December 2012 Babies Half a year already and still kind of sane.

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Just spend 40 minutes trying to settle ds but everytime I move away he starts moaning again so I'm just feeding him. Rubbish.

You know how 'all things shall pass'? Well, I am beyond ready for baby C's phase of 'let's play!' for HOURS at 2am to be over.

Sooooo tired

Been keeping up with the thread past couple of days but not managing to post. Been unwell past couple weeks with one cold after the other- think it's just due to being run down with lack of sleep! On second lot of antibiotics for tonsillitis and now that dd is in her own room which has had a negative impact on her sleeping we started some sleep training last night in desperation! Looks like some of you had had some success so fingers crossed!
Seemed to go well and hopefully each night will get better.
With expressing at work there is the rule that they have to provide somewhere private & somewhere to store till your lo in 1 year but guess sometimes it can be difficult to accommodate. I'm going back when dd is 8 months and think logistically there may just not be time to express some days. Bf is finally going well and increasing in time each feed before the formula top up and know that if can't express during the day this is going to go to pot!
spotty rubbish that you feel you have to go back to something you dislike but may be worth it till you find something else? Plus you could think of those 2 days as a break with time to have a cup of tea at some point :)
There are days at work where so busy I don't really get time for lunch/tea and it's just a quick bite on the go but now looking forward to going back part time. need that feeling of achieving more than just looking after the kids. Know going to get flamed for saying that but honestly doesn't mean have anything against sahm it's more just that I couldn't do it- may be selfish but l just need something for myself. Plus financially makes life easier if we both work!

Well I spent last night at a+e as dd had a tick, picked up from the school field and they need professional removal

It took poor DH 2 hrs to settle ds2 but he did it and he slept until 4.30 from 10 so not bad at all.

I went for a run this morning but have had some joint pain due to the relaxin still in my system due to breastfeeding. So I've had to slow it down a bit.

Sorry to hear of bad nights spotty and mama

Ddas, I'm with you. I'm looking forward to going back to work - but that's easy for me to say because it is still months off yet. It's unlikely that I'll be in work before she's 13 months old.

Going to write more but C just woke from her nap. Better run!

Oh dear IsThat ticks are horrible! Common round here, we've always just suffocated them and pulled them off with the dogs!

We're meant to be going to a summer show later shitty weather. Plus dp and I had an argument this morning (about last night ffs) apparently he really wanted to see his dad last night because it was his birthday Thursday (he dropped round his card and present thurs eve but apparently didn't see him ). My argument was that if he really wanted to see him surely he would have arranged it more than an hour before? He said that everytime he wants to go out I 'spit my dummy out' (which has really pissed me off) and I said yes I fucking do because I never get to go out and his reply, as always, was that we shouldn't have had children then. He thinks he's so great and hard done by. He's only fed ds twice since he's been weaning; once on my birthday and once when I was getting ready for the wedding. He never ever gets ds up out of his cot in the morning even though it's usually five minutes before his alarm might go off and he's got to stay in bed all night whilst I'm up to ds. Even today when he's not at work he just rolled over when I got ds up just after six. Sorry for the moan

No flaming here ddas. Being a sahm if you don't want to will not be good for you or your relationships with dc and DH. We must all try to do what is right for us (although often easier said than done!!)

We had a good night, T didn't wake til 4, had a feed then slept til 7!

Am going to try without the dream feed tonight as I'm finding it hard that it makes me stay up til 11 and then I still have to get up in the night anyway. An hoping that she will still take just one feed but maybe earlier. The trouble with a 4am or so feed is that she's just not hungry first thing when I have a window for feeding her!

Oh spotty that sounds shitty. Having children was something both of you did so how is it fair to say that he can still go out but you can't? When the heat has died down is there any chance of a sensible conversation about how you both need time out? I was just saying to DH that I need to be more selfish about taking some time out - for 6 years I have put myself last and as a consequence there's never any time or energy left for me to do anything I want to do. Repeat after me, my needs are valid too!

What annoys me is if I want to go out, with or without the children, I have to plan every detail and think about them and when they need feeding or to go to sleep etc etc but he can just bugger off anywhen without so much as a thought for anyone else. He just doesn't get it.

I've had a stupid twitch in my eyelid since last night and it's driving me mad!

just marking a place. rubbish at keeping up. hope all are well xx

the brief scan I've managed it seems we're having the same issues as you stacks

Little girl has napped for nigh on 4 hours today. Should I wake her?

I'd leave her. Ds has slept 3.5 hours so far and will have another nap in an hour or so

Ds slept 1.5 hrs late morning/lunchtime and nothing since as we've been at a school summer fair for 3 hrs. I can't let him nap now really so it's baby juggling until bedtime

It got to 5pm and I realised I hadn't had a drink or wee since my 6:30am coffee

In the words of R:

Dadadadadadadayayaya nngah

spotty! Consider yourself chastised!

We had a picnic in the park with some friends today, they must be the worlds best couple - they are so nice to each other, all the time! Made me feel such a grumpy old bag!

[[http://mamauk.net/2013/03/how-i-thought-my-life-as-a-mum-would-be-what-life-as-a-mum-is-actually-like/ life as a mum-- so true...

Sounds lovely WL

Aww cute pidj! We're still on gagaga here

Buggered that up try again

Ha, spotty. I wasn't that deluded but she's pretty spot on with the second half :o

pidj well done R! All we get is aaaaaaaaahhhhhh and what sounds like 'yeh'

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1785953-Woolly-Hugs-A-Blanket-for-snorris-and-her-family

He was too, right up to this afternoon! Then i got yayaya in the queue for the loo in m+s and full of dada rara yaya by the time he'd been for a walk with dp to buy pizza for tea!!

So excited. I'm in bed. Earplugs in. Husband has dream feed. If my brain doesn't rebel I could get a solid 4-6 hours. Right, I'm off. Night all!

Our nights seem to be getting worse