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

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GT O has just jumped from 25th to 50th in 6 weeks

chunky stuff your face of chocolate on my behalf

izzy the housework beats me into a quivering wreck daily. If I posted a pic right now you'd all hoik your judgey pants so high you'd get piles.

LO is well into her milk and purees today, and DD1 only had one accident which was my fault as I was tickling her into a frenzy.

Night all.

PR I'm a slattern when it comes to housework - its good for the mental health

I like the word hoik, hoik, hoik, hoik

I hate "is he a good baby?" too. I always say, he's perfect, look at him!

And also I like the word hoik

I can't believe it! It's taken 2 hours for N to settle, NOT sleep. I'm hoping that me not being in his room, will help him to relax.

I've still got to sort out the car, for its serivce tomorrow.
Evi l

Right. Today I actually vacuumed under the sofa. I found a pile of something. That something was mummified cat sick. Goodness knows how long it had been there.

The only piece of housework that gets me down if it isn't done is the bathroom. I feel good if I have a clean toilet.

One day my house will feature on one of these programmes where someone comes in and forces us to declutter into a skip. I will be there in my calf length skirt, bum length grey hair and Birkenstocks crying into a 20 year old tea towel.

Anyone feeling bad about their house? These are true facts:
A) my DH collects every whisker the cat drops. He has little piles of them all over the house. I feel compelled to help in this endeavour and delight in finding unusual ones such as completely black ones!
B) p's umbilical stump lay on our kitchen windowsill for weeks and weeks. It's not there now and I have genuinely no idea where it is. I am slightly concerned that the cat might have eaten it.

I am reading in bed and almost woke O up snorting with laughter at cat eating umbilical stump

Off to catch up - but first. Misery is me today. My epis has been ramping up the pain the last 3 days, and culminated this morning in me crying in the shower when the water ran down me and touched the scar. It wasn't hot water, just the sensation of it made it sting like it was raw. Had a look, didn't look any different from last time I looked. I did notice a rather interesting smell though. Rotting. Yum.

So back to the GP for me, and a lovely course of abx to shove up my fanjo. He thinks BV, I'm I wouldn't have said it was 100% but why would it be hurting my scar so much?

The GP also told me his wife had pain for 18 months - 2 years from hers. That was NOT what I needed to hear. Didn't appreciate that. Why the fuck do we have to put up with this? :(

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Hope everyone has had a good day....! Off to catch up!

Pass I'm hoiking up my judgy pants

I spat tea at the stump bit!

Next time someone asks me if P is a good baby I am going to say "no. She's fucking horrible. All 'wahwahwah' all the fucking time. 'Play with me. Feed me. Change my nappy.' Selfish little bitch"

Poop to being poorly pennie. Sorry to hear that. Glad DH is able to help you out though.

Good luck with eventual sleeping evil

Just said to DH " did you move P's umbilical stump?" DH looks horrified "no! Why? Where is it?" I explain that it is no longer on the windowsill and that maybe the cat eating it is why the radio fell off the same windowsill one night. "Nah" says Dh "she couldn't have eaten the plastic bit"

End of discussion. Still no idea where it is. I am wondering if the cat looks smug/uncomfortable

There goes my second snort of laughter. Off to sleep now before pass succeeds in waking O up!

pass I once caught my cat midway through shitting out an entire shoe lace. You would be surprised what they can eat when they're in the mood. On the subjects of cats, have just chased mine out from the bedroom mid-vom, and he ran spewing, twas truely disgusting.

pass I'm speechless. I've just nearly woke up ds laughing.

Detective that sounds horrific

Pass :o I didn't keep umbilical stumps. Binned 'em. The cord and placenta went to medical research though

Every time I go through a pisssed off with baby day like today I play Meryl Streep singing the Abba song about her daughter growing up.. :(

Pass, you got a laugh at both the umbilical stump and the crying into a 20-year-old teatowel.

GT, my LO has jumped up and over centiles pretty rapidly, given she was 25th at birth, then 75th and now 91st. When I asked the HV about gaining so much so rapidly she was completely unconcerned.

Chasing, we had 4month jabs today too. The first one was fine, the second made her cry, the third made her scream. I had dosed her on calpol beforehand, and during our feed afterwards in the waiting room she broke off from her feed to sing me a lovely song. She was a bit grumpy the rest of the day, but had been beforehand anyway, what with her teeth. I've found the first round of jabs to be far and away the worst. Although after these ones, I swear she looked at me bereft, as though I had betrayed her. Poor wee poppet.

I am with all of you who are falling more and more in love. I was a bit surprised at how not-strong the love was in the beginning - of course I loved little C, but now I love her. She's bloody great.

mama I know exactly what you mean! I remember thinking at p being about 2 weeks old what I would do if someone came to the door saying "well, you've had a wee shot. Do you want to keep her or not?" And thinking about what I would do.

Now I find her more hilarious every day and as we find a rhythm I am
More relaxed about nap failures and so on.

Last night a colleague texted me to tell me that an ex-pupil had died. A
boy I knew well. Ridiculous, pointless way for a young life to end. I haven't been able to shake his family from my head today. We only borrow our babies in the end. I am determined to sook up every second. Even the whingy, whiny meh meh meh ones.

BP DH would like to know if you pulled on the shoe lace?

Bugger, shit, balls to a horrid and aching vajayjay detective. Are you on pain relief?

The whole instant rush of love when they're born and bonding with baby at conception is a myth for most people. Can take a while to fall in love with baby, like anyone else. That people do not expect this is, imo, a contributary factor to some cases of pnd.

The great thing is that once it happens it's for life. But it's ok to not be enamoured immediately. When push comes to shove the maternal instinct to protect our young kicks in. But bonding and love take as long as we need. For some it IS instant. For others it takes a while. And that's fine.

If only more people would say itI think more mums would be happy much sooner.

Thanks for the chuckle Pass
Sorry about your yoni sorry Det sounds hideous

pass I did not. What actually happened was that I found a small piece of shoelace, and picked it up. It was wet. I sniffed it [vom face]. I dropped it like a hot potato. I then found the cat with the remainder of said shoe lace and left him in the kitchen, where he did a bottom-shuffle movement along the floor for some time. Revolting.

I think I spent the first few days after F was born in such shock that this tiny little scrap of a girl was here, and she was mine, that it took those days for me to fall in love love with her. And it grows, every day. I had no idea, no clue at all, that I could love somebody so totally. It is a remarkable and amazing thing.

Perhaps we should put the "instant love" misconception next to the "glowing pregnant lady" one what a crock of shit that turned out to be

Can someone explain yoni to me please?

PR beautifully put as always. The first time I verbalised that was the other day in the car with VQ. I loved P a lot but y'know. She was hard work and I was knackered and our lives before consisted of being in the pub or reading books or talking about stuff.

Now? Now I would scratch the fucking eyes out of anyone who looks at my baby the wrong way. Proper mother

Damn. Caught up but I need to go make bottles. BRB. Don't make me have to catch up again you funny fuckers pass made me piss myself.