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StuntNun · 12/04/2013 15:10

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1725957-November-2012-Poor-sleep-deprived-mummies-and-daddy

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PetiteRaleuse · 15/04/2013 10:03

I think she is going through a I don't want to be a baby like LO I want to be a big girl like mummy phase. It shall pass. Sometimes she deliberately tips her cornflakes or breadcrumbs on the floor so that I have to get the hoover out. She also draws on the floor so that she can justify getting a babywipe and using it to clean it up Hmm

She doesn't get it from me.

Izzybuzzybuzzybees · 15/04/2013 10:15

Luis I'd love to hear any snippets of advice that may help.

Can't remember who else asked. I've started a post in sleep so maybe post there to save filling the thread up!

We don't have a bedtime routine as such because DS shows no pattern at all. Currently he feeds downstairs in his jammies and when he falls asleep is put in bag in cot. That's about the extent of routine! Bedtime is 11pm at the earliest!

PetiteRaleuse · 15/04/2013 10:45

Just put my Wire boxset on ebay. Can't get into it. Am considering putting Friends set up too. Love it but know off by heart... And by the time the girls are old enough will be too dated. Right?

FatimaLovesBread · 15/04/2013 10:52

How long does the sleep regression last? I'm exhausted. I know M's sleeping better than some but I'm fed up of having a maximum of three hours sleep in one go. I'm lusting after the nights when I got 6 hours. I'm constantly tired, wondering if I'm anaemic again. And the exhaustion is making me more anxious in the night.

Got a shit hole house to tidy up today and DH to find a job. PIL think he should start his own business. Where the hell do they think we're going to find the time and money to do that? Apparently all he needs is his own van (paid for with magic money obv) and he won't have to pay tax the first year Hmm

Sophiathesnowfairy · 15/04/2013 10:52

Is there a new quiche word? Shiz/shizzle? What does it mean? Sorry if I have just made myself look really old and square. Like Toby.

kirrinIsland · 15/04/2013 11:19

mm I could have written your post about formula. I wanted to get to 6 months too, but I just can't do it and I feel like I have failed :(

sophia I've never heard shizzle before either!

MaMaPo · 15/04/2013 11:21

Ooh, I'd take The Wire off your hands PR! Is it on eBay UK?

Just put c into a new sleep suit my inlaws brought over from Aus - it has little foldover feet, like lots of them have for hands. So cute!

PetiteRaleuse · 15/04/2013 11:28

No sorry it's in France. I just don't get it. The acting is great but it is just so depressing and I don't need depressing at the moment.

MaMaPo · 15/04/2013 11:37

That sounds a little bit like Breaking Bad, PR. Every episode I've seen has been really great, but it's so confronting I just can't bring myself to watch another episode. So I've been entertaining my brain with complete fluff like Smash.

Passmethecrisps · 15/04/2013 11:37

Shiz = shit.

Fo shizzle = for sure

Hip hop gangsta speak.

I used to use these and others like 'awesome' ironically. Now I just use them all the time.

I have my DH to blame - he is a big Snoop Dogg fan

FatimaLovesBread · 15/04/2013 11:38

Had a bargain find this weekend that lily will like.
Managed to get this pop up travel cot for £1.60 cash!!
Went to the Mamas and Papas factory outlet and they had a "refurbished" one reduced from £75rrp to £24. Got it to the till and it had 10% off. Used a twenty pound voucher that I'd been given and hasn't found anything to spend it one that I wasn't going to have to put loads towards so in the end it only cost is £1.60! Grin

StuntNun · 15/04/2013 11:40

Sorry to hear of continued rubbish sleep. We're the same here, two hours awake and seemingly in pain in the middle of the night.

GT my DH's auntie had twins then ten months later had her third baby. She swears it's easier on the body if you get pregnant again within a year because everything is still 'loose' from the last baby.

Luis my dad had a nervous breakdown aged 44. He had to retire, my mum went back to work and he never worked again. That is apart from raising three children from when we were 10, 7 and 2. He was the one who looked after me when I was sick. He was the one who read me bedtime stories. He was the one that took me to school, and the dentist, and music lessons. He made my school lunches and my dinner every day. I know he missed being the breadwinner and he missed working life as well. But a quitter he ain't. You feel bad now because things are so hard, especially with difficult nights. But J is going to amaze you with what he gets up to as time goes by. And the nights will get easier. I am going to have to give you a hefty for feeling guilty over genetics, that's one thing none of us can have any influence over.

