November 2012 - The lurker amnesty fred for our quiche

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1710755-November-2012-Will-the-Easter-Bunny-visit-our-babies

Any remaining lurkers, would you like to de-lurk and announce yourselves? We won't bite!

I hope you mean we are funny ha ha and not funny ho hum?

Hello po welcome. I am glad you think we are funny

Deffo ha ha, pr.

Why can't this child sleep for more than 20 mins in her crib without waking herself up? Am sick of resettling. Yesterday she snoozed in my arms for 3 bloody hours.

At all the lurkers reading the rubbish I post.

MaMa I have the same issue. O will stay asleep while I put him down, but wake up ten minutes later today! I had big plans for his two hour lunchtime nap (putting make up on and washing up no less) but I am now pinned to the sofa for the foreseeable future.

I must admit to lurking on the Dec thread as O was due on 01.12.12. He arrived on 28.11.12 in the end though.

Had a nice birthday evening last night. But also got drunk on three glasses of wine Haven't really had alcohol for over a year. DP was a gentleman and took full advantage of me.

Welcome to all the new posters.

Girls slept until a record breaking 8am will ignore that DT2 wanted cuddles at 1am, 2am, 3am and 5am

I offered the sweet potato again, he ate half, wore the other half, i let my guard down and he grabbed the little pot and tried to stuff it in his mouth so we lost half of it! He pushes things away when he's had enough, so I think he was enjoying it even if he didn't seem ravenous for it! He is 20 weeks on Tuesday and I guess he'll go at his own pace and that's what I wanted really :) I would leave it for a bit then give it a go again in a few weeks but I dont want to confuse him with the stop start thing.

Welcome ma

Bet there's millions of lurkers reading our random drivel/informative type quiche files

Welcome MaMa.

Bliddy (sic) baby monitor keeps switching itself off every time the power cuts out which is about every five minutes at the minute. Stoopid ridiculously expensive Angelcare monitor and it can't cope with a powercut.

Thank you everyone for the nice welcome!

Am feeling pretty jaded after several really bad nights in a row so am sure there are lots of probably not very interesting things I want to say.

I have been feeling bad about lurking - felt a bit too superstitious to join the antenatal thread or these threads early on which was probably a bit stupid really - and promise tobe very discreet about any intimate details i might have happened upon PR! Your discussions have been great source of support over the last few months though.

chunky both girls. DD1 will be 3 next month. I can't believe how quickly time is going and we're already at 19 weeks!

stunt could be oversupply - lots of other symptoms fit - but wouldn't it have been a problem earlier on? DD1 hac the same but was much earlier, probably about 8 weeks. I will try some block feeding & see if it helps. Spoke to HV yesterday & she was a bit baffled. Will try GP if no change over weekend

Waffly self indulgent post!

O was a right pain in the arse on the school run. I'm not sure how I didn't crash, given the fucking snow. He whinged, then cried all the way there. I got to school, took him out the seat. He was happy. He did not need a feed, nappy clean, nothing wrong at all. He just wanted to be held. Well, sorry O, not happening. Put him back in the seat. He grumped and whinged. I took his mittens off, this cheered him up. I set off. He whinged. He cried the whole way back again, til we were 5 minutes away from home. When he fell asleep. Then woke the second we entered the door as always on the morning school run - why? WHY!!!!.

He has been happy since. So, what do you do when you have to drive, and they don't want you to? He was happy if he had my hand to hold and eat but it is hard enough driving at the best of times, without fucking snow to contend with on the roads. He can't keep hold of me! Suppose he isn't like that often, but still. 50 minutes of whinge is enough to make anyone drive off a cliff go crazy.

I just put him down after getting him asleep - the white noise was on. It went off stupid facebook notification! and from his seemingly deep sleep, he lifted his head and shoulders right up, stared at me accusingly, while I fumbled trying to get the noise back on! He didn't cry, just stared right at me with the look on his face! His whole body lifting like a meerkat from under his blanket! Think turtle...! This happened 3 times. All from what seemed like deep sleep!

Funny bugger! Oh, tried a dummy again on the school run. Still does not want one. Just wanted attention, clearly.

I saw one of those signs over the motorway while driving this morning. It said 'tiredness kills, take a break' or something or other. I thought, fuck. I'll never make it home. We'll have to sit on the side of the road forever.

Jake I didn't get oversupply issues until about 3 months in with DS2. It's just a thought though, green poo can be caused by a virus, teething etc.

It's freezing here.

detective that is what your car audio system is for. Loud music or possibly white noise?

detective - dh asked why I was quiet in the car this morning, so I informed him that all my brain power was being used to stay on the road.

I'm fed up of nagging him to have to do stuff so I told him this morning that when I'm back at work we will be paying for a cleaner. I will not spend my precious weekends cleaning up other peoples mess ignores fact that I expect cleaner to do this. There will also be a list of chores for weekdays. I am hanging my skivvy/wench hat firmly up.

I'm off to Cardiff tomorrow for the day to meet up with old uni friends. Completely bricking it to be honest. They want to go bowling, and I suspect that bowling is the exact sort of activity to cause an over-stimulation meltdown in F. I have visions of spending some a lot of time in the changing room calming her down. Really hope I'm proved wrong.

Oh, the music did not work. We tried rock, pop, talking people, lullabies, nursery rhymes. I could not try white noise. I'd of been asleep .

O is louder than the car radio. Fucker!

I am ignoring the fact I noticed kids laughing at my car this morning. The nursery rhymes were on so loud passersby got a free concert.

Another fucking poosplosion in my fucking bed thanks DD1. She normally poos after naps why this week is the daily poo coming when she is in my bed.

I am thankful for my poor overworked washing machine and tumble dryer. I will not be thankful for the next electricity bill :(

Can I also assume the triple amount of shitty nappies from LO are due to the amoxycillin?

I'm spending this week up to the elbows in shit and ear goo.

It's fucking marvellous.

Urgh, Katie Hopkins is on Jeremy Vine arguing that businesses shouldn't give compassionate leave to grieving parents who have lost children. She is such a wanker.

It would appear that the gas mains work that has begun outside my house today is set to continue for 6 months. That had better not be 6 months of pneumatic drilling else someones gonna hang

pr have you not learned yet? Put toddler on towel and wrap her up in it if she is in your bed (just middle section, not entire toddler).

Antibiotics will be causing additional shit.

toomany she is a fucking knob. Lives locally to me. See her out and about with her poor children. Although I suspect she doesnt actually believe half of the utter shite she drivels on about, but will say anything to be controversial enough to appear on the tele. Twat.

She is truly awful madame, I can't believe how heartless she was talking to a mother who had lost her one year old son in an accident.

I'm glad I didnt hear that tbh, toomany. I'm not often affected by people I don't know, but she makes my bp rise because she is such a wanker.

Amoxycillin does have that affect PR

Welcome MaMa :)

Ranty me me me post coming up - just ignore me, I need to get it out of my system.

DP has just stropped out of the house again We seem to just rub each other up the wrong way at the moment. He does appear to be labouring under the illusion that he is doing everything and I am doing nothing. He doesn't seem to get that we both have 2 children, not just me. And that while he can just hand N back to me when she's fussing and wanting holding all the time, I don't have that as an option and it's kind of hard to get stuff done when she's that way inclined. He does do a lot with them - I am far luckier than some in that regard - but he seems to think he's doing me a favour. The other day he carefully explained to me that the garden doesn't just look nice you know, it takes a lot of work! Yes, I know that - but the same is true of the house, and I don't get to bugger off for 2-3 hours at a time and get it done. He wants to try going out there with a toddler and a baby and seeing how much he gets done.