November 2012 - The new quiche sleepy dust crop-sprayer plane seems to be working

[StuntNun]

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I too am confused by your view you are a quitter Luis. at this age children just want their parents and you're certainly not a quitter there.

yeay for good nights!

as the last born I'm sort of hopeful we'll get there though I do think bf is the issue. like the idea of daddy milk mm...
might consider a bit of formula in a few weeks when his system has sorted out.

I'm proud of g - he slept solid 2 and half hour stints no help and possibly one was 3. it's 3 hours between feeds at mo. but at least he's sleeping between (until 4) in cot no help

pr we've just started potty training too and i am astounded at how many wees she can squeeze out in an hour! Definitely an applause junky

PR, my ds1 got potty training within a day or two, so you may find it that easy!

My little 2-year-old teenager has veered between teenage-esque sulking and very non-teenage-esque manic happiness today. We've been to messy play/singing followed by lunch with a friend at the pub - childrens' playground and kids' menu a pound when you buy an adult meal, so perfect really. And warm enough to sit outside ignores the 10 mins of spattering rain. Better go and attempt the most dangerous manoeuvre now - waking teen tot up after his nap. Yesterday resulted in an hour of moaning, crying and sulking. Wish me luck!

That's good dixie anecdotally I had heard boys take longer than girls.

I wasn't going to post today. I was feeling like utter shit. But I've dragged myself for a wet fish slap.

I lost it with both DP and O last night. I just started screaming that I couldn't do it any more that woke the fucking cunt up alright. I cried and cried and fucking cried some more.

O woke up when we went to bed. I spent 3.5 hours fucking settling him. I closed my eyes. He woke up. It was 4am by this point. I just lost it.

DP had already fucked off downstairs because I woke him for snoring as it was keeping O awake. I never even told him to go downstairs, but it left me alone dealing with a baby who wouldn't fucking sleep, but wouldn't be put fucking down either.

The problem? His swaddle was in the wash. Of course, it would have been washed and dried by the time he woke, if DP had done what I had asked at 9pm. Which was to put the swaddle on to wash. I think that was what sent me over the edge, knowing that his failure to do one simple thing meant that I would be up all fucking night. Why should I a) have to do everything myself and b) tell him to wash the fucking thing - surely that is obvious?

Urghhhhh. I am not having a repeat of last night. Ever. I feel dead inside today.

It wasn't O's fault, but I just couldn't stay up all fucking night. He finally went to sleep at 4.30, on me, and then woke frequently til 7.

You can guess how I feel about that.

Sorry.

BTw. The cunt I refer to is DP, not O!!

Am now scouring Amazon for another swaddle. Can anyone recommend one?

We have established that O can not sleep with out one - his last shit night the last night we were in Switzerland where he was up for over 2 hours was because of his swaddle too. We need another one for emergencies.

Wrapping him in a blanket doesn't work. I've got a huge blanket, but he can still escape, and then gets mad at life.

{Detective}

Detective - sounds shit. Nothing useful to add, just, sounds shit.

Sorry to hear all that Detective

I think it just got to me because without my broken fanjo, I'd be back in work in 2 weeks, and doing shifts, nights etc. I know I'm not, but the thought is there that I could have been.

And that is just too scary to fucking comprehend.

Of course if DP woke up without me waking him 16 fucking times that would help.

I did pick up put down with him last night. He is very fucking resistant to it. 2 hours of pick up put down did not work.

Of course, the lack of swaddle DID NOT FUCKING HELP DFUCKINGP.

There. Feels better. I can't say it to him, because I'd feel like a bitch.

Hugs Detective. Hopefully a better night tonight.

I went and got some cream for my coldsore this am, left both boys in the car which I don't normally do. Put cream on. Only just now occurred to me to check instructions, and you're not supposed to use Zovirax when BFing. Oops! I assume one dose won't hurt much. But any other bfers suffer from them? Is there anything I can use?

Ah yes. PUPD. I attempted that this afternoon under the watchful critical eye of MIL. We also hit the 2 hour mark. Disaster. Now flaked out on the sofa.

Det we really rated the summer microfleece Velcro swaddle - we got ours off Amazon. Could only find the bigger size in pink - but am sure O could rock pink. I would send it but it was such a deity of sleep in our house its being kept for when we have another.

Just a quickie on phone to catch up with you all. Lots of lurve being sent quichewards and fish slaps for those what require. All good here - just watching savings being transferred to DIY, electrical and Swedish furniture stores! Shouldn't whinge it feels a bit like Christmas Also the bear is edging toward one night feed - as of yet without the bottle of water trick.

Weaning starts this week - we has joined the antilop high chair club - I loved the wooden IKEA one but given we bought a sofa bed, a single bed, a chest of drawers, two bathroom units, a wall to ceiling TV / shelving unit, bedding, kitchen stuff, composting bins, etc etc figured we'd be best going for the one that was a quarter of the price. Beans on toast for the rest of April!

Hey, fellow weaners. Is this just us? L can selectively vomit foods up. Gave her leak this morning, then she had milk, then prunes, then more milk, then more milk. This is over the last 6 hours or so.

She's just thrown the leak up. Is this normal or freaky?

wow bplp there is no way I'd want to be doing pupd with an audience! That must have been stressful!

Leeks go in, not leaks, they come out. Stupid sleepy brain

Some foods take longer to digest Luis. The milk and prunes will go through relatively quickly prunes for poo, yes?. Leeks, longer.

YW That is the one we have but in jungle not pink!! have been looking at others, as the velcro is wearing down, and Houdini can escape from it. Looked at this one but the picture puts me off, it looks a little. Um. Odd?!

Thank fuck. DP's laptop has finally fucking arrived. He has driven me mental for 3 weeks. And has spent the entire day watching out the window.

Addict.

Just back from physio, she cried so much. I will put a pic on facebook, i know it's good for her but it's hard to see her crying.

det hugs
vq posted the insulator
dixie i used zovirax two weeks ago. I didn't read the instructions, ops. O was fine. I also got the cold sore patches, they were rubbish.

Luis while weaning DD1 leek (mixed with potato) was the only thing she vomited. Quite spectacularly. Happened twice I think and then she just got used to it.

Oh Detective, that is a hands-down shitful night. We've had a swaddleless night here before - they just suck.

BabyC is an expert houdini so I really recommend the Ergopouch (www.ergopouch.co.uk/products/swaddles-and-wraps). I got the Ergococoon 0.2 tog as a gift, then bought the hybrid swaddle (swaddle+sleeping bag - no blankets!). We use the first for naps and the second for nights. They have arms poppers for transitioning out. They're not cheap but the quality is excellent.

Afternoon.

Sounds tough det. We also use the summer swaddle me microfibre. We will be using it until the end of this week I reckon then bye bye swaddle. Arms out is working a treat. She looks like a little geisha.

I was trying PUPD in public as well BP. I think we were about 1.5 hours in front of inlaws. Thankfully MIL had nothing but praise for my perseverance. Makes you feel so much better when the little eyes finally shut and someone says "pet, you'll be needing this" and hands you a big

Just at dentist with DD1. Waiting 30 mins already. Not fair on an adult let alone a child awaiting an extraction. And my fucking blackberry has taken this long to load this page. DH is home with the two youngest. I fed them all before we came out.

Cat thinks the natural order of things has been restored. She is on my knee and P is on the floor knocking three shades of shit out of freddie firefly.

We had a battle of the Lamaze toys - freddie in one corner and captain calamari in the other. She looked torn but freddie won (lost? Depends on your point of view) in the end.