November 2012 - We're ready for Spring... any time now please!

[StuntNun]

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chunky your DD is nearly 3 is she not? Does she still nap?

Honestly after my earlier failures today I've been doing GF for one day and J is asleep in his cot and has been for the past hour! Not sure he'll make it for the prescribed two hours though as there is a very loud Monopoly game going on downstairs.

chunky you need to eat the cake in honour of sophia!

Great weight gain eliza you are both doing sterling work.

P is a grumpy mare today. Don't know why - teething and snotty cold and both prime contenders. She sharted all over me as well. Poo like yellow water. I have her some calpol with a hollow spoon. She was very funny - she likes the taste so wants it but her tongue won't let her keep it in her mouth. I think the same dose went in and out about 5 times. We got there eventually.

I was looking forward to baby and toddler group today but I think we are staying home. She is so sleepy that it would be a nightmare and I don't want her spreading germs/picking up anything. She is sleeping now so I hope she feels better when she wakes up.

Woo, just given the last dose of amoxycillin.

Hopefully the 15 bastarding poos a day will stop now.

I've had a nightmare feeding James yet again :(

He fed for an hour in middle of the night. Then 2 mins at 7.20am and has only just accepted a 4 minute feed just now!! He is going massive gaps but I can't seem to up his intake at all! Tried expressing a little onto nipple to entice him stunt but makes no difference. I have fast letdown anyways so not sure compressing will help. He'd be drowned! Now if he can go this long during the day he should be able to sleep all night. That's the part that's so depressing!!

You must be channeling the essense of GF stunt

I have just eaten two biscuits in your honour sophia

Anyone got any good recommendations for dribble bibs

Sorry - the bibs are for drooly drawers P, not fat biscuit-eating me. She is wearing a Skibz which was given to us but it is completely unabsorbant

Ooo really chunky I thought it was quite cheap. Perhaps that's why DH keeps having a go at me for spending too much money mad play was only £2:95 so that was cheap. I've been swimming at larkfield but we didn't do the soft play bit.

pass we use dribbleons. They've been great, E is a massive drooler and have saved her clothes from getting soaking.

Her appointment was changed to last week but nobody thought to tell me . Next one is 17th April. Good job it isnt urgent!!

Sophia I bought a Renault Megane estate. Had planned to buy a slightly newer car but got an amazing deal on it so it'll do a turn . The keyless doors and start button have me baffled though!

My car has a start button mm. You get used to it.

Her royal whiney-ness is awake and greeted me with a smile. What to do, ladies? Do we risk baby and toddlers?

[www.funkygiraffebibs.co.uk]] I think pass.

VQ yep, 'fraid so. She does 1.5-3hrs afternoons & about 11-12hrs at night. Only time I'm thankful my DH can be a lazy fucker as its clearly genetic...

Eliza think its more than that, plus £1 per adult plus pay for babies over 6mths (unless with paying sibling) at M Bizz. Really resent having to buy food etc esp as its all junk. At least Go Bananas do a healthier sandwich platter for kids & have a bigger choice. Unless you can time the visit for either side of lunch...

Might take cake to in-laws at weekend or serve to other in-laws coming here, & have a cream egg instead. DH bought me 12 he was obviously horny

Link fail there. You get the idea

Go pass you can always leave early...

DP has take velcro screamy DT2 to the doctor, I am home alone with DT1. I have one baby and it is so weird! We had cuddles and I didn't feel guilty for leaving the other one out! I hope he takes his time. Feeling shit today.

4 months ago today I had just been induced and had already started contracting...feeling strangely nostalgic about it.

Pass we have funky giraffes off amazon in bundles and h&m and m& s ones. All very good.

Good luck chasing today

Well done VQ and pass for booking appointments

Stunt kudos to J on naps and to O chasing

Mm I would have shouted at him a lot!

Pr good luck remote hunting

Loving the cake eating in Sophia's honour

Right packing time!

Another vote for funky giraffe here pass, if you enter the code FGBMAR13 at the checkout you get 15% off purchases over £20.

I have made a batch of white chocolate chop cookies and have eaten them all instead of lunch. You lot are all a bad influence on me

Does he take a bottle Izzy? Could you offer some EBM around 11 that would be easier to see how much he's taking? I'm trying GF so I tried to feed J at 7 (didn't want it), 11 (took a bit but puked twice, 2:30 (emptied one side and has made a start on the other). Then I'll offer again at 6:30 and he usually has a dream feed at 10:30 p.m. I don't think it will help with night time awakenings but I'm hoping he won't need a big feed in the middle of the night. If I can get rid of the hour-long 2 a.m. feed then I can work on the sleep associations and getting him to fall asleep and stay asleep in his cot over time.

Afternoon shitheads! Apologies for the following selfish rant.

