somewhere that feels undeniably like home in a way you can't put your finger on a place that you long to be. I am very lucky to have moved to the little village that I felt at home in when I walked through it with dh 7.5 years ago! (had driven through as a child) ...it seemed almost magical ...I think I only see it through rose tinted spectacles though which could be a bad thing raising a child here!!

just realised I have confused that spiritual home thing again my other homes were Pefkos&lindos in Rhodes and Larghne near Carmarthen although I have only had holidays in both places a handful of times.
oh and congrats Mr and Mrs crisps too did you get anything for each other? its paper isn't it first year?

B feeds 6 times a day, I don't know how much she takes but when i've given her expressed milk in a bottle she's taken a maximum of 4oz and this seems to be the most I can express from one breast at a time. So she must have around 24oz a day. She was 11lb at 9 weeks.

I love pancakes but it's my birthday tomorrow so we're going out for tea. I might make myself pancakes for breakfast

((((Hugs)))) stunt

I wouldn't say I've got a spiritual home but I felt most at peace and well rested on holiday in France two years ago. We stayed in a family members cottage in Montignac, Dordogne. It was totally cut-off down a country lane and had a huge garden. It was just so quiet and peacefull, I loved it.

Good, im glad to be honest. When reading the milk tin that shes on (Nutramigen Lipil 1 as has a cows milk allergy) The amount shes on is for a 2-4 weeks old baby I nearly dropped down! Thought I was doing something wrong! She was 10lb 6oz at 7 weeks so she is gaining weight but her 'line' in her red book has dropped - although she is still above 50th centile.

vq she has been a bit grizzly, they have all scabbed over now, but there is one above her eyebrow which I think the top must have burst as she got fluff in it and its now scabbed over the fluff. In 2 minds whether to get the tweezers out after a bath and try and get it out or hope it comes off with the scab...

charlee p is on exactly the same formula. I get myself into a right state logging every feed and getting stressed if it looks like she is not going to take much. Yesterday p took 18oz which according to the pack is much too little. Your LO is obviously a good, healthy weight so I don't think you should be concerned.

zcos no gifts. Not even a card! I was offered a shag this morning but listening to P coughing and spluttering was hardly a turn on! We will have a nice meal later and probably open one of he borked of champagne left over from the wedding. I suppose there have been plenty of hankies being passed about so paper it is!

LO very rarely drinks what it says she should on the packet. She gets through 600-750ml a day, sometimes less. She never has the 800+ the packet says. DD1 was the same and she was on 98 th centile for her first 20 months.