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November 2012 - GTbaby is back! Hooray hooray!

999 replies

StuntNun · 01/04/2013 17:48

And she only missed 10,000 posts!

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1717592-November-2012-Were-ready-for-Spring-any-time-now-please

OP posts:

Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

Set a reminder

ChasingDaisy · 04/04/2013 18:13

Nope, not insurance, customer/public service. I was one of the good guys

TheDetective · 04/04/2013 18:22

MM I think you lose 2 years, or 3 years at most. Your ins. company should be able to let you know. I know for mine I lost 2, and I wrote my new car off :(

VQ See, the problem I have - and you will have this too possibly?! - is if I am going anywhere, like tomorrow, travelling. Making up feeds as I go is impossible. As you can not get LF formula pre made, I need to know the answers to my questions. Whatever the fuck they think about the guidelines, he isn't on a standard milk! Waaaaaaaaaaah!

TheDetective · 04/04/2013 18:23

O has been asleep since 3.30pm. He has made the odd grumble, but gone back to sleep. Fuck. I hope this doesn't fuck up tonight! I'm waking him soon as DP gets home! so I can get him fed.

TheDetective · 04/04/2013 18:25

No need. He's clearly read my mind. Or MN and heard the word feed.

ValiumQueen · 04/04/2013 18:56

detective I think everyone makes feeds up in advance. LF is a bummer for going out and about I agree. I miss the convenience of cartons. I would add the Gaviscon after heating. I would not worry too much about the dose either. It is not something like calpol that can have serious consequences for overdose.

TheDetective · 04/04/2013 19:08

I'm more worried about him not getting enough lol!!

Also miss the cartons! We only used 1 week, but right now, would be ideal for traveling. Aside from the fact they aren't sterile once open, so airport make you give unsterile feeds.

At least we won't have to taste these, as we have his prescription.

I still don't get the whole tasting the formula shit.

TheDetective · 04/04/2013 19:09

I do add it after heating, but wanted to know if it was possible to add to feeds when they are made for the day, thus it would need heating at feed time. If that makes sense.

TheDetective · 04/04/2013 19:10

Help! Sophia MM and any other bugabooers!! Been offered a 2006 cameleon for £120, is this good? And what do I need to know? I know nothing about them! But we do need a second pushchair. Honest.

BigPigLittlePig · 04/04/2013 19:15

vq she's 19 weeks - so bang in sleep regression territory. It's just hit really hard this time, not sure why. This too will pass, right?

Passmethecrisps · 04/04/2013 19:25

Alright duders.

det re dose. I spoke to GP and he reckoned either just give the full amount in the amount of water you normally would or make the bottles to 8oz, add the gaviscon, mix well and pour out extra before adding formula. In doing this you realise just how much shaking the gaviscon needs to be properely mixed . To my knowledge you can heat after adding. In answer to your question about getting the bugger in there I have never had this issue having TT bottles. However, you could empty several sachets into a Tupperware container and use a baking spoon to measure it into the bottles.

ValiumQueen · 04/04/2013 19:31

bp it will pass, and it is the hardest as you are fucking knackered, have seen better nights and feeding, and you are fucking knackered! Did I say you are fucking knackered? I feel as if I am poking my nose out of the far end of a pretty dark tunnel. One sleep does not make a healed mummy, but I know we are nearly there.

Soon your little angel will be past this spurt and regression, will be starting solids so feeding less, will be calm and well rested, as will you, will be rolling, sitting up, crawling, walking, talking, and you will probably find yourself right back here again with a toddler to contend with too. It will pass, and it will be so very wonderful being able to enjoy your awesome little baby whilst being relatively well rested.

You will never again sleep the sleep of a pre-parenthood person, as you will always have one ear open, but your life will be so much richer for the presence of that person that it really doesn't matter one jot.

Passmethecrisps · 04/04/2013 19:32

BP kick the loving shit out of that fucking zebra. Seriously, the last few days have felt like this in crisp towers. As others are saying take some time, any time, out on your own. 5 minutes under a really hot shower always makes me feel masses better. If the wee one gets upset she will survive until you come back. Call me a bad mum but P just has to wait if I need the loo or my teeth brushed. They cope and you will get a tiny bit if your life back.

