November 2012 - Does it seem like half a year?

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Fucksticks.

After a surprise great night last night that had me thinking cutting dairy had nailed it, he's had a really fussy day today - and is back to hourly now. Am so hoping I don't have to cut soya too - I can cope with soya milk nut rice milk -- bleugh.

Luis - I hope you are managing some rest but fear you are just occupied with skiing L to sleep and iScrabble.

Jj - so sorry - your work are arseholes.

Sad this evening as a friend of a friend got on touch because she's just discovered her 3yr old has had a dislocated hip since birth. Poor little mite is in for a rough time fixing it and likely long term problems. It makes me so angry and frustrated they don't just scan all babies at birth.

Poor dh has been out chasing escaped black cows round our village since 11pm. Sounds like the army accidentally went through our fences during their training exercises again. At least I am sitting feeding g in a nice warm bed. Hard to see black cows in the dark...

I think we're saying the same thing PR. I think it's useful to know about developmental leaps (or is it? Am I just a nerd who finds neurological development interesting?) and it is probably entirely irrelevant whether you get that from ww or another source. I think there are far worse examples of exploiting nervous parents out there. At leat we doesn't come with a whole raft of 'and now you need to buy x y and z!' Unless it does and I've just managed to miss that arm of it.

I find the number of groups and classes aimed at infants a bit perplexing and way more of a money spinner. Swimming classes! Good fun, sure.

Nothing like a good rant. we havent touched any of my nerves but otherwise you'd see me in full flow.

Decent night here, she says, havin yet to try to resettle baby. Husband is on the sofa - I can hear the bloody snoring from here.

Night from fucking hell again here!!

Bed at 10 up at 11. Fed at 1am. Up at 2am. Up at 3am for a fucking cot party!!! Eventually fed him at 3.30am for about fifteen minutes. He seemed asleep and is now in cot....not asleep but not happy :( I don't want to bring him in with us but know if I do he will be asleep in minutes. But I get a shitty sleep like that. Cant decide what to do!!

Don't take offence MamaPo I was not having a go at you. I just like ranting when the mood takes me, and ww and its sodding app in particular really fucks me off.

Both girls awake here. DD1 had nightmare and has been having a full on meltdown and mummy isn't allowed to say or do anything include comfort

LO has decided if everyone's up she may as well be up too.

It's 5 o'fucking clock.

He went quiet and is up again so our bed it is! X

gah! hourly! but I'm being a soft twat and have him in with me

Mrs j I'm so sorry that is really hard. are you appealing?

I feel sick about what school will say. trust me to be the first to be refused. ill be fuming mind cos I've got that school a lot of good shit including creative 40 k of creative partnerships money, arts mark gold, lots of newspaper coverage, and apparently my kids progress helped get us outstanding in the absence of any outstanding teaching being observed save for my collegue teaching my old class who claims to have just copied what I had been doing (though I know she's amazing!)

I'm afraid being sort of in the ed psych game I like ww and have found it surprisingly accurate but I do also get others points of view. I found the general explanations of the vague psychological phases more helpful eg world of soup, patterns etc rather than the date related stuff but also have been surprised that sun's and storms have been very bang on. esp sleep related. he was going 3 hours under the sun last week. and the amazing week of 5 hours was under the last sun 6/7 weeks ago smiling was bang on as was giggling.

g has a due date buddy but was born a week earlier and it's amazing how similar they are. I am also a general sceptic though and do search for ways to disprove theories. it was the only way I did dairy free! (to prove it didn't work for us) tbh during the 5 hours week I was necking dairy.

oh pleeeeese go back to 5 hours baby!!

oh god pr

izzy a friend calls it co- resting....

he never never is awake playing in the night. he just wakes like absolute clockwork and needs help to go back (boob or cuddle) but again it's the fact that my our bed is simply softer than his and he likes being on his side, and it's easier and more comfy on our bed. but then I think I wake him up more. argh! I'd be delighted with 2 or 3 hours again!

thanks for the link purple

that teaching paragraph is mega boastful but I fucking worked my self to the bone for 6 years to both improve that school and get good at teaching in sen and autism. and ultimately help some really scared and struggling kids get somewhere. I gave myself anxiety and depression trying so hard, and I'm sure the stress made my thyroid worse and never had a day off from it, nearly lost my then dp through it, very nearly lost my marbles but luckily kept both and got through it. from the schools point of view though I just did a lot that got a lot of stuff for them. so will be super if they fucking say no.

ill stop spamming the thread now and get time sleep....

So arsebuggeringwankbadgerly tired.

