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

[StuntNun]

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

And we'll gloss over dipping dumnies in honey....

hope tonight better detective

and everyone who had crap nights last night. my brain's mushy - was it lily and stunt and Luis?

chocolate biscuits!

ooooh mils! mine's lovely and wouldn't dare say anything but my next door neighbour is almost an adoptive classic mil. when pregnant she commented that 'the roses will have to go of course' (as toddler will hurt self) (yeah and never go near them again!!)

have two weeks of naystatin and pills for me to pick up tomorrow. nipples feel like been sanded. and lo just fed to sleep for 45 mins - we really are regressing! I'm still to email the consultant who snapped his tongue to tell her how it's going - I really want to do this without any pain to make sure. he's lots better but we got thrush almost immediately so I don't know how it feels really.

work meeting on weds I looked at wrong sheet and actually its the 22nd July my pay runs out . so looks like I'll be putting that down! I second being upfront with work detective but I understand why it's hard - I'd be quite worried.

quiche advice please! - lo likes sleeping on his side after we both fall asleep while feeding so i tried putting him on his side with a positioner in cot, he can wiggle onto his back again if so wants but it stops him rolling forward. I'm sure it helped last night. think that's ok?

clarella as long as there's no way that he can get trapped and have an impact on breathing?

Quiche toddler plus wisdom please. Today was the first full day of potty training. Hot so able to run around in the nude (dd not me). We had a 50% success rate including a poo. Should I keep going tomorrow? There were about 6 or 7 puddles which she told me about and six or seven wees plus a poo in the potty. Shall I count this as an ok to keep going?

And LO is at 21 oz so much much MUCH better :)

I am just glad my OH's parents live a 1000km away and don't speak English or Hungarian. Enough said .

O missed a bottle today. I'm in a rough night, aren't I? Sofa bed made up though.

chasing my brother's baby (now 2) apparently slept through from birth, ate every 3 hours, never sick, never cries, never whinges, etc. O cried all the time when we visited and I got tons of advice. Which I ignored.

actually I remember trying to get the pils to put g down for naps when they'd got him to sleep and they kept refusing - well, saying; oh I'm fine like this, I don't mind etc etc! (I sort of minded as wanted him to be used to being put down but at the same time it was nice they wanted to be so cuddly with him )

Clarella my DS2 slept on his side from day 1, no idea how he managed to roll on to his side so young but he wouldn't go to sleep until he got on to his side. Not sure about sleep positioners, I remember hearing bad things about them.

Keep going PR, IMO they need to learn the sensations of needing to pee before they start getting to the potty on time.

Oh and today's joke: sold an item on ebay, buyer emailed me after 5 days that she would pay me in 6 days. I emailed back that was not acceptable and opened a payment not received case. She paid me after 6 days, cause she could and ebay closes the case. That was last fri. I sent the item that afternoon and today got an email at lunch time asking where her item was cause she paid me last fri. I mean wtf? I waited 11 days for payment and she can't even wait 1 working day for the item to arrive? I am in for a negative feedback, aren't I?

Wow. My MIL is mild in comparison. The worst she has done is turn up the day after the due date (luckily, 10 days after C's birth) and treat her holiday in London as business as usual. From 10 days post-csection I was out shopping, dining, walking across to their apartment every day or two... Neither in law really stopped to think whether this is what my husband and I wanted. We also had Christmas Day at our house which mostly we catered (not that that had been the plan) - it was exhausting. And then FIL went and had a heart attack and refused to call an ambulance... wow, December had faded in my memory, and now I remember why!

In terms of parenting comments I got remarkably few, but I'm off to Australia in a few weeks so I'm sure both mum and MIL will have something to say...

oh good point about breathing he's actually sort of leaning back though so I think ok. when I've googled it seems to be ok.

I'd say yes pr - know v little about potty training but at school in the sen world of trying to get kids to do stuff I'd call that good success and something you can build on. enough positives to really praise!! but maybe another quichester with actual experience can help

Thanks stunt . A couple were definite accidents, and there was one this morning that was definitely deliberate refusal to go on the potty. After her nap it really took off.

And we have a pee dance now. I'm glad that all my neighbours work. It involves lots of arm waving and jumping and acting like a monkey.

the positioner is literally two small stuffed sausages with cloth holding together only as long as his torso so stop under his arms...

