November 2012 - Four months? Oh no, the dreaded sleep regression!

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Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1698894-November-2012-BFPs-Already-You-girls-are-going-to-have-some-fun

Instead of marking place, please could those of us with older siblings post something (positive) they are looking forward to as our babies get older. I think it would cheer us up since so many are struggling at the moment.

Will catch up in a mo just realised I said he is 18 weeks tomorrow and it's not it's today, oops!

S'ok pikz, just a continuation of behaviour that I thought we had sorted out the other night when I had a meltdown at him and went to bed He is spectacularly lazy and I let him get away with it because he does have loads of uni work to do. Problem is that he doesn't do his uni work, just sits watching game streams and stuff, until I point out that he could be helping me if he was just going to procrastinate. Suddenly he will find his motivation.

He offered to make dinner for everyone this evening (unusual- my eldest and I usually juggle babies and do it), then left it until seven to start cooking (I get everyone fed by 5) and then was in a foul mood because 'he has so much work to do and could really have done without having to do this'. I said that he should've said, and I would have done it. He replied that I had 'made a point of the fact that I have been a bit shit so I was trying to be better'. Admirable sentiments hairy one, but completely redundant if you strop about it. We won't go into the fact that I have a Homestart volunteer come for two hours a week so I can pull OUR house back into order, while he sits, procrastinating about on his computer

Ha ha, sorry, that took more writing to explain than I had anticipated. My patience, a virtue that I was not blessed with much of, is currently being sorely tested. But I am alright

Cat, he's being a toerag. I have a toe rag here to.

Though I have no idea how you cope with a toerag DH, 5 kids including twins and study. You are Wonder Woman. He needs to stop being quite so shit.

Glad to hear about the home start. Hope they are worth their weight in gold.

How the fuck does a wonder week last 5 weeks...??

Homestart are brilliant. My volunteer has been twice now. She is an older lady, early sixties I would have said, but quite happy to sing to the twins and play with them for two hours. Saul adores her already but he is a tart

garden Very alarmed at your cs scar misbehaving. I have never had one before these twins so am not well versed in problems with them. This is extremely unusual I hope? Is there no way that you can get to the doctor before Friday?

I have one snotty baby! And very slobbery with all the fist chewing. I seem to be constantly covered in one or the other.

Preparing for our day out at the Manc meet up tomorrow, you lot should feel honoured, I've even ironed my jeans! Granted my wardrobe at the morning consists of jeans, t shirt and a cardi/hoody but at least it's ironed

Ms new favourite sound is a scream/squawk as of this evening, it's all we hear!

we didnt have a seat to go on a normal chair, as just took the tray off of the ikea one and it sits at the table perfectly :) DS has sat in there until the last couple of months and now sits on a normal chair, he is 3 next month x

Sweary Wednesday starts in two hours.

Garden that scar is not behaving normally. You should maybe disinfect it with something while you're waiting to see Dr.

Thanks fairmum

Am looking forward to sweary wednesday. I have sweet fucking potato to swear the fuck about!

Are you counting down pr? I have no objection to you starting early if you need to get something off your chest

kyz Eh? You need to swear about sweet potato?!

No just reminding everyone. kyz how can you have to swear about sweet potato? Tis lovely.

Unless you just received a whole load of sweet potato vom....

at sweet potato vom (obv not a jealous face)

16 kids and counting is on madness

I am going to have to check out these IKEA highchairs that you are all talking about. I have two of the ones that hook onto the table. S loves it, R does not. R is a bit of a difficult bugger actually, on reflection. However, she does sleep 11 hours at night so is forgiven :)

garden get an emergency appt to see doctor tomorrow or I will nag you incessently.

bp slightly concerned at tummy time in the bath.

I cannot recall who asked, but J is still troubled by wind, even with the granules. It upsets him and me. Going to try colief tomorrow I think.

The Glasgow meet was lovely. We stayed ages and would have stayed longer if we could I think. Remember with an ikea family card you get free hot drinks in the week. We took advantage of that, indeed abused it! YW I did not have the dime bar cake. It is one cake I do not like.

Another vote for cot eliza and another vote for ikea high chair.

Thanks, i wouldn't mind if it weren't for how she prances around pretending she's Perfect Grandma. A friend has offered - she has a 2mo of her own so kind as it is i won't be taking her up on it - or my homestart lady, who is lovely and I've met twice so no fucking way then dp is going to try and shuffle things by a couple of hours - he was meant to be out 10-1 then hosp 4:15, will try and make it 12-3. I'll be gone 9-11:30 max. I've only asked once before, also for a job interview. She voluntarily comes to help dp on the evenings i work, and apparently wants to spend all the time she can with her adored only grandchild

Catbag time to go nuclear? Completely unacceptable!

Pikz no idea, R seems to go his own sweet way which bears no relation to any theory whatsoever!

Captured R on video laughing, have got it as far as my fb but can't work out how to get it into the group

vq perhaps I should explain....! I am in the bath, with my knees bent up. She does tummy time on my shins, with her head/arms on my knees and her lower body "swimming" in the water. Think I would win bad worlds worst mummy award if we did tummy time in the usual way!

garden I second the drs appt - sounds like antibiotics needed pronto

bp thank you for reassuring me

bp I watching that too. It's insane!

Glad the Glasgow meet went well. I was going to say bet you all talked for England but perhaps I should say for Scotland

The thread is quiet tonight. Hope you're all off having early nights! Well as its my last night in hospital (hopefully!) I'll sign off now and try to get to sleep before its time for E's next feed. Night all.

BPLP I was going to ask about bath tummy time too, but I get it now!

My new neighbours who were drilling at 11pm last week are now sawing!! Should I be frightened about what the hell they are doing? At least babylaughalot seems to be sleeping through it.

Bugger, was going to post something else but those brain cells seem to have been lost in the last 4 minutes

Detective has been kicking ass. I may change my name to DetectiveKickAss.

Sophia Scarisbrick is near me. Between Southport and Ormskirk. Why?!

she was asleep on me ... had been for long while ...made the transfer and now she is feeling the Moses in the inside of the basket I can hear her! Mmm I'm going to catch up with thread from today and hopefully by the time I do she will have gone to sleep ... you can probably guess what next message will be ...esp as she is starting to snort!

Lol not vom, just a case of me trying to work out what to do with the bloody thing. I have it roasted. I thought it might not be any good for him roasted (no idea still why I thought that) so LO's sleep time that I use ti do things in consisted of me cooking it to death then liquidizing it all over the kitchen/me! Stupid thing refused to behave like a decent vegetable and I nearly peeled myself, then chopped myself, then splattered myself In the sweet wanking potato. Its because I got the annabel caramel lady book thing and in my bid to be organised and vaguely know what I am to do when i have to embark on weaning, I thought I would cook some stuff and blitz it and freeze it in cubes. I did pear and sweet fucking potato today! Boy is 18 weeks and I may let him taste some things soon. When I have given him the odd tiny thing nothing comes back out. He had a little banana once and went crackers for it. I think he would enjoy food, it's me that is nervous of giving it, so I haven't really. I'll probably choke him or poison him or something!