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

sorry posted that without reading as dd crying v bad looks like I'm feeling v sorry for myself.

DS loves any tv but he is completely mesmerised by the Zingzillas I think it's called? Baby tv is often on in our house too.

Yes I am getting my evils and horseys mixed up. Must be my age.

zcos do not apologise for feeling sorry for yourself. I feel very sorry for myself at the moment. Proper pity! Talking it through on here helps so let rip. Share how you are feeling x it is ok to acknowledge it is not all roses.

DS appears to be asleep. Hoping for 3 hours. Dreaming of 8 hours. No doubt see you guys later x

I have baby Einstein dvds that I bought for DD but A mainly watches cBeebies as that is DD's preferred viewing...

Have lost my right contact lense from my eye. Not sure if I rubbed it out or pushed it round

DD wasn't fussed about whether it was bm/formula/moo milk, as long as it was warm. DS has happily taken 2 bottles of defrosted ebm today so fingers crossed he keeps that up have enough to feed a family of 4 in the freezer!! and managed to express enough to replace what I got from the freezer.

Both dc in bed and we're going to fall asleep watch a dvd which is definitely not a dodgy version of skyfall obviously

Little pig last fed at 7. Still sound asleep - to wake or not to wake, that is the question.

Zcos join the self-pitying club, we've all had a good emotional outpouring lately on here, and vq is right, it does help.

thanks vq and pig

cacacaz me neither, my milk phobia started well before I was 2. I left a cup of milk on a radiator. That ended badly. Haven't drunk it since. And hate dealing even with formula. And that impacted breastfeeding too. Ugh. I hate milk. Ugh. Ok with cheese and yohgurt though, as long as it doesn't taste like rancid milk. Which is ironic, because cheese is rancid milk. Ok. Not going to eat cheese for a good few days til I get tat image out of my mind.

I cringe even when I have to wipe up spilt milk. That is why bf was hard. Showering andnwatching that stuff drip, from me, was too much.

I'm another milk-hater. Distinctly remember "world war 2 day" at primary school, complete with a polystyrene cup of milk which we were pretty much forced to drink. Nothing before or since has been harder to eat/drink. Warm milk. Polystyrene cup. Gross but not as gross as having orange squash from the SAME CUP later in the day

Just doing the bedtime feed. Wonder what is in store for us tonight?!

I feel ill. Dp made dinner and I didn't like it . Very greasy and it's turned my stomach!

I'm still hungry and I want pancakes. We have no eggs. Gah!

Think I'll just have an early night. Well. Early for me.

I'm another who doesn't drink milk. It tastes weird to me. I'll cook happily with it. But not have it as a drink. Nope.

Don't like cereal because I don't like milk and what it does to the cereal!

Also don't like butter/marge on sandwiches.

I have the wake or not wake debate every evening bplp, I've started leaving her and she's been going through until 4-5am, so doing 9-10 hours.

I'm full of cold, LO doesn't seem to have caught it thank goodness.

Ouch horsey, I burned myself too, on wed night. Passed my pinkie over the spout of the kettle. - why?! Steamed my skin off. It's developed it's own little protection now in the form of a giant blister - ouch!

I'll cook with it if I'm making yorkshires, or pancakes, coz there's no choice. But sauces? Things like mac'n'cheese? Creme fraiche. Yum.

I don't think I've ever had a bowl of cereal coz of milk. BUT determined as I am to not pass on my phobias I am working on porridge for DD1. And have managed French toast as it's only a splash of the white stuff. We get through less than a pint a week. When I was a kid we had three pints delivered every day

Mmm is everyone on here weird re milk on here? ... I include myself in this! ... I have always loved milk but don't think it likes me! so after a few weeks of having milk in the morning with cereal as I suddenly started having cereal when pregnant... I switched to soy milk. Seems to aggravate my IBS less ... I do feel like some soy milk with b vits is good for me to have a couple of times a week being a veggie.
re tv glad others watch with their tinnies I always feel a bit guilty but its good to manage a bite to eat and I always watch tv when bf in the day. Think its one of the perks

I think maternity leave and crap pay is one of the prices one has to pay for the opportunity to watch unlimited tv and purchase box sets guilt free zcos

that's it until retirement :o

I'm watching cheers and taxi on HBO at the mo ... I think I will have watched every episode of every series by the time I go back to work... now that's something to be proud of!
Also watching the office American version In the evening through dds cluster feeds (well until I go up to bed and cluster feed some more!)

I meant to say I can't concentrate on anything longer or with a more complicated plot at the moment I sometimes struggle with these!

Evil Thanks for the info about our little Dragons Very interesting also DH is a 1976 dragon too. I don't think 4 bottles a day sounds enough TBH I think it should be more like 6 or7 bottles if they only 5-6 ozs but all babies are different

French toast... Mmmmmmmmm. Or eggy bread as we posh fuckers like to call it.

Oscar decided we should have a late night. On account that he can't breathe properly. :(

Poor baby. He's being terribly stoic about the whole thing. No man flu here!

I love milk and drink a pint a day at the moment, usually hot to replace a cup of tea. Sometimes I branch out and have Ovaltine. Pregnancy increases calcium turnover for months after giving birth so if you don't drink milk make sure you're getting calcium from somewhere.

Any tips on how I can get J to sleep before 11 pm? He is usually irritable and cries for 2-3 hours in the evening until he passes out around 11. It's getting a bit wearing as we're already tired by 8 so it's hard to cope with all the fussing.

stunt that's interesting about the calcium..my teeth have really suffered this time for the first time ever I've had a filling , an extraction and they are soooo sensitive in the last 12 months I think I should have been taking more calcium.

2 hours. Ho Hum

I love milk and anything milky. DD2 refused milk after she self weaned from the breast at 18months. Only now will she consider a splash. She will eat a lot of frais and other calcium rich food thankfully. DH thinks milk is the root of a lot of problems.

Wish I had the energy to go downstairs and make myself some eggy bread :( detective have some for me please

What time does he wake in the morning? I found waking Oscar earlier got an earlier bedtime. Of course that won't work if he already wakes at 7!

When the grizzles start in the evening then we do a bath, he is happy in the bath. Then cries when he gets out. I quickly dry and dress him, then feed him in the bedroom with out the light on. This knocks him out. If it doesn't I lie next to the basket so he can't see me (he just stares and stops trying to sleep if he can see me) and rock it while playing White noise for him. I heart White noise. I really do. It stops him fighting against sleep.

Don't know if any of that helps, but it's just what we do.

I'm in bed. No eggs. Someone else is gonna have to sort it!

Am gutted as I specifically asked DP to pick up eggs today. Baaaah.