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

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Mm - gutted for you re the campingt stove - though vaguely shocked to hear it is possible to spend £250 on one. I would send him to camp in the garden for the forseeable future to ensure good value for money on it.

Another transfer fail. If he does go and camp in the garden could he take g with him?

Now I completely get the spending 250 on a stove, and am extremely jealous of his tent. That is some kit he has. I now want to ask about what he sleeps on and in when camping but clearly do not want to be inflammatory. He has gone up in my estimation. Slightly

I use baby rice like that. My kids hated potato for a good year. Made them gag.

I once had a boyfriend who had a special camping dustpan and brush for sweeping his tent. It was just like a normal dustpan and brush but smaller. Very strange.

Second wake up since he went down at 8 but it's been a battle both times - 1h20 at 1am just to make Tired Baby sleep come on dude, mummy deserves another hour or two!

Bad mummy here. O woke at 9 and 12, drained both bottle. Woke at two and she got ignored. She slept till 6.30 after.

Fuck fuck fuckity fuck. Hello Sweary Wednesday. My phone predictive text now includes fuckity .

Total brain fade today, I read all the posts and promptly forgot most of them. Except MM and the camping stove. £250? Seriously? I cannot imagine camping with a baby.

Not too bad a night last night, only two wakenings.

I got my last two assignments done for my OU course yesterday so it's on to exam revision now. I deferred my exam from October so I have to try and remember what I was studying this time last year.

I fucking hate camping. My ex was really into it but when we were planning our honeymoon on a ranch in Mexico which was going to be free as was owned by a family friend (his family, not mine unfortunately) he said ooh we can go on a hike through the Mexican mountains and camp out.

No, on honeymoon I don't want to camp. I want the ranch, its decent food, its comfy beds and horses and pool. So we decided he would go off into the mountains for our honeymoon and I would enjoy everything the ranch had to offer.

We weren't a good match and the wedding never happened. He was a cunt.

All that to say I fucking hate camping.

Potato is sticky and starchy so not the easiest of first foods for all babies.

Good night here. Up at 6.

Day three of potty training starting ok. No accidents sofar. Hadn't factored in the fucking dog needing to mark his territory over accidents. Twat.

Tonight I just know he will be up all fucking night. It's like a guarantee! After amazing night comes atrocious night!

He did 7.30-7 with one minor grumble at 12 which was quickly soothed. He is now back to sleep. Even though DP swore blind he tried to get him asleep properly and couldn't. Amazing how a little gentle rhythmic rocking and patting with White noise has him in the land of nod.

Early bed for him again tonight. Seems it makes little difference if he stays up later or not. May as well enjoy some extra evening hours!

Camping with a baby is so much easier than at any other age. Boo was camping from 7 weeks old. Loved it. But she was bf and slept. We did not go last year due to pg and her age as it would have been awful. We plan to go this year as it is the only holiday we can afford, and the only way we get to see in laws as I will not stay there any more.

Even if the other option was staying with my ILs I wouldn't camp :o

Next time we go there we'll probably stay in a local campsite but in a mobile home / chalet thing. I look at those glamping sites and wonder why people pay so much for a hotel room in the cold with added insects.

About 3hrs sleep in one hr chunks.
Just cleaned a poonami and I have sick on my shoulder
Toddler is screaming because she wants me to play with her.
Hello Wednesday.

Pr - separate honeymoons?!?!?! Sounds like you had a lucky escape.

Det - would you like to train g for me? I could send him up for a week of sleep school?

Well done on assignments stunt.

Right - off to face the meltdown...

7 hours His best ever. I think it was just because he was absolutely shattered after not napping well yesterday and being out past his bedtime.

We also have O's last jabs on Friday so it will all go to shit then anyway.

I think he is also developmentally leaping at the moment - according to Wonder Weeks this is a biggie.

Morning fuckwits. We got 8-6 so I shall consider myself blessed.

Papaya for breakfast and mixed root veg for lunch here. I tried him on broccoli last night mixed with courgette and potato. Have concluded he will eat anything apart from plain baby porridge but I agree that is rank!

