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

[StuntNun]

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Ah yes.
Thanks pass

Yes please pass I think the microphone not working would be an advantage tbh.

All yours VQ. It's in really good condition actually. We weren't quite sure what to do with it - bit too stationary for P. when would you like it? What winnings by the way?

Yes I wondered that - did you win the Lottery VQ?

Can I grump? Please?

2 and 6 AGAIN.

The 6am wake up was soothed without a feed, but ended in my bed despite not doing that for the last week.

Grump grump grump. 1 step forward, 100 steps backwards. Fuck me.

Oh, and to piss me off further, DP snored so badly last night, I was still awake at the 2am wake up, so I told him to get up. He said to me 'oh, so it's me getting up again is it' (he did last night). Well, that was a red rag to a bull, and I screamed at him something incomprehensible about the fucking fact I'd fucking been the fuck awake all fucking night because of his fucking snoring and I'd fucking well told him to move to the fucking sofa and he fucking well hadn't so yes, it fucking well is your fucking turn again.

He went on the sofa after that.

The only thing that stopped me getting the moses basket off the wardrobe and sticking O in it downstairs with him was the fact O would be woken by the brightness as our living room just has flimsy blinds, no curtains to close. And I didn't want the fall out from him waking at 5.30 for the day!

GRRRRR!

Feel better now!

I think I have bought sleepy powder instead of formula!? N is asleep in her cot and has been for over an hour. She has never napped in her cot before. I look like this ->

Oops - unfortunate cross post there detective sorry

Rant alert! Went to Clarks to get DD's feet measured. She has been the same size since September last year. Shoes still roomy in my opinion but because it was been so long in the same size, I take her reasonably regularly to check. Last time was 3 weeks ago. They measured her larger but when I pinched the end they were forced to agree the was around 1.5cm and so the shoes were fine. Took her today. She measured exactly what she is wearing. Bonus, second mortgage not required. However, as we were leaving the shop, overheard the assistant say to her colleague hat she should have measured the feet larger, presumably to get a sale. Fucking cowboys.

22 degrees here. Had a picnic in a German forest and just got back. Girls asleep, have the shutters and windows all wide open and my usually silent little street is alive with kids shouting and playing, the sound of people outside and the smell of barbecues. We can breathe again.

Going to spend the afternoon doing my beef pie for tonight (one last one before summer) and then hosing down the high chair ready for LO, cleaning the garden furniture.

In a few weeks when the temp goes up into the high 20s I will be whining that my house is too hot and the fans are getting on my nerves and the noise of the children playing in the street is getting on my tits, but hey, a few weeks of just right is very very welcome :)

PR' that is all

But we might have a summer like last year. Nice April, rubbish May to September except for the three days in August when we moved house when it was 30+ which was shite when 7 months pregnant. Then a few hot days late October just after LO was born. So don't be too yet :o

And a two hour nap was just what doctor ordered. Thank you DP.

What did you win VQ?

PR

Thank you for picking me up and dusting me off

ah meals that sort of house! yep had that whole pregnancy!

George just self settled on sofa!!! was doing the whole distracted/ teething latch on latch off which with thrush inflamed nipples has driven me so close to formula again today, even my mum said what about a 'normal' bottle she did feed me to 2 1/2 though and I just dumped him to put the cream on and he dozed off! not done since newborn!

did you win somat vq?

is this 4 mo sleep regression actually real or just that some are shit at sleeping?

been working out return to work stuff. am asking for 3 days a week. but also cheekily putting return date in summer hols - basically smp runs out on 5th august. I could be really cheeky and ask for 22nd July. what do teaching quichettes think?

stunt we've had 45 min thing for some time. following your nap by any means I've camped out next to him doing my makeup and hand held as he stirred to knock him into next cycle. or walked a bit longer in pram if a 45 min bit coming up. sometimes it's worked sometimes not.

LOoff her food again. Had gone up to 20oz or so late last week but today is only at 8 so far again. Coinciding with stopping amoxycillin.

:(

Doesn't seem ill. Seems hungry but won't eat.

PR On Friday O took 41oz (yes, I nearly fainted) over 7 bottles

Today, 10oz so far....

Contrary little fuckers is the only thing I can suggest? If she seems ok? Where are you up to with solids? Is she taking those? Or are you having a break?

Just a quickie to thank meals and madame for the hugs
All good here will post again later
love to the whole quiche xx

I'd ask for 22nd July Clarella no questions!

