November 2012 - GTbaby is back! Hooray hooray!

[StuntNun]

And she only missed 10,000 posts!

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of the free samples. When I left the hospital I took a few nappies, a few bottles of ready made formula, and other than that have had nothing since, though Pampers do send me money off vouchers from time to time. Which I don't use as they are for France, and I buy my nappies in Germany where they are about a third of the price.

DD1 keeps making a mess deliberately so that we can clean it up. She loves 'helping' to hoover or wipe up stuff. It's fucking annoying, and was cute the first time she did it. If I turn my back on her while she has a bowl of cornflakes she tips it out and shouts 'Mama, hoooooooover' with a look of innocence on her face. Then looks away and grins.

pass I am impressed and . I miss having a cat around the place. Not the half eaten mice strewn around the house though

My wonderful sleeping baby has been stolen & replaced by a wonderful giggling cooing (new sound today: huh) boob-monster.

Sweary Wednesday isn't very sweary today is it.

pr am too bleary-eyed to swear. I'm sure detective will be along to correct matters.

chasing my cat brings us twigs - the more leaves attached the better.

Of all days, dsds mum has gone into labour - so am off to pick dsd up imminently. Bloody knackered, and was looking forward to dh having 2 days off work, and doing some grown-up things together. Guess that won't be happening then.

Is it sunny there PR? It's sunny here. Maybe the sun has driven the swear words away.

How are you feeling today pig? Anymore like yourself?

No sun here. In fact it snowed this morning. April is normally lovely and warm. :(

Not feeling so pathetic today chasing, but a long way from feeling like me. Thankyou for asking It's just the chronic sleep deprivation - I know others have it worse, much worse, and I do not know how they manage. That's part of the reason I was looking forward to the next 2 days, but instead we will be entertaining a very boisterous over-excited 5 year old who I love lots but haven;t got the energy for

I think anyway not being able to do the stuff you used to changes how you see yourself. Pre kids I used to dive nearly every weekend - and I really, really miss it. And I miss weekends away walking, drinking and / or doing nothing with friends. Went into work for a catch up this afternoon, had been quite looking forward to restarting at the end of the yr for a little bit of time not kid related. But it did remind me that as far as 'me time' goes I've had better!

Hopefully a return to diving will be on the cards one day, but it is so time and cash intensive I can't see it happening any time soon.

Always green and slimy. Used to be green and solid. Now slimy. Can never find anyone who knows Or cares if this is ok.

In hospital as well the nurses told me off nicely for using our own nappies. They supplied maternity pads as well. Awesome to have free shit.

Penny opens her mouth whenever she touches anything. Everything would go in mouth if possible. This includes the cat. Is that normal?

Matilda tried to put the dog's tail in her mouth recently...

Det I have to reverse past 3 houses to get out of my mums drive. She lives at the end of the culdesac in a newbuild estate. The guy saw me reversing but pulled out behind me off his drive. Surely he is at fault? Fucker.

Re classes. I do baby yoga for me M is just there and have just signed up for baby sensory. Again for me as I like a lot of the mums who are going. We also did HV run baby massage. I know some people who do a different class every day and have super strict routines for their babies. I do not. We all do things differently and there is no right or wrong. Baby classes can be scary and cliquey places.

M is being a total whingebag today. I have just finished working and want to go out and buy myself a new dress to wear out at the weekend. It's my birthday on Sunday and I've been promised a nice meal out but i have nothing to wear that fits anymore . I've probably left it too late today now.

I miss someone putting me first :( The dc (rightly) get put first by DH & I, but I think he puts himself above me in his own head, & I have to put him/the family/his work first, so I'm the bottom of the list.

My skin is so dry, my hands are cracking, but I barely have time to breathe, let alone moisturise.

I return to work in October but I'm worried that Gove et al could use all my sweary Wednesday allocation on him the fucking cunting wankbadgering pissflap of a smeghead will essentially have eroded all I love about the job by then, & ripped the inkling of job security & benefits of actually doing the job, which can help you keep going when it gets tough, out of it so it'll pretty much suck balls by then.