250 on a stove! Mm he would be in garden!

Det that is a good night! Bry big hugs for a crap one

Well, my

Bed at 7, up 4 times....bleurgh. Taking ds1 for first swimming lesson today. It's parents in the pool with kids. My mum's coming to watch & have Teddy. Trying to get us all ready, fed & in pool by 9.45....! If everyone could just stop pooing for five minutes it might be possible...

Love these camping stories. Mini dustpan and brush, hee!

Disrupted night but only one feed - but up for ages with ?wind, and needed some dummying in the wee hours to get her to sleep beyond 5am.

Is it possible we have a temporary nap progression in this house? C was always a crappy napper, would never sleep in crib and always fought me when tired. At about 15 weeks she magically would fall asleep in her crib if I got the timing right, and this culminated 2 days ago with 2 90 minute naps in her crib. Magic! Since then, when I jump in her cues and even try to rock her to sleep, she fights like a champion. Yesterday it took 90 minutes to get her to have a morning nap. This morning looks the same. Maybe that was my brief experience of having a baby who napped, and now it's gone. It was so good!

Great sleep Chasing - you deserved it after your evening.

Well, my theory was right! N took ages to settle but then slept 1-3 4- still asleep now I'm resisting the urge to poke her.

I've expressed, emptied the dishwasher, put on a load of washing, wiped down the kitchen and bathroom and watched 2 episodes of postman bloody pat Every day should be a sleepy day!

Have just promised DD1 that if she tidies her toys I will let her hoover later on. I hope this liking every thing clean and tidy phase goes on forever for a nice long while.

Morning flanges,

I fucking hate camping. Hate it with a fucking passion. I realised this while in a tent on the side of a mountain in the wilds of Mexico with a group of teenagers. It was fucking miserable. I did it again - just to be sure. Still fucking hated it.

Little miss p has developed a weird habit of waking at 6:30 and doing a massive poo. 6:30 is absolutely fine really but it will mean adjusting our day. She seems still tired so I am not sure she really wants to be up but seems daft to do anything else.

Last few mornings DH has tried to get her up and give me an extra hour - p and fate conspire against this every time. Yesterday her poo was massive and explodey so she needed a full change of clothes. Then DH accidentally splashed the bottle warmer water in the medicine bottle so the whole lot had to go down the drain, bottle rinsed in boiling water etc etc. the whole while P is having a flaky as she is hungry.

This morning I get up to change her poo nappy to let DH get medicine and bottle sorted. I go back to bed but lie there listening to wailing and whining and an increasingly exasperated DH. I come down to find a full bottle of milk and DH standing in the kitchen with P pleading with her to be quiet. Basically she just wouldn't drink anything for him.
Not a drop.

Overnight she woke every 45 minutes from 3am. All that was needed was the dummy but I feel like I have worn a path between my bed and next door. Not sure what is happening with her. Hope it passes

Camping, ugh. Not for me. I like my home comforts.

O just had his first taste of food! He was watching me drinking a fruit smoothie so I smeared some on my finger and let him lick it off. He loved it! Think I may bring weaning forward to 24 weeks. I am wary as he still doesn't drink much milk, but maybe that is a good reason to start weaning? I forget what the readiness signs are.

woohoo - 2 lots of solid 3 hours sleep for lo! fed at 12 and 3 then gave the sodding trimethoprim.

he sleeps for another 2 hours then the writhing starts from it. exactly same happens if I give it at midnight. wondering if 5 in the evening better its just that then he tanks up all evening and I wonder if all that milk after an antibiotic is good or bad. Dh starting to think not to give it. but then I think how good the RVI are etc and maybe it is the thing to do.

still well chuffed with the sleep. in cot. no hand holding needed.

oh fuckity fuck going into work feel sick.

oh mm - lol to stove! though, if it's one I'd those amazing wood burning ones with the v tall chimney.....??!

I love camping. dunno how it goes with a baby though....!

that's good news vq

rubbish catch up gotta get going for work