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

You know it doesn't bode we'll for a good night's sleep when the first wake up & feed is before you've even gone to bed...

Det I'm with VQ my thought was CMPI and maybe O is going through what the Valium Prince went thru a couple of weeks ago? (ie coming down from the initial benefit of the LF which might have masked the real issue?). VQ how is your lovely boy doing?

Operation big cot so far - so good. Though he's slowly turned diagonal across it and has a hand through the bars. He's so going to wake up and twat it isn't he? He also fed down for only 50 minutes!!

Bryzoan yup dairy free sucks ass, big hairy spotty ass. Am counting down to October when I intend to double my cholesterol levels overnight such will be the wonders of my cow juice based feasting

Amusing yesterday, one friend saw another friend at a toddler group she doesn't normally go to yesterday. Hadn't seen each other for about a year but I'd told friend 1 the other was preggers a while back. Friend 1 saw 2 in a loose smock top and says to 2, when's the baby due? Friend 2 says, she's over there in her carseat, she was born 7 weeks ago! Oops! Was v amusing to watch.

Oh and my 2-yr-old keeps calling me 'you silly old fool'. Thanks Nanny Plum.

Can I have an early swear? So fucking sick of expressing loads of good milk only for C to turn her nose up at it. It keeps happening. I'm bloody pissed off as its an extra feed a day in producing, plus I can't have any real non baby time. FFS little girl just drink the goddamn milk.

If anyone has any tips, please, for the love of god, pass them on.

Thanks Clarella - that's really helpful advice. Didn't realise you could get calcium tabs.

Mamapo our dietician advised us to use cheapy supermarket bottles with latex rather than silicone teats (as are warmer and more like a nipple) and if absolutely necessary dilute some sugar in water and apply a few drops of sugar water to the teat to get them to suck. I've not tried this yet but our wee man is a bottle avoider so I'm going to give this a go soon.

mama have you taste the milk to see if it tastes ok? After trying M with expressed for a bit I discovered it tasted minging, I think I have high lipase so I now scald it before cooling and putting in the fridge. Keeps it tasting ok. However she still won't take a bottle, can't work out how to suck

We took M swimming tonight, she loved it. All smiles and happy shrieks

mm1 I think my M and your M have some telepathic copy-cating going on. Got ready for swimming, waiting to set off I check my FB and there's a picture of your M waiting to go swimming in the exact same gilet as my M is sat wearing waiting to go swimming
They also both decide to do a bit of BLW on the same day and last week she had the stripey blue and white babygrow with the pink elbow patches on the same day as you put a pic of M on FB in it.

Right, fingers crossed it's a good night. Got to be up and out early

YW he is pretty wonderful now. I think he needs something more for reflux possibly as only on carobel, but hopefully with CMP out of the way, he will be ok. He is taking the px formula fine now thankfully. Very little bm had, and the difference in him is notable when nip is involved, which saddens me. But the main thing is that he is ok, so if I need to stop bm then so be it.

Detective perhaps you could try him again? J was not keen, but if hungry they will eat. J had a choice of boob or yucky formula. He chose the formula as it does not hurt him. Or try another brand?

And his poos are now soft formed! Yay! Still fucking stinky and green, but not hurting him now thank fuck!

Bryzoan we have final jabs on Thursday - am nervously anticipating a tricky hellish night.

Mamapo could you offer her perhaps only 2oz at a time? Ie. only heat up that much, so that if she won't take it, the remainder could be frozen for another day? F will only take ebm if it is hot. Really hot. We have to reheat it mid-bottle if she has anything more than 3oz fussy mare

I am going to be in a world of pain tomorrow. Aqua-aerobics was hilarious. And hard, hard work. Nearly fell down the stairs of the leisure centre afterwards . It was lovely to have a couple of baby free hours though!

How spooky fatima ! Defs 2 little copycats

YW I could do Friday afternoon? Can't wait to see the house!! Did you get the dandelion light from ikea??

Took M swimming on my own today. Decided to go to an 'exclusive holiday park' leisure suite that is open to the public outwith peak season (simply because the decent council pool near us was shut). Never again. The facilities were awful and the pool was freezing despite quoting very warm temps on their website. and I got very lost trying to find it. They might receive a costic email yet

I am dreading the toddler years.

M is asleep! Bedtime daddy milk seems to be enough to knock her out for 5 hours!! I still feel a bit about giving her formula and have shed several tears over it the past 3 days but it seems to be doing the trick to make her sleep! Failing that, like kirrin 's theory this is all a show for dp and she will go back to half hourly wakings when he goes back offshore on Thursday

Also AIBU to be pretty angry with him? (read bloody furious!) I mentioned at the weekend I fancy going away for a few days after I have got my current clients through their exams. In my head I meant center parcs or maybe a city break. The muppet has gone out and spent £250 on a fucking stove for his teepee so we can go camping with M. Ffs, I hate camping! (unless it involves copious amounts of wine in a field at a music festival!) And £250?! On a stove?!?! So my question: do I evict him to the garden to live in his fucking tent (a norwegian lavu?) with his fucking stove or should I put the whole lot including him on eBay? Or just get a grip and stop whinging and let him be

Sorry mm that last bit of your post made me laugh! Havent caught up with Fred yet as am nackered but the image of your dp sat out in some kind of tiny tent round his stove made me smile!