Lily I'm in the OU club too. Two exams in June and I am bricking it. My brain doesn't work anymore, how am I supposed to understand maths?

I would see the GP Chunky, some ear drops may be all that's needed.

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Passmethecrisps · 15/04/2013 11:40

I love the wire - especially the third series. But I had to watch the first series three times. I started again with the subtitles and that made a big difference. Not easy watching though.

We started Breaking Bad having watched a couple of series of Dexter so we kind of expected it to be the same. It wasn't and it took us most of the first series to start really wanting to watch the next one. It is dark and sad. I watched the first series with a weight of sympathy in my stomach.

PetiteRaleuse · 15/04/2013 11:48
  • do you need to do a wee DD1?
  • oui
  • get on the potty then
  • non

And goes and squats under the dining table and does her wee there.

And then gets on the sodding potty and applauds herself.

Day one of toilet training.

They're having a nap now. Time for ironing. Oh the drudgery.

BigPigLittlePig · 15/04/2013 11:55

pr I have such a comical mental image of your dd, made up of all the little stories I've read of her. A hoover-wielding, potty-dodging madamoiselle crying oui/non/hoss Grin

LuisGarcia · 15/04/2013 11:58

Thank you all for all the lovely things you are saying about me, but they are not necessary. My point was meant to be that it's normal to feel guilty about things and worry about how you are doing your job as a parent.

Passmethecrisps · 15/04/2013 12:16

The guilt thing is like a fucking steam train. There is a whole industry built around parental guilt. People get rich on our worries and guilt.

StuntNun · 15/04/2013 12:16

I still reckon you deserved a Luis Grin

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MadamGazelleIsMyMum · 15/04/2013 12:27

I think guilt is the emotion I feel most often - well, it's neck and fucking neck with knackered.

MaMaPo · 15/04/2013 12:27

I have sympathy for those of you doing OU or any sort of study. I couldn't engage my brain now if I tried. I am DONE with my education. I caught up with an old university friend on the weekend who I probably haven't seen for 8 years. We were catching up on each others careers and at one point she started counting on her fingers then looked at me aghast and said 'Hang on, you were at uni for eleven years?' Sadly, her arithmetic was correct. I am DONE with my education, did I mention that?

Great news on the work front though - I contacted my old boss in Australia to let him know that I'm returning and will up for work in late 2013/early 2014, and he just emailed to say 'Impeccable timing, we're putting in a tender for your work, if we get it the role will be yours.' dancing inwardly.

Sophiathesnowfairy · 15/04/2013 13:14

Shiz I have a busy afternoon ahead.

FatimaLovesBread · 15/04/2013 13:26

Shiz how is it half one already?!

ChasingDaisy · 15/04/2013 13:51

Luis I am afraid that as a quiche member you will have to accept having nice things said about you. And a fish slap now and then Grin

Lily I can't begin to understand what you are going through but I am very glad you can find some support here. Please make sure you keep using us for support as much as you need over the coming weeks.

I agree with Sophia regards breastfeeding. I managed a grand total of 3 days. Those of you that are still going, with or without problems, get a lot of respect from me.

O seems to have settled into a pattern of waking for feeds at midnight and 4am and into bed for a cuddle at 6. He usually gets a total of 11 hours which I am happy with. I don't think he will be able to sleep longer than 4/5 hours until we start weaning as he simply doesn't eat enough in the day.

In other news I got wolf whistled at whilst pushing O in the pram. I thought that ship had sailed so it was quite nice. Unless they were being ironic Hmm

PetiteRaleuse · 15/04/2013 14:23

Ridiculously excited about a pee in the potty here. DD1 of course, not LO. She is soooo proud of herself. Wants to do another one already but doesn't realise that unless her pelvic floor has been tested by pregnancy or unless she has a UTI she won't be able to pee twice in a row.

:o

PetiteRaleuse · 15/04/2013 14:40

I spoke too soon. Has done another. Not bad for day one. Though admittedly this is the second day one at least :o