I am feeling very guilty for it though.

Had a shitty night with O last night, and I've realised every single night waking has me very pissed off. I shouldn't be pissed off, but I am. I am right at the end of my tether with the whole thing now! Especially as I know he slept through, and has been doing good long stretches sometimes. It is so inconsistent though.

Last night he was cranky at 7.30, which is the earliest I have put him down for a good few weeks. He slept til around midnight, but woke for no reason. Only the white noise will send him back off. 1.50 woke, and didn't settle, so fed after snapping at DP to get up and get the bottle for him . Then he did go back in the cot, til 5.30. When he woke he was drifting back off, but kept waking. He wasn't hungry, so I put him in bed with me. He woke at 5.36, 5.42, 5.48, 5.54, 6.00, 6.06... basically, every 6 minutes til I snapped at 7.14 and demanded DP take him.

I just want 6 hours unbroken sleep. Please. That is all. It doesn't matter what time I go to bed, as he has gone back to waking for no reason. Yes, he is easily settled back in the early part of the night, but fuck me, I am fed up of it!

3 hours seems to be the maximum unbroken sleep I am allowed.

I would like to say, DP was great, he took O, and then went downstairs. But my mummy radar does not turn off. The second he whinges, I hear him and wake. So even DP taking him downstairs does not give me chance for some unbroken sleep. Likewise DP doing the night feeds is utterly pointless. I wake anyway. I find the best help is him getting me the bottles, and taking him downstairs if I am knackered from a particularly bad nap.

The only way I could sleep is if O was not in the house. That sounds awful.

Luckily, for O anyway! He has redeemed himself! DP woke me with a 'he just rolled over, not just once, but several times!'

So, I guess that explains the above shit night, and the grumpiness from yesterday. Developmental leap, yes?

Fingers crossed for improvements now.

Oh, and O is currently in his cot! . He fed at 1, and then was grumpy after it. So I swaddled him. He gave me the most gorgeous smile, and snuggled in to my arms. I gave him a quick cuddle, and he was obviously ready to sleep. So he got plonked in the cot, swaddled up, and has remained there since 1.20. This is his long afternoon nap, so I am pretty chuffed that I have not yet had to go to him. Normally his long nap, he wakes a few times, requiring settling back down.

Cot is the way forward! Viva la cot!!!

I have more to post. Think I'll do another post. This one is getting too long!

Thank fuck for sweary Wednesday - I need to join detective and passes broken fanjo club . Haven't dtd for some time, but have been aware of things being sore in the fanjo region - I just thought it was sensitive scar tissue or summat...anyway, went to GU clinic today, as they are better than GPs at fixing fanjos. Turns out there is an abscess with a discharging sinus (sorry, TMI). I've got to go back in a fortnight to see the consultant. Fucking wankbadgering fanjo. Fucksticks.

chasing glad to see O got Fs lessonplan! Hope SS is going well.
detective I feel your pain with the 6 hours. Last night was total gash, and have been up since 4.30 because of dhs snoring, which also kept F awake.
sophia happy birthday, I've just eaten half a packet of malted milks to celebrate.

Erm, had more to say but forgot.

Oh yes, congrats eliza on the weight gain, you must be delighted with how she's doing!

Spoke too soon, just had to go up! But still, that is almost 2 hours, so I see that as a victory! White noise on, he seems to be going back to sleep.

I think I need a new baby monitor. We got given one off DP's sister, but it isn't good enough for what I want.

Can anyone recommend one to me? I want a two way one, and one that doesn't need plugging in. Also, maybe thinking of a video one, but not sure.

Chasing SS will be fine, you are a damn good mummy to O, and they will see that. Remember, you did nothing wrong.

I have purchased snacks for the journey tomorrow. I am excited! Looking forward to seeing you and O! Do you want to meet somewhere? Or me come to you? Let me know what is best for you!

I am currently having a stress over how to do a days worth of bottles for tomorrow. I can't make, and bring as the cool bag only keeps cool for around 4 hours. Brockle made suggestions yesterday, but wondering if anyone else has any simple suggestions for it?! You can't get cartons of LF formula twats!. It is times like this I wish I was still breastfeeding! D'oh!

Sophia Happy bastarding birthday you 'ald arsed mothercuntingfucker! I too shall scoff some cake in your honor! Although white goods for big birthdays? NO! You need shoes, handbags, expensive technological goods, or whatever TREAT takes your fancy! Tut!

Poo forgot to say congrats eliZa on amazing weight gain!

Detective these small boys are sent to test us!

stunt he will take a bottle but I'm not sure its worth me giving him one as if he doesn't take it the milk is then wasted :( maybe I'm worrying too much and should just let him feed when he wants. At least when he was doing that he took proper feeds rather than 30second ones!!