December 2012: 8 hour sleeps and chubby chops all round

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New thread for us ladies

Nope we're going the other way and going to the Flying Fortress in Ford. Luckily as dp is coming I can sit with ds and he can watch dd!

Thanks all. Part of it is that I feel that sometimes he says things that question my intuition or makes a me feel inadequate. Ds is my pfb but dp has teenaged dcs from previous relationship.

Yep, fod thats what they told me may have injection after bf. Hmmmm, will investigate further...

Ds up feeding again! Got a busy day getting meat and fish for the weekend. Looks bright outside but know its still freezing.

Oh eggs, same here. Swaddle is my saviour.

Good luck, 2blessed. This is a testing time for any relationship.

Good baby has been asleep for nearly an hour, in her crib! She needed settling twice, but has been very good. I've done some ironing, straightened my hair, faffed on the internet... this is brilliant, a napping baby. Last night she only fed at 4am after her dreamfeed at 10.30pm, but was super noisy all night so I don't feel well-rested.

Emailed my old boss in Melbourne about whether he wants to hire me again when I'm back in 2014. He was very encouraging!

There is a weird light emanating from the sky. Anyone know what it is?

I've brought the sun back with me - I hope you are all duly grateful.

Z has been awake for hours wanting to play, but when I take him into the bed he falls asleep against me. I suspect he doesn't know whether he's coming or going at present.

Poor wee Z. I'm not looking forward to dealing with the jetlag when I take C back in May. It's 5 weeks away! How did you find the jet lag overall, Seconds?

It was ok mamapo - when I got there it exhibited itself by me getting really tired early in the evenings for a few days and I suspect the same thing is going to happen now we've got home too. for little Z he spent a few days getting up at 3-4am and not settling back, and then sleeping for most of the day, but babies this young sleep in the day and wake up at night anyway so it's not as dramatic a shifting of patterns as for an older child, i'd expect. On the way home we timed the flights how i like them, namely arriving home late afternoon so we then just had a couple of hours to stay awake and then went to bed. On the way out we did the thing I hate and usually try to avoid, namely arriving early in the morning and then having to stay up all day. What airline are you flying? We went Singapore and they were great - I'd definitely fly again with them with a baby.

Oddly we were next to the same lady + baby both going and coming, which is weird as we'd picked random dates to go. Her baby had grown so much by the time of the return flight.

I'm flying with Royal Brunei, via Dubai and Brunei. It's an alcohol-free airline . I think I arrive early morning (typical) and can't remember when I return, but I think it might be afternoon.

C is in quite a good routine in terms of sleeping at this stage, so it might be more of a shock to our system!

2blessed I started this thread about the injections.

This soft play has bouncers for the babies it's nice and clean too. Not too busy.

F had his 16wk jabs at 10.15 this morning and is still asleep now! If I had known he would sleep so much I would have done the ironing (in the last week, every time I have got the iron out he wakes up!)

Ironing? What is this ironing that you speak of?! Ds has been asleep nearly 2.5 hours

Still asleep! I would rather iron than do any other house work. I used to iron pillow cases when I was extra stressed.

Seconds, I'm flying with the LO in a couple of weeks, any tips?

I don't even own an iron and the wee man never naps for more than half an hour in the day any more

Haha ski I only iron when dp puts dd's denim rara skirt in the tumble drier everything else gets hung nearly or folded straight out the drier so no need for ironing.

Potty training has been going for an hour and so far two wees on the floor none in the potty. I don't think she's ever going to get it

Ds is super chatty it's so sweet. Lots of pigeon noises too.

No ironing here either.
spotty how old is dd? Maybe she's not ready? Dd1 was totally ready but weird about sitting on the potty. For a couple of days I sat her on every 30 mins and read her a story while she was on which seemed to work.

She'll be three in June. We've had a fairly successful afternoon I think 2.5 on the floor and 3.5 in the potty (with the .5 she started weeing and quickly realised and got to the potty. What do you think?

I have been gifted with a dh who was brought up to assume that if you want your shirt ironed you do it yourself..

Am dreading potty training. My cunning plan is that reusable nappies will feel wet and therefore provide incentive to want to. Not sure if this works with modern nappies but my mother claimed it made my brother and me choose to stop nappies voluntarily at a year and a half. (Taking her word on this..)

Dh has his leaving do tonight so won't be home till 11ish, probably tiddly. For some reason my internal logic has decided as I can't hit the wine in his honour I will be hitting the cake instead.

And one on the loo...

Oh utopian cake is a must when home alone!

And one on the floor...

skibunny - take a dummy for take off and landings, take a roll up changing mat and nappy sacks because sometimes you just have to do it right there and then in the departure lounge! Are you breast feeding? If not I can give you bottle / formula tips. Also take a couple of blankets as the plane might not have many baby blankets and the big blankets are too big for the bassinets really.

mamapo I've never flown royal Brunei. Alcohol free?! I wonder if any other middle eastern airlines are too. I've flown etihad, emirates and Qatar before and I don't recall an absence of booze but I'm not a drinker on planes anyway.

Z had his 16 week injections this afternoon. He cried and is now asleep. Not sure how much of that is jet lag though.

Cake indeed!

I do iron for my husband - he works in the city so needs shirts daily. When we met he never ironed, his parents paid someone to do it. When we moved in I taught him how, and he used to do most of then - I'd often help out because I'm a lot quicker. Now I'm on mat leave I do it all. It seems fair, he does stuff for me and works long hours. When he's around I'd prefer to spend time with him than watch him iron. Boring!

Lots of tears at bath time tonight - I think c was overtired, which is odd as she had 3 good naps today. She's zonked in my arms - time to put her down and cross fingers she's asleep for the night. Poor poppet, she was so upset.

Crap crap crap, just knocked D's head on the door. He was already screaming for food but he screamed more calmed down enough to eat but should I not put him down to bed in case it's done head damage?

Me to dp: 'argh I'm so fat!'
Dp: 'you're not as fat as [insert friend's name here]. Anyway what do you expect you've had two children'.

Honey he'll be fine just keep any eye on him to make sure he isn't unusually sick/floppy/drowsy etc

I know- I need to a) stop panicking and b)stop hitting his head on things

Honey - I'm sure he'll be fine too. Just keep an eye on him and get him checked out if he's sick or seems drowsy.

Spotty - just . That's meant to make you feel better how?! Good luck with the potty training. It will click with her at some point, it's early days yet. I think everyone thought I deliberately decided to train DS1 when I'd gone back to work ft temporarily to provide emergency cover. It wasn't like that though - honest. We'd had a potty for a bit and I'd sometimes ask him if he'd like to try it. He said no and I never pushed it, but one day he decided to sit on it and did a massive wee. He just carried on using it from then on, but it meant that DM and nursery dealt with the majoirty of the accidents in the first week (although I'm assured that there weren't that many). Felt a bit guilty, but seemed mean to keep him in nappies when he'd decided he was ready for big boy pants.

Enjoy the cake Utopian.