MaMaPo

night peeps as my night of cat naps begins ....

sleepy dust by the bagful (and functioning swaddles) to you all ....

Where is glenda ? I know she must be really busy with her course, but if you're lurking I hope everything is going OK.

Also came across nervous on another thread. Stunt maybe next thread title should call the quiche back together for a 6 month reunion update? I know some people are on fb but I have real trouble matching FB names to MN pseudo.

detective that is a truly shit night - hope tonight is better.

My in-laws live abroad. They have never met my DDs and probably won't now. It's a shame for them but I'm glad I don't have to deal with advice. The rest of DPs family are lovely, but we don't see much of them so I am able to cope with such gems as "crying is their weapon" and "I put them in their cot and shut the door - took 3 nights" :(

I have had another down day. Not only did N fool me with the overnight sleep, but yesterday's long nap in her cot was also a trick. Totally refused it today. Got nothing done. Again.
DP just doesn't get why this frustrates me. He is starting to drive me slightly mad. But then I suppose my low mood is starting to get on his nerves too.

pr it sounds like DD is doing pretty well with the training. I'd be tempted to keep going tomorrow and see if it's better. I am being led totally by DD1 at the moment - today she had her first accident at home since Tuesday, but doesn't tell us when she wants to go, so getting her to do it out and about is going to be a problem. I'm just going to leave her doing what she's doing and move on to the next step when she seems ready.

pr I would count that day as a success. Potty training is hard. And I say that from a DD who was realitivley easy to potty train. You'll have good days and bad days. I remember getting to day 5 and thinking I should give up for a while as we'd gone through 4 changes of clothes, but then something clicked on day 6 and it was a lot easier there on. After having been dry for 8 months she then had a bit of a regression and got scared of using toilets without trainer seats but thaat lasted about a week. So what I'm saying is although you may feel you've cracked it, accidents and regressions can creap in but shes done well for day one. Keep going. Loving the crazy wee dance!

I too was thinking of glenda the other day as she was originally up for a bluewater meet. If you're reading this I hope things are going well for you.

On the mil subject, I'm very lucky. She's great and I have a fantastic realtionship with both her and my fil. In fact they are babysitting tomorrow and again on Saturday. They live 10 mins walk away so we see a lot of them. And I'm more than happy too. They are a great help to me. Bit nervous about leaving E with them tomorrow as they haven't had her since she's had the tube in.

PR, definite success. On the nudeness, ds1 really didn't like the feeling of wet trousers when he had an accident - I wonder if that helps them understand the consequences of not doing it in the potty? As opposed to just doing it on the floor which isn't uncomfortable for them. Just a thought, it obviously means more washing though!

J has fed loads today...could he be tanking up to sleep loads tonight?!?

Really hope so Izzy!
Off to bed here, good luck everyone x

Thanks all. I will see how tomorrow goes. I'm
Very proud of her but I don't want her pressured. Dixie it's going to go cold again Friday so will dress her then...

I'm obviously putting nappies on for sleeps and may well do for outings over the next few weeks. I know advice is not to but I don't want her, with her constipation issues, getting too uptight about it all.

Doc wanted me to start as she has some rash that we haven't been able to get cleared. She thought removing nappies as much as possible would help.

kirrin "crying is their weapon" :( Babies aren't the enemy!

Best sleepy wishes to everyone. Husband is just giving C her dreamfeed now (sounds like it might have gone OK though I hear some grunting...), fx she stays asleep for a long stretch.

Everyone here asleep. I'm stuck to the news channels yet again wondering what world we have brought our children into :(

DH off to Brussels tomorrow for a couple of days. :(

O went to bed at 8.40. Woke at 9.40.

WAAAAAAAAH.

VQ Sorry about the teeth. DS1 has a cracked tooth. He won't let me take him to the dentist. It is slightly wobbly (baby tooth) so I am giving him chance to let the bloody thing fall out. He isn't complaining about it. Unless I tell him we are going the dentist.

He will need braces at some point most likely. God help me.

I never needed braces, neither did his Dad. But his Dad has crap teeth, and DS1 takes after him. Plus he's a little shit when it comes to doing his teeth. At 11, I often have to do them for him, after I've sent him to re-do them 4 times.