Same to PP actually. I know it is easier said than done though so tell me to fuck off if it just doesn't seem possible. I am sorry you have had such a tough time though.

Passmethecrisps · 04/04/2013 19:33

ValiumQueen · 04/04/2013 19:34

pass how very clever. Obvious now you say it!

Passmethecrisps · 04/04/2013 19:37

And I hear you with the lack of premade speshal formula. I premake a bottle immediately before I go out and stick it in an insulated bag. If I will be out fr longer than 1 bottle then I take a powder container and make a point of going somewhere with boiling water. I am completely paranoid about not havig food for p so I always have a bottle made up with me if I am going out longer than half an hour or so. The snow really scared me. Despite never actually going anywhere in the car.

Lily311 · 04/04/2013 19:40

detective you will regret the bugaboo. Oscar is long and my friend's baby grew his out by the age of 2, he was just too big for the seat. Get a Maclaren (recommend quest), it's small and handy.

O was much better today but wasn't napping much. She was so tired by 6 but managed to push bedtime till 7. I trully hope she will sleep tonight.

Going to bed early tonight, i am in desperate need of sleep.

glendatheveryexcitedwitch · 04/04/2013 19:42

Detective - that's a bargain if its in good nick!!! I my bugaboo

ValiumQueen · 04/04/2013 19:45

I think a lot about ex-pat and the loss of her beautiful girl. One thing she said really stuck with me - how very long her girl had become. Odd how that, of all things, would stick in my mind. Anyway, today I was watching my loon of a 6yo dancing to Victorious Take a Hint, and she is so very long. She has got so very long so quickly. I remember how I thought those fat little legs of hers would never grow, buying clothes for a 6yo in a charity shop and thinking she would never have legs long enough to fit them. Those trousers were flapping at half mast today, and hanging off her bony little hips. They grow. And fast. Take time to enjoy their glorious fatness, shortness, immobility and inability to answer you back

I am so very grateful for my beautiful long girl, who is fit and well and happy. And the other two who are not that far behind!

ValiumQueen · 04/04/2013 19:48

Everybody gets a Maclaren eventually. It just depends how much money you want to spend waste before you get one.

BigPigLittlePig · 04/04/2013 19:49

I'm having a haircut tomorrow, so hopefully that will make me feel a bit better less like a tramp Today has just been a bad one all round. DH suggested that dsd might like to move her zebra from the middle of the kitchen floor, if she wanted it to see another day, so sadly will have to find something else to boot, should the need arise.

I have a very clear memory of my mum totally losing the plot over something very minor, when I was about 5, and throwing a paint set across the room. Only time it ever happened, and I can remember wondering why she had got so cross over something so trivial. Now I completely get it. It was called 5 years of sleepless nights (gah, 5 years?!)

Clarella · 04/04/2013 20:06

Oh - I had written a post on my phone but its not here..... Will find later. It had lots of hugs for lots of people.

Pidj, if there's one thing this Fred does its reassure it too shall pass. Big hugs x

Ummm. Am downstairs. Have been since 7:15. Typing on tablet dh bought to 'help' with predicament of being chained to baby all eve. Baby in COT. Asleep. And didnt feed to sleep. Ummmm....

Ok, it was jabs today....

Not quite sure what to do with myself.

Am sure rest of night will be shit mind. I just care about bedtime being right. I will not be on bedtime live which I noticed dh recorded as I'm sure a nudging pointed point and I deleted without watching

BigPigLittlePig · 04/04/2013 20:08

I think F could sense my fragile mood need for sleep and has been asleep on me since 7, had 1 failed transfer, and just put her in her cot with a bit more success. I'm going to make a hot chocolate and retreat to bed myself, with my book.

Night all.

Luis I look forward to reading your comments in the morning - they always manage to cheer me up.

Clarella · 04/04/2013 20:09

We're thinking of an out n about 360.... My travel system was £80 second hand so we're going shiny new. Like the lightness, all terrain, fold up smallness, can carry a pretty heavy childless.

Clarella · 04/04/2013 20:09

Child- ness

Clarella · 04/04/2013 20:14

Vq that was a beautiful post further up the Fred.

Must admit giving into cosleeping has helped me a lot today. I think hes leant to teddy roll by rolling on and off my boob

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