So much to read, so little time, eyelids very heavy, will catch the twatting hell up tomorrow I hope! Also before I forget, I mixed the root veg with plain mashed potato and he ate about a dozen spoons, still pulled a face but it was a huge improvement! Guess it tasted a bit too rank strong before. Question: can baby rice be used to water down flavours in this way or just plain potato? Or do I keep offering the rank strong root veg purée and he will learn to like it without the added mash?

Feel so rude for asking q and not replying to any of you! Please forgive me, I wouldn't normally do this am just v sleepy and got an early start tomorrow

Sorry kyz I'm not sure although cannot see any reason not to mix with baby rice? If only it were a tiny tent. It sleeps 12....

Oh MM I know it isn't funny... but it so is!

This might make you laugh though....!

A couple of years ago, DP and I had a conversation. I was whinging at him because he had a small amount of money in a savings account, that he kept saying he was going to withdraw. I asked him what he was doing with the money and he kept saying to me, oh, I know what I'll do with the money, it is something we will both like, but I'm not telling you. Well, the control freak in me needed to know exactly where the money was going. We were pretty skint that month, and quite frankly, the money would have been useful. I went on and on at him, til he said he was using the money for a tent.

Well, I ranted and raved at him at how selfish he was, and if he wanted to live with me, we needed fucking food on the table, not a tent sitting in the fucking shed... and I don't even LIKE FUCKING CAMPING.

Because I was on such a steam roller of a rant DP thought I was going to leave him. So that was how he proposed. To get me to shut up about the fucking tent he was using as a cover story . He was planning to buy a ring with the money. He wanted to get the ring and propose first. But because I made such a song and dance over him 'wasting it on fucking camping' I got proposed to by a man almost in tears!

Of course I knew he wasn't going to buy a fucking tent. I just wanted to pick my own ring

Bad me.

And sorry. If you are reading this DP.

Very bad me. Knows she will be forgiven

Oh, and I did pick my ring. But had an allergic reaction to it . So now it sits in a box. Useful huh!

Haha detective.
When ever me n DH have n argument he always brings up that he bought me an expensive ring n how I never wear it. It's a waste of money. Of course he knows that said ring doesn't fit on my finger any more!
So my reply is always "sry for getting so fat giving you a child, n besides the ring actually cost you £xxx, I know, I've seen the receipt"
But this is ALWAYs how the argument goes.

Right off to catch up on days thread...

Kyz good idea about using baby rice with strong tastes. Then increase slowly.
In book I've got (created by a formula company) they suggest putting home made puree into porridge.
So I think putting other stuff in baby rice should work to?

Also det. I've been wondering if LO is going thro a developmental leap. Sleeping LOADs during day as well as night. But also doing alot of new stuff. Like rolling. Picking up toys. Kinda moving hand towards toy when being given them rather then having to put in hand. Putting toys in his mouth. Noticed in last week.

He makes funny faces when eating papaya. But I'm determined he will keep trying it til he likes it.
But he seems to love banana. Also when I was eating toast I "offered" him some n he tried biting it. Which made me laugh.

Dix hope ur sleeping well.

Evil n catbag. I'm sure I've read somewhere that some one put ready break in food processor to make it finer.
Also evil maybe compare the ingredients and sugar/salt levels to see how similar they are nxt time your at the super market?

Didn't catch up on much. Got side tracked by Xbox thread. Lol.

Still can't sleep
"Cold" was awful today. Coughing makes me puke throat hurts. N it feels like my stomach is sore? like where my actual digesting stomach is. Not my tummy. Brain is trying to break out of head. N for some reason my ear hurts. Not inside, like the actual cartilage. Maybe form laying down so much?
So grateful for staying at mums wana stay here forever.

Right off to look at active convs. As sleep dusting plane has totally forgotten me. Night

Poor snotty unhappy g is stuffed full of calpol and still whingeing and wriggling on me. Every transfer attempt in the last 2hrs has crashed miserably. I am knackered. Don't trust him to sleep on me safely tonight as he's a bit warm and wriggly. I'm knackered. Almost tempted to go get a coffee so I can stay awake safely with him. But don't want him to have the caffeine when I next feed him. Sleeeeeeeep little g. Where is that bloody plane anyway?

Which reminds me. Dh's grandad once tried to plant a crop of turnips by scattering them from a plane. Apparently they went everywhere - they were even growing on the church roof.