I suspect even DS2 slept better than J and he was an awful sleeper, still is actually at age 6. Poor little baby is farting and squealing in pain.

Like clockwork... 5.50...I should work out a way to get him to sleep longer but now I'm quite happy he sleeps through...

What the actual fuck?! all confused. Dream feed, feed at 3.15am, and not yet up? Just fooled me into thinking she was because of fart-related wriggling. What a good girl! ow megaboob

Her cot arrived yesterday and we might move her over tonight, so this will not last!

Oh PR no offence taken! Just making sure I wasnt misunderstood. And there's a ww app? Right - I was getting confused by what an app had to do with it.

I haven't paid much attention to the timing of we, just the content of the leaps. This is the first one that has me really nodding as a good description of c.

Ooh, let's have a ranty day! I'll rev myself up about pseudoscience.

Oh clarella - boast away and not even stealthily. Sounds like you've done amazing stuff for your school.

I am knackere. Haven't slept since 5 and didn't fall asleep til 1. Falling asleep not the children's fault. Being woken up again I suppose not their fault either but I can hardly blame the dog.

Sodding amoxycillin messing up my head too. Very dull.

Fuckity fuckity fuck twat bollocks. It's sweary fucking Wednesday.

Morning! Not too bad a night here, although S ended up in with us again at 4.30 she was wide awake in her cot. Went straight to sleep in our bed, I really need to stop bringing her in!

Morning everyone

Purple thanks for the pm, I have been so preoccupied with this presentation that I forgot to reply. Good luck with your interview.

Jj that shit about your working request. Cunts.

Kyz your mum sounds lovely although a tad overbearing without meaning to be. I'm glad the conversation went well.

izzy following your recommendation, we went swimming, to On-x at the weekend. M loved it. Next visit scheduled for this weekend.

My parents are home form their holiday to Australia, we have been spending time with them. Murray has been loving all the attention and gifts they have been lavishing on him.

Since discovering rolling, M has decided that its much more fun to sleep on his tummy. Pretend coughing is hilarious and is currently trying to perfect his raspberry blowing skills.

fuck lost my fucking post

missed your promotion pidg! congratulations!

Haven't got it yet, but thanks

Clarella it sounds like you deserve to boast - I hope the school appreciate you sufficiently but I bet the parents do. You and pp both sound awesome at what you do - and as a mum of a daughter who needs more help than most I am fucking grateful. Good luck pp.

Happy fucking Wednesday everyone. I'm knackered.

I posted at 5 am but the app lost it somehow.

I wanted to say I will not be doing WWF as I am a fucking genius and would thrash you all

I also said nice things for folk going through horrible things, and that my work will not even tell me which town I will be working in. The Trust covers a large geographical area and I have been doing a long commute. I have asked to be local and they will not give me an answer. I requested this before I went on Mat Leave and they asked me to go in for an interview when J was less than a week old - there was another person wanting to swap teams so they wanted to make if fair. Twats. Anyway, that is a fight for another day.

J slept 7-5, fed, then slept again and is still there. DH kindly took both girls, which is lovely.

I am feeling less hormonal today. My boob is not so sore, and I did not get bereft giving a night bottle, neither did J. I have my period proper too, which helps - the stomach cramps yesterday were beyond a joke.

Morning all,

Lots of catching up to do as I was avoiding my phone last night to help me sleep.

Not a bad night, two night feeds and in bed from 5:30.

Napping success though - he is sleeping on the sofa at the moment, so off me for the first time since jabs last Friday!

I am sat in my car, with breakfast and the laptop, on my drive F fell asleep whilst driving home from the supermarket, but if I even attempt to remove the car seat from the car she will wake. And we have to go back out in a bit.

Sorry to hear lots of us having co-sleeping issues. F stayed asleep whilst I went to aqua-aerobics last night, but woke at 11 and wouldn't settle apart from in our bed not that I tried very hard as was bloody knackered. She's another one with some serious fartypants problems. I'm sure that's what's waking her up all the time. She's grimacing in her sleep and writhing around. We've tried tummy massages and leg cycling etc, but nothing seems to help yet.

PP fingers crossed it goes well - it's about time you had a nice dollop of good luck
pr I'm with you on the WW bollocks stuff. The NCT lady is a biiiig fan of it. I make this face > when she starts going on about it every week would be a fucking stormcloud in chateau pig--

In cat news, more jelly licking, a bit of purring, no more vom. But not eating either. We're picking him up at lunch, but if he doesn't eat then he will need to go back in for x-rays - possibly a blockage earplugs rather than pancreatitis. Gah. Thank fuck for credit cards.