November 2012 - More group hugs and moral support please

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1676013-November-2012-We-want-rattles-and-we-want-them-now

My spiritual home is Queenstown NZ. DD1 was conceived there...TMI

I'm making pancakes for breakfast tomorrow with DD1. Will deffo have one with Nutella on. And my sister has invited me over for buttermilk pancakes in the afternoon. Yum!

Can't believe it's bloody snowing again. Booo. Just off to collect DD1 from preschool and then off to in laws for the afternoon and dinner so no cooking for me. Hope everyone has a happy warm merry Monday.

MIL has come good today, and agreed to have LO every Friday for half a day once I'm back to work. I managed to sell it to her as special bonding time with F that she didn't get to have with dsd obviously nothing to do with saving us £125 a month

Oooh YW Jericho is lovely.

Oh and zcos my spiritual home would be an island called Malaita, part of the Solomon Islands. I spent a few months living and working there as a student and despite the lack of infrastructure, resources etc it is a beautiful place with wonderful people who appreciate life for what it is. Very happy memories if you ignore the earthquakes, malaria and massive fuck off spiders

Morning people. Oh how I would like more than a couple of hours of sleep in a row. He's only feeding at 3ish and 7ish but waking up so many times I never feel rested. Wahhh. I know it could be a lot worse.

Spiritual homes... Hmm... I feel very at home in lots of places: Edinburgh, Brighton and a small town in Essex which my Nan came from among others. But I'm a Londoner at heart. Camden, the South Bank, Soho...

I hate driving in bad weather - it brings out the stupidity in other drivers. Had three near misses going to pick up DD1 from nursery, and none of them would have been my fault for a change

Oh, watching This Morning on +1, and a bloke just had his balls checked by a doctor. The camera zoomed right in. Daytime TV has changed since I left the UK.

Yy to relationships board being a bit too LTBy sometimes. I don't think I could ever ask about some aspects of my relationship with DH. We have a good marriage but his upbringing (religious and country australian) means some of his views are pretty prehistoric.

Anyway, night all.

I think a lot of people, probably most, could post on Rlationships about some aspect of their relationship and get a LTB. I think they do help a lot of people on there but the reactions are often quite hysterical (not hysterical ha ha)

Hugs for stunt.

Charlee my LO has 38-45oz a day in 6oz lots usually. He spreads it across 6-7 feeds. He is 14.5lb at 11 weeks.

LO being very off. 3 hours of screaming last night at bedtime which he usually loves and snuggles down in his cot. Eventually we gave him a tiny amount of Capol as he was so warm and we had exhausted every reason why he was crying. Same again late morning. His cheeks are very flushed and he is chewing his whole fist. Could he be teething?

I agree petite about the LTB I think relationships do need to be worked on... makes me wonder what the relationships of the people who say LTB are like!

Dp is exceptionally enlightened in his views - despite his illness he's still pulling his weight around the house, for example - yet I'm sure I'd get a LTB for some things!

Charlee my LO's also have very little milk.

Between 22-28oz a day. They are 19 weeks old and about 12lbs10. They were 6lb1 & 5lb7 at birth. Pediatrician says that amount is within normal range & babies should be double their birth weight by 6 months. They are 25th & 50th centile.

I can't believe you are able to express 45oz a day pikz, that is amazing! And the fact that you have kept it up for 12 weeks is mind blowing. You definitely deserve to stop now x

M is asleep again!! Lazy madam

Double their birth weight by 6 months?! She's done that and then some inside of 3, and that's with 2 weeks of losing weight at the beginning Must be all the mince pies over Christmas that did it.

All this LTB stuff - as you say pikz they never advise to stick around and work it out. I distinctly remember making vows for better and for worse.

LO has been asleep for 2 hours, and has had two hour long naps prior to that since waking at 7. It makes me realise why she was a grumpy bugger yesterday, with about 40 minutes nap the whole day!

Pikz?! I mean zcos of course

Bplp I was thinking the same on double of birth weight... LO is double his at 12 weeks!

As long as it has been doubled by 6 months. Some babies do it way before.

It took mine over 4 months, babies are all so different.

The gas man just came to read our meter - I answered the door and he asked if my parents are in!! Hahahahahahahaha THAT'S MY SODDING BABY RIGHT THERE AND CAR ON THE DRIVEWAY YOU NOB.

There is no way that E will be double her birth weight by 6 months. She'd have to put on 9lbs in 3 months. And unless she miraculously starts downing 6 bottles a day that ain't happening!

All this talk of birth weight has made me look back at the photos of when LO was born; feel a bit emotional

Could well be teething pikz. My LO has been teething since she was 6 weeks old (confirmed by HV) Nothings come through yet but her gums are very white at the back and the 2 space at the bottom front, nothing on top.

I hope to god them ones come through first. With DD her top 2 come first followed by her bottom 2 3 months later. Needless to say she looked like a bloody rabbit for them 3 months lol

bplp wow you must look v young lol - I'd take it as a compliment though I doubt that would ever happen

Dottie is gonna take forever to double her birth weight - she was 10lb 8oz at 12 weeks - she's creeping up towards the 25th percentile which is good.

Well I went to bed but only managed an hours snooze grrrrrr I could have had 7 hours lol I should do housework but have made an egg n bacon buttie instead!!!

I've just emailed my dad a begging letter - as the bursary and student loan don't pay out until I'm well and truly at uni and I need to find at least 2 months full time childcare fees to pay in advance I've asked him for a loan - I'm sure he'll help me if he can as he paid for my lil brother to do his degree but I hate asking, if he agrees that'll take a bit of stress off my shoulders!!

stunt things with dh are still the same - nothing changes am still weighing up whether I can put up with his laziness or not - it barks me that other than this we have an amazing relationship always laughing and joking, loving and supportive it's just this tiny little part of me that feels like a skivvy!!

I'm all up for a commune of just women - share the childcare, chores and workload, utilising our individual skills though I've got none then have girlie nights in with a couple of bottles of plonk - sounds heaven!!!

that happened to me pig too lots when I first moved in 7 years ago... it stopped as soon as I had my hair cut short!