So I really really miss being 'me' & worry that when I get back to work, it won't let me be 'me' anymore. :(

And to drink a motherfucking cup of tea when its HOT would be awesome....

Sorry. Bit self-indulgent that, but fuck it. I rarely get the chance to do what I want. Have typed this 1-handed with sleeping bubba on me so I've been doing something.

Happy birthday for Sunday mm. Hope you find yourself something lovely. You sure as hell deserve it.

Pass - entirely normal I think. But if he eats the whole cat probably time to call 111.

chunky. I am feeling similarly self indulgent. Less harassed by wankbadgering Grove, granted, but definitely concerned that my return to work will not be a bed of roses. And definitely feeling like #5 on the priority list (after the kids, dh's work and dh). In some ways being a mum is the best thing in the world but it does also suck sometimes.

Thanks bry & agree - I love being a Mum 99.9% of the time, but its the 0.1% that can get you down...

Ah well. I have new carpet. That's a good start

I too have forgotten who I am. I look in the mirror and I do not recognise the old fat tired looking woman looking back at me. I know it will get better. I know in a few short weeks I will feel great again. I am still in the baby bubble.

DH asked why I look so tired today as J only had me up once in the night. I tried again to explain about the last fucking five fucking months.

J was not so dismissive of the apple today. I mixed it with the prune juice.

pass I find it reassuring that I am not the only one with a baby producing green slime. Not entirely happy about it though, for either of the little ones. With J it could be because he is still having my shit lactose packed milk, even though it is in small amounts, but he did have two lovely yellow poos on the regular formula, so that is unlikely. It could be teething, or a bug. He seems happy enough so I will focus on that. Baby clinic tomorrow. Got 4 tubs of formula today, so that is progress.

Same here, Bry. Feels like i make all the sacrifices, only for someone to then say "Right, now I want..."

Dp is meeting with work tomorrow

Similar story here. Don.t recognise myself in the mirror. Have never been a make up person but feel like I have aged so much in two years, and the horrible hard water is attacking my skin, and I don't have the opportunity to do something about it.

I don't feel fat - the fat has gone, but I feel saggy, and find it hard to even be bothered to sit up straight, which of course makes it all worse.

I accept that it will be like this for another couple of years, and then I will get my life back. Like my old life, but better, as I'll have my two lovely children.

I have tried to raise the poo issue with various people and get no joy. The response I most often get is that BF babies have yellow poo but ff babies are different. It can feel very isolating.

Blimey pp I hope the meeting goes well tomorrow!

My DP asks questions like that VQ - I have so far resisted the temptation to lamp him :)

I miss riding. I used to play most weekends and ride 3 or 4 times in the week. Since DD1 was born I've ridden about 12 times. I would like to get back to it and to get the girls going too, but I can't see it happening any time soon. Like diving it's very time consuming and expensive.

I am, however, going to go for a brisk walk run tonight.

it's lovely and sunny here - not a sweary Wednesday at all though will happily join in Gove bashing the buggery arsing creativity bashing numpty that he is

hugs chunky. I know what you mean about being 'me' at work. I'm actually lucky as an sen teacher as we have to totally teach outside the box and Gove can't really affect what we teach.

and hugs to lots of other Fred peeps in need. you too chasing, sorry it went badly.

yes vq one good night doesn't really cancel out 5months. fx you get a few more.

feel lots better. thanks for listening to moans about dh this morning - as have various mum pals too! to be fair he is usually very supportive and had brought pate on toast for my tea in bed and has in the past brought the laptop up for me to watch housewives of nyc (even watching with me). Its as if the novelty is wearing a bit thin though at the mo and he can't get his head round the sleep going backwards. I get stressed as it feels the sleep is linked to the feeding but as ultimately I'm feeding it rests with me but as his mum if he wants the food I'll give it. tbh dh doesn't want us cosleeping but when bf it's much easier. I'm going to be pointing out how clever our son is due to all the observing in the day and feeding/ processing at night (holding toes and teddy bear rolling!) plus that if g were to be (god forbid) taken from us in some horrid accident we would wish we hadn't spent so much time arguing about his sleep.

on the teaching outside the box we had LOTS of fun with mentos in cola with one very hard class who liked exploding things!