Talking of returning to work, I am now 100% not going back on the 28th of this month. It is 2 weeks away. It just isn't happening.

So, my question is this: When do I tell work? My first shift back is 2nd May. It just so happens this was my return date to work last year after hyperemesis. So I would like to avoid sickness (even though the other was pregnancy related) being in 1 rolling year, if you see what I mean. So, do I just ring up on the 2nd, and say, sorry, not coming in. Then go and get a GP's note the following week?

Or do I let them know this week? Next week? Do I get a GP's note to cover from first days sickness? I'm not sure.

Help!! What would be the best course of action?

I was initially planning on asking for 1 months note from GP. Pointless doing it weekly or two weekly, as that will make eff all difference, and the first time I think I'm ready to go back, I'll be banging on the GP's door for a fit note!

Just 9oz here today PR

Donna You have jut reminded me - I wanted to post this to you the other day, but my forgetful mind, well, forgot.

When I took O to A&E over the whole reflux thing, I popped up to work to see my colleagues because it was evening and no fucking managers about! and we were chatting about sleep etc. And I said how O had slept through the night once, but I woke up in a panic, and went running in to his room to poke him check on him.

Every one of my colleagues said they had done the same on so many occasions. If they sleep longer than expected, they are in there checking. One even said she refused to go in the room, and made her husband go in, because she was so convinced something had happened.

What I'm trying to say is, I think it is normal. I know I worry about it. I worry that DP won't put him down safely lost count of the amount of bibs or muslin cloths I have found round his neck, the dickhead I worry that he will do all kinds of unlikely things. Every time I go in his room while he is sleeping, I worry.

But if you feel it is taking over how you feel all the time, it is definitely worth speaking to someone about it. Pregnancy, and new babies bring out the anxieties in us. Hormones - the fuckers eh?

:)

Not caught up properly, but my 'winnings' are sales of baby stuff. I now have a few pennies that I can spend on whatever I want :-) as I bought all the baby stuff myself originally.

madam in Clarks they always ask what size the kid is wearing already which makes me suspicious. I make a point of taking them in wearing something non-Clarks and then buy 1/2 size bigger than they say or buy off EBay

We'e still on a break from solids. I wanted her tummy to settle again after having the antibiotics and just want her to be generally feeling better before I go down that road again. I just want her to drink her sodding milk. It is warm today and I am worried about dehydration. She won't drink any water either.

Interestingly I had a conevrsation with some neighhbours yesterday. They have two children and have had the same selection of illnesses we have had right down to pneumonia. Sme seriously nasty bugs doing the rounds this winter.

VQ that's interesting. I took her in wearing her Clarks shoes. They didnt ask what size they were. I asked her to check the fit. She said she thought we were ok but she'd measure feet to be sure. Measured the feet. Said the size. I said fantastic, that's what she's wearing. Assistant clearly looked put out by this. I took DD up the stairs. DH had the buggy but hadn't been next to us when the measuring occurred. He took DS in the life and overheard the convo. Am now massively unlikely to trust Clarks again.

I don't do Clarksville anymore. I do start right. We have gone from the girls needing a new pair of shoes and trainers every term to them being in the same ones since last Sept. they are a bit more expense but not much and it has paid off and saved us loads in the long run. I also think they have their own measuring regime.

pr is all.

Well done on the selling stuff VQ!

I am currently planning for the next sproglet . Am trying to work out just where on earth the baby stuff is going to be stored in the interim. And how to fit another baby in!

The boys will swap rooms, when O has too many toys and stuff! DS1 as a teen will not need all that space! I'm anticipating around the 2nd birthday mark!

I would then get the bigger room completely redecorated, but due to a stupid fucking chimney breast it makes the room a pain in the ass to fit furniture in. Been scouring Ikea for inspiration. I'm not sure why I can't just live for the moment. Forever fucking planning. I really need to stop!

But I still wonder where on earth the baby stuff will go. And I've made a budgeting list for the new things we will need next time, and the costs of making room adjustments and saving for maternity leave. Anal? Me? Never!

the clarks outlet at cheshire oaks is a godsend. they are about a third or more cheaper. will be a. it more wary about them now.

need to tell work i will be back at the end of June but want a three week holiday at end of July finally sorted a trip to see DH's family in. the middle east. well its sorted in our heads just not sorted the extortionate flights yet. three kids on a plane for five hours.yay!